Tim Andree
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK & (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBER OF THE BOARD, DENTSU INC.)

Tim Andree is the Executive Chairman, Dentsu Aegis Network & Executive Vice President; Member of the board, Dentsu Inc. He comes with the experience of working with some of the greatest brands like Toyota, BASF and Canon. As one of the top leaders in the organisation, he has been instrumental in both organic growth of Dentsu. Tim has been named “Agency Innovator” by The Internationalist and is a frequent speaker at major industry events and universities He is also the co-author of The Dentsu Way.

Geetu Verma
Executive Director-Foods& Refreshment, Hindustan Unilever Ltd

Geetu Verma is on the Management Committee of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. as the Executive Director-Foods& Refreshment. She joined Hindustan Unilever in Nov 2011 and is responsible for HUL’s Food & Refreshment portfolio comprising the Brooke Bond Tea range, Bru Coffee, Kwality Walls ice creams, Kissan and Knorr range of packaged foods. Prior to HUL, she has over twenty five years of marketing, business and innovation experience in leading FMCG firms – P&G, Seagram, PepsiCo in India and Europe.

Michael Wall
Global CEO Lowe & Partners

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Sagnik Ghosh
Vice President & Head Marketing at Axis Bank

Sagnik Ghosh has a complete mix of 360 degree marketing, communication, media & brand strategy planning experience. He has worked across advertising agencies, as well as the client side. At the client end, he has worked in financial services and media and from agency side he has worked across various categories including FMCG (food, beauty), telecommunication, alternate energy and retail. Before joining Axis Bank, Ghosh was Sr. Brand Strategy Planning Director, Grey Worldwide, Sr. Brand Planning Director, TBWA\India. He has also had stints as Vice President, Marketing at HSBC Asset Management India and Marketing Manager, Franklin Templeton Investments.

Vikram Sakhuja
Global CEO, Maxus

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Mike Cooper
World Wide CEO, PHD

Mike Cooper joined OMD Asia Pacific as a CEO in 1997. Mike comes with a background of working with brands like Saatchi & Saatchi and CNBC Asia. He launched PHD in 2005; and within a year it was awarded “Regional Agency of the Year for Asia” by Media Magazine. In 2007 he became the CEO of PHD Worldwide. Today, PHD boasts of over 70 offices in 62 countries of the world and reputed clients like Porsche, Unilever, Starbucks, Gap, Cadbury, etc. Under Mike’s leadership, PHD has become one of the fastest growing and most awarded media agencies of the world.

Vishnu Mohan,
CEO, Havas Media Group, Asia Pacific

Vishnu took up the responsibility of setting up the media network from scratch for the Havas Group in Asia in 2005. The youngest international network has continued to grow aggressively under his watch. Today as the CEO of Havas Media, Asia Pacific, he oversees all of the 40 offices in traditional, digital, sports and entertainment marketing across 25 cities in the region running under the brand names of MPG, Media Contacts, Havas Sports & Entertainment and Mobext. Starting his advertising career in early 90s with Y&R in India, where he looked after the Colgate Palmolive business, he moved to Singapore in 1995 to work with Euro RSCG. Over the nine years with the agency he took on multiple roles in media, strategic planning and account management before heading the agency in 2001. He ran the Philips and Dell business for the region and in his years at the helm of the agency, Euro RSCG grew to be one of the most successfully integrated 360 agencies winning the Agency of the Year at the very first Effies in Singapore. In an earlier "avatar" as an offshore oil engineer, he had developed the ability to get to the core of a problem. In his post-MBA career of advertising, he has honed it to perfection. Little wonder then when his love for media saw him pioneer the formation of an independent media planning cell ahead of its times, he called it "precision media". The IIM- A alumni is an ardent believer of the co-existence of "innovation" and "accountability" and the only thing that drives him is his version of ROI - Return on Innovation.

John Sheehy
President, Global Operations StarCom Media Vest

For more than 20 years, John Sheehy has inspired both creative and media teams to form better, more collaborative relationships with clients. He worked this alchemy mostly during his many years with sibling agency Leo Burnett, where he developed an entirely new approach to client teams on the Kellogg account. Now President of Global Operations, John’s main mission is to further integrate SMG’s Human Experience practice across the SMG ecosystem.

A member of the Publicis family for most of his career, John has years of experience working alongside his media brethren. Under his purview, Leo Burnett consolidated 100% of the Kellogg business across Europe, Latin America and North America while increasing the client partnership with other Publicis Groupe sister agencies such as Starcom. He also led the charge to secure new regional and global clients such as Deans/Whitewave, ConAgra and QXL

Dominic Proctor
President, GroupM Global

Dominic Proctor is President of GroupM Global; a role he assumed in January 2012. GroupM is the holding company for all WPP’s media agencies. It has global billings of over $100bn and buys approx. 30% of all global media (RECMA).
Prior to taking responsibility for managing GroupM worldwide operations, Dominic spent fifteen years as CEO of Mindshare Worldwide; a GroupM agency that he founded in 1997.
Dominic began his agency career in 1979 and joined J. Walter Thompson in 1986. He became Managing Director in 1991, and then Chief Executive in December 1992; a position he held for five years. At the time he was the youngest Executive ever to be named CEO and he also held a seat on the Board of Directors of JWT Worldwide.
In September 1997, Dominic launched Mindshare, WPP’s first-ever media agency. During the next 15 years Mindshare grew to become one of the world’s leading agency networks, with more than 100 offices around the world.
As GroupM President, Dominic oversees the management of the company’s global media agencies worldwide, including Maxus, MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare, as well as many specialist operations. GroupM’s regional heads, specialist leads and the company’s four major media agencies all report to him.
Dominic splits his time between London, New York and the global markets.

Anil Jayaraj
Chief Marketing Officer, Pidilite Industries

Anil Jayaraj has over 18 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in B2C as well as B2B businesses in India, UK and global teams. He has successfully led teams across MNCs as well as family-run organisations. Anil has been with Pidilite since 2010 as the CMO. Prior to this he was the Global Marketing Director with BP/ Castrol for their Marine and Offshore Lubricant Business based in the UK. He has experience across various marketing areas including marketing strategy, brand management, marketing communications, market research and pricing.

Karthi Marshan
‎Head Marketing, Kotak Mahindra Group

Karthi heads marketing for the Kotak Mahindra Group. He oversees marketing efforts across all verticals that Kotak is present in, including insurance, banking, brokerage, asset management, et al. Previously, he has headed marketing at IDBI Bank, and co-founded Sharekhan, one of India's leading retail brokerage firms. He started his career as a copywriter, then moved on to account management at Grey Worldwide, and subsequently produced television content for Sony India. Before joining Kotak, he was based in Sydney, where he helped turn around an ailing DTH business that catered to the Indian diaspora in the ANZ region.