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    Shushma Datt

    Name: Shushma Datt

    Year: 2018
    Presented By: Milan Mann, BM Group
    Bio:
    Recently recognized as one of the 150 most influential British Columbians by the Vancouver Sun, Shushma Datt may be a pioneer in Canadian Radio, but Vancouver’s top Indo-Canadian broadcaster is just doing what she loves. Naturally inquisitive, Datt began building her name as a broadcaster in the Sixties, a definite challenge in an industry that was predominantly male and pale.

    As a member of the BBC, she chatted up Mick Jagger and tackled Jimi Hendrix about a controversial album cover that portrayed him as a Hindu god. Today, she’s the owner and operator of IT Media Broadcasting, a company that holds two radio stations: Radio Rimjhim and Spice Radio1200AM and produces multiple TV shows for the Shaw Multicultural Channel and Omni.

    Datt has received numerous awards, including the Order of British Columbia in 1992. The Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medals, for outstanding contributions to the community. In 2007 Business In Vancouver's Influential Woman in Business Award for her many accomplishments in broadcasting and multicultural programming The YWCA honored her as a “Women of Distinction" in 2006.

    In 2015 she was awarded the “Rosalie Award “by the Radio Trailblazers. Datt is active in the community, serving on the board of British Columbia's Institute of Technology's Broadcasting Programs since 2007. Today, she continues to produce quality content for Vancouver’s South Asian community and is grooming Vice President and son Sudhir Datta to take over the company.

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