Labels Awards 2026 Categories for Animation & Brand

Rajesh Jain

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Lacoste India

Rajesh Jain is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for Sports And Leisure Apparel Limited - Lacoste Licensee in India. He has been constantly nurturing the brand since October 2009. With his persistent efforts and focused vision, he has built and propagated Lacoste in India as a complete Lifestyle brand, offering a unique and original universe for different verticals including clothing for women, men and children, shoes, leather goods, watches, etc. His strong belief in his own quote, “Top Line, Bottom Line, Growth, Customer Delight and Human Resource Development - Everything else is merely incidental” has cultivated the brand with firm establishments reaching out to every major city/ metro of the country today.

Kumar Nitesh

CEO – AJIO Business & Trends Footwear, Reliance Retail

With over 24 years of leadership across India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Kumar Nitesh is a visionary driving large-scale retail transformation and sustainable business growth in Asia. As CEO of AJIO Business & Trends Footwear at Reliance Retail, he is spearheading innovation across product, format, and market strategies to elevate homegrown fashion brands in the Indian footwear industry.

Kumar is known for his customer-centric, data-driven approach—successfully launching disruptive retail formats, executing strategic market entries, and engineering business turnarounds. He has managed P&L portfolios exceeding $400 million, scaled private labels, and built high-impact teams that deliver consistent, profitable growth. His career foundation was built at Bata, where he spent over 14 years in senior leadership roles across South and Southeast Asia, followed by a successful stint with Apparel Group MENA, managing global brands like Hush Puppies, Dune London, Crocs, and Naturalizer across the GCC. At Reliance Retail, Kumar Nitesh has been instrumental in leading the turnaround of iconic brands like Lee Cooper, John Player, Payless, Catwalk, Performax, and Fashion World. He is driving the next phase of growth for AJIO and Trends Footwear through franchise-led expansion, private label scaling, and mass-market innovation. His leadership has also pioneered B2B and B2B2C strategies to bridge the gap between India’s organized and unorganized retail sectors. Under his guidance, the business has consistently delivered double-digit growth, built high-performance teams, and scaled profitably across diverse retail formats. Philosophy & Leadership.

“People do not buy products. They buy stories, experiences, and magic.” This belief defines Kumar’s leadership style—purpose-driven, empathetic, and performance-focused. His spiritual grounding fuels his clarity, creativity, and ability to inspire high-performing, values-led teams. Educationally enriched by RetailCo (Singapore) and ADVANCO (Europe) programs, Kumar blends a deep understanding of Asian consumer behavior with insights into European retail best practices, giving him a unique ability to scale businesses across geographies.

Prabhdeep Singh

Founder and CEO, RED Health

Prabhdeep Singh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RED Health, India’s pioneering company dedicated to revolutionizing medical emergency response services. At the company’s helm, Prabhdeep leads comprehensively, overseeing strategic vision, financial and operational management, risk assessment, innovation initiatives, and stakeholder relations. His leadership style combines forward-thinking strategies with practical implementation, driving the company toward its goal of becoming the world’s best medical response organization. Prabhdeep’s educational background forms the foundation of his expertise in healthcare innovation. He holds dual MBA degrees from INSEAD (2015-2016) and another specializing in B.Pharma JD, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration from SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (2006-2011). The idea for RED.Health was born during Prabhdeep’s time at INSEAD, where he and his peers identified a critical gap in India’s healthcare ecosystem. This realization led to extensive market research and the development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for managing ambulance operations, culminating in the official establishment of RED Health in 2016.

With a career spanning over a decade in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, Prabhdeep brings a wealth of experience to his role. He participated in the MAN Impact Accelerator program 2018, showcasing his commitment to social entrepreneurship. Earlier, he was part of the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Leadership Program from May 2011 to July 2015 and served as an Executive Assistant to Glenmark’s Chairman & MD in 2010. His career began with a technical internship at Ranbaxy in 2007, which laid the foundation for his future endeavors in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. His dedication to continuous learning and personal growth is reflected in his recognition by Forbes as one of the “30 under 30 Asia” in 2018 and as one of the “35 under 35” in the same year by Entrepreneur magazine. Prabhdeep aspires to steer RED Health towards more advanced, customer-centric solutions. His vision includes implementing auto-dispatch systems triggered by customer needs, aiming to streamline decision-making processes and enhance response times. This approach highlights his commitment to continually improving healthcare services through tech innovation. Beyond his professional achievements, Prabhdeep is an active sportsman, an avid reader, and a tireless traveller.

LABELS Awards 2026

Nomination Criteria

Best Retail Collection of the Year

Best Brand Collaboration /Licensing Product of the Year

Innovation and Impact Awards

Brand Licensing Leadership Awards

Awards Categories

LABELS Awards 2026

Nomination Criteria

Best Retail Collection of the Year

Best Brand Collaboration /Licensing Product of the Year

Innovation and Impact Awards

Brand Licensing Leadership Awards

Rajesh Jain

Amitabh Suri

Pulak Chaudhary

Puneet Kumar Malik

Amisha Jain

Kumar Nitesh

Akhil Jain

Deepak Chhabra

Sumit Jasoria

Rahul Dayama

Apoorv Sen

Nitin Chhabra

Prashanth Aluru

Anand Aiyer

Pallavi Barman

Resha Jain,

Nishant Poddar

Aruni Mishra

Naman Mawandia

Dr. Sujit Paul

Kashika Malhotra

Saumil Mehta

Sanjay Bhattacharjee

Arjun Ranga

Vikram Marwaha

Lavanya Nalli

Shobhit Singh

Samiran Sarkar

Sandeep Kumar

Bhupender Gupta

Subodh Jain

Nisha Khatri

Dinesh Talera

Bharat Sethi

Ganesh Sonawane

Neha Kant

Saurabh Munjal

Shashi Kumar

Vibhuti Dixit

Ackshay Jain

Sachin Gupta

Prateek Mittal

Vikram Kumar Limsay

Swati Shukla

Sudhir Goel

Rohan Sable

Chippy Mehta

Hitesh Jain

Harsh Somaiya

Sumit Santhalia

Prashant Parameswaran

Utkarsh Gupta

Vijay C

Mohit Jain

Vidita Kochar Jain

Abhishek Daga

Lisa Mukhedkar

Aniketh MJ

Ricky Vasandani

Shalini Karna

Aakriti Suri

Aakriti Suri

Uttara Talapatra

Sreelesh Pillai

Krishna Reddy

Sandeep Jangala

Puneet Bajaj

Nitin Agarwal

Preetam Chhipa

Chidambaram PL

Ashish Dhir

Abhiroop Medhekar

Shreyas Kumar