Anand Dubey
Head – Consumer Marketing, IndusInd Bank Limited

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Akshali Shah
VP – Strategy & Marketing, Parag Milk Foods

Akshali Shah is currently the VP- Strategy (Sales & Marketing) at Parag Milk Foods Ltd, one of the largest private dairy player and manufacturer of leading brands Gowardhan (house-hold consumption and to be used as cooking ingredients like Ghee, Paneer, Dahi), Go (Targeted at children and the youth generation, primarily for direct consumption), Topp up (Targeted at the youth generation and travelers as a source of instant nourishment)

Pride of Cows (Farm-to- home concept of milk, directly delivered from the farm to a consumer’s door-step, through a subscription model. Targeted at household consumers seeking premium quality cow’s milk) and Avvatar (Absolute Whey Protein).

In her current role, she is keenly involved in branding, marketing and advertising strategy, category intelligence and competitive analysis.

Even though she is part of the family that runs the business, Akshali joined the company as Management Trainee and has had cross functional experience and has risen to this level. She has spent her formative years in sales, brand management, customer marketing and in understanding the dynamics of the business in order to hone her skills to grow and shoulder bigger responsibilities in the company. She played a key role in the revamping of the corporate identity and has brought in new innovation in all aspects of branding, public image, marketing and advertising strategy, sales campaigns and marketing metrics of the company.

Her keen understanding of Information Technology & Digital space has helped Parag Milk Foods Ltd. enhance their overall brand visibility on social media and build a strong digital presence. She is also involved in driving strategic marketing investment planning and also build the internal marketing talent pool for the company with her team size today being 20 member strong

Ms. Shah holds an MBA post graduate degree in Family Managed Business from S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and brings in strategic thinking with exceptional marketing management skills and has a pragmatic and collaborative style of working. She holds a critical role as VP – Strategy, in the organisation as the organisation is on this journey of transformation to being a Dairy FMCG company with focus on health & nutrition.

Akshali is an ardent globe trotter a trait which she has inherited from her Dad which has helped her understand the global cues in the dairy industry and its influence on India and hence helps put in place and work upon the ever evolving changes in business. She strongly believes in the theory of “Think Global & Act Local”

Bharat Kharbanda
Marketing Head, Assistant Vice President, Electric Fans & Home Comfort Business, Usha International

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Chandrahas Panigrahi
Sr. Director and Consumer Business Head, ACER

Chandrahas has been influential in building ACER’s consumer business where he has been responsible for overall P&L, sales and marketing across multiple categories in South Asia. He is now responsible for facilitating growth, sales and marketing strategy. Panigrahi brings with him a go-to- market experience to ensure the continued growth momentum of ACER’s business across the region.

During his tenure, Chandrahas led the expansion of ACER into a full service entertainment brand, monitoring market Intelligence and formulating and implementing important policies. Under his leadership, ACER has built strong associations with its channel partners and customers to increase its brand presence across the length and breadth of the country. Mr. Panigrahi comes with 15 years of rich industry experience with leading companies in the technology domain spanning components and personal computing, having worked in different profiles ranging from consumer business, retail management, product management, marketing and distribution. Chandrahas is poised to leverage the existing successful platform and redefine marketing with his thoughtful analysis and insightful perspective.

Deepti Dang
Chief Marketing Officer, Printing System, HP India

With over 18 years of experience, Deepti is a passionate marketer; always challenging the status quo and looking beyond the obvious to drive marketing strategies that deliver strong business results. She has worked on brands like Nestle, Coke, Gillette, Reckitt & Coleman, Dabur and has spearheaded many successful campaigns.

In Hewlett & Packard she has done various roles within the sales and marketing function and led the Retail marketing in her last role. Currently as a marketing lead for printing systems, Deepti is seeking to change the way consumers perceive this category and also the way brand communicates with its consumers.

Her first passion being her work, in which she totally thrives …Deepti also enjoys reading & theater and loves exploring new places and is a keen observer of human behavior.

Kanika Mittal
Director - Brand Marketing and Communications, Reebok India

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Neeraj Bhatia
CMO, Shell Lubricants, India

A seasoned professional with over 26 years of experience, took over the role of Chief Marketing Officer of Shell Lubricants India in August 2016. His current role at Shell lubricants involves business building, organization excellence, growing brand equity and optimizing investments across the markets of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

With expertise in brand management, advertising and marketing & sales management, his experience also spans across areas of business development & channel management, strategic planning, and market research.

Neeraj’s professional journey at Shell began in 2013 as the head of Business Development with OEMs. Under Neeraj’s eminent leadership, the team at Shell Lubricants has worked towards delivering strong growth and big wins. As a passionate coach, Neeraj has led the sales excellence journey for the Shell India sales teams. Throughout his career, Neeraj has held many leadership and industry eminent positions. Amongst his many roles, he was part of the leadership team at JK Tyre; served as the General Manager for the Automotive vertical of TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres), midst others.

Neeraj is an engineering graduate, has pursued a MBA and his academic qualifications include special courses in Strategic Marketing Planning from University of Michigan Business School; and Strategic Leadership Program from Harvard Business School, among others.

A father of two, an absolute foodie; he enjoys a variety of cuisines, likes to travel, read, play tennis and is passionate about cars.

Shipra Srivastava
Director- Marketing, OLX India

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