Jurors

Rahul Ramchandani

I’ve just joined the Google Shopping team and am responsible for the mobile user growth.

In my previous role at Google, I used to advise CXOs of Google’s largest clients on transforming their digital strategy. I helped marketers break down the silos in Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. My goal is to make advertising useful for the consumer – helping them decide in the moments that matter, and not something considered intrusive, irrelevant or disrespectful. I helped marketers make their practice more efficient and accountable, and more core to the strategy of their business.

I learn when I deliver guest lectures at India’s premier management schools (IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta, IIM Shillong, SPJIMR), during keynotes/panel discussions at industry leading events (ad:tech, CMO Roundtables, iMedia summit, Zee Melt, Inkspell events, etc.) and as a jury member for various marketing awards.

Before joining Google, I played an instrumental role in building India’s second largest e-commerce almost from scratch, in a completely ROI-positive manner.

I’ve been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.

I’ve been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress, as well as a “Role Model for 2018” for the World Marketing Congress.

I’m extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, like doing things differently and am 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. 

Deepali Naair

Avinash Tharani

Avinash Pant

Archan Banerjee

Amit Sharma

Ambrash Kapoor

Gagan Singla

Kanika Mittal

Kavita Chowkimane

Matthias Wurster

Rahul Ramchandani

Ridhima Kapoor

Sandeep Oberoi

Sandeep Walunj

Prashant Puri

Ravi Kumar

Ssumier S Pasricha aka Pammi Aunty

Arun Malkani

Vani Dandia

Naveen Kukreja

Rachna Prasad

Matthias Wurster

Sugato Banerji

Prashant Puri

Madhu S Dutta

Sukhpreet Singh

Sunita G.R.

Sanjeev Dhiman

Aparna Lal

Rahul Ramchandani

Vikrant Khanna

Beena Koshy

Nandita Khaire

Diptakirti Chaudhuri

Navin Talreja

Sangeeta Thakral

Nidhi Mahesh

Amit Daga

Yogi Udgire

Raj Sharma

Anzaar Rana

Manav Sethi

Archana Aggarwal

Amit Shah

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Rahul Ramchandani

Binda Dey

Sachin Uppal

Rituraj Bidwai

Amit Tandon

Rajasekar KS

Aditi Shrivastava

Pavan R Chawla

Anil Kumar Singh

Rachna Kanwar

Gagan Singla

Amit Tandon

Girish Kalra

Girish Kalra

Mukesh Jain

Mukesh Jain

Mayur Sethi

Pamit Anand

Snehi Mehta

Sai Narayan

Amit Shah

Sanjeev Handa

Molly Kapoor

Anuradha Bose

Rachna Prasad

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Lipika Ganguli

Sai Giridhar

Vani Dandia

Pallav Jain

Sanjeev Handa

Dr. Kushal Sanghvi

Jennifer Pandya

Rishikesh Utpat

Uday Sodhi

Rahul Ramchandani

Sumanta Ray

Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Bhansali

Mahip Dwivedi

Shilpa Desai

Anuj Kumar

Hitesh Malhotra

Piush Kothari

Sumit Bedi

Virginia Sharma

Arun Malkani

Archana Agarwal

Pallav Jain

Naveen Kukreja

Matthias Wurster

Dr. Kushal Sanghvi

Nandita Khaire

Amit Sharma

S. Rajendran

Rahul Ramchandani

Sanjeev Dhiman

Sugato Banerji

Debasis Chatterji

Saurabh Uboweja

Diptakirti Chaudhuri

Anzaar Rana

Raj Sharma

Vidyadhar Kale

Yateesh Srivastava

Salil Kumar

Rubeena Singh

Noor Warsia

Piyush Pushkal

Gyan Gupta

Hitesh Rajwani

Gaurav Mehta

Dr.Nagarathna.A.

Apurva Chamaria

Anil Wanvari

Vijay Koshy

Dewang Neralla

Deepak Chandnani

Nandita Khaire

Rahul Ramchandani

Archana Aggarwal

Diptakirti Chaudhuri

Amit Tandon

Naveen Kukreja

Sugato Banerji

Sumanta Ray

Amit Sharma

Pavan R Chawla

Apurva Chamaria

Anil Kumar Singh

Rishikesh Utpat

Nitin Agarwal

Subin Subaiah

Girish Kalra

Gagan Singla

Kavita Sonawala

Jürgen Hase

Jürgen Hase

Mukesh Jain

Naveen Kukreja

Srinivas Jain

Naveen Surya

Vivek Bhargava

Girish Kalra

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Rishikesh Utpat

Jagmal Singh

Apeksha Mehta

Amit Tandon

Gagan Singla

Anil Kumar Singh

Rajasekar KS

Rituraj Bidwai

Pranav Agarwal

Prasad Shejale

Asha Negi

Vinaikrishnan Nair

Sethu Chidambaram

Priya Banerjee

Ssumier S Pasricha

Ssumier S Pasricha an Indian actor and comedian , known for creating viral videos in which he plays the character of ‘Pammi Aunty’. Starred in TV soaps documentaries and Theatre musicals. Ssumier has worked across different mediums and has tasted success in the industry over the years. Not just confined to Comedy Ssumier has raised his voice for various Social issues like Cancer , Aids , Women Safety ,Women Empowerment & Homosexuality….

Ssumier’s USP lies in the fact that he can connect with his audiences on a very personal level owing to the funny and real life experiences that he creates through his videos. His slice of life content based on his observation of daily life scenarios leaves people in splits and has attracted love from people of almost all ages, genders and countries who often refer to him as their Stress buster, Aunt Agony, Aunty-Depressent , Aunty-Preneur and a digital friend.

Honoured at House of Commons ,United Kingdom Parliament for his Contribution To British Punjabi Culture , to the Youth Icon of India by INDIA Today and Entertainer of the Year Award in USA.. Ssumier Pasricha Has Won Numerous Awards around the globe for this Digital Content… his Latest achievement is From TIMES NOW ,POWER BRAND Digital Media TrendSetter Award 2019… Today Ssumier enjoys the popularity in every Possible country especially amongst Punjabi community and has become the Power Brand PAMMI AUNTY with who’s unique style of marketing every possible brand wants to collaborate with.

Awards World Wide

Year Awards
2019 TimesNow Power Brand Digital Media Trendsetter Award
2018 Best Comedian in a Web Series – IWM Digital Awards
2018 DIGIXX Star Entertainer Award 2018
2018 Person of the Year – Content Award at VDOnxt Awards[32]

2017 Best Internet Sensation Award – Nickelodeon ka Digital Star – Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards[33]

2017 Honoured by House of Commons UK for contribution to Indian British society & culture[34]

2017 Elite Magazine 25 of Delhi’s most Influential entrepreneurs
2017 Icon of the year by India Today[35]

2017 Best Actor – Rajdhani Ratn Award[36]

2017 Marketing Influencer of the Year Award by InkSpell
2017 NBC Newsmakers Achievers Award – Best Actor Comedy[37]

2017 Talentrack Awards – Best Actor Comedy[38]

2017 Jordan Tourism Board Award[39]

2016 Humour King of the year – Outlook social media awards[40][41]

2016 Entertainer of the year – DissDash U.S.A [42]

Rajitta Hemwaani

OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN LEADERSHIP ROLES ACROSS A&R, CREATIVE CONTENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT.

Have grown the ranks in the business of media and entertainment, an area I am extremely passionate about. Have held leadership roles with proven and established organisations , India and globally.

 A sharp and proven business acumen and a keen eye for winning content , discovering and launching music talent in India have been my core strengths. Some of the biggest names and IPs in the Indian music business have been my contribution over the years.

My areas of specialisations over the years have been:

*Content- Across music, television, radio & films.

*Sharp acumen for growth riders.

*Brand development & partnerships.

*Exceptional track record in launching a number of India’s biggest music names today.

*Strong communication and leadership skills.

*Ensuring  profitable streams within stipulated timelines & costs.

*Extremely well connected in the entertainment and media industry.

* Mentoring Musicians over the years.

EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS.

Built a solid track record of success, leading start ups, turnarounds and setting new divisions and revenue models.

Was brought by Universal Music Group’s global CEO Mr Max Hole to turnaround a long time dormant UMG arm in India in 2008.

Brought in by the MD of 9X Media, Mr Pradeep Guha to create new disruptive music content, a new music label SpotLampe, brand partnerships and new revenue streams for primary channels of the network.

Brought in by the Ex President of The Times of India Group, Mr Arun Arora to launch Times Music. Was core management team and led its content for ten years,  firmly positioning it as a leader in its space.

Started the new talent acquisitions division for the Star TV Network that totally turn around the way its prime channels, Star Plus, Channel V, Star Sports and Life OK would  create new disruptive content and hunt down actors , writers and musicians for its prime channels.

CAREER HISTORY & ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

9X MEDIA (9XM, 9X0, 9X TASHAN, 9X JHAKAAS, 9X JALWA, SPOTLAMPE)

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT- CREATIVE CONTENT & NEW BUSINESS.

November 16- Present.

My core responsibilities here are to :

Create disruptive new content for its prime channels,

Bring in new and established music talent to the network,

Set up its music label, SpotlampE.

Content creation and partnerships for the revenue and brand management team,

Creating and developing new IPs for the network.

Working closely with all arms of the network to achieve a common goal and targets.

SENIOR ADVISORY CONSULTANT.

AUDIOBOOM.

2015-16

Audioboom head quartered in London, is a spoken word news and entertainment platform. Consulted with them in creating Indian content, media partnerships across entertainment and operations to set up its Indian arm in 2015. Led business development and media partnerships across radio, newspapers, digital platforms and celebrities.

STAR TV NETWORK.

VICE PRESIDENT- CONTENT.

2013-2015.

Responsibilities here included creating disruptive content in music and bringing in new and established talent to the network, actors, writers, musicians from India and beyond. I  worked closely with all prime channels of the network.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP.

VICE PRESIDENT- CONTENT.

2008-2011

Actively worked with the UMG London headquarters in London, to restructure the content arm of the India office, its content development and acquisitions. Within a few months, established Universal in India as one of the most proactive players in launching new talent,   creating new edgy content, multiple alliances and setting up new  content markets in Punjab and Bengal.

RELIANCE ENTERTAINMENT.

BUSINESS HEAD- MUSIC CONTENT .

2007-2008.

Headed content for its new arm Big Music, partnerships with multiple artistes, labels, international licensing, talent management and movie music.

THE TIMES OF INDIA GROUP- TIMES MUSIC.

ASST. VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD OF CONTENT.

1997- 2007

Created from scratch a very innovative and successful music label that went on to lead the country in mainstream clutter breaking  commercial and niche music, globally , across multiple genres. Radically changed the way spiritual music was heard and perceived. Created a massive global market for its music with multiple global licensing deals and led the company for ten years at its global representation at Midem, Cannes. Created and led massively super successful IPs like The War of DJs for nearly a decade.

Partnered with the groups’ multiple properties like Filmfare awards, Femina Miss India contest, Zoom & Radio Mirchi to maximise potential and growth.

AMITABH BACHCHAN CORPORATION LIMITED.

HEAD- MUSIC CONTENT.

1996-1997

Big B was the music arm of ABCL which went on to release super successful film and non film music. Worked with Mr Bachchan closely on prominent projects and was the content curator for the Miss World contest brought into India for the very first time in 1996 by ABCL.

TIPS FILMS.

CHIEF MARKETING AND CONTENT MANAGER.

1992-1995

Worked on all aspects of movie and music production and its marketing.  Am responsible for spearheading and leading to success, some of the country’s biggest musical hits in my tenure there.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Commerce from the Mumbai University.

Diploma in Media and Communications from Xaviers Institute, Mumbai. Degree in Interior Designing from L.S. Raheja college of Architecture, Mumbai.

Priyanka Sehgal

Manav Sethi

As Group CMO, Manav looks after both Eros Now and the studio business. He is responsible for brand, consumer growth & retention, talent, trade and PR across both these businesses. In his earlier role he was founder CMO for ALTBalaji, India’s first SVOD OTT platform which broke the notion that Indians don’t pay for content.
In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.
At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. He was also part of founding co worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.
In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.
He has formal education in Management and Law.

Gaurav Garg

18 years of work-experience in Corporate Strategy, Business Planning, Consumer Insights & Analytics across industries in marquee organizations.
As a part of the top management team in South Asia, shaped strategy and drove key business decisions in the entrepreneurial initiatives of Discovery Network in India.
Recommended the strategy for Discovery Kids’ channel (DKids) relaunch which zoomed ~500% since then. Created and executing strategic plan for further growth of DKids and DTamil Channel.
Pioneered the use of Data Analytics in Star TV Network as a means for identifying key opportunity areas for organic growth and cutting costs. Recommended (1) strategy to increase the network share by plugging-in consumer and content whitespaces, (2) strategy to increase rural penetration (new channel) and (3) closure of Channel V as a Youth Entertainment Channel.
Conceptualized cloud-based database as a first step towards big data platform that aimed to integrate various data sources for better measurement (viewership), content feedback and advertiser metrics in addition to reducing data extraction time by 90%. Led the creation of mobile app for bringing all this data graphically to everyone’s fingertip for quick decision making across functions.
As a part of Chairman’s office at RIL, program managed the Strategy & execution for Content acquisition for Jio.
At Times Internet, evaluated business plans, recommended cost saving (USD 10 Mn) and value creation measures (Additional revenue ~ USD 5 Mn) that included rejig of Auto (Zigwheels) and shutting down of unprofitable businesses –Email and Shopping. Evaluated multiple potential equity investments. Was a founding member of TLabs, a mentorship based Startup Accelerator by Times Group. Closed funding for 10 startups in Batch 1 & 2.

GAGAN SINGLA

Mr Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Officer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist. In fact, his analytical, data-driven approach adds a new dimension to marketing. With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking. Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and
E-Commerce.

With more than 12 years of experience –primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-specific. In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Prior to coming on-board with Angel Broking, Mr. Singla was the global CMO of Simplilearn, an online education provider of professional certification training, based in Scotts Valley, California, USA. Mr Singla contributed significantly to Simplilearn’s marketing efforts in India and Global Markets.

Anil Wanvari

Amit Sharma

Lipika Ganguli

Sanjeev Dhiman

Sugato Banerjee

Nitin Agarwal

L. Ramakrishnan

Ganesh Iyer

Juergen Hase

MANAV SETHI

Manav Sethi leads ALTBalaji as the Chief Marketing Officer. He launched this platform in April 2017 and oversees the company’s overall communication strategy in India and internationally.
In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.
At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. While at Reliance, he also worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.
In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.
He has formal education in Management and Law.

Gagan Singla

Uday Sodhi

Naveen Kukreja

Sanjeev Handa

Sai Giridhar

Deepali Naair

Ssumier S Pasricha

Anupam Siddhartha

He has taught Film Studies for the past 23 years now.

Apart from that he was the Deputy Director of SIMC for nine years. During the concerned period the Institute was ranked among the top 10 Institutes offering a PG programme in Mass Communication, by various publications every year.

Also, he was the Director of SCMC for 10 years. During the concerned period the Centre was ranked as India’s Best Mass Communication College by the annual India Today-Nielsen surveys for five consecutive years (2013-’17).

He has also taught at FTII, IIMC, Sophia College for Women as well as at the various Film Appreciation Courses organised by NFAI.

Pravin Shivarkar

Ecommerce Digital Marketing | Strategy, Planning and Execution | TataCLiQ.com

– Ex Yatra | TimesInternet | MakeMyTrip | Sapient
– 13 years of professional experience with Digital Marketing, strategy, planning and execution and top-industry tools and resources including agency management
– Social Influencer: 26K+ Followers on Linkedin, Featured in the top 100 most followed SEO experts on Twitter for 2016, currently have 56K Followers @pravinsindia http://lnkd.in/eFRZMQV
– Owner of One of the largest Marketing Pro Group on Linkedin https://goo.gl/Ya5fLB with 2.3 Lac members
– Experienced in creating, managing and empowering teams to achieve business goals.
– Know how to develop and implement long term and short term Marketing strategies (Web and App)
– Specialize in devising distinctive strategies to narrow down focus on ROI
– Proven expertise and innovations and feet-on-the-street Internet Marketing techniques to turbo charge customer retention & acquisition.
– Track record of contributing improvement of quality of traffic through devising unique web strategies and process optimization
– Skilled at optimizing digital marketing campaign performance through micro tracking, multi facet analyzing and devising tailor made solutions.
– Experienced with managing large scale annual paid search marketing budgets.
– Strong ability to influence key stakeholders through knowledge sharing, lead projects, work autonomously and collaboratively as SME
– Creative capability to see the bigger picture while giving attention to detail.
– Digital Marketing Blogger contributes to Shivarkar.com.


Specialties: Entire Digital Marketing Expertise with proven performance : Marketing, Mobile, App, Display, Remarketing/Retargeting, Programmatic, SEO, SEM, SMM, PPC, Social Media, Affiliates, Analytics and Audience Targeting, Brand building and promotion, campaign management

Amitabha Singh

After completing a degree in computer science and pursuing post graduate courses in Mathematics and Japanese, He moved towards filmmaking by choice. He joined FTII Pune in 1991 for a 3 year cinematography course which got completed in 1994. Since 1995 he has been professionally active in Mumbai. His years of participation in the Indian Media and Entertainment Industry have also coincided with the tectonic shifts that our industry has been witnessing over the past two decades. Having an unconventional approach – both in thinking and practice with an ability to quickly learn and adapt have been my core strengths.

As a result, 3 of the films that he has worked on got National Award whereas 1 got nominated as the official entry into Oscars from India. He would consider himself fortunate that he could become part of some of the key projects which became cornerstones of future trends in an industry which remains forever compelled to reinvent itself. In 2014 he started a social enterprise called Cinevidya with a purpose to spread audio visual content creation skills amidst children at grassroot level all over India.

* Has done more than 1000 TVCs for some of the top indian as well as international brands; mainly known for feature films “Khosla ka Ghosla”; “Chillar Party” and “The Good Road”.

Hitesh Malhotra

A management graduate from UC- Berkeley, Hitesh 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 have 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.

Chhitra Subramaniam

Chhitra Subramaniam is a Creative Producer, Content Development & Production Executive whose career spans Cinema, Television and Advertising having worked in Ram Gopal Varma’s Factory, Percept Picture Company, Viacom18, Turner International & Wiz Films.
She is the Senior Vice President at Kross Pictures.
Her Advertising career in Client servicing was nurtured at Rediffusion, & Ogilvy.
Chhitra then took a long motherhood sabbatical after which she started work in Films as EP with Sanjay Bhansali.
Chhitra has been part of over 24 films, many hours of TV content and
in the journey Chhitra has worked with celebrated directors like, Meghna Gulzar, Ram Gopal Varma, Shoojit Sircar, Anurag Kashyap, Madhur Bhandarkar, Priyadarshan, Nagesh Kuknoor, Sooni Taraporewala, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury amongst others.
En route, she collaborated with Mrs. Jaya Bachchan on a commemorative documentary on Amitabh Bachchan’s 60th birthday.
She was awarded for her contribution to the film “Hanuman“ the first successful animation feature in India.
Her passion remains running her Animal shelter “ Samovila Foundation, travelling , taking long walks , dancing , listening to stories and cooking

Ram Kamal Mukherjee

Archana Aggarwal

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.

Binda Dey

Binda has over 14 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Intellegence & Consumer Analytics. She comes with a deep understanding of the Indian media and entertainment space and has led marketing campaigns across categories for different markets. She has been awarded by BBC Knowledge as one of ‘the Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017.

She currently heads marketing for Red Chilies Entertainment and is responsible for customer loyalty and creating business opportunities across platforms. She has led 360 degree campaigns for wide range of movies like Dilwale, Raees, Dear Zingagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Ittefaq, Zero and ongoing projects like Badla.

She has also led the marketing initiatives for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2016, developed the #AmiKKR campaign, which deeply resonated with the fans. KKR became the first team to have an exclusive television show, called ‘Knight Club’ on Star Sports and the fan engagement rate on social media not just surpassed other IPL teams, but also long established teams with global following like Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.

During her stint at Star India, she has steered strategic projects for their Hindi, Regional and English Entertainment channels. She was instrumental in developing campaigns such as ‘Rishta wahi, Soch nayi’ for Star Plus, which catapulted the brand back to its leadership position, ‘Cholo Paltai’ as the war cry for Star Jalsha launch in West Bengal, which connected with the audience at a personal level and took the channel to the #1 position and ‘Watch with the World’ for Star World Premiere’s launch, which created a paradigm shift in TV viewing trends in India.

Binda Dey

Binda has over 15 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Intellegence & Consumer Analytics. She comes with a deep understanding of the Indian media and entertainment space and has led marketing campaigns across categories for different markets. She has been awarded by BBC Knowledge as one of ‘the Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017. 

She currently heads marketing for Red Chilies Entertainment and is responsible for customer loyalty and creating business opportunities across platforms. She has led 360 degree campaigns for wide range of movies like Dilwale, Raees, Dear Zingagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Ittefaq, Zero and ongoing projects like Badla.

She has also led the marketing initiatives for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2016, developed the #AmiKKR campaign, which deeply resonated with the fans. KKR became the first team to have an exclusive television show, called ‘Knight Club’ on Star Sports and the fan engagement rate on social media not just surpassed other IPL teams, but also long established teams with global following like Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.

During her stint at Star India, she has steered strategic projects for their Hindi, Regional and English Entertainment channels. She was instrumental in developing campaigns such as ‘Rishta wahi, Soch nayi’ for Star Plus, which catapulted the brand back to its leadership position, ‘Cholo Paltai’ as the war cry for Star Jalsha launch in West Bengal, which connected with the audience at a personal level and took the channel to the #1 position and ‘Watch with the World’ for Star World Premiere’s launch, which created a paradigm shift in TV viewing trends in India.

Amit Sethiya

Ssumier S Pasricha

Ssumier S Pasricha an Indian actor and comedian , known for creating viral videos in which he plays the character of ‘Pammi Aunty’. Starred in TV soaps documentaries and Theatre musicals. Ssumier has worked across different mediums and has tasted success in the industry over the years. Not just confined to Comedy Ssumier has raised his voice for various Social issues like Cancer , Aids , Women Safety ,Women Empowerment & Homosexuality….

Ssumier’s USP lies in the fact that he can connect with his audiences on a very personal level owing to the funny and real life experiences that he creates through his videos. His slice of life content based on his observation of daily life scenarios leaves people in splits and has attracted love from people of almost all ages, genders and countries  who often refer to him as their Stress buster, Aunt Agony,  Aunty-Depressent  , Aunty-Preneur  and a digital friend.

Honoured at House of Commons ,United Kingdom Parliament for his Contribution To British Punjabi Culture , to  the Youth Icon of India by INDIA Today  and Entertainer of the Year Awardin USA.. Ssumier Pasricha Has Won Numerous Awards around the globe for this Digital Content… his Latest achievement is From TIMES NOW ,POWER BRAND Digital Media TrendSetter Award 2019… Today Ssumier enjoys the popularity in every Possible country especially amongst Punjabi community and has become the Power Brand PAMMI AUNTY with who’s unique style of marketing every possible brand wants to collaborate with.

Awards World Wide

Madhumita Dutta

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Sai Narayan

Hitesh Malhotra

Sai Narayan

PEEYUSH BACHLAUS

17 years of consumer marketing experience across sectors viz: FMCG, Automobiles, Telecom & a single brand retail start up.
P&L impacting roles delivering exponential growth on brands addressing diverse TG’s including youth (preteens & teens), families, working professionals and BoP / farming communities across urban & rural geographies. 
Proud member of teams credited with brand & product launch, new market creation and wins at Guinness World Records, Abby’s & WOW awards.

Competencies: Design & launch sharply targeted marketing campaigns. Design brand architectures and dimensioning initiatives. Chasing ROI on marketing programs. Collaborative relationships across ‘g-local’ platforms. Develop team members’ competence; engage their passion and commitment. Timely decision-making grounded in customer knowledge and market analysis, follow through on execution. 

Specialties: New product launch # Brand properties (Endorsements & Assets) # Category Management # Consumer engagements (offline / online) # Digital outreach # Segmentation # Product positioning # Integrated marketing # Market Research # Startup / Turnaround # Advertising & Promotions # ATL/BTL # Agency management (creative, media, PR, experiential & OOH) # Rural Marketing # Portfolio profitability # Budget Management # Multi lingual oHEad

MADHAVI IRANI

Madhavi, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa, has Senior-level Content Management experience with start-ups, specializing in beauty, health and wellness. A founding member of India’s largest online beauty e-commerce company Nykaa.com, Madhavi also has extensive local and international experience, specifically with US-based health aid agencies in Africa and international NGOs and healthcare insurance companies. Besides working with various newspapers in The Times group in Mumbai, she has also worked as a Health and Wellness Consultant with corporates offering customized health and disease management programs and newsletters.

Specialties: Content Management, Start-ups, Health Counseling, Coaching, Disease Management, Writing

ALI HUSSEIN

Ali Hussein who is spearheading Eros’s digital initiatives including Eros Now (Eros International’s OTT platform), brings with him extensive experience through his impressive track record of over 15 years in the media entertainment and digital space.
Ali has been an entrepreneur and Board Advisor to Discovery Networks and other start-ups in the media and technology domain.
His experience spans across organizations such as Google, Viacom 18 and Hungama where he has held key positions.
His expertise comes from complex mandates across mobile marketing, content syndication and distribution

VIVEK BHARGAVA

Vivek Bhargava has been elevated as the CEO of DAN Performance Group. The former CEO of iProspect now heads all digital performance agencies of Dentsu Aegis Network. This includes iProspect, SVG, Sokrati and the newly launched iProspect Consult.
He consults an impressive roster of 500+ clients in offices based out of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune. He advises clients on the most effective digital strategies for their brands.

SATYAJIT SEN

Currently- Vice President, Media Management at Samsung India- India’s leading advertiser in the personal technology space

Led ZO gain No 6 RECMA ranking with aggressive new biz wins and client retention across all significant ones making ZO Delhi as the larges not agency office in Delhi

Won the R3 No1 nomination for the first rank in India New Business League in 2011.

Won businesses like Reckitt Benckiser, Toshiba, Honda, Apollo Tyres, Aviva, Micromax, Jabong, Cargill Foods, Mc Cain Foods, Aviva, OLX, Telenor, Siemens, IDBI Federal

Led the successful integration of Resultrix- India’s leading search specialist agency

Awarded Effie awards for work on Ministry of Tourism- international campaigns.

Worked with HT on role of print for reach/ recall was an Emvies silver recipient

Won the Maruti AOR biz in the first place when MUL started the AOR set up

Guest Lecturer at prestigious institutes like IIMT ,MICA

KAPIL SHARMA

Over the last 18 years, Kapil launched as well as re-positioned brands, set up new business verticals and led cross functional teams on challenging projects – and across all of these experiences, this above mantra has been his driving force. 

He has been part of the core team that scripted the turn-around of 9XM and rebuilt it from a one TV channel operation to India’s largest music broadcast network. 

He is passionate about branding and marketing and its impact on consumer behaviour. Over the years, I’ve bridged traditional forms of mass media with both experiential marketing & new forms of digital marketing, to build a lasting connection between the brand and end consumer

L. RAMAKRISHNAN

Ramakrishnan is a Digital management professional with more than 18 years experience starting up Digital Businesses for Media companies in India. He has worked for leading media players in India viz. Mid-Day Multimedia in Mumbai, ABP group in Kolkata and part of the startup team of Publicitas Digital in India. At present he is with ABP News Network since 2008 where he has laid the foundation of the Digital Business in the organization.
He has a Masters degree in Physics and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management. He is a keen Yoga buff

UDAY SODHI

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.

Binda Dey

Binda has over 14 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Intellegence& Consumer Analytics. She comes with a deep understanding of the Indian media and entertainment space and has led marketing campaigns across categories for different markets. She has been awarded by BBC Knowledge as one of ‘the Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017.

She currently heads marketing for Red Chilies Entertainment and is responsible for customer loyalty and creating business opportunities across platforms. She has led 360 degree campaigns for wide range of movies like Dilwale, Raees, Dear Zingagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Ittefaq, Zero and ongoing projects like Badla.

She has also led the marketing initiatives for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2016, developed the #AmiKKR campaign, which deeply resonated with the fans. KKR became the first team to have an exclusive television show, called ‘Knight Club’ on Star Sports and the fan engagement rate on social media not just surpassed other IPL teams, but also long established teams with global following like Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.

During her stint at Star India, she has steered strategic projects for their Hindi, Regional and English Entertainment channels. She was instrumental in developing campaigns such as ‘Rishtawahi, Sochnayi’ for Star Plus, which catapulted the brand back to its leadership position, ‘CholoPaltai’ as the war cry for Star Jalsha launch in West Bengal, which connected with the audience at a personal level and took the channel to the #1 position and ‘Watch with the World’ for Star World Premiere’s launch, which created a paradigm shift in TV viewing trends in India.

Aditi Shrivastava

Aditi is part of the founding team at Pocket Aces, a Sequoia Capital-funded, new age socially-distributed, multi-format, digital entertainment company making highly engaging content for the millennial audience via its channels FilterCopy, Dice Media, and Gobble. Aditi also advises Intellecap, where she set up the Intellecap Impact Investment Network, the world’s largest angel network investing in for-profit businesses, dedicated to creating a positive social impact across India and East Africa. She has worked closely with entrepreneurs, advising them on their business models and growth strategy.
Prior to joining Intellecap, Aditi spent over 5 years at Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in quantitative equity research, trading and portfolio management. Aditi graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is a CFA (USA) charter holder, a Shaper in the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Mumbai Hub, and a TiE Mumbai Charter Member.
She currently serves on the advisory boards of Jibu, an affordable clean drinking water enterprise in East Africa, and Impact Business Leaders, an organization dedicated to grooming more talent for the impact space.
Aditi is passionate about problem-solving, dance, and travel. She calls Kuwait (where she grew up) and Mumbai (where she currently resides) home.

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Imran Qadri

Marketing professional & Automobile Industry Expert with 11 years of successful track record in Brand Development, Product Marketing & Planning, Marketing Communication, Category Management, Marketing Operations, Strategy and Media Advertising. Outstanding performance in CFT leadership, Brand Communication, ATL/BTL, Product Development, Product Launches, Special Editions, Events & Sponsorship, Media Planning, Digital Content, Agency leadership, Celebrity management, Retail Marketing, Luxury & Sports Marketing, Business Planning & CRM. Currently heading Marketing & PR for Harley-Davidson India. Was associated with Nissan Motor India as Head – Marcom for Datsun brand. Prior was Sr. Group Product Marketing Lead & Country Chief Marketing Manager for Hatch, Sedan, Luxury SUV, Sports, Electric Vehicle & Connected Car(Intelligent Mobility) segments leading the product, pricing, Go To Market and project management strategy for Nissan India. Before Nissan, was Sr. Category Brand Head – Commuter motorcycles for World’s largest two wheeler manufacturer (Hero MotoCorp- formerly known as Hero Honda), taking care of brand development, marketing communication, strategy, digital content nationally for the 10-brands portfolio along with key corporate marketing and global business projects. Started career as Marketing Lead for North with focus on regional media, BTL activations, rural, sales support & CRM. Part of strategic projects as a CFT member/leader like CBU Business model, Intelligent Mobility, Scenario Planning, DMS, Dealer websites, Marketing Planning & Budgeting Software, QBR – Commonwealth Games, IPL, MTV Roadies, HIL, Hero World Challenge, FIFA, ICC, Employer Branding, National Dealer Conclaves, Auto shows, Factory Launches, International Marketing & CSR. An MBA in Marketing & Operations; Also a Mechanical Engineering Degree holder along with Executive programs in Digital Marketing & Leadership. Ad Awards jurors & Globally certified GT-R instructor as working with Hero MotoCorp

Qualifications – PGDM (Marketing) from FSM – Delhi, BE (Mechanical Engg.) from MSRIT – Bangalore, Digital certification from IIM-L, Executive Course in Leadership from Vanderbilt University – USA

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Priyanka Sehgal

Content, Product, Strategy, Revenue, Brand building and communication. A TV & Digital professional, 20 years of experience- launched leading television channels and digital platforms. One of the first to leverage TV & Digital synergies. Content monetisation across genres.
Launched Award winning IPs, the first to launch Digital IPs and monetise them.
•Created first of its kind primetime programming, created, sold & executed IPs, turned around TV ratings, set up broadcast chains, forayed into regional content and managed P&L Lead teams of over 200
•Setup TV channels & digital properties; created produced and directed programmes/ content at NDTV, ET NOW, Times Now & Network 18
•Launched the Branded Content division at Times Now; led brand strategy, media agnostic campaigns drove concept selling & revenue generation for the National & International market. Created award winning IPs
•Worked with brands across sectors; example – BFSI (Aditya Birla Mutual Fund, BSE, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, Bajaj Allianz), Tech (Blackberry, GE, IBM, Schneider Electric, Cisco, Microsoft), FMCG (Gillette, Britannia, Cloudnine hospitals, Tatas, Godrej, Thyrocare, HUL, Eureka Forbes, Kansai Nerolac, Mother Dairy, Nestle), Automobile (Skoda, BMW, Audi) and Public Sector (GOI, LIC)
Awards:
•Awarded Most influential Content Marketing Professionals
•Awarded Top 50 Most Influential Digital Marketing Leader
•Awarded Women Leadership Achievement Award in 2016 at World Women Leadership Congress
•Awarded the Women Super Achiever Award in 2017 at World Women Leadership Congress
•Won Content Marketeer of the Year award at DMAI for Moneycontrol in 2015
•‘Power of Shunya’ won a silver at the Goa Fest Creative Abby’s 2014
•‘Amazing Indians Awards’ won at the WOW awards in the on ground event category
•‘Gillette Soldier for Women’ won at Cannes; trended #3 worldwide on Twitter
•NDTV 24×7 won the Best English News Channel of the Year award; responsible for overseeing programming

Siddharth Bhardwaj

Mr. Siddharth Bhardwaj is the Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Enterprise Sales at UFO Moviez India Limited. With over 21 years of experience he leads the ad sales function and drives ad revenue generation strategies. Under his leadership, UFO Moviez has built a strong pan India Sales network. He strongly advocates in-cinema advertising as he believes cinema brings larger than life feel to brands through large screen formats to a highly receptive audience. Apart from the sales function Siddharth also oversees all aspects of pan- India marketing for UFO and its subsidiaries including strategy, advertising, branding, communications, and alliances marketing. With his rich sales experience he is paving the way for newer opportunities and growth for UFO Moviez.

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Prachi Mohapatra

As a marketer at fbb, she gets to work on an exciting role of building this young brand. The brand is 10
years young and it has grown by leaps and bounds especially in the past 3 years. They’re associated with
prime properties like IPL and Miss India which further creates an exhilarating experience. Their objective
is to democratize fashion in India and They’re actively doing so.
Prior to joining fbb she has worked across FMCG and Beauty & Personal Care Industry for almost 12
years across roles in Category development, Brand & Marketing and Research.

Prachi Mohapatra

As a marketer at fbb, she gets to work on an exciting role of building this young brand. The brand is 10
years young and it has grown by leaps and bounds especially in the past 3 years. They’re associated with
prime properties like IPL and Miss India which further creates an exhilarating experience. Their objective
is to democratize fashion in India and They’re actively doing so.
Prior to joining fbb she has worked across FMCG and Beauty & Personal Care Industry for almost 12
years across roles in Category development, Brand & Marketing and Research.

SRINIVAS JAIN

Srinivas Jain is the Executive Director & Chief Marketing officer at SBI Funds Management – SBIFM (SBI Mutual Fund), SBIFM mission is to provide best in class investment management expertise to investors, SBIFM is building products, solutions, and tools from small retail investors to sophisticated global institutional investors.
Srinivas Jain is a senior CXO level professional with over 23 years experience in Banking and financial services industry of which 19 years in Investment management industry.

Pranab Punj

Pranab Punj is the Chief Marketing Officer for Kinsane Entertainment Inc. As a seasoned marketing professional with 16 years of global experience in building brands for the media, entertainment, and digital industry, Pranab leads the efforts to take Kinsane’s fun characters to kids across the world.

Before Kinsane, Pranab was Vice President – Global Marketing at Vserv, managing its brand and driving communications, research, events and digital marketing. Earlier, as Director of Digital Media at Viacom 18, he led marketing and the web business for regional language channels and brands, such as Nickelodeon, VH1, and Comedy Central. Pranab was instrumental in building the digital media business of Turner Broadcasting Systems from scratch. He also spearheaded the launch of India’s top online gaming portal and award-winning brand Zapak across platforms.

Pranab’s contribution in this area has been recognized through several awards, such as Top 100 Marketing Leaders, ‘Best Digital Marketing Professional’ at Mobbys, and ‘Digital Media Campaign of the Year’ at CMO Asia. He is on the jurors of several noteworthy industry awards and events, such as E4M Ink Awards, DMA Content Marketer of the Year, and Government of Karnataka and IAMAI Mobile 10X Hackathons.  Pranab is also a regular speaker at industry events such as DMAi, IAMAI, and IIT Kharagpur.

Pranab has a postgraduate degree in management from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies. Pranab is a die-hard Batman fan, and he loves immersing himself in comics. If he were to look back at his 11-year-old self, his advice to himself would be to make the most of those carefree years – be curious, explore, have lots of fun, and read lots and lots of comics.

ASHISH TIWARI

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

Nitin Agarwal

Nitin is VP and Head of User Acquisition for the premier OTT service Hotstar and has been with
them for 2 years now.
In his previous stint, he was Head of Marketing for ShopClues and led the marketplace’s hyper
growth in a hyper competitive market. Prior to joining ShopClues, Nitin bootstrapped a health
nutrition start-up, Health Raga and was instrumental in setting up its e-commerce channel.
He has over 10 years of experience working in diverse industry sectors such as automotive,
banking and consumer internet. Passionate about consumer insighting and brand building, he is
an astute marketer who brought his combined expertise in marketing, data analytics and
technology to his various roles.
Nitin has done MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and B.Tech in Computer Science from JIIT Noida. He
enjoys travelling to islands and is an avid open water diver.

Amit Verma

Amit is an avid #Marketer with extensive experience in Digital and traditional media strategy. He loves mining for consumer insights and building brands through storytelling #advertising. He is currently putting a method to the madness for non-linear hyper-growth as Head growth marketing for Zoomcar.

An Engineer and an MBA graduate, with 10+ years of global experience in the digital & branding space, Amit has led Marketing, digital transformation and growth for companies in his previous assignments with Noon, Shopclues, PayU, ZO, Maxus & Percept. Established marketing of a MENA region biggest e-com Noon from scratch as a Head Performance and branding, in his last role.Attachments area

Amit Verma

Amit is an avid #Marketer with extensive experience in Digital and traditional media strategy. He loves mining for consumer insights and building brands through storytelling #advertising. He is currently putting a method to the madness for non-linear hyper-growth as Head growth marketing for Zoomcar.

An Engineer and an MBA graduate, with 10+ years of global experience in the digital & branding space, Amit has led Marketing, digital transformation and growth for companies in his previous assignments with Noon, Shopclues, PayU, ZO, Maxus & Percept. Established marketing of a MENA region biggest e-com Noon from scratch as a Head Performance and branding, in his last role.

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.

SHRADHA AGARWAL

An itch for innovation and smart creativity drove her towards advertising, media and communications in 2007. Since then she has worked with corporates, startups, agencies and has been lucky enough to interact with some of the finest people of our industry. While doing that she explored the need for cutting-egde & leading-edge communications in today’s market.

Her entire league has been in the digital front which comprises of strategy, social media, digital engagement and mobile derivative. Having essayed roles from Account Managers to Marketing Manager to Head digital strategy and engagement in her roles with Zoom tv, Interactive Avenues, Dealsandyou.com, Airtel and now GRAPES DIGITAL; the key thing she believe lies in ‘UNLEARNING’. This helps you to think of “out of the box” to campaign ideas with the help of newer platforms to engage with your audience.

A bronze medalist from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad for academic excellence during her PGDM (Communications) and a distinction holder in computer engineering, Shradha is a digital strategist and believes in no fool-notion.

Specialties: Digital Media Intelligence, Innovative thinking, Analytics and Consumer Insights to get creative bend. communications. Building and running teams, setting processes and people for companies.

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.

Sriram Padmananbhan

Sriram Padmanabhan is the Vice President for marketing at Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. (NMIPL). In his current role, he is leading the marketing strategies for Nissan and Datsun brands in India, with the aim of delivering long-term product portfolio, brand value and market share growth.

Sriram brings to Nissan over two decades of international marketing experience with specific India business expertise in launching new products in the automotive industry, building digital go-to-market competencies, establishing customer engagement, preparing dealer network for expansion and P&L ownership. He has led diverse teams across Europe, Australia, China, Thailand, India while providing thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Master’s in Finance & Control, both from the University of Delhi.

Imran Qadri

Marketing professional & Automobile Industry Expert with 11 years of successful track record in Brand Development, Product Marketing & Planning, Marketing Communication, Category Management, Marketing Operations, Strategy and Media Advertising. Outstanding performance in CFT leadership, Brand Communication, ATL/BTL, Product Development, Product Launches, Special Editions, Events & Sponsorship, Media Planning, Digital Content, Agency leadership, Celebrity management, Retail Marketing, Luxury & Sports Marketing, Business Planning & CRM. Currently heading Marketing & PR for Harley-Davidson India. Was associated with Nissan Motor India as Head – Marcom for Datsun brand. Prior was Sr. Group Product Marketing Lead & Country Chief Marketing Manager for Hatch, Sedan, Luxury SUV, Sports, Electric Vehicle & Connected Car(Intelligent Mobility) segments leading the product, pricing, Go To Market and project management strategy for Nissan India. Before Nissan, was Sr. Category Brand Head – Commuter motorcycles for World’s largest two wheeler manufacturer (Hero MotoCorp- formerly known as Hero Honda), taking care of brand development, marketing communication, strategy, digital content nationally for the 10-brands portfolio along with key corporate marketing and global business projects. Started career as Marketing Lead for North with focus on regional media, BTL activations, rural, sales support & CRM. Part of strategic projects as a CFT member/leader like CBU Business model, Intelligent Mobility, Scenario Planning, DMS, Dealer websites, Marketing Planning & Budgeting Software, QBR – Commonwealth Games, IPL, MTV Roadies, HIL, Hero World Challenge, FIFA, ICC, Employer Branding, National Dealer Conclaves, Auto shows, Factory Launches, International Marketing & CSR. An MBA in Marketing & Operations; Also a Mechanical Engineering Degree holder along with Executive programs in Digital Marketing & Leadership. Ad Awards Jury & Globally certified GT-R instructor.

Archana Aggarwal

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.

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.

Anil kumar singh

Anil Kumar Singh comes to Neo@ogilvy with more than 17 years of experience in digital advertising. currently working with neo@Ogilvy as a National Director of SEO. There he is Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision, and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads, supporting the Client Services team, and playing an active role in New Business opportunities.
He was previously India Head of SEO in Interactive avenues, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands . He had built SEO team & business from scratch and stabilised IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market working with major brands like ICICI BANK, Micromax, Cleartrip, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, GENPACT,Dishtv, Airtel and BookMyshow. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years.
Qualification : Master of Computer Science (M.Sc)
Honors and Awards :
Best SEO -India Digital Media Awards 2015 Exchange4Media & Jagran June 2015
Best SEO Category Award by Afaqs! At DIGITAL AGENCY AWARDS 2015 Afaqs! & Jagran.com August 2015

Rachna Prasad

With 20+ years of experience in marketing, primarily B2C , Rachna is now the Chief of Marketing , Inside Sales & Alliances at Vinculum Solutions – a global software company that provides Omnichannel Retail solutions. Prior to this she has worked both CMO and CBO for Oxigen a payment solutions provider where she drove the award winning Oxigen Wallet Launch campaign called Stroke of Midnight which many awards at the IAMAI and the Abby’s
She has Master’s Degree from Delhi University and an executive Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and is an active panelist and speaker in industry forums and Marketing Communities

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.

In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.

Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.

Rajasekar KS

Speaker, writer, social media and content strategist, Raj helps organisations leverage content and social media to create conversations and turn fans into collaborators. He was recognised by Adobe & Paul Writer among Top 100 Content Leaders (2018 & 2017). Recognised among World’s Top 100 Content Marketers 2018 Listing by Express Writers (USA). In 2017, he was recognised among the Most Influential Content Marketing Professionals in India, by the World Marketing Congress. He was also recognised among Top 100 Influential Marketing Leaders in India by the World Marketing Congress (2016). Speaker at events including IAMAI digital summit, mCube Awards, NASSCOM, XIME, Rotary and Lions besides colleges). Occasionally write for ET Tech, BusinessWorld and BusinessLine.

Priyanka Sehgal

› Priyanka is a media professional with 20 years of extensive experience across TV & Digital with successful stints in India’s leading media conglomerates including Network 18, Times Television Network and NDTV.
› With rich experience in Strategy, Product, Growth, Monetization, Content, Programming & Partnerships, Priyanka is credited with launching some of the leading Television channels and Digital Platforms in India.
› Having created award winning programs and IPs, she has devised processes that still run effectively at organizations she worked at.
› She has turned around television ratings and revenue, setup broadcast chains, forayed into regional content and managed teams of over 200.
› Her in-depth understanding of brands and their ethos across industry verticals has helped catapult brands to thought leadership positions.
› Her award winning IPs, Channels and Shows stand testimony to her strategy and content marketing ability to help brands engage with their audiences.
› 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 behavior.
› Her Digital initiatives won many awards and she is often consulted by the top management and startups for her strategy and ability to rewire and help shape brands.
› She was awarded the Woman Leadership Achievement Award in 2016 and Woman Super Achiever Award in 2017 at the World Leadership Congress.
› She was awarded the Top 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leader and later the same year the Top 50 Most Influential Digital Marketing Leader and is also counted amongst the Top 50 Content Marketing Leaders in India.
› Priyanka is a Columbia Business School alumnus and has helped launch many start-ups in the national and international space.

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Raja Chakraborty

A passionate consumer marketer and business enthusiast with 2 decades of experience across consumer goods sector with companies like Pepsico, Bayer, Nerolac& Currently working as Business Director – Luxury Grooming at Raymonds. He has played a key role in building PARK AVENUE as one of India’s foremost Male Grooming brands at Raymonds. Apart from consumer marketing, he loves watching movies in multiple languages

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GANESH IYER

Ganesh is an entertainment business professional with over 18 years of experience across the Indian Digital Content, Music, Radio, Movies and Advertising businesses with a deep understanding of and experience in content management. He is an alumnus of IIM, Calcutta and NIT, Rourkela. Across his stints with Sony Music, The Times Group and FCB Ulka, Ganesh has helped create, market and distribute video and audio content across multiple Indian language markets. He has also worked closely on film projects with Dharma Productions, Aamir Khan Productions, Madras Talkies, etc. as well as with eminent music talent including Gulzar, Javed Akhthar, A.R. Rahman, Shankar Ehsan Loy, Vishal Bhardwaj and Shreya Ghoshal. He was instrumental in getting popular sports content published on home video format before the digital boom.

Ganesh now heads the Original Content business for Mirchi, through which he has successfully lead managed the creation, monetisation and marketing of the company’s multiple digital shows across languages including the biggest Tamil series ever, ‘Kalyanam – Conditions Apply’, and more recently the Gujarati web series ‘Jalsa Party with Dhvanit’.

Ganesh has also served as guest faculty at multiple business and media colleges including MICA and COMMITS, Bangalore. He has also featured as part of expert cricket panel discussions on television and has been part of a team building exercise for the Mumbai Indians IPL team. 

Nikhil Kumar

Gurprinder Singh

Gurpinder is a Commercial Transformation professional with over 15 years of experience in healthcare. He has been into transformation roles in Pharmaceuticals from almost a decade now with the key objective to reinvent pharma commercial model in this digital age. He is passionate about delivering digital experiences to Healthcare Professionals & Consumers. In his current role of Head – Customer Engagement at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) India, he is responsible for Digital Marketing & Commercial Effectiveness for Pharmaceuticals & Vaccines Business. Gurpinder has worked at various roles in Sales and Marketing with Pharma giants like Wockhardt, Cipla & Sun Pharma. He created space for Digital in the organizations and successfully integrated the same to the DNA of traditional Pharma Marketing. A strong believer of challenging the status-quo and continues to experiment with new marketing models

Sheena Kapoor

Sheena is a marketer with over 15 years of experience having held various leadership positions with Edelweiss Group and with Times Group for nearly 11 years across their media, real estate and financial services division.

She’s currently working with Edelweiss Group as VP Marketing, spearheading brand and corporate marketing initiatives for the group. She is instrumental in building the sports association for the Group as Principal Sponsor Team India for Olympics. She manages brand ambassadors including Irrfan Khan, Hima Das, Manika Batra, Rani and Saina Nehwal in the past. She has led award winning integrated brand campaigns including CWG & Asian Games 2018, SME Business Loans amongst many others. In 3 years with Edelweiss, she has bagged over 50 marketing awards for various initiatives.

Prior to this, she was heading Innovations for Times of India Group pan India and driving revenues through innovative, clutter breaking advertising solutions that include disruptive ads, fragrance issues, augmented reality app (Alive) and a plethora of creative uses of print and digital media. Most were award winning campaigns, bagging Gold & Silver at Abbys 2014 for Most Innovative Brand Campaign – Vaseline and for augmented reality app TimesAlive. The campaigns also won at prestigious INMA Awards for Best New Mobile Service and Best Idea to Create Profit Centre. She was also conferred the “Chairman’s Award for Excellence” at BCCL.

In her previous stints, she was heading marketing for Artha Property, real estate division of Times Group, where she set up the company as part of the co-promoter team, having successfully launched over 50 residential projects across South India. Before Artha, she was heading brand and communciation for TimesofMoney, the financial services division of the group, accredited with being ‘World’s No. I Money Transfer Portal’(ACNielsen).

By qualification, she has done her Brand Management Course from ISB, Hyderabad and holds an MBA from SIBM, Pune. She has represented India at the International Relations Conference at Oxford on a full scholarship and has won multiple awards, including Award for Innovation by TSCFM and ‘Innovator in Marketing’ at the International Women Leaders Forum.

Soumini Sridhara Paul

Soumini Sridhara Paul is Vice President of the Talent and Independent content platform, Artist Aloud (Hungama Digital Media Ent. Pvt. Ltd.). Launched in January 2010, Soumini has spearheaded the set up of Artist Aloud, South Asia’s premier digital platform for established and new talent with independent audio and video content along with a dedicated team. She also is Head of Operations and Content Development for Kids and other channels on YouTube and Special Content Creation and Event IP projects for Hungama. One of her pet projects is the channel she is building along with a wonderful team for Hungama Kids creating content which is age appropriate, entertaining and educational. She has over 20 years experience as a Pop Artist, Artist Manager as well as assignments with Channel [V] including Bollywood, Independent and International talent and Universal Music including album launches and promotions and artist relations.  As a hobby, Soumini has been dabbling into writing for the last 5 years and Disha The Challenge is her first ever-published work through Partridge. She started her artistic stint as a singer almost 20 years back but chose to work in other aspects of the industry to build something that would change the face of Talent and Independent Content Space.

Shradha Agarwal

An itch for innovation and smart creativity drove her towards advertising, media and communications in 2007. Since then she has worked with corporates, startups, agencies and has been lucky enough to interact with some of the finest people of our industry. While doing that she explored the need for cutting-egde & leading-edge communications in today’s market.
Her entire league has been in the digital front which comprises of strategy, social media, digital engagement and mobile derivative. Having essayed roles from Account Managers to Marketing Manager to Head digital strategy and engagement in her roles with Zoom tv, Interactive Avenues, Dealsandyou.com, Airtel and now GRAPES DIGITAL; the key thing she believe lies in ‘UNLEARNING’. This helps you to think of “out of the box” to campaign ideas with the help of newer platforms to engage with your audience.
A bronze medalist from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad for academic excellence during her PGDM (Communications) and a distinction holder in computer engineering, Shradha is a digital strategist and believes in no fool-notion.
Specialties: Digital Media Intelligence, Innovative thinking, Analytics and Consumer Insights to get creative bend. communications. Building and running teams, setting processes and people for companies.

Ashish Tiwari

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.

Sanjay Santwan

High calibre, award winning media professional with over two decades of experience across media. Skilled at working across multiple platforms and with international teams. Experienced at building teams and motivating them to contribute to improvements in work-flows and processes to advance commercial success. Strong aptitude for maximizing creative contribution of teams to boost innovation. Accomplished in leading change initiatives and proficient in project management. 

Specialties
Commercials, On-Air Promos, TV Content, Digital Content, Marketing Innovations, Operations Management, Creative Strategy, Team Building.

Manav Sethi

Rajiee M Shinde

Anurag Purohit

L. Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan is a Digital management professional with more than 18 years experience starting up Digital Businesses for Media companies in India. He has worked for leading media players in India viz. Mid-Day Multimedia in Mumbai, ABP group in Kolkata and part of the startup team of Publicitas Digital in India. At present he is with ABP News Network since 2008 where he has laid the foundation of the Digital Business in the organization.

He has a Masters degree in Physics and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management. He is a keen Yoga buff.

Madhavi Irani

Madhavi, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa, has Senior-level Content Management experience with start-ups, specializing in beauty, health and wellness. A founding member of India’s largest online beauty e-commerce company Nykaa.com, Madhavi also has extensive local and international experience, specifically with US-based health aid agencies in Africa and international NGOs and healthcare insurance companies. Besides working with various newspapers in The Times group in Mumbai, she has also worked as a Health and Wellness Consultant with corporates offering customized health and disease management programs and newsletters.

Specialties: Content Management, Start-ups, Health Counseling, Coaching, Disease Management, Writing

Pravin Shivarkar

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.

SMITHA RANGANATHAN

Prof Smitha S Ranganathan has over 16 years of experience as a key account influencer and brand communication specialist with a keen interest in focused marketing communications. She has donned various hats in agency environments ranging from account management, brand strategizing to business development. Her doctoral thesis is in the area of marketing and relates to brand choice.

o Experienced in facilitating Post Graduate and Executive level programs to global audience

o Enthusiastic adopter of newer pedagogical tools for teaching. 

o Keen Contributor of editorials to top business publications. 

Current Engagements 

o Visiting Professor – S P Jain School of Global Management; May 2017 Onwards

o Adjunct Faculty – IBS Business School Bangalore; July 2012 Onwards

o Chief Story Teller – SSR Brandlooms; August 2015 Onwards

o Program Director – Center for Public Health and Awareness; October 2014  Onwards 

o Honorary Program Director – ANSWER (Ayurveda for NeuromuScular WEllness and Reinforcement); November 2015 

ADITI SHRIVASTAVA

Aditi is part of the founding team at Pocket Aces, a Sequoia Capital-funded, new age socially-distributed, multi-format, digital entertainment company making highly engaging content for the millennial audience via its channels FilterCopy, Dice Media, and Gobble. Aditi also advises Intellecap, where she set up the Intellecap Impact Investment Network, the world’s largest angel network investing in for-profit businesses, dedicated to creating a positive social impact across India and East Africa. She has worked closely with entrepreneurs, advising them on their business models and growth strategy.

Prior to joining Intellecap, Aditi spent over 5 years at Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in quantitative equity research, trading and portfolio management. Aditi graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is a CFA (USA) charter holder, a Shaper in the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Mumbai Hub, and a TiE Mumbai Charter Member.

She currently serves on the advisory boards of Jibu, an affordable clean drinking water enterprise in East Africa, and Impact Business Leaders, an organization dedicated to grooming more talent for the impact space. Aditi is passionate about problem solving, dance, and travel. She calls Kuwait (where she grew up) and Mumbai (where she currently resides) home.

SANJAY SANTWAN

High calibre, award winning media professional with over two decades of experience across media. Skilled at working across multiple platforms and with international teams. Experienced at building teams and motivating them to contribute to improvements in work-flows and processes to advance commercial success. Strong aptitude for maximizing creative contribution of teams to boost innovation. Accomplished in leading change initiatives and proficient in project management. 

Specialties
Commercials, On-Air Promos, TV Content, Digital Content, Marketing Innovations, Operations Management, Creative Strategy, Team Building.

RAVI DUBEY

Over 15 years of client and agency-side business experience in Digital Marketing. 

Started his career as web analyst with the core function of search engine optimization, currently, Ravi is Co-Founder of digitalF5 Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. with responsibility for Business Planning, New Product Development, and Training. 

Before digitalF5 Ravi worked in Hungama Digital Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. as Group Manager. Other companies – Web18, Indigo Consulting & Atlogix Software.

Area of Expertise: Digital Marketing, E-Commerce

MADHAVI IRANI

Madhavi, Chief Officer – Content at Nykaa, has Senior-level Content Management experience with start-ups, specializing in beauty, health and wellness. A founding member of India’s largest online beauty e-commerce company Nykaa.com, Madhavi also has extensive local and international experience, specifically with US-based health aid agencies in Africa and international NGOs and healthcare insurance companies. Besides working with various newspapers in The Times group in Mumbai, she has also worked as a Health and Wellness Consultant with corporates offering customized health and disease management programs and newsletters.

Specialties: Content Management, Start-ups, Health Counseling, Coaching, Disease Management, Writing

MANAV SETHI

Manav Sethi leads ALTBalaji as the Chief Marketing Officer. He launched this platform in April 2017 and oversees the company’s overall communication strategy in India and internationally.

In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.

At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. While at Reliance, he also worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.

In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.

He has formal education in Management and Law.

UDAY SODHI

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.

GANESH IYER

Ganesh is an entertainment business professional with over 18 years of experience across the Indian Digital Content, Music, Radio, Movies and Advertising businesses with a deep understanding of and experience in content management. He is an alumnus of IIM, Calcutta and NIT, Rourkela. Across his stints with Sony Music, The Times Group and FCB Ulka, Ganesh has helped create, market and distribute video and audio content across multiple Indian language markets. He has also worked closely on film projects with Dharma Productions, Aamir Khan Productions, Madras Talkies, etc. as well as with eminent music talent including Gulzar, Javed Akhthar, A.R. Rahman, Shankar Ehsan Loy, Vishal Bhardwaj and Shreya Ghoshal. He was instrumental in getting popular sports content published on home video format before the digital boom.
Ganesh now heads the Original Content business for Mirchi, through which he has successfully lead managed the creation, monetisation and marketing of the company’s multiple digital shows across languages including the biggest Tamil series ever, ‘Kalyanam – Conditions Apply’, and more recently the Gujarati web series ‘Jalsa Party with Dhvanit’.
Ganesh has also served as guest faculty at multiple business and media colleges including MICA and COMMITS, Bangalore. He has also featured as part of expert cricket panel discussions on television and has been part of a team building exercise for the Mumbai Indians IPL team.

GAGAN SINGLA

Mr Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Officer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist. In fact, his analytical, data-driven approach adds a new dimension to marketing. With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking. Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and
E-Commerce.
With more than 12 years of experience –primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-specific. In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Prior to coming on-board with Angel Broking, Mr. Singla was the global CMO of Simplilearn, an online education provider of professional certification training, based in Scotts Valley, California, USA. Mr Singla contributed significantly to Simplilearn’s marketing efforts in India and Global Markets.