Founder of ImagesBazaar.com Sandeep Maheshwari has won the 2010 Star Youth Achiever Award from the Global Youth Marketing Forum, which honors achievements in youth-centric marketing, advertising and branding.
The Mumbai-based organization tapped local industry leaders to participate in the jury. Chaired by Suman Srivastava, Chief Executive Officer of Euro RSCG, the panel included Bates 141 chief strategy officer Dheeraj Sinha, Domino’s Pizza vice president of marketing Dev Amritesh, and The Loot managing director Jay Gupta.
Maheshwari is a photographer turned entrepreneur. His achievement was the recognition that the Indian stock photography market was “virtually absent” and launching ImagesBazaar.com in 2006 to serve the local advertising and marketing industries.
Maheshwari claims that 800,000 images make the ImagesBazaar.com Web site the world’s largest stock of Indian images. It is currently used by more than 6,000 brands in 42 countries.