Gerety Awards Presents: Gerety Talks Indian Creativity

Nov. 13, 2023

Just like the award show, the Gerety Talks series puts some of the marketing and creative industries true changemakers in the spotlight and at the centre of the conversation for a refreshing take on what leadership looks like.

The panel includes:

• Bindu Menon, CEO and Co-founder, Pointblank Advertising
• Moumita Pal, Senior Creative Director, FCB INDIA
• Gazal Jain, Creative Director, Havas Worldwide Mumbai

Bindu started her career in healthcare marketing in GSK and then went on to start her own agency, Pointblank, specialising in healthcare advertising. Under her leadership, Pointblank has grown to be one of the leading healthcare agencies in India and winner of major healthcare advertising awards, including global awards, Clio and Rx Club. She has been awarded leading women entrepreneur of the year and Exceptional Women of Excellence awards by various industry forums and has served as a Juror at Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Lynx Dubai, Clio Health and Goafest. Sustainable solutions in preventive healthcare is her passion and she is the cofounder of Pepper Wellness that owns the Jollywell brand of plant based supplements.

Moumita is a multi-faceted Senior Creative Director from FCB India with over 13 years of experience in advertising and films. She has spearheaded award-winning and integrated advertising campaigns across emerging channels, TV, print, digital and social media. As a creative visionary, she simply turns briefs into love letters and pours her heart out in every campaign she takes under her wings. Her brand experience includes Google, Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, Hindustan Times, Uber, Hero, BMW, DSM, Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd. to name a few. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Kyoorius award for her film on Farmers’ Protest. She has also won awards for radio spots, digital films and many other short films and videos which includes a Road Safety film made for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. She has also worked on the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign that works towards eradication of female infanticide and sex selective abortion in India. She’s not just a leader but a culture maker. She’s not just a storyteller but a storyteller who believes in stories have the power to change the world for better.

Gazal Jain, Creative Director, Havas Worldwide Mumbai

Her love for innovation and spontaneity would never let her be satisfied with a conventional job. Everything about the creative world fascinates Gazal, where she has the liberty to take anything and everything in thoughts, experiences, and relationships and convert that into something meaningful. Which is obviously required to do any kind of work, be it copywriting or communication. In the past 10 years of working in the industry, she has worked with top agencies like Grey, Icontract, Leo Burnett, FCB Ulka, and Havas Creative, and hashed out ideas for brands in almost every category, some of which are The Millennium Schools, Cadbury, Star Network, Bisleri, Tata AIA Life Insurance, ICICI, Garnier Ultra Blends, HSBC, JBL, Head and Shoulders, and lots more.