Date: 3rd February 2016

The 4^th edition of IAA  Leadership Awards was a glorious affair where the who’s who of the marketing, advertising and media industry got together to facilitate the best work amongst their peers and recognise the stalwarts who are leading their teams best in this dynamic ecosystem. 

Union Minister of States of Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju the chief guest, presented the awards to the best creative minds.

The winners included Karthi Marshan of  Kotak Mahindra Bank, Manish Dubey of  ICICI Prudential, Varun Berry of Britannia, Nadia Chauhan of Parle Agro, Ajay Dang of Godrej, Samir Singh of Hindustan Unilever, Yadvinder Singh Guleria of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter, Randhir Singh Kalsi of Maruti Suzuki, Ranjivjit Singh of Samsung, Bhaskar Choudhari of Lenovo,  Srinivasan Gopalan of Bharti Airtel, Amit Agarwal of Amazon, Amit Syngle of Asian Paints and Sanjay Behl of Raymond as marketers par excellence.

Special awards were also given out to Kumar Mangalam Birla of the Aditya Birla Group for CEO of the Year and to Raj Nayak of Colors as the Media Person of the Year while Ashish Bhasin, of the Dentsu Aegis network, and Josy Paul of BBDO got the Media Agency and Creative Agency Heads of the Year awards.  Rajat Sharma of India TV was chosen Television Anchor of the Year, while Sanjay Gupta of Dainik Jagran was awarded the News Editor of the Year honour.

Bharat Patel, former CMD, Procter & Gamble and Chairman of the Indian Society of Advertisers, was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and actor Varun Dhawan was Endorser of the Year.

Colors was the presenting partners for the event.