Harit Nagpal
Managing Director & CEO, Tata Sky Ltd

Harit Nagpal is the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Sky Ltd., a joint venture of the Tata Group, Newscorp and Temasek. He is also the President of the DTH Operators Association of India. Before joining Tata Sky in August ’10 he was the Group Marketing Director of Vodafone plc based at Vodafone’s global head quarters in London. Harit followed his graduation in Chemical Engineering with an MBA from FMS at Delhi which he completed in 1985. In addition to the 9 years with Vodafone, in India and the U.K, during his 29 years of professional career, he has previously worked with Shoppers Stop, Pepsi, Marico and Lakme in various leadership positions in fields like Sales, Exports, Operations and Marketing.

Samar Singh Sheikhawat
Senior Vice-President, United Breweries Limited

A veteran in building brands, Samar joined United Breweries Limited, as Senior Vice President – Marketing in November 2009. A post graduate in MBA – Marketing and Finance from Symbiosis, Pune, Samar started his career with Cadbury’s India Ltd in 1989. He worked with them till 1993, as part of the research, malted food drinks and ice creams businesses, across Bombay, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. Consequent to the takeover of Cadbury’s ice cream business by Hindustan Lever, he joined HUL in 1993 to work with the Walls Ice Cream business based out of Bombay. In 1994 he headed to Energiser Batteries Ltd., as Product Manager for India, based out of Delhi. In 1995 he joined Dabur as Head of Sales and Marketing for the natural products business, where he worked for five years, till 2000. Thereafter, he worked with Pepsico for 6 years until 2006, first as Head of Marketing for the Tropicana Juice Business, then as National Head for field marketing and key accounts. In 2006, Samar joined Spencer’s Retail Limited, based out of Calcutta, wherein he was working in the capacity of Vice President – Marketing. Samar is currently based in Bangalore and lives with his wife and daughter

Juzer Tambawalla
Vice President & Head of Marketing
Franklin Templeton Investments (India)

Juzer Tambawalla is Vice President and Head of Marketing at Franklin Templeton Investments. He has over 16 years of experience in the area of marketing with over 13 years in the asset management industry.

Anupam Mukerji
Fake IPL Player
Co-founder & CEO, Pitch Invasion New Media LLP

Anupam Mukerji, better known as the once-anonymous blogger Fake IPL Player, is the co-founder and CEO of Pitch Invasion New Media LLP, a social-sports experience company building a live sports digital platform Scoryboard - currently available for cricket (scoryboard.com) and Formula 1 (scoryboard.com/f1).

Hansa Sachdeva
Chief Marketing Officer, HeadHonchos.com
ABC Consultants

Hansa Sachdeva is Chief Marketing Officer of HeadHonchos.com, an initiative of ABC Consultants. She joined HeadHonchos’ as a member of the start-up management team in 2009 and since then she has played a key role in establishing & scaling HeadHonchos' brand presence and building its revenue model. In a career spanning the internet/e-commerce, IT services and media domains, Hansa started her career with Good Relations India and then Bennett Coleman & Company Limited (the Times of India Group) before turning entrepreneur to provide IT-enabled brand experience solutions in the education, leisure & entertainment and retail verticals. Working with brands including PVR Limited, Le Meridien and Universitas21 Global and today at HeadHonchos.com, Hansa has honed a deep understanding of the internet ecosystem, digital media and service operations into building engaging brand experiences. Hansa is an honours graduate in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University. She has also been Visiting Faculty at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and blogs regularly on HeadHonchos Lounge.

Aditya Save
Head-Digital Marketing & Media, Marico

Aditya Save (twitter: @adisave) heads Digital Marketing & Media at Marico. Marico is an Indian multinational & owns leading brands in Health Care & Personal Care categories with presence in Africa & Asia. Aditya is responsible for Vision & Strategy for Marico’s Digital Future. His key focus area is to extend Marico’s market leadership status across brands, into the digital domain. His span now includes Marico businesses in Africa, the Middle East, India, Bangladesh & some emerging markets in South East Asia. He believes that Marketing efforts & dollars need to shift towards digital domains, at a pace akin to that of his consumers in these geographies ! Besides his role at Marico, Aditya is also a Mentor Partner for the Microsoft Accelerator, based in Bangalore, India. He is currently on the Board of Advisors for DMTI, a company that’s helping build digital capability among existing Marketing & Media professionals. He has also served on the India Council at MMA from 2010 to 2012 & has been on the Advisory board for the forum since its inception. Currently, he is also mentoring & guiding some startups and fledgling businesses.

Jonathan Bill
Founder, Investor & Advisor Telecommunications

Jonathan is the founder of several start-upsand is an advisor to Reverie Language Technologies, Saavn.com, EatAds.com, Exit10 Marketing, On Device Research and several other mobile and internet centric businesses. He is also an active early stage investor in India’s tech start-up market and works closely with the seed investment sector. He is a mobile Internet expert, having spent a decade leading Vodafone’s mobile internet operations and strategy in developing markets including India, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. Prior to Vodafone he was Commercial Director at Internet ad serving company Real Media and was Business Development Director for Reuters New Media. He is originally British but has lived in Mumbai for the past 4 years.

Jyotsna Makkar
Chief Marketing officer, Microsoft India

Jyotsna leads the Central Marketing Organization at Microsoft Indiasupporting the consumer and commercial businesses across Microsoft's portfolio of devices and services. She leads the Brand Communications, Digital, Social and Business Analytics teams, to deliver an integrated strategy for brands like Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Windows Server, System Center, SQL Server and Windows Azure. During her years at PepsiCo she has led and grown brands and teams in both mature and start up situations, across different business models and under varying competitive and P&L pressures. She led key categories at PepsiCo’s Snacks and Beverage businesses, scaling up brands like Pepsi, Mountain Dew, 7 Up, Nimbooz, Mirinda and Kurkure. As an independent management consultant, she working on projects across Business Strategy, Portfolio Strategy, Strategic Brand Management, Category Innovation and Capability Build. She started her career at JWT, where as Account Director, Pepsi, she helped develop some of the brand strongest and most enduring equity drivers.

Narayanan Madhavan
Senior Associate Editor, Hindustan Times

Narayanan Madhavan, currently Senior Associate Editor at Hindustan Times, has more than 30 years of experience in journalism. Though focused mainly on business and economic journalism with a strong exposure to information technology and the Internet, he has also covered or written on other issues including politics, diplomacy, cinema, culture, biographical sketches, cricket and social change. He manages business page production at HT and writes a weekly technology column, Tech IT Easy and a weekly blog in verse, called Madversity. He is also active on the social media and is among the top 100 in India in Twitter following. Madhavan started his career as a trainee with the Times of India group, where he spent 7 years, mainly in Economic Times before moving to Business Standard. He later joined Reuters, the world's biggest news agency, where he spent about 12 years, during which time he covered IT and Internet as Chief Technology Correspondent in Delhi and Senior Correspondent in Bangalore. He left Reuters in 2006. After a brief stint in the magazine division of Indian Express, joined Hindustan Times six years ago where he has been business news editor and technology columnist. He also serves as an occasional commentator on the BBC, Al Jazeera English and Doordarshan. He has an honours degree in economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and a master's degree in political science from the University of Delhi.

Rajdeep Chatterjee
Digital Marketing Manager, Nokia

15 years of being an apprentice of marketing, learning and contributing in critical functions of marketing; advertising, research, strategy, pricing, events and now digital & social media. Has been parts of teams that have successfully driven the rough & tumble of telecom with Nokia, fanatical passions of QSR with McDonald's, daily hustle of news media be it old world print or TV or new age media with Hindustan Times, CNN IBN, Indiatimes and the mad mad delightful world of advertising with DDB His pride lies in three things; every brand he has served has achieved pole position within his tenure: Secondly - bringing to life, consumer delight driven innovations to achieve turn around for the business. Thirdly - in these 15 years there has not been one person who has quit his team. And of course that he is a MICAn. For digital marketing his guiding principles are 1. The basic principles of marketing is as relevant in new age marketing as it was in the bygone era; human insight driven business offering, conversation with the consumer about this offering in a relevant and meaningful manner, having this conversation and making this offer accessible to the consumer in the easiest possible 2. Innovate. Innovate. Innovate. Always be the harbinger of something new into the consumer's life 3. Engage the consumer meaningfully where ever they be instead of dragging them to a space of the marketer's choice His personal north star - "I don't know most things, so I don't know what I can't do" Life beyond work - he takes delight in writing poetry, he had penned about 250 thus far, he has a video blog on his extreme workouts, he enjoys playing squash, swimming, cricket and off road biking. The storm his kids rake up when he goes home makes his day just perfect.

Subhrangshu Neogi
Director & Head - Brand & Corporate Communication, Religare Group

Subhrangshu Neogi is the Chief custodian for the Religare brand and oversees Marketing and Corporate Communication for all financial service businesses across the group. He is also keenly involved in driving all financial inclusion and investor education initiatives at Religare. Over the past almost 2 decades , Subhrangshu has worked extensively in sales, marketing, brand management across categories such as Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Retail, Telecom, Media and Financial Services and has consistently been a part of industry and category success stories. He has been involved with the Religare brand since its inception and navigated it over the years in its diversification across multiple categories and geographies. He has also been closely involved with other promoter businesses including Healthcare, Diagnostics, Aviation, IT and Wellness Retail and has provided effective functional guidance from time to time. Prior to joining Religare in February 2007, he has worked across different geographies in Asia and successfully handled pan India roles in brand marketing. Subhrangshu completed his schooling from St Columba’s School, New Delhi. He is a Bachelor of Hons from Hindu College, University of Delhi and also a MBA from Delhi.

SUNIL KATARIA
COO- SALES, MARKETING & SAARC
GODREJ CONSUMER PRODUCTS LIMITED (GCPL)

Sunil Kataria is Chief Operating Officer, Sales, Marketing and SAARC, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL). A graduate in Economics from Delhi University, Sunil is also an MBA in Marketing from Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad. Sunil joined GCPL in February 2011. He has the dual responsibility of heading the India Sales and Marketing organisation as well as overseeing the business operations of the SAARC countries. He is leading the creation of a Future Ready Sales Organisation in India, which aims at being among the best in the FMCG industry in its talent pool, business processes and leveraging technology. As the business head of the SAARC countries, Sunil is responsible for formulating our business strategy, building strong business teams and effective organizational processes and delivering profitable growth. Sunil has diverse work experience across FMCG and Consumer services sectors in Sales, Marketing and business roles. He had a long and highly successful stint of 12 years at Marico Industries in Sales and Marketing, where he was instrumental in modernizing the Parachute brand architecture and launched the highly successful Parachute Jasmine, Parachute Sampoorna and Saffola Oil Blends. He also oversaw the creation of first ever Media Planning and Buying process and structure at Marico. Post his Marico tenure, Sunil has served as business head in two challenging services sectors: retail and telecom, leading large and complex business operations. Prior to joining the Godrej Group, Sunil was Chief Operating Officer at Idea Rajasthan Circle, where he headed business operations and was responsible for the P&L of the Rajasthan Circle. He also led a major turnaround of the Idea Rajasthan business, overcoming serious business constraints and a challenging period of price wars in the telecom industry to emerge as the largest gainer in revenue as well as subscriber shares. Sunil is a staunch believer and practitioner of the spirit of ‘Possibility Thinking’ and feels that this, coupled with a passion for flawless execution, is the biggest competitive advantage in today's world. An avid reader of books across genres, he also collects quotes and is a movie buff who loves watching Hindi movies and Hollywood science fiction.

Manish Bhatia
Head of Marketing, Akzonobel India Limited

Head of Marketing for Akzonobel India Limited( Decorative Paints) ; the leading paints Company in the world. Manish is brand custodian of Dulux, Super brand of India and the biggest paint brand in the world. His current work has been to guide the decorative business to rejuvenate its leading brandsWeathershield& especially Velvet Touch: Fashion Trends for Walls into ultimate protection and luxury solutions respectively for consumers to decorate their homes. Manish started as Management Trainee with ICI India limited and has done various roles in sales , marketing , innovation &general management and leading business. He is passionate about marketing and business strategy and believes no strategy is complete till married with “execution excellence”. He is Engineer ,MBA by education , and his passion for strategy had him do Blue Ocean Strategy and strategic management programs at INSEAD , France and NUS , Singapore. Manish loves travelling and exploring nature with his family; and loves catching up with a movie in his free time . A great believer that Cloud computing and Social Media is destined to define our future; a professed apple fan , heprefers the useof technology to be virtually connected for work and with friends . He believes , digital space if used effectively ; can , contrary to popular view, enables an inidivdual to enhance work life balance with its innate ability which gives individual power to switch on and switch off.

Tarun Shienh
The Real Estate Guru, Chairman Premia Group

Tarun Shienh, a Visionary Entrepreneur is the CHAIRMAN of PREMIA GROUP. He is honored as “The Real Estate Guru” by PHD Chamber Of Commerce and Builders Council of India (BCI) & Journalist Association of India (JAI). He is Co- Chairman Assocham National Council on Luxury Sector and Director of Human Rights Council of India. Recently he is featured in the India Today High & Mighty Power List 2013 with 8 Page Feature on him. His name is also featured on the cover of prestigious Inc. India 500, India's Fastest Growing Companies Book. Leading Hindi News Channel, Zee News has done a featured coverage called ‘Guru Mantra’ on Real Estate Guru Mr. Tarun Shienh which was tele-casted live recently. Press Club of India has also facilitated him in a recent occasion held at its premises. He is ranked among the top 25 young entrepreneurs by Mail Today. Leading Channels like CNN IBN, Zee News, DD News etc. has featured him on many Expert Panels/ Forums from time to time. The Real Estate Guru is credited with establishment of 3 real estate brands in 5 years, a remarkable achievement in itself and he carries over 21 years of rich management experience across brands Like New York Life, Bajaj Allianz, HDFC Bank. Etc. He is also recognized as great philanthropist as he has Promoted Various Social Causes From time to time

Sanjeev Giri
Business Head - Dhara, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd

Mr. Sanjeev Giri heads the Dhara – Edible Oil Business Unit at Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. Apart from Dhara, the other businesses of the Business Unit include Ghee, Tank farms and Dal Analogue. He comes with a rich experience of over 22 years with core expertise in Sales, General Management and Business Strategy. His understanding of the sector has helped Dhara to become one the leading brands in the sector. Under his leadership, the business has grown at a CAGR of 18% against the industry growth of 6%. With his strong vision the brand continues to entice consumers with over 8 healthy variants adding to a strong product portfolio of the Company. Prior to joining Mother Dairy, Mr. Giri was associated with organizations like Cargill Foods Ltd and Bunge India. Mr. Giri completed his Post Graduation in Business Administration from Amity Institute. In his free time Mr. Giri loves to travel and explore new places. He also has a passion for driving.

Sindhuja Rai
Vice President, Media & Consumer Engagement Mondelēz International, India

Sindhuja Rai is Vice President, India - Media and Consumer Engagement at Mondelēz International. In her role, Rai is responsible for leading and developing partnerships, internal capabilities and strategies across all forms of consumer connections and media, including digital, TV, print and outdoors. Since she joined Mondelēz International in 2010, she has played an integral role in strengthening the media function internally in terms of capabilities and results. Under her leadership Mondelēz India has been awarded across multiple forums in the Industry for their work consistently for the past 3 years, including the maiden Emvies Client of the year recognition in 2012.