Arun Anant
‎Director of Revenue and Strategy, HT Media Limited

Arun has over 25 years of experience in Advertising, Marketing and Media. He started his career with Lintas in the year 1988, where he worked for over 11 years in Client Servicing , Market Research and Account Planning. During this stint, he worked with several large Multinational Clients such as Unilever, Cadburys and Philips. He has worked with two other major Media groups - first as Business Head for Economic Times between 2003 and 2007 and subsequently from 2007 to 2008 he was the CEO of UTV News (later rechristened as Bloomberg TV). He also had entrepreneur stints, first with Myiris.com, a Stock Market content portal in the year 2000-2002 and later between 2008-2011 with Incvalue Advisory a consultancy focussed on Strategy and Innovation for startups. Before joining HT Media Arun was the CEO of The Kasturi & Sons (publisher of The Hindu).

Arun was responsible for several initiatives including launch of the first ever Tamil newspaper from the group, the expansion of The Hindu in Bangalore and managing in an intensive competitive launch in Tamil Nadu.

Ashish Bhasin
‎Chairman & CEO South Asia Dentsu Aegis Network, Chairman Posterscope & MKTG - Asia Pacific

Ashish Bhasin, a globally recognized media veteran, has been part of the Media, Advertising & Marketing community for the past 29 years. Currently, Chairman & CEO Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia and Chairman Posterscope & MKTG – Asia Pacific, Ashish was named the Media CEO of the Year (India) and Chairman of the Year (India) by the much prestigious Business Excellence Awards during its 2013 and 2014 editions. He was named the South Agency Head of the Year Title at the Campaign South Asia "Agency Of Year" Award Ceremony last year and was announced the Star Performer-APAC in Dentsu Aegis Global Awards. He was also recently nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of the Year Award this year.

Ashish serves or has served on most industry bodies in India, including chairing the AAAI – IBF committee, Hon-Secretary & Executive Committee Member of AAAI, Goafest Committee member, Chairman Goafest Media Abbys 2012 & 2013, presently Vice President of AAAI, former Chairman of the Readership Studies Council of India and Board of Governors of MRUC. He is also the Founding Chairman of the Sydenham Institute of Management's Alumni Association, amongst others.

A recipient of the Indira Super Achiever Award in 2003, Ashish has served on several global juries including Cannes Lion 2016, Cannes Lion 2007, Dubai Lynx 2008, Festival of Media Global 2013 at Montreux and Asia's Most Promising Brands and Leaders 2013 in Dubai.

Ashish is known for turning loss-making entities into ambitious stories. For instance, when he joined Aegis Media in June 2008 at the cusp of global recession, the company was a loss-making, 50-people company. However, within less than six years of taking up the onus of turning its fate around, Ashish transformed Dentsu Aegis Network into a 2200-people strong company.

Avinash Pandey
‎Chief Revenue Officer – ANN And COO, ABP News

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Ashish Sehgal
‎COO, Zee Unimedia

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Partho Dasgupta
‎Chief Executive Officer, BARC India

A General Management professional having experience in diverse consumer industries and media management experience in print, television and out of home.

A keen observer of consumer and media trends, Partho now is the first CEO of BARC, the joint initiative of Broadcasters, Advertising agencies and Advertisors to develop a new Broadcast Audience Measurement system. His larger career has been in Media and consumer industries where he did large and small start-up media projects. Partho has led start-up teams and management teams of Times Now, Future Media, The Economic Times and Times Multimedia.

Specialties: Building businesses and brands

Sabyasachi Mitter
‎Managing Director, ibs

From designing websites to executing end-to-end digital campaigns for the top brands in the country, Sabyasachi has seen the digital evolution in the country. Though earlier forced into the world of engineering, creative forces actually sucked Sabyasachi back and he finally found what he wanted to do in Asian Paints.

He worked with Asian Paints till 2003 before taking the bold decision to quit his job to set up IBS. Working along with his wife from their second bedroom, He has truly seen digital evolving in the country.

IBS is now more than an eleven-year-old company and has created its mark in the digital industry in the country. Starting up with a few freelance developers, today IBS has offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata with an international expansion in Singapore. The agency has more than 150 people working and has executed some very interesting digital campaigns, while at the same time it has been filing patents for the product innovations being done at its end.

Siddharth Banerjee
‎Senior Vice President- Marketing Vodafone India Ltd

Siddharth Banerjee is an experienced consumer business leader & is currently the Senior Vice President (SVP) - Marketing and Head of Brands, Insights, Activation & Digital at Vodafone India.

In his 15 years of FMCG / CPG experience, including the last 13 years in Unilever, Siddharth has worked across Country P&L roles and Global / Regional Brand Marketing roles, with rich exposure across Developing & Emerging Markets. His last role in Unilever was as the Country Marketing Director / CMO & a member of the Management Committee at Unilever Sri Lanka. He has lived & worked across India, Singapore, the UK & Sri Lanka.

Siddharth is an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow & holds B.A. Economics (Honours) and M.B.A degrees from the University of Delhi. He is a National Talent Scholar, the highly competitive scholarship under the aegis of NCERT - Government of India. Siddharth has also been awarded the Chevening-Rolls Royce Innovation Scholarship to study at Oxford, under the prestigious UK Government Chevening Scholarship Scheme.

Siddharth is a published author and a top-ranked speaker on Business Innovation and Consumer Marketing at industry conferences across the Asia Pacific Region.

Sudip Ghose
‎Vice President- Marketing, VIP Industries

With over 14 years of experience in a spectrum of fields, Mr. Sudip Ghose has come a long way from a humble beginning with an advertising agency.

Mr.Gose started his career as a client servicing executive at an advertising firm only to move on to work with Bausch and Lomb, Whirlpool India, Mirc Electronics and finally fulfilled the responsibilities as Marketing Head for Reliance Communications' PCO business. At Samsonite, he has successfully managed 2 large brands – American Tourister and Samsonite.He is currently the Vice President- Marketing for VIP Industries

Mr. Ghose holds a Masters in Business Administrations from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and a Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising from Clarion College of Communications.

An ardent cricket lover and a sportsman himself, Mr. Ghose follows the sport intently. He also loves reading fiction in his free time. With a personal and professional goal of ensuring complete leadership in the industry, Sudip feels that a brand needs to play a 20: 20 match for every new launch and announcement of a product and yet understands that a 'brand' can only be built over a period of time with a test match.