 Well, I believe one of the jury member actually said that it was a very tough list there tough set to select and also one of the Procedure said step number two. There were a lot of debates and discussions So I'm wondering if there are a lot of fireworks amongst the jury members as well We'll get to know that of course as we get to hear the observations from our jury chairman So ladies and gentlemen, let's have a smiling round of applause to match up to the amazing smile of our jury chairman None other than the chairman and managing director of Madison world, Mr. Sam Valsarao Okay, good evening ladies and gentlemen Thank you all of you for coming here It's my pleasure and privilege to welcome you as you know very well by now for the seventh year in Succession I'm also very happy to know That over the years many of the names that have appeared in our list now have gone on to Occupy the mantle on most other lists that Now almost all magazines have started to bring out It wasn't like that seven years ago when we started there were not too many women's lists I would also dare say that Preparing our list of 50 top women in advertising, media and Marketing is a lot more difficult Than a list put out by the general magazines of top women because as you know our industry is dominated By women whereas it's a lot easier I Last year participated in one of these sessions and I dare say It took about 45 minutes to one hour to arrive at a list of India incorporated top I think 25 Whereas we took as you heard someone say we took four and a half to five hours So that much for our list and my thanks to all my Co-juris you heard all of them. I'm delighted to see that all of them had something very interesting useful To say and all of them enjoyed the process. I Think I won't tell you who they are because you've just heard them I think all of them had very refreshing points of view and I think the AV has done an excellent job in telling you what process was Well, I think I must underscore that Our list is getting More and more popular list is getting More and more looked forward to and I say this Not just based on comments that I receive But from the amount of jostling that seems to happen behind the scene by women and Their supporters if I may use the word For their bosses to be on this list and This time we saw a new one. We haven't we even had a bit of jostling from some people who wanted to be on the jury So that was a new one for me. I You heard many people say that we had a very diverse jury and By design we had a very new jury the only continuing Factor was me and I think the results show Because as you heard me say this this can never be a perfect Process, but we want to bring in as many diversity and as many points of view Into this list and therefore You'll see that the jury jury was also represented by advertisers media owners and agencies and I think that diversity of the jury is reflected in the final list of 50 that we're going to put out This list if I may give you a peekaboo in that list there are 21 from media 19 from advertisers and 17 from agencies. So pretty well spread So it was a good idea to have the jury also as diverse as we have in this year Also, you will notice That this year we had two women on the jury last year. We had one So now this is no longer an all-male jury There was a bit of mild criticism that we had received in the earlier years There were these bunch of guys who are sitting together and deciding on who are the top women so we took that comment in good spirit and That all-male thing is now out of the window I want to again remind everyone that this is the list of top 50 people in Women in media advertising and marketing Every year without fail. We have a lot of discussions on You know some young entrepreneurs young dynamic women who have set up a new business who are running a factory and Who are running even some consumer products like fashion garments where advertising and marketing play a good role But they are the CEOs or the bosses and we've religiously Kept these names out of this list because we want to preserve the sanctity of the fact That this is a list of media advertising and marketing people only now Coming as I do from this industry. I was a little surprised to find out that in the Fortune 500 list Only 5% of CEOs are women and Even if you expanded this list to a fortune thousand The number the percentage does not really move up So as you can see, there's a lot of headroom for women It's a it's an open field that you have and especially I think in our Industry and I look forward to the time when someone from our list will Begin to add to that percentage of the Fortune 500 Thank you very much for coming once again a special. Thank you for those who have flown in from out of Bombay and My congratulations to all the winners. Thank you