Amit Sethi
Country Head Marketing Consumer Products Group, Bajaj Electricals Ltd.

Amit is a distinguished management professional who brings with him over 2 decades of work experience across diverse industries (Management Consulting, Automobiles, FMCG & Appliances) and reputed organizations in India & abroad (Visteon Automotive, Kraft Foods, Diageo & Bajaj Electricals).

His academic credentials span an MBA in Finance from the prestigious University of Connecticut School of Business in the US, with a firm grounding in Commerce at undergraduate & graduate levels.

Amit brings to the table competencies such as delivering effective project outcomes based on strategic and commercially grounded thought leadership. In the past he has consistently increased sales and revenue, penetrated new markets, grown existing markets and built productive customer relationships.

Anup Mathew
Chief General Manager - Corporate Sales & Marketing, DB Corp

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Hanoz Mogrelia
Global Executive Creative Director - Radiant, J. Walter Thompson Mumbai

I work at J Walter Thompson in a global role. I am responsible for the creative work done on Unilever's mid-tier detergent portfolio, called Radiant. In India, we know this detergent as Rin. My primary task is to look after the creative output of this brand in four regions: Brazil, Africa, Indian subcontinent and South East Asia.
The brand sold under the Radiant portfolio are bought by nearly one billion consumers. I have to look after the core brand and the USLP programme. I have to drive the brand with one global unifying brand idea, and ensure that all regions follow the global brand guidelines.
Apart from Unilever, I also look after some very, very large Indian businesses at J Walter Thompson, Mumbai. These include Godrej Appliances, Johnson & Johnson, Bharat Petroleum, LIC of India, Indiabulls, etc.
I have been in the advertising business for over 25 years now. I have earlier worked at DDB Mudra, Saatchi & Saatchi, Rediffusion DY&R, Everest advertising, RK Swamy/BBDO, Network advertising, etc.
On the awards front, I have won a few awards as a copywriter. As a Creative Director, my team has won quite a few awards. These awards include the usual Cannes, Clio, One Show, Adfest, Abbies, Goafest, AAAI awards, Effies, James E Burkes, etc.

Manish Bhatt
Founder Director, Scarecrow Communications Ltd

Founder Director, Scarecrow Communications Ltd. - the only Indian agency that featured AMONGST TOP 16 - THE WORLD'S LEADING INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 2015. (Invited by TheNetworkOne & Published by Campaign Magazine UK.) Manish started his career as a Civil Engineer.  Today, he has over 20 years of experience in advertising. Manish, along with his Creative Partner of 19 years and Co- Founder of Scarecrow Raghu Bhat, has worked at Ogilvy, McCann Erickson, Contract, Ambience Publicis and Bates, creating and working on iconic brands. Their venture Scarecrow Communications Ltd. is just SIX YEARS OLD, but is already ONE OF INDIA'S LARGEST INDEPENDENT AGENCIES and ONE OF INDIA'S FASTEST GROWING AD AGENCIES, with offices in Mumbai and Delhi.   
In a career spanning for two decades, Manish has won over 150 National and 50 International Awards.   
He was RANKED NO.2 (in 2006) & NO.3 ( in 2005 ) in the " HOTTEST CREATIVE PEOPLE FROM INDIA" list compiled by Campaign Brief Asia Magazine, Australia.   
His Powerful Public Service Communications - "Respect the National Anthem" & "Hostel (Eye Bank Association of India )" - were hugely appreciated by the United Nations, WHO and  Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.    
He is often invited to be part of the jury team at prestigious International Award shows like Cannes Lions and National Award shows like Goafest ( Abby ).  
He has featured amongst 63 prominent Gujaratis in an exclusive list compiled by Chitralekha Magazine, along with names like Narendra Modi, Ahmed Patel, Ashit Desai, Sanjay Lalbhai and Amit Trivedi.

Pavan Singh
Head Marketing, Amul

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Priyanka Gandhi
Head - Integrated Marketing Communications, Colgate Palmolive

Priyanka is an experienced Media & Communications professional, with a 17-year career in functional leadership roles across India's marquee CPG company-Colgate Palmolive & leading media agencies.
In her current role at Colgate Palmolive, she heads Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) for India, which includes overseeing – creative, media and digital functions for the company & all its brands. Over her 8 years at Colgate, she has successfully led media and digital on a stand-alone basis, before bringing it all together into this new-age integrated approach required in today's media environment.
Priyanka, over the years, has led Asia-wide strategic projects for Colgate and is currently part of an elite global leadership program for the company.
Priyanka brought in 9-years of diverse media & communications experience to Colgate Palmolive from her leadership stints at India's top media agencies including Madison Communications, Carat (Dentsu Aegis Network) and Starcom (Public Group) where she managed & led media businesses like Mondelez, Marico, Godrej, ICICI among others.
Her passions include running, travel and reading.

Puneet Varma
AVP- Marketing & Corporate Communications, Inorbit Malls (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Varma has been associated with Inorbit Malls for past three years has contributed significantly in developing innovative marketing and brand strategies that helped position Inorbit Malls as a preferred shopping and entertainment destination in the respective markets. Mr. Varma is known in the industry for his expertise in turning around brands using his brand management skills which he gained over the last two decades working in diverse industries like FMCG, Modern Retail and Shopping Malls. He has also won various awards and appreciations, one of the recent ones being a citation as a "Most talented 50 CMOs of India 2014" from CMO Asia hosted by World Marketing Council. In his role as AVP, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Mr. Varma will be driving a seamless communication strategy for positioning of the brand Inorbit as a leading modern retail real estate brand that is soon becoming a lifestyle shopping and entertainment destination. He also spearheads strategic marketing and PR campaigns to promote the brand's community building initiatives like Inorbit Pink Power. Some of the marketing campaigns created by him have won prestigious awards at various international and national forums like Effie, Abby, Asia Pacific Customer Engagement Forum and ICSC. With the inception of his career in the FMCG industry in 1997, he has had successful stints with leading Indian and international brands like Whyte & Mackay, Groupe Pernod Ricard, Shaw Wallace Distilleries, Reliance Retail Ltd and The Phoenix Mills Ltd. Mr. Varma holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science (Honours) from Delhi University and also a Master's degree in Business Management from IILM, New Delhi.

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

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 17 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.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and has a Certificate in Global Business Leadership from Harvard Business School Publishing.

Sanjeev Handa
VP & Head Marketing, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd

Sanjeev is an Indian School of Business- Hyderabad Alumni and an Economics Graduate with over two decades of varied experience in Marketing, Strategy, Brand Management, Advertising, CRM and Sales in leading global organizations across varied industries. His expertise has been in strategizing and creating innovative marketing plans, steering the execution of marketing programs and new product launches. He has demonstrated success by driving growth in targeted markets through implementation of key projects.

As Vice President and Head of Marketing at Maruti Suzuki India Limited, he is presently leading planning and strategy for all future and present products in Maruti's portfolio and also all the CRM and loyalty initiatives. Over the past nine years at Maruti Suzuki, he has orchestrated and augmented strategies for launch of the power brands in Maruti's portfolio – Swift Diesel, Maruti SX4, Swift Dzire, Grand Vitara and Kizashi. He's enabled Swift's turnaround and shaped it up to become an iconic brand in India.

Saurabh Gadgil
Chairman and managing director, P N Gadgil Jewelers

Creatively blending the age-old tradition with technology in a surging and booming Indian economy, the dynamic scion of the powerful, established business house, Saurabh Vidyadhar Gadgil holds the spirit and modern vision for P. N. Gadgil Jewellers.

A sixth-generation successor of the distinguished Gadgil family – pioneers in the gold and jewellery industry of Maharashtra, Saurabh has been instrumental in transforming the image of PNG to a professionally run corporate entity with global ambitions.

An ardent sports enthusiast, he has been a champion at many a chess competition, as well as being good enough to finish second at the national championship. Saurabh is a passionate, voracious reader with eclectic tastes, besides being a movie and travel buff.

From a single traditional store to a rapidly growing chain of outlets today, PNG today boasts of 24 swanky classy stores across India, U.S.A & Dubai. It's remarkable that the turnover of PNG before Saurabh stepped in was USD 8 Million in the year 2000, and today stands on a whooping USD 291 Million with over 1300 employees and 500 Karagirs (Craftsmen) under its umbrella.

Over the year's business diversified under his ever-advancing intellect and flourished through Gadgil Holdings Pvt Ltd established in the year 2008.

Under which he ventured into:

• 'Gadgil Hotels Pvt. Ltd.', he ventured into the hospitality industry with 'Post 91' at Koregaon Park and Baner, a buffet restaurant has become popular in Pune within a remarkably short span of time.
• 'Dajikaka Gadgil Developers Pvt Ltd' is another step that Saurabh set into the expansive field of real estate arena.
• Gadgil Diamonds is the latest venture in diamond jewellery manufacturing and is situated in Mumbai. The brand supplies diamond jewellery to PNG and other jewelers across India as also exports it to Middle East & USA.
• 'Seamless Education Academy Pvt. Ltd', a training institute for Broadcast Media, Sound Engineering, Animation Training and Gaming along with on the job training with our very own in house world-class animation & visual effects studio facilities named 'Toolbox Animation Studio'.

Launch of Think Pure – A social welfare Foundation:

The Foundation aims to provide financial and volunteer assistance to the NGOs and will also participate in thought leadership and helping them to further their vision and execution.

"Think Pure Foundation" has three basic tenets,

1. The care and wellbeing of the aged
2. Vocational education, especially in the field of music
3. The education and empowerment of women

This intense step ahead to launch Think pure was initiated by Saurabh Gadgil.

Viraj Jit Singh
Chief Marketing Officer, KidZania India

VIRAJ JIT SINGH is the Chief Marketing Officer of KidZania India, the global indoor theme park that inspires, educates, and empowers kids, helping them understand and manage their world better. Viraj joined the organisation in March 2012 and his responsibility is to lead three key divisions – Strategic Brand Partnerships, Marketing, and Group Visitations.
With nearly two decades of experience, Viraj has immense proficiency in a wide gamut of roles, including market strategy, integrated marketing, ad and sponsorship sales, brand marketing, and inventory management.
Born and brought up in Delhi, Viraj is an alumnus of the Doon School and has a PGP Degree in Management with a major in 'Strategic Marketing' and 'Leadership and Change Management' from The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (2006).
On the professional front, Viraj started as the sole distributor and marketer for Wilson Sporting Goods in India in 1997. He then chartered a path in mass media, working with ESPN Star Sports, followed by Reliance Broadcasting and MTV India – Viacom 18, before taking over as the CMO in KidZania.
Under his leadership, KidZania India has been able to drive revenue through sponsorship sales and increased footfalls through group visitations. As the custodian of the brand, his role is to identify corporate positioning and identity, ensure strong relationships with customers, build brand awareness and affinity through marketing campaigns, public relations, social media, and integrated marketing.
Viraj's long-term goal for KidZania is to expand the brand's India footprint by successfully launching 3 key centres in the country, and then adapting the format to smaller, but key markets.
As a part of its CSR initiatives, KidZania India commits to 10,000 NGO visitations, annually. This ensures that underprivileged children get an opportunity to visit KidZania and experience career opportunities that they may never get exposure to. Viraj has been instrumental in creating long term partnerships with NGOs like Magic Bus and Make A Wish Foundation, among others, to support this cause.
He was recently awarded the "Most Talented Marketing Professional" at the Corporate Excellence Awards hosted by the World Marketing Congress in 2014.
A passionate golfer, Viraj loves the outdoors and adventure sports, having completed his diving certificate in Koh Tao and cliff-jumping in Croatia. His bucket list includes a trek to the Everest base camp and sky diving. He resides with his wife in New Delhi.

Gerard Jayaranjan
Digital Creative Head, FCB Ulka Digital

With over 15 years of experience in the advertising industry, Gerard is a multiple award winner with Cannes, New York Festivals, ABBYs, etc. in his kitty. Ranked amongst the top 1000 creatives in Asia by Campaign Brief Asia, his formative stints at agencies like McCann Erickson, DDB Mudra, FCB Ulka, TBWA and Havas has grounded him with a strong sense of brand and strategy, while Digital as a medium is his playground. Brands Experience: Jaguar and Land Rover (Digital), Skoda (Digital), Tata Value Homes (Digital), Asian paints (digital), Shoppers Stop (Digital and Loyalty), Slice (Digital), Wills Lifestyle (Digital), UTI Mutual Funds (Digital), Truly Madly (Digital), starsports.com (Digital), hotstar (digital), Nokia (digital), Star World (Digital), Sony Music (Digital), Adidas, The History Channel, National Geographic Channel, Men's Health, HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, Baskin Robbins.

Goutam Das
Senior Manager / IMC Godrej, Interio

Goutam is a part of the brand #GodrejInterio as Senior Manager - Marketing, leading growth of the brand, market share, customer experience, and creating an omni-channel presence for users. He is associated with the brand for last 10 years.

First half of his career was strongly rooted into Sales & Marketing. He has got this advantage of Sales while working with retail outlets of Godrej Interio, Godrej Lifespace (Retail division) & Maruti Suzuki where interaction with customers, which helped him in understanding the buying psyche and insights of consumers.

Second half of Goutam’s career revolved around integrated marketing communications for the brand in the Domestic Market. He was fortunate to lead the Godrej brand as part of the Strategic Marketing Group (SMG) that heads the marketing and communication initiatives primarily for the Godrej master brand

His exposure to various brands and brand communications has helped him grow as a rounded communications person.

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.

Priyanka Tiku
VP & Head Marketing, CNBC TV18

Priyanka Tiku has 14 years of experience across multiple media platforms. She has been an important part of the Network's early diversification and helped launch two of its most successful brands CNBC AWAAZ and FORBES INDIA. She currently leads the Brand Marketing function of three major business brands of the network – CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz & Forbes India.
Her understanding of news consumption coupled with her early foray into the world of entertainment have powered her superior understanding of content consumption in India. A true ideas person, she has been instrumental in powering CNBC Awaaz, Forbes India and now, CNBC-TV18 by building concise and meaningful solutions, be it for routine operational issues or larger strategic decisions. Each of these channels have taken great strides under her strong marketing acumen. Her ability to judge the changing needs of the market have always ensured that the brands under her are frontrunners in their respective genres.
Prior to working at Network18, Priyanka has worked with Zee Turner, Zee TV and HCL.

Rajshekar Patil
Creative Director, TBWA\ India

Rajshekar Patil is a Creative Director with TBWA\Media Arts Lab Mumbai. With over 12 years in advertising, he has worked with BBH Mumbai, Grey Mumbai and O&M Bangalore. He co-founded Snap Counsellors, the world's first teen abuse helpline on Snapchat, which was presented as a TEDX talk in Esade, Barcelona. The platform recently won two Blue Elephants at Kyoorius Awards. Raj has also won at the One Show, Cannes and Abby's.

Saraswathi Laxman
Head Marketing, ABP NEWS NETWORK PVT.LTD

A highly motivated marketing professional with over 18 years of work experience across advertising and marketing in categories ranging from Media, Retail, FMCG, Healthcare etc. A strategic thinker with strong execution capabilities, has in depth knowledge across domains of marketing, innovation, communication development, research and activation in both developed and emerging markets cross South Asia.

A passionate, self driven professional who leads with human sensitivity and in the spirit of collaboration. An expert in developing and executing brand positioning and identity. Has a proven track record in leadership roles, having launched 2 start- ups and currently heading the Marketing function for ABP News Network Pvt Ltd

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.

Shantanu Gangane
Head - Marketing, TIMES NOW, ET NOW, Zoom, Magicbricks NOW, Times Television Network

With 13 years of rich experience in the field of media marketing & deep-rooted understanding of consumer behaviour in the entertainment sector, Shantanu is one of the most sought after industry experts today.
From successfully launching MOVIES NOW to the recent launch of Magicbricks NOW and the relaunch of Zoom, Shantanu Gangane'smetier has seen many faces of the media and entertainment industry. As the Marketing Lead for Times Network, Shantanu is responsible for ensuring a strong positive imagery for the Network brands.
Shantanu started his career with Hungama.com worked on the content development & later moved to FCB Ulka as a part of the client servicing team where he handled prestigious brands like Amul, Zee, Bajaj Consumer Products, etc.
Shantanu has been on the marketing and brand development of many prestigious brands – Nick, MTV and Radio City amongst others. His stint with Radio City as a Brand Manager opened new avenues of brand marketing through the online medium. His role in planning for shows, research on music, programming content development to launch of new shows helped shape the channel.
With excellent marketing expertise, Shantanu then moved to Viacom 18 as Manager Marketing. The challenge here was to create a 360 degree consumer marketing communication for new and existing shows. Some of the successful projects undertaken by him – MTV Roadies, MTV iSuperstar, Fully Faltoo Films Festival, Stunt Mania and Splitsvilla amongst others.
Shantanu holds a Master's degree in Management Studies from the renowned Welingkar's Institute of Management Development & Research.

Shivani Dhanda
Director Marketing, eBay India

Shivani heads the marketing function at eBay and part of the core management team that drives the overall business strategy, decision-making and runs the operations in India.
Shivani has been responsible for efficiently scaling the consumer base by driving organizational thought leadership in catering to the Indian online buyers while adopting an open marketplace model. She envisioned and designed a data analytics& ad-tech led integrated digital strategy for accelerated buyer acquisition, engagement and retention. Thereby building a strong consumer-relevant Internet brand with sustained business growth while leveraging the largest and most unique product selection on eBay.
My professional career spans over 14 years in Sales, Marketing & Brand Management across diverse sectors like ecommerce, telecom, media & entertainment. Over the years, shivani has pivoted her expertise from being a traditional brand marketer to being the leading edge of digital technology marketers in India. She is inspired to solve complex consumer challenges through brand innovations and new age technology solutions while driving a high performance team culture. Shivani is an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune University.
Recent Achievements Shivani has been at the helm, establishing eBay as a strong ecommerce player in India that has grown its consumer base to 6X scale in the last 2 years in a highly competitive and heavy investment burn rate industry. She achieved this by evolving a differentiated playbook with a multi-channel digital marketing DNA at it's core – driving the contribution of direct response marketing channels from 18% to 70% of Sales, enabling eBay to achieve internal business growth targets in line with industry growth rates with minimal spends and cost effective unit economics.
Shivani has been at forefront of built dynamically responsive automated systems for IM &CRM driving best in class efficiencies and user engagement. Under her leadership, eBay garnered the position of the most engaged ecommerce brand on social media through an innovative content marketing strategy.

Sujata Dwibedy
Executive Vice President, Carat Media

Sujata is the lead on Mondelez business at Carat, India. She is a high-energy, result oriented person, who is hands on and proficient in media planning, media buying, brand strategy, syndicated and customized media research. She is best recognized for thinking innovatively for the brands she handles; providing customized marketing communication solutions to address brand needs, backed by research. She believes that creativity and strategy go hand in hand today.

Sujata has over 17 years of experience across all media facets. The spectrum of industries she has worked on range from FMCG, Telecom, Tourism, Airlines, Beverages and Financial Sector.

Was awarded for her outstanding work during her Media buying stint, and has worked extensively beyond regular advertising on AFPs & innovations.

In her business lead role she is working closely with the DAN specialists to develop and deliver marketing communications solutions alongside media engagement solutions.

Sunil Shetty
Senior Vice President – Strategic Planning, Contract Advertising

Sunil is Senior Vice President & Head – Strategic Planning, Mumbai at Contract Advertising,

Sunil started his advertising career in account management before shifting to planning almost 10 years ago.

He has held senior positions in strategic planning across India and South East Asia.

Prior to this, he has worked on the client side with organisations like Philips and ICICI

Vikas Sachdeva
Corporate Marketing Manager, Mahindra First Choice Service

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.