Alok Bansal
Co-Founder & CFO, PolicyBazaar.com

Alok Bansal is Co-Founder & CFO of PolicyBazaar.com, India’s largest online insurance aggregator. He has served in various cross-functional leadership roles with Mahindra & Mahindra, iGate Global Solutions and General Electric (GE) in his career spanning nearly two decades. An admired industry leader, he has been recognized as one of the top 100 CFOs in the country by the CFO India Magazine in 2015 & 2016. He is a PGDM from IIM Calcutta.

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Anant Daga
Managing Director, TCNS Clothing Co. Pvt. Ltd.

As the vanguard of the fashion and lifestyle brand, CEO - Anant Daga is currently spearheading W’s aggressive growth plans in the country.

W – A women’s ethnic contemporary wear brand by TCNS Clothing Company mirrors the new age Indian woman. Launched in 2002, W is the fastest growing women’s wear brand in the country.

With an illustrious career spanning 16 years, Anant has a rich and diverse experience with some of the largest firms in the country. His roles have been across sales, marketing, operations & running businesses as a profit centre head and CEO. His valuable expertise and transcendent supervisory skills is an indispensable asset to the brand backed with a vision that is unsurpassable. His areas of proficiency are in retail expansion with core competencies in new product development from concept to commercialization.

He has experience working across different business categories and has a penchant for launching new products or working in situations that involve the need for a business turnaround. He has been vital in setting up and managing companies that require a deep understanding of critical business drivers in multiple markets and industries.

A dynamic professional, Mr. Daga has worked with leading names of the industry such as ICICI Bank and Reebok India. His stint with TCNS Clothing Company began in March 2010. An accomplished professional who has successfully managed brand building and facilitating business operations to achieve year on year growth, he has been responsible in setting up, managing the positioning and expansion of the brand.

Under his leadership, brand has opened 200 W stores and 100 Aurelia stores around the country since the past 6 years. While he rightfully earned credit for building and growing W, Aurelia and Wishful, aspirational homegrown brands simultaneously, he also guided the company on a path of growth that saw its revenue stream making a loss making company to a No-Debt company.

Under Anant’s leadership, TCNS has enjoyed great success over the last five years as they achieved consumer sales of more thanUS$120million in fiscal year 2016, resulting in 70% year-over-year growth. Just recently the brand went through s second round of funding. As a result, TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, invested in a US$140 million round for a minority stake in TCNS Clothing Company Pvt. Ltd.

Born in 1977, Mr. Daga is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He takes key interest in reading and sports.

CVL Srinivas
CEO South Asia at GroupM

Over 22 years experience in the media / advertising industry. Held senior management positions in leading media agencies including GroupM, Madison and Starcom MediaVest in India/Asia-Pacific. Member of start up team at HTA-Fulcrum (Now Mindshare-Fulcrum , a part of GroupM) India's first media agency of record on Unilever in 1995. Worked closely with several leading advertisers/brands and helped build/scale/transform media agency businesses over the past 20+ years.

Specialties: Managing Transformation in the Media Business, Talent Management in Creative Organisations, Strategies for attaining and sustaining Leadership, Go- to- Market strategies for start-ups

Dev Amritesh
President & CBO, Domino's Pizza India - Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd

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Krishan Kumar Chutani
Executive Director & Chief Marketing Officer

Mr. Krishan Kumar Chutani is the Executive Director of the Consumer Care Business at Dabur India Ltd, a leading consumer goods manufacturer in India. He leads the entire Sales, Marketing and Commercial business for Dabur in India and has been developing products that not only meet the ever-changing needs of the modern day consumer but also drive profitable growth for the Company.

A seasoned and passionate marketing professional with 25 years of experience of working in Health care & Foods business, Mr. Chutani has been part of many successful new product developments and brand launches at Dabur, like Real Fruit Juices, Dabur Glucose & Dabur Vatika Hair Oil. An IIM Ahmedabad and Kellogg School of Management alumni, Mr. Chutani is known to be a turnaround specialist & has successfully steered businesses like Foods & Health Care into profitability for Dabur.

With high creative skills, Mr. Chutani has interest in writing, photography and reading.

Parag Desai
Executive Director - Sales & Marketing, Wagh Bakri Tea Group

Parag is a 4th generation entrepreneur in the Wagh Bakri Tea family and is spearheading the Sales, Marketing & International Business in the group. He is also a skilled Tea Taster, who personally tastes teas every morning. Parag holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Long Island University, USA. He was the first Indian to win the “All America Direct Marketing Award”, held annually between graduate students across all universities in the USA.

In the last 15 years, the Group has progressed massively. As part of expansion plans he launched various new brands and innovative products in India as well as the International Markets. He is also responsible for taking the group in various new markets and new formats like “Wagh Bakri Tea Lounges” in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Goa. Today Wagh Bakri Group is one of the top 3 tea companies in the country and one of the top 10 most trusted beverage brands in the country (As per the Brand Equity ‘Most Trusted Brands in India’). Wagh Bakri Tea Group has recently been much appreciated by media for its unique marketing strategies as a regional brand going national, and Parag has been a key force behind the same.

AMA (Ahmedabad Management Association) has felicitated him with “Marketing Man of the Year” recently. Parag is also active in various industry platforms such as CII, TPAI, International Advertising Association, Foreign Trade Committee of GCCI, and representing tea industry & Wagh Bakri Tea Group. He’s also mentor at institutions such as CIIE, Indian Institute of Mass Communications & TiE.

Pradeep Dwivedi
CEO, Sakal Media Group

Pradeep is CEO of Sakal Media Group, one of the largest independently owned media business in Maharashtra with forays in print, television, digital and events. An accomplished industry leader with an experience of over 23 years of business management cutting across functions and industries.

In his most recent role, Pradeep was the Chief Corporate Sales and marketing officer at Dainik Bhaskar Group; one of India’s Largest newspaper group. He commenced his career with managing sales, distribution and marketing with Eicher Motors Limited in the automotive industry. This was followed by Consumer Banking and Financial Services Industry assignments in prestigious multinational firms like GE Capital Commercial Finance, Standard Chartered Bank and American Express Bank in diverse areas such as business development, sales& risk operations in commercial, unsecured and secured products. Subsequently as Regional COO of Tata Teleservices Ltd, he was managing their Enterprise Business and had held roles in Service operations, marketing leadership, strategic business development and new product innovation.

He is an active participant in many industry associations such as IAA (International Advertising Association – India Chapter) as Honorary Secretary & Managing Committee member and The Advertising Club of India as managing committee member.

Ramesh Jayaraman
Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle

Jayaraman handles India operations for the company. He's well respected for his extensive skills and knowledge across all functions of the company. His leadership has been a key driver in transforming the company's operations and sustained growth in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh markets.

With 24 years of experience in the industry, Jayaraman graduated from XLRI Jamshedpur and started his professional stint as product executive with Cadbury India in 1988. After completing three years at Cadbury, he joined Britannia Industries as marketing manager in 1992. In 1999, he moved to Danone Biscuits China as category director.

In March 2002, Jayaraman joined Groupe Danone HQ Biscuit division as global innovation manager and later, in December 2002, became marketing director in Danone Mashreq Biscuits Egypt. Later, he joined Danone Asia as project director India.

In September 2005, he joined Yakult Danone India as deputy managing director but left within six months to join Perfetti Van Melle Bangladesh as managing director. In 2009, Sri Lanka was also added to his existing responsibilities of Bangladesh.

Sameer Satpathy
Chief Executive - Personal Care, ITC Limited

Sameer is a leader in the consumer product industry with more than two decades of experience in marketing, sales & operations, building brands and market leadership, across key categories such as haircare, skincare, foods, paints and fabric care. His key strengths include strategy, innovation & renovation of brands; new product development; building system capability; brand communication; digital strategy; and people development.

Sameer is a specialist in brand communication, developing brand propositions and best-in-class advertising. He’s passionate about developing people; created competency-based processes to build and grow internal talent. Sameer is a recognized thought leader in the FMCG industry; active participant and speaker in industry forums and marketing community; guest lecturer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Tarun Chugh
MD & CEO, PNB MetLife

Tarun joined PNB MetLife in February 2014 to lead the India business. He brings over 20 years of experience in the BFSI sector to his role at PNB MetLife, with extensive work experience within the insurance industry. Tarun is a part of the Asia Leadership Group (ALG) with key responsibilities of driving growth and development of the India business.