Amin Lakhani
Leader, South Asia, Team Unilver, Mindhsare

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Anindita Chatterjee
Head of Marketing and Ecommerce, Welspun Group

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Basabdatta Chowdhuri
COO,Starcom India

Basab joined Starcom from Madison Media. She has about 22 years of experience in all facets of Media ranging from Planning, Buying, Operations. Responsible for aggressive growth and new business wins for her previous organization including prestigious business like Airtel, General Motors ,Snapdeal and ITC making her office enviably large and respected in the market.

She was one of the key architects of recently concluded most successful election campaign for BJP.

She has worked across a wide range of product categories including FMCG, Telecom. Auto . Finance and Consumer Durables.

She has worked on some of the world’s largest advertisers like Coke and GM.

She has won the prestigious Cannes Lion and Festival of Media Global ‘Best Communication strategy’ award for work done for AIDS on behalf on BBC Media Action ( erstwhile BBC WST)

Bobby Pawar
Managing Director & Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Worldwide

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Debraj Tripathy
Managing Director, MediaCom India

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Dhunji S. Wadia
President, Rediffusion-Y&R

Personal
Degree: Graduate in Commerce and Master’s in Marketing Management from The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Bombay University

Work Experience
Over 25 years of experience in the Advertising Industry having worked on major national and international brands (Nike, Levi Strauss, Jockey, Unilever, Diamond Trading Co, Kellogg, TATA Motors, Aditya Birla Group, SONY Entertainment Television – MAX and SAB, Standard Chartered, Parle, Kotak to name just a few).

Work Highlights

• Dhunji is President at Rediffusion Y&R, India. This is in addition to his role as President, Everest Brand Solutions.
• Dhunji joined the Rediffusion Y&R Group in 2010. He has been with the company for over 5 years.
• With over 25 years of experience in the business Dhunji has been associated with major national and international brands (Parle, TATA, Unilever, Nike, Levi Strauss, Diamond Trading Co, Kellogg, Aditya Birla Group, SONY Entertainment Television – MAX and SAB, Kotak to name just a few).
• Armed with a wealth of strategic knowledge and business acumen, Dhunji’s current focus is on championing the kind of creative thinking that breaks myths, pushes envelopes, propels brands and drives business. Under his leadershipRediffusion-Y&R has grown at a fast pace and has built a formidable reputation on its professional capabilities across a diverse spectrum of marketing communication services.
• In 2013, Everest won the Brand Revitalisation Award for Brand Everest, at the ‘Global Excellence Awards' by World Brand Congress. Everest was also adjudged the ‘Happiest Agency in India’ by the AFAQS’ Agency Happiness Report 2013 (independently conducted across all Indian advertising agencies by IPSOS).
• He has been the Managing Partner at JWT, the agency where he spent 18 years of his career.
• JWT made history in 2008 having won a Grand Prix and an Integrated/Titanium Cannes Lion, both a first for India. JWT also won the Grand Prix at The Jay Chiat Planning Awards 2008, a first for India yet again.
• This year, Rediffusion-Y&R picked up 2 Cannes Lionsfor TATA Motors ‘Use Dipper At Night’ campaign.
• Google search Dhunji Wadia or email dhunji.wadia@rediffusionyr.com

Gaurav Suri
Senior EVP Head Marketing, UTI Asset Management Company Ltd

Gaurav Suri provides leadership to the marketing and communication functions for the UTI Asset Management Company Ltd. His other responsibilities include Brand building, Channel and Product marketing, MIS and Analytics. He also drives other emergent channels like Internet, the Contact Centre and technology led strategic initiatives like M Commerce within the organization.

His previous assignment was as Director Marketing and Product Development, Metlife. Having worked with a variety of companies such as FMCG Majors (Britannia Industries Limited-Danone group and Perfetti Van Melle} and the Insurance industry, he has over 21 years of diverse experience.

After completing his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical} from Regional Engineering College, Bhopal he went on to earn his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Harsha Joshi
Executive Vice President – Group Trading, Dentsu Aegis Network

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Himanka Das
Executive Vice President – West, Carat India

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Partha Sinha
Vice Chairman and Managing Director, McCann Worldgroup

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Pops KV sridhar
Chief Creative Officer India SapientNitro

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Sandeep Sharma
President, R K Swamy Media Group

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Shavon Barua
Managing Partner PHD Media, Omnicom Media Group (PHD)

Currently Managing Partner with PHD India. In charge of a wide and diverse team of Digital and Mainline Media professionals. Currently managing the entire Unilever Digital media account and building up a rapidly increasing portfolio of business. With close to two decades of advertising and communications experience, Shavon has led P& L on verticals like mainline advertising, digital, health, experiential and engagement in her career. She has previously worked with Havas Worldwide, JWT, Y&R, Publicis and Lowe. In these agencies she has worked on Global majors like Colgate Palmolive, PepsiCo, Nestle, Reckitt Benkiser, IBM, Sanofi to name a few. She has also been proud to be associated with many big Indian brands like HDFC and BPCL. A History major from Presidency College, Kolkata and has done an Executive Leadership Excellence Program from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Vanita Keswani
CEO, Madison Sigma

Vanita Keswani is passionate about strategic media planning and insights as well as driving media buying for diverse categories with almost 20 years of experience in Madison Media. She has led media planning and buying across categories and businesses, ranging from Coca Cola, Godrej Consumer Products, Pidilite, McDonalds, Tata Chemicals, Ceat, Piramal and many others.

She is a product of The Times School of Marketing and started her career with Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd. She worked with various departments of Times of India, the last one being Times FM, where she was involved in sales and marketing as well as planning of on ground events.

Personally, as part of her spiritual journey, she practices Nicherin Daishonin Buddhism Her husband is a Cinematographer and her daughter is pursuing graduation in Communications Design.

Vijay Jain
CEO and Director,ORRA

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