India Content Leadership Awards and Conference - ICL 2019

GAGAN SINGLA

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

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

PEEYUSH BACHLAUS

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

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

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

SATYAJIT SEN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guest Lecturer at prestigious institutes like IIMT ,MICA

SRINIVAS JAIN

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

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.