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  Media Jury
   
   
 
Chairman of Media Jury :
 
Sandeep Tarkas Sandip Tarkas - President – Customer Strategy - Future Group

Graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay and Business Management from IIM Bangalore, Sandip worked in areas as diverse as oil production (ONGC) and Selling toys (Mattel) before drifting into marketing and media planning.

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  Jury Panel
   
 
Ravi Kiran - Chief Executive Officer-South Asia - Starcom MediaVest Group

Proud of being a lifelong student of marketing and communications, Ravi Kiran is one of the founding members in India of Starcom MediaVest Group, one of the largest marketing communication networks in the world. A respected media executive, Kiran joined Starcom in 1998 and has performed several country and regional roles within the network over 10 years, working in Mumbai and Singapore.
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Noomi D Mehta - Chairman & Managing Director - Selvel One Group
A group of companies owning and managing the largest share of outdoor advertising in India. Personally negotiated the first Private Equity placement in an outdoor advertising company in India. This was Citibank Investment in Mauritius
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S Yesudas

Yesudas spent over 17 years in the field of Media. His last assignment was with Initiative. He joined Initiative, India in August 1995 and served the company in various capacities before being chosen to launch Insight, a media agency from the group, to fulfil his vision about media specialists’ ability to lead the communication process. He ran Insight successfully as its Executive VP, in addition to launching a media consulting wing, Media Futures, a digital cell, Digital
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Sunder Hemrajani - Managing Director - Times Innovative Media Ltd.
Sunder Hemrajani is a senior executive with over 25 years experience in Sales,Marketing and General Management functions in leading consumer goods companies(PepsiCo, Whirlpool, Hindustan Lever).He had a 14 year stint with HLL where he handled senior assignments in HPC (Home & Personal Care) and Foods businesses.
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Madhuri Madhuri Sapru - Managing Partner - Kinetic and Dialect

Madhuri Sapru leads Kinetic and Dialect in South Asia, as a part of Groupm. Kinetic runs 2 OOH agencies in India, Portland and Poster Publicity, and has a combined market share of about 17 % in the country. With the increasing focus on integrated communication solutions, ambient media is one of the most interesting media spaces today, with its proximity to point of purchase / consumption and its ability to drive greater engagement with the consumer.
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Pratap Bose - Chief Operating Officer - Mudra Group
Pratap joined Mudra from O & M where he worked for 15 years in various capacities and became their youngest ever CEO in 2006.
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Arminio Ribeiro - CEO - Madison Outdoor
Arminio Ribeiro, a graduate in Fine & Applied Art and a post graduate in Management, has over 20 years of experience in the field of Communication.He commenced his career in the creative department of JWT and later in the management team as Vice President and Clients Services Director.
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Mallikarajuna Das - COO - Madison Media Infinity, Mumbai
 
 

Creative Jury


Chairman of Creative Jury :

Alok Nanda Alok Nanda – Director - Alok Nanda & Company

As former National Creative Director of Grey Advertising, India and a member of the Creative Board – Grey Asia Pacific, Alok Nanda has much to his credit. One of the most awarded creative personalities in India, he has closely worked on products ranging from cosmetics and contact lenses to fire extinguishers and cockroach repellent (Well, some closer than he’d wish to).


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Vikram Mehra – Chief Marketing Officer - Tata Sky Ltd.

Vikram Mehra is a Computer Science engineer from IIT Roorkee and MBA from IIM Lucknow. He has worked with various Tata Group Companies like TAS, TCS, Tata Motors etc. in the past.


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Giri JC - Executive Vice President and GM - Regional Channels STAR Entertainment Pvt Ltd

Having passed out of Loyola College Chennai (South India) - Giri started his career with a specialist media owner and after 2 years he joined Ogilvy in Chennai and consistently moved up the Ogilvy ranks over the last 13 years. He was instrumental in introducing outdoor media – AOR concept in the country back in 1995,
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Ajay Kakar Ajay Kakar - Chief Marketing Officer – Financial Services - Aditya Birla Group
The Aditya Birla Group is a significant player in financial services. It has a presence in many sectors including life insurance, insurance broking, mutual funds, private equity, security based lending, factoring, insurance advisory services, retail broking and distribution of third party products.
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Jiju Juju Basu - Creative Director - Saatchi & Saatchi

I began my career as a visualiser at Grey Worldwide (then Trikaya Grey) in 1994. With no formal training, Grey was my learning ground. My skills now comprise mainly of art direction and a bit of writing.


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Santosh Padhi - Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder Taproot

Popularly known as 'Paddy' Started his advertising career 14 years ago with Mudra Mumbai. Completing an eventful 10-year stint at Burnett, he recently left the network to start his new creative venture 'Taproot India' with his good friend and partner Agnello Dias.
Nandita Nandita Chalam - Vice President - JWT

Nandita has handled Brands like Kellogg's, Unilever, Kotak Life Insurance, UTI Mutual Fund, Morgan Stanley, Godrej Securities among others.  
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Manish Manish Bhatt - Senior Vice President & Executive Creative Director - Contract Advertising

Manish started his career as a site engineer at Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation plant after a Diploma in Civil Engineering. But he soon got bored with, in his own words, machines, boilers and chimneys and decided to enter the world of advertising. On completion of his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from M. S. University Baroda, he joined Contract - New Delhi in1995.
RAJ Sajan Raj Kurup - Chairman & Chief Creative Officer - Creativeland Asia
From age 11, Raj Kurup was possessed with the idea of starting his own country. Twenty years on, he realized his dream. In the summer of 2007, he set up Creativeland Asia, the land for people in the business of creativity.
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