Adam has over 10 years marketing experience in the out-of-home industry and worked in UK, China and South East Asia Markets. Adam moved to Asia to help launch Outdoor Specialist Kinetic Worldwide in early 2005. By 2007 Adam was Client Service Director working across all GroupM Agencies.In 2008 Adam moved to Shanghai China just in time for the Kinetic China launch to take up a new position of Director – Planning. Adam has moved back to Kinetic Singapore mid 2010 to take up a regional Asia Pacific role focused on driving tools, strategic research and insights .

Sanjay Pareek has a BSc Degree with a Masters in Management Studies (Marketing) from Mumbai University. He has had a professional exposure of over 20 years in the FMCG, Consumer Durable, Service, Infrastructure and Consulting space, and has always challenged existing business models, creating new and successful ones in highly complex and competitive environments. His corporate culture exposure varies from Fortune 500 MNC’s with a matrix reporting structure, to medium sized Indian companies. His expertise lies in leading and building successful start-up businesses and managing and growing existing business through acquisition and partnership with team sizes ranging from 10 to 1,000+ personnel.

Sanjay’s professional career started with GTC Industries where he launched the ‘Roll your own Tobacco’ in a breakthrough packaging, introduced first time in India. He later moved on to Blow Plast, where he was involved in launching System Furniture and Ergonomic Seating with foreign partners. Sodexho was the next stop where he was responsible for the launch of Sodexho Facilities Management (FM) in India with the self-management concept. This model has become the benchmark of quality and service in the Indian FM industry within a short period of time. Sanjay, later joined Visionaire, a Canadian company’s Indian Operations (Audio Visual System Integration company), working in Audio Visual projects in the field of distance learning, National Networking Operation centres, and high end Audio Visual facilities with cutting edge technology.

At Percept Out of Home, Sanjay added two more verticals to the existing business of Outdoor viz. Retail and Rural, to offer a complete 360-degree solution to clients in the OOH space.

Both the divisions in three years have achieved critical mass. He also enabled these businesses with technology for better planning and monitoring to offer better value to its customers across verticals. Today the 3 OOH verticals, service clients across the sectors of Telecom, Entertainment, Consumer Durables, Retail, Banking & Finance, Express Courier, Clothing & Textile, Jewellery, Lifestyle and Agro-based products. Sanjay also indulges in photography, travelling and writing during his leisure time. Sanjay Pareek is President, Percept Out of Home.

Pratap is the Chief Operating Officer of the DDB Mudra Group & a member of the operating board. Pratap joined DDB Mudra from Ogilvy & Mather in 2008, where he worked for 15 years in various capacities, and went on to become their youngest CEO in 2006. He currently drives the vision and growth strategy for the DDB Mudra Group comprising of 3 independent agencies which are Mudra Advertising, DDB Mudra and DDB Mudra Max.

Pratap in his media capacity, is also the Chief Executive Officer of DDB Mudra Max and is responsible for the 17 specialist units which come under the Mudra Max Umbrella. Pratap is married with 2 children, and his ambition is to be a wildlife game warden in the Masai Mara when he retires.

Rajan Mehta founded LiveMedia, India’s largest digital destination media company, in July, 2006. The company has a national presence and a current employee strength of over 100. Prior to launching LiveMedia, Mehta had a very successful corporate career in the IT and telecom industries, working across all major functions, including sales, marketing, business development, engineering, project implementation and project management.

His last assignment was as Vice-President and Member of the Board of Directors for India of Nortel Networks Inc.Earlier, in Nortel, Mehta held positions as diverse as Executive Assistant to the President for Asia-Pacific and Director-Business Development for India.Prior to joining Nortel Networks, Mehta worked for companies such as Motorola, Ascom and Crompton Greaves,. Mehta is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.

Harjaap Singh Mann is the Founder and Managing Director of Proof of Performance Data Services Pvt. Ltd. His responsibilities include providing strategic direction and spearheading the overall functioning of the company. Harjaap also plays an active role in business development.

Having founded Proof of Performance (PoP) in 2010, Harjaap submitted the venture to The Economic Times Power of Ideas Initiative in 2010 and was selected among top 15 businesses out of 16242 entries, and attended the incubation workshop at IIM Ahmedabad thereafter. He was able to garner seed funding from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and also angel funding from Yournest.

Harjaap has steered PoP to create a platform that is set to transform the way the Industry has been working. PoP now has one of the world's largest OOH asset universes on the cloud, with more than 40,000 media assets across 30 cities, covering 11000 kms and producing 600 hours of videos every fortnight. The innovation is now going further to create the platform for planning and rating, research for ROI computations etc. Harjaap has three patents filed already, and is an invited speaker to various Entrepreneurship and Industry forums.

An entrepreneur at a very young age, Harjaap’s first client was Assam University. He then explored several entrepreneurial and joint venture opportunities in technology, media and security projects. Among his various interests, Harjaap was also a founder president of an NGO that works with people with disabilities.

Harjaap holds a computer engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar.

Noomi Mehta is the Chairman and Managing Director of Selvel One Group, a well-known name in the industry and is also the Chairman and Director of Indian Outdoor Advertising Association, a national body formed to represent Indian OOH companies.

He pioneered large format digital printing in India, promoted and established Megasel Pvtltd,which later became MMT(India)Pvt ltd.He also founded Laser Advertising Ltd, a joint venture with MMT USA for promoting outdoor advertising in India.Noomi Mehta is also the director and joint owner of Professional management group (P.M.G),India’s first sports management company.He is also serving as Director and founder of Outdoor advertising professionals (India)Pvt ltd, a joint venture between Redifussion DY&R and Selvel Vantage group.Noomi is also the Director and Founder of Oval Developers Pvt Ltd.He is also the Chairman of the Marketing and Trade Fairs Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Eastern India.

An advertising veteran, Ishan has over 25 years experience in advertising and media. An MBA from Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Calcutta, Ishan has lent his management expertise to several leading advertising agencies including Lintas and Contract Advertising (a subsidiary of JWT) in India.

In 1995, at age 37, Ishan became the Founder-CEO & Joint-venture Partner of Euro RSCG Advertising Worldwide. In 1996, Business India selected him as one of the top 50 influential Indians under 40. From 1998 to 2006, Ishan served as Chairman and CEO of Euro RSCG group in India. He has also served as a board member for Euro RSCG Asia Pacific and a member of the Executive Committee of Euro RSCG Worldwide.

Ishan still serves as Chairman of MPG India (Havas Media) and Connecturf, India's online media solutions company.

Nabendu Bhattacharyya, Founder and Managing Director, Milestone Brandcom is a passionate ‘Out-of-Home Man’. He has redefined every leadership position that he has held in his corporate journey of over 20 years. He took the leap of faith to pursue his entrepreneurial dream in 2009. Since then, Bhattacharyya has already earned a reputation as one of the most successful OOH business entrepreneurs in India today.

He started his career with Selvel Media in Delhi , and then moved to Emirates Neon in Middle East & finally with Ogilvy for 11 years and last assignment being Ogilvy Action – President (India) , under his leadership Ogilvy Action controlled over 40% of Ooh Industry Spends. In 2009 Nabendu moved from Ogilvy to set up his own long-time dream organization Milestone Brandcom.

Mr. Pramod Bhandula is the Managing Director of JCDecaux India. He has a strong experience of 35 years in the Out of Home segment. Prior to joining JCDecaux, he was working with Selvel Media Services India as the Chief Operating officer. He has been instrumental in making changes in the Out of Home Industry in the country. Under his dynamic & visionary leadership, JCDecaux launched the Indian subsidiary JCDecaux India.

Suresh Balakrishna is the CEO of Lintas Initiative. Suresh brings over two and a half decades of media experience to the table. He had started with The Times of India Group. His media agency experience was with Lowe Lintas’ Initiative Media, where he worked as EVP and GM till 2003. He then joined The Hindustan Times as VP - Media & Marketing. In 2005, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) appointed him as Executive Vice-President, Marketing, and then moved him to DNA when ZEEL joined hands with the Bhaskar Group to launch DNA in Mumbai. He then joined Mail Today as COO in 2007.

Ms. Shaswati Saradar is the Director General at MRUC. Ms. Saradar started her career with McCann Erickson India and then moved on to Ogilvy and Mather as Media Director. She worked with Maruti Suzuki India Limited for 7 years and then joined Zee Network as Vice President and Head of Marketing for Europe & Russia before moving on to Media Research Users Council in Jan 2011.

Shaswati is an English Literature Honours Graduate from Presidency

College, Kolkata. She is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication with an academic Career of PG Diploma in Advertising and PR from the batch of 1995.

18 years as a Marketing Professional with extensive experience in domestic and global brands, Ms. Saradar has had expertise in building and managing multi product brands. She has a very good track record of Brand Portfolio Management, Strategy & Budgeting that have directly contributed to top-line growth and return on investments for a Brand.

Sunder Hemrajani has been associated with Times OOH since 2007. He has an overall corporate experience of 25 plus years. Prior to his association with Times OOH, Sunder was President - Distribution at Reliance Capital. Sunder started his career as a Management trainee at Hindustan Unilever & moved up the ladder to become the General Sales Manager. Thereon, he moved to work with companies like PepsiCo and Whirlpool at senior management levels in Sales. Sunder is a Mechanical Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering and holds a Masters' degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.

Vineet Trakroo has been practicing marketing for over 22 years, he has restructured companies and brands during this period. Having worked across diverse industries from fmcg, fmcd, otc, adhesives and branded commodities apart from an advertising agency. Currently heading marketing at Usha International, as V.P. Marketing he manages the complete marketing portfolio across all the business units of appliances, fans, sewing machines and water management products. He has recently refreshed the brand Usha with a new identity and a new product portfolio.

Vineet has headed marketing at CavinKare and Pidilite for Fevicol. He has set up marketing and sales operations for Beiersdorf and Ahmed Oil Mills- Postman oils and established many Indian and International brands. He specializes in portfolio management strategy and creating new opportunities with innovated products and distribution channels.

Vineet is an alumnus of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Manipal Institute of Technology. He was recently awarded in Feb 2013 as one of “50 Most Talented Brand Leaders of India” by CMO’s Council, and CMO Asia.

A passion & industriousness born of a hunger for success, a marketing & sales orientation with over twenty six years of hands on rich experience in print ad sales, publishing & OOH media, having worked with media groups, Sterling Newspapers, Dainik Bhaskar & Mid-day as well as being one of the core-team members that formed ,defined & cultivated Laqshya Media initially ,defines the career profile of this Masters in Marketing Management degree holder from the prestigious JBIMS, Mumbai.

Formerly, the CEO of ‘Outdoor Media Integrated’, which is the ooh media specialist agency of the Laqshya Media Group.
He was associated with the Laqshya Group for 13 years & has made a significant contribution in the Group’s growth .

Brands like HDFC Bank, Diageo India, Diageo Scotland, Shoppers’Stop, LG, Kingfisher Airlines, UB Breweries, Platinum Guild India Tata Docomo, JSW Energy & others form the core of the business of OMI.

He was also on the Technical committee of the Indian Outdoor Survey (IOS) which is being led by MRUC to bring about a common currency for the OOH Media industry.

His return to the Laqshya Media Group is to enable the group to 'Do the Next!!' a strategic initiative by the the group to take on the next generation of challenges in this dynamic & competitive business business environment.

He is blessed with people management skills and believes that people make up successful organizations, with the correct guidance, motivation & training, continuous excellence can be achieved.

He has strong interpersonal skills & leadership qualities which make him a formidable asset and a strong competitor.

Specialties:Advertising & Marketing, Strategy Formulation & Execution, Printing & Publishing, OOH Media, Executive Coaching

Amitesh Rao is a business leader and marketer who has worked with some of the biggest of global brands and with organizations at various stages of maturity. His 16 years of experience ranges from growth stage companies to enterprises, across conventional and emerging industry sectors including FMCG, telecom and software. His specialization lies in the area of building brands with strong consumer orientations emerging from a combination of deep consumer insight and research, market knowledge, life experiences, and creativity.

A management education from IIM Bangalore, together with his career experience, has given him rich perspective gained from many standpoints – as chief executive, marketing head, brand manager, sales manager and entrepreneur.

He currently works with MTS India as Director, Marketing in charge of Brand & Media.

Amitesh is an advocate of the belief that winning strategies in today’s emerging context are predicated on a view that goes beyond the boundaries of orthodox marketing and strategic thinking. His driving motivation has been in doing jobs that haven’t been done before.

Marketing & PR Director with Volvo Auto India, Sudeep has successfully driven all Marketing Communication Campaigns in his very enriching 4 years with the company. He works very closely with the global teams on their brand development campaigns and is solely responsible for driving and streamlining all initiatives of Volvo Cars in India. He is responsible for successfully launching the XC60, S80 and S60 in India. He recently announced the foray of Volvo Cars in the world of fashion by becoming the official car partner for Lakme Fashion Week 2012. Sudeep has over 16 years of experience starting with Advertising and moving on to the Automobile Industry. A sports enthusiast he is passionate about cricket and soccer and loves to explore adventure sports like rafting and mountaineering in his spare time. Sudeep is a post graduate from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is currently based in Delhi.

Rajul has been in the media business for just about 19 years now. Having seen media transition from the DD days to the current days of media mayhem, Rajul has traversed a long journey. In his 19 yearlongcareer, Rajul has worked with two of the most prominent Media brands in the Country. He spent 11 years in Universal McCann and 8 years in Groupm. At McCann Rajul joined as a management trainee and worked his way to being the VP of Media services. In his tenure at McCann, he not only grew the brand to becoming the second most influential media brand in media in Delhi, but also made it a n organisation to reckon with. Post his McCann days; Rajul went to work in Indonesia – with Zenith Optimedia – and then to Singapore – with CNBC Asia. Both of these were very short assignments lasting just under 2 years and his love for his country bought him back to India and he spent the next 8 years working with Groupm. In Groupm Rajul’s biggest achievement was managing Groupm’s youngest and smallest agency – Motivator. In a short span of 3 years, Rajul was able to create a strong media brand that was respected in the media world and was credited with being the most profitable agency in the Groupm system and amongst the top 15 agencies in the country. Post his stint at Motivator,Rajul took on the challenge of running WPP’s Out of Home agency – Kinetic, which he did for a period of 16 months. He has since called it a day @ WPP and is now heading for the biggest challenge of his life. He, along with a few of his colleagues, havedecided to take the entrepreneurial plunge. They are launching their own media agency in the very near future.

Dr.Alok Bharadwaj is Executive Vice President, Canon India. Under his leadership, Canon registered a record breaking expansion of 20 times in 12 years to emerge as a strong imaging industry leader in India.

Alok is a well known face of the industry & has garnered high recognition & respect. He has been listed in top 100 global influencers by ventureoutsource.com in 2012. He was conferred honorary doctorate in 2011 to signify his leadership and contribution to the industry. He has led Indian IT Hardware industry body ‘MAIT’ as President and is a Chairman of CII-OA & Imaging Division. He has been recognized as “The Best CMO of the Year” by CMO Council USA, “The Most Influential Person in Photography” and “Pride of the Industry Award for organization leadership”, “Corporate Executive of the Year”, “Most Favorite Country Manager” and the “Most Dynamic Marketing professional in Powerbrand hall of fame” to name a few. He has been listed in ‘THE ‘A’ LIST’ of who’s who in media, marketing & Advertising industry He is a common face in many industry forums, panels and Juries. Alok takes active interest in Industry Academia interface. To recognize his contribution to leadership in marketing, nation building & society, Alok was presented ‘Outstanding Global Manager’ award in April 2012.

Dr. Alok is an MBA from the FMS, Delhi and an alumni of Executive Program of IMD Lausanne. He has also worked with Motorola India, Usha International and Voltas.

Ritesh Bhatnagar is DGM- Brand at Aircel.

He is responsible for devising all strategy and communication for the brand, which includes the complete product portfolio for the organization Ritesh possesses rich experience in the domain of brand management, strategy, sales and advertising. Has a vast professional experience in handling various challenging assignments and serving in various capacities with leading corporates like JWT, Ogilvy and Mather and UB Group for over a decade.

Sumeet Pahwa is a practicing marketer with 16 years of experience. He has worked across various brands & categories.

Currently, he is General Manager – Marketing at Tata Teleservices (Tata Docomo & Virgin Mobile) based at the corporate office. He was part of the brand launch team of Tata Docomo. In his earlier stints he’s worked with Videocon Mobile Services, Madison , ZenithOptimedia besides other organizations.

He is a commerce graduate from Delhi Univ., an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University & alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi. He has been speaker at various Marketing Conclaves (MTV Youth Forum, IIFT Marketing Conclave, D-School of Economics (Delhi Univ), OAC, etc.) and seminars. He has been contributing to the academia by way of being visiting faculty, speaker & member of the Academic Council at various B-schools. His articles & papers have been published in business magazines/ newspapers. He has been featured in Brand Equity, MTV India, CNBC TV18 & other media.

Ms. Hanneli Slabber, Country Head for South African Tourism in India is at the helm of affairs, spearheading initiatives of the national tourism board in India. Prior to this role, Ms. Slabber was Global Product Head for the board and was based in South Africa.

After completing her Honour’s Degree in Applied Anthropology (With Honours) from the University of Pretoria, Hanneli went on to begin her career in the hotel industry before moving to sales and marketing. With experiences in both inbound and outbound companies, Hanneli was heading Contiki Holidays before moving to South African Tourism.

As the Country Head for the national tourism board in India, Hanneli’s core responsibility is to effectively market the destination to Indian audiences and help further increase the growth of Indian arrivals to the country.

With over 25 years of professional exposure in the Media industry, Shripad Kulkarni has handled every aspect of the advertising media. He holds a Master Degree in Statistics from the Mumbai University, an MBA degree from JBIMS, and has a Diploma in Operations Research from the Operations Research Society of India, Kolkata.

During his tenure with agencies like Contract, Clarion and O&M, he has handled a wide spectrum of renowned brands covering the entire gamut of product categories in various lifecycle stages. He then went on to establish his own media training and consultancy company.

Shripad is a renowned trainer and has conducted over 200 workshops in Media Planning, Media Buying as well as Ad Sales. He regularly teaches management students at MICA and other Institutes. He has also advised many media in Strategy, Content and Ad Sales.

He later joined Carat India as COO. In 2007 he set up Allied Media, the media planning, evaluatin and buying arm of Percept Ltd. Percept Media offers media solutions to clients in conventional as well as traditional media and is ranked in the 5th position as per Brand Equity Agency Reckoner 2011.

He is a board member of MRUC and also on the Technical Committee for India’s first outdoor Research survey IOS.

Mandeep, also called ‘Mandee’ heads Mudra MAX. Masters in Business Advertising from Melbourne, Mandee has over 12 years of rich professional experience in outdoor media. Prior to this appointment, he has worked with Clear Channel India, Rediffusion DY&R, 141 Wall Street (the OOH arm of Bates 141), Asian Age, Pioneer and Total Media Melbourne. He has managed brands such as Tata Indicom, Airtel, Reebok, Discovery, CNN IBN and Nokia among others. He has won 4 One Show awards, 3 Pencil Awards and a few dozens at the Outdoor Advertising Awards (OAA).

He is a part of the Gold Lion team at Cannes and has also received an award for The Entrepreneur of the Year along with bagging The Suit of the Year twice at Ogilvy & Rmg.

He is the brain behind the recent successful launches of Aircel, Pepsi, Reebok, HT, VW, Standard Chartered, Nokia, Apollo Munich among others.

Mandee lives with his Wife and two children in Mumbai. They love travelling and go out for frequent weekend getaways.

He loves cruising down the highway on his Harley Davidson, & adventure sports. He also has an eye for detail and sometimes sees things like no one else "Photography is one art where there is always something new to learn & Knowledge in this area is inexhaustible". Clicking nature can give you a sense of calm and serenity while clicking random people can give you that sense of achievement that we all need in life.

Abraham Koshy, working as Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is a reputed teacher, researcher, consultant and corporate trainer. He joined IIM Ahmedabad as a faculty in 1989. At IIM Ahmedabad, he teaches in various long-duration programs such as the 2-year Post Graduate Program in Management, One-year Post Graduate Program for Executives, One-year Post Graduate Program in Public Policy and Management and in the Doctoral Progra. Besides he is also a program faculty in several short-duration executive training programs offerd by the Institute and designs and conducts customized programs for companies. He is a Visiting Professor at European School of Management, Paris and at Glasgow University, UK. He was a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Business School, UK.

Forty-four year old Bharat Dhuppar, after his stint with the hospitality and real estate sector for over two decades is now playing a pivotal role of driving the sales and marketing at Mumbai-based Omkar Realtors & Developers Pvt. Ltd. Designated as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), he currently heads the sales, marketing & CRM functions of the company which has established itself as a key brand in Mumbai’s realty market. He began his corporate journey with the premium brands in hospitality sector including the Taj Hotels Resort & Palaces and the Oberoi Hotels& Resort before foraying into the realty vertical. His passion for the realty domain is reflected in the successful deliverance of big ticket projects valuing Rs 5,000-crore plus during his previous engagements at Lodha Group, Mantri Developers and the Chatterjee Group. His realty domain expertise encompasses planning & construction, sales & marketing, finance & investments, legal & liasoning and customer networking with an in-depth exposure to Biotech, IT, SEZ, residential and retail project development.

At Omkar Realtors, Bharat has immersed himself in introducing new age brand strategies and marketing collaborations to capture the variant group of target customer base while propelling a young brand to level next. In 2010, under his aegis as the CMO of Mantri Developers, the brand bagged the prestigious CMO Asia Pacific award for branding in Real Estate. He has been also nominated for the Marketer of the Year award in the recent past.

Smita leads the Entertainment and Media practice in PwC India and is a director in the firm. She has over 16 years of experience in the area. Some of her key assignments include the authoring of consultation papers for various industry forums such as FICCI, CII, IBEF, etc. Smita has been authoring the annual reports on the industry for the last six years.

She has worked on market entry strategy, market assessment studies, feasibility studies, etc. in sectors such as television, cable distribution, digital cinema, online infotainment, music, etc. She is a member of various internal as well as external study groups for the sector focussed on establishing international best practices and benchmarking. Smita holds a degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India.

Vishakha Singh is the Executive Director of Aurora Comms Pvt. Ltd. She co-founded the company just over two years back, and has already taken it from a tiny start-up to a formidable name offering innovative and contextual branding solutions. Through strategic tie-ups, effective networking and chart-busting solutions for brands, Vishakha has nearly evangelized retail-media operations in Indian cities.

After her post-graduation in Marketing Management, Vishakha joined the Times Group and handled events such as The Economic Times Awards. She went on to serve a successful stint at CNBC TV18 wherein she handled the marketing and alliances portfolio. Vishakha has also worked on brands such as The Smart Manager and Wisden Asia Cricket at Spenta Multimedia. Later at Times Now, she worked on the joint venture with the international news agency Reuters.

Until recently, Vishakha was the Director of Marcomm & Strategy at Future Media where she successfully launched Future TV, the first live network of in-store digital media with customised content channels. This was a significant step up for the OOH media landscape, and much of the current success of the medium at electronic stores is owed to her.

A voracious reader and an inherently curious person by nature, she has keen interest in music and loves to travel across the globe.

Ajay Kakar is the Chief Marketing Officer – Financial Services, of the Aditya Birla Group.

The Aditya Birla Financial Services Group enjoys the trust of over 5.5 million customers, with its strong presence in many sectors including life insurance, asset management, NBFC, Infrastructure project and structured finance, broking, private equity, wealth management and distribution and retail broking.

Prior to this, he was Head of Branding at Reliance Capital and a member of the Brand Council for Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, where he partnered the brand launch of this Group in May 2006.

Prior to Reliance, Ajay was at Ogilvy & Mather, for over 14 years. He was last designated Executive Director; responsible for two portfolios; Head of Ogilvy & Mather’s Financial Practice and the Country Head of Ogilvy Public Relations.

Nalin Kapoor, is the Senior General Manager and Group Head-Marketing, of Hyundai Motor India Limited. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of strategic and tactical direction in business and marketing strategy planning, advertising, digital marketing and public relations to ensure marketing excellence and provide overall leadership.

Mr. Kapoor joined HMIL in February 2008. Prior to his current role, Mr. Kapoor was instrumental in the progress of major players in the automobile industry at leadership positions. He brings with him a rich expereince of the Indian automobile industry and his career reflects immense experience in the areas of marketing, sales, network management, product planning, strategy and business planning.

Dinesh is basically a sales and marketing person with more than 25 years of Indian and Global experience. He has spent his time between consumer facing businesses in FMCG, Liquor and Automotive and in media. He has seen media, apart from a client's point of view being a client himself, with a lens of print, television and now OOH. He has been associated with companies like Unilever, Remy Cointreau and Nissan on the client side and ABP, Zee, Turner and TDI on the media side. He is fascinated by consumer behaviour and that is one lens that he tends to wear all the time. He is passionate about food and travelling. He was the part of the team that launched Taj Mahal Tea Bags (dip...dip...dip) and Nissan Sunny (Caaaaar) and also innovations in print like city supplements in Kolkata (Saltlake) and specific strategic packages in TDI for small enterprises. He has been a part of Ad Club in Kolkata, INS and IBF.