Mumbai: The highly coveted ABBY Awards 2017 that recognize the best in advertising, communication and marketing has just culminated its Jury deliberation process for its CREATIVE ABBY and MEDIA ABBY ‘s. The esteemed jury panel consisted of industry stalwarts like
| LIST OF JURY CHAIRPERSON | ||
| CATEGORY | NAME | AGENCY |
| INTEGRATED ADVERTISING & YOUNG ABBY | Senthil Kumar, Chief Creative Officer, J. Walter Thompson | |
| FILM SINGLES | Agnello Dias, Chairman and Co-Founder, Taproot
Taproot |
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| DIRECT | Rakhshin Patel – Managing Director, Pi communications, | |
| MEDIA ABBY AWARDS | Anupriya Acharya, Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Media India | |
| DESIGN | Alok Nanda – Founder and CEO, Alok Nanda & Co. (Comms.) Pvt. Ltd. | |
| OUT-OF-HOME / AMBIENT MEDIA | Viral Pandya -Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Out of the Box | |
| Prashant Godbole – Founder, Ideas@work | ||
| PRINT CRAFT | Raj Nair – CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Madison BMB | |
| BRAND ACTIVATION & PROMOTION | Pratap Bose – Managing Director & Chairman, The Social Street | |
| RADIO & RADIO CRAFT | Manish Bhatt – Founder Director, Scarecrow Communications Ltd. | |
| FILM CRAFT | Vinil Mathew – Director, Breathless Films | |
| DIGITAL | Carlton D’Silva – CEO & CCO, Hungama Digital Services | |
| PUBLISHER | I Venkat – Director, Eenadu | |
| PUBLIC RELATIONS | Paresh Chaudhry – Chief Executive Officer, Madison PR | |
| BROADCASTER | Tarun Katial – Chief Executive Officer, Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd | |
| SPECIAL ABBY (GENDER SENSITIVE) | K. V. Sridhar – Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Hyper Collective Creative Technologies | |
| MOBILE | Nishad Ramchandran – Senior Vice President – Digital Experience, Hansa Cequity | |
| BRANDED CONTENT & ENTERTAINMENT | Raj Kamble – Founder CCO, Famous innovations | |
Presented by the Advertising Club and AAAI the Goafest ABBYs 2017 will once again see the entire advertising and marketing fraternity come together in Goa from 6th, April, 2016 to 8th April 2016 at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim, North Goa.
