Aditya Save
CMO
Shaadi.com

Aditya Save is the Senior Vice President of People Interactive and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Shaadi.com, The Worlds’ No. 1 Matchmaking Service. Aditya has over 15 years of experience in developing and implementing strategies for consumer-oriented business as a marketing practitioner.

Prior to joining People Group, Aditya was heading Marico’s Global Centre of Excellence for Digital and Media and his portfolio covered markets across Africa and Asia, each with their unique mix of consumer & product mix.

For more than a decade now, Aditya has worked with in-market brands across Foods, Personal care & Healthcare. He has led multiple new product incubation projects & has more than 1000 hours of one- to-one consumer insighting experience.

Besides his regular corporate role, Aditya is the Corporate Services Director at an NGO & and is a visiting faculty at MBA schools. He was a member of the inaugural MMA India council & has spoken at MMA forums in Singapore, Delhi & London. His paper on Mobile Marketing has been published by the IDM in the UK. Aditya has also served on the Board of Advisors for DMTI & mentors select entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Aditya is a certified psychological counselor & is currently working on research for a book about the interaction of digital technology & consumer psychology.

Amar Thomas
Head Marketing
BlackBerry India

Amar Thomas is Head of Marketing for BlackBerry India and prior to this he was associated with Reliance Broadcast Network, ABN Amro, Bharti Airtel. An executive program from Harvard business publishing besides a masters in marketing Management from Mumbai university sums up Amar’s educational qualifications. His work career consists of a rich and diverse blend in industries such as banking, telecom and the media industry.

Antti Öhrling
COO, Jolla Sailfish
(Former Country Director for India and Southeast Asia - Angry Birds
Rovio Entertainment Ltd.)

Antti Ohrling’s trademark is to make things happen and he leads Rovio/Angry Birds commercial operations in India and South-East Asia.

Many companies find it challenging to capitalize the opportunities in the new, mainly digitally driven world. The best results are achieved by combining digital & mobile possibilities with plain common sense often found in brick and mortar environment.

In 2005, Antti co-founded Blyk, the first and original ad-funded virtual mobile operator and mobile media. He acted as CEO of Blyk, UK and was the chairman of Blyk Media, India successfully bringing the acclaimed service to Indian sub-continent.

Prior to Blyk, he has also founded Contra Advertising Agency Group, marketing company operating in three continents, now part of Touch Worldwide. He is the chairman for Contra China/Beijing, a highly specialised Ad boutique working brands across.

Antti is also the co-founder of TNFIS (The Nordic Frugal Innovation Society), speaker in The Outstanding Speaker’s Bureau and Member of the Board in IFBF (Indo-Finnish Business Forum).

During his career he has worked in FMCG, Retail & Wholesale, Media, Advertising, IT, Telecommunication and Gaming industries.

Antti have over 20 international patents; however, he is not a technology specialist – he is a business and sales specialist. Antti adhere to entrepreneurial spirit and believe it’s good for all organizations regardless of their size.

Anant Goenka
Wholetime Director & Head - New Media
Indian Express

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Bidisha Nagaraj
Group president - marketing
Coffee Day Global.

Bidisha Nagaraj is the Group President - Marketing at Coffee Day Group of Companies .As part of her portfolio she overseas the marketing and innovation initiatives of all the Group companies including Café Coffee Day . Prior to this stint she has advised several start-ups including Taxi For Sure , Mast Kalandar and Qyuki . She brings in a rich experience from leading Technology companies such as Google , Intel and Compaq .She began her career in advertising with Lowe Lintas Advertising, rising to Group Account Manager within five years, before applying her entrepreneurial skills to start her own handicraft exports company. Her experience in these two arenas gave her international exposure in creative marketing and communication.

Gaurav Suri
Senior Executive Vice President and Head - Marketing
UTI Asset Management Company Ltd.

Gaurav Suri provides leadership to the marketing and communication functions for the UTI Asset Management Company Ltd. His other responsibilities include Brand building, Channel and Product marketing, Training, MIS and Analytics. He also drives other emergent channels like Internet, the Contact Centre and technology led strategic initiatives like M Commerce within the organization.

His previous assignment was as Director Marketing and Product Development, Metlife. Having worked with a variety of companies such as FMCG Majors (Danone group and Perfetti Van Melle} and the Insurance industry, he has over 20 years of diverse experience.

After completing his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical} from Regional Engineering College, Bhopal he went on to earn his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Jyoti Kumar Bansal
Managing Director
PHD India

Jyoti Kumar Bansal, an Engineer-MBA by education, entered the field of media right out of B-School and has worked across traditional and digital media in a career spanning 19 years. Jyoti has also dabbled in research & product development with an online publisher, when digital was still being evangelized by angel investors in the country.

Starting her career with Lintas in 1995 and having worked with multiple media houses like MediaCom, MPG (Havas Media) and Webdunia, Jyoti is no stranger to developing cutting edge media solutions for clients. Starting her career working on Unilever India brands, life has come full circle as she heads PHD India now with Unilever India as an anchor client. Along the way, she has worked on literally every large category and brand in India, including J&J, Maruti Suzuki, Bajaj Auto, Marico and Emirates Airlines.

Before taking on this role, Jyoti was leading the new business development efforts of Omnicom Media Group in India very successfully and was informally evangelizing 360D media solutions for clients within the Agency.

Her key strength is her strong understanding of all disciplines of media including traditional, digital, entertainment content and sports, the last three of which she helped set up in her previous stint. A strong believer in seamless media solutions across platforms, Jyoti’s motto is ‘the consumer merges & consumes media seamlessly in their life; our media solutions have to reflect this’.

In her current stint as Managing Director at PHD, she is leading the integration of various traditional, digital and diversified offerings of the Agency to help the teams build and execute effective communications solutions for clients.

Juzer Tambawalla
Vice President - Head of Marketing & Communications
Franklin Templeton Investments

Juzer Tambawalla is currently Vice President - Head of Marketing & Communications at Franklin Templeton Investments. He carries over 18 years of experience in the area of “Marketing and Communications” of which 15 years have been in the Indian Asset Management Industry.

Ketan Kulkarni
VP & Head – Marketing
Corporate Communications & Sustainability
Blue Dart Express Ltd.

Ketan Kulkarni is VP & Head – Marketing, Corporate Communications & Sustainability at Blue Dart Express Ltd, South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation distribution and logistics company and part of Deutsche Post DHL group. At Blue Dart, Ketan is responsible for product innovations, customer activation and loyalty, MARKET research, strategic intelligence, public relations, corporate communications and sustainability.

A thoroughbred marketing professional with expertise in Sales Management and Advertising, Ketan has tremendous insights into the national, regional and global market trends and evolving scenarios in the future of marketing, planning and strategy, managing customers and targets. Brand architecture, market research, retail management, buyer behaviour, environment scanning & strategy development are also his areas of core competence.

An experienced sales professional, prior to Blue Dart, he has successfully led goal oriented national sales teams. He has been involved in running sales coaching & training, incentive programs, portfolio management, TRADE channels & distribution set-up and strategizing & operating Key Account Management structures.

Ketan is in the advisory council of the CMO Asia Council and has received numerous awards across forums in the areas of MARKETING, Branding and Corporate Social Responsibility. He holds the jury position at the BSE – Corporate Responsibility Awards, the SIFE Panel and the Asia HR Congress.

Madan Bahal
Managing Director
Adfactors PR

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Mahesh Narayanan
Global Chief Operating Officer
Saavn

Mahesh Narayanan is the Global Chief Operating Officer of Saavn & India's leading Digital Business leader with over 16 years of experience across businesses in the Mobile, Adtech and Consumer Internet spaces.

Mahesh has held various senior leadership positions across global technology media companies such as Google, AdMob and Sociomantic. He has been a part of three companies that eventually exited successfully through an acquisition. He spent 7 years at Google India across various functions and was awarded the Google Hero for his outstanding contribution to the organization. He joined AdMob as the Country Manager for India in 2009 and moved back to Google after the acquisition of AdMob.

He was named the Mobile Marketing Person of the Year at the Indira Marketing Excellence awards in 2011. He has been featured in the Digital Power 100 list as one of the icons of India’s Digital ecosystem in 2012 by Impact - a leading advertising, media and marketing publication. He has also been featured as one of the Top 99 Tech Indians twice, in 2014 & 2012, by Exhibit – a leading tech publication.

Nilay Arora
Country Head & Vice President Marketing and Business Head
WeChat India

Nilay Arora spearheads the Marketing and Business Operations for Tencent's biggest global product for India - WeChat. Nilay has over 11 years of marketing & product experience across consumer technology & media comprising mobile, internet, social media, online gaming, TV, radio and print. Nilay is also very actively involved part of the management & leadership team driving marketing & product for various business verticals, through last 7 years. He is actively involved in the creation of market share in the web and mobile internet space for WeChat India. He is presently leading core business functions such as Marketing Strategy, Marketing Management, Online Marketing, PR Management, Media Planning & Buying, Product Marketing Management & Product Development and driving the Games365.in business.

Before joining WeChat, he has worked with Hindustan Times, Radio Mirchi and Ballarpur Industries in various Consumer Marketing and Operations roles. Nilay holds a Master’s in Business Administration from IMS [DAVV] and Engineering in Electronics and Telecom apart from a being a part of Harvard Strategic Management Program.

Nilay is an avid observer of consumer trends & preferences and an expert in carving out market shares. He is a young and dynamic professional who is proficient in his marketing and communication skills to drive out meaningful business objectives. His thought leadership comes out from his competent marketing expertise. Having extensive mobile and internet understanding, he has accomplished himself as a Brand Head in one of the leading communication platforms in the technology ecosystem.

Prasanth Kumar
CEO
Mindshare South Asia

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Sachin Kalbag
Editor
Mid-Day

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