#e4mBreaking: Kartik Sharma to be conferred with e4m Influencer of the Year 2025 award today

Kartik Sharma is the newly appointed CEO of Omnicom Media India

by e4m Desk
Published: Dec 17, 2025 1:25 PM | 3 min read

Kartik Sharma, CEO of Omnicom Media India, has been honoured with the prestigious e4m Influencer of the Year 2025 award. The dazzling awards night was held today, December 17, in Mumbai in the presence of distinguished leaders and experts from the advertising, marketing and media world. The award honours visionaries who have demonstrated transformational leadership qualities and achievements over the years. The dazzling awards night was graced by top industry leaders, heads and experts from the advertising and media world.

Kartik Sharma will also engage in a candid conversation with Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, BW BusinessWorld and Founder, exchange4media Group. The conversation will trace Kartik’s journey, offering insights into his growth as an influencer, key learnings from the digital ecosystem and his perspective on building relevance and more.

Sharma is a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience in the world of media. He recently took up the role of CEO of Omnicom Media India after Omnicom’s acquisition of IPG. In the past, he has led Omnicom Media Group (OMG) India since 2020, after more than a decade at Wavemaker/Maxus (including CEO–South Asia) and earlier stints at Madison Media and Mindshare. Prior to joining OMG, Sharma spent two and a half years as CEO for South Asia, Wavemaker (Formed by the merger of Maxus and MEC).

Before this, Sharma worked with renowned agencies such as Lintas, Mindshare, Madison, and Maxus across a diverse set of profiles. With a penchant for building robust client relationships, he carried out extensive work across leading brands such as Unilever, Netflix, Mondelez, L’Oreal, Vodafone, Tata Sky and several others.

With a keen and special interest in advertising, strategy, data & analytics and media planning, Sharma has developed sound skills and expertise from years of experience and exposure.

Over the years, several industry experts have bagged the honour. Last year, the e4m Influencer of the Year 2023 award was given to the trio of Inshorts - Azhar Iqubal, Deepit Purkayastha and Anunay Pandey. Before that, Prasanth Kumar, who then held the role of CEO of South Asia of GroupM, was conferred the prestigious e4m Influencer of the Year 2022 award.

In 2016, Raj Nayak, then COO of Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd was conferred the e4m Influencer of the Year award. In 2017, CVL Srinivas, Country Manager, WPP India, and CEO of GroupM South Asia at that time, took home the honour. In 2018, Virendra Gupta, Founder & CEO, Dailyhunt, and Umang Bedi, Co-founder, Dailyhunt, bagged the title. In 2019, the award was bagged by Sanjay Gupta, Country Manager, Star & Disney India. In 2020, Naveen Tewari, Founder & CEO, InMobi & Glance, was conferred the title.