Pankaj Dubey & Shubhodip Pal now part of DIGIXX Awards 2017 Jury panel

With roughly a week remaining for submission of entries for the inaugural edition of DIGIXX Awards on February 6, 2017, preparations are now on for the judging round. A Jury panel comprising industry stalwarts from diverse fields such as advertising, digital media, marketing is in place to identity the best of the best work in digital advertising and marketing. 

DIGIXX Awards is being brought by Adgully in association with ad:tech and will be held during the ad:tech conference in Delhi on March 9 and 10, 2017. 

Joining the Jury panel of 15 captains of the industry are two more industry leaders – Shubhodip Pal, Chief Operating Officer, Yu Mobiles (a subsidiary of Micromax) and Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director & Country Head, Polaris India. 

Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director & Country Head, Polaris India 

Pankaj Dubey is the man who introduced the concept of off-road vehicles in India. Along with being MD and Country Head at Polaris India, Dubey is also CEO & whole time Director at Eicher Polaris. 

Dubey’s approach is people-oriented, with core emphasis on teamwork. The records of accomplishment speak for the motivation and support that he extends to his teammates, dealers and employees. 

With ‘You become what you think’ as his motto, Dubey possesses the rare quality of turning negative into positive. An example is how he helped turned around Yamaha Motors, which was struggling to sustain itself in India when he joined the company in 2007. Dubey not only formed a new team by making suitable changes in the organisation, but was also instrumental in the launch of successful models like R15, Vmax, Fazer, FZ16 and SZ. 

He has also worked with Hero Motors, LML and Intex, and has extensive experience in the area of sales, marketing, channel and business development. 

Shubhodip Pal, Chief Operating Officer, Yu Mobiles (a subsidiary of Micromax) 

Shubhodip Pal has been at the helm at YU Mobiles as its COO, overseeing all aspects of the company’s business, driving breakthrough marketing programmes and managing a broad portfolio of products & services, bringing value and competitive advantage to customers. He was earlier the Chief Marketing Officer of Micromax, the parent brand of YU. 

With an experience spanning 19+ years, Pal has worked across diverse sectors such as consumer durables, banking & financial, IT hardware and telecom services. He has worked on the whole spectrum of marketing, specialising in Product Management, Retail, Marketing Communications, Media, Sports & Entertainment Marketing, Online, Mobile Marketing. 

Prior to joining YU Mobiles, Pal was CEO, Balaji Motion Pictures. He had also lead marketing efforts with globally renowned companies such as Samsung, ABN AMRO and HP. He was instrumental in shaping the HP as a lifestyle computing brand through innovative marketing ideas, while simultaneously leveraging Compaq as a mass brand through innovative mass marketing initiatives. 

The esteemed Jury members already on board include: 

Anita Nayyar — CEO, Havas Media Group, India and South Asia 

Sanjay Tripathy — Senior EVP - Marketing, Analytics, Digital and E-Commerce, HDFC Life Insurance 

Sandip Tarkas — President, Customer Strategy and CEO, Future Group & Future Media, India 

Vivek Bhargava — CEO, DAN Performance Group 

Babita Baruah — Managing Partner and Head, JWT PO1 

Pradeep Dwivedi — CEO, Sakal Media Group 

Maheshwer Peri — Founder & Chairman, CAREERS 360 (Pathfinder Publishing Pvt. Ltd) 

Jaswant Singh — Managing Director, India at ad:tech, iMedia and Mobile Media Summits - Comexposium 

Siddharth Banerjee — Senior Vice President - Marketing, Vodafone India 

Shibu Shivanandan — Founder & Managing Director, PivotRoots 

Mayoori Kango — Managing Director, Performics.Resultrix 

Ramin Saherwala — Head - Media, Digital & Comms, RB (Reckitt Benckiser) South Asia 

Sujit Ganguli — Head - Brand & Corporate Communications, ICICI Bank 

Prasad Shejale — Co-Founder and CEO, Logicserve Digital 

Sudarshan Banerjee — Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Utopeia Communicationz 

For further details and to enter your nominations, please visit https://www.adgully.com/digixx-awards-2017.

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