Paul Berney
MANAGING PARTNER & CEO EMEA

Paul is the CEO and Co-Founder of mCordis with 10 years of experience in mobile marketing. Previously as Chief Marketing Officer & Managing Director of the EMEA branch of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Paul led the MMA’s global marketing efforts and more specifically the activities involving more than 150 member companies in EMEA. He has over 25 years’ experience in a wide variety of sales, marketing, business development and commercial roles spanning several different industries and market sectors including automotive, printing, internet development and management consultancy. Paul has been a speaker at over 250 mobile events, in 37 countries to a combined audience of over 40,000 people. In 2012 he was recognised as the leading speaker on mobile marketing worldwide by C-Squared. He is a Business Leader in The Marketing Society, writing regularly for their blog, a Fellow of the Institute of Direct & Digital Marketing (IDM), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a mentor in the Marketing Academy. He is a judge of the annual European Loyalty Awards, the Card & Payments Awards and the Mobile Innovation Awards. He was recently invited to join the editorial Board of the IDM and was voted one of the Top 50 influencers in mobile marketing in the UK by The Drum magazine 2013.

Preetesh Chouhan
VP - APAC, Vdopia Inc

Preetesh Chouhan is the VP, Asia-Pacific at Vdopia Inc. A Digital Media expert, he spearheads the expansion of the company’s operations across APAC driving sales, growth and execution for Vdopia’s key business solutions and partnerships. Prior to joining Vdopia, Preetesh spent 16+ years leading a variety of Sales and Product Marketing roles at Sify, AOL, INDYA.com and INDYAINFO.com, where he rapidly expanded the growth and revenue streams across various digital properties. With his focus areas being Sales and Business Development, he managed Partner Relations, Product Management, Op. Management, Content &Programming Management and Innovation. He’s has been widely recognized for key transformational initiatives and for building winning teams in his career.

Jonathan Ellis
Chief Executive Officer, TMSway Ltd

TMS is a platform that specializes in the field of ‘Over The Top’ (OTT) mobile technology. Jonathan was previously responsible for the management and growth of commercial revenue departments within Fox International Channels (APAC), Star TV (APAC), Eurosport (UK/Europe) and Virgin Media (UK). He was fortunate to learn his trade in London at the time when the Pay TV market exploded in the mid 1990’s. Today, Jonathan applies this commercial experience to help TMS resolve the next big global riddle…that of mobile. He is an innovative, experienced, ambitious individual driven by disruption within the post PC world. His areas of expertise are- Broadcast TV, Mobile Marketing & Commerce, Mobile Development, Social Media Marketing and Real Time Statistical Analysis. Jonathan is a very keen golfer who has no time to play whilst he juggles ‘start up’ Tech life and spends quality time with his family.

Hareesh Tibrewala
Business Owner & Joint CEO, Social Wavelength

Hareesh Tibrewala is Joint CEO of Social Wavelength, India’s largest social media agency. Social Wavelength is a team of 150+ with a pan-India presence and works with more than 50 national and international brands. Hareesh has been recognized as “Social Media Professional of the Year” by the World Brand Congress and also among the “Top 100 Digital Influencers” in India as per Impact Magazine (in 2012 and again in 2013) . His company Social Wavelength has been the winner of Red Herring Asia 100 award as well a winner of “Social Media Agency for the Year” award, two times in a row. Hareesh is a Bachelor of Engineering from VJTI Mumbai and a Master of Science from University of Southern California. He is a serial entrepreneur and Social Wavelength is his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He has been an invited speaker to numerous national and international events such as • Dachis Social Business Summit, Singapore • Assocham Conference on E-commerce • NHRDN Summit of Social Media for HR • Etailing Summit on Social Media for E-tail • ETNow Summit on Digital Consumer Behaviour He is also a visiting faculty with Welingkar Institute of Management

Sabyasachi Mitter
Managing Director, IBS

Sabyasachi Mitter, an alumnus of IIMC batch of 96, started his career with Asian Paints straight out of campus, where he was involved with start-up businesses like Colour World and Home Solutions besides leading the digital business. He left Asian Paints to start ibs in 2003 and over the next 11 years has guided ibs to become one of India's leading digital agencies and arguably its most awarded. With over 50 clients and 75 awards including 10 agency of the year awards in its bag, ibs, under Sabyasachi's guidance is now looking to grow its footprint across geographies through its IP led product solutions as well as growing the agency business with new service offerings.

Sanjay Trehan
Head-MSN at Microsoft India

Sanjay Trehan heads MSN at Microsoft India. Other than scaling up of product offering, driving mindshare and market growth, Trehan is instrumental in developing and executing plans to integrate MSN content with services like Hotmail, Windows Live and Windows Live Messenger across the web and mobile platform. A seasoned internet professional, Trehan has over 20 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was the founding CEO of NDTV Convergence Ltd., the digital arm of the NDTV Group. Before joining NDTV, Trehan was with Indiatimes, where he rolled out a number of verticals and built Web 2.0 communities. An alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Trehan is a founding member of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is currently a member of the CII Committee for Telecom and Broadband.

Tushar Vyas
Managing Partner, GroupM

Tushar is part of GroupM South Asia ExCo and leading digital media practise for GroupM South Asia. Tushar is also responsible for investment and corporate business development. Tushar had launched Digital Media business unit (Interaction) for GroupM India and build up to 300+ member team and expanded services in areas like Content, search & programmatic buying , mobile, digital activation, Social, Insight and digital analytics. GroupM digital Media practise is today largest digital media solution provider with more than 150 active clients. GroupM digital practise has been consistently best performer across all the media and digital awards. Tushar was also part of SureWaves start-up team. SureWaves is creating the SureWaves Media Grid – An integrated Ad Aggregation, Content Delivery, Network Management, Media Planning & Reporting Platform for multiple forms of digital media other than Internet. SureWaves Media Grid is covering more than cable tevision homes across more than 15 states for advertising and content. Tushar has been speaker at various online, mobile & digital media summit and is part of IAMAI governing council.

Vinod Thadani
CEO, Madhouse India

Vinod Thadani currently runs a company called MadHouse India – A complete End to End Mobile Solutions Company. He is a key pillar responsible to get mobile advertising to the level that it has reached today. With over 15+ years of media experience he had set up the largest mobile practice at GroupM in 2008. A thought leader and a thorough professional, he strictly believes in continuous innovation and that has helped him always stay ahead of the curve. When at GroupM we used to ensure & assure that with our clients we always try to give innovative solutions which no one else has done in the market and keep raising the bar across our mobile offerings. Today GroupM is the only agency who has 25 MMA certified member team exclusively working on the mobile platform & new media across all offices in India. When Vinod was in GroupM he made sure that their mobile practice was the best across APAC with India/division winning maximum media awards across GroupM agencies in the mobile category across all major award functions – IDMA, Emvies, Goa Fest, Campaign India, Yahoo & Festival Of Media. Apart from making GroupM mobile as No.1 agency for 4 consecutive years

Soumitra Bose
Executive Editor – Sports, NDTV Convergence

Soumitra Bose is an experienced media professional having worked across print, broadcast and digital platforms since 1986. A double post-graduate in geology and Journalism/Mass Communication, Soumitra has worked for top media houses like the Times of India, The Telegraph, Asian Age, ESPN-STAR Sports and currently works for NDTV Convergence as its Executive Editor - sports. He has travelled the world, covering two Olympics, Asian Games and several ICC events including the cricket World Cup, among several other international assignments. Soumitra has used his print and broadcast experience to launch digital products for ESPN-STAR Sports since 2006. He has closely seen the evolution of digital content production and how business dynamics have changed rapidly over the last few years. Soumitra also has active interests in academics. He is a guest faculty in some of India's top media colleges and speaks on various media subjects at seminars and conferences.

Dr. Subrata K De
CEO and Director, Matrix Ventures Asia Pacific Pty Ltd

Dr De is a senior, globally experienced world ranked ICT professional in Telecom, Media and Technology industries. He possesses widely diversified skills across this next generation industry, and is passionate about innovation with a patent in interactive multimedia, for delivering next generation services convergence across broadcast media and telecom networks. Dr. De has been a multi-national Business leader(managing annual budgets over Euro 3.5 billion) with entrepreneurial flair, through international strategic programs for Vodafone Group and elsewhere leading the world towards 3G, 4G with Quad-play Multi-media convergence. He founded and chaired the Vodafone Global Network Heads Forum (Directors of Networks) across Vodafone group operating companies in Europe and Asia Pac from 2002 onwards. He is regarded as proactive with excellent decision making, negotiation and interpersonal skills, negotiating business at CxO and Government levels together with various Operators & service providers, with sound turnaround strategies on existing businesses. He has been serving as an independent Director on boards and has chaired Audit and Remuneration Committees and is an active member on Corporate GovernanceCommittee. As a globally recognised telecom industry professional, he has been managing reputed telecom organizations in Europe, Australia, India, with fixed and wireless networks - 3G/4G, Optical Fibre Networks - GPON FTTH. He is ranked as a TMT consulting Leader among the top 5% in the world with GersonLehrman Group, USA, who are Advisors / Consultants to Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds. He has been providing counsel and due diligence consulting to top global organizations such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Venture Capital and international Private Equity Funds.

Narayan Murthy Ivaturi
Director-Global Sales & Strategy, Vserv.mobi

Narayan Murthy heads Global Sales & Strategy at Vserv.mobi and is responsible for advertising sales globally across offices in South East Asia, India, Africa, UK and US. Narayan has over a decade of experience in advertising, media planning & media sales, and he has been a part of top advertising companies like Mudra Communications, Yahoo! & Times of India. Based in Mumbai, Narayan is passionate about Music, Photography ans all things digital. Connect with him on Twitter & LinkedIn.

Pratik Gupta
Co-founder, Director – New Business & Innovation, FoxyMoron

With a management degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai, Pratik’s primary role at FoxyMoron as the Director for New Business & Innovation is to bring the best of digital services to potential and existing clients through creative ideation, effective execution and management of resources. Prior to FoxyMoron, Pratik worked at Balaji Telefilms Pvt. Ltd. as a Business Development Executive, creating new concepts for potential business opportunities. Pratik has also worked for Castrol India Ltd. where his role included researching market data with regard to the consumption patterns of various vendors that Castrol dealt with. Pratik Gupta along with Harshil Karia ranked 50 in the Top 100 of the Digital World for 2012 by IMPACT Magazine.

Himanshu Takkar
Director-New Business & Alliances, The Snipers

Himanshu Takkar is the Director – New Business & Alliances at “The Snipers”. In this role, he spearheads ‘The Snipers’ sales and business development. Himashu’s journey has been challenging yet interesting, from Retail (Asst. Manager) at SPYKAR LIFESTYLES PVT. LTD. to Real Estate (Marketing Head) at PrimeZone Developers Pvt. Ltd. to Marketing and Communications Brand, Co-founder. “The Snipers” is a team of entrepreneurial minds with diversified experiences and backgrounds. A Fashion post-grad from Pearl, a Management post-grad from IIM, an animator from Maac and a digital media expert, form the core team with focused minds and fire in the bellies. This diversity is, in fact, the base of the bond that binds the team together, and also, the reason why they are able to cater to different industries – Travel, Lifestyle, Real Estate, Education, Information & Trading and even social Causes.

Ishita Swarup
Co-Founder & CEO, 99 Labels

With a degree in Economics from Delhi University and an MBA from IMT, Ishita began her career with Cadburys in brand management. Soon after, the entrepreneurial bug bit her and she hasn’t looked back ever since. An entrepreneur by personality, Ishita has been part of 4start-up’s during her career and all in extremely diverse fields. Her first start up was Orion dialog, a pioneer in the ITES sector in India. Orion was amongst the top 3 domestic BPO’s at the time she decided to exit by selling the company to Aegis BPO part which is part of the Essar Group. Ishita continued asCOO- Indiaat Aegis which today ranks amongst the top 5 BPO’s across the world. Her second start-up has been in the Social Sector where she mentor the set-upof a social venture -Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt. Ltd. Sakha is a unique social enterprise, launched to provide safe transport solutions for women, by women in urban India. Sakha is Delhi’s first service that provides trained women drivers and a car hire service to families, individual women and corporate Institutions Her third start-up is 99labels pvt Ltd. where she is a Co-founder as well as the CEO. 99labels.com is a members only e-commerce portal, hosting flash sales of premium and aspirational brands in the fashion and lifestyle space. Her 4th start up is 9rasa which is brand in the Indian ethnic category. 9rasa sells on 9rasa.com as well as other portals

Mohit Hira
CEO, Hungama Digital Services & Digital Head, JWT Digital India

Mohit is a Netvangelist surfing through life. For 16 years, he led both creative and account management teams in WPP's Contract Advertising, and eventually managed two of its offices in Calcutta and Delhi before joining The Times of India Group in Delhi in 2003. He was the Brand Head of two of its newspapers, Navhabharat Times and The Economic Times Delhi, and then led the Marketing, Content, Usability and Incubation teams for the web and mobile platforms of Indiatimes.com and its associate properties at Times Internet. In 2008, he joined NIIT to set up a global e-learning portal and creating its Advanced Program in Digital Marketing for Indian marketeers and agencies. As the Chief Marketing Officer of NIIT's Career Building Solutions, he launched the country's first Cloud Campus. In 2012, Mohit was listed among India's Top 50 CMOs by IBM and Paul Writer. In December 2012, Mohit returned to advertising as the Senior Vice-President and Regional Business Director on Airtel's South Asia business before taking on the additional role of heading JWT India's digital businesses, including Hungama Digital Services, a group company. Earlier this year, he took charge as CEO of Hungama Digital, a JWT Group company.

Avinash Joshi
Social Media Lead & Account Director, SapientNitro

Avinash is a results-driven digital marketing expert who leverages social insights, trends in emerging technology and human interaction to understand, explain, predict and influence consumer behaviour in digital, social and emerging channels. He studies and creates experiences for the brand and its consumers to drive ROI for clients across industry verticals. Currently serves as the Social Media Lead at SapientNitro India, growing the practice through relationships in North America, Europe and APAC. He firmly believes that social is bigger than media and we must learn and strive to seamlessly integrate design and technology with society and culture. A strong advocate of social and the wealth of insights it has to offer for businesses, he uncovers actionable insights that drive brand awareness, consideration, conversion and loyalty.

Dinesh Swamy
Digital Creative Leader, BBDO Proximity

Dinesh Swamy is leading the creative team at BBDO Proximity. His mandate at the agency is to grow its working philosophy of 'create acts, not ads' in the digital space. Spanning over more than 14 years of experience, the organic nature of interactive creativity made him evolved as per the latest trends and created brand experiences leveraging the online space. Prior to BBDO Proximity, Swamy headed the creative teams at Tribal DDB and Digital Law & Kenneth.His portfolio includes brands like Idea Cellular, MTV, Reliance Mobile, LIC, Volkswagen, Parle, Renault, HeroMotoCorp and currently he is managing Visa & Tourism Australia. Swamy showcases his over 45 prestigious awards, Indian & Global. Under his leadership, Tribal DDB India picked up the most Indian awards in the years between 2009 & 2011, which also included 'Digital Brand of the Year' at Campaign India Digital Media Awards 2010 for Idea Cellular. Swamy has even been a part of the jury at Adfest Asia, Abby (Goafest), WAT Awards. He is also a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences(IADAS- Webby Awards).

Neeraj Kumar
Director Marketing, Beam India

Neeraj Kumar was appointed as the Director Marketing of Beam India, the 4th largest spirits company in the world in 2008 and additionally took charge of the Sales remit in 2013. He was earlier Vice President Marketing at Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine India in his previous stint between March 2003 & May 2007. Kumar has vast experience in Consumer Marketing, Commercial Sales and Business Strategy. Besides being responsible for the marketing of Beam portfolio in this region including Teacher’s, Jim Beam, Laphroaig, Maker's Mark, Courvoisier and Sauza amongst others, he has played an instrumental role in building up the leadership position for the Teacher’s portfolio in the Scotch segment with its flagship marketing initiative, Teacher’s Achievement Awards. With 19 Years in Brand Development & Product Marketing, Sales & Commercial, Strategy, Demand creation, Communication, Media in Beverages, Consumer Durables & Advertising sectors with International & Indian brands, Kumar’s previous employments include PepsiCo Nepal & Electrolux India. During his tenure with Electrolux as the Vice President for Electrolux Major Appliances India, Kumar was responsible for evaluating & defining a new business opportunity in the high end Built-In Kitchen appliances. He was also a member of the Asia Pacific Marketing team & the key Electrolux representative in India for driving the commercial relationship with Videocon Industries Ltd. – its licensee in India. Kumar has received advanced management & leadership training at the Ashridge Business School UK. He is a graduate in B.Com and also has a Post graduate diploma in Marketing & Sales. An ardent lover of music, Neeraj is widely travelled, a foodie & enjoys reading & photography. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and 2 young sons.

Ashish Kashyap
Founder & CEO, ibibo Group

Ashish Kashyap is the founder & CEO of ‘ibibo Group'. ibibo is India's leading online travel group that owns properties such as Goibibo.com (Leading B2C Online travel aggregator) ; redBus.in (No 1 online bus ticketing platform) and travelboutique (51% stake in the leading B2B travel platform). Besides organically and inorganically building out the online travel assets, Ashish also launched PayU India (Payments platform) and Tradus.com (mobile marketplace) and serves on the management board of PayU global. Ashish has also driven the acquisition of redBus.in, a significant milestone in the evolution of Indian internet industry. Besides this he has driven various M&A transactions and investment in the internet and mobile space. Prior to founding "ibibo Group", Ashish was the ‘Country Head’ of ‘Google India’, wherein he set up the India facing operations from ground up. Before joining Google, Ashish "founded" E-Commerce businesses at Indiatimes.com and drove them to a profitable and scale position. He architected first of its kind “Reverse Auctions"; "Travel Auctions" platform and launched the online marketplace business, Indiatimes Shopping. Ashish holds an "Economics (Honors)" from University Of Delhi, India and an "International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM)" from Insead, Fontainebleau, France.

Prashanth Challapalli
Sr. Vice President & Digital Head, iContract

Prashanth is a veteran of the advertising and digital space in India. He heads iContract, the digital arm of Contract advertising. iContract is an integrated digital communications agency that offers digital marketing, social media management, web and mobile application development, SEO & ORM, digital video production as well as digital media planning and buying. Previously, he started and built one of South Asia’s most respected digital agencies, Jack in the Box Worldwide. He firmly believes that Content should be inspired by Culture. Context should drive Conversations. Technology should give Creativity wings to fly. There are no consumers. Only Audiences and audiences don’t care about Brand Messages but only about Brand Stories, especially if they happen to be at the heart of those stories. Prashanth is a Campaign India A lister and has been named by Impact Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in digital in India.

Sudhir Nair
Sr. Vice President & Head of Digital, GREYdigital

In a career spanning 18 years, Sudhir has over 14 years of experience in the digital space, right from the days of the dotcom boom and its eventual bust. He has been with Grey for the last 13 years and is part of the Senior Management team. He started his career as a Marketing Executive selling financial databases. On realising that it was not his calling, he gave a shot at being a creative designer and a technical support specialist for a prominent Print & Publishing firm, Repro India Limited in 1995. From thereon, he joined Booz Allen & Hamilton in 1997 to head their Technology & Graphics division. In 1999, he started consulting for dotcoms and internet start-ups, before joining a start-up as the Chief Strategist in the year 2000. He set-up the digital division for Grey in 2001; which today is a strong 90 member team that delivers digital 360 solutions for leading brands across verticals, notably Incredible India, Volkswagen, Cadbury, Infosys, Adobe, Bajaj Allianz, Star Network, British Airways, Deutsche Bank, Birla Sunlife, GSK , Dell, Reliance Communications amongst others. Grey Digital was awarded the agency of the year at the first Indian Digital Media Awards in 2010. It is one of the few agencies to have won a Webby from India. Sudhir was invited to speak at the first Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Congress in Brussels, to showcase the Incredible India case study, which won the Euro Effie. He was also a speaker at the Digital Asia Festival in 2012. He has been part of a number of panel discussions and forums on digital marketing. He has been featured in the Top 100 Digital Professionals list conceived by Impact magazine in 2013. He was recently awarded the “Digital Marketing Leadership Award” at the 3rd “Mobile & Digital Marketing Summit 2013” (World Brand Congress, Mumbai). He also happens to be an avid Pink Floyd fan and a sports buff.

Dippak Khurana
Co-Founder & CEO Vserv.mobi

As Co-founder and CEO of Vserv.mobi, Dippak Khurana is responsible for driving the vision and strategy of the company. Dippak possesses seventeen years of distinguished experience of building unique solution offerings on two of the most path breaking communication mediums- Mobile and Internet. He spent the former five years of his career in shaping the future of leading Internet advertising focused companies who were establishing themselves in the newly found Internet medium. These were India’s first online newspaper- Timesofindia.com and Intercept Technologies- India’s 1st Online Ad network. Post a solid stint in the internet industry, he moved to the mobile sector in 2001 where he built almost a decade of experience. Some of his notable contributions in this domain were the launch of the first short code service in India for Yahoo! and introduction of the first premium ringtone service in the country to Hutch users. As amongst the frontrunners in the mobile value added services space, he pioneered mobile internet portals for carriers and built unique mobile internet products and internet revenue streams. Dippak possesses a deep understanding of the mobile and internet industry, an astute business sense and most importantly, an unquenchable ambition for growth. In 2010, he co-founded Vserv.mobi, an award winning mobile advertising exchange designed to address the unmet requirements of application developers, publishers as well as advertisers across emerging markets. In a time-frame of four years, the company has grown from a four member team to a 180 member team with a global presence and offices across 11 countries.