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

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.

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Piali Dasgupta

Piali Dasgupta is a multi-award winning Marketing and Communications leader. She is
Senior Vice President, Marketing, at Columbia Pacific Communities, India’s largest senior living community operator.

In a career spanning over 15 years, Piali has created a number of award winning marketing campaigns, served on juries, has been on Social Samosa’s Top 40 marketers under 40 list for the year 2019-2020 and has been awarded the CMO Trailblazer by DMA Asia and Voot India’s Best Marketers and Planners 2021.

She has worked across media (The Times of India), e-commerce (Myntra, Amazon), retail (Aditya Birla Fashion Retail) and real estate.

Her core expertise lies in content marketing, storytelling, building brand narratives and strengthening brand positioning through storytelling.

According to her, good content is one that is purposeful, uplifting and has the ability to start conversations and believes that we are long past the age of “vanity content” or content for the sake of content.

Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, is a voracious reader, spends time sketching and is also a strong mental health advocate and has her own mental health podcast, The Mind Podium, doing her bit to remove long standing stigmas around mental illness.

Raja Chakraborty

A passionate consumer marketer and business enthusiast with 2 decades of experience across consumer goods sector with companies like Pepsico, Bayer, Nerolac& Currently working as Business Director – Luxury Grooming at Raymonds. He has played a key role in building PARK AVENUE as one of India’s foremost Male Grooming brands at Raymonds. Apart from consumer marketing, he loves watching movies in multiple languages

Archana Aggarwal

Archana Aggarwal is a passionate marketeer with 20+ years of experience. She is responsible for some critical and strategic areas such as media planning and buying, analytics, digital capability building, performance management of the media agencies, etc. Prior to Airtel, she was Country Media Manager for P&G, India. She was instrumental in P&G winning their first Cannes in India in 2006 post which they won many prestigious international awards for the Gillette Shave India Movement. She also led media for the high decibel launch of 4G and Payments Bank in India.

Imran Qadri

Imran Qadri heads Marketing & PR for the iconic Harley-Davidson brand in Asia Emerging Markets & India region. He is based out of Bangkok, Thailand. He has been associated with Harley-Davidson since April 2019. Apart from India, he oversees Marketing for Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore), South Korea, Taiwan & Hong Kong as well. He has 14 years of Marketing work experience with brands like Hero Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Nissan & H-D. He has donned several hats in his past roles ranging from Marketing Communications, Brand Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Media Planning & Regional Marketing. He has led teams and agencies deliver with award winning campaigns, launches & content. Recently he was adjudged among Top 40 Nationwide Experts declared by Business Mint for 2022. He was also part of Top 50 Marketing and Communication Leaders in India in 2021 as adjudged by White Page International and among Top 100 in Asia for 2022. He was one of the Social Samosa Top 40 Marketers for the batch of 2019-20 and among Top 25 Content Disruptors in India in 2020 declared by Vidsaga.com. He has been a jury member with many credible advertising & communication forums. An MBA in Marketing from FORE School of Management, Delhi, Imran has a B.E. Mechanical degree from MSRIT, Bangalore, apart from executive leadership & digital marketing certifications from Vanderbilt University & IIM Lucknow, respectively. He is a certified Sports car instructor and has a flair for writing.

Shrishail Deshnur

Shrishail is a marketing professional with over 18 years of experience across categories of consumer products, financial services and pharma.Currently, he heads the consumer marketing function at Cipla and is instrumental in spearheading the company’s largest consumer awareness initiative.In his previous stint, he was heading the marketing function for the stationery business at Pidilite. Earlier in his career, he has worked with Berger paints, ICICI Prudential, MetLife, and Kotak Life.Shrishail is a foodie and a self-proclaimed movie critic. He loves to drive and play cricket with his 9-year-old son during his free time.

Sudhanshu Tripathi

Sudhanshu Tripathi is an entrepreneurial leader who loves to work at the cusp of technology and human impact. He is currently the VP, Head of Marketing & Growth at Quick Heal. Prior to this, he was Head of Marketing & ESG at Sterlite Power. His marketing efforts have successfully created global brands and unlocked value through strategic initiatives across startups as well as global matrix organizations.

Through his ESG mandate, he has successfully integrated ESG into the core business processes and is enabling a sustainable brand transformation. He has also led ESG investor due diligences resulting in equity & debt raise of more than $250 million. In past, he has worked with brands like CYIENT, FINO & TCS.

Bhakti Kandalkar

Have started my career from Ad-agencies in 2002 , in 2004 I got a break in Star plus, I have also worked with NDTV Imagine , Disney , Turner , India cast -Viacom International channels… from Broadcasting Channels To OTT platform ..this journey was interesting for me I have enjoyed each phase of my working career ….….i have learnt a lot from my previous Bosses and work.
Now It’s been nearly 3.9 years now since I’ve been handling ZEE5 Global Content strategy and Planning, and it’s been the most amazing experience to understand the need gaps of viewers in different countries and use this understanding to continuously improve the quality of decisions we make towards achieving our business goals. Having experience in Consumer insights in broadcast has also helped !

Anand Bhatia

Currently the CMO and Head of Analytics at Fino Payments Bank, I have delivered results across roles in Sales and Distribution, Product Management, Business Development and now Marketing.
Entrepreneurial in outlook I co founded Ormax , a team of consumer behaviorists focused on the BFSI space. An alumnus of IIM Lucknow and a quintessential Mumbai boy, I am an avid long distance runner, and have built marketing at Fino the way I run marathons, for the long haul

Vishesh Sharma

A FinTech Marketeer, striving to make financial ecosystem inclusive for millennials!
“My success lies in turning cost centers into revenue centers for organizations and building organic
ecosystems, which deliver not just sustainable but also scalable business growth,” says Vishesh
Sharma who has recently joined Bajaj Financial Securities as its first Chief Marketing Officer.
Vishesh belongs to a rare breed of professionals with a journalistic background who have
transcended the world of Finance and entered the highest echelons of Marketing. Previously, he was
the Chief Marketing officer at Ashika Group, India’s leading diversified financial services group with
four key business verticals including Retail Broking, Institutional Broking, Startup Funding and Global
Family Office Services.
Vishesh’s experience cuts across diverse marketing disciplines, including brand communication,
content marketing, corporate communications, reputation management, product marketing, public
affairs, and financial education. He started his professional career with The Hindu, and continued his
journey with renowned publications, including Dalal Street Investment Journal and Progressive
Media Group. Thereafter, Vishesh switched to the corporate world and worked with reputed
companies including Sharekhan by BNP Paribas and Angel One before joining Ashika Group.
Throughout his career, Vishesh has been recognized for his remarkable professional
accomplishments. In 2020, he was named Content Marketer 40u40 by Exchange for Media and the
Marketing Leader of the Year in the BFSI segment by Nasscom. A year later, he was honored as the
Rising Media Star by Best Media Info, Corporate Communications Person of the Year by AdGully, and
40u40 PR Professional by Reputation Today. He won Gold at Inkspell awards under the category of
Content Marketing Professional 2021. Vishesh was also bestowed with Excellence in PR award by
Adgully under their Leader 2.0 awards in 2022 and was also felicitated by World Marketing Congress
as one of India’s Top 50 Influential Marketing Leaders.
Recognised as a thought leader in Fintech Marketing, Vishesh is a frequent keynote speaker at many
educational institutes and thought-provoking events like IIT FinFest, Amity University, IMT Nagpur,
NMIMS, among others.
He strongly believes that 3Vs (Voice, Vernacular, and Video) are the key pillars that will define his
legacy as a Marketeer over next 10 years

Saurabh Srivastava

An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience across leadership roles, he has served at some of finest start-ups to grace India such as Ixigo, MobiKwik, Jabong and Housr where he was jointly responsible for building up the brands and businesses to the scale they hold today. Having started out in the more traditional marketing world spanning organizations like Maruti Suzuki, Goodyear & WPP, Saurabh holds strong capabilities across Portfolio & Brand Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Saurabh embodies the value of constant innovation and growth with a flair for building businesses and brands grounds up.
Saurabh joined Foundit (formerly Monster) as the Chief Marketing Officer in 2022, heading Business strategy and Brand management for the company.
Equipped with degrees from some of the most prominent universities in India such as Indian School Of Business, Hyderabad and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, Saurabh loves to have conversations centered on the cross sections of Tech, Marketing & Product.

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Sharmila Sandeep

An MBA in Marketing from PSG Institute of Management. Also holds M.A & M.Phil in Sociology. Sharmila joined Saint-Gobain -Gyproc in 2021 as the Head of Marketing.

Sharmila has 18yrs of Brand and Marketing experience across various industries. Prior to Saint-Gobain, Sharmila led marketing and product management at ICICI Bank, Bisleri, Pidilite, Hatsun Agro, Radio Mirchi & Future group retail. Sharmila has vivid interest and acquired skills in numerous handicrafts, conducts workshops and loves being a swimming coach. She unwinds by watching movies and social networking.

Raja M.V.S.M.A

Raja is a Pharma marketing & sales leader with over 27 years of extensive & rich experience in Building Pharma Brands across Emerging Markets. He is associated with Dr. Reddy’s for over 24 years, presently designated as Head – Marketing & Strategy (Emerging Markets). In his role, he has been instrumental in establishing & managing multi-functional Centre of Excellence (CoE) team that comprises of Marketing, Digital, Strategy, Medical, Portfolio and SFE based out of Hyderabad. He drives the marketing and strategy function across 33 Emerging markets which includes Russia, Brazil, China and key markets across CIS, ASEAN, Africa & LATAM. During his tenure at Dr. Reddy’s, Raja was responsible for building multimillion dollar brands across three channels – Rx, OTC & Hospital/Institutional biz; Handled P&L roles in CIS markets, SA & Australia.

Sugato Banerji

With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.

Specialties: Start ups, product launch, media distribution, service marketing, service brand operations

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Amiya Swarup

Amiya Swarup Heads Marketing Advisory and is Partner for Ernst & Young. He has nearly two decades of experience in fostering collaboration within the intricate web of marketers, media agencies, martech partners, and media houses, building a better working world

Rohit Gulati

ohit brings under two decades of diverse Sales , Marketing, Strategy and Commercial Leadership Experience ( P&L responsibilities ) in the Healthcare industry ( Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices ) working across therapy areas like Orthopaedics , Ophthalmology , Infusion Therapy & Endoscopy across India and Subcontinent . He is currently the Director Marketing – India & South Asia for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision in India . He is part of the Vision Care India LT & Regional Marketing Council.

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Sunder Venkatraman

Sunder Venketraman is the Head of Content, Creator and Monetisation Ecosystem, Josh App, VerSe Innovation and is based in Mumbai.
Sunder is currently responsible for spearheading the short video ecosystem beyond mainstream content and monetisation categories at Josh.

Armed with over 17+ years of experience, Sunder specializes in business and strategy-oriented functions, backed by a rich understanding of the content ecosystem. At Josh, Sunder along with his team look after the holistic development of content, creators and monetisation at Josh, spot early trends and introduce new content genres in multiple Indian local languages.

Prior to his association with Josh, Sunder was the Head of Strategy, Monetization and Revenue at Firework India, where he worked with the core team to structure a decentralized content distribution ecosystem. Moreover, he is also recognized for his past roles at Times Television Network, 9X Media and Trigger-Happy Entertainment.

Shobha Vasudevan

Shobha Vasudevan is an industry stalwart with an extensive experience of over 23 years. She currently heads the communication strategy for Dell Technologies India’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) – one of the largest portfolios of the company in the market. Previously, Shobha has also successfully spearheaded communications strategy for several IT and consumer giants such as Microsoft and Canon.

Following EMC’s merger with Dell in 2015, Shobha has successfully shaped and driven integrated enterprise marketing communications campaigns for Dell Technologies in India as a front runner in using new age communication tools to create a better impact for the brand. Under her guidance and encouragement, Dell Technologies has been able to break the barriers of technical B2B tech communication to emerge as a disruptor in meaningful conversations around the industry wherein Dell Technologies’ spokespeople have been established as thought leaders in India.

Additionally, Shobha is a graduate in Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University with a Business English Communication level 2 certificate from Cambridge University.

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Rajiee M Shinde

Rajiee M Shinde, A Dada Saheb Phalke Foundation awardee is a seasoned media professional with over 20 years of experience in the Indian television industry. She’s credited with launching the first ever Punjabi TV and Music Channel – ETC Punjabi followed by founding PTC networks with bouquet of channels PTC Punjabi, PTC Chak de, PTC News and heading the operations successfully as the CEO for 10 years. Her assignment as a CEO of SHOWBOX, A national music channel under IN10 Media achieved the incredible no. 3 position in less than 8 months.

Rajiee’s core strength is business startup and expansion with the ability to develop strategic and tactical solutions to build business from ground up, ascertaining a competitive advantage, sustainability and exponential growth. With a strong Programming background she has successfully launched Music and Film Awards in Punjabi, Live Musical Events in India and Internationally and a host of Reality and Talent Hunt shows. She has also produced two chart busting Punjabi Films Zorawar and Disco Singh of YO YO Honey Singh & Diljit Dosanjh. Building IP’s on ground, on air and digital is her core strength.

Amit Sethiya

A marketing strategist with a penchant for creating and establishing regional and PAN India brands across segments like Steel, Real estate and consumer electronics segments over the last 15 years. He has a passion towards influencing customers mindset across national and international markets by being a creative and business choir for generating optimal brand equity using traditional and digital media. Radio Jockeying, writing, travelling and teaching are the other interests on the personal front that primes up skill sets pertaining to customer understanding, story-telling, project planning, team handling and training etc eventually adding up to the functional efficacies.

Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta

A Digital immigrant, driven by passion, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy and Energize while bringing to the table a pedigree of 22 years across the spectrum of media – print, digital , mobile, event productions , some successful marquee pilot projects. Having worked across multiple functions – ad operations, business operations, content, strategy, sales, event design, media planning & buying, Ankoor has also learnt from the experience of having worked in different cultures and set-ups in national and international environments along with working at cross-functional roles. Ankoor is working with the vibrant and wonderful team at Arm Worldwide and driving the Content Marketing vertical.

Anil Kumar Singh

Anil Kumar Singh comes with more than 19 years of experience in digital advertising.
He had worked on more than 100 Brands with experience in multiple categories. India’s most awarded SEO expert with experience in online training & conducting the workshop. Professional SEO speaker
He is an SEO mentor, Blogger, Guest Author, Writer, Speaker, and visiting faculty in Business Schools
He had also worked in a variety industry, including the mobile sector, FMCG, finance, e-commerce, real estate, technology, and health industries. Experience working with Indian & Global companies.
Currently, he is working with HT Media where he Oversees all SEO efforts for the HT Group’s asset portfolio (hindustantimes.com, livemint.com, livehindustan.com, and more)
Lead SEO content strategy across all HT Group assets, collaborating with editors on editorial strategy.
Identify market opportunities to increase organic search traffic, then develop ways to capitalise on those prospects.
Assist Product and Engineering teams in identifying and prioritising website optimizations, landing page builds, and testing roadmaps, among other things.

Models of income potential are used to identify priority efforts. Regularly monitor critical SEO KPIs and develop and submit reports
His last organization was NEO Media World as a National Director of SEO. There he was Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads. He has setup SEO Practice & business for Pan India.

He worked with Interactive avenues as an India Head of SEO, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands . He had built an SEO team & business from scratch and stabilized IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years.

Rituraj Bidwai

A decade of experience in Marketing and Brand Communication with specialization in Digital.
Astute understanding of various digital marketing channels coupled with solid technical knowledge gives me an edge in implementing brand related campaigns derived from the overall business objectives. Data is an integral part of my work style ensuring a fair balance of execution and result KPIs, important for any strategy to be successful.
The work done during my stint with Godrej won awards by “Asia Retail Congress” and “CMO Asia Brand and Marketing Excellence Awards”.
Relevant areas of core strengths – Digital strategy in Search, Social, Mobile, User Experience on web and mobile, Analytics mapping on Search and Social channels, User journey management, SEM, Online Reputation Management, SEO, eCRM, Media planning and performance marketing.

Nandita Khaire

Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising. She managed an advertising agency for more than 25 years and now is a branding and marketing consultant. She is Brand Director at UJA, a global advisory and business consulting firm, where she is responsible for GTM strategies, marketing and branding advisory to international companies coming to India.
Her core competencies lies in developing branding and marketing strategies, design & aesthetics, brand building, having serviced various B2C and B2B brands (process, food, hospitality, wellness, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, infrastructure etc). She has a special interest in providing branding and marketing strategies to startups and social enterprises.

Mehul Gupta

Mehul Gupta is the young, dynamic Co-Founder & CEO of SoCheers. With both an analytical and a creative mind, he started SoCheers very young, which goes to show his merit and vision as a leader to see a prominent future in this industry and the persistence & passion to follow it through. Apart from growing the company in its capabilities from a small social media marketing agency to a multi-offering
Advertising & Marketing agency, over the last 9 years, he has also been able to maintain SoCheers’ independent status with pride and success, that too in a highly competitive market. The agency has charted a phenomenal growth under Mehul’s leadership, currently working with over 100 brands and having worked with 480+. In 2021-22, the organisation was successful in increasing its overall revenue
by a whopping 65%. Mehul earned an MBA in Technology from NMIMS, Mumbai in 2012. During this period, he interned with
J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency, where he serviced clients like Mahindra & Mahindra, CEAT Tyres, Lodha Real-estate Group, RPG group, etc.; and another internship with the Reliance Group ADA in their mobile number portability infrastructure team, which was a new addition to the Indian Mobile market back then. He was responsible for driving sales through social media platforms, alliances &
affiliates for Naaptol’s products at his first job at Naaptol.com as a Social Media Manager. Over the last couple of years, Mehul has spent energies in augmenting SoCheers’ creative capabilities by trying to blend crisp storytelling with the relevant and latest digital marketing technologies to build impactful, meaningful campaigns, which have given the agency an edge over the others. Campaigns like
The Family Man Job Hunt (Amazon Prime Video), Mirzapur S2 ‘Purvanchal Ke Samachar’ (Amazon Prime Video), Venom #ChocolatesMissing (Sony Pictures Entertainment India), Nickelodeon #YogaSeHiHoga (Viacom18 Pvt. Ltd.), BreastFeeding Week (MeeMee), etc. have not only gotten insane love from the audience but have also produced definite and bold results for the brands. The efforts put into these projects have also been validated with multiple award wins both on national and international stages.

Archana Tiwari Nayudu

Archana works at the intersection of creative storytelling, integrated communications and marketing along with project management. A journalist & storyteller at heart with a keen sense of what makes compelling stories along with data driven approach, her experience spans across print, television, digital content, on-ground events & marketing comms.

Archana is an entrepreneurial and creative leader with 18+ years of experience across multiple functions & sectors and has been honoured with ‘Woman of Excellence Award’ 2020-21 by Indian Achievers Forum. She was also invited by Rashtrapati Bhavan to curate and host Global Innovation Summit as a part of Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

She has always chased challenges and learnings in her career. The agile and ‘learning always on’ attitude towards life and livelihood has helped her transcend the boundaries of media and content roles with brands including upGrad, CNBC TV 18, The Economic Times, Network 18 Publishing, MoneyControl.com. She is presently working as Principal Director – Marketing & Communications at LTI (Larsen & Tubro Infotech)

Shrishail Deshnur

Shrishail is a marketing professional with over 18 years of experience across categories of consumer products, financial services and pharma.Currently, he heads the consumer marketing function at Cipla and is instrumental in spearheading the company’s largest consumer awareness initiative.In his previous stint, he was heading the marketing function for the stationery business at Pidilite. Earlier in his career, he has worked with Berger paints, ICICI Prudential, MetLife, and Kotak Life.Shrishail is a foodie and a self-proclaimed movie critic. He loves to drive and play cricket with his 9-year-old son during his free time.

Suman Varma

26+years of experience in partnering brands and businesses in India , with the WPP group in leadership roles – JWT , Rediffusion Y&R.

Experienced leader with a demonstrated history seeking consumer insights that lead in building brands and revenue growth. Known for passion, driving results and galvanizing teams to adapt to changing environments. A powerful communicator and an authentic, supportive leader .Skilled in Brand Management, Advertising, Design ,Market Rsearch and interest in CRM.

Have worked across categories on leading brands both multinational and local :
ITC , Surya Nepal, BAT Srilanka , GSK , Hamdard , Tata Steel , Emami , Big 92.7 FM, Zee TV , Pepsi, Airtel & USL ( Circuit work) , Dr Reddy , Jagatjit Industries, GPI, Tea Board of India, Coffee & Spice Board of India, Amway, IFFCO, Resurgent Rajasthan Summit , Unicef ,Videocon and all local jewellery brands of Bengal. I have worked across markets of India, Nepal, Srilanka, South Africa and Kenya for tobacco and health food products.

I am a member of Cherie Blair Mentor Alumini, , Mentoring in Business Beyond Boundaries programme & W4 and am on the Advisory Board for NGO’s.& work as an Independent Director with the Board of a Retail Jewellery brand, Speaker in many forums on subject related to brands/ advertising marketing/ women issues

Jatin Chhikara

An experienced marketer, strategist & creative thinker with over 15 years of multi-faceted experience of working as a brand strategist, advertiser, digital marketer, entrepreneur, project manager and process improver. Jatin has gained hands-on expertise to lead multi-disciplinary projects in digital transformation of brands, brand experiences & marketing strategies.

Saugata Bagchi

Saugata is a digital practitioner with 20+ years of experience in the marketing & digital domain.
As Global Head – Digital & Content, he leads web, social, performance media, marketing automation & comms design practices, delivering brand & business outcomes in sync with the digital behaviour & content consumption habits of the audiences.
Prior to Tata Comms, Saugata was at the helm of digital agencies at Omnicom (DDB) & WPP (GroupM) & loves working across industries – applying new technologies to create future ready marketing solutions.
Outside of work, he is an avid angler & home chef.

Varsha Ojha

Ms. Varsha Ojha is the Head of Marketing and Communications at Shemaroo Entertainment. A multi-disciplinary business and marketing leader, Varsha has around two decades of experience working in the Media & Entertainment industry and helps efficiently drive brand strategy, digital marketing and communication across all media platforms.

Varsha is one of the rare marketing leaders, who believes in the power of creativity in every aspect of business, and not just communication. She has been at the forefront of establishing Radio City and Mid-day as brands to reckon with by conceptualizing the brand positioning – ‘Rag Rag Mein Daude City…FM Bole Toh Radio City’ and ‘Mid-day, Made in Mumbai.’

She has been a leading force in launching the first ever interactive digital tabloid, Mid-day, a one of its kind innovation in the print industry during the pandemic reaching 10 cr readers amidst the pandemic. She played a pivotal role in developing the IPO campaign for Radio City that resulted in the IPO being subscribed over 40 times. Varsha has conceptualised numerous marquee properties as well as trade and consumer marketing campaigns during her stints with leading media houses such as Hindustan Times, Sony TV, Disney and Zoom TV.

Varsha is a recipient of multiple industry accolades for driving innovative marketing campaigns. These include five IRF awards, six Golden Mikes, Promax Gold, and three Limca Book of World Record titles. In her personal time, she likes to travel, play tennis and table-tennis, practice yoga and sing with her 7-year-old.

Avi Kumar

Avi Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Join Ventures. He leads global marketing for Join Ventures and its portfolio companies – IGP.com, IGP for Business and Interflora India.
Recognized among the Top 30 CMOs by IAMAI, Kumar brings over a decade’s experience in online business and marketing leadership roles to Join Ventures.
He is a digital eclectic recognized for converting data to consumer insights to market strategy for growth and has built large brands in the Tech, Content and CPG space. As the Head of SVOD and Brand Marketing for India’s leading OTT platform, ZEE5, he was responsible for the growth of D2C and B2B business through a host of multimedia campaigns and industry first innovations to establish the brand as the streaming platform of choice for millions of consumers in a short span of 3 years. Prior to ZEE5, Avi has led the marketing for India’s largest radio brand Big FM and was instrumental in the growth of Oriflame in India.

Priya Patankar

Priya Patankar is the Head of Communications at PhonePe. She has been with the company for over 5 years and has helped build the PR, content and CRM teams grounds-up. She comes with over 2 decades of experience building high performing teams across marketing, communications, CRM & PR across e-commerce, pharma, Edtech and Telecom companies. She is an avid reader and likes writing in her free time.

Shalmali S Desai

A seasoned marketing professional with 25+years of work experience across the FMCG and media industry with a deep understanding of content marketing, driving content subscriptions and ad monetizing. In my professional journey, significant time has been spent in product marketing and business partnerships, leading to pioneering work in creating and implementing the strategy for revenue streams for the content distribution platform.

Amlan Pati

He is a marketing leader with proven experience in building brands and teams with passion.

Amlan Pati (formerly with Realme as head of digital ) is now working with CavinKare. The Chennai-based FMCG major houses iconic brands like Chik, Nyle, Cavin’s, among over a dozen others.

Achievements: Recipient of “Marketer of the Year” at DIGIXX Award 2022, “Digital Person of the Year” Award at Drivers of Digital Awards 2020, “Marketer of the Year” Award at Masters of Modern Marketing Awards 2019. Have successfully led a Guinness World Record campaign and have won numerous awards for marketing campaigns. (SAMMIE, ET Brand Equity Shark Awards, DOD Awards, Exhibit Tech Awards & more).

Guneet Singh

Guneet believes “The true power of brands lies in improving people’s lives, in ways they never imagined.”

For over 20 years, he’s had the opportunity to be ‘delighting consumers’ at the heart of technology brands like – Google, Microsoft, and Samsung. Guneet’s strengths lie in truly understanding consumer needs, joining the dots with the most relevant brand benefits and wrapping it in an engaging story that builds massively impactful business strategies. Over the last 20 years, he has powered the presence of many global superbrands in APAC and has won over 30 awards in prestigious festivals like The Cannes, The PMAA, The Goafest, The APPIES, The Clio awards, The Mobby’s and the IDMA. Guneet has been recognized in the “Top 50 CMOs of India”, “APAC Digital Marketer of the Year”, “Marketing Professional of The Year” and is a frequent speaker at industry forums and startup events.

He is best known for the award-winning brand content Reunion, Google’s 1st brand campaign in India and one of the most successful campaigns globally. Widely recognized as a marketing & creative thought-leader in APAC, Guneet lives by the motto “don’t be ordinary”.

Bhakti Kandalkar

Have started my career from Ad-agencies in 2002 , in 2004 I got a break in Star plus, I have also worked with NDTV Imagine , Disney , Turner , India cast -Viacom International channels… from Broadcasting Channels To OTT platform ..this journey was interesting for me I have enjoyed each phase of my working career ….….i have learnt a lot from my previous Bosses and work.
Now It’s been nearly 3.9 years now since I’ve been handling ZEE5 Global Content strategy and Planning, and it’s been the most amazing experience to understand the need gaps of viewers in different countries and use this understanding to continuously improve the quality of decisions we make towards achieving our business goals. Having experience in Consumer insights in broadcast has also helped !

Mukul Kumar Sharma

Mukul Kumar Sharma is a media-tech leader shaping the future of entertainment & lifestyle content as the Chief Operating Officer of Pinkvilla, the country’s leading digital platform. With over 10 years of experience in actively scaling up digital content in the industry, his vision has helped the company adopt the most agile and forward-thinking processes and radically increase its reach.

Whilst spearheading Pinkvilla, Mukul is constantly enabling the company to capitalize on strategic opportunities and grow in every metric, right from digital presence, to revenues to partnerships. This approach has led the brand to generate 50M+ monthly website visits today, along with millions of Social Media followers.

His strategy is also about pioneering the most effective market practices to stay ahead of the changing times, as he continually oversees the brand’s evolving expansion into new genres and markets. A people’s leader, he is passionate about empowering the Pinkvilla team by providing them with just the right platform, to showcase their talents and ideas to facilitate holistic growth.

Jahid Ahmed

An astute Digital Marketing professional with over 14 years of experience in the BFSI sector. He has been instrumental in institutionalising Data driven Digital Campaigns, Mar-Tech and Transformation set ups across various BFSI organisations.

One of the early adopters of Content led marketing, he has used content strategies to drive brand salience and consideration
Currently heading Digital and Content Marketing at HDFC Bank where he looks after Online Acquisition ,Website innovation, Analytics, Social Media listening and Content marketing.

His Digital Mantra is to drive hyper personalised relevance in customer’s digital journey by seamlessly weaving Channel Orchestration, Design and Tech innovation

Vanda Ferrao

As the Head of Marketing at FreshToHome, Vanda is fueling growth by creating a strong brand image and building relevance for consumers to buy online.
Vanda has worked as a marketing leader for established organizations as well as startups including Lindt Switzerland, Britannia, and Licious. She has also driven growth from large national brands like GoodDay, Tiger, and NutriChoice and worked ground up at startups.
Vanda possesses a coveted mix of core FMCG skills and growth hacking expertise for scaling D2C startups. With a total experience of over 16 years, she is currently enjoying the challenge to revamp FreshToHome since the meat and seafood category remains largely unorganized.
A strong believer in gender equality and diversity, Vanda has been on the CIIs panel on women empowerment at the workplace.
Vanda has shared her insights on topics such as branding, user growth, retention, innovation, and category building.

Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta

A Digital immigrant, driven by passion, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy and Energize while bringing to the table a pedigree of 22 years across the spectrum of media – print, digital , mobile, event productions , some successful marquee pilot projects. Having worked across multiple functions – ad operations, business operations, content, strategy, sales, event design, media planning & buying, Ankoor has also learnt from the experience of having worked in different cultures and set-ups in national and international environments along with working at cross-functional roles. Ankoor is working with the vibrant and wonderful team at Arm Worldwide and driving the Content Marketing vertical.

Jay Gotecha

A MICA (Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmedabad) Alumni with 11 + years of Work Experience in the Media & Entertainment Business with companies such as Emmay Entertainment (Movie Production House), Digital Brands- JioSaavn (Music Streaming), WeChat – Tencent (Messaging) and media agencies viz. Group M & Percept.

During my tenure at Percept and Group M, I have worked on Cross Promotion Campaigns of brands like Godrej, Tata Teleservices, HUL, MTR, Pepsico, LG, ICICI Prudential with films such as Anjana Anjani, Fast and Furious, Kung Fu Panda, Zindagi Na MilegiDobara, Life of Pi, Agent Vinod, Nautanki Saala, Ice Age4, Student of the Year, Ferrari Ki Sawaari to name a few.

At WeChat and JioSaavn was responsible for all Entertainment and Music alliances with all major film production houses and music labels.

A brief stint at Parag Milk Foods (Gowardhan Ghee, GoCheese etc) allowed for me to learn the FMCG Business with leading Media for all brands and also as the brand manager for Gowardhan Curd.

Currently lead Marketing at Emmay Entertainment ( a production house owned by Nikhil Advani, Monisha Advani, and Madhu Bhojwani) having handled marketing and promotion for films like Marjaavaan, Batla House, Baazaar, SatyamevaJayate, Lucknow Central and a show for Netflix called Hasmukh. Upcoming projects include SatyamevaJayate 2, Indoo Ki Jawani, Mumbai Diaries 26/11, Bell Bottom to name a few.

Manav Sethi

20 years of learning packed experience managing & scaling up teams across product, sales, strategy, engineering, technology, marketing & communications in India & Malaysia. Still student of the game!

In most recent role launched India’s first OTT-SVOD platform ALTBalaji in 90+ markets globally in which Reliance Industries India (Reliance JIO) picked up 24.9% for INR 413.28 cr in July, 2017. Launched 22+ Original Shows with 4M+ paying users within 18 months of launch! Broke the notion that INDIA doesn’t pay for content!

Launched & scaled horizontal & vertical (grocery & furniture) online marketplace business to peak value of $400M in earlier role. Also launched SMB Lending platform and Mobile Wallet.

Exited alternate energy venture prior to that.

Founded India’s then largest online local search business in 2009 that got investment interest from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial.

Highlights:
Built platform as Product Head that powered search across Merchants, Deals, Classified & Products (commerce) with ONE keyword as product head (2014-15)
Experience managing ~USD 60M marketing budget; scaled omnichannel marketplace platform from 0-100M MAU; 1st sale to USD 400M annualised GMV within 2 Years of launch
Amongst top 3 buyers on Google, Facebook & Criteo in India (2015-16)
Implemented Adobe Marketing Cloud (biggest scale up in India)- 1:7 ROI and largest number of SKU in PLA feed. Experience scaling both Search & Display. For grocery repeat buys contributed 30%+ GSV
First in India to create commerce/search led videos with AIB, Rocky & Mayur, Vir Sanghvi, Vikas Khanna, Twinkle Khanna
Signed up Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Kangana Ranaut & Raju Hirani for Brand campaigns
Launched India’s first SVOD platform globally ($5M budget and team of 20)
Working experience in India, SEA and GCC countries 

Rohan Jain

Rohan is responsible for driving thebusiness operations for Bangla Regional Channel Sony AATH and Marketing strategy for SPN’s English Cluster, comprising Sony PIX and Sony BBC Earth.

He is a marketing professional withan expertise in Revenue Management, Brand Management, Customer Segmentation andDigital business. With over 15 years of extensive experience in consumer marketing, Rohan thrives in influencing consumer behaviour by understanding consumer lifecycle and building experiences that deliver on the brand promise.

Prior to joining SPNI, Rohan was with Vodafone Idea where he was leading marketing for the East region.

An engineering graduate from Shri GovindramSeksaria Institute of Technology and Science Indore (SGSITS), Rohan holds an MBA degree from IIM Lucknow.

Rohan has a passion for long distance running,with many marathons under his belt. He also likes to play squash and read about history and politics.

Radhika Shukla

Sandeep Singh

As the Chief Operating Officer for SingleInterface, Sandeep looks after business & operations across all products. He has a decade of strong entrepreneur experience and a deep
understanding of emerging media, retail & technology convergence. His energies are focused on making SingleInterface a leading marketing tech platform that focuses on driving the convergence between digital marketing & physical retail. His last stint was with Bira 91 as Vice President -Marketing (India & MEA). He joined the firm in 2016 as Director – Marketing & Alternate Channels. Over the next few years his deep understanding of building new economy brands & businesses and using a digital-first approach to marketing & distribution helped shape Bira 91 into one of the most loved brands in the country. An entrepreneur at heart, Sandeep began his professional career in 1999 when he founded Yankeedelhi.com. In 2004, he joined the Media Sales Team at rediff.com. In 2005, he co-founded Quasar, a full-service digital marketing services company. Quasar provided end toend digital marketing solutions to clients like Microsoft, Skoda, General Motors, Tata Indicom, Channel [V], Aviva Life Insurance, Monster.com, Makemytrip.com, and Kotak Group among others. The company was eventually acquired by WPP and merged with Group M. In 2011, Sandeep co-founded a digital native apparel brand FREECULTR. The brand, which started by selling only through online channels and later diversified into an Omni Channel presence with physical stores, pioneered the integrated retail format under Sandeep’s leadership.
An MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (Pune), Sandeep has successfully built & led organizations’ Digital Marketing, Consumer Brands & E-Commerce domains. During his free time, Sandeep likes to spend time with his family, play tennis, read (mostly non-fiction), and enhance his photography skills.

Amit Verma

Amit Verma, is an avid marketer with more than a decade of global experience in Performance & Growth Marketing, Brand Development and Pricing. He has an expertise in mining consumer insights and building brands through storytelling and advertising.

In his long spanning career, Amit has led marketing, digital transformation and growth for many brands in his previous assignments with Zoomcar, Noon, Shopclues, PayU, ZO, Maxus & Percept and considers himself as a professional who placates a method in the madness for the marketing and non-linear hyper- growth setup and currently is the Head of Marketing and Growth of India’s Largest Bike Taxi Platform,

 

Kaushik Chakraborty

Kaushik is a digital-first marketer with over 20 years of extensive cross-functional experience in marketing, digital transformation, online sales and service excellence. He has been at the forefront of the digital transformation journeys of organisations like Tata Capital & UTI Mutual Fund. He has set up digital businesses for Retail & Commercial banking consumers from scratch in various organisations and in his current role he is driving digital initiatives along with digital marketing at Tata Capital. Other organisations where he has worked in Sales and Service functions are Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank. He is a true blue BFSI marketer with rich and varied experience across NBFC, Consumer Banking, Asset Management and SME Banking spaces during his professional career.

 

My twitter handle – @KaushikC

Rajasekar KS

Speaker, writer and marketer, he has been recognised in India’s Powerful Influencers List 2020 by Adgully. Top 100 Content Marketers in the World ’18 (Express Writers USA). Adobe & Paul Writer Top 100 Content Leaders (2017 & 18) and India’s Most Influential Content Marketing Professional by World Marketing Congress (2017).

Has written on culture, behaviour and social media in ET Tech, BusinessWorld and BusinessLine. Published more than 200 articles in India’s leading newspapers.

Speaker at events including IAMAI digital summit, mCube Awards, PitchCMO Summit, Social Beat Digital Summit, NASSCOM and XIME, he occasionally writes for Economic Times Tech, BusinessWorld and BusinessLine. He’s also a jury at mCube Marketing Awards, Drivers of Digital Awards and Content Awards BestMediaInfo. 

Sai Narayan

Shivapada Ray

Aditi Anand

I am an award-winning consumer technology marketer with 14 years of experience in leading large-scale, iconic Global and Indian brands.

I have led teams across multiple Marketing sub-functions like Brand Strategy & Media, Digital Content & experiences, Consumer Insights, Retail, eCommerce, and Marketing Analytics.

I believe that marketing is the growth engine for any organization.

My values are consumer centricity, collaboration, meritocracy, and empowerment.

Throughout my career, I have been able to deliver stellar business results by blending data with creativity.

Ravindran Reddy

Sayan Banerjee

Sayan heads Digital Marketing at Finserv MARKETS.

Sayan comes with two decades of experience in developing products and connecting brands with consumers in the media and BFSI space.

Sheena Kapoor

Sheena is a senior sales & marketing leader with over 18 years of experience across financial services, media, real estate and management consulting. She’s currently heading Marketing & PR for Edelweiss Wealth Management, with over USD 18 billion of Assets under Advisory for India’s wealthiest clients and institutions. She was also looking after corporate marketing for Edelweiss Group and instrumental in building the sports association for the Group as Principal Sponsor Team India for Olympics and has managed brand ambassadors including late Irrfan Khan, Hima Das, Manika Batra, Rani and Saina Nehwal. She has led multiple award-winning brand campaigns and has bagged over 50 marketing awards for various initiatives.

Prior to this, she was heading Innovations for Times Group pan India and driving revenues through innovative, clutter breaking advertising solutions, scaling the revenues 20X in less than 3 years. She was also conferred the ‘Chairman’s Award for Excellence’ at BCCL.

In her previous stints, she was heading marketing for Artha Property, real estate startup of Times Group, where she set up the company as part of the co-founding team, having successfully launched over 50 residential projects. Before Artha, she was heading marketing for TimesofMoney, accredited with being ‘World’s No. I Online Money Transfer Portal’.

She has done her Brand Management Course from ISB and holds an MBA from SIBM. She has represented India at the International Relations Conference at Oxford on a full scholarship and is an All India Merit Holder. She’s also a seasoned speaker and juror at multiple industry forums.

Sean Davidson

Technology industry veteran with 25 years experience in marketing (field, product, corporate, digital, alliances) and communications (public/analyst/investor relations, social media, internal/external), with additional forays in business development and application implementation. Have lived in 7 countries (Singapore, USA, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada) and possess an expert view of Asia and Silicon Valley cultures. Started my career at a PR agency, and have since worked for everything from a start-up (that grew big), to top 5 services and software companies (TCS, Symantec, CA). Comprehensive experience leading demand generation, awareness and sales enablement programs, for technologies ranging from mainframe to AI. Passionate developer of high-performance, multi-cultural, matrixed teams who drive products, solutions, services into challenging markets and segments. Canadian/British/Irish citizen, Singapore permanent resident, life-long learner with good Mandarin skills and MBA (Ivey, Western U) done in Hong Kong.

Prasad Pimple

Prasad is a firm believer in the process of ideation – experimentation – learning fast – succeeding faster & scaling up cheap.

A Chemical Engineer from UDCT & MBA from JBIMS, Prasad has 19 years of experience in Digital business, brand & product management, customer acquisition, customer life cycle management, strategy, business planning and research across insurance, telecom, banking and engineering sectors.

Prior to Kotak Life, Prasad has worked in HDFC Life, Tata Docomo, Vodafone, ICICI Bank & Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Madhu Dutta

Sheena Kapoor

Sheena is a marketer with over 15 years of experience having held various leadership positions with Edelweiss Group and with Times Group for nearly 11 years across their media, real estate and financial services division.

She’s currently working with Edelweiss Group as VP Marketing, spearheading brand and corporate marketing initiatives for the group. She is instrumental in building the sports association for the Group as Principal Sponsor Team India for Olympics. She manages brand ambassadors including Irrfan Khan, Hima Das, Manika Batra, Rani and Saina Nehwal in the past. She has led award winning integrated brand campaigns including CWG & Asian Games 2018, SME Business Loans amongst many others. In 3 years with Edelweiss, she has bagged over 50 marketing awards for various initiatives.

Prior to this, she was heading Innovations for Times of India Group pan India and driving revenues through innovative, clutter breaking advertising solutions that include disruptive ads, fragrance issues, augmented reality app (Alive) and a plethora of creative uses of print and digital media. Most were award winning campaigns, bagging Gold & Silver at Abbys 2014 for Most Innovative Brand Campaign – Vaseline and for augmented reality app TimesAlive. The campaigns also won at prestigious INMA Awards for Best New Mobile Service and Best Idea to Create Profit Centre. She was also conferred the “Chairman’s Award for Excellence” at BCCL.

In her previous stints, she was heading marketing for Artha Property, real estate division of Times Group, where she set up the company as part of the co-promoter team, having successfully launched over 50 residential projects across South India. Before Artha, she was heading brand and communciation for TimesofMoney, the financial services division of the group, accredited with being ‘World’s No. I Money Transfer Portal’(ACNielsen).

By qualification, she has done her Brand Management Course from ISB, Hyderabad and holds an MBA from SIBM, Pune. She has represented India at the International Relations Conference at Oxford on a full scholarship and has won multiple awards, including Award for Innovation by TSCFM and ‘Innovator in Marketing’ at the International Women Leaders Forum.

Divya Dixit

As the Senior Vice-President, Marketing, Analytics and Direct Revenue for India and international markets at ALTBalaji, Divya Dixit plays a vital role in driving the digital platform’s vision of shaping its leadership in the fast-growing and dynamic OTT sector. She has remarkably leveraged her rich experience across OTT and broadcast media to build the brand, ALTBalaji.

Currently heading global marketing operations under the ALTBalaji umbrella, Divya brings with her 20 years of experience in marketing and brand building across industries — digital, broadcast, telecom and music. She has an impeccable record in launching brands in the sector of broadcast, telecom, music and OTT; rejuvenation of brands, consumer lifetime value journeys, creating revenue opportunities, product designing and designing sales currencies through consumer insights across her earlier stints. AT Zee Group, she managed OZEE and Ditto marketing and subscriber base and was part of the leadership team that launched ZEE5 and stabilized the business. At Percept, she has grown the digital base 100% YOY and Onground attendance 125% growth YOY via various marketing and ticketing opportunities. At Tata Docomo, she was part of the core leadership team that conceptualized the product proposition “Pay per second” and launched the brand thereby in the first year itself achieving 3X targeted subscriber base. She has also worked with Barista, the retail coffee chain in her earlier years and created the term “The Barista generation” across the country as a slogan!

Prior to joining ALTBalaji, Divya was at ZEE5 where she conceptualized & developed the brand ‘ZEE5 ‘and ‘ZEE5 Originals’ as well as launched the platform and multiple original shows. 

Prachi Mohapatra

A business-oriented marketer with a keen interest in listening to the customer. She works with a high-performance team of marketers, store experience designers and analysts.
From large-sized conglomerates to startups, her journey has been nothing short of an exhilarating ride. She puts her core out as initiating and successfully implementing mid-size business with a profitable bottom line.

Ayush Roy

Ayush is a creative professional with experience across diverse industries, ranging from media and marketing to product management. Currently at Dream11, Ayush leads the content division that analyses how users interact with the product and builds creative, data-driven solutions to aid user acquisition and retention. His experience within the sports industry extends beyond his current role, having worked in the past with sports media companies like Sportskeeda and Bleacher Report. Previous to his current role, Ayush also spent over 5 years at 22feet Tribal Worldwide, one of India’s largest digital agencies, where he led strategy and content-focused initiatives for a diverse set of brands.

Poonam Vijay Thakkar

Poonam joined- Globally Respectable Business Conglomerate- Aditya Birla Groups Financial Arm – Aditya Birla Capital in 2013. As a Marketing Leader in the capacity of a Business CMO she led entire gamut of this Portfolio for its 5 distinct lines of businesses under the listed entity “Aditya Birla Money Limited”. It included 1st Digital PFM Business of ABCL, Wealth Management, Broking, Real Estate Advisory, Corporate Treasury & SME Lending. In her recent elevation from a business role to a corporate one, she is strategically spearheading “Digital Communications, Transformation, Performance Analytics & Technology Innovation (L&D) for ABCL’s 12 BU’s.
Poonam has close to 18 years of successful experience in the field of 360 Degree Marketing and has learned at various stages of her career all facets of the Digital World. She is an award winning professional, who has led strategies providing focused & operational leadership in unique challenging situations with proven ability to quickly analyze key business drivers & develop productive marketing strategies. An entrepreneurial mindset fluid professional with cross-functional domain expertise in BFSI, Telecom, Media, Heavy Engineering, Lifestyle, Sports, Health & Wellness. A proactive, business first marketer, focused on consistently making an impact on business with innovative ideas. A specialist with robust surround marketing, digital & social media experience, successful in integrated disruptive innovations and setting up global best practices & processes boosting brand value led market share & revenue for the businesses.
A creative brain, had been associated with small screen & All India Radio. Poonam is a well-known Business Moderator, Anchor & an Internationally Certified Life Wellness Coach (ICF), keynote speaker in industry events & a Jury member for award shows. Her quest for quality is the prime variant that sets her apart from the rest.

Anil Kumar Singh

Anil Kumar Singh comes to Neo@ogilvy with more than 17 years of experience in digital advertising. currently working with neo@Ogilvy as a National Director of SEO. There he is Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision, and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads, supporting the Client Services team, and playing an active role in New Business opportunities.
He was previously India Head of SEO in Interactive avenues, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands . He had built SEO team & business from scratch and stabilised IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market working with major brands like ICICI BANK, Micromax, Cleartrip, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, GENPACT,Dishtv, Airtel and BookMyshow. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years.
Qualification : Master of Computer Science (M.Sc)
Honors and Awards :
Best SEO -India Digital Media Awards 2015 Exchange4Media & Jagran June 2015
Best SEO Category Award by Afaqs! At DIGITAL AGENCY AWARDS 2015 Afaqs! & Jagran.com August 2015

Imran Qadri

Marketing professional & Automobile Industry Expert with 11 years of successful track record in Brand Development, Product Marketing & Planning, Marketing Communication, Category Management, Marketing Operations, Strategy and Media Advertising. Outstanding performance in CFT leadership, Brand Communication, ATL/BTL, Product Development, Product Launches, Special Editions, Events & Sponsorship, Media Planning, Digital Content, Agency leadership, Celebrity management, Retail Marketing, Luxury & Sports Marketing, Business Planning & CRM. Currently heading Marketing & PR for Harley-Davidson India. Was associated with Nissan Motor India as Head – Marcom for Datsun brand. Prior was Sr. Group Product Marketing Lead & Country Chief Marketing Manager for Hatch, Sedan, Luxury SUV, Sports, Electric Vehicle & Connected Car(Intelligent Mobility) segments leading the product, pricing, Go To Market and project management strategy for Nissan India. Before Nissan, was Sr. Category Brand Head – Commuter motorcycles for World’s largest two wheeler manufacturer (Hero MotoCorp- formerly known as Hero Honda), taking care of brand development, marketing communication, strategy, digital content nationally for the 10-brands portfolio along with key corporate marketing and global business projects. Started career as Marketing Lead for North with focus on regional media, BTL activations, rural, sales support & CRM. Part of strategic projects as a CFT member/leader like CBU Business model, Intelligent Mobility, Scenario Planning, DMS, Dealer websites, Marketing Planning & Budgeting Software, QBR – Commonwealth Games, IPL, MTV Roadies, HIL, Hero World Challenge, FIFA, ICC, Employer Branding, National Dealer Conclaves, Auto shows, Factory Launches, International Marketing & CSR. An MBA in Marketing & Operations; Also a Mechanical Engineering Degree holder along with Executive programs in Digital Marketing & Leadership. Ad Awards Jury & Globally certified GT-R instructor

Sheena Kapoor

Sheena is a marketer with over 15 years of experience having held various leadership positions with Edelweiss Group and with Times Group for nearly 11 years across their media, real estate and financial services division.

She’s currently working with Edelweiss Group as VP Marketing, spearheading brand and corporate marketing initiatives for the group. She is instrumental in building the sports association for the Group as Principal Sponsor Team India for Olympics. She manages brand ambassadors including Irrfan Khan, Hima Das, Manika Batra, Rani and Saina Nehwal in the past. She has led award winning integrated brand campaigns including CWG & Asian Games 2018, SME Business Loans amongst many others. In 3 years with Edelweiss, she has bagged over 50 marketing awards for various initiatives.

Prior to this, she was heading Innovations for Times of India Group pan India and driving revenues through innovative, clutter breaking advertising solutions that include disruptive ads, fragrance issues, augmented reality app (Alive) and a plethora of creative uses of print and digital media. Most were award winning campaigns, bagging Gold & Silver at Abbys 2014 for Most Innovative Brand Campaign – Vaseline and for augmented reality app TimesAlive. The campaigns also won at prestigious INMA Awards for Best New Mobile Service and Best Idea to Create Profit Centre.  She was also conferred the “Chairman’s Award for Excellence” at BCCL.

In her previous stints, she was heading marketing for Artha Property, real estate division of Times Group, where she set up the company as part of the co-promoter team, having successfully launched over 50 residential projects across South India. Before Artha, she was heading brand and communciation for TimesofMoney, the financial services division of the group, accredited with being ‘World’s No. I Money Transfer Portal’(ACNielsen).

By qualification, she has done her Brand Management Course from ISB, Hyderabad and holds an MBA from SIBM, Pune. She has represented India at the International Relations Conference at Oxford on a full scholarship and has won multiple awards, including Award for Innovation by TSCFM and ‘Innovator in Marketing’ at the International Women Leaders Forum.

Rituraj Bidwai

A decade of experience in Marketing and Brand Communication with specialization in Digital.
Astute understanding of various digital marketing channels coupled with solid technical knowledge gives me an edge in implementing brand related campaigns derived from the overall business objectives. Data is an integral part of my work style ensuring a fair balance of execution and result KPIs, important for any strategy to be successful.

The work done during my stint with Godrej won awards by “Asia Retail Congress” and “CMO Asia Brand and Marketing Excellence Awards”.

Relevant areas of core strengths – Digital strategy in Search, Social, Mobile, User Experience on web and mobile, Analytics mapping on Search and Social channels, User journey management, SEM, Online Reputation Management, SEO, eCRM, Media planning and performance marketing.

Raja Chakraborty

A passionate consumer marketer and business enthusiast with 2 decades of experience across consumer
goods sector with companies like Pepsico, Bayer, Nerolac & Currently working as Business Director –
Luxury Grooming at Raymonds. He has played a key role in building PARK AVENUE as one of India’s
foremost Male Grooming brands at Raymonds. Apart from consumer marketing, he loves watching
movies in multiple languages

Angad Bhatia

Angad Bhatia is a part of the senior leadership team at Times Internet. He is the Founder of
MensXP and the COO of TIL’s emerging media track called Indiatimes Lifestyle Network.
At Times Internet, he founded the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network which includes
Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot etc. and led it through an explosive growth
phase, from 5 million to over 40 million unique users in 18 months. ILN is a youth and new
media collective that is built around the social web. In December 2016, Indiatimes.com was
ranked the world’s most engaged brand on Facebook ahead of Fox, CNN, Nytimes,
Huffington-Post, Buzzfeed, etc.

Gayatri Sundaram

Gayatri Sundaram is an experience enthusiast, vibrant content creator and marketing professional with
over 12 years’ across the entertainment industry. In her role at KidZania India as Head of Content &
Experience, she handles a key portfolio of driving customized experiences during the launch of two
facilities in India [Mumbai and Delhi NCR]. Her job is to create mindful and purpose-driven experiences
for brand and business amalgamation.
She has worked with Doordarshan in the films and marketing division, TBWA as a copywriter, At
Big FM she was responsible for the programming, show strategies and brand solutions. During
her tenure with Zee TV, she was largely handling reality shows for Zee Café and Zee Studio
alongside Innovations and AFPs for niche channels.
She practices “Adapt, Adopt, Evolve!”,as the mantra for success in content creation and
consumption. She loves travelling, reading, scuba diving and equipping new moms to tricks and
tips of motherhood. Even in her leisure she continues storytelling but to her toddler son.

Rohan Jain

Rohan Jain is responsible for driving the marketing strategy for SPN’s English Cluster,
comprising Sony PIX, AXN and Sony BBC Earth.
He is a marketing professional with an expertise in Product Management, Brand
Management, Customer Segmentation and Consumer Lifecycle Management. With over 14
years of extensive experience in consumer marketing, Rohan thrives in influencing
consumer behaviour by understanding consumer lifecycle and building experiences that
deliver on the brand promise.
Prior to joining SPN, Rohan was with Vodafone Idea where he was leading marketing for the
East region. Prior to that, he headed marketing for the Mumbai region, and has worked
extensively in improving internet penetration via consumer segmentation, pricing and
communication.
An engineering graduate from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science
Indore (SGSITS), Rohan holds an MBA degree from IIM Lucknow.
Rohan has a passion for long distance running, with many marathons under his belt. He also
likes to play squash and read about history and politics.

Nandita Khaire

Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from
Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising.
She managed an advertising agency for more than 25 years and now is a branding and marketing
consultant. She is Brand Director at UJA, a global advisory and business consulting firm, where she
is responsible for GTM strategies, marketing and branding advisory to international companies
coming to India.
Her core competencies lies in developing branding and marketing strategies, design & aesthetics,
brand building, having serviced various B2C and B2B brands (process, food, hospitality, wellness,
entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, infrastructure etc).
She has a special interest in providing branding and marketing strategies to startups and social
enterprises.
VISITING FACULTY
Over the last 15 years she has been invited by all the leading management and mass
communication institutes in Pune as a visiting faculty. Her area of expertise is Advertising
Management, Integrated Marketing Communications and Brand Management.
Visiting faculty to
Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications (SIMC) PG and UG
Symbiosis Institute for Business Management (SIBM)
PICT School for Information and technology management.
MITSOB
MIT School of Design
PICT School for Information Technology and Management
International School of Business and Media (PG)
School for Fashion Techonology (Karve Shree Shikshan Sanstha)
University of Pune’s Mass communications department
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Vishwakarma Institute of Management
Indira Institute for Communication Studies etc
BOOKS: AUTHORED
‘Integrated Marketing Communications’ for DY Patil University of Distance Learning
Co Authored ‘Advertising and Public relations’ for Symbiosis Centre for Distance Education
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
Conducted workshops on branding for women entrepreneurs under the Goldman Sach’s Women
Entrepreneurship training program conducted by ISB and SIIB.
Conducted workshops on ‘Marketing for SMEs’ under the aegis of Sakal Media group and Posiview
Consultants
She conducts creativity workshops / training programmes for industry professionals, corporates and
students. These training programs and workshops help to discover and build creative thinking.
AWARDS
1986 – President’s gold medal for the best children’s book ‘Mother Nature” for BAIF

1988 – Best poster design award by CEAD, Pune for poster on propagating agroforestry for BAIF.
1990 – Best packaging award by CEAD Pune for chocolate box for Baker’s Basket
2004 – Best Menu design for La Brasserie restaurant by the International Tourism Council
2009, 2010 – Best presented wine booth for Good Earth Winery – Upper Crust show (both years)
OTHER INTERESTS
Student and practitioner of BKS Iyengar School of Yoga
Currently writing a book on branding and marketing communications
Invited by NGO called SMILE run by Vandana Chavan (ex mayor of Pune city and currently Rajya
Sabha Member) to provide expertise in marketing and building the brand SMILE. SMILE is a
platform for women to showcase their handcrafts. These women come from economically weaker
sections of the society
Was invited to anchor the communications committee for ‘Branding Pune’ initiative by Mahratta
Chambers of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) and Janwani.
She is well-networked and is respected for her expertise and business ethics.
Professional site: https://sites.google.com/site/rembrandconsultants/
http://nanditakhaire.wordpress.com
http://www.linkedin.com/profile

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Manav Sethi

As Group CMO, Manav looks after both Eros Now and the studio business. He is responsible for
brand, consumer growth & retention, talent, trade and PR across both these businesses. In his
earlier role he was founder CMO for ALTBalaji, India’s first SVOD OTT platform which broke
the notion that Indians don’t pay for content.
In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across
Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and
a merchant lending platform.
At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search
platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. He was
also part of founding co worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion
Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.
In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped
telecom towers reduce their energy costs.
He has formal education in Management and Law.

Ryan Fernandes

Ryan is the Head of Marketing & E-Commerce at Pantaloons. As the CMO & Digital business leader, he plays a critical role in building out the Pantaloons brand strategy, strengthening digital marketing capability, building a strong insights agenda and accelerating the class leading customer loyalty program. He holds the mandate to scale-up and grow Pantaloons’ fashion e-tail business, on Pantaloons.com as well on leading fashion market places like Myntra, Flipkart Fashion, Amazon &Ajio.

Ryan has close to 20 years of rich experience across sectors ranging from Smartphones, FMCG, Financial Services and Retail with consumer focussed companies like Nestle, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Nokia, Microsoft and ABFRL. He has lived & worked in cities like London, Johannesburg, Dubai, Delhi & Mumbai and has held business responsibilities at a country, regional & global levels. In his career, Ryan has successfully built brands by leveraging traditional FMCG tools of consumer insight, mass media & product innovation whilst also driving the data analytics & digital transformation agenda forward

Prior to Pantaloons, he was the Global Head, E-Commerce & Go-to-market for Nokia Phones brand licensee HMDGlobal& was based out of the UAE. Ryan holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Madhavi Irani

Madhavi has been one of the founding members of Nykaa and has been instrumental in shaping
the content, communication and design strategy of the site
 In her current role she oversees multiple content rich offerings at Nykaa such as the digital
magazine – Beauty Book, the online interactive beauty forum powered by user generated
content – Nykaa Network, branded and expert video content – Nykaa TV, she also leads the site
curation, discovery and engagement metrics via Buying Guides, Monthly Stores and Routine
Finder
 Prior to Nykaa, she worked with a Hyderabad-based health and wellness portal,
www.wellinformed.in as Vice President, Content Management
 A veteran journalist with over three decades of experience spanning India and overseas, she has
worked in leading Indian newspapers including The Telegraph, Times of India, The Independent,
and The Economic Times, besides international organizations such as USAID, Africa Innovation
Foundation and International Women of Istanbul
 Madhavi did her post-graduate diploma in Journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass
Communication (1986) and Bachelor of Science (with Honors) from Lady Brabourne College,
Calcutta University and majored in Botany, with Zoology and Chemistry (1982-1985)

Vivek Bhargava

Vivek Bhargava is CEO, DAN Performance Group. A digital entrepreneur and one of the most respected digital evangelists in the country; Vivek heads all the digital performance agencies of Dentsu Aegis Network and is responsible for their growth and expansion of the DAN Performance Group through additional acquisitions in the performance space. A frontrunner in the digital revolution in India, Vivek believes ‘digital’ is much more than mere marketing medium – a catalyst and multiplier across every aspect of business. Prior to this, Vivek was the CEO at iProspect India, a part of the Dentsu Aegis Network. Vivek began his entrepreneurial journey in 1997 when he founded Communicate 2. The company joined hands with iProspect from the Dentsu Aegis Network in 2012 and led the new entity, iProspect Communicate 2, as Founder and Managing Director. The company was rebranded as iProspect India at the end of 2015 with Vivek as CEO until 2016, when he assumed the present position. DAN Performance Group includes iProspect India, SVG Media, Sokrati and DAN Consult. While iProspect India and Sokrati are leaders in digital performance business, SVG leads when it comes to digital marketing and DAN Consult is a consulting arm helping companies grow revenue using digital. Career highlights:
 Donned the role of an investor in the reality television show The Vault which funds innovative start-ups by promising entrepreneurs instantly. He has invested in companies like Foodebaba, Awesummly, Chimera, Eon Energy, Sarva Yoga, Neveshi Box.ai. Empowerji, Spinart etc
 TEDx speaker – has delivered two talks in the past on “How money can buy happiness” and “Happiness is a muscle”.
 Regular orator at global events such as ad:tech, SES, SMX, I-com and the Apex Digital conferences in India. Has also been invited for guest lectures by various institutes of repute, including IITs and IIMs.
 Co-Chair at SEMPO APAC and on the advisory board of industry bodies like ad:tech, DMAi and DMTI, he is also a member of Young Presidents Organisation and
Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) Mumbai.
 Has been awarded in individual capacity for invaluable contribution to the digital marketing fraternity on several occasions, most notably ‘Marketer of the Year’, and named one of the top 50 digital icons of India.
 Under his able leadership, iProspect India has won over 100 industry awards in India and globally.
 Owner of team Empowerji Challengers in the Ultimate Tennis Table league, the country's first-ever professional table tennis league.
 Co-Owner of Mumbai Games team “Flying Falcons” which won the Gold in Season 1 and owner of team Mumbai Super League team King Pong, which also won gold in the Season 1.

Sarvesh Bagla

Sarvesh, an avid reader and a Digital Marketing expert, founded Techmagnate in 2006. Under his leadership the company has distinguished itself as a provider of high quality and ethical SEO services. He takes great pride in having grown Techmagnate into a globally competitive brand.
 
1. Masters Degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh where he was awarded the Kennametal Fellowship for outstanding academic performance and research work.
2. Invited as a Speaker at the CMS Asia 2019, in Mumbai
3. Featured as a Digital Marketing expert on India Ahead News TV channel
4. He has been instrumental in the setting up and growth of several start-ups
o Started as a Consultant to Baggout (a portal for urban women covering AZ of fashion, beauty and
lifestyle) which led to a formal Partnership between Sarvesh & Baggout moving ahead
o Co-founded  WFM (Windows & Façade – An online marketplace for information & shop for windows,
façades and fenestration) taking care of Technology & Digital.
o Co-Founded FRed – Field Reporting Software helps businesses track their field force and manage their field operations.
o Acquired BlogX (India’s largest Blogging Conference and “X” Factor Blogging Community with direct access to bloggers and influencers across niches) organized 2 successful yearly mega Events of Bloggers & Influencers (more than 500 attendees) in New Delhi.

 
Some of Techmagnate’s Awards and Accolades under Sarvesh
 
1. Awarded Best Content in a Digital Campaign by M-Cube Awards 2018
2. Awarded Best Performance Driven Mobile Marketing Campaign by M-Cube Awards 2018
3. Ranked amongst the top 5 App Marketing Companies globally by Clutch in 2018.
4. Awarded Best SEO Campaign by Drivers of Digital 2017
5. Featured as the best company to work in by CIO Review Magazine in 2017.
6. Been a GOOGLE PREMIER PARTNER since 2017
7. Ranked amongst the top 5 SEO Companies in India by Silicon India in 2015
8. Consistently featured amongst the Best Search Marketing Companies over TopSEOs since 2008 in the
following categories:
 BEST SEO in India
 BEST Integrated Search Marketing Company (SEO and PPC)
 BEST SEO Reseller
9. Recognized as the SEO and PPC Company of the year for 2014 by CIO Review

Radhika Shukla

Radhika heads the Business Development for Times Internet. She is responsible for Content acquisition and Distribution through Strategic Partnerships. She launched French media venture News Republic’s business in India, and led its acquisition by Cheetah Mobile at $57 Mn and later to ByteDance at $86 Mn respectively. As the Head of
Digital Products, she led digital initiatives & marketing efforts for one of India’s oldest and most reputed media outlets, The Hindu. She has worked in different roles across various sectors like Telecom, IT , Media & Internet for last 15 years . She is an avid marathoner , open water swimmer and deep sea diver.

Nitin Naresh

Nitin leads one of India’s largest digital-first marketing communications agencies, Magnon\TBWA, in the capacity of its Managing Director. In March 2014, Nitin became one of the youngest multinational agency Managing Directors
in the history of Indian advertising. The agency he leads is part of the Fortune 500 Omnicom Group, and is an integral arm of TBWA, a global top-10 advertising network. While leading the award-winning agency, Nitin loves to stay hands-on with the business. He has directly led winning numerous key relationships for the agency including- Suzuki, Michelin, Standard Chartered Bank, UNICEF, Sony, Hyundai, Daikin, Valvoline, Hilton etc. His deep understanding of the digital medium and the ability to adapt & align in the ever- evolving advertising domain has resulted into creative disruption for numerous brands. As part of his zeal to give-back, Nitin is associated with several industry & academic forums including IMT Institutes, DMA ASIA ECHO Awards and Silicon India. He is also on the advisory panel of several start-ups in the digital marketing & advertising domain including
The Higher Pitch, Nine Triangles and RefEarn. A Google certified mobile advertising expert and an alumnus of Omnicom University, at heart, he remains a self-proclaimed auto-expert, Schumacher cult follower and a thorough
foodie!

Kumuda Rao

Building brands and creating brand legends is what Kumuda believes her raison d'être in advertising is. And that’s what she’s done over the last couple of decades.From Mudra DDB, to Ogilvy, Y&R and Leo Burnett, she has worked on almost every category for mega clients such as P&G, Colgate, General Mills, Fiat, Heinz and Amazon across the Asia-Pacific region. Her iconic ‘God’s Own Country’ campaign for Kerala Tourism turned this Indian state into abrand of its own. She launched one of India’s most memorable campaigns for P&G’s Tide. As
the Regional and Global Creative Director for Rejoice Shampoo, she developed Effie award-winning communication through music marketing.She has won nominations and awards both nationally and internationally. She was on the
Clio 2019 Jury for Branded Entertainment and Content. At Ad Stars, 2019, she was part of the Final Jury for Print & Design and the President of the Young Stars jury. Earlier she was the President of the Print Jury for the Lisbon Ad Fest. She has directed ad films for the Indian and US market. She runs a beach hut resort in Goa and has just kick-started an online platform for part-time professionals called ‘Halfful’. But her pride and joy remains all the
creative people she has mentored. All are now creative leaders – each one building brands and creating brand legends of their own.

Priyadarshi Banerjee

Priyadarshi Banerjee is a cross functional media & marketing strategist with a decade’s experience having worked across multiple functions in the publishing industry – including Consumer Marketing, Retail Sales, Digital Brand Solutions, Content and Audience strategy, Circulation Sales & Distribution, CRM & Analytics, E-commerce, Creative Strategy and Campaign Management. He has spent over 10 years working for global publishing brands like Readers Digest and National Geographic in India and Singapore, where he looked after their Direct-to-Consumer, International Licensing and Merchandising Businesses.

Priyadarshi has also had a short stint in the business of Advertising, where he worked in the area of Aviation, Lubricants, BFSI and FMCG brands specializing in running consumer & trade loyalty programs. His educations background includes prestigious names like St. Xavier’s College Kolkata and IMT Ghaziabad. In his current role with Worldwide Media Pvt Ltd, Priyadarshi handles a unique dual portfolio of being a product marketer and a digital brand solutions strategist, championing both traditional and new media causes for the company, by focusing on print readership growth, as well as digital ad revenues.

Priyadarshi is an empiricist to the core, a firm believer in the new media revolution and consumer evolution theories, apart from being a part time musician and an avid traveler.

Shrishail Deshnur

Shrishail is a marketing professional with over 18 years of experience across categories of consumer products, financial services and pharma.Currently, he heads the consumer marketing function at Cipla and is instrumental in spearheading the company’s largest consumer awareness initiative.In his previous stint, he was heading the marketing function for the stationery business at Pidilite. Earlier in his career, he has worked with Berger paints, ICICI Prudential, MetLife, and Kotak Life.Shrishail is a foodie and a self-proclaimed movie critic. He loves to drive and play cricket with his 9-year-old son during his free time.

Adityan is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years of experience across traditional and digital media and communication. He has been a specialist at launching brands for a large part of this time having worked on launches for brands ranging from Jio, Mercedes-Benz, Hasbro, Tata Cliq, Tata Motors, Lodha, Parle Agro, Skoda, Jeep, Anheuser-Busch InBev to name a few.

The work he’s done across these and other brands has won him over two dozen honours local and global and has got him listed in 30 under 30 and 40 under 40 marketing lists in the past.

Prior to this, he was at the NBA where he was the lead for content and distribution partnerships. He led the licensing of NBA rights to Star India and then most recently to Viacom18. He also licensed the NBA 2K League (esports) rights to Loco through 2 cycles, created their first digital weekly basketball analysis show, led the rollout of their first branded content property (which won 2 Promax awards) and signed a partnership with the national broadcaster for non-live content.

He is currently part of the global brand team at BYJU’S where he heads social media, digital brand marketing and brand partnerships across geographies. His focus is to build the brand’s personality and build brand love on digital platforms.

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Amiya Swarup

Amiya Swarup Heads Marketing Advisory and is Partner for Ernst & Young. He has nearly two decades of experience in fostering collaboration within the intricate web of marketers, media agencies, martech partners, and media houses, building a better working world

Rachna Kanwar

Aditya Menon

Ajey Maharaj

Ajey Maharaj leads Corporate Communications and PR at Fortis Healthcare Ltd, leveraging over 30 years of experience in Corporate Communications and Marketing Communications. His expertise extends to internal and external communications, crisis management, media engagement, public advocacy, CSR, and building corporate reputation. Ajey is known for his exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to develop collaborative relationships, alongside strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.

His tenure in corporate communications has been decorated with several accolades, including the ‘Corporate Communications Professional of the Year 2021’ and ‘Top 100 Influential Game Changer’s award’ for multiple years ( 2021, 2022 and 2023) from Exchange4media and Business World Group. He also received the ‘PRO of the Year Award 2009’ from the Media Federation of India and the ‘Media Corporate Communications Man of the Year 2010-11’ from The Institute of Economic Studies.

At Fortis Healthcare, Ajey’s role encompasses strategic media and PR planning, integrated communication execution, enhancing corporate image, and crisis management. Additionally, Ajey contributes his expertise as a board member to several Fortis entities, including the Fortis CSR Foundation, Fortis HealthStaff Limited, Malar Stars Medicare, Fortis Health Management (East) Limited, and Fortis Cancer Care Limited.

Before joining Fortis, Ajey held significant positions in notable organizations such as Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, Bharti Tele Ventures Ltd., Reliance Energy Limited, Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., and Steel Authority Of India Limited. His academic qualifications include a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from AIMA, New Delhi, Bachelor of Arts from Hindu College, University of Delhi and completed his AISSCE at Air Force Bal Bharti School, Lodi Road, New Delhi.

In addition to his professional achievements, Ajey is an accomplished athlete, having represented India in basketball at various master international events and participating in International Cricket Sixes Tournaments. His athletic accomplishments complement his dynamic corporate communications career, where he has established a legacy of robust media relations and corporate brand enhancement.

Amitabh Biswas

Over the last 18 years, Amitabh Biswas has worked in the field of Brand Management and Business Consultancy across Fortune 100 companies to shuddh Desi companies in Advertising, Telecom and Television. He has practiced, developed and innovated across every specialization of Marketing Communications. With a deep first-hand insight of Indian consumers ranging from BPL to global icons, he has seen up close how brands are built, nurtured and disrupted to catapult into newer orbits. A regular jury member for Indian and International Content and Marketing Awards competitions, he also co-founded a startup manufacturing India’s first street-legal chopper motorcycles.

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Anshuman Chkravarty

Brand Management and Marketing Communications practitioner with experience in working in India and international markets (Asia & Europe), with exposure in B2C & B2B domains. An MBA in Marketing & Post Graduate in Journalism & Mass-comm., with over 20 years experience in strategizing and executing brand launches, re-positioning strategies, media planning and buying, internal and external communication, social & digital marketing, PR & reputation management, crisis communication, events and celebrity management & supporting financial PR & IR.

Bhaskar Majumdar

Charu Malhotra

Expertise in Brand Rejuvenation and brand transformation | 20 years of success in conceiving, conceptualizing & implementing brand strategy to fuel market presence & drive revenue |voracious appetite for triggering brand growth with marketing campaigns

Karan Sabde

Kavita Vyas

Madhumita Phukan

Madhumita Phukan is a Marketing, PR and Corporate Communications professional with over 19 years of experience in various industry verticals. Madhumita is currently working with Tech Mahindra as the Global Marketing Head for AI Businesses. Prior to Tech Mahindra, she worked with Concentrix as Associate Director, Marketing and with IBM as a Brand & Communications Leader – India/South Asia for Global Technology Services Client Innovation Centres, Labs, Social Media, CSR, Crisis Management.
She is an alumnus of MICA, IIT Delhi Management School, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Amity School of Communications and Guwahati University. Besides, she is also an independent Blogger. She loves to write about her personal experiences, short stories, different social issues, opinion articles and review various products and services. Many of Madhumita’s blogs, poems, articles and stories have been published in different portals and publications e.g, Women’s Era, Business World, Assam Tribune, The Sentinel, StoryMirror, BeyondClassrooms etc.
Madhumita won many pan India Blogging Awards, and she was among the TOP 5 Bloggers in India in WIN 2015 and also, she won National Award in All India Cartoon Contest, 2003.
Madhumita is also the Communication Chair for IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Market, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction and IEEE Sustainable Development Platform Program.

Mayank Prabhakar

A Core Business leader with a Deep understanding of the products, marketing, Sales & consumer.. He is called as the “Go Getter” who deals in hardcore numbers and assure that every Penny spends attributes to a Business goal & a value for consumer. A Highly Agile Marketer with great ability to adapt with the changing trends of Digital Marketing.
He started his carrier at the age of 22 and assured that he has a deep hands on experience across Business lifecycle & he acquired a great experience in across domains like:
> Product development & Management, Brand Building, Digital Marketing, Establishing Ecommerce & D2C Businesses, Content & Influencer Marketing, Consumer Acquisition & Retention, Leadership Skills with Team Management. A complete Entrepreneur stints.

In this passionate 18yrs of professional journey, he has been rewarded with multiple excellence awards in every organization worked in;
 One97 (paytm) : Best Sales person of the year
 Times of India: Chairman Excellence award
 Cheil/Samung: Most innovative idea person, recognized globally.,
And have recently received the prestigious award of Business world marketer 40under40.

An extra ordinary individual with a blended experience of working in a Startup , Leading Media Houses , Aggressive & Innovative Media Agencies , leading Brand Side of a highly competitive market of smartphones, he has gained & adapted an diversified approach, growth Path & organization cultures.
With such a great Mix of Sales, products & marketing he has worked with over 70 Brands & 500+ successful marketing campaigns.
He is now in working with vivo India Pvt Limited as General Manager, Head of Digital Marketing , which is a market Leader is the Smartphone Industry.

Neelima Burra

Neelima Burra is the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Luminous Power Technologies. At Luminous, she is steering the company onto strategic innovation and business transformation pathway for propelling the organisation to greater market dominance in the energy space. In a career spanning over 20 years, Neelima has emerged as the leading voice in Indian business landscape. She has been recognized as a top influential women leader in India by Femina as well as amongst the 100 Most Influential Marketing Leaders by the World Marketing Congress.

Neelima has consistently driven organisations towards business excellence in diverse sectors, including Hospitality, FMCG, IT & Consumer Electronics, OTC, and Consumer Durables. Her extensive experience encompasses both the Indian market and specific markets across Asia. Before joining Luminous, she was at the Oberoi Group, as EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, successfully leading its business revival amidst Covid-19 challenges. She was also the Co-founder of Ganymede Business Ventures, spearheading the world’s largest ‘Food on Street’ service chain. Her previous experiences include managing leadership positions and key roles in HP, Cargill, Usha International, Whirlpool Corp and Britannia.

With her profound understanding of strategy, marketing, sales, and operations within the consumer goods space and services industry, Neelima is playing a pivotal role in transforming the brand while driving growth and profitability. With sustainability being a subject close to her heart, she is known driving organizational restructuring and for implementing ROI-driven conscious business strategies.

Beyond her professional achievements, Neelima nurtures a deep passion for gardening and embarks on solo travel adventures. Her love for food, particularly street food, inspired her to launch her own food tech startup. As a mother to a daughter and proud owner of two delightful pet dogs named Bruno and Kiro, she finds immense joy and fulfilment in nurturing her loved ones.

Sumeet Pahwa

Shweta Srivastava

Digital evangelist and Marketing professional having more than 18 years of diverse experience at various organizations in making strategies, plans and driving execution for achieving business goals. Currently Steering the digital and Omni-Channel landscape of Dr Reddys globally as Head of Digital and Omni Channel Marketing for global markets. Developing the digital strategy and roadmap. Responsible for the definition & implementation of strategy across Countries, Collaborating with stakeholders globally for various verticals and businesses and integrating relevant touchpoints throughout the customer decision journey. Have worked with companies like Philips, DuPont, GroupM, Hindustan Times, Indiamart etc. in the past.

Various Industry awards for my work and individual recognitions are –

 Global Woman Leader Award 2023 and World Women Leadership Award 2020 by World women leadership congress

100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders 2019, CMO Asia

 BBC Knowledge Women Leadership in Industry Award 2017

 ‘Woman Super Achiever in Digital and Social in Asia’ in 2014 by CMO

 Most Influential Digital Media professional 2015 and 2018 by World Marketing Congress,

 Adobe Content100 Brand & Content custodians in 2017.

 Best Digital Marketing Professional’ Mobby’s award in 2013

Shobha Vasudevan

Shobha Vasudevan is an industry stalwart with an extensive experience of over 23 years. She currently heads the communication strategy for Dell Technologies India’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) – one of the largest portfolios of the company in the market. Previously, Shobha has also successfully spearheaded communications strategy for several IT and consumer giants such as Microsoft and Canon.

Following EMC’s merger with Dell in 2015, Shobha has successfully shaped and driven integrated enterprise marketing communications campaigns for Dell Technologies in India as a front runner in using new age communication tools to create a better impact for the brand. Under her guidance and encouragement, Dell Technologies has been able to break the barriers of technical B2B tech communication to emerge as a disruptor in meaningful conversations around the industry wherein Dell Technologies’ spokespeople have been established as thought leaders in India.

Additionally, Shobha is a graduate in Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University with a Business English Communication level 2 certificate from Cambridge University.

Anil Gurnani

Devang Mehta

Gaurav Soni

Jiteen Aggarwal

Madhavan Sekar

Rubeena Singh

Ruchika Vyas

Shalu Zala

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.

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.

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. 

Sanjay Santwan

High calibre, award winning media professional with over two decades of experience across media. Skilled at working across multiple platforms and with international teams. Experienced at building teams and motivating them to contribute to improvements in work-flows and processes to advance commercial success. Strong aptitude for maximizing creative contribution of teams to boost innovation. Accomplished in leading change initiatives and proficient in project management. 

Specialties
Commercials, On-Air Promos, TV Content, Digital Content, Marketing Innovations, Operations Management, Creative Strategy, Team Building.

L. Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan is a Digital management professional with more than 18 years experience starting up Digital Businesses for Media companies in India. He has worked for leading media players in India viz. Mid-Day Multimedia in Mumbai, ABP group in Kolkata and part of the startup team of Publicitas Digital in India. At present he is with ABP News Network since 2008 where he has laid the foundation of the Digital Business in the organization.

He has a Masters degree in Physics and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management. He is a keen Yoga buff.

Madhavi Irani

Madhavi, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa, has Senior-level Content Management experience with start-ups, specializing in beauty, health and wellness. A founding member of India’s largest online beauty e-commerce company Nykaa.com, Madhavi also has extensive local and international experience, specifically with US-based health aid agencies in Africa and international NGOs and healthcare insurance companies. Besides working with various newspapers in The Times group in Mumbai, she has also worked as a Health and Wellness Consultant with corporates offering customized health and disease management programs and newsletters.

Specialties: Content Management, Start-ups, Health Counseling, Coaching, Disease Management, Writing

SMITHA RANGANATHAN

Prof Smitha S Ranganathan has over 16 years of experience as a key account influencer and brand communication specialist with a keen interest in focused marketing communications. She has donned various hats in agency environments ranging from account management, brand strategizing to business development. Her doctoral thesis is in the area of marketing and relates to brand choice.

o Experienced in facilitating Post Graduate and Executive level programs to global audience

o Enthusiastic adopter of newer pedagogical tools for teaching. 

o Keen Contributor of editorials to top business publications. 

Current Engagements 

o Visiting Professor – S P Jain School of Global Management; May 2017 Onwards

o Adjunct Faculty – IBS Business School Bangalore; July 2012 Onwards

o Chief Story Teller – SSR Brandlooms; August 2015 Onwards

o Program Director – Center for Public Health and Awareness; October 2014  Onwards 

o Honorary Program Director – ANSWER (Ayurveda for NeuromuScular WEllness and Reinforcement); November 2015 

ADITI SHRIVASTAVA

Aditi is part of the founding team at Pocket Aces, a Sequoia Capital-funded, new age socially-distributed, multi-format, digital entertainment company making highly engaging content for the millennial audience via its channels FilterCopy, Dice Media, and Gobble. Aditi also advises Intellecap, where she set up the Intellecap Impact Investment Network, the world’s largest angel network investing in for-profit businesses, dedicated to creating a positive social impact across India and East Africa. She has worked closely with entrepreneurs, advising them on their business models and growth strategy.

Prior to joining Intellecap, Aditi spent over 5 years at Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in quantitative equity research, trading and portfolio management. Aditi graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is a CFA (USA) charter holder, a Shaper in the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Mumbai Hub, and a TiE Mumbai Charter Member.

She currently serves on the advisory boards of Jibu, an affordable clean drinking water enterprise in East Africa, and Impact Business Leaders, an organization dedicated to grooming more talent for the impact space. Aditi is passionate about problem solving, dance, and travel. She calls Kuwait (where she grew up) and Mumbai (where she currently resides) home.

SANJAY SANTWAN

High calibre, award winning media professional with over two decades of experience across media. Skilled at working across multiple platforms and with international teams. Experienced at building teams and motivating them to contribute to improvements in work-flows and processes to advance commercial success. Strong aptitude for maximizing creative contribution of teams to boost innovation. Accomplished in leading change initiatives and proficient in project management. 

Specialties
Commercials, On-Air Promos, TV Content, Digital Content, Marketing Innovations, Operations Management, Creative Strategy, Team Building.

RAVI DUBEY

Over 15 years of client and agency-side business experience in Digital Marketing. 

Started his career as web analyst with the core function of search engine optimization, currently, Ravi is Co-Founder of digitalF5 Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. with responsibility for Business Planning, New Product Development, and Training. 

Before digitalF5 Ravi worked in Hungama Digital Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. as Group Manager. Other companies – Web18, Indigo Consulting & Atlogix Software.

Area of Expertise: Digital Marketing, E-Commerce

MADHAVI IRANI

Madhavi, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa, has Senior-level Content Management experience with start-ups, specializing in beauty, health and wellness. A founding member of India’s largest online beauty e-commerce company Nykaa.com, Madhavi also has extensive local and international experience, specifically with US-based health aid agencies in Africa and international NGOs and healthcare insurance companies. Besides working with various newspapers in The Times group in Mumbai, she has also worked as a Health and Wellness Consultant with corporates offering customized health and disease management programs and newsletters.

Specialties: Content Management, Start-ups, Health Counseling, Coaching, Disease Management, Writing

MANAV SETHI

Manav Sethi leads ALTBalaji as the Chief Marketing Officer. He launched this platform in April 2017 and oversees the company’s overall communication strategy in India and internationally.

In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.

At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. While at Reliance, he also worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.

In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.

He has formal education in Management and Law.

UDAY SODHI

Uday Sodhi has been heading the digital and new media business at SPN for the SonyLIV
platform since 2014.
SonyLIV is SPN’s premium Video on demand (VOD) service providing multi-screen
engagement to users on all devices. Launched in January 2013, it enables users to discover
22 years of rich content from the network channels of Sony Pictures Networks’ Pvt. Ltd.
SonyLIV refreshed its brand identity in December 2017. The renewed brand ethos “We LIV
to Entertain” promises to make SonyLIV the ultimate destination for rich entertainment

across genres, screen types and audience preferences. With the best sporting action line-
up, this year from cricketing extravaganza of India series, biggest football tournament like UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa League, FIFA Under 17 Football World Cup along with other adrenaline sports like WWE, Moto GP, SonyLIV is all set to continue to enthrall its audience.

At SPN, Uday is responsible for driving SPN’s OTT platform’s growth trajectory and revenue
streams of the new media initiatives by broadening the networks’ horizons to digital and
mobile businesses and has over 27 years of experience across varied broadcast and digital
business verticals.

VIKAS MEHTA

Vikas has worked with the global MullenLowe Group since 2006 in various leadership roles. At the age of 31, he was named Managing Director – Lowe Viet Nam, making him the youngest country head in the global network. In 2011, he was named Regional Growth Officer for Lowe Asia-Pacific, where he managed businesses | agencies working across 15 countries.
He moved to India in 2013 to head marketing for MullenLowe Lintas Group as the first CMO in Indian advertising. In 2017, he was named CEO, PointNine Lintas – an Independent Omni channel agency that offers advertising (on and offline), digital marketing & transformation, activation, experiential & shopper marketing, social media, PR and reputation-management – all under one roof.
Vikas believes in ‘omni-channel’ approach to building brands (vs. multi-channel) where delightful user experiences are built seamlessly around user-journeys.
Besides being guest faculty at premier management institutions such as IIMs, IIT and, NMIMS, Vikas has been a speaker at over 30 national and International forums that include Ad Tech, Asia Pacific Tambuli Awards – Philippines, AMES – Singapore, Effie – India, Singapore, APAC and many more. Papers authored by him have won over 100 regional and global awards on marketing effectiveness including numerous ‘agency of the year’ titles. Prior to joining MullenLowe Group, he has worked with Publicis and Leo Burnett.