Anuj Kumar
Co-founder & Managing Director
Affle

Anuj Kumar was among the first to join the Affle founding team beginning 2006, while the company was in early stages of inception. Having worked with large companies in the areas of marketing, advertising and technology prior, he took the plunge to become a co-founder at Affle as he was supremely excited by the business model & significant untapped opportunities in the digital ad platforms business.

Anuj has played a pivotal role in building & growing Affle. He forged important partnerships, integral to Affle’s business, thus helping to make Affle a leading Mobile Audience as a service (MAAS) company. Over the last eight years under his leadership, his team has worked with several top marketers in Asia to help deliver end-to-end mobile advertising solutions through Affle’s products and platforms.

At an industry level, Anuj has played a key role in growing the mobile advertising industry by actively training, coaching and evangelizing the medium and adoption of latest ad technologies. He has been an active proponent of the blended 'Science' & 'Art' approach to make digital advertising more engaging, impactful and ROI driven. Anuj has been a regular speaker at leading industry events across Asia.

Prior to co-founding Affle, Anuj worked with large global media companies like ESPN STAR Sports, GroupM Mindshare and JWT. Anuj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from India's top ranked institute, St. Stephen's College and a Masters in Advertising & Communication from Asia’s premier communication school, MICA.

Rajiv is a travel enthusiast and has been to 14 countries in the last 7 years. He is also an adventure junkie and is an amateur scuba diver, having dived in waters of Bali, Maldives and Mauritius and has flown a two seater plane in UAE. Beyond travel and adventure Rajiv is a big movie buff and a cricket fan.

Jayesh Easwaramony
VP&GM, Asia Pacific Middle East and Africa
Inmobi

Jayesh joined Inmobi after advising several worldclass companies on how to transform in the digital era of powerful smartphones, ubiquitous mobile internet, cloud and big data as a management consultant. Using his deep insights, he grew InMobi’s network of publishers multifold in complex markets like China, Japan, Korea, Australia and SE Asia through strong market development skills and partnerships with key players in the app and media ecosystem. He has also shaped InMobi’s global strategy on attracting app developers to monetize with InMobi. Currently, Jayesh leads regions in APAC, Middle East and Africa for InMobi managing revenue and operations. He works with the leading agencies to harness the power of mobile advertising across 10 offices with a team of over 80 people.

Prior to Inmobi, Jayesh worked with Frost and Sullivan as the leader of its TMT practice. He advised several large companies on growth and new business strategy in mobile and media including Samsung, SKT, Axiata and Telkom. He is widely respected for his views on mobile and has been interviewed by CNBC, BBC, Channel News Asia and leading publications. He has presented at several conferences including GMIC, LTE Asia and Carrier Ethernet World.

Prior to Frost and Sullivan, Jayesh worked with Newscorp in India to set-up their digital broadcasting , pay TV platform and other media investments. He previously worked with the multibillion dollar conglomerate Tata Group to develop the strategic plans in telecommunication investments in mobile, fibre-optic and enterprise connectivity. He has an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management.

When he is not scanning the app ecosystem, Jayesh reviews Bollywood movies and dabbles in vegetarian cooking.

KV Sridhar (Pops)
Chief Creative Officer
SapientNitro, India

KV Sridhar (Pops) - Chief Creative Officer, SapientNitro, India

As the first Chief Creative Officer of SapientNitro’s India operations, Pops is responsible for the leading the creative strategy of the agency. Pops’ role involves creating strategic advantage for SapientNitro’s clients at the intersection of creativity and technology in the rapidly-expanding, important India market. Pops is also a member of the global SapientNitro executive creative team and works alongside Sapient India Managing Director, Rajdeep Endow, as a critical part of the management team leading an expanding business in APAC.

Prior to joining SapientNitro, Pops was the Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett- India and Subcontinent and was associated with the agency for over 17 years. He played a significant role in the regional creative management of the agency and was part of Leo Burnett’s Global Product Committee. Pops comes with over 33 years of experience in building brands like Coke, ThumsUp, Limca, Maaza, Minute Maid, Fiat, GM, Samsung, LG, among many other well-known names.

Pops was recently named in the prestigious list of Hall of Fame of Asian advertising, media and marketing leaders past 40 years by Campaign Asia. He has won 22 Cannes lions and over 100 international awards including, One Show, D&AD, London International, New York Festivals, Clios, Award, Adfest, Spikes and over 600 national awards. He has also been part of many national and international juries including, Cannes, D&AD, New York Festivals, London International, Adfest, and several regional and local award shows.

Rajiv Dingra
Founder & CEO – WATConsult

Rajiv Dingra is the Founder and CEO of WATConsult, the most awarded digital and social media agency, founded in the year 2007. A 30-year-old entrepreneur and a thought leader in the digital space, he currently leads a team of 170 people at WATConsult. WATConsult is headquartered in Mumbai and has offices across Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. In January 2015 WATConsult became a part of Dentsu Aegis Network which is a 5th largest advertising network in the world.

In a span of 8 years, he has worked with more than 100 clients across India. Some of the brands include Warner Bros, Swarovski, Oppo Mobile, SAP, Nikon, Tata Salt, Godrej, Bajaj Allianz and Mahindra & Mahindra. WATConsult recently won 48 digital and social media awards for work done across 12 distinct marketing campaigns. These include the prestigious global DMA echo in San Diego, ‘The most progressive digital agency award’ at CMO ASIA Singapore and ‘The social media agency of the year 2014’ at Socialathon Delhi. Rajiv personally was nominated as the digital person of the year at E4M Indian digital media awards and also won ‘The young social media entrepreneur of the year’ at CMO Asia Singapore.

Rajiv has been a global speaker at Social Media Enterprise Forum, Dubai, Malaysia social media week and Afri-tech Summit Kenya. He was also on the Jury of the Bees Social Media Awards, San Francisco; DMAi awards, India; and Smarties Mobile awards, India.

Rajiv is a guest lecturer at IIM Calcutta and MICA Ahmedabad and has also been actively involved in conducting workshops for social and digital media across India, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

Rajiv is a travel enthusiast and has been to 14 countries in the last 7 years. He is also an adventure junkie and is an amateur scuba diver, having dived in waters of Bali, Maldives and Mauritius and has flown a two seater plane in UAE. Beyond travel and adventure Rajiv is a big movie buff and a cricket fan.

Rishi Khiani
CEO & MD
Ant Farm

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Roopak Saluja
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The 120 Media Collective

Roopak, a diplobrat, has grown up, studied, worked and lived in ten countries on continents and speaks eight languages. He started his advertising career in account management at Young & Rubicam Budapest, where he was trained on the Kraft Foods and Danone accounts.  A few years later, fed up with yoghurt and chocolate, he decided he wasn’t going to work on anything people bought more than once a year and moved to Ogilvy & Mather Paris to run the Motorola account for Europe, Middle East & Africa, where he was instrumental in managing the development of the Hellomoto campaign.

He quit in 2003 to go to business school and do a few other things after which he found himself setting up and running Bang Bang Films, India’s International Production Company, that is focused on producing TV commercials as its core business.  In 2010, Bang Bang was rated as India's No. 2 fastest growing company across all sectors (source: AllWorld Live).  In 2009, Roopak launched Jack in the Box Worldwide, which has grown to be one of South Asia’s most reputed and heavily awarded digital agencies, handling several large digital and content marketing mandates for Unilever, PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser, Amazon and the Taj Group among others. With high-end video content and digital marketing expertise under the same roof, Roopak established The 120 Media Collective as the parent brand, marking the evolution of the company into a creator, producer and distributor of content for audiences and brands across multiple platforms and geographies.

Separately from The 120 Media Collective, Roopak is a member of Angel Network, a group of eminent entrepreneurs who invest in startup businesses across a variety of sectors and markets. He also sits on the advisory boards of the Content Marketing Summit Asia and a design-thinking based startup accelerator and on the Executive Committee of the Advertising Producers Association of India. In 2014, Campaign Asia-Pacific included him in their prestigious ‘40 Under 40’ list of leading figures in Media, Marketing and Advertising under the age of 40 in the region and has been a part of Campaign India’s ‘A-List of the Most Influential People in Media, Marketing & Advertising’ for four years now. Roopak has also been on Impact Magazine’s ‘Digital Power 100’ for two years now.  In 2010 CNNGo had him listed as one of 20 people to watch out for in Mumbai. Roopak has served on the juries of the London International Awards, Spikes Asia, Ciclope Advertising Festival (Buenos Aires), Adfest (Thailand), the A-List Awards (Los Angeles), Dubai Lynx and the Indian Digital Media Awards and has been a speaker and/or panelist at several high profile events including the Branded Entertainment Forum in New York, Dubai Lynx and TiE and PromaxBDA in Mumbai. He is also a regular guest lecturer at global business school, INSEAD.

In a past life, Roopak has been a professional trance DJ, performing around the globe from across Europe to South Africa to Goa to Thailand and co-founding and running his own trance label, Procyon Records (Budapest & Paris). He has also acted in a couple of films, holds an MBA from INSEAD in France & Singapore and is maniacally obsessed with Japanese food, single malt, Tintin and trivia. He lives in Bombay with his wife, Tara and two sons, Zen and Kai.

Sunny Nagpal
Managing Director and Co Founder
Httpool India

Sunny Nagpal is successfully leading the India business operations at Httpool - an international cross channel ad network with 18 offices in Europe and Asia. He Co-founded Httpool India in 2010, and under his leadership, the company has successfully executed over 2500 digital media campaigns across online, mobile, search and social, partnering with major agencies and supporting over 150 top brands across all industry categories.

A seasoned entrepreneur, experienced in strategic planning, development and management of a multimillion dollar international operations with specific expertise in Digital Advertising Industry. He has consistently been successful in analysing market trends and capitalising on global market opportunities to create high profit, high-visibility partnerships through product development, brand positioning and innovative strategies

Managing Director and Co Founder at Httpool India, Sunny Nagpal heads the overall strategy & corporate development. In the past, he has worked in key positions across functional areas of Strategic Sales Planning, Alliances, Product Development, Media Planning/Buying & Key Account Management with some of largest media houses like the Times Group, Network 18 Group, SVG (earlier Yahoo-SITG), MIH (Naspers).

He also leads Httpool Group Product Committee and is currently involved in development of a Cross Channel marketing platform that would enable execution of campaigns across all channels and devices from one single point with broadest range of creative formats, targeting options and pricing models and report advanced data for extended analytics deploying attribution modelling techniques.

Sunny is a regular speaker at global advertising events, author’s opinions, articles, researches and insights for major publications. He is a certified Scuba Diver, loves swimming, snooker, writing poetry and is currently pursuing Private Pilot License course at the Bombay Flying Club.

Upasana Taku
Co-founder
MobiKwik Wallet

Upasana manages Merchant & Bank Partnerships and Talent Acquisition at MobiKwik. She has spent her early professional years as a senior product manager with PayPal (an eBay company) in Silicon Valley where she designed PayPal's bank payment solutions for the US, France, Spain, Netherlands and India. She also handled Global Product Management and Risk Product Management at PayPal. She has done her Bachelors in Engineering from NIT Jalandhar and a Masters in Management Science from Stanford University.

Upasana has 11 years of extensive experience in Payments & Financial Services and has been an entrepreneur in India for over 5 years now. Her interests include web products, startups, offbeat travel and triathlons.

Vinod Thadani
Chief Digital Officer
Mindshare – South Asia

Vinod Thadani just joined the group back as Chief Digital Office @ Mindshare – He was 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 & then CEO as Madhouse for 3 yrs. 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 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. 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.

Vinod also chair conferences on role of mobile in marketing value chain in various regional and international conferences – MMA, AdTech, Excahnge4Media and one of the few Indian leaders to be empaneled in @ Mobile Marketing association.

Vishwanath Alluri
Founder & Executive Chairman
IMImobile

Vishwanath Alluri (Vish) founded IMImobile, the global mobile data infrastructure and solutions company, in 1999, to capitalise on the mobile data opportunity with a vision to harness the intellectual resources of India to develop an IPR centric technology company for international markets.

Standing at the cusp of the new technology wave of “Social , Mobile and Cloud” that is causing a seismic shift in the technology consumption worldwide, Vish’s vision has helped IMImobile evolve into a leading international player, with a global client portfolio of 98 telecom operators in 72 countries and offices in India, UK, USA and the Middle-East.

Recognizing the cutting edge work in this emerging technology space and the fast paced growth of IMImobile, he has been acknowledged on various national and international podiums alike.

He was voted ‘CEO of the Year’ by industry peers at the prestigious World Vendor Awards, London in May 2011.