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

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.

Raja Chakraborty

Raja Chakraborty
Marketing Head (SAARC & SEA) Global P&L Head (Male Grooming) | Emami International
A passionate consumer marketer and business enthusiast with 2 decades of experience across the consumer goods sector with companies like Raymond, Pepsico, Bayer, Nerolac & Currently working as Mktg Head (SAARC & SEA) and Global P&L Head (Male Grooming) at Emami’s International Business. He has played a key role in building many brands across categories like PARK AVENUE, NEROLAC, BABOOL, MESWAK, ODONIL & ODOMOS. He likes to build training content for budding marketeers and loves watching movies and is an amateur singer.

Amitabh Bhatnagar

Amitabh has over 20 years of experience in leading various Marketing and Sales functions across Media and Consumer durables industry in India. A sportsman and entrepreneur at heart he is the Chief Operating Officer for India Ahead – an audience first news broadcast & digital platform. A crusader brand which strongly believes in the neutrality of news media and is working towards reclaiming its prestige and credibility from the agenda driven journalism that has come to define TV news.

Amitabh has led high impact business transformation initiatives across his various roles while working with cross functional teams. Time spent with organizations such as Sony, Samsung and BCCL have helped him to grow his business and people skills in equal measure.

Amitabh’s biggest asset is the love and respect he can inspire in his colleagues across hierarchy, largely generated by his ability to take keen interest in them as people and always be available with a patient ear and a comforting word when needed.

Passionate about sports, travel, and wildlife he considers himself a forever student and is ever humble in his quest for new knowledge and experience.

Madhu Dutta

Madhu has over 20 years of professional experience in the field of Brand, Marketing, Media, Digital and Communication specializing in Fashion & Lifestyle category. Currently, she is General Manager & Marketing Head for Raymond Limited.
Prior to this assignment, she has been Chief-Marketing for Pantaloons Fashion & Retail Ltd, at Aditya Birla Group and has been instrumental is a complete make-over of Pantaloons bringing in lifestyle & fashion relevance to the brand in the given consumer segment.
As Head of Marketing Development in World Gold Council and managed overall marketing initiatives in India. During her tenure, she has launched the most coveted brands in the jewellery category like Collection g – making gold a contemporary daily wear fashion. Further tapping in to the Indian Wedding Market through Azwa – a first of a concept wedding jewellery in the country. Introduced Italian made jewellery in India Gold Expressions another

Azmat Habibulla

Ms. Azmat Habibulla is a marketing leader and digital enthusiast who has led business
transformation at some of the leading brands in the country in the FMCG & BFSI sectors. In her
vast experience of more than 25 years, she led impactful customer strategies, based on strong
consumer insights. Her expertise spans across a wide spectrum of domains such as Digital
marketing & business generation, Marketing Communication & Branding, Experiential and
Knowledge events, Strategic Partnerships, Community Building and Thought Leadership
initiatives.
Azmat’s career began in FMCG, working on popular consumer brands such as Promise
Toothpaste, Bertolli Olive Oil and Barilla Pasta. She has successfully led the launch of Meswak
toothpaste. She subsequently transitioned to BFSI with a long stint of 15 years in ICICI Bank.
She has launched innovative digital engagements, including the development of digital
communities like NRI Engage, SME Toolkit and a B2B marketplace. She has also conceived
immensely successful media properties like the Emerging India Awards, NRI Of the Year, India
Business Summit and SME Elite 50 with media partners like CNBC TV-18, Times Now & ET Now.
These properties have brought together Ministers of the government of India, Business leaders,
Influencers and Industry Experts. Currently, she’s leading the marketing at The South Indian Bank
as Chief Marketing officer.
Azmat is a change agent and has spearheaded some large strategic projects, managing large
teams and fostering cross functional collaboration to implement the organisational vision. She is
future focused and credited with spotting emerging trends early and leveraging them effectively.
As she strongly believes what learnt must be shared, she is passionate about mentoring and
investing time in nurturing talent.
Azmat is an artist, an avid traveller and the author of a popular travel blog

Jinal Shah

Jinal Shah is currently the Assistant Professor of Marketing at School of Commerce at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. Prior to this she has been the Head of the Department
Management Studies course at SIES college for 8 years. A Gold medallist in MBA from K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, she has also completed M.com. She has cleared NET SET exams in commerce and management 5 times. Currently pursuing PhD in Marketing from Mumbai University.
She has won nine times the award for best research paper in various International Conferences from prestigious educational institutions like MICA, JBIMS, SIMSR, SIECOMS, etc.
She has 4 publications to her credit – Two in ABDC – C Category, one in Scopus and one in UGC Care List. She has authored books on Consumer Behaviour, Digital Marketing and Brand Management.
She is also a contributing author at the portal Strategy Story with more than 6 articles to her credit.
She has also published two cases in the 15th edition of Marketing Management by Phillip Kotler. She is also the content developer for the 5th edition of Strategic Brand Management authored by Kevin Keller, Ambi Parmeswaran and Isaac Jacob and has a special mention in
the book. She has been recognized with the honor of Best Young Teacher by Higher Education Forum (HEF) for the outstanding contribution in the area of higher education.
With a deep passion for the domain of Personal Branding on LinkedIn, Jinal has taken sessions on these topics in more than 75 Colleges in India & Abroad like IIMs, IITs, JBIMS and various
schools & campuses of NMIMS to name a few. To know more about her story, check her LinkedIn account.

Dr. Deepak R. Gupta

Dr. Deepak has over 9 years of academic experience and has worked with organisations such as Asian Paints and Unilever in the past. His interest lies in the area of Digital Marketing and he
has completed many online courses in the same domain. He is also a NET/SLET qualified professional.
His extensive academic experience has helped him conduct various programs for corporate professionals across India. He has also authored books – Yeh Management Filmy Hai!,
“Management T20” and Marketing Management. He has presented /published research papers in various
national and international journals and conferences. He was appointed as the N.S.S. Programme OfficerThis programme aims to inculcate the social welfare thoughts in the students, and to provide service to the society without any prejudice.

Akshay Gaonkar

Currently VP D2C (Direct 2 Home) Home Delivery business at NHQ.

Previously National Head – JioInteract – World’s 1st Video Call Bot. It’s a patent filed Next Gen product, which I conceptualised & co-created, to help brands interact face to face with their audiences via a Video Call, using power of Artificial Intelligence based bot.

Previously National Head Home Business – handling High Value subs (HNI, Postpaid). Created 90 mins hyperlocal home delivery format from scratch at Reliance Jio. Part of launch team at Reliance Jio which created worlds largest Greenfield 4G LTE network in India, racing to leadership position within 2 years of launch.

Past profiles in Idea Cellular include, National Head Postpaid Product, National Head – Prepaid Acquisition (GM), Product Head (Delhi Haryana), BI and National Modern Trade Sales Head.

Diverse mix of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Marketing & Sales (Direct and Trade, in industries such as Telecom, FMCG and Consumer Durable, with a clear growth track record.

Anurag Purohit

Anurag Purohit is a seasoned Digital Leader.
He has worked with some of the biggest national and international technology companies.

From Infosys to Dell he has a wide experience; He is sought after for his creative solution ability which is a rarity among number crunching Digital experts. As a former advertising copywriter he approaches digital branding from a brand blue-print perspective.

He also has a solid ecommerce marketing experience with some of the most prominent ecom players like ebay, futurebazaar and many others.

Rubeena Singh

With an illustrious career, building and scaling media businesses across digital, print and broadcast, Rubeena is currently the Country Manager of Josh. A seasoned professional with over 21 years of rich experience and knowledge in business & product development, digital marketing, relationship management and advertising sales, Rubeena’s role involves shaping and expanding the content monetization model at Josh.

She started her career at Star TV, working with the sales team but spent a large part of her career at Network18 where she spearheaded the launch of CNBC Awaaz, Forbes India and Moneycontrol, her first tryst with the world of digital media. Prior to joining Josh, Rubeena was the CEO of iProspect India, a digital media company. She was named the ‘Marketing Leader of the Year 2018’ and the ‘Mobile Marketing Professional Of The Year 2019’ at ACEF Asian Leadership Awards.

In her previous roles, she is credited for spearheading various services like Intelligent Content, Martech among others to offer an entire spectrum of data-driven performance strategies. She has represented businesses at various forums like IAMAI, DMAi, ad:tech, among others as a speaker and panellist.

When she is not spearheading business performance, Rubeena is passionate about driving growth through inclusive people strategies, championing several diversity and inclusion initiatives. Voted as one of the ‘Top 50 Influential Women’ in the Media & Entertainment industry in India by the Impact magazine, Rubeena has been invited by Google and Facebook globally to advocate for women in leadership.

Sharmila Sandeep

An MBA in Marketing from PSG Institute of Management. Also holds M.A & M.Phil in Sociology. Sharmila joined Saint-Gobain -Gyproc in 2021 as the Head of Marketing.

Sharmila has 18yrs of Brand and Marketing experience across various industries. Prior to Saint-Gobain, Sharmila led marketing and product management at ICICI Bank, Bisleri, Pidilite, Hatsun Agro, Radio Mirchi & Future group retail. Sharmila has vivid interest and acquired skills in numerous handicrafts, conducts workshops and loves being a swimming coach. She unwinds by watching movies and social networking.

Sushant Kamble

Sushant is Proprietor & Director of a production house called CROPCIRCLES FILMS. The production house produces and directs television commercials, AVs, music videos, web series, documentaries, short films, etc. It provides a 360degree branding solution.

He is also a free-lancing Director for any format of films. Current on-going project as a Director / Writer for a web-series.

Directing & producing a Musical Travel Docu-Television show, web-series and feature films.

Sushant is an avid traveller, painter and a photographer. He is also a life coach and believes in motivational speaking. He also takes adventure trips to places like Leh, EBC, etc.

Work Experience

Sushant has been around in the industry since almost 20 years and has incredible experience working as Creative Director at OBEROI IBC, visiting Creative Director at O&M and Head Faculty at Arena Multimedia (Film Making / Post Production /VFX).

He was associated with ANUPAM KHER STUDIOS as CREATIVE DIRECTOR and Content Developer for feature length films and web-series.

He is also a Professor for Film and Media studies at various degree colleges associated with University of Mumbai, since last 6 years.

His early Career started off as a VFX / 3D Animation / Compositing Supervisor.

Sushant has ventured into his own company CROPCIRCLES FILMS 9 years back and has worked with known brands such as Lustraa Lens, JAWA Motorcycles, BIKAJI, AMBUJA cement, Castrol, TZB, RBI, EUREKA FORBES, SHUDH Pan Masala, ASPEE, VINOD Cookware, and many others.

Career Objective                                                                                                                                       Having experience of 20 years in the industry I am well capable of being a Show -Runner and handling the entire process of taking a concept, putting together a suitable team, and making it into a viable product. I can lead a creative team of writers and directors, handle all pre-

production, communications between actors and directors, finalize on casting and locations, any creative requirements, and overall supervision of the project at hand.

Ashish Mehta

Sir has done double masters degree in Commerce and Arts with management and advertising as his majors. Sir has been awarded the trophy 🏆 by ROTRACT club of India for his phenomenal work in area of education particularly in literature and language. Mr. Ashish is also been awarded by THE TIMES GROUP as the top 10 change makers in edutainment sector. Sir is instrumental in developing and shaping MAHARASHTRA STATE BOARD OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT. An initiative by government of Maharashtra in field of skill and vocational training.

Nidhi S Mittal

Nidhi S Mittal is currently working with JioSaavn Brand Solutions as a Head of Marketing to drive the B2B marketing initiatives. Prior to this, she played a pivotal role at Tata Advanced Systems in establishing & integrating marketing and inside sales business functions.

Nidhi is a passionate marketer and branding professional with work spanning over the last eighteen years across areas of growth marketing, business development, lead generation, and profitability. With an International MBA from Hult International Business School along with numerous industry certifications, she bring in extensive knowledge and experience in marketing and global account management with exposure of living and working in diverse industries and cultures like India, UAE, the US, and Australia.

Some of the other multinationals she has been associated are DXC Technologies, British Council, Steria Sopra, Toyota Financial Services etc. In her spare time, you will find her caught up in the fire of creativity as a Profuse Reader and Thoughtful Writer.

Bhavesh Dalmia

Experienced Marketing & Media specialist with demonstrated track record for more than 18+ years in Consumer Health, OTC, and FMCG categories. Skilled in Traditional & Digital Media Strategy, Marketing Management, Market Planning, Integrated Marketing solutions and Advertising. Currently leading Cipla’s biggest patient awareness initiative #BerokZindagi Consumer Campaign in Cipla.

Neha Mavani

Neha Mavani is a seasoned marketer with 15 years of
experience across spectrum of channels from Print, Radio,
TV, and Digital. She has built, led and scaled business
through consumer insights thereby breaking records and
creating new industry benchmarks.
Herskill set includes Consumer Acquisition, brand Management, content Marketing, driving
subscriptions, marketing strategy and insights, research analysisand driving a culture of thinkingout-of-the-box. Sheenjoysconceptualizing communication by leveraging insights from consumer
behaviour that forms the basis of hercreatives and media strategy
She hasconsistently delivered path-breaking marketing strategies and product launches throughout
hercareer.

Shalmali S Desai

A seasoned marketing professional with 25+years of work experience across the FMCG and media industry with a deep understanding of content marketing, driving content subscriptions and ad monetizing. In my professional journey, significant time has been spent in product marketing and business partnerships, leading to pioneering work in creating and implementing the strategy for revenue streams for the content distribution platform.

Soumen Das

A seasoned Pharmaceutical Sales & Marketing Professional with 15 years of experience with Top Pharma Companies.

Proficiency in Portfolio building in Multiple Acute and Chronic therapy Areas.

A turnaround specialist with exceptional skills in identifying and promoting brand value proposition, capitalizing newer market opportunities, enhancing product positioning with effective marketing communication, improving product profitability, Life-cycle-management of Mega Brands.

An adept in understanding customers and use these insights to guide agencies to create breakthrough and high-impact creative campaigns.

Highly skilled in strategic decision making for sales effectiveness & brand mix and manage marketing activities to deliver > 100% bottom line.

Sudeep Chawla

Sudeep is passionate about storytelling, building brands & categories and perfecting human connections. He has spent the last 17 years in various sales and marketing roles in Cadbury/ Mondelez and Pidilite, both being companies with incredible brand-building capabilities. This combination also makes him a rare marketer to have built brands in B2C as well as B2B space. He is passionate about everything that’s related to marketing and people. He is also a Marketing educator who conducts a crash course titled “Science behind the art of advertising” at GrowthSchool where he unpacks frameworks to create effective & measurable brand campaigns. His course has added value to around 2000+ industry professionals, marketing enthusiasts and students thus far. He also hosts a marketing podcast titled “CoBB -Conversations over Business of Brands” with his ex-colleague from Mondelez where they try to dispel myths & misinformation related to marketing

Sugato Banerji

With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.

Specialties: Start ups, product launch, media distribution, service marketing, service brand operations

Rohit Gulati

Rohit brings under two decades of diverse Sales , Marketing, Strategy and Commercial Leadership Experience ( P&L responsibilities ) in the Healthcare industry ( Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices ) working across therapy areas like Orthopaedics , Ophthalmology , Infusion Therapy & Endoscopy across India and Subcontinent . He is currently the Director Marketing – India & South Asia for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision in India . He is part of the Vision Care India LT & Regional Marketing Council.

Samir Vora

Samir Vora is the Chief Marketing Officer at
VerSe Innovation. Samir is responsible for
leading all marketing operations including
brand, ATL communication, corporate
communication, performance marketing,
and social media across all of the VerSe
brands – Josh, Dailyhunt, Public Vibe and
One India.
In his career spanning over 20 years, Samir
has specialized in marketing, sales, and
market development across industries like
finance, media, and technology.
Prior to joining VerSe Innovation, Samir was
the Vice President for Star Sports where he was instrumental in launching
regional sports channels across India with a special focus on marketing,
content, and distribution. He has also led premier sports and the channel’s
football portfolio. Under Samir’s leadership, Star Sports witnessed the
highest ever ratings for Hero ISL and massive digital traction for the sport.
Within the Star family, Samir has also led the brand for Star Plus and has
played a significant role in reinstalling the channel as the no. 1 GEC of the
country.
Samir has also worked in the financial sector with companies like Birla Sun
Life and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance where he was responsible for direct
marketing, digital marketing, and distribution marketing. He started his
career as a client servicing manager at JWT.
Samir holds an MBA in marketing from Narsee Monjee Institute of
Management Studies, and is an alumnus of University of Mumbai