Sujit Nair | |
Birth Date: | 1970 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Thane, India |
Occupation: | Advertising |
Spouse: | Sunetra Nair |
Children: | Siddhant Nair |
Alma Mater: | University of Mumbai (BA, MA) |
Sujit Nair (born 24 August 1970) is an Indian political commentator and former advertising executive. Currently, he is the chairperson and managing editor of HW News Network.[1] He also runs two shows named Truth Be Told and Editorial.
Born in Thane, Nair's father Mr. P Balakrishnan Nair was a naval officer and his mother Satyabhama Nair is a homemaker. He completed his schooling from St. John's The Baptist High School. He received his both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the Mumbai University.
He was a former Executive Director at Lowe Lintas.[2] His experience in direct marketing, mainline advertising, rural marketing and activation helped build a lot of successful brands.[3] [4] During his work in Lowe Lintas he attracted to cooperation a lot of companies such as Tata, Idea Cellular and Castrol. He was also a key member in overseeing Lowe Lintas operations in Kochi, South India, Pune, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. Lowe Lintas began its south Indian operations under his management as a president with Mayden Pharma that became its first partner in Kochi.[5]
Sujit had shown his support to New Media that launched the nationwide Cop-Community Connect seminars to ensure the safety of the denizens of the city. He supported the campaign The Alert Mumbaikar, which promoted public awareness about the issues related to public safety.[6]
Sujit is the Chairperson and Managing Editor of HW News Network.[1] HW News is a digital News channel which focuses on Social, Political & Economic scenario of India.[7]
As an ongoing strategic process, HW News[8] tied up with South Live.[9] Both the platforms, that roll out a horde of news items across different genres, with HW News specializing in churning out political stories, aim to have a far-reaching impact of authentic journalism especially in the stream of politics.
Sujit also started IACA (India Against Child Abuse)[10] a self-help group to gather like-minded people for raising awareness against child abuse and to help children avail their rights.