MUMBAI: Ushodaya Enterprises director I Venkat has been elected as the chairman of Media Research Users Council (MRUC) for a period of two years.

Venkat will replace GroupM South Asia CEO CVL Srinivas.

The decision was taken by MRUC board of directors at its 21st annual general meeting held on 25 September, 2015.

Additionally, HDFC Life senior executive vice president Sanjay Tripathy has taken over from Multi Screen Media president Rohit Gupta as the new MRUC vice chairman.

MRUC CEO Shaswati Saradar has decided to move on after handling the Council for a span of five years and Radhesh Uchil has been nominated as the new MRUC CEO.

DDB Mudra Group executive director N P Sathyamurthy, who earlier headed the Marketing Committee as the chairman, has replaced Paritosh Joshi as chairman of the Technical Committee. 

Spatial Access CEO Nikhil Rangnekar has been named as the new chairman of the Marketing Committee. 

Srinivas and Joshi will serve as mentors for the Council.