The Maddies 2024 jury meet tomorrow: Amit Syngle of Asian Paints to be Jury Chair

The Maddies is back to celebrate the best in mobile marketing. The much-awaited awards night of the tenth edition of exchange4media Mobile Awards – The Maddies, will be held in Mumbai on November 28.

Ahead of the big day, the jury meet will be held on November 19. An esteemed jury panel comprising of industry luminaries and distinguished leaders from marketing, advertising and media world will come together under one roof and finalise the winners.

This year, the jury will be chaired by Amit Syngle, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Asian Paints. The other jury members of The Maddies 2024 include industry leaders, seasoned professionals, and renowned personalities from the industry. Their collective experience spans across industries such as media, marketing, digital innovation, and technology, ensuring a broad and comprehensive evaluation of all nominations.

The Maddies recognises, honours and celebrates marketing stories that use effective and innovative mobile marketing strategies. The five main categories of Maddies 2024 include Marketing Strategy, Channel/Media Strategy, Enabling Technologies, Hall of Fame Awards and Short form video category, which are further divided into several sub-categories. The awards are open to all industries linked to Mobile Marketing (Clients, Creative, Media Agencies, Digital Agencies and Publishers, etc).

The nominations will be judged on innovation, concept, execution and results by a highly experienced independent panel of the industry. The winners will be selected through an extensive selection process where jury members will independently inspect each entry and rate them based on their respective judging criteria.

The Maddies serves as an ideal platform to celebrate mobile marketing leaders with their innovating and impressive creative campaigns that drive growth and excellence. All the entries will be judged on the criteria of innovation, concept, execution and results by the jury of experienced independent experts from the industry.

The Presenting Partner of the awards is ShareChat & Moj, the Gold Partners are Mediakart & Way2news while the Associate Partner is Bliss.

Our jury members include:

• Abhijeet Powdwal, SVP & Head Marketing, India First Life Insurance Company Ltd
• Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, CMO, Piramal Consumer Products
• Binda Dey, CMO, KKR
• Darshana Shah, Head- Marketing and Customer Experience, Aditya Birla Health Insurance
• Elizabeth Venkataraman, Executive Director - Marketing, Shriram Finance Limited
• Ganapathy Subramaniam, VP and Head of Marketing, LT Foods
• Gunjit Jain, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited
• Jaswinder Sodhi, Head of Customer Propositions Digital & Marketing, Wealth & Personal Banking India, HSBC
• Lakshmi Narayanan B, CMO, CEAT Limited
• Mandar Natekar, Co-Founder & CEO, Neural Garage
• Pelki Tshering, CMO, Tanishq, Titan Company Ltd.
• Pooja Sahgal, VP &Head: Category Direction, Innovation, Equity, Godrej Consumer Products Limited
• Puneeth Bekal, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, HDFC Securities
• Rohit Talwar, Vice President and Head of Marketing India and South Asia, Castrol India
• Santosh Kevlani, Head/VP - Myntra Ads, Payments, Fintech and CSR, Myntra Ads
• Shilangi Mukherji, Director & Head – SVOD Business, Prime Video, India
• Shilpi Kapoor, CMO, Airtel Payments Bank
• Sriram Padmanabhan, Marketing Director, Danone India
• Sunil Narula, Sr. Vice President -Marketing & alternative channel sales, PEWIN, Panasonic Life Solutions India
• Suresh Chand, Vice President and Head of Marketing – Snacks, Foods Division, ITC Limited
• Tushar Malhotra, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Bisleri