Four more industry leaders join DIGIXX Awards 2017 Jury panel

The inaugural edition of DIGIXX Awards has been garnering immense industry interest. Entries for DIGIXX Awards 2017 are now open. The Awards venture of Adgully in association with ad:tech will soon head towards the second phase, which involves judging the entries by an esteemed Jury panel. 

The DIGIXX Awards are judged by an independent panel of highly acclaimed thought leaders in the advertising ecosystem – advertising agency executives who create campaigns for the world’s most powerful brands, marketers with direct control over many of the largest advertising budgets and major media company leaders. 

Joining the Jury panel of 11 captains of the industry are four more industry leaders – Ramin Saherwala (Reckitt Benckiser), Sujit Ganguli (ICICI Bank), Prasad Shejale (Logicserve Digital) and Sudarshan Banerjee (Utopeia Communicationz). 

Ramin Saherwala, Head - Media, Digital & Comms, RB (Reckitt Benckiser) South Asia
A marketing and digital professional with 15+ years of experience, Saherwala’s strengths lie in combining consumer insights and business analytics to develop a sharp brand communication and customer acquisition strategy. Cross category experience in FMCG, Finance, Telecom and Automobile and exposure across brand, media, digital and market research makes his approach to marketing a combination of insights, ideas and ROI. 

In an environment of ‘digital high value consumers’, managing the brand, media and online business has given Saherwala a holistic perspective on their journey from engagement to acquisition. His specialties include Brand Management - Marketing communication/ Media planning, Digital strategy, Product management, Social Media, Corporate communications and CSR. 

Sujit Ganguli, Head – Brand & Corporate Communications, ICICI Bank
Ganguli joined ICICI Bank in September 2010 and currently has the overall charge of ICICI Bank’s brand, media, digital advertising, market research and external and internal corporate communications portfolio. Prior to this, Ganguli had worked in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance from January 2005 till August 2010. He was the SVP & Head – Marketing, where he was overall in-charge of Brand & Communications. Additionally, he was also in-charge of the Direct Sales & Internet channels of the company. 

Ganguli is a Physics graduate and completed his management education from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 1994. He began his career with Hindustan Unilever, where he handled various responsibilities in Sales and Marketing. 

Prasad Shejale, Co-Founder and CEO, Logicserve Digital
Shejale is a lover of ‘All things Digital’. For him, digital is a huge universe where each marketing tool and platform plays its vital role in benetting the client’s need. Shejale is an entrepreneur with experience of working not just in the Indian digital marketing space, but also in the global digital space. He has envisaged, developed and marketed consumer facing web properties on a global scale. His expertise lies in data modelling and predictive analytics to support products solve their problems and reach their desired outcome. 

An IIT Chennai Alumnus, Shejale’s intuitiveness makes him a go-to for any solutions or converting ideas into reality. He co-founded Logicserve Group in 2007 and grew it from a small team to a high performing result-oriented group. He spearheads Logicserve Digital, the Indian arm of Logicserve Group. Having set up high performing product teams and delivered internet products and some good algorithms, currently Digital Media, Couponraja and CompareRaja keep him motivated. 

Sudarshan Banerjee, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Utopeia Communicationz
Banerjee has done Media, Strategy, Account Management on top of the early life of a Copy writer. He became the Branch Head at the biggest branch of iContract Mumbai at the age of 29. His growing interest in Transmedia Communication made him take up a start-up kind of job heading the Mumbai office of Genesis Advertising, which was timed perfectly with the onset of the recession. 

Leading the New Business Development efforts at Mudra West was what kept Ganguli occupied since mid-2009. He headed Ignite Mudra from April 2011 to October 2012. After the DDB merger, he also led the New Business Development function across the country for the Group while continuing with the Ahmedabad role. 

While in Ahmedabad, Ganguli was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and co-founded Utopeia Communicationz, a self-confessed retro agency that believes there is a need to #BringBackTheLove - for brands, clients and people. 

The esteemed Jury members already on board include:

Anita Nayyar — CEO, Havas Media Group, India and South Asia

Sanjay Tripathy — Senior EVP - Marketing, Analytics, Digital and E-Commerce, HDFC Life Insurance

Sandip Tarkas — President, Customer Strategy and CEO, Future Group & Future Media, India

Vivek Bhargava — CEO, DAN Performance Group

Babita Baruah — Managing Partner and Head, JWT PO1

Pradeep Dwivedi — CEO, Sakal Media Group

Maheshwer Peri — Founder & Chairman, CAREERS 360 (Pathfinder Publishing Pvt. Ltd)

Jaswant Singh — Managing Director, India at ad:tech, iMedia and Mobile Media Summits - Comexposium

Siddharth Banerjee — Senior Vice President - Marketing, Vodafone India

Shibu Shivanandan — Founder & Managing Director, PivotRoots

Mayoori Kango — Managing Director, Performics.Resultrix 

For further details and to enter your nominations, please visit https://www.adgully.com/digixx-awards-2017.