​Amit Gujral
Chief Marketing Officer LG India

Amit is Chief Marketing Officer, at LG Electronics India. He represents LG as the Brand custodian and provides direction for Brand Management, Marketing Communication, Retail marketing, Digital Marketing, CRM, Effective Media Selection and CSR - entire gamut of Corporate Marketing. He leads a team focusing on advocacy for choosing the right platform for Integrated Marketing & Communication. He joined LG India in September 2009.

At 44, He brings with him a rich experience and understanding of the Technology industry, that helps him to innovate and appropriately connect consumer experiences via various campaigns. His career reflects hands on experience in the areas of marketing, sales, product planning, value added services, strategy and business planning. He has successfully mastered the stints coming his way up till now throughout his career. He has a knack for details when it comes to weave in creativity to the work. Having a multifaceted personality, he fits himself into every challenge coming his way.

Being a creative thinker and strategic leader, his work always binds the connection between the brand and the audience which proves well in his latest creation of LG’s Astronaut Short film . AG has an exemplary track record in driving organizational efficiency, developing innovations in the industry, while driving revenue growth and profitability.

During his tenure of serving and continuing to serve LG as an asset, he adds feathers to the LG cap by getting on board the Guinness Book of world record with his latest initiatve ‘KarSalaam –Thanksgiving To The Indian Soldiers’

Amit is a Computer Science Engineering Graduate and is in the Industry since last 23 Years. Prior to joining LG, he had a stint with companies such as BEL, HCL, Flextronics, LG Soft India.

​Amit Shah
Associate Director – Marketing – Gum, Candy & Beverages, Mondelez India

Amit Shah, as the Associate Director – Marketing (Gum, Candy & Beverages), Mondelez India, drives the agenda for the portfolio comprising Cadbury Bournvita, Tang, Cadbury Choclairs Gold and Halls. His role includes defining strategy, landing the overall communication agenda, ensuring a timely roll-out of initiatives and delivering the P&L for the portfolio in India.

Amit joined Mondelez India in September 2011 as Associate Vice President for Powdered Beverages and went on to lead the Gum, Candy and Beverages category in 2015. He has also been responsible for driving the agenda for the chocolate category for regional brands across Asia Pacific. He was previously associated with Dabur Foods Limited as a Group Product Manager. In a career span of 15 years, Amit has worked across categories in general management functions like sales, distribution, creative, brand marketing and strategy.

Amit holds a Master of Management Studies in Marketing from SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute.

Dilip Cherian
Founding Partner, Perfect Relations

Dilip Cherian is Founding Partner of Perfect Relations, South Asia’s largest communications consultancy with 14 offices and over 550 professionals on the team. Known as India’s “Image Guru”, he is one of India’s foremost Public Affairs consultants and strategic Election advisors.

Dilip is also a syndicated columnist and his writings appear in several newspapers. He is also an Independent Director on several Media Boards.

Dilip lives in New Delhi but considers India his “home turf”. He is intrigued and inspired by the new forces of change being unleashed everywhere from politics to business.

Jaskaran Singh Kapany
Vice President, Marketing, Paytm

Jaskaran Singh is a part of Paytm, India's largest Mobile commerce company, as Vice President, Marketing.

He’s a part of the core team that has been responsible for making Paytm one of the most trusted household names in India, with over 225mn+ customers.

Known to be a sound strategic thinker with strong execution capabilities, he has in- depth knowledge across the domains of Marketing, Media, Innovation, Communication Development, Research & Activation.

He leverages 14+ years of work experience across Advertising & Marketing in categories ranging from BFSI, FMCG & Luxury.

Before Paytm, he was Vice President, Marketing & E-commerce at ICICI Prudential Life, India’s number 1 Private Life Insurance company, where he spearheaded all Marketing initiatives & many successful business efforts. He also managed the company's E-commerce business.

Jaskaran has also worked with premier Advertising agencies such as Lowe Lintas & JWT. His experience here included large-scale brand building, re-positioning exercises, innovative activation projects with some of the world’s leading consumer brands including Unilever, Godrej, Philips, De Beers, Standard Chartered Bank, Reliance etc

He is a passionate long distance runner & a travel aficionado.

His operating motto—“if everything is under control, you are going too slow”—comes courtesy of legendary racecar driver Mario Andretti.

Dr. Nandini Ali
CMO & Member – EXCO, Apollo Munich Health Insurance

As an Executive Vice President & Member – Executive Committee, Marketing at Apollo Munich Health Insurance, Dr. Nandini Ali with an in-depth experience in the healthcare delivery system, spanning over a decade, within the Apollo hospital’s group, has been a part of the team that launched Apollo Munich Health Insurance Co. Ever since, she has been instrumental towards making it a leader amongst other standalone health insurance companies in the country with her constant questioning of conventional wisdom and challenging the status quo. Ambitious, aggressive & purposeful business leader with an ability to connect the dots & build a larger picture she has delivered accelerated growth in revenue, value market share & profitability through innovative & cutting edge, marketing programs, across her multiple assignments.

Dr. Ali holds a medical school degree from JIPMER, one of the premier medical institutions in Asia. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Rishi Chadda
Head - Tea Marketing, Tata Global Beverages

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Shubhodip Pal
Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer, Micromax Informatics Ltd​

Shubhodip Pal joined YU Televentures as the Chief Operating Officer in February 2016 to provide a strong impetus to the brand YU. At YU, he is tasked to focus on strengthening the organizational capabilities of the company while emphasizing on connecting the users to their devices through meaningful service integration; thereby making life easier & more convenient. Prior to YU, he was the CEO– BalajiMoton Pictures and has served as the key resource to accentuate the journey of the company.

Shubhodip Pal comes with over 19 years of consumer marketing experience in launching, building and managing brands from consumer durables to the banking/financial, IT hardware sector and telecom services sector. He has worked on the whole spectrum of marketing, specializing in Product Management, Retail, Marketing Communications, Media, Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Online and Mobile Marketing.

He has worked with Micromax back in 2012 and was an intrinsic force to take the company to the next level. It was his vision and marketing excellence that helped the company grow and be the part of top handset manufacturing companies in the world.

He began his career in 1997 with Samsung India Electronics and spent over nine years serving in different roles. In 2005, he moved to ABN AMRO as AVP and head, communications and sponsorships.

After that, he joined Hewlett Packard in 2007 and worked as head, consumer marketing. He managed and led communications for both HP and Compaq brands in India, and successfully turned Hewlett Packard into a fashionable lifestyle-centric brand from just a B2B brand.

Later, Pal was associated with BLYK India, a mobile messaging company, as its country manager and director, and successfully launched the country's first mobile magazine that catered to the youth. He established the service with Aircel as one of the most powerful youth engagement platforms within the first year of its launch; today, BLYK on Aircel has more than 3.2 million opted-in users.

​Solomon Wheeler
VP - Marketing, TATA SIA Airlines Limited

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​Sushant Sreeram
Head – Marketing, Xiaomi India

Sushant Sreeram heads marketing for Xiaomi in India. Sushant comes with more than a decade of experience building brands and communities spanning eCommerce, Consumer Goods and Travel industries. At Xiaomi, Sushant leads marketing and brand building efforts focussed on strengthening the country’s largest and most engaged community of fans. As a former entrepreneur himself, Sushant believes the next wave of global technological innovation will come through from countries like India and by making technology accessible to the millions of Indians and is proud to live and follow through on this philosophy at Xiaomi, a company that believes in the motto ‘innovation for everyone’.

Vikrant Mudaliar
Chief Marketing Officer, Yatra.com

Vikrant is responsible for leading marketing activities across all Yatra.com business-lines and group entities. While focusing on strengthening Yatra’s brand equity in the travel category, he is responsible for driving the marketing and communications strategy to support the company’s overall strategic objectives. He also takes care of all traffic and consumer marketing initiatives across web & mobile platforms and drives customer-engagement and loyalty.

Vikrant brings with him over 17 years of experience and has handled leadership roles across business management, marketing, sales and strategy functions. He has experience across sectors such as e-commerce, media & entertainment, automobiles and consumer goods. He has previously served as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Lenskart.com. He has also previously worked at Tata Sky Ltd. as Vice President-Brand Marketing where he played a key role in making Tata Sky the category leader and also a leading consumer brand in the country. While his longest stint was with Tata Sky for close to a decade, he has also previously worked at General Motors India, Jumbo Electronics Dubai and Pepsi Foods Ltd.

Vikrant is a management graduate with MBA & BBS degrees. He is a member of the India Advisory board of the CMO council - a leading global marketing organization. He is also associated with several industry associations & forums relating to marketing & advertising. He is fond of traveling and has a keen interest in the digital, media & entertainment space.

Vishwajeet Parashar
Senior Vice President & Group Head - Marketing, Bajaj Capital

Vishwajeet is Senior Vice President & Group Head – Marketing at Bajaj Capital. He has over 17 years of experience in formulating digital marketing strategies for the organization. He has played a significant role in increasing the brand visibility of Bajaj Capital into the social, print and online media. Such activities also resulted in increasing the reach of the brand and win over new clients.

Under his able guidance and efforts, Bajaj Capital group has won many prestigious awards like - ET Best BFSI Brands 2016 - Broker category and CNBC TV 18 – Best Performing Financial Advisor – Retail category and that too for Five times.

A digital enthusiast, Yoga & meditation lover. He also proactively participates in TV Shows and Print/Online media stories on Personal Finance.

Yogesh Shinde
Vice President Marketing, Wagh Bakri Tea Group

Experience

GM-Marketing at Wagh Bakri Tea Group April 2010 - Present
To lead marketing and communications department, strategizing, planning and execution, product development, market research, distribution, sales promotion etc.

Client Services Director
August 2008 - April 2010 (1 year 8 months)

Account Director at Triton Communications
November 2006 - August 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Asso. Account Director at R K SWAMY BBDO
June 1998 - October 2006 (8 years 4 months)

Education
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications
Master's, Communications, 1990 - 1991