Editorial:

In December 2011, IAMAI completed seven years of operations. It has been quite a roller-coaster ride for a small industry body to take off and start making a difference to a fledgling industry. By all reckoning it has been a good seven years with few bumps here and there. The best way to celebrate the last seven years, we thought, would be to get some of our earliest members and some of the latest to talk about the digital world. We have, therefore, in this issue managed to bring to you interviews with 14 key leaders who have made a real difference to the digital business in the last 15 years. While some of them have been there and done that; others are just about beginning to make the mark.

One caveat, this is not a preferential list nor is this list exhaustive. We had approached many others, some did not have the time, others did not want to be interviewed, yet others, I am sure we would have missed out in spite of best intentions. Here are the names of the people whose interviews appear in this issue: R. Ramaraj, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Avnish Bajaj, Anupam Mittal, Murugavel Janakiram, Dinesh Aggarwal, Harish Bahl, Arvind Rao, Vishwadeep Bajaj, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Ratish Nair, Sachin Bansal and Amar Goel. 

We hope that it would be a useful guide to those who are in the digital business or wish to join this industry in the near future.

This issue will be with you just ahead of the India Digital Summit. You would be able to meet some of those featured here as well as many other leaders of our business at the Summit. I extend an open invitation to all of you to join us at the Summit on 18 and 19 January [for more information do visit us at www.iamai.in]

Wishing you a successful 2012

Dr. Subho Ray