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  • Praful Akali and Ashish Khazanchi appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024

    Praful Akali and Ashish Khazanchi appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024

    Mumbai: Medulla managing director and founder Praful Akali and Enormous, founder and chief creative officer Ashish Khazanchi join as jury chairs for Health category and Still Print category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.

    Medulla managing director and founder Praful Akali has been appointed Jury Chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the newly created Health category.

    Praful is among the most awarded healthcare creative professionals globally since 2015. He has had close to 50 shortlists and over 20 awards including a Grand Prix at the leading global awards Lions Health, Clio, Global, London Festival, and Spikes.

    As one of the few creatively renowned professionals that has also worked as a client, last at Pfizer, Praful demonstrates how creativity and effectiveness work together.

    In 2016, the Last Words campaign was published in the Gunn Report as one of the only 15 campaigns globally that won gold at the Lions and a marketing effectiveness awards show like the Effies. In 2017, Medulla repeated the feat with Last Laugh work which won a Grand Prix at Clio and two Gold at the APAC Effies.

    Praful has led Medulla to win the Healthcare Agency of the Year in 2016 at Cannes Lions. Medulla has been the only agency globally to feature in the top three agencies of the year, each of the first three years of Lions Health. Medulla is also the only healthcare specialist agency in the list of the World’s Leading Independent Agencies 2018.

    Praful has served as a jury member at Cannes Lions, LIA, Clio, Effies and the Global Awards. He has been a speaker at Cannes and other forums and his opinion pieces have appeared in several advertising and business publications.

    In 2018, he spoke on the motto of Lion’s Health, life-changing creativity on the Lions Health Inspiration stage.

    Enormous founder and chief creative officer Ashish Khazanchi has been appointed Jury Chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Still Print category.

    Ashish has worked in most of the major agency networks and on some of the biggest global, and Indian brands. He has taken Enormous from a startup to one of the leading independent creative agencies in the country. Ashish led Enormous to become the first independent agency to win a Grand Effie in the country this year.

    Prior to this, Ashish was the National Creative Director, at Publicis Ambience. An MBA graduate from IIM Bangalore with over 30 years in advertising, he has created the iconic Jingalala campaign for Tata Sky and many others.

    He has won over 300 awards with many international ones like the One Show, D&AD, Spikes and Cannes.

    Ashish has held leadership roles in agencies like Y&R, Ogilvy, McCann and Publicis.

    The Abby Awards powered by One Show will be held on the 29, 30, and 31 of May during Goafest 2024.

  • Niraj Ruparel, Chandani Samdaria, Chandni Shah, Senthil and P G Aditya appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show

    Niraj Ruparel, Chandani Samdaria, Chandni Shah, Senthil and P G Aditya appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show

    Mumbai: 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 to 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?, 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/

  • Pallavi Chakravarti, Raj Kamble and Mayuri Nikumbh appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show

    Pallavi Chakravarti, Raj Kamble and Mayuri Nikumbh appointed as jury chairs for Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show

    Mumbai: Pallavi Chakravarti, founder and CCO of Fundamental, Raj Kamble, founder & CCO of Famous Innovations and Mayuri Nikumbh, head of design at Conran Design, join as jury chair for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion category, Out of Home and Ambient category, and Design Category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.

    Pallavi Chakravarti, founder and CCO of Fundamental has been appointed jury chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion category.  

    In the creative business for two decades now, Pallavi became independent in 2023. Her agency Fundamental has created work for Airtel, Adidas, WhatsApp, Facebook, Parle Products, Marico and more, all in under a year. In her previous stints across Saatchi, Grey, JWT, Taproot Dentsu and DDB Mudra, she has worked on Instagram, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Uber, J&J, Unilever, P&G and local giants like Times of India, ITC and Star Sports.

    Pallavi featured among the 200 most-awarded ECDs in 2021 in The Drum World Creative Rankings and closer home, in the 2022 edition of Wonder Women 100 by Indian Television Dot Com, a list celebrating leaders in creative arts.

    From shows like Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, Adfest Asia Pacific, Spikes Asia, Kyoorius and The Abbys to effectiveness awards like Effies and Appies, her work has been recognised everywhere. With hundreds of metals to her credit, Pallavi was also the recipient of the Best Ad Screenplay plaque at the prestigious 2015 Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival.

    Pallavi has served on many juries over the years – at Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx, New York Festival, Global Awards, Gerety Awards, Kyoorius Awards and the Abbys, across categories like Film, Outdoor, Direct, Radio and Integrated Advertising.

    She also mentors young talent through various industry initiatives. Psychology, theatre and music make her tick, both on the job and off it.

    Raj Kamble, Founder & CCO of Famous Innovations has been appointed Jury Chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Out of Home and Ambient category.

    Raj Kamble is a gold medallist in design and art from Sir JJ School of Arts. His 25-year career has taken him from Lowe India to Lowe London, Lowe New York, BBDO New York and back to Mumbai as Managing Partner, BBH India. During this time, his work for brands like Stella Artois, Unilever, Nestle, P&G, Saab, Diageo, Vaseline, Burger King and Google has achieved both critical acclaim and business results.

    One of the most awarded and globally recognized Indians in advertising, Raj has over 150 awards to his name including several Cannes and One Show gold.

    In 2013, he founded an independent creative agency – Famous Innovations. Today, Famous is a 200+ people agency across Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi, and holds the title of nine-time winner of South Asia Independent Agency of the Year in a row, as well as Digital Agency of the Year, Design Agency of the Year and Green Agency of the Year.

    Raj is a frequent lecturer at institutes such as the Kellogg Institute of Management and Columbia University. He is the Director of Miami Ad School in India. He is part of a think tank with the Government to make India WiFi-friendly.

    He plays a prominent role in shaping the future of education in India as part of the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, the Board of Governors at MIT-Pune and the Academic Advisory Board at the National Institute of Design

    Mayuri Nikumbh, head of design at Conran Design has been appointed Jury Chair of Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show in the Design Category.

    With a strong belief in the power of design to convey authentic stories that help transform businesses as well as influence consumer behaviour, Mayuri has led award-winning projects and contributed to the success of both startups as well as well-established brands.

    An alum of IIT Bombay with a career spanning over two decades, she currently leads the creative vision for Conran Design Mumbai which she helped establish in the middle of the global pandemic. Within three years of its inception, Mayuri has helped win notable businesses and awards including Campaign Agency of the Year, Transform Asia and IDA Awards.

    Mayuri has been voted as one of India’s 40 under Forty go-getters in the creative field by Impact magazine. She has also represented India at the Asia-wide collaborative project ‘Colours of Asia’- which culminated in a unique exhibition at the Hong Kong Design Institute which went on to win the Design for Asia Award.

    Amidst numerous other representations as a leading voice for design, Mayuri has been on the jury panel for Spikes Asia awards, Kyoorius Design Awards as well as all major local festivals. She will also be at Cannes this year as a part of the Design Lions jury.

    Mayuri strongly endorses the practice of working towards the sweet spot of consumers’ and clients’ problem-solving needs. She believes good designers make good citizens that enable a meaningful way of life.