Pranav Sharma quits Rediffusion-Y&R

The agency has seen a couple of senior-level exits in recent days to which add this one.

Pranav Harihar Sharma, creative head, Rediffusion-Y&R, Delhi has put in his papers, thereby ending his 10-month stint with the agency.

He was reporting to Chraneeta Mann, the executive creative director, Delhi.

Sources close to the development have confirmed the news to afaqs!. Sharma is expected to serve his notice till January-end. This was his second stint with the company.

Sharma's second stint with Rediffusion-Y&R began in April, 2012. He worked across a variety of brands including MTS MBlaze and Amway Attitude.

Earlier, Sharma was with JWT Delhi, where he spent a little more than a year before he moved to Rediffusion-Y&R.

Sharma began his advertising career in 1999 as a copywriter with Creative Aspect, an agency based in Indore.

After spending about three years at the agency, he moved to Srijan Advertising, also based in Indore, as creative director and spent two years with the agency. He moved to Mumbai in August, 2005 and worked as a freelance film maker for a while before joining Rediffusion-Y&R's Mumbai office.

Rediffusion has seen some senior level management changes of late, the most recent being the exit of its president, D Rajappa and its executive creative director and national head, art, Jaideep Mahajan.

Meanwhile, Sam Ahmed has recently been brought on board as vice-chairman and CCO.