Anika Agarwal
Senior Vice President and Head-Marketing,Digital and Direct Sales, Max Bupa Health Insurance

A seasoned marketing professional, Anika joined Max Bupa in 2011. As the head of the marketing function, she is responsible for the overall Brand Strategy and Marketing Communications for the brand. She leads Brand Planning, Communications, Digital and Social Media platforms, Consumer Insights, Loyalty and Customer Relationship Management for Max Bupa.

Anika has been instrumental in positioning Max Bupa as a preferred family health insurer and making Max Bupa one of the most talked about brands in the segment. She conceptualized Max Bupa Walk for Health, the brand's most ambitious campaign and one of the most successful health initiatives in the country.

With over 13 years of experience, Anika has a wealth of marketing experience across India, Middle- East and African markets. Prior to joining Max Bupa, Anika spent more than six years in Nokia India and Nokia Corporation. Anika also had a brief stint at the Indian Cellular Association as the Deputy Director Projects.

She holds a MBA degree in Finance and Marketing from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

Anupriya Acharya
CEO, Publicis Media India

Anupriya Acharya, CEO, Publicis Media India is an eminent media professional with 22+ years of experience in media agencies across India and Singapore. Prior to this, she has also held positions of Group CEO of ZenithOptimedia, CEO-Aegis Media Singapore, Leader-Team Unilever, South Asia at Mindshare and President – The Media Edge, India.

Anupriya is also the Jury member on key media industry awards in India and APAC, and speaks frequently at key industry events. She has consistently featured in Brand Equity’s list of top Media professionals in Indian Media and Impact’s list of ’50 most influential women’. She is also an Independent Director on the Board of DB Corp Ltd.

A Post Graduate in Chemistry from IIT - Roorkee, married and mother to a 19 year old son, her interests are adventure trips, photography and interior designing.

Deepika Warrier
Vice President – Po1 Marketing, PepsiCo India

Deepika Warrier is Vice-President – Po1 Marketing, responsible for foods and beverages brands of PepsiCo India. In this role, she is instrumental in driving strategic development, consumer insights, innovation, brand equity and resource allocation across an extended food and beverage portfolio. This power-packed portfolio includes iconic brands like Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Atom, Mirinda, 7UP, 7UP Nimbooz & Nimbooz Masala Soda, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, Gatorade, Slice, Tropicana, Lay’s, Kurkure, Quaker, Uncle Chipps and Cheetos.

After joining PepsiCo India in July 2000, Deepika has held various senior brand management and new business development positions in the company. She moved to PepsiCo’s scale food business in Mexico (Sabritas) in 2005 as Category Marketing Director and worked on strategic innovation projects & scale brands like Doritos and Cheetos. She returned to PepsiCo India in August 2007 as Marketing Director – Foods. In this role, she led the marketing team in an aggressive portfolio diversification agenda, demonstrating the true potential of Quaker and leading the strategic groundwork to kick start PepsiCo’s Value business, worked on evolving Kurkure and Lays positioning & innovation road map to ensure that they grow their “Love-mark” snack brand status.

In 2010, she assumed the role of Head of Beverage Marketing and has driven successful equity, activation and innovation programs to make PepsiCo’s beverage brands even stronger : to name a few, the iconic ‘Change the Game’ campaign for brand Pepsi, acquiring sponsorship rights and powerfully activating the ‘Pepsi IPL’, turbo charging growth of Mountain Dew, evolving the Slice Aamsutra campaign, further consolidating the 7UP franchise, especially in South India with a focused regional strategy, the launch of 7UP Nimbooz Masala Soda & Pepsi Atom and refreshing Mirinda with fun flavor innovations.

Prior to PepsiCo, Deepika worked in brand management, insights and advertising roles at Gillette, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and Britannia Industries Ltd.

Deepika holds an honours degree from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Rajiv Dingra
Founder & CEO, WATConsult

Rajiv Dingra is the Founder and CEO of WATConsult, the most awarded digital and social media agency, founded in the year 2007. An entrepreneur and a thought leader in the digital space, he currently leads a team of 300+ people at WATConsult. WATConsult is headquartered in Mumbai and has offices across Delhi and Bangalore. In January 2015 Rajiv sold majority stake in WATConsult which became a part of global advertising network Dentsu Aegis Network.

Over the last 11 years, Rajiv has worked with more than 100 global and Indian brands for the digital media campaigns and strategies. Some of the brands include Warner Bros, Swarovski, Mondelez, Unilever, SAP, Nikon and Total. Under Rajiv’s leadership WATConsult has won over 100+ digital and social media awards for work done across distinct marketing campaigns. These include the prestigious global DMA echo in San Diego. WATConsult has also won seven agency of the year awards which include ‘The Most Progressive Digital Agency Award’ at CMO ASIA Singapore, ‘The Social Media Agency of the Year 2014’ at Socialathon Delhi, ‘Boutique Media Agency of the Year’ at Media Ace Awards, Mumbai, The Campaign Agency of the year India (Bronze) at the Campaign Asia Awards, Digital Agency of the year at DOD awards 2016, the most recent Digital Agency of the Year at Delhi Ad club Awards 2017 and Marketing Agency of the Year at MCube Awards 2017.

Rajiv was nominated as the digital person of the year at E4M Indian digital media awards two years consecutively and also won ‘The young social media entrepreneur of the year’ at CMO Asia Singapore and the Agency CEO of the year (runner up) at the Media Ace Awards.

Rajiv has been a global speaker at Digital Media World Forum, Dubai, Amsterdam and London, Social Media Enterprise Forum, Dubai, Malaysia social media week and Afri-tech Summit Kenya. Rajiv has also been an active jury member across Prestigious award shows like Goafest Abby's; Effies; Mobbys; IDMA; global DMA echo; Bees Social Media Awards (San Francisco); DMAi Awards, India; Afaqs Digies Awards India and Smarties Mobile awards, India.

Rajiv is a guest lecturer at IIM Calcutta and MICA Ahmedabad and has also been actively involved in conducting workshops for social and digital media across India, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

Rajiv is a travel enthusiast and has been to 27 countries in the last 10 years. He is also an adventure junkie and is an amateur scuba diver, having dived in waters of Bali, Maldives, Vietnam, South Africa, Thailand and Mauritius and has flown a two seater plane in UAE and a helicopter in New York. Beyond travel and adventure Rajiv is a big movie buff and a cricket fan.

Rajiv Kumar Bobal
Director – Sales & Marketing, Revlon India

With over two decades of experience in the Indian cosmetic industry, he has exponentially contributed to the color cosmetics vertical. Worked on a wide spectrum of brands from mass to prestige in the retail and salon channels, he has got a vast experience in business development, marketing, sales and merchandising. He has also played a vital role in transforming Revlon’s image from conventional to exceptional.
A man with robust vision, technically sound expertise and profound understanding of colour cosmetics, he has been instrumental in marketing the brand as per the need of the hour. Emphasis on digital marketing for Revlon, is an example of his strategy to integrate traditional marketing with a contemporary approach. In an endeavor to increase top of mind recall for the brand, he has ensured due presence of Revlon in e-commerce, social media and other modes of digital activations.
A young achiever, strong believer and a determined soul, he brings in the analytical insights into the business and understands the consumers as well as the brand’s ethics. From planning and strategizing to in-depth experience of retailing, product launches and management of overall brand visibility in the markets, he has also been conducting regular market studies and researches to help build a strong market for Revlon in India. Immense exposure and training in international markets like the Unites States of America, Paris, Australia, Hong Kong and more, he has been able to offer Revlon, a well-deserved aspirational value in India.
Previously, Rajiv has been associated with leading brands like L’Oréal and Dabur, wherein, he has launched various products as well as extended the brand reach in deeper India.
While Rajiv believes in being a leader than a boss, in office, he is also very down-to-earth and a passionate sportsman. From school days itself, he has been excited about sports and today, it is one his core stress buster. Roller skating is one of his favorite sport and he has won National Championships during college days as well as won medals for gymnastics. Adding feather to his wide portfolio of expertise, has been his consistent endeavor and his latest course from NIFT in designing, proves it.
Rajiv Kumar Bobal, a creative mind, an artistic approach and a true professional, loves photography and cycling, not to forget – bare foot running!

Sai Narayan
Associate Director & Head of Marketing, Policybazaar.com & Paisabazaar.com

As Associate Director & Head of Marketing, Sai is responsible for leading the Brand, Marketing & Social Media efforts at Policybazaar.com & Paisabazaar.com. He carries more than a decade’s experience across Brand Management, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Social Media and PR functions. Prior to joining Policybazaar, he had worked within marketing and brand management roles at leading insurance companies, Max Life insurance and Aviva India. During the early part of his career, he has also worked with leading advertising agencies like JWT and Publicis India.

Sohrab Sitaram
CEO & Director, Keventers

Sohrab Sitaram is one of the most recognized names in India’s hospitality sector. An industry veteran with a career spanning over 18 years, Sohrab has first-handedly witnessed the food & beverage industry’s growth trajectory in India from the eyes of an employee, an investor and a consultant.

An alumni of the prestigious Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad, Sohrab spent a large part of his career with The Taj Group of hotels before moving on to setup many iconic award winning restaurants & bars across India. An innovator at heart, Sohrab brings in a wealth of expertise having curated & established a host of out of the box enterprises across the country like Tabula Rasa, Chi Kitchen and Bar, No Escape, Shalom Goa, Smoke Signals Trevi, Laid Back Waters, Shalom, and Italic to name a few.

Sohrab is currently the CEO and Director of Keventers, one of the most successful & fastest growing quick service restaurants in India. Within a span of 2 years, Sohrab has been instrumental in re- establishing Keventers as an iconic age old business & has also helped expand the brand’s presence from a single outlet in south Delhi to become a household name with over 140 outlets across India & abroad.

Apart from his role at Keventers, Sohrab has also been the Founder & Director of Squareroot Hospitalities Pvt. Ltd. (‘Chi Kitchen & Bar’, which is India's first casual pan Asian Dining concept), CEO and Director of Soulfeed Hospitality Pvt Ltd ('Tabularasa ' - India’s first restaurant and lounge in a mall) and CEO and Director of Mahima Hospitality Pvt Ltd (India's 1st themed Lounge Bar 'Shalom').

At leisure, Sohrab is an avid traveler, a springboard diver and golf enthusiast. He is also the brand ambassador of Thomas Cook India Golf League. Apart from these, Sohrab is also a talented musician and plays the keyboard in a band called ‘Estranged’, which specializes in blues and classic rock.