India Content Leadership Awards and Conference - ICL 2019

GAGAN SINGLA

Mr Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Officer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist. In fact, his analytical, data-driven approach adds a new dimension to marketing. With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking. Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and
E-Commerce.

With more than 12 years of experience –primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-specific. In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Prior to coming on-board with Angel Broking, Mr. Singla was the global CMO of Simplilearn, an online education provider of professional certification training, based in Scotts Valley, California, USA. Mr Singla contributed significantly to Simplilearn’s marketing efforts in India and Global Markets.

PEEYUSH BACHLAUS

17 years of consumer marketing experience across sectors viz: FMCG, Automobiles, Telecom & a single brand retail start up.
P&L impacting roles delivering exponential growth on brands addressing diverse TG’s including youth (preteens & teens), families, working professionals and BoP / farming communities across urban & rural geographies. 
Proud member of teams credited with brand & product launch, new market creation and wins at Guinness World Records, Abby’s & WOW awards.

Competencies: Design & launch sharply targeted marketing campaigns. Design brand architectures and dimensioning initiatives. Chasing ROI on marketing programs. Collaborative relationships across ‘g-local’ platforms. Develop team members’ competence; engage their passion and commitment. Timely decision-making grounded in customer knowledge and market analysis, follow through on execution. 

Specialties: New product launch # Brand properties (Endorsements & Assets) # Category Management # Consumer engagements (offline / online) # Digital outreach # Segmentation # Product positioning # Integrated marketing # Market Research # Startup / Turnaround # Advertising & Promotions # ATL/BTL # Agency management (creative, media, PR, experiential & OOH) # Rural Marketing # Portfolio profitability # Budget Management # Multi lingual oHEad

SATYAJIT SEN

Currently- Vice President, Media Management at Samsung India- India’s leading advertiser in the personal technology space

Led ZO gain No 6 RECMA ranking with aggressive new biz wins and client retention across all significant ones making ZO Delhi as the larges not agency office in Delhi

Won the R3 No1 nomination for the first rank in India New Business League in 2011.

Won businesses like Reckitt Benckiser, Toshiba, Honda, Apollo Tyres, Aviva, Micromax, Jabong, Cargill Foods, Mc Cain Foods, Aviva, OLX, Telenor, Siemens, IDBI Federal

Led the successful integration of Resultrix- India’s leading search specialist agency

Awarded Effie awards for work on Ministry of Tourism- international campaigns.

Worked with HT on role of print for reach/ recall was an Emvies silver recipient

Won the Maruti AOR biz in the first place when MUL started the AOR set up

Guest Lecturer at prestigious institutes like IIMT ,MICA

SRINIVAS JAIN

Srinivas Jain is the Executive Director & Chief Marketing officer at SBI Funds Management – SBIFM (SBI Mutual Fund), SBIFM mission is to provide best in class investment management expertise to investors, SBIFM is building products, solutions, and tools from small retail investors to sophisticated global institutional investors.
Srinivas Jain is a senior CXO level professional with over 23 years experience in Banking and financial services industry of which 19 years in Investment management industry.

ASHISH TIWARI

Ashish is a marketing professional with over 16 years of experience into various verticals of marketing. He currently heads the Digital Marketing function for Hero Motors Group which includes companies like, Hero Cycles, Firefox Bikes, Hero Motors, BSH (Srilanka), Avocet Sports (UK), Munjal Kiriu, Hero ZFH, Hero Global Design Centre (Manchester), Munjal Hospitality & lifestyle chain OMA.
During the career span of 16+ years, he had worked for brands like Nokia, eBay, General Motors, HCL, Vodafone, Jubilant and extensively trained on consumer/trade/B2B marketing/ Analytics. He has handled assignments of Digital Marketing, Consumer Insights, Data Analytics, CRM, ecommerce, product management, pricing, placement, consumer promotion, brand launch, brand management, events, incentive schemes, PR management, trade promotions, branding & visibility planning to name a few.
Ashish is decently tech savvy in amalgamation of various platforms (mobile/web/voice) & technologies and the usage of data mining & visualisation software’s like Tableau apart of advance excel.
Ashish is a music buff besides being an avid reader, and loves to cycle around in his free time

SHRADHA AGARWAL

An itch for innovation and smart creativity drove her towards advertising, media and communications in 2007. Since then she has worked with corporates, startups, agencies and has been lucky enough to interact with some of the finest people of our industry. While doing that she explored the need for cutting-egde & leading-edge communications in today’s market.

Her entire league has been in the digital front which comprises of strategy, social media, digital engagement and mobile derivative. Having essayed roles from Account Managers to Marketing Manager to Head digital strategy and engagement in her roles with Zoom tv, Interactive Avenues, Dealsandyou.com, Airtel and now GRAPES DIGITAL; the key thing she believe lies in ‘UNLEARNING’. This helps you to think of “out of the box” to campaign ideas with the help of newer platforms to engage with your audience.

A bronze medalist from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad for academic excellence during her PGDM (Communications) and a distinction holder in computer engineering, Shradha is a digital strategist and believes in no fool-notion.

Specialties: Digital Media Intelligence, Innovative thinking, Analytics and Consumer Insights to get creative bend. communications. Building and running teams, setting processes and people for companies.

PRIYANKA SEHGAL

Priyanka Sehgal has over 19 years of experience across TV and digital, with stints in some of the largest media organizations in the country, including Network 18, Times Now and NDTV. With extensive experience across strategy, product, growth, monetization, content, programming and partnerships, she has set up processes, created content and launched channels which still run effectively across organizations. She has overseen primetime programming, created and executed IPs, turned around TV ratings, set up broadcast chains, forayed into regional content and managed P&L responsibility.
Additionally, she has worked with different brands across TV & digital while setting up branded content divisions, which has given her an in-depth understanding of brands and their ethos. Her IP, ‘Power of Shunya’, won a silver at the Goafest Creative Abby’s 2014 and ‘Amazing Indians Awards’ won at the WOW awards for the on-ground event category. Priyanka’s current focus in Network 18 is on scaling up the digital and leading content, strategy, product, and revenue. Priyanka is recognized as an inspiring leader with exceptional creative and commercial discipline, and a unique ability to embrace change and consistently innovate in an industry that is constantly disrupted across content, carriage and consumer tastes.
She was awarded the Women Leadership Achievement Award in 2016 & the Women Super Achiever Award in 2017 at the World Women Leadership Congress. During the time she was overseeing primetime programming, NDTV 24×7 won the Best English News Channel of the year award. She contributed to ET Now dislodging the number 1 channel – CNBC. In her current stint at Network 18, Moneycontrol was awarded the Content Marketeer of the year award at DMAI Awards for a project she led, her recent IP on Firstpost 9 Months qualified as a finalist in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Sector at the Indian Marketing Awards.

GANESH IYER

Ganesh is an entertainment business professional with over 18 years of experience across the Indian Digital Content, Music, Radio, Movies and Advertising businesses with a deep understanding of and experience in content management. He is an alumnus of IIM, Calcutta and NIT, Rourkela. Across his stints with Sony Music, The Times Group and FCB Ulka, Ganesh has helped create, market and distribute video and audio content across multiple Indian language markets. He has also worked closely on film projects with Dharma Productions, Aamir Khan Productions, Madras Talkies, etc. as well as with eminent music talent including Gulzar, Javed Akhthar, A.R. Rahman, Shankar Ehsan Loy, Vishal Bhardwaj and Shreya Ghoshal. He was instrumental in getting popular sports content published on home video format before the digital boom.

Ganesh now heads the Original Content business for Mirchi, through which he has successfully lead managed the creation, monetisation and marketing of the company’s multiple digital shows across languages including the biggest Tamil series ever, ‘Kalyanam – Conditions Apply’, and more recently the Gujarati web series ‘Jalsa Party with Dhvanit’.

Ganesh has also served as guest faculty at multiple business and media colleges including MICA and COMMITS, Bangalore. He has also featured as part of expert cricket panel discussions on television and has been part of a team building exercise for the Mumbai Indians IPL team.