Vikram Raizada joins Tara Jewels Group Board as Director

The Tara Jewels Group, a leading global jewelry group based in Mumbai, New York and Hong Kong announced that Vikram Raizada has joined the Group as a full time Director on the Board and will take additional charge as Head of Marketing and Business Development. He will be reporting to the Chairman and Managing Director of the Tara Group, Rajeev Sheth.

Vikram needs no introduction in the world of Fashion, Media, Lifestyle and Advertising. His career of over 18 years in these fields has been marked by creativity, innovation, strategy and delivery.

As the erstwhile Vice President and Head of Fashion at IMG Fashion India, Vikram was responsible for promoting Indian fashion and integrating it with global fashion through the Lakme Fashion Week and was intensely involved with the rapidly evolving world of Indian fashion.

Prior to IMG Fashion, Vikram was the Marketing Head of the Murjani Group which launched a host of premium and luxury lifestyle brands in the Indian market, and was Vice President Marketing for MTV Networks India where he played a pivotal role in the successful development and positioning of MTV as the premier youth-centric music channel in the Indian market.

Rajeev Sheth, Chairman and Managing Director Tara Group said,” We are pleased to announce that Vikram Raizada has joined our group Board in a full time capacity. Vikram’s extensive experience across the Fashion, Media, Lifestyle and Advertising fields and his strong relationships in these industries will allow us to forge ahead on key local and international initiatives planned for 2010 and the following years.”

About Tara Jewels Group
Tara Jewels is a diversified jewelry group with interests in the manufacture, designing, distribution, financing and marketing of precious jewelry globally.

The Tara Group has production facilities in India and China and sells through the best in the world. These include: Walmart USA where Tara has been the prime supplier and been awarded twice, Sterling Corporation who are the largest jewelers in the world, Zale Corporation who are the largest jewelers in the US, Warren Buffet’s Helzberg in the US, QVC, Zales in Canada, Signet who are the largest jewelers of the UK, Christ the largest in Switzerland, Angus & Coote in Australia, Nihongo in Japan and many more.

The Tara Group companies include Fabrikant Tara LLC in the US, Tara Ultimo, T-Two International and Rose International in India, Tara Hong Kong in China, Tara Duniya in the UK, Tara Japan in Japan, and representative offices in Germany and Australia.