by Shashank Nigam | November 4th, 2009
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Dear SimpliFliers,
It gives me great pleasure to share with you that I’ve been awarded the coveted Global Brand Leadership Award (Individual) by the World Brand Congress. The award ceremony was held at the Taj in Mumbai on November 4, 2009. Thanks to all of you who came down to support, in person or on Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn! It was truly an evening to remember.
The award is given to individuals who’re doing things differently in branding in a given industry and a distinguished jury decided on those who’d receive the award this year. I received it for SimpliFlying’s work in airline branding.
I was honored to be among some very esteemed recipients of the award, including Prof. David Rogers of Columbia University, Jody Turner of CultureofFuture.com, Sandy Carter of IBM and Eric Weaver of DDB Tribal Vancouver. Each one of these people have inspired me at some point in the last few months with their thought leadership in branding and it was such an honor to have made the cut with these stalwarts. It was a very humbling experience as …
