Chennai: Shailesh Chandra, Head of Passenger Vehicles, Tata Motors; Punit Goenka, MD and CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited; and Joseph George, Founder, TILT Brand Solutions were presented the MediaNews4u.com GameChangers 2021 award in Chennai Friday, in the categories of Brands, Media and Agency Partners respectively.
MV Shreyams Kumar, MD, Mathrubhumi Group was presented the GameChanger Lifetime Achievement Award for his continuing contribution to his organisation, the media universe and society at large.
SV Sista, Founder, and Dr AL Sharada, Programme Director, Population First (Laadli) bagged the GameChanger Social Impact Award, for their work to bring about gender sensitivity in media and advertising over the last 20 years.
This was the fourth edition of media, advertising and marketing portal MediaNews4u.com’s GameChangers Awards, that recognise path-breaking achievements nationally and regionally (South). In the categories of Brands, Media and Agency Partners (national), nominations were invited followed by a jury process to arrive at the winners.
The Lifetime Achievement, Social Impact and regional awards are chosen by the awards governing council with inputs from industry.
The jury that voted to choose winners comprised of:
- Devendra Chawla, MD & CEO, Spencer’s Retail
- Dr Bhaskar Das, Group President & Chief Strategy Officer, Republic Media Network
- Dr Sandeep Goyal, MD, Rediffusion
- Pradeep Dwivedi. Group CEO & ED, Eros International Media
- Ramesh Narayan, Founder, Canco Advertising
- N Chandramouli, CEO, Trust Research Advisory
- V Umanath, Editor-in-Chief, MediaNews4u.com
The Regional (South) category winners were:
- Entertainment Media: Krishnan Kutty, EVP and Head – Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi Businesses, Star and Disney India
- Brands: KR Nagarajan, Founder & Chairman, Ramraj Group of Companies
- News Media: Ravi Ankam, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, V6 News
- Digital Content: Vinoth Chandra, Founder, CEO and Creative Director, ChuChu TV Studios
- Digital Publishing: NS Manoj, Founder and MD, Behindwoods
- Agency Partners: Chockalingam S, Creative Director, OPN Advertising
