Power-packed juries to select BS award winners today

Juries will meet in Mumbai to choose winners of Business Standard's annual awards for corporate and banking excellence

Two high-powered juries, comprising India Inc's leading decision makers, will meet in Mumbai on Monday to choose the winners of Business Standard's annual awards for corporate and banking excellence.

The 'Banker of the Year' will be selected by a five-member jury headed by Rakesh Mohan, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India. A separate jury, headed by Maruti Suzuki Chairman R C Bhargava, will pick the best in corporate India from a long list of names and data compiled by the Business Standard Research Bureau, to select the 'CEO of the Year', as well as achievers in other categories - public sector undertakings, multinational firms and small and medium enterprises.

Three new categories have been added this year, in tune with the changing landscape - 'Start-up of the Year', 'Public Institution of the Year' and 'State of the Year'. The jury will also select the winner of the 'Lifetime Achievement award'.

Apart from Bhargava, who played a key role in the long journey of India's leading passenger car maker, the other jury members are Noshir Kaka, Sanjay Nayar, Rajiv Memani and Cyril Shroff.

While Kaka, MD of McKinsey India and director of McKinsey Inc, is India Inc's go-to man, Nayar, CEO of private equity giant KKR India, has advised and funded scores of Indian firms in making that transition. EY India's CEO and Country Managing Partner, Memani has been involved in several high-profile transactions in India and has pushed his firm ahead in almost every practice.

He has been appointed on the global executive board of EY as chairman, emerging markets committee. Shroff, managing partner of Mumbai-based Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has a vantage view of Indian companies as a top lawyer. Besides Mohan, the jury to select the Business Standard 'Banker of the Year' will comprise Rashesh Shah, chairman & CEO, Edelweiss Group, a leading financial services company; Anil Singhvi, chairman, Ican Investment Advisors; M D Mallya, former chairman, Bank of Baroda; and Saurabh Mukherjea, CEO (Institutional Equities) at stock broking firm Ambit Capital.