Madhukar Kumar
Managing Director
Grey Cell Public Relations

Madhukar Kumar - consummate Image Strategist, known Cause Communicator & Influencer, proven Political Strategist & Lobbyist, iconoclastic Trends Creator – in short a PR professional par excellence.

His proven expertise in marketing, communications and strategy has immensely satisfied clients in sectors as diverse as IT/ITeS, Healthcare, Education, Entertainment, and Fashion & Lifestyle. He advises New Age Corporates on strategic communication issues. An early practitioner of PR 2.0 he has brought in many firsts to the PR industry in India through successful campaigns devised for his clients.

Some of the clients whom Madhukar has counseled are Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, Council of Sex Education and Parenthood, Stellar Search and Selection, AbsolutData Research and Analytics, Max Healthcare, Minda Huf Limited, Swastik Pictures, Aid Matrix International and British Telecom.

Personally though, he finds working on grassroots campaigns, social cause communication, persuading policy redefinitions and political strategizing more self – satisfying. Madhukar has found happy clients in the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and the Government of Jharkhand. His groundbreaking ideations have been the stepping-stones to legislation changes too. His involvement in and contributions to movements like “Zero Hunger Legislation” on behalf of the Food for Hungry Foundation and “Right to Education of Choice” are well recognized and widely appreciated.

Almost a decade ago, Madhukar started his career with one of the largest Public Relations advisory in South East Asia, where he handled clients from IT, Health and Entertainment segments, earning a few well-deserved laurels in the process. But once the entrepreneurial bug bit him, it was difficult for him to rest on his past achievements. First single handedly, and later with the able support of his team, Madhukar has built up Grey Cell PR from the scratch to a full service pan-Indian PR firm catering to all sectors and their associated verticals. Grey Cell PR - is truly the big power of Madhukar’s germ of an idea.

This founding Managing Director’s unique ability to inspire people has been the key in shaping Grey Cell Public Relations as it stands today. His stimulating mix of initiative, confidence, will power, discipline and humility makes him a true leader and an inspirational figure for the entire GCPR team.

Madhukar has a penchant for training people. His personal repertoire of expertise in soft skills enhancement covers Personality Development, Leadership, Motivation, Stress Management, Teamwork and Communication Skills on which he has conducted numerous training programmes. Of course GCPR clients are the first to benefit from this prove capability of Madhukar’s. He also conducts classes on Public Relations, Marketing Management and Business Communications at some of the leading institutes for management and media studies in India. He combines details of theoretical learning with practical exposure in his training delivery.

A well-rounded personality, this Economics graduate and Marketing post-graduate well-poised on the threshold of the fourth decade of his life is an excellent orator & writer, active on theatre circuit and quite tech savvy. His list of interests include Gender / Sexuality / Development Issues, Tibet, Music, Films, Helping people enhance their personality, Social Work, Reading war stories, Design etc.

Watch out for a collection of his PR experiences and his insights, to be published in near future.

Madhukar can be personally reached at …+91-11-46689999 Ext. 209 or at madhukar@greycellpr.com