FILA 2018 to honour best of India Inc today

Forbes India Leadership Awards Jury(From Left to Right): Marcellus Investment Partners' Saurabh Mukherjea, Crisil's Ashu Suyash, Marico's Harsh Mariwala, Upgrad's Ronnie Screwvala, McKinsey & Company's Noshir Kaka & KKR India's Sanjay Nayar

With the best of India Inc in attendance, the eighth Forbes India Leadership Awards (FILA) 2018 will be held in Mumbai today, to celebrate excellence, innovation and transformational leadership in business.

Recognised among India's most prestigious business events of the year, the gala awards ceremony, will be held at The Trident, Nariman Point, in Mumbai, to commemorate the outstanding contributions of CEOs, entrepreneurs and business leaders who have built enterprises that have had a deep and enduring impact on the wider society. This year, the awards span across nine categories, with the nominees and winner representing diverse backgrounds - from startups and mid-sized firms to the more mature organisations of a global scale.

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The 2018 awards jury was headed by Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Ltd. The other members of the jury include the leaders of India Inc, including Sanjay Nayar of KKR India, McKinsey & Company’s Noshir Kaka, Ashu Suyash of Crisil, Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder, Marcellus Investment Managers, and Ronnie Screwvala of Upgrad.

The process of picking our winners for the year started nearly six months ago, with extensive research along qualitative and quantitative parameters. KPMG, Forbes India’s knowledge partners for the event, helped with the nomination process.

Apart from felicitating those have braved difficult local and global macroeconomic conditions to steer their organisations towards operational excellence, the event will also be a platform for exchanging industry insights in the form of a panel discussion and an Oxford Style Debate.

“The winners of the Forbes India Leadership Awards have found a balanced path to guide their organisations to success year after year. They command authority, as well as respect, and yet believe in flat organisational structures, decentralised decision-making and empowered teams. Change is something they embrace gracefully. The Forbes India Leadership Awards strives to recognise these changemakers and nation builders,” said Brian Carvalho, Editor, Forbes India.

Forbes India’s Twitter handle and Facebook page will relay the interesting highlights of the evening real time for the benefit of the magazine’s followers on social media, via the hashtag #IconsOfLeadership.

Full information on the Forbes India Leadership Awards can be found here.