Mohit Joshi
MD, Havas Media Group India

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Pradeep Dwivedi
CEO , Sakal Media Group

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Ramesh Jude Thomas
President & Chief Knowledge officer , Equitor Value Advisory

Ramesh Jude Thomas is the President and Chief Knowledge Officer of EQUiTOR Value Advisory Pvt. Ltd, the erstwhile Indian Partner for Interbrand.

“RJT” to his friends and colleagues, he is credited with introducing Brand Valuation as a strategic business tool to Indian industry. He led India’s first known strategic Brand Valuation for Titan Industries Ltd., immediately followed by 17 companies in the TATA group. Under his stewardship, EQUITOR has actively collaborated with Indian managements to deliver a little over US$ 4 bn of additional enterprise value over the last six years.

Ramesh is often called upon to speak to business audiences, company managements and more recently sovereign governments, on the subject of valuing and managing their brands as strategic business assets. He has done so in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Middle East.

An invited faculty to INSEAD in Paris, he has also lectured at leading institutions in India including 4 of the IIMs, the ISB, SP Jain, MICA, NMIMS, ASCI and a host of others. A convener of the CII international brand summit from 2008 to 2014, he has played an active role in setting direction for the event. RJT is also the creator of the annual AIMA-RK Swamy High Performance Brand award.

He is a prolific writer & TED speaker, having contributed a viewpoint to almost every major newspaper and business magazine on the theme of “Brands as Strategic Business Assets’. Amongst these, he had developed and run a column called ‘Cutting Edge’ for The Economic Times and contributed to the ‘View point’ column in Mint. He currently has two columns: “Blindside” in Businessworld which deals with the blindspots in business and society and “The Full Deck” in Business Standard which explores the premise that brands are strategic business assets.

He sits on the board of six companies in India and the Far East and advises many more.

He is an avid half marathon runner with four sub two hour finishes in last 3 months. On occasions, RJT accompanies himself on stage with an acoustic guitar, most recently for the Genesis Foundation’s fund raiser “CEOs Can Sing” to support critical care for young children.

Vasuta Agarwal
VP & GM, InMobi India

VP & GM – InMobi India, Vasuta is responsible for the strategic roadmap and revenue for InMobi's India business including developer, brand and commerce partnerships. Previously, as the VP for Business Development, she managed the revenue growth of all key publisher/supply side relationships across North America, LATAM, Europe and Asia Pacific. Vasuta is a graduate from BITS and has an MBA from IIM Bangalore. She worked with McKinsey before joining InMobi.

Amit Gupta
CEO - Asianet News Media & Entertainment Ltd

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Arati Bam
Marketing Head - Adobe Digital Media Solutions

Arati Bam is currently working with Adobe and heads their enterprise digital media solutions. Prior to joining Adobe she has worked with organizations like iGate, NIIT, Novell, NetApp and VMware and handled marketing portfolios across functions. She has done her business administration from Symbiosis and is a Pune university graduate.

Meera Iyer
Marketing Head, Big Basket

She head marketing for bigbasket since the last 2 years overseeing ATL, Digital, BTL & PR. Prior to this, She has worked in Unilever for 9 years across Sales & Marketing functions. She is married with 2 children aged 6 & 3. She is based out of Bangalore.

M C Cariappa
President Sales & Marketing, Jockey India

As the captain of the Sales and Marketing team for Jockey, Mr. Cariappa lives by the mantra that, “a team of Champions will never beat a Champion team.” Business targets aside, his relentless pursuit to motivate team members to live less out of habit and more out of intent is exemplary. Over the years, Mr. Cariappa has encouraged his team in Jockey to enhance perception skills, foresee problems, resolve them, and above all, tweak their own competence.

Under his leadership, brand Jockey has evolved into one of the most sought after lifestyle brands among the millennials in India. On one hand, the distribution network has become more robust and Jockey’s presence in multi brand retail has grown exponentially across the country. His focus on the Exclusive Brand Outlets of Jockey in the new International Retail Format, has given a new definition to consumer experience of innerwear, leisurewear and sportswear through product range representation and visual merchandising. His deft marketing strategy for brand Jockey has propelled the brand’s imagery and perception among consumers to enviable heights. Sports is a passion for him and fitness a way of life.

Narayan Raja
Director & Senior VP, Sales & Mktg, Toyota Kirloskar

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Samar Singh Sheikhawat
Senior Vice President – Mktg. – UB Group

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Santhosh N S
Head Marketing, Fujitsu India

Mr. Santhosh N S, Marketing professional with strong foundation of using different means to connect with customers and prospects, has more than 15 years of experience leading marketing through corporate as well as marketing agency. He worked in strategic business development and marketing incorporate marketing, PR/AR and internal communications for Products and IT Services companies.With Proven ability to drive sales gains and increase brand awareness through Integrated marketing approach which has resulted in many Customer Success Stories is currently working with Fujitsu as Head – Marketing and Communications with responsibility for marketing programs, brand management and Social media marketing. He has done BE from PESIT and Executive Post Graduation from TAPMI. His hobbies includes – Watching and playing cricket.

Sujith Sudhakaran
Senior Director - Brand Marketing - Myntra

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Suparna Mitra
Chief Marketing Officer - Titan (Watches & Accessories division)

Suparna has done her B.E.(Hons.) Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University followed by MBA from IIM, Calcutta. She has extensive business experience, mainly in the lifestyle / retail marketing area.

She started her career with a sales stint in Hindustan Lever Limited. Subsequently she joined Titan Industries Ltd where she worked on several roles in marketing, both International and Domestic. The next stint was at Talisma Corp. as a Director – Product Marketing. She moved on to become Business Head – Lee in Arvind Brands Ltd.

She has been Global Marketing Head – Titan where she was responsible for all marketing in India and international markets. This includes the mother brand Titan which is one of India’s favourite brands and all its sub brands like Raga and Nebula.

Her last assignment was as Regional Business Head- South for Titan Company Ltd where she was the profit centre head for all businesses of Titan Company Ltd including watches, jewellery and eyewear for the South region.

Currently, she is the Chief Marketing Officer for the watches and accessories division. In this role, she is responsible for all product design and technology, product management and marketing strategy and communication for the watches and accessories portfolio of the company.

She is married to Manish Bhatnagar and they have two daughters aged 19 and 13. She is an avid reader. Travelling is a passion for the entire family.

Sushant Sreeram
Marketing Head, Xiaomi India

Sushant Sreeram heads marketing for Xiaomi in India. Sushant comes with more than a decade of experience building brands and communities spanning eCommerce, Consumer Goods and Travel industries. At Xiaomi, Sushant leads marketing and brand building efforts focussed on strengthening the country’s largest and most engaged community of fans. As a former entrepreneur himself, Sushant believes the next wave of global technological innovation will come through from countries like India and by making technology accessible to the millions of Indians and is proud to live and follow through on this philosophy at Xiaomi, a company that believes in the motto ‘innovation for everyone’.

Vineet Sehgal
Chief Marketing Office - Quikr

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Hitesh Bhagia
Head - Express Studio, Indian Express

Hitesh heads the express studio where he & his team partner with brands to create & amplify positive brand stories using the credible voice & the large community of Indian Express.