Business Wire India
Paul Writer announced the winners of the Excellence in IT Marketing Awards, presented by Manipal Pro-Learn at its 5th Annual Great Indian IT Marketing Summit & Awards co-hosted by LinkedIn and with ITSMA as Knowledge Partner. The recognition program conducted at Shangri-La saw participation by the lead marketers of 100 technology firms. The awards were evaluated by an independent jury panel of industry leaders- Suvodeep Das, Vice President – Marketing, Sodexo; Prasanjeet Dutta Baruah, Business Head-Tech-Telco, Auto, Financial Services, Facebook; Shantanu Bhanja, Chief Digital Officer, Hindustan Times Media Group and Oum Pradutt, Managing Director, Phase 1 Events & Entertainment.
The day-long program started with exclusive Masterclasses conducted by Rob Leavitt, SVP, ITSMA, Peter Yorke, CEO, Yorke Communications, Apurva Chamaria, Vice-President & Head - Corporate Marketing, HCL Technologies; and Jessie Paul, CEO, Paul Writer.
Speakers at the event included –
Sushma Rajagopalan, MD & CEO, ITC Infotech
Nand Kishore Badami, CMO (India & SAARC), Cisco
Sarika Naik, CMO, Capgemini
Sunder Sarangan, CMO, Persistent Systems
Matthew Marsh, SVP – Asia, Chime Sports Marketing
Vasantha V Kumar, Director of Marketing and Communications (India & South Asia), IBM
Krishnan Chatterjee, Head of Marketing (Indian Subcontinent), SAP
Sumit Khanna, Head of Enterprise Sales, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
Partners enabling this forum are ITSMA (Knowledge Partner), LinkedIn (Co-Host), Yorke Communications (Masterclass Partner), Manipal ProLearn (Awards Partner), CMO Axis (Gifting Partner), India CHRO Forum (Community Partner), Hobnob (App Partner), Metricfox (Marketing Partner) and Phase 1 (Event Partner).
| Category | Winner |
| Marketing Team of the Year | HCL Technologies |
| Agency of the Year | Langoor Digital |
| Sustainability & CSR | Fujitsu |
| Sustainability & CSR | ThoughtWorks |
| Channel/Partner Marketing | Infosys |
| Customer Acquisition | HCL Technologies |
| Customer Acquisition | CSS Corp |
| Digital Media | Dell EMC & CIO Association of India |
| Digital Media | Infosys |
| Customer Community | INDUS (Indian Users of SAP) |
