Shefali Khalsa

Shefali Khalsa is currently the Head of Department for Brand & Marketing, Corporate Communication and CSR at SBI General Insurance.

She is an acclaimed thought leader in the Indian Insurance Marketing industry. She is a Management Graduate and has worked across companies, geographies and functions in the complex Indian Marketing industry for close to two decades. Her 18 plus years of experience is largely in Banking & Financial Services. She has also done a stint in the consultancy and telecom space and has worked with brands such as HDFC ERGO, HDFC Bank and TATA Teleservices.

Rituraj Bidwai

A decade of experience in Marketing and Brand Communication with specialization in Digital.
Astute understanding of various digital marketing channels coupled with solid technical knowledge gives me an edge in implementing brand related campaigns derived from the overall business objectives. Data is an integral part of my work style ensuring a fair balance of execution and result KPIs, important for any strategy to be successful.
The work done during my stint with Godrej won awards by “Asia Retail Congress” and “CMO Asia Brand and Marketing Excellence Awards”.
Relevant areas of core strengths – Digital strategy in Search, Social, Mobile, User Experience on web and mobile, Analytics mapping on Search and Social channels, User journey management, SEM, Online Reputation Management, SEO, eCRM, Media planning and performance marketing.

Shonali Shetty

Shonali is the Head of Marketing ( Growth ) at Godrej Capital, the financial services arm of the Godrej Group . Here her mission is to unlock & accelerate growth for the company through integrated marketing efforts.
This is her second stint with the Godrej Group , where previously she was the Media Lead at Godrej Properties responsible for setting up the digital media practice transforming the traditional marketplace on real estate .She has over 15+ years of experience in strategic planning, developing and managing marketing campaigns, building brand awareness, public relations , digital marketing , traditional media planning and buying. Having supported the business & sales functions in highly matrixed organisation has helped her develop her skills to be agile, adaptive and drive marketing efforts in cross functional teams .

During her stint with Reliance Group, she came to be regarded as skilled performance & media marketer, having had the opportunity to work across multiple categories ranging from telecom , financial services to media & entertainment .

She is a Gold medallist in Statistics , holds a Master’s degree in Marketing , online Business Analytics certification from Wharton School and has been honoured with several industry awards.

Outside of work enjoys time spent with her son, likes to read and is a movie & travel buff.

Imran Qadri

Imran Qadri heads Marketing & PR for the iconic Harley-Davidson brand in Asia Emerging Markets & India region. He is based out of Bangkok, Thailand. He has been associated with Harley-Davidson since April 2019. Apart from India, he oversees Marketing for Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore), South Korea, Taiwan & Hong Kong as well. He has 14 years of Marketing work experience with brands like Hero Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Nissan & H-D. He has donned several hats in his past roles ranging from Marketing Communications, Brand Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Media Planning & Regional Marketing. He has led teams and agencies deliver with award winning campaigns, launches & content. Recently he was adjudged among Top 40 Nationwide Experts declared by Business Mint for 2022. He was also part of Top 50 Marketing and Communication Leaders in India in 2021 as adjudged by White Page International and among Top 100 in Asia for 2022. He was one of the Social Samosa Top 40 Marketers for the batch of 2019-20 and among Top 25 Content Disruptors in India in 2020 declared by Vidsaga.com. He has been a jury member with many credible advertising & communication forums. An MBA in Marketing from FORE School of Management, Delhi, Imran has a B.E. Mechanical degree from MSRIT, Bangalore, apart from executive leadership & digital marketing certifications from Vanderbilt University & IIM Lucknow, respectively. He is a certified Sports car instructor and has a flair for writing.

Archana Aggarwal

Archana Aggarwal is a passionate marketeer with 20+ years of experience. She is responsible for some critical and strategic areas such as media planning and buying, analytics, digital capability building, performance management of the media agencies, etc. Prior to Airtel, she was Country Media Manager for P&G, India. She was instrumental in P&G winning their first Cannes in India in 2006 post which they won many prestigious international awards for the Gillette Shave India Movement. She also led media for the high decibel launch of 4G and Payments Bank in India.

Amit Sethiya

A marketing strategist with a penchant for creating and establishing regional and PAN India brands across segments like Steel, Real estate and consumer electronics segments over the last 15 years. He has a passion towards influencing customers mindset across national and international markets by being a creative and business choir for generating optimal brand equity using traditional and digital media. Radio Jockeying, writing, travelling and teaching are the other interests on the personal front that primes up skill sets pertaining to customer understanding, story-telling, project planning, team handling and training etc eventually adding up to the functional efficacies.

Charandeep Singh

Charandeep Singh heads Marketing and CRM function at TVS Credit. He is an Agricultural Engineer from Punjab Agricultural University and holds an MBA degree in marketing from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. With over 15 years of experience in marketing, sales, CRM, and strategy across BFSI and automotive companies, he has led various initiatives in brand communication, market research, digital business, analytics, and customer relationship management. He has been at the helm of several transformational initiatives, including the development of corporate websites and mobile apps, and several award-winning brand campaigns.

He has also successfully executed programs to enhance customer experience and engagement. He has been instrumental in developing the new brand identity for TVS Credit leading to a new visual identity system and re-positioning of the brand in line with changing business requirements. Under his leadership, the organization has won several accolades for various marketing campaigns, such as the prestigious RMAI Flame Awards Asia 2018 for The Best Visibility and Visual Campaign of the Year. He was also named as APAC’s Top content mogul for the year 2020 by CMS – Asia, Top 100 Digital Marketers by Adobe Digi100 for the year 2018, and Top 50 Content Marketing Leaders by LinkedIn for the year 2018. In addition, during his stint at MMFSL, he won the Youth Achiever of the Year at the Rural Marketing Awards 2017.

Binda Dey

Binda has over 17 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, and Content Development. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Kolkata Knight Riders, responsible for all aspects of Marketing – Brand, Content, Digital, Licensing & Merchandising, for all Knight Rider Group’s initiatives in Indian Premier League, Caribbean Premier League & USA Major League Cricket.
Previously, she worked with Red Chillies Entertainment, Disney – Star India, Starcom Mediavest Group, and DDB Mudra.

BBC Knowledge had accorded her as the ‘Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017’. Adgully announced her as the ‘Women Disruptor Marketing Head of 2020’. Google India has identified her as part of the ‘Leading Women in New Media.’

Alok Agarwal

Alok is a marketing veteran who has built brands across India and abroad and was recognized as the Digital Marketer of the year (Consumer Packaged Goods Category) by the Internet & Mobile Association of India in 2017.

An IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore alumnus with two decades of experience, he has built brands across the globe, led new product development, evangelized digital marketing, and created shopper marketing solutions for retail outlets. His career has seen him in marketing roles at Unilever, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Saralee, AsiaPac and Ebay India in his early years.

In his last assignment at GSK, he was seen using consumer insight and analytics to set brand strategy for mega brands like Horlicks and Sensodyne. He led digital marketing and was the driving force behind award winning campaigns.

Piali Dasgupta

Piali Dasgupta is a multi-award winning Marketing and Communications leader. She is Senior Vice President, Marketing, at Columbia Pacific Communities, India’s largest senior living community operator.

In a career spanning over 15 years, Piali has created a number of award winning marketing campaigns, served on juries, has been on Social Samosa’s Top 40 marketers under 40 list for the year 2019-2020 and has been awarded the CMO Trailblazer by DMA Asia and Voot India’s Best Marketers and Planners 2021.

She has worked across media (The Times of India), e-commerce (Myntra, Amazon), retail (Aditya Birla Fashion Retail) and real estate.

Her core expertise lies in content marketing, storytelling, building brand narratives and strengthening brand positioning through storytelling.

According to her, good content is one that is purposeful, uplifting and has the ability to start conversations and believes that we are long past the age of “vanity content” or content for the sake of content.

Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, is a voracious reader, spends time sketching and is also a strong mental health advocate and has her own mental health podcast, The Mind Podium, doing her bit to remove long standing stigmas around mental illness.

Raja M.V.S.M.A

Raja is a Pharma marketing & sales leader with over 27 years of extensive & rich experience in Building Pharma Brands across Emerging Markets. He is associated with Dr. Reddy’s for over 24 years, presently designated as Head – Marketing & Strategy (Emerging Markets). In his role, he has been instrumental in establishing & managing multi-functional Centre of Excellence (CoE) team that comprises of Marketing, Digital, Strategy, Medical, Portfolio and SFE based out of Hyderabad. He drives the marketing and strategy function across 33 Emerging markets which includes Russia, Brazil, China and key markets across CIS, ASEAN, Africa & LATAM. During his tenure at Dr. Reddy’s, Raja was responsible for building multimillion dollar brands across three channels – Rx, OTC & Hospital/Institutional biz; Handled P&L roles in CIS markets, SA & Australia.

Saurabh Srivastava

An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience across leadership roles, he has served at some of finest start-ups to grace India such as Ixigo, MobiKwik, Jabong and Housr where he was jointly responsible for building up the brands and businesses to the scale they hold today. Having started out in the more traditional marketing world spanning organizations like Maruti Suzuki, Goodyear & WPP, Saurabh holds strong capabilities across Portfolio & Brand Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Saurabh embodies the value of constant innovation and growth with a flair for building businesses and brands grounds up.
Saurabh joined Monster.com as the Chief Marketing Officer in 2022, heading Business strategy and Brand management for the company.
Equipped with degrees from some of the most prominent universities in India such as Indian School Of Business, Hyderabad and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, Saurabh loves to have conversations centered on the cross sections of Tech, Marketing & Product.

Balaaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji Vaidyanathan is an award winning and accomplished global marketing leader with over 20 years of experience driving ground-breaking integrated marketing campaigns and strategic initiatives, leading from the front to build and inspire global cross-functional teams across complex organizations to enhance brand positioning, value, and revenues. In his current role since February 2019, Balaji is responsible for building the marketing value proposition and growing the brand’s strategic and digital footprint for the CEEMEA region, based out of Dubai. He also drives the marketing efforts for a global strategic project to launch the first ever fintech wealth management platform in Germany as part of a broader European market penetration strategy. Prior to this, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India based out of Mumbai, since February 2010, responsible for multi-million $ budgets and leading all key brand initiatives including advertising, investor education, events and advisor engagement.

Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, content marketing and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer life-cycle journeys have won him dozens of awards globally for creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness.

Sukhpreet Singh

Sukhpreet spearheads Marketing, Customer Engagement, Digital and Innovations for Dish TV and its latest OTT video streaming platform ‘Watcho’
In the last twenty years he has donned multiple hats, leading Business teams, heading Marketing, Sales and Innovation functions in the FMCG, Consumer Durables, Media and Entertainment space. He has workedwithcompanies likeDabur,Gillette, Whirlpool, Nerolac and Samsung in various markets across India and South Asia. Currently he is busy transforming the Digital TV andVideoEntertainment space through technology and digital touchpoints. Prior to joining Dish TV, he worked with Samsung Electronics India in the capacity of Director Marketing – Consumer Electronics (CE) Business

Anand Bhatia

Currently the CMO and Head of Analytics at Fino Payments Bank, I have delivered results across roles in Sales and Distribution, Product Management, Business Development and now Marketing.
Entrepreneurial in outlook I co founded Ormax , a team of consumer behaviorists focused on the BFSI space. An alumnus of IIM Lucknow and a quintessential Mumbai boy, I am an avid long distance runner, and have built marketing at Fino the way I run marathons, for the long haul

Neeraj Joshi

With a streak of blockbusters, Zee Studios has always set the bar high. And, as the studio plans to produce 40 films by 2022, it’s time to meet the brain behind it.

Meet Neeraj Joshi, Head of Marketing at Zee Studios. Since the time of his joining in 2018, he has consistently been delivering some very memorable campaigns; Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi being his first campaign, followed by films such as Hotel Mumbai, Radhe, Jhund, Republic, Valimai, & The Kashmir Files among many others. Neeraj is also credited for leading the triumphant launch of Zeeplex TVOD during the lockdown.

The industry maverick has marketed films across genres viz. action, comedy, thriller, romance, not only in Hindi but also in numerous regional languages. With such an enriched experience, he is unquestionably a forward-looking pioneer and an influential mind in the entertainment business.

Neha Sharma

Neha is responsible for building Twitter’s regional business in India. She drives an integrated strategy to accelerate Twitter’s audience & revenue growth. She is deeply passionate about championing inclusion in the workplace and creating a culture for teams to bring an entrepreneurial approach to the organisation.

Starting 2008, Neha’s professional journey has traversed revenue generation, customer marketing and driving organisation’s cultural responsibilities across India and Singapore markets. Prior to Twitter, she has been responsible for launching & designing digital footprint for top tier publications like Disney+ Hotstar, BBC Worldwide and Network18 Group. A seasoned business and digital marketing professional, Neha enjoys leadership, accountability and contributing to the accelerated growth of business.

Outside of work, Neha loves spending her days on a beach, watching competitive sport, playing tennis and being a mom to two beautiful girls.

Saugata Bagchi

Saugata is a digital practitioner with 20+ years of experience in the marketing & digital domain.
As Global Head – Digital & Content, he leads web, social, performance media, marketing automation & comms design practices, delivering brand & business outcomes in sync with the digital behaviour & content consumption habits of the audiences.
Prior to Tata Comms, Saugata was at the helm of digital agencies at Omnicom (DDB) & WPP (GroupM) & loves working across industries – applying new technologies to create future ready marketing solutions.
Outside of work, he is an avid angler & home chef.

Vishesh Sharma

Marketing leader, brand builder, growth hacker and a fintech enthusiast!

Vishesh Sharma is one of the few esteemed journalists who have reached the stature of Chief Marketing Officer within a short span of time. He has seamlessly managed to bring data science into the art of storytelling with his key strategies for leveraging consumer insights to deliver business objectives, including building organic as well as paid ecosystem.

Presently he is working as the CMO at Ashika Group, India’s leading diversified financial services group with four key business verticals including Retail Broking, Institutional Broking, Startup Funding and Global Family Office Services. There, he leads strategic marketing and planning, brand management, revenue growth strategies, and public relations.

An accomplished marketing professional, Vishesh has vast experience across diverse marketing fields, including brand communication, content marketing, corporate communications, reputation management, internal communications, public affairs, and financial education. He started his professional career with The Hindu, and holds an extensive work experience with renowned publications, including Dalal Street Investment Journal and Progressive Media Group.

Vishesh has worked with reputed companies including Sharekhan BNP Paribas, Asymmetrique Communications, and Atul Ltd, throughout his corporate journey. Before joining Ashika Group, he served as the Head of content marketing, corporate communications, and start ups at Angel One.

From launching world’s first financial movies platform, a purely content marketing-led product, to successfully delivering a rebranding campaign with a PR-first approach, Vishesh has carved out successful brand-building strategies for multiple businesses. In fact, he not only crafted the launch strategy but successfully delivered the Retail IPO portion for Angel One during peak covid era.

Throughout his career, Vishesh has been recognized for his remarkable professional accomplishments. In 2020, he was named Content Marketer 40u40 by Exchange for Media and the Marketing Leader of the Year in the BFSI segment by Nasscom. A year later, he was honored as the Rising Media Star by Best Media Info, Corporate Communications Person of the Year by AdGully, and 40u40 PR Professional by Reputation Today. He won Gold at Inkspell awards under the category of Content Marketing Professional 2021. Vishesh was bestowed with Excellence in PR award by Adgully under their Leader 2.0 awards in 2022.

A thought leader in organic growth as well as brand management functions, Vishesh is a frequent keynote speaker at many educational institutes and thought-provoking events like IIT FinFest, and Amity, among others.

He strongly believes that 3Vs (Voice, Vernacular, and Videos) are the key pillars that will potentially define his legacy over next 10 years.

Sapna Desai

Sapna is responsible for developing and implementing the overall Marketing and Brand Strategy to drive the growth agenda for the organization. She leads the Consumer Insights, Online Sales, Brand Strategy and Media, Corporate Communication, Channel and Digital Marketing functions. Before joining ManipalCigna, she was responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership for financial brands at Ogilvy Advertising, Mumbai. She has also worked across service industries; including ING Life Insurance, Indian School of Business and BPL Mobile in various marketing roles. Sapna has rich experience in all aspects of direct, mass and digital marketing besides having managed some of the largest and respected brands. She also has experience in business development and product management in the services sector. Sapna is a commerce graduate with an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai and has been a jury member at various ADClubs, EMVIES, EFFIES, ABBYs, IAMAI & DMAi awards.

Prashant Dhar

Mr. Prashant Dhar is currently Director, Marketing, A. O. Smith India, world’s largest manufacturer of water heaters , he has been with A. O. Smith for more than two years. Prashant has more than 2 decades of rich marketing experience across diverse consumer categories in highly respected companies like Ariston Thermo Group (Italy), Racold Thermo, Aquaguard, White Mischief Vodka, Mahindra & Mahindra, Eureka Forbes Ltd, Godrej Appliances and Shaw Wallace. His proven track record and expertise combined with sharp marketing & business acumen and orientation has helped deliver positive business impact across the organisations he has worked. Prashant has won accolades for his brilliant work and has been the winner of several awards. He has been featured in the Most Talented CMOs of India 2015, 4th edition book released by CMO Asia, received the most talented marketing professional award 2014 by World Marketing Congress, honoured in the top 50 most talented CMOs 2013 by CMO council of World Brand Congress. While having single-minded focus on the business, Prashant has his passions too; he loves rock music, plays guitar and sings a bit too.

Shrishail Deshnur

Shrishail is a marketing professional with over 18 years of experience across categories of consumer products, financial services and pharma.Currently, he heads the consumer marketing function at Cipla and is instrumental in spearheading the company’s largest consumer awareness initiative.In his previous stint, he was heading the marketing function for the stationery business at Pidilite. Earlier in his career, he has worked with Berger paints, ICICI Prudential, MetLife, and Kotak Life.Shrishail is a foodie and a self-proclaimed movie critic. He loves to drive and play cricket with his 9-year-old son during his free time.

Kavita Jagtiani

Experienced brand builder and business professional with over 20 years of cross category work experience in consultancy, financial services, luxury goods and consumer products.

Expertise & proven track record in strategic planning, category creation, innovation, consumer insights, integrated campaigns and in-market brand activation.

Zubin Kutar

A Digital Marketing & Transformation Leader with over 18 years of experience. He specializes in Digital Marketing Aquisition, Media & Communications, Marketing Transformation and Online Sales across functions in Banking, Insurance, Travel and Technology.

With a focus on business growth, he has consistently melded together online
transformation platforms, techniques and approaches to construct new and exciting ways of generating
revenue from the digital medium – Online, Mobile & Social channels across Global Markets.

His work has been recognized by industry experts and thought leaders in the B2C and B2B industries.

Nivedita Parulekar

Sudhanshu Tripathi

Sudhanshu Tripathi is an entrepreneurial leader who loves to work at the cusp of technology and human impact. He is currently the VP, Head of Marketing & Growth at Quick Heal. Prior to this, he was Head of Marketing & ESG at Sterlite Power. His marketing efforts have successfully created global brands and unlocked value through strategic initiatives across startups as well as global matrix organizations.

Through his ESG mandate, he has successfully integrated ESG into the core business processes and is enabling a sustainable brand transformation. He has also led ESG investor due diligences resulting in equity & debt raise of more than $250 million. In past, he has worked with brands like CYIENT, FINO & TCS.

Priyanka Sehgal

Priyanka Sehgal has over 19 years of experience across TV and digital, with stints in some of the largest media organizations in the country, including Network 18, Times Now and NDTV. With extensive experience across strategy, product, growth, monetization, content, programming and partnerships, she has set up processes, created content and launched channels which still run effectively across organizations. She has overseen primetime programming, created and executed IPs, turned around TV ratings, set up broadcast chains, forayed into regional content and managed P&L responsibility.
Additionally, she has worked with different brands across TV & digital while setting up branded content divisions, which has given her an in-depth understanding of brands and their ethos. Her IP, ‘Power of Shunya’, won a silver at the Goafest Creative Abby’s 2014 and ‘Amazing Indians Awards’ won at the WOW awards for the on-ground event category. Priyanka’s current focus in Network 18 is on scaling up the digital and leading content, strategy, product, and revenue. Priyanka is recognized as an inspiring leader with exceptional creative and commercial discipline, and a unique ability to embrace change and consistently innovate in an industry that is constantly disrupted across content, carriage and consumer tastes.
She was awarded the Women Leadership Achievement Award in 2016 & the Women Super Achiever Award in 2017 at the World Women Leadership Congress. During the time she was overseeing primetime programming, NDTV 24×7 won the Best English News Channel of the year award. She contributed to ET Now dislodging the number 1 channel – CNBC. In her current stint at Network 18, Moneycontrol was awarded the Content Marketeer of the year award at DMAI Awards for a project she led, her recent IP on Firstpost 9 Months qualified as a finalist in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Sector at the Indian Marketing Awards.

Anita Kotwani

With over 2 decades of experience in the media industry, Anita has an extensive background in media management for Consumer Durables, Financial Services, FMCG, Technology, Broadcasting and other MNC brands.

She leads Carat, part of dentsu international as CEO. It is the first agency in India to take inspiration from Design thinking and creating an agile planning framework called “ designing for people”. Anita has been recognised in the Impact Top 50 women influencers in 2022 in the media and marketing fraternity. Also, in 2019, she has also been awarded a certificate of excellence at the Woman leading change awards APAC for the woman leadership program.

She has also been an esteemed judge and jury at various industry forums like Emvies, Goafest awards. She has been managing the media Abby awards at Goafest for the last 2 years.

Abhishek Gupta

Abhishek Gupta is the Chief Marketing Officer of Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance and has been a part of the Edelweiss group for 7 years now. Be it his focus on customer experience or a flair for proactive marketing ideas, Abhishek has been at the forefront of driving brand saliency for Edelweiss Tokio Life. With an unmatched enthusiasm for marketing, Abhishek has delivered several unique campaigns for the company. With over 2 decades of experience in sales and marketing, Abhishek has previously worked with The Mobile Store (Essar Group), Bharti Retail, Spencer Retail, ICICI Bank, and Shoppers Stop. He has been recognised as one of the ‘25 Most Outstanding Marketing Professional of India at World Brand Congress 2014’, ‘Most Influential Marketing Leaders 2017’, and ‘Global Marketing Leaders 2019’ at World Marketing Congress. He regularly speaks at industry forums, and serves as Guest Faculty at reputed management institutes in India.

Prasad Pimple

Prasad is a firm believer in the process of ideation – experimentation – learning fast – succeeding faster & scaling up cheap.

A Chemical Engineer from UDCT & MBA from JBIMS, Prasad has 19 years of experience in Digital business, brand & product management, customer acquisition, customer life cycle management, strategy, business planning and research across insurance, telecom, banking and engineering sectors.

Prior to Kotak Life, Prasad has worked in HDFC Life, Tata Docomo, Vodafone, ICICI Bank & Kotak Mahindra Bank.