Arvind Sharma to be felicitated with AAAI's Lifetime Achievement Award

The Advertising Agencies Association of India has announced that this year’s AAAI Lifetime Achievement Award will be conferred on advertising veteran Arvind Sharma. 

 

He's the 29th recipient of the award (full list below).

 

Anupriya Acharya, president, AAAI, stated that “Mr Arvind Sharma has been a true pioneer. Apart from single handedly making Leo Burnett a top agency and a force to reckon with he has also groomed some of the finest talents in our industry. But more than that he has made a tremendous contribution to our industry across both the art and science of advertising. He is truly deserving of this honour.”

 

Ashish Bhasin, chairman of the AAAI Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee, said, “Arvind is a deserving winner of this prestigious honor. Not only has he been a successful advertising professional, he has also contributed significantly to the industry in various capacities, including as president of AAAI and a key driver in launching Goafest. I am pleased to say that the entire committee was unanimous in conferring this award upon Arvind.”

 

 

1.Subhas Ghosal -1988   

2.Bal Mundkur - 1989

3. K Kurian - 1990

4. S R Ayer - 1991

5. Alyque Padamsee - 1992    

6. Sylvester DaCunha - 1993

7. Mike Khanna - 1994

8. Subroto Sengupta - 1995

9. Ravi Gupta - 1996

10. R K Swamy - 1997

11. A G Krishnamurthy - 1998

12. Mohammad Khan - 1999

13. Gerson da Cunha - 2000

14. Walter Saldanha - 2001

15. Diwan Arun Nanda - 2002

16. Prem Mehta - 2003

17. Goutam Rakshit - 2004

18. Ranjan Kapur - 2008

19. Sam Balsara - 2009

20. Piyush Pandey - 2010

21. Anil Kapoor - 2013

22. Ramesh Narayan - 2014

23. S V Sista - 2015

24. Srinivasan K Swamy - 2016

25. Roda Mehta - 2017

26. Ram Sehgal - 2018

27. Madhukar Kamath - 2019

28. Krishan Premnarayen - 2020