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  • The jury panel was headed by Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG Enterprises

    IAA Leadership Awards to be presented on July 25

    By Our Staff

     

    The India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA) will present its prestigious Leadership Awards on Monday, July 25, in Mumbai. These awards are presented to the leaders of the marketing fraternity who have excelled in their respective fields.

     

    Said Committee Chair Nandini Dias said “We are privileged to have a prestigious all-CEO jury panel headed by the indomitable Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG Enterprises along with other eminent jury members – Pawan Goenka, Chairman INSPACe and Ex-MD & CEO, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd; Hemant Malik, Divisional Chief Executive – Foods, ITC Limited; Suparna Mitra, Chief Executive Officer- Watches and Wearables Division, Titan Company Limited; Vineet Bhatnagar, Managing Director & CEO PhillipCapital India; Vivek Sunder, Chief Executive Officer, Cuemath & Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, Transsion India.

     

    Over the years, we have come to evolve a streamlined and structured process that takes into account rigorous data points to arrive at the shortlist for each predetermined category. This enables the jury to conduct exhaustive and well-founded deliberations before they arrive at the final winners.”

     

    Added IAA President Megha Tata, “the Leadership awards are known for the superlative audience they attract. Apart from the marketers, there are also special awards for categories like Business leader of the Year, IAA Creative Agency Leader of the Year, IAA Media Agency Leader of the Year, IAA Media Game Changer of the Year, IAA Media Person of the Year, IAA TV Anchor of the Year.

     

  • Forbes India has announced the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012 to be held in Mumbai on September 28

    Corporate leaders vie for top honours at Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012

    By A Correspondent

     

    Forbes India has announced the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012 to be held in Mumbai on September 28. Celebrating transformational leadership, this year Forbes India will honour outstanding leaders who have epitomized success in their fields and are the visionary champions in creating sustainable future.

     

    The theme for the evening this year is ‘Seeing What Next’ – the one common feature that most leaders showcase. It’s their ability to see what’s coming ahead, react to it before everyone else that makes them the visionary. The Forbes India team has invited some of the leading business and thought leaders of the country to present their thoughts in precisely 3 minutes on “The one thing that will change everything for people in this room, except that they haven’t heard of it”. These speakers will then be rated real time by the audience on their thoughts and ideas. The list speakers for the evening include names like Adil Zainulbhai – MD, McKinsey & Co India, Kumar Mangalam Birla – Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, N Chandrasekharan – CEO, TCS, Akhil Gupta – Chairman, Blackstone India, Karl Slym – MD and CEO Tata Motors, William Bissell – MD, Fabindia, Nitin Paranjpe – CEO & MD, Hindustan Unilever and Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice – Chairman, Cognizant.

     

    The nominees have been chosen by a jury panel that includes Jury Chairman KV Kamath, Non-Executive Chairman, ICICI Bank & Chairman, Infosys; Dr. J.J Irani, Former Director, Tata Sons; Adil Zaniulbhai, Chairman, McKinsey India; Akhil Gupta, Chairman, Blackstone Advisors India; Zia Mody, Founder AZB Partners and Raghav Bahl, Founder & MD, Network 18 Group. These jury members along with knowledge partners KPMG, through a rigorous and exhaustive process, chose five nominees in each of the ten categories, and 10 winners were selected from the list of 50.

     

    The categories for the awards are:

    Outstanding Start-up

    NextGen Entrepreneur for the Year

    Best CEO – Public Sector

    Best CEO – Private Sector

    Best CEO – Multinational

    Woman Leader for the Year

    Entrepreneur with Social Impact

    Entrepreneur for the Year

    Lifetime Achievement

    Conscious Capitalist for the Year

    More details on the awards and nominees are at forbesindia.com/leadershipawards/index.html.

     

  • The awards will salute the business leaders whose relentless pursuit of excellence fuelledIndia’s journey to the forefront of the world economy

    NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards to honour India Inc

    By A Correspondent

     

    NDTV is all set to honour India Inc at the seventh NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards. The awards will salute the business leaders whose relentless pursuit of excellence has fuelledIndia’s journey to the forefront of the world economy.

     

    Announcing the seventh edition of the awards, Manvi Dhillon, Managing Editor of NDTV Profit said, “2011 was an extremely challenging year for corporate India. Despite the global headwinds and the domestic challenges, India Inc stood steady. The evidence lies in the fact thatIndiais still one of the fastest growing economies in the world. We, at NDTV, are proud to announce the seventh edition of the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards to recognize and honour the most resilient and the strongest business leaders of this year.”

     

    The Award ceremony will be a high powered event with the crème de la crème of corporateIndiaattending it and will be graced by Union Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee as Chief Guest in Mumbai on January 7, 2012.

     

    Partnering NDTV for the awards, Kanakia Group’s Rasesh Kanakia, Chairman and Managing Director, said, “2011 was a year of economic challenges; some of them being of the kind that could wither the roots of any business house, as market volatility (affected by global economic slowdown) led to uncertainties, thus slowing down growth plans. Consumers became tougher to appease, investors became conservative in taking decisions and business houses got more aggressive to sustain their growth. All in all, it was a year where success got elusive, but Indian Business has shown the character and the courage to have sustained well. Having been a witness to such a strong show of character, it only makes us proud to associate with NDTV Profit in honouring some of these extraordinary business leaders..”

     

    The jury for the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards this year comprised leading names from the industry and the business world such as Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head, HSBC India; T N Ninan, Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard; Kalpana Morparia, CEO, J P Morgan, India; Shanti Ekambaram, Group Head Wholesale Banking, Kotak Mahindra Bank;  Zia Mody, Senior Partner, AZB & Partners; Prannoy Roy, Chairman, NDTV; Dorab Sopariwala, Editorial Advisor, NDTV; Manvi Dhillon, Managing Editor, NDTV Profit.

     

    After a rigorous screening process and discussion amongst the eminent jury members they have determined the winners in categories that include Automobile (Four Wheelers and Two Wheelers), Aviation, Banking (Public and Private), Consumer Durables, Consumer Product Goods, Engineering, Hospitality, Infrastructure and Insurance Life, Corporate Social Responsibility and Inclusion and Diversity Award.