ACK Media appoints Abizar Shaikh as director, IBH

Shaikh joins the company from Max New York Life Insurance, where he was corporate vice-president (agency).

ACK Media has appointed Abizar Shaikh as director of IBH Books and Magazines Distributors with immediate effect. He moves in from Max New York Life Insurance where he was corporate vice-president (agency). Shaikh will be based in Mumbai.

Shaikh has more than two decades of experience in strategic planning and leading large teams across consumer and retail businesses in companies such as Kotak Group, Max New York Life Insurance and Blow Plast. At Max New York Life Insurance, he has also held the position of managing partner, before being promoted to the post of corporate vice-president.

This mechanical engineer also holds an MBA degree in marketing from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Vijay Sampath, CEO, ACK Media, says, "Shaikh has a proven track record of leading successful enterprises. He enjoys the challenge of building high performance organisations that deliver exponential value to all stakeholders."

Established in 1952, IBH is a distribution network for books, magazines and journals and is a part of the ACK Media Group. IBH has a portfolio of 140 Indian and more than 100 international publications and book and journal publishers, including National Geographic, Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Business India, Autocar, Cybermedia group and Forbes Asia, among others. It is expanding to provide end-to-end fulfilment solutions to e-commerce businesses and others in the new media and digital space.