Ad World Showdown 2025

Ashish Pruthi

Ashish Pruthi is a Marketing & Growth Leader who works at the intersection of brand, revenue and AI. He has led marketing and business functions across sectors in B2B and B2C environments and now advises organizations on go-to-market strategy, leadership development and governance, helping build scalable and future-ready businesses.

Shweta Srivastava

A Digital evangelist and Integrated Marketing professional having 18+ years of diverse experience at various organizations in making strategies, plans and driving execution for achieving business goals.

She is one of the pioneers in the Digital world and started her Digital marketing journey in early 2000s. She is currently Steering Digital Marketing at Usha International working as Senior Vice President-Marketing and Digital. Prior to Usha International, she worked with leading companies like PHILIPS, Dr Reddy’s, DuPont, GroupM, Hindustan Times, Indiamart etc. and has successfully delivered on various digital and integrated initiatives globally across various markets.
Being the change agent, she has been involved in bringing Digital transformation to companies across a range of industries, sectors, markets and brands. She truly believes in amalgamating marketing and technology to build customer centricity in organizations for accelerated growth.

Her journey has been attested by multiple Industry awards and individual recognitions like-
BBC Knowledge Women Leadership in Industry Award, Adobe Brand & Content custodian award, Woman Super Achiever in Digital and Social in Asia, World Women Leadership Award, ETNow digital award and Mobbys award.
Besides being an avid reader and a classical singer, she also likes to travel and cook to unwind her MarTech brain cells. She is blessed with two lovely daughters and a super supportive husband who are the pillars of her strength and growth.

Senthil Kumar Hariram

Senthil Kumar Hariram is a visionary entrepreneur, search engineering strategist, and digital transformation advocate with over 15 years of experience in scaling brands and building high-impact teams. As the Founder and Managing Director of FTA Global, Senthil is on a mission to reinvent the agency model by embedding outcome-driven, AI-augmented growth teams into brands and delivering tangible business impact at scale.

Before founding FTA Global in 2025, Senthil was part of the founding team and served as Vice President of Marketing at NP Digital India. Senthil’s expertise spans performance marketing, scalable SEO systems, AI-led marketing transformation, prod…
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Nidhi S Mittal

Nidhi S Mittal is a Global Marketing & Growth Leader, Personal Branding Trainer, and Keynote Speaker with over two decades of experience across India, the US, UAE, and Australia. She currently serves as Director of Corporate Relations at ABES Engineering College, where she drives industry partnerships and career outcomes at scale. Through her venture Sattori, she works with students, professionals, founders, CXOs, and institutions to bring clarity to brand, narrative, and growth, grounded in the belief that intentional conversations drive meaningful outcomes. Having collaborated with leading organisations like Tata Group, JioSaavn, DXC Technology, and British Council, she translates strategy into measurable business impact. She has also engaged 10,000+ learners through workshops across premier institutions including IITs, IIMs, and Masters’ Union, delivering practical, conversation-led sessions that bridge theory and real-world application.