Colors CEO Rajesh Kamat is the 2009 Impact Person of the Year
18 Dec 2009
Rajesh Kamat, CEO of the year and a half old television channel Colors, last night became the Impact Person of the Year 2009 at a well-attended industry bash in Mumbai, hosted by exchange4media.
The 12 nominees for the impact Person of the Year 2009 were: Sam Balsara of Madison World, Subhash Chandra founder of Zee Group, Haresh Chawla of Network 18, Arnab Goswami of Times Now, Samir and Vineet Jain from the current promoters of Bennett Coleman &Co, Rajesh Kamat of Colors, Kalanidhi Maran founder of of Sun Network, Harit Nagpal of Vodafone, Vikram Sakhuja of Group M, Ronnie Screwvala promoter of UTV Network, Uday Shankar of Star India and Rajiv Verma from HT Media.
Aaccomplished musician and sitar mastro Pt Ravi Shankar's daughter, Anoushka Shankar, who hersl f has won musical awards including the pretigious British House of Commons Shield in 1998, was chief guest at the event.
The impact Person of the Year Award was established in 2005, with its first recipient being Peter Mukerjea, who was then with Star India, followed by Rajdeep Sardesai in 2006, Vijay Mallya in in 2007 and Lalit Modi and Raghav Bahl in 2009 under th editorial choice category.
In July Colors completed one year on Indian television