Piyush Pandey, Prasanth Kumar, Sanjay Gupta and Rahul Kanwal win top honours at IAA Leadership Awards 2019

Piyush Pandey, Prasanth Kumar, Sanjay Gupta, Rahul Kanwal and Umang Bedi won top honours at the IAA Leadership Awards 2019 organised by the International Advertising Association’s (IAA) India Chapter in Mumbai on Friday, July 26, 2019.

The IAA Leadership Awards felicitated Ogilvy’s Global CCO Piyush Pandey with the IAA Creative Agency Leader of the Year award. The IAA Media Agency Leader of the Year was presented to Prasanth Kumar, GroupM; IAA TV Anchor of the Year to Rahul Kanwal, India Today Group; IAA Media Person of the Year to Sanjay Gupta, Star India and IAA Media Game Changer of the Year to Virendra Gupta and Umang Bedi of  Dailyhunt.

IAA India inducted Kaushik Roy, President Brand Strategy & Marketing Communication, Reliance Industries Limited, into the IAA Hall of Fame for going beyond the call of duty and having made a significant contribution to advertising, marketing and society.

Punit Goenka, President, IAA India, MD & CEO, Zeel, said “The IAA India Chapter has been working relentlessly to enhance the stature of our marquee properties to enrich them with engaging and thought-provoking conversations, and celebrate the commendable work being done by leaders across sectors. The 7th  edition of the IAA Leadership Awards was one such exceptional evening that celebrated and applauded true leaders who have positively contributed to the economy, changed the landscape of the M&E industry and created global brands. The support received from the guests present at the event reinforces our commitment to keep working towards creating initiatives that benefit the M&E industry.”

Bhaskar Das, Group President, Republic TV, Co-Chairperson of IAA Leadership Awards, said, “ IAA Leadership Awards is a humble attempt to honour industry doyens in the fields of Marketing, Advertising and Media, who have made enormous professional contributions and delivered business success to their companies. Because only we know the challenges, the hardships, the dilemma of ethics, the sacrifices and the tough decisions that go into making a leader - to stand tall, to stand true.”

A panel discussion moderated by CVL Srinivas, Country Manager-WPP India, on “Platform is critical. Content be dammed” with panellists - Punit Misra, CEO- Domestic Broadcast Business, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd., Sameer Nair, CEO-Applause Entertainment, Nandini Dias, CEO-Lodestar UM, and  Pooja Jauhari, CEO –The Glitch, touched upon how content, platform and the consumer are interlinked and how content and platform is a function of time and how data-driven insights are helpful in generating timely content.

Winner List - 7th Edition of the IAA Leadership Awards 2019