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Star India CEO wins Impact Person of the Decade-2014 award

| | Dec 07, 2014, at 03:58 am
Mumbai, Dec 6 (IBNS): Uday Shankar, CEO of Star India, has received The Impact Person of the Decade – 2014 award.

Maharashtra Governor Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao  gave the prestigious award to Shankar on Friday in the presence of media visionary Subhash Chandra, Chairman of Esselworld and Zee, and Annurag Batra, Chairman of the exchange4media Group.

The award recognizes the one individual who has made maximum and far-reaching impact on and influenced and helped shape the media, marketing and advertising industry tremendously over the last ten years.

Maharashtra Governor C VidyasagarRao, addressing an audience packed with leaders and professionals of Indian media, marketing and advertising, said,  “Shri Uday Shankar’s journey from being a journalist to head a large media organization has been spectacular. His agenda of driving a social change through programs like SatyamevJayate has had a huge impact. In a country where cricket is a religion, he has brought to the fore games like Hockey and Kabaddi and demonstrated how these games could also be popularized in a changing world.”

Accepting the award, Shankar said, “This is overwhelming – there is nothing more special than peer recognition.  I consider myself a creation of this industry, and for this industry to recognize that I might have made some impact on the last decade fills me with a sense of both -- pride and gratitude.”

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