Life choices of a Marketeer | Sonal Dabral | TEDxIIMKashipur

From humble beginnings to leading the world's most renowned companies, Sonal Dabral talks about his life's choices and challenges while scaling the world of marketing.
Sonal Dabral is currently the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of the DDB Mudra Group, India's first and largest integrated marketing communications and services network. He has over two exciting decades of experience on brands like Audi, Fiat, Tata Safari, Dove, Le Sancy, Unilever Foods, Ponds, Lakme, Panadol, Cadburys, Asian Paints, Fevicol, Virgin Mobile, Tata AIG, Prudential, GE, Nestle’s Maggi and Milo, DBS, Remy Martin, Colgate, Pizza Hut, Sony, Coca Cola, DHL and many more.
A graduate of the National School of Design (NID), Sonal began his career in Lintas, Delhi. After a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, he went on to Ogilvy Mumbai before moving to Kuala Lumpur to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region. During his tenure as the Chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, he led the agency to become not just the hottest agency in the region and the No. 1 Creative Office in the whole of Ogilvy Worldwide but also in the entire WPP global network. In 2007, he led the agency to be the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions. Ogilvy Singapore emerged second runner-up as global “Agency of the Year”, a first for an Asian agency. His last assignment was as the Regional Creative Head and Chairman-India of Bates operating out of Singapore and Mumbai before moving back to India.
In 1999, The Times of India had named Sonal as one of the 50 Young Indians who will lead India into the next century. A popular speaker, he has spoken at major festivals like LIA, Dubai Lynx, Spikes Asia Singapore, Cristal Advertising Festival, Turkey besides numerous engagements across Asia. Sonal has also been a popular TV host, Bollywood scriptwriter and has also been channeling his passion for films into directing ad-films. Apart from being a prolific winner in most of the Regional and International Award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes and many more, Sonal has served globally on most of the juries.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@ayush.shrestha]

Damn it! The sound sucks.

[@sakshisingh441]

First! 😁

[@sanjeevtandon2623]

My loving school time chess winner.
Keep it up Sonal