Ashish Shelar, BCCI Treasurer and Mumbai BJP President, is Chief Guest for IPOY 2022
Shelar is a two-term MLA from Bandra and has served as School Education and Sports Minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government in 2019
Ashish Shelar, Treasurer of BCCI and President, Mumbai BJP wing, will be the Chief Guest for exchange4media and IMPACT Magazine’s marquee award, IMPACT Person of the Year. Shelar is a two-term MLA from Bandra and has served as school education and sports minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government in 2019.
IPOY is in its 18th year and will be held in Mumbai. In common parlance, the award is a victory lap for industry heavyweights. Each year, the award goes to game-changers who have made a significant contribution to the media, advertising, and marketing ecosystem. The winners in the past are influencers, trendsetters, and disruptors who are names to reckon with in any business circle; the impact that these leaders have had over the years is nothing short of gigantic.
Let us take a look at the contenders for this year’s IMPACT Person of the Year –
Aman Gupta, Co-founder & CMO, Boat Lifestyle; Darpan Sanghvi, Founder and CEO, Good Glamm Group; Varun Alagh, Co-founder and CEO, and Ghazal Alagh, Co-founder and CIO, Mamaearth; Harsh Jain, Co-founder and CEO, Dream 11; Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Limited; Mohit Burman, Chairman, Dabur Limited; Nisaba Godrej, Executive Director, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.; Peyush Bansal, Co-founder & CEO, Lenskart; R.S. Agarwal, Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus, and R.S. Goenka, Co-founder & Non-Executive Chairman, Emami Ltd.; Sanket Ray, President, India and Southwest Asia, The Coca-Cola Company; and Vineeta Singh and Kaushik Mukherjee, Co-founders, Sugar Cosmetics.
Past winners of the IPOY award include Sanjiv Mehta, then Chairman, HUL; Sanjiv Puri, Chairman and MD, ITC Limited; Rajan Anandan, then MD, Google India; Baba Ramdev of Patanjali Ayurved; Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO of Paytm; Arnab Goswami, then President & Editor-in-Chief, Times Now and ET Now; Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd; Vineet Jain, MD, Times Group; Ambika Soni, then Minister for Information & Broadcasting; Agnello Dias, Founder, Taproot India; Haresh Chawla, then Group CEO, Network18 and Viacom18; Uday Shankar, then CEO, Star India; Raghav Bahl, Founder, Network18; and Rajdeep Sardesai, then Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN.