Jury Chairs For Abby Awards 2024 Unveiled

Rahul Mathew, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Mudra Group, Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network, Malvika Mehra, Sudha Natarajan, Director Response in Times of India Group and Tista Sen join as Jury Chairs for brand activation and promotion category, broadcaster category, young maverick Abby category, publisher category and green Abby category respectively, at The Abby Awards 2024 powered by One Show.

Under Rahul Mathew’s leadership, the DDB Mudra Group became the first Indian agency to be crowned APAC agency of the year at Spikes Asia. The work from the agency has won 4 Grand Prix at Spikes Asia in the last 3 years.

Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network has over 28 years of experience in media, news, advertising and digital. He is also the President of News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), President of International Advertising Association (India Chapter) and serving Director of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA).

In a career spanning 3 decades, Malvika Mehra has donned many hats across advertising and marketing. Leading the brand mandate as Chief Creative Officer at Grey and Dentsu, successfully partnering with brands at Ogilvy and running her own independent venture, Tomorrow Creative Lab, Mehra has moved on to being an independent consultant and brand partner to CEOs & founders. Currently, Creative Head, Marketing,at Dinshaw’s Dairy Foods, Mehra was formerly Chief Creative Officer, Good Brands at the Good Glamm Group.                                                                          

Sudha Natarajan, Director Response in Times of India Group has 25 years of learning experience, with 13 of them being in leadership positions, in marketing, advertising, and media organisations. She has been the director looking after a diversified revenue portfolio, including the digital offerings for Bennett, Coleman & Co., and has served as the CEO of Lintas Initiative Media.

Tista Sen started her career with Whitelight Production. After assisting on over 60 commercials she joined Lowe Lintas as a writer and worked on brands like Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury’s and Unilever. Sen joined J Walter Thomson and for over 22 years she was involved with some of the largest brands in India and some of the most memorable and well-loved ad campaigns for Unilever, ITC, Godrej, GSK, Aditya Birla, Sony, SBI Mutual Funds