The Player: Ogilvy's Pandey puts Asia in international ad spotlight.(People & Players)(Piyush Pandey, president and national creative director for Ogilvy and Mather India)

Advertising Age, December, 2003

Byline: NORMANDY MADDEN

[Mumbai, India] Piyush Pandey did not grow up in Jaipur, India, dreaming of becoming a leader in the Indian advertising community. He started out as a professional cricket player and later became a tea taster for a Calcutta-based tea company.

Now group president and national creative director for Ogilvy & Mather India, his creative track record has led the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival to choose Mr. Pandey as president of the 2004 film and press and outdoor juries, a springboard to wide international recognition. Mr. Pandey will be the first Asian jury president at Cannes.

"He's a good bridge between Asia and the Western world,'' said festival Chairman Roger Hatchuel. "It's what I've been looking...

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