| Information and Broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad was the Guest of Honour and Reliance Industries vice chairman
and managing director Anil Ambani was the chief guest who jointly
gave away the awards to the winners. Others present at the event were
HP India president Balu Doraisamy and Business Today editor Sanjoy
Narayan among others.
The 'Business Today Young Super Performer Awards' were presented
in three categories - the Ideator which went to McCann Erickson
national creative director Prasoon Joshi for 'Owning the Year's
Biggest Idea'; the Entrepreneur which went to Subhiksha Trading
Services MD R Subramanian for 'Creating a Business from Scratch
and altering the rules of the game'; and the CEO which was bagged
by Kinetic Engineering Jt Managing Director Sulaija Firodia Motwani
for 'Steering her organisation to Greater Glory'.
Asked why HP associated with the awards, Doraisamy said, "We
see a perfect fit between our corporate values and culture, and
what these awards stand for. HP's promotes lateral thinking, creativity
and motivation to achieve the impossible. HP has a long-standing
tradition of innovation, reliability and achievement, which binds
its employees together. These awards recognize individuals who have
achieved success across all these parameters."
"These three winners are role models for an entire generation
of young Indians that believes it is possible to succeed on the
strength of their own vision and commitment," said Narayan.
The 'Business Today Young Super Performers Awards' recognize and
felicitate people from the corporate world who have achieved strong
results in their respective fields. And above corporate achievements,
another criterion that went into the final selection was that all
nominees had achieved their success at a fairly young age, below
40 years.
In the selection process, 72 names were short listed in the three
categories initially and was further whittled down to 15 (five in
each category) by the magazine's senior editorial team. To select
one final winner in each category, Business Today put together
a panel of experts comprising Union Revenue secretary Vinita Rai,
Asian Paints chairman Ashwin Dani, Citigroup Venture Capital International
MD Ajoy Relan, Ma Foi Management Consultants chairman and MD K Pandia
Rajan, N M Rothschild & Sons (India) MD Munesh Khanna and Business
Today Editor Sanjoy Narayan.
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