Piyush Pandey became the national creative director of Ogilvy & Mather India, in 1994 and was inducted to the Ogilvy Worldwide board in 2006. Piyush Pandey has also been named the most influential man in Indian advertising seven years in a row by The Economic Times, India’s premier business newspaper. Under his leadership, O&M India has won twenty five Cannes Lions.
Piyush doesn’t think of advertising as a job: When you are having so much fun, how can you call it work?
Before working in advertising Piyush was a professional cricketer and tea-taster. Then in the 80s he put away his teacups and hung up his bat to join Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai. He became its national creative director in 1994. He was inducted to Ogilvy Worldwide board in 2006. More recently, Piyush has been appointed as Vice-Chairman, Asia-Pacific.
Under Piyush’s leadership, Ogilvy & Mather India has become a creative powerhouse: It has been named India’s most creative agency ten times in the last eleven years.
In 2004, Piyush became the first Asian to be the President of the Cannes jury. He is the only Indian to have won three Grand Prizes at the London International Advertising Awards.