Oliver Kanders
Director Marketing & Market Building, Mozeo

Oliver is an experienced marketing and advertising executive and certified systemic coach. Oliver is with global data platform zeotap and its Indian JV with Mogaé Media, mozeo, since the very beginning. Oliver started his career working for the CEO of German-based Handelsblatt Publishing Group and then the Executive Board of Bertelsmann, Europe’s biggest media group which comprises RTL TV, Random House Books, G+J Magazines, Sony BMG Music and arvato. Right before joining zeotap Oliver was leading Marketing & PR for Berlin-based Incubator HitFox Group with which he won the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Mainak Dhar
Managing Director, General Mills & Bestselling Author

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Mainak has spent two decades in the corporate sector. He began his career with Procter & Gamble, starting in Marketing and moving onto General Management roles. He spent eighteen years with P&G, fifteen of them outside India, leading diverse businesses across the Asia-Pacific region. In 2014, he moved back to India as the Managing Director of General Mills India. His personal passion lies in creating a strong culture and organization to act as the foundation for unleashing transformational business results. He is immensely proud of his team playing to win with the ‘mind of a multinational, heart of a start-up’ as they not just grow the General Mills India business, but create a great place to work.

A self-described cubicle dweller by day and writer by night, Mainak is also the author of over a dozen books, some of which have been bestsellers in India and abroad. These books have been translated into Turkish, Vietnamese, Japanese, French, German and Portuguese. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Puja and their son, Aaditya. When not at work or with his family, he can usually be found working on or thinking about his next book.His latest book, Brand Shastra, explores how principles of marketing can be used to make everyday choices and relationships remarkable.

Vanita Keswani
CEO, Madison Media Sigma

Vanita Keswani is a recognized media professional with over 15 years of experience, who has carved a niche for herself in the field of Media. By dint of sheer hard work coupled with an incisive and analytical mind as well as a keen eye for details, Vanita has risen to the coveted position of Chief Executive Officer, Madison Media Sigma, in Madison Communications Pvt Ltd.

She started her career with a stint in the Times of India Group, where she earned her initial spurs in the profession by working in their Product Development team, Distribution Wing, Times FM Sales, and other departments of the Group. She joined Madison in 1997, and has never looked back since then in climbing the ladder of success. Over the years, she has handled Clients like Coca Cola, Kinetic, Godrej, Dish TV, Pidilite, Tata AIG Life among others.

Akash Banerji
Head, Marketing & Partnerships, Viacom18 Digital Ventures

Prior to this role, Akash was the Head of Marketing for Hotstar (2014-15) where he was responsible for the big bang launch and driving consumer acquisition.
He has thirteen years of consistent high performance in the marketing & sales/distribution domain with leading consumer centric MNCs in the area of managing & growing brands profitably. Akash has worked across various spectrums like Digital, Sports, General Entertainment & business integration (post acquisition) and led teams (marketing & cross-functional) with the aim of gaining market & mind share.
An alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, Akash started his career in sales & marketing working for top-notch organizations like Pepsi & Marico straddling different geographies in the country. His brand stint with Parachute and Nihar especially was a very satisfying one. After spending close to five years in Marico, Akash decided to move to the fast-paced world of media.
His first stint was with Star TV where he was responsible for the rebranding of Star Plus and successfully took the channel back to its winning ways courtesy the ''Rishta Wahi Soch Nayi'' marketing campaign. He then spent couple of years in Dubai within STAR, working as the Head of Distribution & Special Projects, Middle East & Africa and successfully increased the channel portfolio penetration by more than 100%.
He came back to India to launch the new Star Sports network in 2013 after Star had acquired the Sports channels from ESS and won the cricket rights from BCCI. The 'Believe' launch campaign in conjunction with the multi-sports strategy captured the imagination of the entire nation.

Sachin Kapur
Co-Founder & CMO nearbuy

Sachin Kapur, Chief Marketing Officer at nearbuy, has a strong career path in Sales and Marketing spanning a decade with reputed organizations in the media and online space. Having started his corporate journey with Times of India in the response department, Sachin went on to work on the creation of some of the most iconic consumer internet brands in the country across categories like: jobs, matrimony, real estate, education, & e-commerce.

In his last stint as CMO – Groupon APAC (emerging Markets ) he helped Groupon become the No.1 Deals player across India, Indonesia, Thailand and Phillipines. Currently as co founder and cmo of nearbuy, he is working on building the biggest local commerce company in the country

Shamsuddin Jasani
Managing Director, Isobar India

Shamsuddin Jasani (Shams) has been in the digital industry for over 16 years. He launched Isobar in India in August 2008, he has grown the agency's billing size from zero to USD 150 million and staff number grew from four to 200-member strong team.

Under his leadership, the agency has been achieved the distinction of being the Digital Agency of the year for India as well as south asia which is given by Campaign Asia,Isobar has also won Digital Agency of the Year India Silver awards in 2012, 2014 and . also debuted at number 4 on top digital agencies in the Brand Equity Agency reckoner for 2015.

Shams is also a board committee of Dentsu Aegis Network's Management in India as well as leading the charge on digital as a part of the Digital Council for Dentsu Aegis Network.

He's been named an A-Lister on Campaign India's top 500 people in advertising and marketing list and has featured on e4m's Impact Magazine's Digital Power100 list last two years in a row. He was also voted by brand equity as one of media's valued players by brand equity across media's. He is one of the few people who has an experience as a Media Owner, agency and client.

He has been judging and speaking at various events both in india as well as across the world

VeerChand Bothra
Chief innovative officer, NetCORE Solutions

Veer is a Marketing Technologist and Social Media enthusiast, with over 17 years of experience in the Internet and Mobile industry/ Marketing Technology Space. As the Chief Innovation Officer at netCORE, Veer drives Business Strategy, Product Management and Customer Experience for netCORE’s Marketing Automation Platform.
Veer's entrepreneurial stint was as the founder of Ravience Digital, a mobile marketing technology provider, where he created an integrated multi-channel customer response management platform.
His passion lies in marketing technology and building innovative products. He likes to spend time tracking emerging digital technologies, drawing insights from changing customer behaviour, and taking those learnings to map their impact on marketing technology platforms.
His love for nature often takes him to Kanheri National Park to feed Chital deer. His keen interest also lies in World Cinema.