Madan Bahal, Prateek Bhardwaj, and Amit Sharma appointed as Jury Chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show
10th May, 2024; Mumbai, India: Madan Bahal, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Adfactors PR, Prateek Bhardwaj, Chief Creative Officer and Head of Creative (India) at Lowe Lintas and Amit Sharma, Founder Director of Chrome Pictures join as jury chairs for Public Relations category, Direct category and Video Craft category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.
Madan Bahal, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Adfactors PR, has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Public Relations category.
Adfactors is India’s largest and most recognised public relations firm. Founded in 1997, Adfactors PR is also the youngest and the only independent firm in its peer group in India.
Over the last 25 years, Madan has had the privilege to serve as a lead communication counsel in many of the milestone events of Corporate India, including fundraises, M&As, disputes, litigations, issues, and crises. The firm currently serves over 500 retained clients, including many of India’s leading conglomerates, corporations, unicorns, financial institutions, and NGOs.
In 2022, the Arthur W. Page Society inducted Mr Bahal into its Hall of Fame. Some of the prominent recognitions that he has received so far include: International Communications Consultancy Organization’s (ICCO) Hall Of Fame (November 2017), PRovoke’s Individual outstanding achievement in Asia-Pac (September 2013), Communicator of the Decade by the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI), and the Life Time Achievement Award by the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI).
In October 2020, PRovoke recognised his firm as one of the seven global agencies of the decade.
A vocal advocate of continuous learning and development for PR practitioners, Madan is regarded for providing leadership in the Indian PR industry during major adverse events such as the global financial meltdown during 2008 and the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prateek Bhardwaj,Chief Creative Officer and Head of Creative (India) at Lowe Lintas has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Direct Category.
With over 20 years in the business, Prateek has earned a slew of prestigious awards including the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and Jay Chiat Awards, and the coveted Black Pencil at D&AD.
Prateek is ranked India’s No.1 most awarded creative for 2018, according to various sources, including CampaignBrief Asia. Prateek was the Creative Director behind the much acclaimed recent work on Nescafé (stammering comedian and RJ Rishi), Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan (Immunity Charm), and Incredible India.
His other notable work includes long-running campaigns for Dettol and PayTM and the still-famous launches of Sprite (Bujhaye only pyaas), Kinley, and Chlor-mint.
Prateek has also been a creative entrepreneur and founded Eleven Brandworks in 2008.
Amit Sharma, Founder Director of Chrome Pictures, has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Video Craft category.
Amit is a leading ditrctor of ad films and now feature films. Some of his groundbreaking TVCs are Pooja Didi – Facebook, Dove #StopTheBeautyTest, Lifebuoy – Help A Child Reach Five, Silent National Anthem, Google Reunion and many more.
Amit has bagged several prestigious awards including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Spikes Asia, Adfest, London International Awards, Abby among others.
Amit’s style of filmmaking has always revolved around topics that question the society at large and challenges its norms. For instance, his National award winning feature film, Badhaai Ho (directed and produced under his banner Chrome Pictures), addresses the issues that a middle aged couple, with two grown sons, face when they get pregnant at the age of 51.
His latest film “Maidaan”, a biopic starring Ajay Devgn on the Indian football coach Syed Abdul Rahim has done well at the box office.
With a focus on choosing subjects which are path breaking and unconventional, Amit believes in telling stories which are relatable, relevant and thought provoking.
The Abby Awards will be held on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of May during Goafest 2024.
For more details on The Abby Awards, visit https://abbyawards.com/
Rahul Mathew, Avinash Pandey, Malvika Mehra, Sudha Natarajan and Tista Sen appointed as Jury Chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show
08th May, 2024; Mumbai, India: Rahul Mathew, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Mudra Group, Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network, Malvika Mehra, Sudha Natarajan, Director Response in Times of India Group and Tista Sen join as jury chairs for Brand Activation and Promotion category, Broadcaster category, Young Maverick Abby category, Publisher category and Green Abby category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.
Rahul Mathew, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Mudra Group has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Brand Activation and Promotion category.
Under Rahul’s leadership, the DDB Mudra Group became the first Indian agency to be crowned APAC agency of the year at Spikes Asia. The work from the agency has won 4 Grand Prix at Spikes Asia in the last 3 years.
In 2019, DDB Mudra became the first agency in the world to win the D&AD Impact Prize Fund. According to the 2021 Campaign Brief Asia ranking, DDB Mudra Group was ranked #3 in India. The WARC 2021 ranking of DDB Mudra was that of the #1 Effective Agency in India as well as Asia.
Rahul has had the privilege to judge in numerous shows across the world, he was also the Jury President for Press & Outdoor at D&AD ‘22.
Rahul Believes that creativity isn’t a department, it’s an attitude.
Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Broadcaster category.
ABP Network is India’s leading television and digital network with 4 TV channels running 24×7 on cable and satellite, serving in 8 languages on Digital, touching a total audience of over 265 million.
Avinash has over 28 years of experience in Media, news, Advertising and Digital.
Avinash is also the President of News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), President of International Advertising Association (India Chapter) and serving Director of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA).
He is the Founding Director of ABP Studios, which has produced award winning films and TV series.
Avinash is a Delhi University Graduate and Post Graduate in History and an AMP from Harvard Business School.
Avinash has received numerous awards including CEO of the Year Award twice from ENBA.
Malvika Mehra has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Young Maverick Abby category.
In a career spanning 3 decades, Malvika has donned many hats across advertising and marketing. Leading the brand mandate as Chief Creative Officer at Grey and Dentsu, successfully partnering clients and building famous brands like Bingo! at Ogilvy and running her own independent venture, Tomorrow Creative Lab, Malvika has moved on to being an independent consultant and brand partner to CEOs & founders.
Currently, Creative Head, Marketing, Dinshaw’s Dairy Foods, Malvika was formerly Chief Creative Officer, Good Brands at the Good Glamm Group.
Malvika has been invited 3 times as juror by the prestigious Cannes Lions across the print, film and design categories. She has been part of other eminent global juries for advertising and design including Clio, Spikes Asia, Dubai Lynx, Kyoorius apart from Abby awards. Along the way, her work has picked up more than a 100 awards at shows like Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, Adfest Asia Pacific, Spikes Asia, Kyoorius, The Abbys and The Effies.
Some of Malvika’s famous brand campaigns have been the launch of ITC Foods’ Bingo!, and her insightful work across Titan, Hutch, Vodafone, State Bank of India, Gillette, Reliance Telecom, Dell, Fiat, Honda, Duracell and the Indian Army.
The impact of her work and leadership has earned her a place among India’s ‘50 Most Influential People in Media, Marketing and Advertising’ (Economic Times – Brand Equity Agency Reckoner 2019), and the ‘Top 20 Creative Directors in India’ (ET, Brand Equity Agency Reckoner) twice in the past.
Sudha Natarajan, Director Response in Times of India Group has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Publisher category.
Sudha has had 25 years of learning experience, with 13 of them being in leadership positions, in marketing, advertising, and media organizations.
Sudha has been Director looking after a diversified revenue portfolio, including the Digital offerings for Bennett, Coleman & Co., the largest and most diversified media company in India, Sudha has served as the CEO of a large international agency network, Lintas Initiative Media (2nd largest, in India).
Sudha was voted as ‘Woman Icon’ of the Marketing & Advertising Industry, she was ranked the 14th most influential Marketing & Advertising person by Economic Times.
Sudha has served on various juries like Festival of Media, Asia and Cannes.
Sudha is also a board member on several Group Companies.
Tista Sen has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Green Abby category.
Tista Sen started her career with Whitelight Production, India’s leading ad film production company. After assisting on over 60 commercials she joined Lowe Lintas as a writer and worked on brands like Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury’s and Unilever.
Tista joined J Walter Thomson and for over 22 years she was involved with some of the largest brands in India and some of the most memorable and well-loved ad campaigns for Unilever, ITC, Godrej, GSK, Aditya Birla, Sony, SBI Mutual Funds
Tista has been ranked among the 20 most creative people in Asia and worked on campaigns that have won numerous metals at Cannes, Clio, Ad-Fest, One Show, D&AD, Clio, Spikes Asia including the Grand Prix and Gold for her work on Lost Daughters in 2022.
Over the years, Tista has been on the jury of several global advertising festivals including Cannes, D&AD, Clio, LIA, Gerety Awards, Spikes and The New York Festival. In 2015 Tista had the pleasure of being the only Asian on the inaugural Glass Jury at Cannes that honours gender diversity in communication.
Tista is co-founder of The Collective, an agency agnostic platform that is a voice for young women in the industry when it comes to discrimination and gender inequality. Passionate about story-telling and the power of the written word, Tista is the only Indian to be published in the Modern Love Column of the New York Times.
Tista recently founded Ladyfinger, an agency that talks to women specifically on issues they can relate too and has worked with brands to adopt an insightful communication model.
The Abby Awards will be held on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of May during Goafest 2024.
For more details on The Abby Awards, visit https://abbyawards.com/
Niraj Ruparel, Chandani Samdaria, Chandni Shah, Senthil and P G Aditya appointed as Jury Chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show
06th May, 2024; Mumbai, India: Niraj Ruparel, Emerging Tech Lead for WPP and Head of Mobile at GroupM, Chandani Samdaria, Executive Creative Director at L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, Chandni Shah, COO of FCB Kinnect, Senthil, CCO, VML and P G Aditya, CCO and Co-founder of Talented, join as Jury Chair for Technology category, Red Abby category, Mobile category, Integrated category and Digital category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.
Niraj Ruparel, Emerging Tech Lead for WPP and Head of Mobile at GroupM, has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Technology category.
Niraj is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in Generative AI, Metaverse Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Voice Marketing, XR marketing, consumer platforms, brand communications, and marketing analytics.
Niraj has been instrumental in developing cutting-edge creative technology solutions for agencies and clients in India.
Niraj is a go-to expert for all things related to voice, technology, mobile, and digital platforms. His work has won several awards, including FOMG, WARC, Cannes, and I-com Data Creativity Awards. In addition, he has been personally recognised for his achievements, including winning the prestigious inaugural WPP Ignite awards, Niraj has been listed in Campaign Asia’s Top 40 Rising Talent and has been featured as a top digital marketing leader in 2022 by CMO Asia.
Niraj was recently awarded for his contribution to Metaverse & AI industry at IAA Tech Plus 2023.
Niraj is a true industry maverick shaping the future of digital marketing. Additionally, he’s also a die-hard fitness fanatic, hula hooper and an affectionate father.
Chandani Samdaria, Executive Creative Director at L&K Saatchi & Saatchi, India has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Red Abby category
Chandani has been a National Gold Medalist in Figure and Artistic Skating. She then smoothly transitioned from gliding on wheels to gliding through ideas, campaigns and briefs.
With a career spanning over 14 years, she has honed her skills at agencies like Lowe Lintas, Leo Burnett and now L&K Saatchi &. Saatchi.
Chandani was awarded 40 under 40, 2023 by Social Samosa.
Chandani has created campaigns for giants like Vicks, Head & Shoulders, Nivea, Tide, Ariel, Amazon Audible, Knorr, Closeup, Kwality Wall’s, Axis Bank, Hotstar, and more.
For every brand, her forever mantra has been to conceive campaigns that weave powerful ideas through cultural insights.
Chandni Shah, COO of FCB Kinnect has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Mobile category.
Chandni heads a team of over 400 talented #Kinnectors across multiple cities. Her charisma is unmatched and she’s a torchbearer for the next generation. Her all guns blazing attitude has forged strong client relationships, attracting an enviable roster of blue-chip companies.
Under her leadership, FCB Kinnect has won some note-worthy global industry accolades, such as Cannes Lions, One Show, Spikes Asia, Grand Clio and many more.
She was one of IMPACT’s 50 Most Influential women. She was also the recipient of the SHE 2022 award by Agency Reporter.Chandni has also been listed in Campaign South Asia’s prestigious 40 Under 40 Award and the Young Business Leader Award for the South Asia region.
While having contributed on almost all their large clients, she works closely with HDFC Bank, Amazon, Tata Motors, TVS, Aditya Birla Capital Group etc.
A young woman leader herself, Chandni grooms her #Kinnectors to break the ceiling and #GetGreatShitDone.
Senthil CCO, VML India has been appointed Jury Chair in the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Integrated category.
Senthil is the spearhead of the creative team at VML, the world’s largest creative company that’s powering the business of ideas and inspiring growth for several international brands and national market leaders, working with multilingual creative and digital teams across the country.
Senthil believes in leading by example and leading from the front with insightful ideas that have built legendary local brands like Wipro, The Times Of India, Tata Steel, Tata Gluco Plus, Himalayan, Apollo Tyres, Hero Motors, Aditya Birla Fashion, Murugappa Group, Nestle Munch, Star Sports and leading global brands like Nike, Levi’s, Puma, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, KitKat, Johnnie Walker, Google, Facebook, Rotary International, Shell, Unilever Radiant and Unicef.
THE ECONOMIC TIMES gave Senthil the coveted title of ‘Lion Hunter’ for winning India’s first Gold Lions in Film & Film Craft at the Cannes Lions International Festival. He has also won India’s first One Show Gold Pencils in Film, Film Craft and Film Innovation and several D&AD, Spikes, Clio Awards and New York Festival Gold Medals.
With over 300 International Awards, Senthil is the most awarded writer, creative director and film director in Indian advertising, while leading the company to several ‘Agency Of The Year’ and ‘Campaign of the Year’ titles. Senthil has been voted ‘Copywriter of the Year’ and ‘Film Director of the Year’ several times at the National and Asia Pacific regional creative festivals.
P G Aditya, CCO and co-founder of Talented has been appointed Jury Chair in Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Digital category.
PG Aditiya is the creator of India’s most awarded campaign ever: The Unfiltered History Tour, an undercover tour of the British Museum’s disputed artefacts – for VICE.
Talented is an employee-owned creative agency founded by PG Aditya prior to which he was the CCO of Dentsu Webchutney until February 2022. His work is responsible for India’s only “Agency of the Year” title so far at Cannes Lions.
PG Aditya has helped elevate the country’s credentials at international stages through campaigns like Why is this a Swiggy Ad?, Or Travel on Cleartrip and Flipkart’s Hagglebot. PG was also recognised as APAC’s #1 CCO by the One Show & as Creative Agency Leader of the Year by the IAA
The Abby Awards will be held on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of May during Goafest 2024.
For more details on The Abby Awards, visit https://abbyawards.com/
For more details on The Abby Awards, visit https://abbyawards.com/
Abby Awards 2024 Announces Pallavi Chakravarti, Raj Kamble, Mayuri Nikumbh as Jury Chairs
The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show have selected Pallavi Chakravarti, the founder and CCO of Fundamental; Raj Kamble, the founder and CCO of Famous Innovations; and Mayuri Nikumbh, the head of design at Conran Design, to serve as jury chairs for the categories of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, Out of Home and Ambient category, and Design, respectively.
Pallavi Chakravarti – Jury Chair for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Category
Pallavi Chakravarti, the founder and CCO of Fundamental, has been named jury chair of the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion category. Chakravarti, who has been in the creative industry for 20 years, turned independent in 2023. In less than a year, her agency Fundamental has produced work for Airtel, Adidas, WhatsApp, Facebook, Parle Products, Marico, and more. She has previously worked for Instagram, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Uber, J&J, Unilever, P&G, and local behemoths like Times of India, ITC, and Star Sports. She has also held positions at Saatchi, Grey, JWT, Taproot Dentsu, and DDB Mudra.
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Pallavi was listed in the Drum World Creative Rankings’ 2021 list of the 200 most-awarded ECDs, and more locally, she was included in Indian Television Dot Com’s Wonder Women 100, a list honoring trailblazers in the creative arts, for the 2022 edition. Her work has received recognition worldwide, from shows like the Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, Adfest Asia Pacific, Spikes Asia, Kyoorius, and The Abbys to effectiveness awards like the Effies and Appies. Pallavi, who has won hundreds of medals, was also honored with the Best Ad Screenplay plaque at the esteemed 2015 Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival.
Pallavi has served on numerous juries throughout the years, including those for the Film, Outdoor, Direct, Radio, and Integrated Advertising categories at the Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx, New York Festival, Global Awards, Gerety Awards, Kyoorius Awards, and the Abbys. Through various industry initiatives, she also serves as a mentor for young talent. Her passions are psychology, theater, and music, which she enjoys doing outside of work.
Raj Kamble – Jury Chair for Out of Home and Ambient Category
Raj Kamble, founder and CCO of Famous Innovations, has been named juror chair of the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Out of Home and Ambient category. Kamble is a Sir JJ School of Arts gold medallist in both design and art. Throughout the course of his 25-year career, he has worked for Lowe India, Lowe London, Lowe New York, BBDO New York, and BBH India before returning to Mumbai as managing partner. His work has produced both commercial and critical success for companies like Google, Stella Artois, Unilever, Nestle, P&G, Saab, Diageo, Vaseline, and Burger King over this time.
He established Famous Innovations, an independent creative agency, in 2013. In addition to winning Digital Agency of the Year, Design Agency of the Year, and Green Agency of the Year, he is the nine-time winner of South Asia Independent Agency of the Year.
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Mayuri Nikumbh – Jury Chair for Design Category
Mayuri Nikumbh, head of design at Conran Design, has been named jury chair of the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Design category. She has led award-winning projects and contributed to the success of well-known brands as well as startups. Mayuri firmly believes that design has the ability to tell genuine stories that can transform businesses and affect consumer behavior. She assisted in starting Conran Design Mumbai in the midst of the worldwide pandemic, and she currently serves as its creative director. In just three years since its founding, Nikumbh has aided in the creation of prestigious companies and the winning of IDA Awards, Transform Asia, and Campaign Agency of the Year.
Impact magazine has selected Mayuri as one of India’s 40 under Forty creative industry go-getters. Additionally, she represented India in the collaborative Asia-wide project “Colours of Asia,” which resulted in a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the Hong Kong Design Institute and the subsequent win of the Design for Asia Award.
Mayuri, a prominent advocate for design, has served on the juries for major regional festivals, the Kyoorius Design Awards, and Spikes Asia Awards, among many other recognitions. This year, she’ll be in Cannes as a member of the Design Lions jury. Mayuri wholeheartedly supports the approach of aiming for the sweet spot of clients’ and customers’ needs in terms of problem-solving.
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Abby Awards 2024 Features Anupama Ramaswamy, Ashish Chakravarthy and Rajdeepak Das as Jury Chairs
The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show will feature three juries: Anupama Ramaswamy, chief creative officer of Havas Worldwide India; Ashish Chakravarty, executive director and India head of creative for McCann Worldgroup; Rajdeepak Das, chief creative officer of Publicis Groupe, South Asia, and chairman of Leo Burnett, South Asia as Still Digital category, Audio category, and Film category jury chair, respectively.
Anupama Ramaswamy – Jury Chair for Still Digital Category
Chief creative officer of Havas Worldwide India Anupama Ramaswamy has been named jury chair for the Still Digital category of the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show. Anupama is regarded as one of the nation’s most renowned creative minds. Her work, passion for art direction, and pure-play advertising have left an enduring impression.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with several top Indian agencies as well as international and domestic brands in a variety of industries, including Tata Tea Digital, Samsung Mobiles, Airtel, Dabur, Lacoste, Vivo, Paytm, Subway, Maruti Suzuki, and many more. Her work for Fuji Film has been recognized as one of the top 20 most awarded print campaigns in the world by the Gunn Report, and she has also won some of the most prestigious awards, including the Cannes Lions, Clio, Adfest, New York Festivals, Abby, Effies, Spikes, Global Healthcare Awards, IAA Awards, and The One Show. Anupama has served on the grand jury at the New York Festivals’ AME Awards as well as the juries for The One Show, Spikes Asia, and other awards.
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Ashish Chakravarthy – Jury Chair for Audio Category
Ashish Chakravarty, executive director and India head of creative for McCann Worldgroup, has been appointed jury chair for the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Audio category.
Ashish has worked on some of the largest international and Indian brands, as well as in the majority of the main agency networks. More than 400 national and international awards, including those from prestigious advertising competitions such as One Show, Cannes, D&AD, Clio, Ad-fest, Spikes, Kyoorius, and Goafest, have been bestowed upon him. Ashish has participated in all of the major Indian award shows as well as numerous prestigious international advertising awards as a jury member or jury chair.
Ashish has been named one of India’s top ten creative directors by the Economic Times, as well as one of the world’s top ECDs in industry rankings.
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Rajdeepak Das – Jury Chair for Film (less than one minute) category
Rajdeepak Das, the chairman of Leo Burnett South Asia and the chief creative officer of Publicis Groupe South Asia, has been named jury chair for the Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the film (less than one minute) category.
Raj is adamant that the greatest brands can benefit from the true potential of creativity and technology when it comes to developing human-centered solutions since, after all, brands exist to serve people. Furthermore, his body of work embodies his creative vision. By constructing Bajaj motorbikes from the fabled warship INS Vikrant, he and his team gave every Indian a piece of national treasure. To lower the number of traffic accidents on Himalayan roads, they developed the first anti-collision road management system in history in partnership with the Indian government and a petroleum brand.
He developed the nation’s first microfinance system based on social media for a financial brand in India. His HumanKind approach to creativity has helped Leo Burnett India win numerous Grand Prix and metals at events such as Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, and Spikes Asia. However, Apollo 11, a specialized division of Leo Burnett India made up of what he refers to as “the mutant creatives,” is what he considers to be his greatest creation to date. He works with a group of young adults in their 20s who have backgrounds in environment science, product design, data analysis, aerospace engineering, and human resources to solve problems related to people and brands.
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