Anuradha Bose
Head - Marketing, Shoppers stop

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Bobby Pawar
Managing Director, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Worldwide - South Asia

Engineering college dropout. English Lit. grad. Purveyor of f-bombs. Lazy writer. Lazy, period. Bobby’s got into the business by accident. You might say his journey into advertising is like a blind date that led to a marriage. The relationship has lasted 23 years and divorce isn’t on the cards.

By all means, advertising has been good to Bobby. He got to put his creative fingerprints on some of the world’s best-known brands, in India and the US, where he worked at Ogilvy, New York and BBDO, Chicago.

At Publicis, Bobby helped create some of most talked about work on their biggest brands. He has also revved up Publicis’s new business engine, making the agency one of the fastest growing in the country.

Before joining Publicis, he was the Chief Creative Officer at JWT, where he made a marked difference to the creative product.

Prior to that he spent 4 years as the CCO of DDB Mudra Group. He was instrumental in transforming the agency into, arguably, one of the hottest creative shops in the country.

For a guy who almost flunked math, his stats are not bad. He has racked-up over 500 local and international awards, in both creative as well as effectiveness shows. He was Campaign Asia’s Creative Person of the Year (2011) for India and South Asia. Today he is ranked amongst the 5 most influential and creative people in Indian advertising, by the Economic Times.

Bindu Sethi
Chief Strategy Officer India, JWT

Bindu, has over three decades’ experience in market research, advertising and marketing. Her focus during her impressive career has always been identifying and ideating on category and brand growth strategies. Penetration, consumption, market share, category revival and brand choices rule her life.
Sethi has played an instrumental role in building key brand properties that fuelled consumption. She has enabled newer brands to carve out their rightful place in the market and devised growth strategies for various brands like Horlicks, Sofy, Good Knight, ClinicPlus, Maggie, Indian Army to name a few.
Her work at JWT as Chief Strategy officer, has created a work culture and approach that pushes for every piece of creative to be a strategic solution to a brand and business problem.
Her advertising career has been enriched with her four year stint at Hindustan Unilever in India and across the APAC region.
Her contagious passion for solving brand and business problems has been passed on to many planner that she has mentored and groomed.

Dhruv Chopra
Chief Marketing Officer, CarWale

Dhruv started his affair with digital in 1996 when VSNL first rolled out internet access in India. Since then, he has worked as a video games programmer, run his own IT company, survived a sales role at a full-service digital agency, managed digital marketing for one of the world’s largest banks and today heads Marketing and Enterprise Solutions for CarWale – one of India’s leading digital publishers.

And when digital allows him some leisure time, he is an avid foodie and incredibly passionate about travel and the movies.

Himanshu Bakshi
Marketing Director, Danone

Title- Marketing Maven

Intro- Mr. Himanshu Bakshi entered the Health and Nutrition Industry with a vision towards building a healthy nation. With an ambitious aim of battling major health agendas in India like Protein Deficiency and Diabetes Management, he leads a young energetic team which believes daily nutrition rituals like Protinex can make all the difference….

An Enriching Experience

Starting his journey as an Area Sales Manager with Dabur, he ensured about attaining a holistic sales experience before stepping into the marketing world. In his 8 years of experience in the sales industry, he built an expertise with PepsiCo as well. He started his Brand Marketing career with Reckitt Benckiser as Brand Manager – Lizol. With this stint, Himanshu’s enriching career grew by leaps and bounds. He progressed to become the Senior Brand Manager of Reckitt Benckiser’s biggest brand – Dettol Soaps. With his marketing capabilities being recognized within the Health & Nutrition Fraternity, he joined Danone as the Marketing Director in 2013. Needless to say, he has been intangible with Danone Nutricia since then

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An illustrious career like his is often hard to conceal. His stature as an ace marketer with experience across several categories can often contrast his humility and personality off work. Meet Mr. Himanshu Bakshi, the Marketing Director of Danone Nutricia – one of the fastest growing Food and Beverage companies of India. With an experience of sixteen years in competitive categories like OTC Healthcare, Surface Care and Personal Care categories, he is an astute strategist with a keen understanding of changing consumer dynamics. When asked about his leadership style, Mr. Bakshi passionately remarks, “I believe in the concept of Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability and Dependability”. He along with his team, are determined to shoulder a daunting responsibility of correcting the nutrition skew in the country, in addition to driving business profitably for the French food major.

The Nurturing Leader

Mr. Bakshi is an epitome of dedication towards his work. He genuinely values his failures as much as he values successes. He feels that nurturing a new project and correcting the errors on initial stages surely goes a long way in ensuring long term success. With his brands growing at a phenomenal pace year on year, his leadership style is surely the secret ingredient behind this success. As a true peoples’ person, he is concerned for the progress of his employees along with the company. Mr. Bakshi says that it is his dream to hear from his each employee that he/she is gaining something worthy by working in his team. He strives to ensure his team members feel valued and important, irrespective of corporate seniority. He believes that the biggest learning for anyone is to take lessons from tough phases of life. Mr. Himanshu Bakshi gives credit of his achievements to the difficult circumstances that he has faced during his challenging initial years of the career. He finds that these situations have made him a strong person today. He never hesitates to admit that many of his attempts have gone unfruitful but one positive aspect that one can notice about him is that he does not give up easily. He thinks no one can learn without making mistakes and holds faith in the notion that anyone can reach to the pinnacle through sincerity and dedication.

The Essence of Industry

Today, Protinex is flourishing with an admirable pace under his guidance. Mr. Bakshi is a person with ambitious social goals. Through his campaigns and products, he tries his best to contribute as much as he can towards the makings of a healthy nation. In a highly competitive market which cares only about bottom lines and market shares, Mr. Bakshi’s leadership style reflects in his brand stories – clearly differentiating brands like Protinex above the rest.

Summary

A results-driven business leader with more than 16 years of experience in some of the most competitive FMCG, OTC Healthcare & Surface Care categories across multiple geographies/ cultures. Also handled large teams in varied roles across sales and marketing

• New product/ packaging development, concept to launch
• Development of consumer communications/ advertising
• Management of multi-functional and multi-cultural teams
• Management of media, market research and design agencies
• Sales and Commercial Management in different geographies

Hitesh Malhotra
Chief Marketing Officer, Nykaa.com

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Kanika Kalra
Vice President – Marketing, Snapdeal

Kanika Kalra is Vice President – Marketing at Snapdeal, one of India's largest online marketplaces. A seasoned global marketing professional with a career spanning over 12 years, Kanika joined Snapdeal after several triumphant stints at Hindustan Unilever limited, PepsiCo and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited.

At Snapdeal, Kanika will be focused on making the business more customer-centric and ensuring creativity and impact in all communication.

During her eight year stint as the Global Brand Director for Hindustan Unilever Limited, she spearheaded key innovations in the skincare category. Prior to that she was a part of the brand marketing teams at PepsiCo and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited.

Kanika holds a Postgraduate degree in Marketing from IIM, Lucknow and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Delhi University.

Krishna Menon
Chief Marketing Officer, Sakal Media Group

Krishna has work experience of 17 years spread across FMCG, Telecom & Media. He started his career from Diageo in the brand management team & has had successful stints with BPL Mobile and OnMobile Global in the telecom industry. His media journey started with Radio Mirchi in 2004 where he went on to launch activations as a revenue function. He was entrusted with the launch of various new stations across south India which was delivered in time. His last assignment in the radio industry was with Red FM as the National Activations Head & Station Head of RED FM (Mumbai). He has had stints with Network 18 & Asianet News in the broadcasting space.

Currently he works with the Sakal Media Group as the CMO. The responsibilities include Brand & Revenue Management for the group.

Lalit Makhijani
Chief Marketing Officer, Godrej Properties Ltd.

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Madhu S Dutta
Head-Marketing, Raymond

Ms. Madhu S Dutta has 16 years of professional experience in the field of marketing and communication specializing in fashion and lifestyle category. Currently, She is Head-Marketing at Raymond. Prior to this assignment, she has been Chief-Marketing for Pantaloons Fashion & Retail Ltd, at Aditya Birla Group and has been instrumental is a complete make-over of Pantaloons bringing in lifestyle and fashion relevance to the brand. As Head of Marketing Development in World Gold Council and managed overall marketing initiatives in India. During her tenure, she has launched the most coveted brands in the Jewellery category like Collection g and the most talked about brand in the wedding space Azwa – a first of a concept wedding Jewellery in the country.
Her marketing career started in Tanishq – a TATA Enterprise with many innovative marketing initiatives. One of her marketing initiatives took Tanishq for the first time to the ramp of Milan Fashion Week. In Ogilvy and Mathur, she was part of the core strategist team for Vodafone India and involved in many interesting campaigns for the brand. She started her career in Lowe Lintas and was handling the ITC business for tobacco for India Kings and Classic. Later she moved in as part of the core team to launch Wills Lifestyle – the largest non-tobacco initiative from the ITC Limited portfolio.

Monica Tata
COO, Business Broadcast News Pvt. Ltd

With nearly 27 years of experience; she brings expertise in management of television networks operations in the Media and Entertainment industry.

She worked as part of the leadership team at Star, Turner and HBO. She has had a consistent record of increasing sales, effective negotiations, profit and loss analysis and strategic implementation of business operations. She is currently the COO of BTVi – a business news channel part of Reliance ADA Group.

Her efforts were validated when she was recognized as ‘Next 30’ most powerful women to look out in 2010; and was also adjudged as one of India’s hottest young executives of the media industry in 2009 by Business Today and adjudged amongst the top 50 influential women in media, marketing and advertising by a leading industry magazine - IMPACT in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017. She has also received Women Leadership award by World Women Leadership Congress in 2014. She was judged amongst India’s top 100 important people in the industry by Digital Studio a leading publication.

She is also the Vice President of the International Advertising Association, India Chapter and was a committee member for ASCI.(Advertising Standards Council of India) 2013-215

Some of her other engagements have been:

• IAA Debates , IAA Conversations, IAA Young Turks
• Key speaker and panelist at FICCI, CII, TV Next, Assocham and NASSCOM
• Invited to be a part of FICCI’s Women in Media Forum
• Guest Lectures in leading Educational Institutes of the Country like IIT, IIM, ISB, UBS, Rims International, Jamnabai Narsee School , Wellingkar Institute of Management.
• Helped curate FICCI 2015 – The Media Stream
• Mentor with Kuotient.
• Consultant with GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)- an expert consultung network
• Jury of leading Industry awards like International Emmys, Promax, Children’s Film Festival , Golden Mikes Awards , International Women in Sales Awards.
• Volunteering for NGOs like Isha Foundation and Laadli.
• Part of the Women on Corporate Boards (WCB) mentorship programme under the aegis of FICCI

Manav Dhanda
Group CEO, SABGROUP (Sri Adhikari Brothers Group)

Manav Dhanda is the CEO of SABGROUP that forms the umbrella brand for three companies; TV Vision Ltd, Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd & SAB Events & Governance Now Media Ltd. He is one of the few Corporate Media Executives, who has grown from a creative roleinto a business & strategy role within a career span of 18 years.Manav Dhanda leverages his experience with MSM’s Sony Entertainment Television, ENIL- Radio Mirchi, Reliance Broadcast to currently oversee all the businessesof SABGROUP including broadcast, movie production &distribution, digital, publication etc.

He is also an avid Sportsman & adventure sports enthusiast; and as a Passion Project he also is a member of a music band which provides age appropriate learning & development content for preschoolers.

Manish Bhatt
Founder & Director, Scarecrow Communications Ltd.

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Molly Kapoor
Head Marketing, Birla Mutual Fund

Molly Kapoor is Head – Marketing at Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company - the investment manager of Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund

At Birla Sun Life AMC, Molly leads the Marketing & Digital practices. She has over 20 years of work experience, of which 18 years have been with the Mutual Fund industry. In her previous role, Molly was Head – Customer Service & Branch Operations where she managed the organization's Customer Experience Strategy.

Molly was recently appointed by Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) as Member of the Financial Literacy Core Committee (FLCC). In addition to contributing to the Financial Literacy mandate of AMFI, at the FLCC, Molly leads the Digital Team within the committee as a specific responsibility. A Masters in Economics and a post-graduate from NMIMS, Mumbai, Molly is also a Green Belt level practitioner of Six Sigma.

Nitish Bajaj
Vice President- Marketing, CEAT Tyres Ltd.

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N S Rajan
Global Partner & Managing Director, Ketchum Sampark

Rajan serves as a Global Partner and Managing Director of Ketchum Sampark, India's leading Public Relations and Perception Management agency.

A postgraduate in Business Management, NSR started his career with the Associated Cement Companies (ACC), then India's largest cement manufacturer. He later moved to join the Essar Group in 1989, then an upcoming Indian business conglomerate with interests in steel, oil, shipping and telecom. In 1994, NSR partnered with Bela Rajan, a communication specialist to launch Sampark Public Relations Pvt. Ltd., an independent strategic communication consulting firm. In 2011, Ketchum, one of the world’s largest global public relations consultancies, acquired a majority stake, to give this association a new identity as Ketchum Sampark Pvt. Ltd.

Ketchum with more than 100 offices and affiliates in 67 countries worldwide ranks among the largest global public relations consultancies, and leads the industry in the U.K. and continental Europe as Ketchum Pleon. With global expertise ranging from Brand Marketing to Corporate Communications, from Healthcare to Food and Nutrition and Technology, Ketchum leverages its communications expertise to build strong brands and reputations for its clients. The agency has earned a combined total of more than 200 PRWeek, SABRE, Silver Anvil, Cannes Lions, and CLIO Awards, making it one of the most award-winning agencies in history.

In his career spanning over two decades, NSR a communications innovator, through his consultative and advisory approach, developed and executed distinctive, high-impact global communications campaigns for several global and Indian brands like DSP Merrill Lynch, ICICI Prudential, Fitch Ratings, ICICI Venture, Bajaj Auto, Tech Mahindra, Hutch Vodafone, ABB, Exide, Lafarge, AXIS Bank, Nomura Financials, National Stock Exchange, to name a few.

A keen golfer and avid wildlife enthusiast, NSR, has been instrumental in re-defining financial and corporate communications in India and is recognized amongst eminent professionals from the public relations discipline in India.

Inducted to the Hall of Fame by the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) in 2012, Rajan holds eminent positions in various advisory boards, like the Governing Board of the Advertising Standards Council of India, the Advisory Board of LEX Favios and is Chief Mentor and Board Member of the Indian School of COmmunication and Reputation (SCoRe).

Pops KV sridhar
Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Hyper Collective

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Reema Kundnani
Vice President, Head - Marketing, Corporate, Communications & Luxury Residential Sales- Oberoi Realty

Reema leads the Marketing and Corporate Communication initiatives for the entire Oberoi Realty group where her mandate consists principally of developing and executing ROI focused brand and marketing strategies that are in sync with the business objectives of the organization.

She also heads Luxury Residential Sales for Oberoi Realty which comprises of iconic developments like ‘Three Sixty West’, that has The Ritz-Carlton, Mumbai and luxury residences managed by The Ritz-Carlton; along with Priviera, a boutique residential development by the company.

She is a business leader with over 18 years of experience across diverse industries with a forte in Branding, Marketing, Communication and Sales to Ultra HNIs.

Reema has been associated with Oberoi Realty since December 2009. Prior to joining the Company, she was associated with Mahindra Satyam.

Being an alumnus of NMIMS, Reema is also on the Board of Studies for the Communications Courses of the institute. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and has a Certificate in Global Business Leadership from Harvard Business School Publishing.

Sanjeev Dhiman
Chief Marketing Officer, Dr. Batra's Healthcare

Early adopters of the New Economy (Digital) Business in the country. Build business in Media & Entertainment, Internet, Telecom & Health vericals. With 20+ years of experience in Media & Telecom including The Times of India Group, Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group.

Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:

• Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
• Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 TV & Biz Head homeshop18.com
• Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
• Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
• Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi - Times of India Group

Named Group CMO in April, to lead, marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batra’s across India UAE & UK, with a mandate & vision 2020 for the brand & business.

A native of Delhi NCR, completed “Advanced Strategic Management” from IIM Calcutta , which included research project on “ Digital Media & E-commerce

Sapna Desai
Head Marketing & Communication, CignaTTK Health Insurance Co. Ltd

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Shabnam Panjwani
Head Marketing, Edelweiss Group

With over 25 years of experience in advertising and marketing, Shabnam has managed and built brands across categories such as aviation, automobiles, entertainment, durables, foods & beverages, FMCG, personal care, financial services and others. Post a 3 year sabbatical spent abroad, she returned to Bombay as Course Coordinator at XIC, Bombay for the Advertising & Marketing diploma course.

Alongside, Shabnam joined Edelweiss in 2006 and her efforts towards consistent, compelling and relevant marketing roll-outs through the years has differentiated the Edelweiss Group in a high clutter category. In recent past Edelweiss has been voted Business Super Brand, won four Abbys in 2011, been declared one of India’s Most Promising Brands 2015 by Economic Times as well as India’s 100 Most Valuable Brands by World Consulting Research

Passionate about theatre, Shabnam is a BA from St Xavier’s College with a diploma in Advertising & Marketing from Xavier Institute of Communication, Bombay.

Shipra Srivastava
Director Marketing, Olx

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Sonali Rao
Head Marketing, TBZ- The Original

An integrated marketer, Sonali has significant experience in strategic brand development, retail, loyalty and digital media. In retail she has worked on premium Indian and international brands across product categories and consumer segments. Sonali also has built meaningful digital experience having handleddigital initiatives for brands inthe Asia-Pacific region. She has been involved in the brand architecture and communication development of multiple brands in the fmcg and foods category.

Sonali has done her post graduation in Marketing and her Bachelors in Commerce.

Akash Gupta
Vice President Marketing, MobiKwik

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Amitabh Biswas
Cluster Marketing Head, ET NOW & MIRROR NOW

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Amit Agarwal
Brand Marketing, AIRCEL Limited

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Amit Nanda
Manager Marketing Communications, Tata Housing

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Anup Mahato
Deputy Director, Brand & Marketing, MTS India (SSTL)

An Alumni of BHU and BIT (Sindri) with 14 years of diversified Brand & Marketing leadership experience across brands like Idea Cellular, Berger Paints, Nippon Paint and MTS India .

Chirag Shrivastava
Marketing Lead, DNA

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Khushboo Rai
Assistant General Manager - Media & Communications, Rajhans (Desai-Jain) Group

Ms. Khushboo Rai is a Marketing Professional with over 7 years of experience in Marcom including Media Planning & Buying, ATL / BTL Activities, Digital Media, Implementing Campaigns, Handling PR activities,Events and Corporate Communications in Indian and International Markets.
Having core focus on marketing communications, She have successfully launched and built brands from scratch across various industries i.e Pharma (Brand- Dorizoe), Genomics (Brand - Xcelris), Education (Brand - SEIL) , Real Estate (All Projects under Rajhans Realty), Hospitality (Brands Under Rajhans Hopitality), Multiplex (Brand- Rajhans Cinemas) & FMCG (Brands - Schmitten Luxury Chocolates & Hoppits)

Lalit Agrawal
Senior Vice President, OMD India

Lalit is a seasoned advertising and media professional with 17 years of experience in the industry. He is currently responsible for leading some of the key business of OMD India. He also heads ‘FUSE’, the content and entertainment division of Omnicom Media Group in India and is driving the agency’s efforts in creating seamless brand and content integrations.

Lalit has led the formulation of successful media strategies for clients across FMCG, Entertainment, Consumer durables, Finance and the travel industries during his career so far. He has worked with some of the leading media agencies in India and prior to joining OMD in 2010 he worked with Star TV in a marketing role. He is passionate about creating content driven solutions for his brands and his efforts have earned him several awards and recognitions.

Manish Advani
Head – Marketing & PR, Mahindra Special Services Group

Manish Advani (@IndianMarketer) is 3 times TEDx Speaker and also the Head of Marketing & Public Relations at Mahindra SSG. Mr. Advani’s special focus is on Cause and Green Marketing which goes in line with his interests in the area of CSR and Sustainability. Mr. Advani has worked on Data and Marketing campaigns of organizations like Kraft Foods, Jaguar Land Rover, Microsoft Canada, Ciba Vision. In addition Mr. Advani has worked on Risk Management Assessments of Arvind Limited, Birla Sun life, Kemper Insurance and Mahindra & Mahindra. Mr. Advani has also been part of many radio shows on AIDS awareness organized by All India Radio. Mr. Advani graduated with management degree with Suma Cum Laude from New Jersey Institute of Technology with recognition of building Decision Support System for US Department of Transportation. Mr. Advani has completed Brand Building Program from Stanford, One year Manage Mentor program from Harvard and Management Development Program from IIM-Ahmedabad.

Mr. Advani recently had the opportunity to present on the subject how Coconuts can Kill Dengue at TEDx HR, share his small learnings which lead him to Big Earnings at Tedx Mahindra Ecole Centrale and his Mothers Principle of Giving which lead him to Good Living at TedxMICA. He has won several notable awards during his journey, like the Microsoft Presidents award, Mega Corporate Film Festival Award for composing a song on Women Empowerment titled 'Smiles at every mile' and his Coco Painting initiative won Mahindra SSG the Skoch Blue Economy Silver Award and Public Relations Council of India’s Silver Award. Mr. Advani has been listed in the Top 100 Most Influential Marketing Leaders in 2016 by the World Marketing Congress.

Mihir Mukaddam
GM- marketing, INOX movies

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Rajiv Bakshi
Vice President-Marketing, Discovery

Head of Discovery’s Female & Family Entertainment Products, Rajiv Bakshi spearheads the strategic development and operational management of its channels, with the objective of building compelling millennial products, in the context of changing TV consumption and content delivery. Having spent 13 years at Discovery, Rajiv has built Discovery’s portfolio of 11 channels in India, with key responsibilities of Audience Development, Content Curation and Commissions and Social/Digital Community Development.

Roxanne Bokdawala
Lead Marketing and Communications, Havas Media India

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Sagar Kargutkar
Asst. General Manager, The Times of India

Sagar Kargutkar is a seasoned Marketing & Communication professional with 15+ experience in leading P&L, Sales & Consumer Marketing Communication. He expertise are in Leading, conceptualizing, planning, developing & executing business operations. He has a proven track record of driving marketing initiatives whilst developing successful product strategies; lead role in robust marketing & digital communication and new product launches.

Some of his notable achievements in his current role are as follows:

• Worked on the launch communication & BTL activities of “Happy Streets” initiative which bagged Gold in Best Publishing Brand Activation at the ABBY awards 2015.
• Worked on the launch communication & BTL activities of “I Lead India – Organ Donation Day” initiative which bagged Gold in CSR / Cause related Marketing initiative in Traditional or Online Space at the ABBY awards 2014.
• Worked on the “Mumbai Mirror – I am Mumbai” TVC which won the Gold Lion in the film kraft category at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in 2012.
• Worked on the launch communication & BTL activities of “Aman Ki Asha” initiative which bagged Gold in Media & Integrated category & bronze in Sales Promotion at the Spikes Asia awards 2010.
• Worked on the concept, launch communication & BTL activities “Lead India” campaign which bagged the Integrated Gold & Grand Prix in Direct category at Cannes International Advertising Festival in 2008 and which also bagged the 'Best of Show' award for community service and picked up the first prize in the 'Brand Awareness Across Platforms', the 'New Brand / Production / Audience Development' and 'Public Relations and Community services' categories at INMA awards 2008. The same brand campaign also bagged “Spikes Asia” first ever advertiser of the year award.
• Worked on the concept, launch communication & BTL activities of “India Poised” & “Lead India” campaign which bagged the award for the best integrated marketing campaign of the year by NDTV in 2007.
• Worked on the concept & launch of “Teach India” campaign which bagged the Grand Prix in Direct category at Goa Fest 2009.
• Launched the “The Times of India–Chennai Edition” with an astounding 360-degree multimedia campaign in the history of Chennai.
• I was part of the team which saw The Times of India winning “Consumer Super Brand” award for the year 2006-07.
• Worked on the “A day in Life of India–Pakya” TVC which bagged a Silver in Media category at Abby Awards 2006.

An alumni of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) he began his career in space selling with Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd. Post that he moved onto the Times Group to set up their OOH business in Mumbai. He was instrumental in stabilising their OOH business in Mumbai before moving onto his current role in Times of India’s brand team.

Saraswathi Anand
Head – Brand, Zee Kannada

Saraswathi is a marketing professional with 13 years of experience, across agencies and brands. She has handled and managed brands like Titan, Accenture, The Leela, Weekender, Peter England during her agency days in Mudra and Enterprise Nexus. Post which she moved on to the “client” side, managing and owning brands like Worldspace, Titan, Accenture, Radio Mirchi, Vijay Karnataka & Zee Kannada. She has been fortunate to have an all-round experience across Radio, TV & Print Media.

Sarthak Seth
Head - Brand & Marketing Communications, PANASONIC INDIA PVT LTD

A highly-driven astute professional, avid marketer and aspiring global leader, Sarthak holds an MBA in Marketing and is UCLA Anderson of Management & NUS Alumni. With 14+ years of experience he specializes in brand strategy, creation & developing markets, consumer research and visibility strategies and has been instrumental in conceiving, designing and implementing marketing initiatives for global brands viz. Panasonic, LG Electronics, Indian Hotels Co Ltd. in Indian & South Asian markets.

A top performer all throughout, Sarthak at a young age of 33 went on to lead the Brand & Marketing Communications division and simultaneously Panasonic's Exclusive Sales Channel too. His unparalleled approaches towards marketing led Panasonic won many honors and even register in Guinness World records. He received Young Achiever of the Year @ 4th CMO Asia in Singapore (2013) and many more awards and accolades by some of the leading bodies in the field of Brand & Marketing including International Advertising Association (IAA), WOW Awards, EEMA etc.

Satyabrata Das
Head -Strategic Alliances & Corporate Communication, Laqshya Media group

Satyabrata Das designated as Head -Strategic Alliances & Corporate Communication at Mumbai, part of the top Management team. Das is known as a game changing media professional with expertise in platform agnostic implementation to create new parallels in the media and entertainment industry. He comes with a rich experience of 22 plus years in the fields of Media, Entertainment, Marketing & Advertising.
After spending 6 years with Print, he joined OTV in 1998 with handful of resources at the initial stage and took it to a leadership level. Post this with his stint with ETV in 2002 as Channel Promotions Head he was institutional in launching two market leaders & game changing channel medium in the Eastern India i.e. ETV Bangla & ETV Oriya. He was also responsible for the overall growth and health of these channels. He was also associated with SAB TV as AVP – Sales & Marketing in 2004.

He was associated with Zee Telefilms Ltd. from 2005 to 2008 as AVP / DVP – Sales and Revenue Head for its digital presence & revenue generation. As a part of the core team they were the first in country to introduce a new platform, live TV on moving vehicles, and OOT Platform. He is known in the industry as someone who succeeds in Scaling up a Brand.
This is his second innings with Laqshya group and earlier he was designated as National Business Coordinator & SVP: Strategy/Product/Content/Sales/Strategic Alliances with Digital Media Business in 2008.
He has spent a good time in consulting start-ups & newbies in technology and on scaling the businesses. He is also known for his networking abilities & people connect skills. He has been a speaker on multiple National & international forums and was one of the pioneer to launch OTT platform (mobile TV) in India.

Shawn Chandy
Sr.Manager-Marketing, Raymonds

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Sheran Mehra
Head - Group Strategic Marketing & Communications, DBS Bank India

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Shreyas Mehrotra
DGM – Brand & Digital Marketing, Tata Teleservices Limited

Shreyas Mehrotra is currently working as the DGM – Brand & Digital Marketing at Tata Teleservices Limited. Shreyas has around 9 years of experience across the FMCG, telecom and e-commerce space. He spent a major time of his career working with Marico where he had successful stints in managing one of the leading personal care brands “Parachute” and handling new brand launches. During his tenure with Marico, he has also had stints in traditional FMCG sales managing business in complex geographies like Bihar and Rajasthan. He has also been a part of Ola, where he was the Head of Marketing for TaxiForSure brand and his role has been pivotal in executing successful campaigns to register extraordinary brand & business growth. In his current stint with Tata Teleservices Limited, he is responsible for portfolio of brands under Tata Docomo, Tata Photon & Tata Indicom, both nationally and at a circle level. He is an alumni of SPJIMR, Mumbai and has done his BE from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. He loves listening to music, travelling, cricket, mentoring teams and likes to follow the stock market.

Vishwalok Nath
Head - Marketing & Syndications, The India Today Group

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Vikas Sachdeva
Corporate Manager – Marketing, Mahindra First Choice Services

Vikas has spent last 10 years gaining vast amounts of experience & expertise in marketing communications & advertising, Brand strategy & management, PR, Market research & segmentation and consumer behavior. He has worked in industries like Consumer Durables (ONIDA), Retail (Big Bazaar & Food Bazaar), Home Furnishing (Welspun) & Automobile (Mahindra First Choice Services), handled teams of 4-5 members. Currently employed in Mahindra First Choice Services Ltd as Corporate Manager- Marketing, Vikas is responsible for devising Brand strategy, Marketing & Advertising campaigns, Media planning, Brand activations (ATL & BTL), Market Research & PR. He has done MBA in Marketing from ICFAI, Pune and Mechanical Engineering from GZSCET, Bathinda.