Senior VP – Digital Marketing and E-Commerce | Max Life Insurance
Digital, Marketing & Business leader with deep consumer understanding & strategic perspective built about 17 years of Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Digital Product Management, Brand, Media & Research experience across diverse categories spanning financial services, media, IT peripherals, beverages & automobiles.
Believer in perpetual beta while navigating the pixel ocean that today’s businesses are swimming in.
Digital Marketing Strategist | Google
Anzaar is a professional marketing strategist with over seven years of experience in designing cross-channel, integrated marketing programs, especially through digital platforms. At Google, he leads key media programs and manages all strategic as well tactical aspects of running Search, Display and Video marketing campaigns for large corporates based in UK and Ireland. He is dedicated to driving customer success via marketing-dollar efficiencies and product adoption.
Before Google, Anzaar was spearheading all digital marketing initiatives for YES Bank which included website content and design, display and video advertising, mobile marketing, search engine marketing and SEO, programmatic buying, email marketing and social media promotions.
Anzaar’s passions and proficiencies include performance marketing, branding, strategic alliances, media planning, visual aesthetics and go-to-market strategy. He has worn the hat of a marketing advisor for several early-stage start-ups, and endeavours to continue helping new businesses to achieve their business goals through data-driven insights.
With an innate passion for new technologies and emerging trends, Anzaar strives to create simple yet effective user/ customer experiences. Digital marketing is an ever-changing space and his mantra is to always stay ahead of the curve.
Anzaar is an alumnus of IIM Shillong and Symbiosis University, and has served as a Rotary International ambassador to USA. He is also a seasoned swimmer with several accolades at the Indian and USA national swim meets, and from the Sports Federation of India.
Vice President | Brand Airtel
Archana Aggarwal is a passionate media advocate with 20+ years of media experience. She has worked across multiple brands at both media agencies and advertiser. Her last assignment was Country Media Manager, P&G where she spent 8+ years and has now been with Airtel for last 3+ years as VP, Media. 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. She identified ideas like Sim sampling with Economic Times, Roshandan and Google countdown clock.
Chief Marketing Officer | IIFL
Arun has got a rich experience in all aspects of direct, mass and digital marketing, besides having managed some of the largest and most respected brands. Prior to IIFL, he had also been with Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Citibank and GE.
He is an active participant in and has been frequently reached out to for a number of initiatives within the marketing fraternity. He has been a member of the jury for the Effies Awards of the Ad Club, Bombay, the Digiratti Awards for online marketing excellence, the PrintWeek India Awards and a number of other OOH and Digital Marketing Awards.
Some recent recognition
He is an occasional guest lecturer at business schools on various aspects of marketing and communication and has co-authored the book ‘Inside the Minds: Global Marketing Leadership Strategies’ published in 2012 by Aspatore/Thomson Reuters.
In his spare time he is likes to travel and is passionate about photography and also enjoys badminton, running and football.
Chief Executive Officer | Netxcell Ltd
Professional, leader and challenge seeker, best describe the journey of Debasis over the last 22 years of his working life as he features in Communication Commander Power List in 2013 and 2014. With proven credentials and ongoing business relationships with all the major telecom operators in India, the company manages a customer base of more than 450 million. Netxcell handles more than 300 million OBD/IBD and 120 million GPRS subscribers, 5 million SMS and 4 million MMS per day with more than a 130 server installation managing 2500 plus E1s across India. Under his leadership, Netxcell has started its operations in Africa through Netxcell Mauritius Ltd (NML). NML is implementing some projects in East and Central Africa. His emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights helped Netxcell file several products / services for Patent, Service Mark and Copyright.
Debasis is a hands on manager. He is a regular speaker at several prestigious forums. He has been invited on several occasions to speak on a wide range of happening topics on Mobile Value Added Services in India and abroad. VAS ASIA 2008, 2009 Mobile Conversations (Afaqs), IAMAI, Map World Forum, i- VAS conference Kuwait, delegation to Sri Lanka by AMCHAM and more.
Debasis was also a panel speaker at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Award, (MAMA) 2009 in LONDON in which Netxcell was awarded a silver category. He is being invited as a guest speaker at premier telecom institutes such as IMT, BITM and SIBM, Pune. Recently, he was invited as a panel speaker in Telecom Conclave 2011 at IIM Bangalore and Mobile Bit conference in Hyderabad. He has received Indira Super Achiever Award in 2010. He was also invited as a panelist in SAARC Telecom, CEO Conclave, 2009 held in Dhaka and as a panel moderator in SAARC Telecom CEO Conclave, Delhi 2010.Debasis holds a doctorate in science, diploma in Patent Law and AMP from IIM Bangalore. He lives in Hyderabad with his wife, son and daughter.
Head of Marketing | Manipal Global Education Services
He has immencse experience in building brands and acquiring users through digital and offline media. He has launched several brands as Marketing lead, all of them contributing to significant improvements in market share and brand KPIs.He handled 360-degree marketing programs: Brand strategy, advertising, product management, media planning, research, events & activation, trade & B2B marketing
He has got expertise in online and social media, having handled large user acquisition and engagement campaigns and has experience in launching new products: Market scanning, insight generation, prototyping & testing, proposition & communication development to executing the final marketing mix.
Business Head | Reliance Entertainment and Digital
A penchant for advertising, media and communications drove him to the industry and has been with him for about 20 years now. Have been with various media companies and held various roles and responsibilities, he had the fortune of working with some of the finest people in our industry, through the path of having couple of mentors and building relationships all along.
Have essayed roles in print, digital, television, OOH,content and also the invention of wireless and telephony revenue in the revenue with the pioneer show- Indian Idol that started it all! There is a also a bit of a creative thinker inside him which has helped in various roles and responsibilities, creating products, platforms and solutions for clients and companies at both ends.
Dr. Sanghvi has also worked with a few startups and given shape to their businesses, revenue streams ,brand and creating success in the same has always given him a high. Being founder member of Rediff.com was a significant learning and tipping point in his graph.
Head | Business Development & Marketing Social Samosa
Profile – Hitesh Rajwani heads Business development & Marketing at www.SocialSamosa.com, an online publication reporting insights, trends and breaking stories on social media marketing.
An MBA graduate from Symbiosis and an economics major, Hitesh holds prime expertise in digital marketing strategy, brand management and experiential marketing. A passion maven and a self-motivated entrepreneur, he has co-founded a couple of ventures. He is the founder and architect of India’s First Décor Influencer Awards.
He propounded the theory of ‘The Social Moment of Truth’; his areas of interest include social commerce, digital intellectual properties and hyper local commerce. Hitesh is the key architect behind India’s First Décor Influencer Awards and Social Samosa’s Flagship Digital Property – #SS30Under30
Over the years, he has consulted small medium businesses with their social media marketing strategy and handled online marketing mandates for various brands. His varied exposure is a testimony to his wide array of skills that range across marketing, communications and business development.
About Social Samosa
Social Samosa is an Online Media Publication which covers the Social Media Landscape in India. The publication reports insights, trends, breaking stories on social media along with campaign reviews, case studies and expert posts from industry practitioners. Social Samosa’s editorial team propels the industry with insightful analysis and investigative research – bringing tomorrow’s news today.
Over the years, Social Samosa has enabled the industry with information symmetry and best practice benchmarking. The Portal promotes and facilitates data-driven digital marketing. We envisage the importance of content marketing and devising digital intellectual properties. Our vision is to build and empower an ecosystem where brands, agencies, tools and talent learn from the shared knowledge base and work towards developing a thriving industry.
VP Marketing & Business Development Unlimit | Reliance
Matthias has over 20 years of marketing and business development experience with a focus in the Telecom and High Tech industry. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting and consulted amongst others Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom as well as Daimler and other Automotive companies. He has a Diploma in economics (University Bayreuth), an MBA (University of Brighton) and holds a PHD from the University of Potsdam.
As a Vice President at Unlimit – the newly founded business unit of Reliance Group solely focused on IoT B2B customers – he is responsible for Marketing and Business Development. Dr. Wurster lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Consultant RemBrand Consulting
Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising. She managed an advertising agency for more than 20 years and now is a branding and marcom consultant to many companies and NGOs
Awards
Co-Founder & CEO | Paisabazaar.com Group CMO | Policybazaar.com
Business Head Consumer | PayU India
Pallav has 15+ years of experience in Payments, Consulting, Omni-channel Retail, Financial services, Process re-engineering, Leading teams and setting up new businesses in India
and internationally.
At PayU India, Pallav is responsible for Consumer Business including
developing and marketing PayU India’s latest consumer offering – LazyPay.
Having received masters from IIM Bangalore & bachelor’s degree from IIT
Roorkee, he has worked with companies such as Visa, Accenture, Reliance
Retail and ICICI Bank.
In his previous experience with Reliance Retail, he has been awarded for
Outstanding contribution by Mr. Mukesh Ambani for his contribution towards
building a new business unit. Prior to that, as Regional Manager in ICICI
bank, he was recognized as best performer by Ms Chanda Kocchar for his role
in setting up a new vertical. At Accenture, he was responsible for
setting up and leading the Omni-channel retail practice.
Chairman | Majestic Research
Chief Marketing Officer | Acer
S. Rajendran has been instrumental in building Acer’s consumer business line in India over the last 16 years. He is in charge of the entire spectrum of marketing activities and marketing communications.
Rajendran joined Acer India as General Manager – Marketing, in November 1999. He was later empowered with leadership of the India Sales & Marketing function at Acer for the erstwhile Consumer Products Division which successfully built the Acer retail operations in the country from the year 2003, apart from establishing the volume product group (Value desktops).
After Acer India established it’s presence in India, it also started addressing the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh & Bhutan in 2006, under Rajendran’s leadership. Exports to these countries have scaled up consistently, making Acer among the top 3 brands in each of these markets.
Rajendran started his career with Tata Sons at Tata Economic Consultancy Services in 1984. In 1990 he joined TVS Electronics as a Business Manager and moved to the Sterling Group in 1995. In 1996 Rajendran joined Redington India as Business Manager where he looked after brands like HP, Samsung and Canon, before joining Acer in 1999.
Rajendran has a Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical) degree from IIT, Chennai and a PGDM (Marketing & Finance) from IIM, Kolkata. He is a sports enthusiast and likes watching tennis and cricket in his spare time. He is also fond of playing chess and table tennis, reading science fiction, humour and literature by contemporary writers.
Chief Operating Officer | India Today Group Digital
Experience of managing diverse businesses starting with Retail, Media, Online business, E-commerce, Entertainment, Mobile, VAS, Broadband Telephony and Enterprise Sales. Having exposure to integrating the online business across TV, Print, Web and mobile, helping media organizations to exploit the real meaning of convergence. A career, spanning over 19 years with 13 years of top general management experience.
COO @ India Today Group Digital, India’s fast growing group as per ComScore Chief Executive Officer India Today eCommerce and BagitToday
Responsible for the complete P&L, Digital business, Advertising revenue, brand building and brand management, building the community, website traffic, engagement, sales strategy, content development, content acquisition and rendition across various platforms, ensuring quality user experience, ensuring a 24 by 7 uptime. Ensuring I leverage the group strengths across various verticals and delivery better than expected results using my rich experience, keeping in mind the long-term goals and short-term objectives. Build business structures that enable robust and scalable businesses, advising new businesses, Sales Strategy development, including business plan, If required look at acquiring businesses and structure commercial transactions that help us stay ahead of the curve
Work at various industry forums, to help increase the online penetration and usage of the internet. Which I believe would be good for our economy, country and the biggest impact on the world will be universal access to all human knowledge.
Part of the Governing Council for IAMAI and an advisory to startups. In the past have been a part of startups and helps conceptualized from scratch.
Group Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Digital Officer | Dr. Batra’s Healthcare
Sanjeev specializes in Digital Media & E-Commerce – Mobile & Internet Domain. Early adopters of the New Economy (Digital) Business in the country. Build business in Media & Entertainment, Internet, Telecom & Health Industries. Thought leadership backed by execution.
A senior management professional with 20+ years of experience with large groups in Media & Telecom including The Times of India Group (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd/ Times Internet Ltd.) and Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group. Sound Business Acumen and wide experience in handling P&L responsibility for India and International markets. Successfully developed and launched multiple products and services in a global environment.
Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:
• Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
• Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 & Biz Head homeshop18.com
• Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
• Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
• Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi – Times of India Group
He was named Group CMO in April, to lead,marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batras across India UAE & UK, with a mandate & vision 2020 for the brand & business.
A native of Delhi NCR, he completed “Advanced Strategic Management” from IIM Calcutta , which included research project on “ Digital Media & E-commerce” .
Founder, CEO & Chief Brand Strategist | Brands of Desire
Saurabh Uboweja is an International Brand Expert, Indian Entrepreneur, Brand
strategist, Startup Coach, writer, columnist and public speaker. He is the Founder,
CEO and Chief Brand Strategist of Brands of Desire, a brand consultancy he setup in
New Delhi, India in 2008. He is a co-founder and Director of CrediHealth, India’s
number 1 medical assistance company. He is one of the eight founding members of
the World Communication Forum Association, registered in Davos (Switzerland).
Saurabh is also the founder of Brand India Summit, an annual event that aims at
positioning and celebrating India as a nation brand.
Head Marketing | Videocon D2H
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
Marketing Director – Indian Snacks, Foods | PepsiCo India
Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey, amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award
She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish and prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.
She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks – it’s been 6 years now.
Director LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
After 17 years as a marketing professional, including 8 years as an executive and 4 years as a “Desi CMO” in India, she embarked on her next play, leading the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business in India. This role is the perfect intersection of marketing, technology and leadership and she was excited to bring her experience as a global marketer to the Indian market.
She had already seen the benefits and ROI from the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions portfolio in her career as a B2B marketer, both at IBM and at LinkedIn. LinkedIn presented a really unique opportunity for brands. They can engage with the world’s professionals in one place and target a quality audience in a professional context.
Digital, Marketing & Business leader with deep consumer understanding & strategic perspective built about 17 years of Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Digital Product Management, Brand, Media & Research experience across diverse categories spanning financial services, media, IT peripherals, beverages & automobiles.
Believer in perpetual beta while navigating the pixel ocean that today’s businesses are swimming in.
Anzaar is a professional marketing strategist with over seven years of experience in designing cross-channel, integrated marketing programs, especially through digital platforms. At Google, he leads key media programs and manages all strategic as well tactical aspects of running Search, Display and Video marketing campaigns for large corporates based in UK and Ireland. He is dedicated to driving customer success via marketing-dollar efficiencies and product adoption.
Before Google, Anzaar was spearheading all digital marketing initiatives for YES Bank which included website content and design, display and video advertising, mobile marketing, search engine marketing and SEO, programmatic buying, email marketing and social media promotions.
Anzaar’s passions and proficiencies include performance marketing, branding, strategic alliances, media planning, visual aesthetics and go-to-market strategy. He has worn the hat of a marketing advisor for several early-stage start-ups, and endeavours to continue helping new businesses to achieve their business goals through data-driven insights.
With an innate passion for new technologies and emerging trends, Anzaar strives to create simple yet effective user/ customer experiences. Digital marketing is an ever-changing space and his mantra is to always stay ahead of the curve.
Anzaar is an alumnus of IIM Shillong and Symbiosis University, and has served as a Rotary International ambassador to USA. He is also a seasoned swimmer with several accolades at the Indian and USA national swim meets, and from the Sports Federation of India.
Archana Aggarwal is a passionate media advocate with 20+ years of media experience. She has worked across multiple brands at both media agencies and advertiser. Her last assignment was Country Media Manager, P&G where she spent 8+ years and has now been with Airtel for last 3+ years as VP, Media. 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. She identified ideas like Sim sampling with Economic Times, Roshandan and Google countdown clock.
Arun has got a rich experience in all aspects of direct, mass and digital marketing, besides having managed some of the largest and most respected brands. Prior to IIFL, he had also been with Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Citibank and GE.
He is an active participant in and has been frequently reached out to for a number of initiatives within the marketing fraternity. He has been a member of the jury for the Effies Awards of the Ad Club, Bombay, the Digiratti Awards for online marketing excellence, the PrintWeek India Awards and a number of other OOH and Digital Marketing Awards.
Some recent recognition
He is an occasional guest lecturer at business schools on various aspects of marketing and communication and has co-authored the book ‘Inside the Minds: Global Marketing Leadership Strategies’ published in 2012 by Aspatore/Thomson Reuters.
In his spare time he is likes to travel and is passionate about photography and also enjoys badminton, running and football.
Professional, leader and challenge seeker, best describe the journey of Debasis over the last 22 years of his working life as he features in Communication Commander Power List in 2013 and 2014. With proven credentials and ongoing business relationships with all the major telecom operators in India, the company manages a customer base of more than 450 million. Netxcell handles more than 300 million OBD/IBD and 120 million GPRS subscribers, 5 million SMS and 4 million MMS per day with more than a 130 server installation managing 2500 plus E1s across India. Under his leadership, Netxcell has started its operations in Africa through Netxcell Mauritius Ltd (NML). NML is implementing some projects in East and Central Africa. His emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights helped Netxcell file several products / services for Patent, Service Mark and Copyright.
Debasis is a hands on manager. He is a regular speaker at several prestigious forums. He has been invited on several occasions to speak on a wide range of happening topics on Mobile Value Added Services in India and abroad. VAS ASIA 2008, 2009 Mobile Conversations (Afaqs), IAMAI, Map World Forum, i- VAS conference Kuwait, delegation to Sri Lanka by AMCHAM and more.
Debasis was also a panel speaker at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Award, (MAMA) 2009 in LONDON in which Netxcell was awarded a silver category. He is being invited as a guest speaker at premier telecom institutes such as IMT, BITM and SIBM, Pune. Recently, he was invited as a panel speaker in Telecom Conclave 2011 at IIM Bangalore and Mobile Bit conference in Hyderabad. He has received Indira Super Achiever Award in 2010. He was also invited as a panelist in SAARC Telecom, CEO Conclave, 2009 held in Dhaka and as a panel moderator in SAARC Telecom CEO Conclave, Delhi 2010.Debasis holds a doctorate in science, diploma in Patent Law and AMP from IIM Bangalore. He lives in Hyderabad with his wife, son and daughter.
He has immencse experience in building brands and acquiring users through digital and offline media. He has launched several brands as Marketing lead, all of them contributing to significant improvements in market share and brand KPIs.He handled 360-degree marketing programs: Brand strategy, advertising, product management, media planning, research, events & activation, trade & B2B marketing
He has got expertise in online and social media, having handled large user acquisition and engagement campaigns and has experience in launching new products: Market scanning, insight generation, prototyping & testing, proposition & communication development to executing the final marketing mix.
A penchant for advertising, media and communications drove him to the industry and has been with him for about 20 years now. Have been with various media companies and held various roles and responsibilities, he had the fortune of working with some of the finest people in our industry, through the path of having couple of mentors and building relationships all along.
Have essayed roles in print, digital, television, OOH,content and also the invention of wireless and telephony revenue in the revenue with the pioneer show- Indian Idol that started it all! There is a also a bit of a creative thinker inside him which has helped in various roles and responsibilities, creating products, platforms and solutions for clients and companies at both ends.
Dr. Sanghvi has also worked with a few startups and given shape to their businesses, revenue streams ,brand and creating success in the same has always given him a high. Being founder member of Rediff.com was a significant learning and tipping point in his graph.
Profile – Hitesh Rajwani heads Business development & Marketing at www.SocialSamosa.com, an online publication reporting insights, trends and breaking stories on social media marketing.
An MBA graduate from Symbiosis and an economics major, Hitesh holds prime expertise in digital marketing strategy, brand management and experiential marketing. A passion maven and a self-motivated entrepreneur, he has co-founded a couple of ventures. He is the founder and architect of India’s First Décor Influencer Awards.
He propounded the theory of ‘The Social Moment of Truth’; his areas of interest include social commerce, digital intellectual properties and hyper local commerce. Hitesh is the key architect behind India’s First Décor Influencer Awards and Social Samosa’s Flagship Digital Property – #SS30Under30
Over the years, he has consulted small medium businesses with their social media marketing strategy and handled online marketing mandates for various brands. His varied exposure is a testimony to his wide array of skills that range across marketing, communications and business development.
About Social Samosa
Social Samosa is an Online Media Publication which covers the Social Media Landscape in India. The publication reports insights, trends, breaking stories on social media along with campaign reviews, case studies and expert posts from industry practitioners. Social Samosa’s editorial team propels the industry with insightful analysis and investigative research – bringing tomorrow’s news today.
Over the years, Social Samosa has enabled the industry with information symmetry and best practice benchmarking. The Portal promotes and facilitates data-driven digital marketing. We envisage the importance of content marketing and devising digital intellectual properties. Our vision is to build and empower an ecosystem where brands, agencies, tools and talent learn from the shared knowledge base and work towards developing a thriving industry.
Matthias has over 20 years of marketing and business development experience with a focus in the Telecom and High Tech industry. He has worked for Deloitte Consulting and consulted amongst others Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom as well as Daimler and other Automotive companies. He has a Diploma in economics (University Bayreuth), an MBA (University of Brighton) and holds a PHD from the University of Potsdam.
As a Vice President at Unlimit – the newly founded business unit of Reliance Group solely focused on IoT B2B customers – he is responsible for Marketing and Business Development. Dr. Wurster lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising. She managed an advertising agency for more than 20 years and now is a branding and marcom consultant to many companies and NGOs
Awards
Pallav has 15+ years of experience in Payments, Consulting, Omni-channel Retail, Financial services, Process re-engineering, Leading teams and setting up new businesses in India
and internationally.
At PayU India, Pallav is responsible for Consumer Business including
developing and marketing PayU India’s latest consumer offering – LazyPay.
Having received masters from IIM Bangalore & bachelor’s degree from IIT
Roorkee, he has worked with companies such as Visa, Accenture, Reliance
Retail and ICICI Bank.
In his previous experience with Reliance Retail, he has been awarded for
Outstanding contribution by Mr. Mukesh Ambani for his contribution towards
building a new business unit. Prior to that, as Regional Manager in ICICI
bank, he was recognized as best performer by Ms Chanda Kocchar for his role
in setting up a new vertical. At Accenture, he was responsible for
setting up and leading the Omni-channel retail practice.
S. Rajendran has been instrumental in building Acer’s consumer business line in India over the last 16 years. He is in charge of the entire spectrum of marketing activities and marketing communications.
Rajendran joined Acer India as General Manager – Marketing, in November 1999. He was later empowered with leadership of the India Sales & Marketing function at Acer for the erstwhile Consumer Products Division which successfully built the Acer retail operations in the country from the year 2003, apart from establishing the volume product group (Value desktops).
After Acer India established it’s presence in India, it also started addressing the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh & Bhutan in 2006, under Rajendran’s leadership. Exports to these countries have scaled up consistently, making Acer among the top 3 brands in each of these markets.
Rajendran started his career with Tata Sons at Tata Economic Consultancy Services in 1984. In 1990 he joined TVS Electronics as a Business Manager and moved to the Sterling Group in 1995. In 1996 Rajendran joined Redington India as Business Manager where he looked after brands like HP, Samsung and Canon, before joining Acer in 1999.
Rajendran has a Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical) degree from IIT, Chennai and a PGDM (Marketing & Finance) from IIM, Kolkata. He is a sports enthusiast and likes watching tennis and cricket in his spare time. He is also fond of playing chess and table tennis, reading science fiction, humour and literature by contemporary writers.
Experience of managing diverse businesses starting with Retail, Media, Online business, E-commerce, Entertainment, Mobile, VAS, Broadband Telephony and Enterprise Sales. Having exposure to integrating the online business across TV, Print, Web and mobile, helping media organizations to exploit the real meaning of convergence. A career, spanning over 19 years with 13 years of top general management experience.
COO @ India Today Group Digital, India’s fast growing group as per ComScore Chief Executive Officer India Today eCommerce and BagitToday
Responsible for the complete P&L, Digital business, Advertising revenue, brand building and brand management, building the community, website traffic, engagement, sales strategy, content development, content acquisition and rendition across various platforms, ensuring quality user experience, ensuring a 24 by 7 uptime. Ensuring I leverage the group strengths across various verticals and delivery better than expected results using my rich experience, keeping in mind the long-term goals and short-term objectives. Build business structures that enable robust and scalable businesses, advising new businesses, Sales Strategy development, including business plan, If required look at acquiring businesses and structure commercial transactions that help us stay ahead of the curve
Work at various industry forums, to help increase the online penetration and usage of the internet. Which I believe would be good for our economy, country and the biggest impact on the world will be universal access to all human knowledge.
Part of the Governing Council for IAMAI and an advisory to startups. In the past have been a part of startups and helps conceptualized from scratch.
Sanjeev specializes in Digital Media & E-Commerce – Mobile & Internet Domain. Early adopters of the New Economy (Digital) Business in the country. Build business in Media & Entertainment, Internet, Telecom & Health Industries. Thought leadership backed by execution.
A senior management professional with 20+ years of experience with large groups in Media & Telecom including The Times of India Group (Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd/ Times Internet Ltd.) and Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group. Sound Business Acumen and wide experience in handling P&L responsibility for India and International markets. Successfully developed and launched multiple products and services in a global environment.
Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:
• Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
• Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 & Biz Head homeshop18.com
• Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
• Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
• Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi – Times of India Group
He was named Group CMO in April, to lead,marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batras across India UAE & UK, with a mandate & vision 2020 for the brand & business.
A native of Delhi NCR, he completed “Advanced Strategic Management” from IIM Calcutta , which included research project on “ Digital Media & E-commerce” .
Saurabh Uboweja is an International Brand Expert, Indian Entrepreneur, Brand
strategist, Startup Coach, writer, columnist and public speaker. He is the Founder,
CEO and Chief Brand Strategist of Brands of Desire, a brand consultancy he setup in
New Delhi, India in 2008. He is a co-founder and Director of CrediHealth, India’s
number 1 medical assistance company. He is one of the eight founding members of
the World Communication Forum Association, registered in Davos (Switzerland).
Saurabh is also the founder of Brand India Summit, an annual event that aims at
positioning and celebrating India as a nation brand.
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
Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey, amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award
She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish and prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.
She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks – it’s been 6 years now.
After 17 years as a marketing professional, including 8 years as an executive and 4 years as a “Desi CMO” in India, she embarked on her next play, leading the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business in India. This role is the perfect intersection of marketing, technology and leadership and she was excited to bring her experience as a global marketer to the Indian market.
She had already seen the benefits and ROI from the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions portfolio in her career as a B2B marketer, both at IBM and at LinkedIn. LinkedIn presented a really unique opportunity for brands. They can engage with the world’s professionals in one place and target a quality audience in a professional context.
Chief Operating Officer Computer Age Management Services Pvt Ltd.
Anuj took charge as COO Asset Management Services at CAMS in June 2016. CAMS is a premier service partner to Mutual Funds serving 63% of Indian MF industry and several Alternative Investment Funds ( AIFs). At CAMS, Anuj drives CAMS’ management objectives to further strengthen the technology transformation architecture and fortify existing relationships with Mutual Funds (MFs) and AIFs. He leads the asset management services with an expanded service suite, driving innovation and leadership in the areas of service quality, analytics & business intelligence. He also drives the overall digital agenda. In his earlier stints, he has worked with Godrej Appliances, ICICI group, Daksh, IBM and Concentrix in a career spanning over two decades. Anuj Kumar is an alumnus of IIM Kolkata, and graduated from BIT Ranchi in Mechanical Engineering.
Problem Solver. Product & Technology ALT Digital Media Entertainment Ltd.
Decade long experience in delivering consumer internet products at a rapid pace. Built focused teams delivering high performance results. Passionate for building innovative, next-generation products, technologies, and businesses.
– Track record of delivering multiple product initiatives from conception to launch.
– Product expert in vertical areas like online videos(OTT), E-commerce, advertising technology, mobile apps, payments, peer-to-peer systems, subscriptions, retail, user engagement, etc.
– Translate long term into vision into step-by-step executable plans and prioritize them, backed on right blend of technical and visionary capabilities.
– Ability to take risks like an entrepreneur while being realistic and goal-oriented.
Head – Digital Marketing & PR Hero Cycles Ltd
Ashish is a marketing professional with over 16 years of experience into various verticals of marketing. He currently heads the Digital Marketing function for Hero Motors Group which includes companies like, Hero Cycles, Firefox Bikes, Hero Motors, BSH (Srilanka), Avocet Sports (UK), Munjal Kiriu, Hero ZFH, Hero Global Design Centre (Manchester), Munjal Hospitality & lifestyle chain OMA.
During the career span of 16+ years, he had worked for brands like Nokia, eBay, General Motors, HCL, Vodafone, Jubilant and extensively trained on consumer/trade/B2B marketing/ Analytics. He has handled assignments of Digital Marketing, Consumer Insights, Data Analytics, CRM, ecommerce, product management, pricing, placement, consumer promotion, brand launch, brand management, events, incentive schemes, PR management, trade promotions, branding & visibility planning to name a few.
Ashish is decently tech savvy in amalgamation of various platforms (mobile/web/voice) & technologies and the usage of data mining & visualisation software’s like Tableau apart of advance excel.
Ashish is a music buff besides being an avid reader, and loves to cycle around in his free time.
Business Head Reliance Entertainment and Digital
A penchant for advertising, media and communications drove him to the industry and has been with him for about 20 years now. Have been with various media companies and held various roles and responsibilities, he had the fortune of working with some of the finest people in our industry, through the path of having couple of mentors and building relationships all along. Have essayed roles in print, digital, television, OOH,content and also the invention of wireless and telephony revenue in the revenue with the pioneer show- Indian Idol that started it all! There is a also a bit of a creative thinker inside him which has helped in various roles and responsibilities, creating products, platforms and solutions for clients and companies at both ends. Dr. Sanghvi has also worked with a few startups and given shape to their businesses, revenue streams ,brand and creating success in the same has always given him a high. Being founder member of Rediff.com was a significant learning and tipping point in his graph.
Chief Marketing Officer Nykaa
A management graduate from UC- Berkeley, he is a true left and right-brain professional. He has been involved in versatile roles throughout his career. Ranging from website communication strategy, design and UI and visitor level analytics at Levi Strauss, to best in class engagement practices with MakeMyTrip.com. His spread of responsibilities has helped him hone his skills in performance marketing, integrated communication and engagement strategy for a brand. In his current role as Chief Marketing Officer at India’s premiere beauty portal – Nykaa.com, he spearhead’s digital, main line and customer relationship marketing – controlling 20% P&L at organisation level.
Director – Brand Marketing Shaadi.com (People Interactive)
Jennifer Pandya is the Director, Brand Marketing of Shaadi.com, The World’s No. 1
Matchmaking Service available across internet, mobile and offline retail channels. Jennifer is
a passionate marketer with over 10 years of experience across B2B as well as B2C industry.
Her experience in developing and implementing marketing strategies for consumer-oriented
businesses led to various successful digital and TV campaigns. Her ability of leading large
marketing campaigns has proved extremely valuable to People Group. Prior to joining People
Group, Jennifer worked with Times Group.
Jennifer holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Mumbai. Besides her regular
corporate role, she is a mentor to aspiring marketers.
Jennifer lives in Mumbai with her husband Parag Pandya and daughter Stasya. She is a
voracious reader and a gender equalist.
Heads Mobile App & Performance Marketing Big Basket
Mahip is a digital marketing strategist with over 10 years combined online and mobile marketing experience, with an extensive focus on performance marketing, mobile app marketing, new user acquisition, revenue generation and strategic alliances.
A self-starter with the ability to translate corporate goals into reality motivated and sincerely enjoys developing and maintaining excellent relations. He is passionate about how mobile has changed the face of advertising. Mahip currently heads mobile marketing for Bigbasket.com from past 2 years and manages the new user acquisition and engagement for paid and organic sources on mobile.
Prior to bigbasket.com, Mahip was associated with Commonfloor.com for 2.2 years and manages the Performance Marketing and Strategic Alliances. Mahip has also worked with Brands like Kotak, Yahoo, Knight Frank India & HDFC Realty in past with core focus on HNI Sales, Account Management & Offline Marketing.
Business Head PayU
Pallav has 15+ years of experience in Payments, Consulting, Omni-channel Retail, Financial services, Process re-engineering, Leading teams and setting up new businesses in India
and internationally.
At PayU India, Pallav is responsible for Consumer Business including
developing and marketing PayU India’s latest consumer offering – LazyPay.
Having received masters from IIM Bangalore & bachelor’s degree from IIT
Roorkee, he has worked with companies such as Visa, Accenture, Reliance
Retail and ICICI Bank.
In his previous experience with Reliance Retail, he has been awarded for
Outstanding contribution by Mr. Mukesh Ambani for his contribution towards
building a new business unit. Prior to that, as Regional Manager in ICICI
bank, he was recognized as best performer by Ms Chanda Kocchar for his role
in setting up a new vertical. At Accenture, he was responsible for
setting up and leading the Omni-channel retail practice.
Head Strategy, Digital Business and Customer Analytics Aditya Birla Group
Currently Heading the Digital business and Customer Analytics for the Payments Bank. This role constantly reinforces his belief in the future of Fintech in India.Before this he was working in the Chairman’s office at Aditya Birla Group. The office works closely with the Group Chairman, Mr. Birla, and advises him on strategic and operational issues across businesses. He has worked​ with the Group companies in Financial Services and Chemicals sectors.Prior to that, as a Principal at Accenture (Management Consulting) in his 8+ year at the firm, he advised clients across Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining, Infrastructure and Private Equity on a variety of areas.From 2002 to end 2004, he worked at Shell in sales and Marketing roles in the Lubricants business. He had joined Shell from IIM Calcutta post my MBA, before which he assisted his family in the textiles business.
Programmatic Evangelist Google
Rahul helps marketers break down the silos in Digital Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. By leveraging the search “intent” signals into Display, Social and Video advertising, and enabling personalization at scale. He helps digital marketers in making their practice more efficient and accountable.
As a Digital Marketing Practitioner in his previous role, he had played an instrumental role in building India’s largest non travel e-commerce almost from scratch. Armed with this knowledge of knowing what really works, he now endeavors to help other advertisers surpass their goals and expect much more from Digital with the most advanced and comprehensive Digital Marketing Platform available in the market: DoubleClick by Google.
He has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.
He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress.
Rahul is extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, likes doing things differently and is very fond of traveling, trekking, food, squash, badminton and swimming.
Specialties: Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Social Media, Online Analytics, Mobile & Internet technology, Business Strategy, Consulting, Product Management, Business Development, Evangelism, Start-ups.
Vice President, Digital Channels Barclays
He has strong experience in Global Delivery Model with proven track record in Program management roles at both onshore and offshore.
Has handled large IT transformation programs for global banks and has expertise in transition planning and transition management.
He has also experienced product development life cycle while handling large product development team for a new financial product. He played a pivotal role in setting up and managing globally distributed Agile scrum teams.
Apart from delivery his interests are driving Innovation Agenda, Agile Setup, Startups and understanding Technology trends.
Senior President & Head – Consumer Retail Lending Yes Bank
Self-motivated, result oriented business professional with over 19 years of Retail Banking experience.
He presently Head the Consumer Retail Lending portfolio for Yes Bank. This job role involves end to end management of P&L for the entire CRL Product suite including Auto loans, Two Wheeler Loans, Inventory Finance for Dealerships, Personal Loans, Business Loans, Self Employed Professional Loans, Gold Loans, Loans against Shares & Education Loans. The responsibilities include Product Development, Sales & Distribution channel management, Marketing across a large/ diverse market place and all Technology initiatives & deliverables.
Vice President and Head of Marketing Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Sanjeev is an Indian School of Business- Hyderabad Alumni and an Economics Graduate with over two and half decades of varied experience in Marketing, Strategy, Brand Management, Advertising, CRM and Sales in leading global organizations across varied industries. His expertise has been in strategizing and creating innovative marketing plans, both offline and digital, steering the execution of marketing programs and new product launches. He has demonstrated success by driving growth in targeted markets through implementation of key projects.
As Vice President and Head of Marketing at Maruti Suzuki India Limited, he is presently leading planning and strategy for NEXA, Motorsports, Digital, corporate and media initiatives. Over the past decade at Maruti Suzuki, he has orchestrated and augmented strategies for launch of the power brands in Maruti’s portfolio – Swift Diesel, Maruti SX4, Swift Dzire, Grand Vitara and Kizashi. He’s enabled Swift’s turnaround and shaped it up to become an iconic brand in India. And is now managing Nexa – the next game changer for Maruti Suzuki.
Head – Digital Sales & Marketing IDFC Bank
Shilpa Desai has been working in the digital domain for the last decade and
has extensive experience in setting up Digital Marketing capabilities for
leading banks. She has rich experience in managing digital channels, with
in-depth understanding of emerging trends in consumer behaviour and
application of digital technologies and leveraging them to drive business
agenda. She is part of the start -up team at IDFC Bank and is responsible
for delivering superior digital customer experience across multiple digital
touch points, aligned to business goals. She has prior experience in setting
up the Digital Marketing practice at Standard Chartered Bank for South Asia
and at ICICI Bank.
Chief Marketing Officer Narayana Health
Aservice marketing specialist, Sumanta is an MBA with over 18 years of Sales, Marketing & Brand Management experience across leading companies in Healthcare, Insurance, Telecommunications, Retail & Advertising in India as well as International Markets like Africa, Middle East & Far East. Talented leadership level senior sales and marketing professional with multi-industry experience in growing revenue through aggressive sales and brand management with a strong ROI focus. Strong record of revenue delivery and implementing innovative strategies across multiple product categories that result in long-term brand equity maximization and revenue enhancement. Intrapreneural attitude that leads to set up departments & teams from scratch and inspire them to achieve stretch revenue goals. Proven ability to manage brand growth from concept through launch onwards to growth and revenue maximisation. Excellent exposure to international marketing with capability to conceptualise, design & successfully execute go-to-market strategies in Africa, Middle East & South Asia.
Vice President – Marketing Indiamart Intermesh Limited
Driven by creativity and passion to enhance the brand experience, Sumit is responsible for leading the marketing, advertising, category management, market research and corporate communication initiatives for IndiaMART. He has played an active role in spearheading various brand building and product marketing efforts to lead the brand on a high growth trajectory.
Prior to this, Sumit honed his skills at Info Edge India Ltd, serving as its Associate Vice President, Marketing, where he undertook strategic marketing operations for 99acres.com.
Passionate about the digital ecosystem & online marketplaces, Sumit earned his PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore after completing engineering from Punjab Engineering College.
He is an avid reader, leadership and management being his favorite subjects.
Head – Digital Business Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited
Uday Sodhi has been heading the digital and new media business at SPN for the SonyLIV
platform since 2014.
SonyLIV is SPN’s premium Video on demand (VOD) service providing multi-screen
engagement to users on all devices. Launched in January 2013, it enables users to discover
22 years of rich content from the network channels of Sony Pictures Networks’ Pvt. Ltd.
SonyLIV refreshed its brand identity in December 2017. The renewed brand ethos “We LIV
to Entertain” promises to make SonyLIV the ultimate destination for rich entertainment
across genres, screen types and audience preferences. With the best sporting action line-
up, this year from cricketing extravaganza of India series, biggest football tournament like UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa League, FIFA Under 17 Football World Cup along with other adrenaline sports like WWE, Moto GP, SonyLIV is all set to continue to enthrall its audience.
At SPN, Uday is responsible for driving SPN’s OTT platform’s growth trajectory and revenue
streams of the new media initiatives by broadening the networks’ horizons to digital and
mobile businesses and has over 27 years of experience across varied broadcast and digital
business verticals.
Marketing Director – Indian Snacks, Foods PepsiCo India
Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey. She was also named amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award
She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish. She prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.
She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks.
Anuj took charge as COO Asset Management Services at CAMS in June 2016. CAMS is a premier service partner to Mutual Funds serving 63% of Indian MF industry and several Alternative Investment Funds ( AIFs). At CAMS, Anuj drives CAMS’ management objectives to further strengthen the technology transformation architecture and fortify existing relationships with Mutual Funds (MFs) and AIFs. He leads the asset management services with an expanded service suite, driving innovation and leadership in the areas of service quality, analytics & business intelligence. He also drives the overall digital agenda. In his earlier stints, he has worked with Godrej Appliances, ICICI group, Daksh, IBM and Concentrix in a career spanning over two decades. Anuj Kumar is an alumnus of IIM Kolkata, and graduated from BIT Ranchi in Mechanical Engineering.
Decade long experience in delivering consumer internet products at a rapid pace. Built focused teams delivering high performance results. Passionate for building innovative, next-generation products, technologies, and businesses.
– Track record of delivering multiple product initiatives from conception to launch.
– Product expert in vertical areas like online videos(OTT), E-commerce, advertising technology, mobile apps, payments, peer-to-peer systems, subscriptions, retail, user engagement, etc.
– Translate long term into vision into step-by-step executable plans and prioritize them, backed on right blend of technical and visionary capabilities.
– Ability to take risks like an entrepreneur while being realistic and goal-oriented.
Ashish is a marketing professional with over 16 years of experience into various verticals of marketing. He currently heads the Digital Marketing function for Hero Motors Group which includes companies like, Hero Cycles, Firefox Bikes, Hero Motors, BSH (Srilanka), Avocet Sports (UK), Munjal Kiriu, Hero ZFH, Hero Global Design Centre (Manchester), Munjal Hospitality & lifestyle chain OMA.
During the career span of 16+ years, he had worked for brands like Nokia, eBay, General Motors, HCL, Vodafone, Jubilant and extensively trained on consumer/trade/B2B marketing/ Analytics. He has handled assignments of Digital Marketing, Consumer Insights, Data Analytics, CRM, ecommerce, product management, pricing, placement, consumer promotion, brand launch, brand management, events, incentive schemes, PR management, trade promotions, branding & visibility planning to name a few.
Ashish is decently tech savvy in amalgamation of various platforms (mobile/web/voice) & technologies and the usage of data mining & visualisation software’s like Tableau apart of advance excel.
Ashish is a music buff besides being an avid reader, and loves to cycle around in his free time.
A penchant for advertising, media and communications drove him to the industry and has been with him for about 20 years now. Have been with various media companies and held various roles and responsibilities, he had the fortune of working with some of the finest people in our industry, through the path of having couple of mentors and building relationships all along. Have essayed roles in print, digital, television, OOH,content and also the invention of wireless and telephony revenue in the revenue with the pioneer show- Indian Idol that started it all! There is a also a bit of a creative thinker inside him which has helped in various roles and responsibilities, creating products, platforms and solutions for clients and companies at both ends. Dr. Sanghvi has also worked with a few startups and given shape to their businesses, revenue streams ,brand and creating success in the same has always given him a high. Being founder member of Rediff.com was a significant learning and tipping point in his graph.
A management graduate from UC- Berkeley, he is a true left and right-brain professional. He has been involved in versatile roles throughout his career. Ranging from website communication strategy, design and UI and visitor level analytics at Levi Strauss, to best in class engagement practices with MakeMyTrip.com. His spread of responsibilities has helped him hone his skills in performance marketing, integrated communication and engagement strategy for a brand. In his current role as Chief Marketing Officer at India’s premiere beauty portal – Nykaa.com, he spearhead’s digital, main line and customer relationship marketing – controlling 20% P&L at organisation level.
Jennifer Pandya is the Director, Brand Marketing of Shaadi.com, The World’s No. 1
Matchmaking Service available across internet, mobile and offline retail channels. Jennifer is
a passionate marketer with over 10 years of experience across B2B as well as B2C industry.
Her experience in developing and implementing marketing strategies for consumer-oriented
businesses led to various successful digital and TV campaigns. Her ability of leading large
marketing campaigns has proved extremely valuable to People Group. Prior to joining People
Group, Jennifer worked with Times Group.
Jennifer holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Mumbai. Besides her regular
corporate role, she is a mentor to aspiring marketers.
Jennifer lives in Mumbai with her husband Parag Pandya and daughter Stasya. She is a
voracious reader and a gender equalist.
Mahip is a digital marketing strategist with over 10 years combined online and mobile marketing experience, with an extensive focus on performance marketing, mobile app marketing, new user acquisition, revenue generation and strategic alliances.
A self-starter with the ability to translate corporate goals into reality motivated and sincerely enjoys developing and maintaining excellent relations. He is passionate about how mobile has changed the face of advertising. Mahip currently heads mobile marketing for Bigbasket.com from past 2 years and manages the new user acquisition and engagement for paid and organic sources on mobile.
Prior to bigbasket.com, Mahip was associated with Commonfloor.com for 2.2 years and manages the Performance Marketing and Strategic Alliances. Mahip has also worked with Brands like Kotak, Yahoo, Knight Frank India & HDFC Realty in past with core focus on HNI Sales, Account Management & Offline Marketing.
Pallav has 15+ years of experience in Payments, Consulting, Omni-channel Retail, Financial services, Process re-engineering, Leading teams and setting up new businesses in India
and internationally.
At PayU India, Pallav is responsible for Consumer Business including
developing and marketing PayU India’s latest consumer offering – LazyPay.
Having received masters from IIM Bangalore & bachelor’s degree from IIT
Roorkee, he has worked with companies such as Visa, Accenture, Reliance
Retail and ICICI Bank.
In his previous experience with Reliance Retail, he has been awarded for
Outstanding contribution by Mr. Mukesh Ambani for his contribution towards
building a new business unit. Prior to that, as Regional Manager in ICICI
bank, he was recognized as best performer by Ms Chanda Kocchar for his role
in setting up a new vertical. At Accenture, he was responsible for
setting up and leading the Omni-channel retail practice.
Currently Heading the Digital business and Customer Analytics for the Payments Bank. This role constantly reinforces his belief in the future of Fintech in India.Before this he was working in the Chairman’s office at Aditya Birla Group. The office works closely with the Group Chairman, Mr. Birla, and advises him on strategic and operational issues across businesses. He has worked​ with the Group companies in Financial Services and Chemicals sectors.Prior to that, as a Principal at Accenture (Management Consulting) in his 8+ year at the firm, he advised clients across Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining, Infrastructure and Private Equity on a variety of areas.From 2002 to end 2004, he worked at Shell in sales and Marketing roles in the Lubricants business. He had joined Shell from IIM Calcutta post my MBA, before which he assisted his family in the textiles business.
Rahul helps marketers break down the silos in Digital Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. By leveraging the search “intent” signals into Display, Social and Video advertising, and enabling personalization at scale. He helps digital marketers in making their practice more efficient and accountable.
As a Digital Marketing Practitioner in his previous role, he had played an instrumental role in building India’s largest non travel e-commerce almost from scratch. Armed with this knowledge of knowing what really works, he now endeavors to help other advertisers surpass their goals and expect much more from Digital with the most advanced and comprehensive Digital Marketing Platform available in the market: DoubleClick by Google.
He has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.
He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress.
Rahul is extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, likes doing things differently and is very fond of traveling, trekking, food, squash, badminton and swimming.
Specialties: Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Social Media, Online Analytics, Mobile & Internet technology, Business Strategy, Consulting, Product Management, Business Development, Evangelism, Start-ups.
He has strong experience in Global Delivery Model with proven track record in Program management roles at both onshore and offshore.
Has handled large IT transformation programs for global banks and has expertise in transition planning and transition management.
He has also experienced product development life cycle while handling large product development team for a new financial product. He played a pivotal role in setting up and managing globally distributed Agile scrum teams.
Apart from delivery his interests are driving Innovation Agenda, Agile Setup, Startups and understanding Technology trends.
Self-motivated, result oriented business professional with over 19 years of Retail Banking experience.
He presently Head the Consumer Retail Lending portfolio for Yes Bank. This job role involves end to end management of P&L for the entire CRL Product suite including Auto loans, Two Wheeler Loans, Inventory Finance for Dealerships, Personal Loans, Business Loans, Self Employed Professional Loans, Gold Loans, Loans against Shares & Education Loans. The responsibilities include Product Development, Sales & Distribution channel management, Marketing across a large/ diverse market place and all Technology initiatives & deliverables.
Sanjeev is an Indian School of Business- Hyderabad Alumni and an Economics Graduate with over two and half decades of varied experience in Marketing, Strategy, Brand Management, Advertising, CRM and Sales in leading global organizations across varied industries. His expertise has been in strategizing and creating innovative marketing plans, both offline and digital, steering the execution of marketing programs and new product launches. He has demonstrated success by driving growth in targeted markets through implementation of key projects.
As Vice President and Head of Marketing at Maruti Suzuki India Limited, he is presently leading planning and strategy for NEXA, Motorsports, Digital, corporate and media initiatives. Over the past decade at Maruti Suzuki, he has orchestrated and augmented strategies for launch of the power brands in Maruti’s portfolio – Swift Diesel, Maruti SX4, Swift Dzire, Grand Vitara and Kizashi. He’s enabled Swift’s turnaround and shaped it up to become an iconic brand in India. And is now managing Nexa – the next game changer for Maruti Suzuki.
Shilpa Desai has been working in the digital domain for the last decade and
has extensive experience in setting up Digital Marketing capabilities for
leading banks. She has rich experience in managing digital channels, with
in-depth understanding of emerging trends in consumer behaviour and
application of digital technologies and leveraging them to drive business
agenda. She is part of the start -up team at IDFC Bank and is responsible
for delivering superior digital customer experience across multiple digital
touch points, aligned to business goals. She has prior experience in setting
up the Digital Marketing practice at Standard Chartered Bank for South Asia
and at ICICI Bank.
Aservice marketing specialist, Sumanta is an MBA with over 18 years of Sales, Marketing & Brand Management experience across leading companies in Healthcare, Insurance, Telecommunications, Retail & Advertising in India as well as International Markets like Africa, Middle East & Far East. Talented leadership level senior sales and marketing professional with multi-industry experience in growing revenue through aggressive sales and brand management with a strong ROI focus. Strong record of revenue delivery and implementing innovative strategies across multiple product categories that result in long-term brand equity maximization and revenue enhancement. Intrapreneural attitude that leads to set up departments & teams from scratch and inspire them to achieve stretch revenue goals. Proven ability to manage brand growth from concept through launch onwards to growth and revenue maximisation. Excellent exposure to international marketing with capability to conceptualise, design & successfully execute go-to-market strategies in Africa, Middle East & South Asia.
Driven by creativity and passion to enhance the brand experience, Sumit is responsible for leading the marketing, advertising, category management, market research and corporate communication initiatives for IndiaMART. He has played an active role in spearheading various brand building and product marketing efforts to lead the brand on a high growth trajectory.
Prior to this, Sumit honed his skills at Info Edge India Ltd, serving as its Associate Vice President, Marketing, where he undertook strategic marketing operations for 99acres.com.
Passionate about the digital ecosystem & online marketplaces, Sumit earned his PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore after completing engineering from Punjab Engineering College.
He is an avid reader, leadership and management being his favorite subjects.
Uday Sodhi has been heading the digital and new media business at SPN for the SonyLIV
platform since 2014.
SonyLIV is SPN’s premium Video on demand (VOD) service providing multi-screen
engagement to users on all devices. Launched in January 2013, it enables users to discover
22 years of rich content from the network channels of Sony Pictures Networks’ Pvt. Ltd.
SonyLIV refreshed its brand identity in December 2017. The renewed brand ethos “We LIV
to Entertain” promises to make SonyLIV the ultimate destination for rich entertainment
across genres, screen types and audience preferences. With the best sporting action line-
up, this year from cricketing extravaganza of India series, biggest football tournament like UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa League, FIFA Under 17 Football World Cup along with other adrenaline sports like WWE, Moto GP, SonyLIV is all set to continue to enthrall its audience.
At SPN, Uday is responsible for driving SPN’s OTT platform’s growth trajectory and revenue
streams of the new media initiatives by broadening the networks’ horizons to digital and
mobile businesses and has over 27 years of experience across varied broadcast and digital
business verticals.
Vani is a passionate marketer, innovations specialist, and change agent. She was listed by ‘Business Today’ as the Hottest Young Executives under 40 in 2015, in a nationwide survey. She was also named amongst the 100 most Influential Marketing Leaders listed by the World marketing Congress for 2016. She won the ‘India Region Above and Beyond 2014 Chairman’s Award’ from Indra Nooyi, for successfully building a new platform of growth for Pepsi Foods in 2014. She won the Innovation Excellence Award 2013, and the AMEA PwP Sustained Performance Award
She loves driving change – be it shaping consumer behaviour, bringing in new ways of thinking, or new paradigms for processes or change to flourish. She prefers an outgoing approach combined with creative insight.
She has 19 years of work experience and has worked on the best of global brands, managed cross cultural teams, managed complex launches, developed innovation mixes for different markets – most importantly, created and nurtured consumer love. She currently works with PepsiCo India as the Marketing Director on Indian Snacks.
