The 18th edition of the IMPACT Person of the Year award ceremony will be held in Mumbai, later today. IPOY in common parlance, 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.
Shri Ashish Shelar, Treasurer of BCCI and President, Mumbai BJP wing, who is a two-term MLA from Bandra and has served as school education and sports minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government in 2019, is the Chief Guest for the event.
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.