This year’s IPOY award function will be held in Mumbai on December 6, 2013
The IPOY award, which honours an individual or group’s outstanding achievement in the media, marketing and advertising, world has grown from strength to strength over the years. Past winners of IPOY make up an illustrious group.
2005- The then CEO of Star India Network, Peter Mukerjea, was the first IMPACT Person Of the Year. Under his leadership, Star India had turned profitable and he played a pivotal role in re-launching Star’s flagship channel, Star Plus, as a Hindi channel in 2000, post which it became India’s Number 1 Hindi GEC.
2006- Editor-in-Chief of CNN-IBN, Rajdeep Sardesai, had been actively involved in setting up the entire IBN Network and continues to do so.“In media, there is always a team supporting you. And, I have been very fortunate to bring on such a wonderful team to the platform for IBN. The team’s passion and energy has brought us this recognition,” Sardesai said on winning the award in 2006.
2007- Dr Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB Group was adjudged IPOY in 2007 for heading one of India’s largest conglomerates, the UB Group, successfully. At the age of 28, Mallya became a non-resident Indian to pursue global opportunities and to transform the UB Group into a multinational company.
2008- For the first time in the history of IPOY, two awards were given away in the same year. The winners were former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi and Raghav Bahl, founder, controlling shareholder & MD, Network 18 (Editorial Choice IPOY Award). Bahl was chosen for growing his business hugely, crafting success stories with global media giants like NBC Universal, Viacom, Time Warner, Forbes, A&E Networks and GS Homeshopping (Korea). Modi was chosen for the success of the Indian Premier League (IPL), and taking the T-20 format of the game to a new high. He transformed the sport and built IPL into a huge enterprise.
2009- The then CEO of Colors (now CEO, CA Media), Rajesh Kamat, was given the award in 2009. In his three years, Kamat was instrumental in launching Colors and rapidly taking it to an enviable positionin the Hindi GEC space, both in India and in 30 other countries where it is distributed.
2010- Uday Shankar, CEO of Star India Network,was honoured with the IPOY award in 2010. It had been a spectacular rise for Shankar after he joined the Star network as CEO of the Star News channel. He became the CEO of Star TV India and oversaw the network’s business ventures in India. While ensuring that Star’s market grew exponentially, he also succeeded in keeping the flagship channel at the No. 1 spot. “I thought changing things in a country of this scale would take millions of years… the power of mainstream media is enormous,” Shankar said on winning the award.
2011- The IPOY award went to two big achievers – advertising wizard Agnello Dias and (Editorial choice) Haresh Chawla, then Group CEO of Network18 & Viacom18. While Dias, Chairman & Co-Founder of Taproot India, has been a pioneer in the creative field for the last two decades and the brain behind campaigns such as Airtel’s ‘Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai’, Chawla had created a unique proposition for all Network18 channels and turned them into profitable ventures.
2012- Last year, Ambika Soni, ex-Union Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting became the first woman to be bestowed with the honour. Soni is credited for pushing the agenda for digitisation of television in India, and finally making it official, with definite deadlines. It was during Soni’s tenure that Prasar Bharati announced a plan of revival with a budget of Rs 140 cr to be spent on production and acquiring fresh software of programmes.
Who will it be this year?
The nominees for iPoY 2013 are
Bharat Patel, Former Chairman, ISA & Hemant Bakshi, Chairman, ISA
CVL Srinivas, CEO, GroupM South Asia
Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL)
Rahul Sharma, Co-founder, Micromax Informatics Limited
Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Google India
Sameer Suneja, Global CEO, Perfetti Van Melle
Vineet Jain, Managing Director, Times Group
PREDICT THIS YEAR’S IPOY AND WIN!
Predict the Impact Person Of TheYear 2013 and win an exciting gift hamper from Impact and a chance to meet the IPOY winner. Send in your prediction to emily.boral@exchange4media.com by November 30, 2013.
The winner will be announced after we unveil IPOY 2013 on December 6 @ 7:00 PM, ITC Grand Central, Parel.
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