MUMBAI: The Advertising Club’s second edition of award ceremony Marquees has reappointed Hindustan Unilever CEO and MD Sanjiv Mehta as jury president.

The other jury members include industry stalwarts and media mavens like WPP India country manager CVL Srinivas, RPG Enterprises chairman Harsh Goenka, Taproot Dentsu founder and chief creative officer Agnello Dias, TPG Capital senior advisor Naveen Chopra, Viacom18 COO Raj Nayak andPerfect Relations founding partner and group chairman Dilip Cherian.

The awards will be held on 29 August  2018 at St Regis, Mumbai.

The Advertising Club Madison Communications and president Group CEO Vikram Sakhuja said, “The Ad Club launched the Marquees in 2017 to celebrate Excellence in Marketing. In its second year, we are happy to have the same stellar jury chaired by Unilever’s Sanjiv Mehta deciding on this year’s laurels. The Ad Club sets the gold standard for excellence in creativity through Abbys, effectiveness through Effies, media through Emvies and now marketers through Marquees. Stay tuned to see the winners in each category and the Special awards on August 29.”

BARC India CEO and chairman Partho Dasgupta says, “Marquees has been able to carve out a niche for itself and I am glad to be a part of this journey. After a successful debut edition last year, I am looking forward to some great entries this year.”

“As they say, an award is as good as its jury and in this case the jury can’t get better than this. The jury with its years of experience and wisdom will be able to recognise the extraordinary work done by marketers over the past one year,” he added.

The event had huge success in the last year with 300 top marketers of the country gathered to receive awards. 

The award is known for its brands that showcase resilience and emerge successful in the face of numerous adversaries, thus iterating the well known adage. Marquee is all set to bring all the leaders and industry veterans from advertising, marketing and media fraternity.