Agnello Dias, Amer Jaleel, Anita Nayyar, Valerie Madon to chair Kyoorius Awards

The sixth annual Kyoorius Creative Awards will be chaired by Agnello Dias (Chairman & Co-Founder, Dentsu Taproot & Creative Chairman, Dentsu Aegis Network India), Amer Jaleel (CCO & Chairman, MullenLowe Lintas Group), Anita Nayyar (CEO - India & SE Asia, Havas Media Group) and Valerie Madon (Chairwoman - Singapore & CCO, Havas Group SE Asia). 

Other jurors include Ajay Gehlaut (CCO, Publicis Worldwide India), Ajit Mohan (VP & MD - India, Facebook), Anusha Shetty (CEO, Autumn Worldwide), Arun Iyer (Founding Partner, Spring Marketing Group), Carlton D’Silva (CEO & CCO, Hungama Digital Services), Deepa Geethakrishnan (NCD - HUL, Lowe Lintas), Farrokh Madon (Chief Creative Partner, Walter Thompson Singapore), Joji Jacob (Co-Founder & Creative Partner, BLK J Singapore), Josy Paul (Chairman, BBDO India), Kainaz Karmakar (Group Creative Director, Ogilvy India), Marco Versolato (CCO, Wunderman Thompson Singapore), Partho Dasgupta (CEO, BARC India), RajDeepak Das (CCO - South Asia, Leo Burnett), Rochelle Chhaya (COO, OMD APAC), Rohit Raj (Co-Founder & CCO, The Glitch), Rodger Beekman (Chief Experience Officer, PwC), Satbir Singh (Founder & CCO, Thinkstr), Senthil Kumar (CCO, Wunderman Thompson India), Siddharth Banerjee (Director - Global Sales Organisation, Facebook India), Sidharth Rao (CEO & Co-Founder, Dentsu Webchutney), Sonal Dabral (CCO - SE Asia & Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy India), and Swati Bhattacharya (CCO, FCBUlka). More jurors will be added and announced soon. 

The 2019 Kyoorius Creative Awards invites entries from across India under the Kyoorius Advertising Awards, the Kyoorius Media Awards and the Kyoorius Digital Awards. Submissions for all entries close on May 3, 2019. 

Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO, Kyoorius, said, “The Kyoorius Creative Awards is the advertising industry’s most representative competition, attracting over 3,000 entries every year. Our intent has always been to discover and unearth agencies, marketers, or creators, who set new benchmarks in creativity, with a special attention to cultural context.” 

In coordination with The One Club For Creativity (organisers of The One Show awards), the jury is a mix of top creative professionals from India and across the world. Like every year, the awards will uphold the zero-tolerance policy for scam work. 

Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club For Creativity, commented, “The bedrock of the Kyoorius Creative Awards has been the composition of the jury and transparency in the judging process. By incorporating The One Club’s high-integrity judging process and proprietary back-end voting technology platform, Kyoorius has only bolstered the credibility and fairness of the Award.” 

Over 20 disciplines across advertising, media and digital have been reworked to keep pace with and highlight the best of the ever-evolving creative and marketing communications business. 

This year, Kyoorius has introduced new disciplines, including Experiential Marketing, Topical Advertising, Digital Video and Audio, Digital Video and Audio Craft, and Creative Use Of Data, while fine-tuning the existing advertising, media and digital categories. 

Judging will be held in Mumbai from May 16 to 18, 2019. As has been tradition at Kyoorius Creative Awards, in the spirit of transparency, the jury sessions will continue to remain open to anyone from the industry to watch, learn, check and benefit from the display and discussion of entries. Kyoorius was the first, and remains the only awards organiser to champion an open jury session format globally. 

The Kyoorius Creative Awards night will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at Dome@NSCI Stadium, Worli, Mumbai. 

The Kyoorius Creative Awards are presented by Viacom 18, powered by The Times Of India, partnered by ABP News, MTV India and Laqshya Media Group, and brought in association with The One Club For Creativity, organisers of The One Show, with a common aim, to create a truly neutral and transparent platform that rewards the best in Indian advertising, media and digital creativity.