EMVIES 2026 – Jury Members

EMVIE 2026 FINAL ROUND JURY

NO.

NAME

ORGANISATION

1 Aabha Sachdev Times of India Metro Supplements
2 Aatika Ehsan Ansari Pernod Ricard India
3 Abhijit Dixit IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Ltd
4 Abhinav Sinha Renault India Private Limited
5 Abhineet Khanka Mars Pet Nutrition 
6 Abhiroop Chatterjea Cipla Health Ltd.
7 Abhishek Kumar Piramal Pharma Limited
8 Aditi Mahale Lenovo Pvt. Ltd.
9 Aditya Menon Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands Limited
10 Aditya Shah Tata Play Ltd.
11 Adityan Kayalakal Pocket FM
12 Ajay Dang UltraTech Cement, ABG Group
13 Akash Deep Batra HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd.
14 Alexander Valladares The Coca-Cola Company
15 Amar Thomas BCCL
16 Ameet Bhuvan Zee Studios
17 Amit Gheji Ashirvad by aliaxis
18 Amit Tiwari Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
19 Amol Ghadge Pfizer Limited
20 Amrith Gopinath DLF Retail
21 Aniruddha Haldar TVS Motor Company
22 Ankit Desai Marico Ltd.

23

Anshumaan Prasad

NIIT Ltd and Business Head, NIIT Digital

24 Antara Mitra Accenture Song
25 Anuj Somani Volvo Cars India
26 Anurag Agrawal Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
27 Anushree Ghosh ITC Ltd. (Foods Division)
28 Aparna Devikar Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd
29 Argho Bhattacharya PayU Payments
30 Aroop Chatterjee Adani Group
31 Arti Saxena World Gold Council
32 Arvind Iyer Piramal Finance Limited
33 Ashish Morone HDFC Bank
34 Ashish Nair  Kotak Life Insurance
35 Avi Kumar FNP
36 Basant Rathore Jagran Prakashan Ltd 
37 Bhalchandra Padwal SBI Life Insurance
38 Bhavin Desai Volkswagen Passenger Cars India
39 Bhupali Naik Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd.
40 Bikram Bindra The Absolut Group
41 Bimalendu Tarafdar Sanjay Ghodawat Group
42 Binda Dey Knight Riders Sports
43 Bineet Jain Coca Cola
44 Bobby SInha Amazon Music
45 Deepa Krishnan Edelweiss Alternatives
46 Deepak Chhabra Timex Group India Ltd
47 Deepen Shah Nth Degree
48 Dhaval Doshi Oliva Clinics
49 Dhawal Thaker Adani Group
50 Dhruv Chopra Chalo Mobility Private Limited
51 Dinesh Garg Eleenova
52 Dr. Ashish Bajaj 10on10 Foods
53 Esha Arora Info Edge India Limited
54 Garima Dikshit  Levis Strauss .
55 Gaurav Karkhanis Glenmark Consumer Care Limited
56 Gaurav Laghate Sony Pictures Network India
57 Gaurav Ramdev Visa Inc.
58 Gauri Malhotra Haelon
59 Geetanjali Sachwani Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Private Limited
60 Girish Ahuja H&R Johnson
61 GK Suresh PES University
62 Gunjit Jain Colgate – Palmolive (India) Limited
63 Gunnidhi Sareen Head Digital Works 
64 Harshdeep Chhabra Sony Pictures Network India
65 Hitesh Patel Reliance Industries Limited
66 Imraan Surve  Zodiac Clothing Company Ltd.
67 Jaikishin Chhaproo ITC Limited
68 Jaswinder Singh Sodhi HSBC
69 Jennifer Chhor GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited
70 Jiteen Aggarwal Hettich India Pvt. Ltd
71 John Gabriel TCS Interactive
72 Jyoti Kumar Bansal TATA Power
73 Jyoti Samajpati Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
74 Kallappa Pattanashetti Pidilite Industries Limited
75 Kanupriya Didwania UltraTech Cement Ltd.
76 Kartik Gangwani Mahindra
77 Kartik Subramanian Raymond Lifestyle Limited
78 Katha Pankaj Tara BIG FM
79 Kaushik Chakraborty Tata Capital Ltd.
80 Kriishnendu Dasgupta Tata Play
81 Kunal Malhotra TACO BELL INDIA (BURMAN HOSPITALITY PVT. LTD.)
82 Kunal Sharma KRBL Limited
83 Kuzhimadathil Antony Bobby Indian Hotels Company Limited
84 L V Krishnan TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd.
85 Mamta Taliwala Shalina Healthcare Ltd.
86 Manas Gupta Lenovo India
87 Manoj Jain Reliance Retail
88 Mehul Shah INFOSYS FINACLE
89 Minali Bhawsar USV Pvt Ltd. 
90 Mohit Taneja  Jindal Stainless
91 Neilesh K Talreja UCID P. LTD
92 Nikhil Davda Adani Group – Dharavi Redevelopment Project
93 Nupur Gurbaxani Sanofi Consumer Healthcare
94 Pankaj Kapoor Nilkamal India Pvt Ltd
95 Pawan Sarda The House of Abhinandan Lodha
96 Petal Gangurde XYXX Apparels 
97 Pooja D Asar Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles
98 Pooja Sehgal Gates Foundation
99 Prabakaran Kandan Britannia Industries Limited
100 Pracheta Mazumdar Bumble
101 Pradeep Gangadharan Freudenberg Gala Household
102 Prasenjit Basu Voltas
103 Prashant Sarwade Cargill India
104 Praveen Tripathi MAGIC 9 Media & Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
105 Pravin Menon Veranda Learning Solutions Ltd.
106

Pritika Shah 

HDFC Life
107 Priya Advirkar Zee Entertainment
108 Priya Rege Jaggi Loreal
109 Priyanka Arora  The Plan Beyond
110 Priyanka Raonka Dr Reddy’s Laboratories
111 Priyanka Verma Danone
112 Puja Chandna Kellogg’s
113 Pulkit Mathur Spotify
114 Puneeth Bekal HDFC Sky
115 Purvi Parekh JSW Paints Limited
116 Rahul Singh Raymond Lifestyle Ltd
117 Raja Chakraborty CCL Products (India) Ltd.
118 Rajeev Jain DS Group
119 Rajiv Dubey Dabur India Limited
120 Ravi Bhatnagar Reckitt
121 Ravi Jaswani Nimayate Corporate Solutions Pvt Ltd (NCS)
122 Ravi Rawat UNICEF India

123

Riddhi Bakhru

Pidilite

124 Ritu Mittal Bayer
125 Rohan Jadhav UltraTech Cement @ Aditya Birla Group

126

Rohan Prasher

Coca-Cola Ltd

127 Ruchi Sanganeria ABBOTT
128 Ruchika Gupta Hilton Worldwide
129 Rumi Ambastha Puresta
130 Saahil Mendiratta Virohan Private Limited

131

Sagar Shah

Kotak Mahindra Bank

132

Sagnik Ghosh

Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, (The Times of India)

133 Sameeksha Uniyal Bacardi India
134 Sameer Sainani Optimal Media Solutions (The Times of India)
135 Sameer Seth Dolby Laboratories, INC
136 Samir Ratanjankar Reliance Retail
137 Samir Vora Reliance Entertainment and Sports limited
138 Sampanna Upendra Kagalkar Bajaj Auto Ltd.
139 Sanghamitra Chakraborty  Swiggy India
140 Santosh Deshmukh MATTER Motor Works
141 Saugata Bagchi Tata Communications Limited
142 Saurabh Sharma Ather Energy
143 Shawn Chandy Paragon Footwear
144 Sheena Kapoor ICICI Lombard
145 Shekhar Saurabh TATA AIG
146 Shipra Srivastava Spotify India
147 Shitiz Modi Philip Morris
148 Shonali Shetty Nexus Select Malls 
149 Shourabh Kumar Verma DishTV India Limited
150 Shreyashi Keshri McCain India Foods Ltd.
151 Shrishail Deshnur MOC Cancer Care & Research Centre
152 Shweta Shah HDFC Bank
153 Shyam Kumar Krafton India
154 Siji Nair Kaul A Mankind Company
155 Soumitra Pal Tata Motors Limited
156 Sreerupa Banerjee Vodafone
157 Subhabrato Das Indoco Remedies
158 Subramanian S Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd.
159 Sudeep Chawla Sintex BAPL Ltd.
160 Sudha Natrajan BENNETT COLEMAN & CO. LTD
161 Sugandha Srivastava Birla Opus
162 Sujala Martis Platinum Guild India
163 Sumona Sen Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
164 Sunaina Haldar Faber-Castell India
165 Sundar Kondur The Hindu Group
166 Suresh Amarnani Cello World Ltd.
167 Sushrut Pant Markeble 
168 Swapnil Arora Jio Studios
169 Swati Jha Pidilite Industries Limited
170 Swati Rathi Godrej Enterprises – Appliances Business
171 Tara Kapur Duolingo English Test
172 Tarun Jha JSW Steel
173 Uden Bhutia Fincity
174 Utkarsh Narain Movin Express Ltd.
175 Vikram Raman Shark Ninja India
176 Vishal Kapoor HDFC Mutual Fund
177 Yash Desai Mondelez International
178 Yatnesh Pandey Action Group
179 Yogesh Manik Apte Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund

NO.

NAME

ORGANISATION

1

Aatika Ehsan Ansari

Pernod Ricard India

2

Abhijit Dixit

HDFC Bank

3

Abhiroop Chatterjea

Cipla Health Ltd.

4

Abhishek Kumar

Piramal Pharma Limited

5

Adarsh Kurup

Cargill

6

Aditi Mahale

Lenovo Pvt. Ltd.

7

Aditi Roy

Novartis India

8

Aditi Toley

Reliance Retail

9

Aditya Krishna

McCain India Foods Ltd.

10

Aditya Shah

Tata Play Ltd.

11

Ajay Dang

UltraTech Cement, ABG Group

12

Alexander Valladares

The Coca-Cola Company

13

Altamash Khan

Raymond Lifestyle Limited

14

Amar Thomas

Brand Capital (Times Of India)

15

Amit Gheji

Ashirvad by aliaxis

16

Amitabh Biswas

Times Network

17

Amlan Pati

Samsung India Electronics Ltd

18

Amol Ghadge

Pfizer Limited

19

Amrith Gopinath

DLF Retail

20

Anagha Bhojane

Colgate Palmolive India

21

Anand Narang

Vedant Fashions Limited

22

Aniket Das

Haleon

23

Anil V. Kaushal

Lupin Limited

24

Aniruddha Haldar

TVS Motor Company

25

Anjali Madan Krishnan

Mondelez Foods India Pvt. Ltd.

26

Anshumaan Prasad

NIIT Ltd.

27

Anurag Agrawal

Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

28

Anushree Ghosh

ITC ltd (Foods division)

29

Aparna Devikar

Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd.

30

Aroop Chatterjee

Adani Group

31

Arti Saxena

World Gold Council

32

Aruna Daryanani

Amazon MX Player

33

Arvind Iyer

Piramal Finance

34

Asang La Walling

Titan Company Limited

35

Ashish Morone

HDFC Bank

36

Ashish Nair

Kotak Life Insurance

37

Ashwani Sinha

Truecaller

38

Ashwini Rao

Hindustan Unilever Limited

39

Avanti Deo Mishra

Raymond Lifestyle Ltd.

40

Ayesha Huda

Mars – INDIA (Gurgaon)

41

Azmat Habibulla

DBS Bank

42

Bhalchandra Padwal

SBI Life Insurance

43

Bhavin Desai

Volkswagen Passenger Cars India

44

Bhavna Chawla

Kotak Mahindra Bank            

45

Bhupali Naik

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

46

Bimalendu Tarafdar

Sanjay Ghodawat Group

47

Binda Dey

Knight Riders Group

48

Bineet Jain

Haleon

49

Chaitanya Salunke

Nat Habit

50

Chandan Mukherji

Nestle India

51

Deepa Krishnan

Hyatt Hotels Corporation

52

Deepak Chhabra

Timex Group India Ltd

53

Deepak Saluja

Andromeda Wealth

54

Deepen Shah

BARC

55

Deepshikha Goel Surendran

Tata Trusts

56

Dhawal Thaker

Adani Group

57

Dhruv Chopra

Chalo

58

Dr. Ashish Bajaj

Narayana Health

59

Dr. Rohit Sane

Madhavbaug

60

Elizabeth Venkataraman

Shriram Finance

61

Esha Arora

Info Edge India Limited

62

G K Suresh

PES University

63

Gaurav Karkhanis

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited

64

Gaurav Ramdev

Protean eGov Technologies

65

Gaurav Sharma

Campus Activewear Ltd.

66

Gaurav Sinha

Audi

67

Gauri Malhotra

Bombay Shaving Company

68

Geetanjali Sachwani

Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd.

69

Geetika Mehta

Beiersdorf

70

Girish Ahuja

H&R Johnson (India)

71

Girish Nilekar

HSBC

72

Gunnidhi Sareen

Head Digital Works

73

Gurtej Singh Chopra

Merino Industries Limited

74

Harshdeep Chhabra

Godrej Consumer Product Limited

75

Imraan Surve

ZODIAC

76

Jaskaran Singh

Baazi Games

77

Jaswinder Singh Sodhi

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, India

78

Jennifer Chhor

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited

79

Jiteen Aggarwal

Hettich India Pvt. Ltd

80

John Gabriel T

TCS Interactive

81

Juzer Tambawalla

Franklin Templeton

82

Jyoti Samajpati

Kotak Mahindra Bank

83

Jyoti Sharma

Virtuous Retail South Asia

84

K Ganapathy Subramaniam

LT Foods Ltd

85

Kaacon Sethi

Dainik Bhaskar Group

86

Kallappa Pattanashetti

Pidilite Industries Limited

87

Kanupriya Didwania

UltraTech Cement Ltd.

88

Karan Khanna

Yes Bank

89

Kartik Gangwani

Mahindra

90

Kartik Johari

Nobel Hygiene Pvt. Ltd.

91

Kartik Subramanian

Raymond Lifestyle Limited

92

Katha Tara

Zupee

93

Kaushik Chakraborty

Tata Capital Ltd.

94

Kavitha Ganesan

Eurogrip Tyres

95

Krisha Turakhia

Urban Ladder, Reliance Retail

96

Krishna Kumar

GOQii Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

97

Krishnendu Dasgupta

Tata Play

98

Kunal Malhotra

TACO BELL INDIA (BURMAN HOSPITALITY PVT. LTD.)

99

Kunal Sharma

KRBL Limited

100

Kuzhimadathil Antony Bobby

Indian Hotels Company Limited

101

L V Krishnan

TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd.

102

Lalatendu Panda

Reliance Retail Venture Ltd.

103

Madhu Dutta

Raymond Lifestyle Ltd

104

Mamta Taliwala

Shalina Healthcare Ltd.

105

Manas Gupta

Lenovo India

106

Manoj Jain

Reliance Retail (Digital)

107

Mansha Tandon

Google APAC

108

Mehak Gulati

Airtel

109

Mehul Shah

INFOSYS FINACLE

110

Mohit Taneja

Jindal Stainless

111

Monosij Bandyopadhyay

Mondelez International

112

Mudit Bhandari

Birla Opus

113

Naresh Batra

Domestic textiles, Grasim, Aditya Birla Group

114

Neha Kapoor

Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals

115

Neilesh K Talreja

UCID P. LTD

116

Nikhil Mylavarapu

Dr. Reddys Nestle Health Science

117

Nishant Singh

Lyxel and Flamingo Pvt. Ltd.

118

Nupur Gurbaxani

Sanofi Consumer Healthcare Ltd

119

Pankaj Kapoor

Nilkamal

120

Pawan Sarda

The House of Abhinandan Lodha

121

Petal Gangurde

XYXX Apparels

122

Pooja Asar

Tata Motors

123

Pooja Sehgal

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

124

Prabakaran K.

Britannia Industries Ltd.

125

Prabhakar Tiwari

The MargDarshak Inc

126

Pradnya Somesh Popade

Welspun Global Brands

127

Prakhar Sharma

AdaniConneX

128

Prasad V Kaushik

Ford

129

Prashant Sarwade

Cargill India

130

Praveen Tripathi

MAGIC 9 Media & Analytics Pvt. Ltd.

131

Pravin Menon

Veranda Learning Solutions Ltd.

132

Preetam Patnaik

CCL Products India Ltd. (Continental Coffee)

133

Pritika Shah

HDFC Life

134

Priyanka Raonka

Boehringer Ingelheim India Pvt. Ltd.

135

Puja Chandna

Kellogg’s

136

Puneet Gulati

VLCC

137

Rachit Gupta

Chalet Hotels Ltd.

138

Rahul Ralhan

Housing.com & PropTiger.com

139

Raj Rishi Singh

Makemytrip India Private Limited – IND

140

Raja Chakraborty

Continental Coffee Limited

141

Rajeev Jain

DS Group

142

Rajeshwari

Beyond Snack

143

Rajiv Dubey

Dabur India Limited

144

Ranjit Behera

MetaShot

145

Ravi Bhatnagar

Reckitt

146

Ravi Jaswani

Nimayate Corporate Solutions (NCS)

147

Ravi Rawat

UNICEF India

148

Richa Singh

Natural Diamond Council Limited

149

Riddhi Bakhru

Pidilite

150

Ritu Mittal

Bayer Consumer Health

151

Rohan Jadhav

UltraTech Cement @ Aditya Birla Group

152

Rohan Prasher

Coca-Cola Pvt. Ltd

153

Ruchi Sanganeria

Abbott Healthcare

154

Ruchika Gupta

IndiGo Airlines

155

Saahil Mendiratta

Virohan

156

Sachin Chhabra

Relaxo Footwear Limited

157

Sachin Vashishtha

Paisa Bazaar

158

Sachin Vinod Mishra

Cipla Health Ltd.

159

Sagar Boke

Vectura Fertin Pharma

160

Sagnik Ghosh

Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, (The Times of India)

161

Sai Mahesh Vishwanath

Britannia

162

Sambit Dash

RPSG Capital

163

Sameeksha Uniyal

Bacardi India

164

Sameer Sainani

Optimal Media Solutions (The Times of India)

165

Sameer Seth

Dolby Laboratories, INC

166

Samir Ratanjankar

Reliance Retail

167

Samir Sethi

Policybazaar

168

Samir Vora

VerSe Innovation

169

Sampanna Upendra Kagalkar

Bajaj Auto Ltd.

170

Samyukta Ganesh Iyer

The Simple Thing

171

Sanchita Ganguly

Bayer CropScience Ltd.

172

Santosh Deshmukh

MATTER Motor Works

173

Sarina Menezes

Oberoi Realty Limited

174

Satish Kumar Sahoo

Cipla Health Limited

175

Saugata Bagchi

Tata Communications Ltd

176

Shanu Singh

ASK Asset & Wealth Management Group

177

Shashishekhar Mukherjee

Reckitt

178

Shawn Chandy

Paragon Footwear

179

Sheena Kapoor

ICICI Lombard

180

Shefali Khalsa

IndusInd Bank Ltd.

181

Shekhar Saurabh

Tata AIG

182

Shipra Srivastava

Spotify India

183

Shitiz Modi

Google

184

Shourabh Kumar Verma

DishTV India Limited

185

Shrishail Deshnur

Indira IVF

186

Shruti Kapoor

Cambridge University Press and Assessment

187

Shubhangi Mehta 

HCLSoftware

188

Shubhi Sharma Ganesh

Standard Chartered Bank

189

Shuvadip Banerjee

ITC Limited

190

Shweta Shah

HDFC Bank

191

Siddharth Parida

Goodyear India

192

Siji Nair Kaul

Bayer

193

Soumitra Pal

Tata Motors Limited

194

Sourabh Hembrum

AkzoNobel India Ltd.

195

Sramana Chakraborty Sengupta

Flying Man Ventures

196

Sreerupa Banerjee

Vodafone

197

Subramanian S

Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd.

198

Sudakshina Bhattacharya

HDFC ERGO General Insurance Co Ltd.

199

Sudeep Chawla

Pidilite Industries Ltd.

200

Sudha Natrajan

BENNETT COLEMAN & CO. LTD

201

Sugandha Gupta

Urban Company

202

Sujala Martis

Platinum Guild India

203

Sujatha V Kumar

Visa– India & South Asia

204

Sumona Sen

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited

205

Sunaina Haldar

ADF Foods

206

Sundar Kondur

BENNETT & COLEMAN (The Times of India)

207

Suresh Amarnani

Cello World Ltd.

208

Sushmita Kashyap

McDonalds India  N&E

209

Sushrut Pant

Shree Cement Limited

210

Swati Jha

Pidilite Industries Limited

211

Swati Rathi

Godrej Enterprise Group

212

Tanvi Garde

Kushal’s Fashion Jewellery

213

Tara Kapur

Duolingo

214

Taranjeet Kaur

Tata Consumer Products Ltd

215

Uden Bhutia

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

216

Ullas Vijay

Duroflex Group

217

Utkarsh Narain

Movin Express Ltd.

218

Utkarsh Thakur

Oliva Clinics

219

Vaibhav Rathi

Dabur

220

Varman M

Zydus Wellness

221

Vikram Raman

Ariston Group- Racold

222

Vineet Taneja

Hero Mortocorp

223

Virat Khullar

Hyundai Motor India Ltd.

224

Vishal Kapoor

HDFC AMC

225

Vrajesh Jha

Roche

226

Yatnesh Pandey

Greenply

227

Yogesh Nambiar

Harman International India

228

Yogessh Mehta

JSW Paints

GRAND EMVIE 2026 JURY

NO.

NAME

ORGANISATION

1 Charulata Ravi Kumar Accenture
2 Manish Dubey Pidilite Industries Ltd.
3 Pierre de Greef Pernod Ricard India
4 Santosh Desai Futurebrands

EMVIE 2026 ROUND 1 JURY

NO.

NAME

ORGANISATION

1 Aarathi Bhat Initiative
2 Aarti Bal Wavemaker India
3 Abhay Kumar Havas Play
4 Abhishek Pande Sun Pharmaceuticals
5 Abhishek Ranjan DS Group
6 Abhishek Upadhya Hiveminds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
7 Aditi Mathur Interactive Avenues – Omnicom Media
8 Adrine D’mello White Rivers Media
9 Ajay Rawal Encube Ethicals Limited
10 Akhil Sethi Harman India / Consumer Audio
11 Akshay Menon Rapport Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
12 Amandeep Singh Kahlon Zouk
13 Ambica Chaudhry Madison
14 Amit Bhurke Wavemaker India
15 Amrita Roy OMD
16 Amrut P Kasare  MudraMax
17 Anil Kumar Madison Media
18 Anirudh Saxena Wavemaker India
19 Ankit Gupta Zydus Wellness
20 Ankit Shard Philips India
21 Ankur Garg Rapport Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
22 Ankur Jaiswal EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
23 Ankush Singh HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
24 Anshudhar Satyarthi Starcom- Publicis Media
25 Anshuman Chakravarty Somany Ceramics Ltd
26 Aparna Narayanan Initiative Media
27 Aparna Thakur HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
28 Arundhuti Dhar ITC Limited
29 Arvind Pillai Madison
30 Ashok Shinde PivotRoots
31 Ashutosh Singh EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
32 Ashwini Kamat Lodestar UM
33 Atrayee Chakraborty MUDRA, OMNICOM ADVERTISING
34 Avinash Tiwary Havas Media
35 Balu Chaitanya OMD
36 Bhatt Kaustubh  Interactive Avenues
37 Bitupan Baruah EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
38 Brajesh Dwivedi Mindshare
39 Chirag Chandiramani Starcom- Publicis Media
40 Chirag Sharma Prime Video
41 Cyrus Shroff                     Performics
42 Damodaran Namboodiri  Cipla Health Limited
43 Danish Khan Starcom- Publicis Media
44 Darshan Patil Starcom- Publicis Media
45 Debankur Kashyap WPP Media
46 Deepa Gupta MOMS Outdoor Media Solutions
47 Deepak Sonpar  EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
48 Deepshikha Kejriwal EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
49 Deepti Sethi Wavemaker India
50 Deesha Shah Rapport Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
51 Deleise Ross Mudra

52

Devansh Gupta

MudraMax

53 Dharini Desai Havas Media
54 Dhiraj Deepak Khanna MudraMax
55 Dhirendra Singh Initiative
56 Divyesh Gurlani APEX India  – Publicis Groupe
57 Gaurav Gemini Havas Media
58 Hansveen Kaur Vikram Solar
59 Harprit Singh Saini Performics India
60 Harsh Desireddy Wavemaker India
61 Himanshu Phutela Lodestar UM
62 Imran Khatri Lodestar UM
63 Janvi Mehta Publicis Groupe
64 Jasmine Sachdeva Wavemaker India
65 Jayesh Yagnik MOMS Outdoor Media Solutions
66 Jayston D’Souza Bayer – Crop Science Division, India.
67 Johnsy Quadras Wavemaker India
68 Joywin Fernandes Danone India
69 Karan Kapoor OMD 
70 Karan Rao Madison
71 Kaushik M Raul Madison World
72 Kavita Acharekar                     Zenith – Publicis Media
73 Keren Benjamin Dias White Rivers Media
74 Kinjan Shah USV India Pvt Ltd
75 Kiran Sharma Interactive Avenues – Omnicom Media
76 Kulshreshtha Gaurav    Publicis 
77 Kunal Danda HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
78 Kunal Duggal Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
79 Kushal Bhuva White Rivers Media
80 Linu John PHD
81 Lokita Rathod Lodestar UM
82 Lynette Dsouza Interactive Avenues
83 M V Krishna Kumar Menon Lodestar UM
84 Manini Thakur Starcom- Publicis Media
85 Manish Kumar Pundir OMD 
86 Mayank Bhatnagar Madison Media
87 Megha Varma Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
88 Mohammed Azharuddin Shaikh Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
89 Mohd Shayakh Mirza Mindshare – WPP Media
90 Mudit Bhandari Birla Opus Paints
91 Namrata Roy  OMD
92 Neelav Bose Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
93 Niharika Goswami Havas Play
94 Nikita Malhotra Singh Woodland
95 Nimesh Shah Madison
96 Nisha Didwania Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
97 Nisha Dudani Madison
98 Nupur Bhayani Shah PHD – Omnicom Media
99 Pooja Vichare Madison
100 Poulomi Saha Havas Media
101 Pranali Sarkar EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
102 Pranali Surve Madison Media
103 Pranit Pradip Raorane Starcom- Publicis Media
104 Prashant Mishra MOMS Outdoor Media Solutions
105 Prashant Nandan PMX
106 Pratik Dawda PHD
107 Pratik Ghate Bajaj Auto Ltd.
108 Praveen Joshi PivotRoots
109 Priya Iyer  Initiative Media
110 Priyanka Kapur Zenith – Publicis Media
111 Radhika Subberwal Sidhu Starcom- Publicis Media
112 Raghav Anand     Performics
113 Raghuvendra Singh Parihar Madison Media
114 Rahul Chhetry Dentsu
115 Rahul Marwaha EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
116 Rahul Nagarkatti Starcom- Publicis Media
117 Rahul Satoskar EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
118 Rahul Shah OpenDoor, WPP Media
119 Raj Kamal Gilra Tata Consumer Products Limited 
120 Rajeesh Rajagopalan Hygienic  Research Institute
121 Rajit Desai Mindshare – WPP Media
122 Rakshit Tuli Mindshare – WPP Media
123 Ratheesh MS Starcom- Publicis Media
124 Ravi Kiran Chowdary MVV ITC Limited
125 Revathy Ajilraj APEX – TLG Publicis Groupe
126 Richa Kohli EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
127 Rishikar Krishna Aditya Birla Corporate
128 Ritu Upadhyaya Lodestar UM
129 Rohit Mathur Shriram Finance Limited
130 Ronak Sharma Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd.
131 Ruchi Mathur Mindshare
132 Ruchi Sethi Colgate – Palmolive (India) Limited
133 Rupali Chavan MudraMax
134 Rupali Takke Sony Pictures Entertainment India
135 Ruth Alice Noranho Initiative Media
136 S David Konghay Performics
137 Sabarinath Chandrasekharan Initiative Media
138 Sajeesh Radhakrishnan Hiveminds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
139 Saket Agarwala The Sleep Company
140 Salil Mahadeshwar PHD
141 Sandeep Singh Leeford
142 Sanjay Prakash Mindshare – WPP Media
143 Sathvik Kandaka Rapport Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
144 Saurabh Bhatnagar Spark Foundry (Publicis Media)
145 Saurabh Shrivastava Dentsu
146 Saurabh Tyagi Titan Company Limited 
147 Sharukh Lakhani Wavemaker India
148 Shibu George  Wavemaker India
149 Shilpa Sudhakaran Interactive Avenues
150 Shiva Suseendranathan Bombay Shaving Company
151 Shrenik Bharat Shah  Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd.
152 Shrikant Deokar Wavemaker
153 Shrikant Shenoy Lodestar UM
154 Shwetabh Singh Birla Opus Paints
155 Shwetank Rewatkar Bisleri International Private Limited
156 Siddhant Vora VIDA, powered by Hero
157 Siddharth Khare Wavemaker India – WPP Media
158 Siddhartha Sharma OMD 
159 Sidharth Nandwani    Performics India
160 Sivaraman Sankar HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
161 Somya Kumar Nanda Kia India
162 Sonal Pawaskar OMD 
163 Suchi Jain Madison Communications
164 Sudhanshu Singh PHD Media (Omnicom Media India)
165 Sudipto Chatterjee EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
166 Sujit Bhengra Starcom- Publicis Media
167 Suman Pal Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting
168 Sunny Sachdeva Mindshare – WPP Media
169 Suraj Karvi Carat – Dentsu
170 Swejal Vilas Gangan White Rivers Media
171 Tejas Maha White Rivers Media
172 Titas Jana ARENA MEDIA INDIA
173 Tulika Rungta Saregama India Limited
174 Uditvanu Das Havas Play
175 Varuni Vij OMD 
176 Vidur Anand CEAT Limited
177 Vinay Dholakia Tata Motors Ltd.
178 Vineet Shah Madison
179 Vinish Mathews Mindshare
180 Vinita Shrivastav PHD
181 Vinod M V Hiveminds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
182 Vinod Thadani Dentsu
183 Viren Vesuwala  White Rivers Media
184 Vishal Kumar Madison World
185 Vishal Shah EssenceMediacom – WPP Media
186 Yogesh Malsekar Rapport Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
187 Zaid Shaikh HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

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The Hindu Group

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4

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5

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6

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