Speakers

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

Sachin Uppal

Rituraj Bidwai

Amit Tandon

Rajasekar KS

Aditi Shrivastava

Girish Kalra

Mukesh Jain

Mayur Sethi

Pamit Anand

Snehi Mehta

Sai Narayan

Amit Shah

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

Vijay Koshy

Jürgen Hase

Mukesh Jain

Naveen Kukreja

Srinivas Jain

Naveen Surya

Vivek Bhargava

Girish Kalra

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Rishikesh Utpat

Jagmal Singh

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]

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

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.

Hitesh Malhotra

Sai Narayan

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sameer Seth

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Girish Kalra

Versatile experience in handling traditional & digital marketing and corporate communication. Successful stints in established firms and start-up. Handled profiles in diverse industries spanning Advertising, Consumer Goods, Mutual Funds and Insurance.

Anirudh Dharmagadi

Anirudh is currently the Chief Marketing Officer Hopscotch.in – India’s leading kids fashion
brand. He has been associated with the company for over 2 years. From building the digital
metrics for the brand to spearheading sectors such as performance marketing, content
marketing, site merchandising, liquidation strategy and inventory planning & control, Anirudh
has played an integral role in driving the company’s vision of becoming the largest kids fashion
brand in India.
Anirudh Dharmagadi is a seasoned professional with over a decade of experience in cross
functional team leadership, P&L ownership, inbound marketing, strategy and planning. Prior to
his stint with Hopscotch, Anirudh co-founded Zero Brand Zone, a company that helped to create
an ecosystem to support MSMEs with branding, marketing and sales strategy. In his past work
experiences, he has been associated with notable organizations like Star India and Wipro
Technologies.

Rohan Jain

Rohan Jain is responsible for driving the marketing strategy for SPN’s English Cluster,
comprising Sony PIX, AXN and Sony BBC Earth.
He is a marketing professional with an expertise in Product Management, Brand Management,
Customer Segmentation and Consumer Lifecycle Management. With over 14 years of
extensive experience in consumer marketing, Rohan thrives in influencing consumer
behaviour by understanding consumer lifecycle and building experiences that deliver on the
brand promise.
Prior to joining SPN, Rohan was with Vodafone Idea where he was leading marketing for the
East region. Prior to that, he headed marketing for the Mumbai region, and has worked
extensively in improving internet penetration via consumer segmentation, pricing and
communication.
An engineering graduate from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science
Indore (SGSITS), Rohan holds an MBA degree from IIM Lucknow.
Rohan has a passion for long distance running, with many marathons under his belt. He also
likes to play squash and read about history and politics.

Khushnooma Kapadia

Khushnooma Kapadia is the Area Director of Marketing – South Asia for
Marriott International Inc. Winner of the “Women Leadership
Achievement Award” by the World Women Congress, “50 most
Talented CMOs – India” by World Marketing Congress, Khushnooma
joined Marriott International in 2004.
In her 15 year tenure with the company, Khushnooma has led the
marketing and brand roadmap, as well as launched multiple new
properties within the Marriott portfolio in India.
Khushnooma’s work impetus is focused on business excellence across
every marketing vertical that drives brand Marriott. Under her astute
leadership, Marriott emerged as the No. 2 hospitality brand in India.
She manages all 15 brands of ‘Marriott International’ portfolio present in
India and is responsible for the strategic growth of these brands under the consortium.
Post the Starwood Marriott merger, Khushnooma now works with a team of over 50 associates and
leads 111 operating hotels. She has pioneered several campaigns which were ahead of their times and
thereby gone beyond the otherwise traditional hospitality landscape.

HITESH MOTWANI

With close to a decade of combined experience in public relations, corporate communications, digital and social media communications, he has worked with Twitter, Bandhan Bank, Crompton Greaves, Kotak Group, Future Generali, DSP Black Rock Investment Managers and Tata Group, to name a few.
He has also been a speakers at Dubai international HR Summit and Start up summit by PayUmoney.
A part of the faculty at some of India’s top education institutions/ colleges, he shares expertise on digital media, social media, public relations, marketing strategies, web designing and a number of related software

PAVAN CHAWLA

A dynamic professional and proud recipient of the prestigious award – ‘Best PR & Corp Comm Head Of The Year.
Adept at Corporate Communication and Public Relations, Brand Building, Content — through strategic narratives for several sector-leading brands, Video and Digital content creation — and Brand Ambassador training. 

In an illustrious career spanning 26 years, associated with august organisations like Adfactors Public Relations, Sony Entertainment Television, MAX, The Times of India Group, INX Media (9X, 9XM), Eros Multimedia’s B4U, Sahara One Media & Entertainment, Zee Telefilms, All India Radio, Times FM and DD.

VIJAY KOSHY

Mr. Vijay Koshy has been working with The Viral Fever as Head- Brand Partnerships since June 2016. Before TVF, he was Vice President -BIG RTL Group since June 2013. Vijay is responsible for driving revenue along with profitability growth for the TVF Network alongside the overall BD operations in India.
With over 20 years in the advertising and media industry, he has worked with leading ad agencies and broadcasters. He has worked with some reputed names in the Ad World like Enterprise, Trikaya Grey, Lowe Lintas and JWT Fulcrum before moving to the broadcast industry

TARANDEEP SEKHON

Tarandeep is the Director of Marketing at KidZania India.
Previously, he has worked as Senior Manager of Marketing at Pan India Paryatan Pvt. Ltd. Of which Essel World & Water Kingdom are a part.
He has also played the role of Head Marketing with Fame India Ltd.
He completed his MBA in Retail Management & Marketing from ITM Group of Institutions.
His key specializations include Brand Management, Marketing and Team Management

MANISH BHATIA

Mr. Manish Bhatia, holds a Master’s degree in Management from Xavier’s Institute of Management and a certification in Blue Ocean Strategy from one of world’s leading business schools – INSEAD, France.
Mr. Manish Bhatia handled various positions as Head of Marketing and Head of Sales with Decorative Business at AkzoNobel. He was Business Director for Middle East, South and South East Asian markets where he played a Leadership role and contributed to various aspects of sales, marketing, innovation and was part of Global Management Team of the business.

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 his work style ensuring a fair balance of execution and result KPIs, important for any strategy to be successful.
The work done during his stint with Godrej won awards by “Asia Retail Congress” and “CMO Asia Brand and Marketing Excellence Awards”.

PARVEEN SINGHAL

WittyFeed’s third Co-Founder & CCO Mr. Parveen Singhal. He is the youngest of the trio. He is just 24-year- old at the moment. He is the man who takes care of the social media, content, and traffic acquisition. He is one of the youngest entrepreneurs of his motherland.
Parveen was also part of the Under 25 Summit which is India’s largest youth festival for entrepreneurs, innovators, creators, designers, musicians, food enthusiasts, and travelers.

Sai Sangeeta Israni

Sai’s experience includes 16 years of consumer facing brand work across media, retail and fashion. Starting out with communications with Financial Technologies India and there on to Madison, followed by Brand Capital at The Times Group and then moving to retail with handling marketing for coupon discount retail, based out of Bangalore. The next major stint was part of the core team with Brand Factory, leading to growth of the business and the brand to heading marketing for Spykar for the last 1.5 year.

Vivek Bhargava

Vivek Bhargava is CEO, DAN Performance Group. A digital entrepreneur and one of the most
respected digital evangelists in the country; Vivek heads all the digital performance agencies of
Dentsu Aegis Network and is responsible for their growth and expansion of the DAN
Performance Group through additional acquisitions in the performance space. A frontrunner in
the digital revolution in India, Vivek believes ‘digital’ is much more than mere marketing
medium – a catalyst and multiplier across every aspect of business. Prior to this, Vivek was the
CEO at iProspect India, a part of the Dentsu Aegis Network.
Vivek began his entrepreneurial journey in 1997 when he founded Communicate 2. The
company joined hands with iProspect from the Dentsu Aegis Network in 2012 and led the new
entity, iProspect Communicate 2, as Founder and Managing Director. The company was
rebranded as iProspect India at the end of 2015 with Vivek as CEO until 2016, when he assumed
the present position.
DAN Performance Group includes iProspect India, SVG Media, Sokrati and DAN Consult.
While iProspect India and Sokrati are leaders in digital performance business, SVG leads when it
comes to digital marketing and DAN Consult is a consulting arm helping companies grow
revenue using digital.
Career highlights:
 Donned the role of an investor in the reality television show The Vault which funds
innovative start-ups by promising entrepreneurs instantly. He has invested in companies
like Foodebaba, Awesummly, Chimera, Eon Energy, Sarva Yoga, Neveshi Box.ai.
Empowerji, Spinart etc
 TEDx speakers – has delivered two talks in the past on “How money can buy happiness”
and “Happiness is a muscle”.
 Regular orator at global events such as ad:tech, SES, SMX, I-com and the Apex Digital
conferences in India. Has also been invited for guest lectures by various institutes of
repute, including IITs and IIMs.
 Co-Chair at SEMPO APAC and on the advisory board of industry bodies like ad:tech,
DMAi and DMTI, he is also a member of Young Presidents Organisation and
Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) Mumbai.
 Has been awarded in individual capacity for invaluable contribution to the digital
marketing fraternity on several occasions, most notably ‘Marketer of the Year’, and
named one of the top 50 digital icons of India.
 Under his able leadership, iProspect India has won over 100 industry awards in India and
globally.
 Owner of team Empowerji Challengers in the Ultimate Tennis Table league, the country's
first-ever professional table tennis league.
 Co-Owner of Mumbai Games team “Flying Falcons” which won the Gold in Season 1
and owner of team Mumbai Super League team King Pong, which also won gold in the
Season 1.

Vivek is an accomplished national level table tennis player and has won multiple laurels in the
sport worldwide, including 2 silver medals in the 39 + nationals in 2018 and multiple Gold
Medal in the Maharashtra State Championships. He is also an avid chess player and an amateur
paragliding pilot. A complete travel buff and lover of new experiences, Vivek has travelled to
more than 55 countries in the world on various projects and tournaments.

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.

Mandar Natekar

Mr. Mandar Natekar is the Chief Business Officer at KidZania India, He is responsible for building business & taking forward the brand with his vast knowledge and focus to deliver Magical and Memorable experiences.
He has over two decades of experience in the media & entertainment industry working with leading media brands like TOI, Sony, BigAdda, HBO, Movies Now & MTV,
During his last stint with Viacom 18, Mandar was responsible for managing the entire revenue stream for brand MTV, Pepsi Mtv Indies &Mtv Beats across Ad-Sales, Large Format Sponsorships, Digital Properties & Branded Content. His expertise lies in creating large format revenue partnerships and creating newer opportunities for scaling up revenue streams across start-ups to established businesses.

Saurabh Varma

Holds 21 years of experience in the Film Industry. He has written and directed comic thiller feature film
– Mickey Virus. He has worked for more than 600 projects in almost all Indian Languages. He has actively
serviced Production Houses including Reliance Big Entertainment, PVR Pictures, Endemol Hinduja Group,
Anurag Kashyap Projects, Ram Gopal Verma, Vikram Bhatt ASA Films and many more. He has also
marketed films including Newton, Saheb Biwi aur Gangster, Yamla Pagla Deewana, Rock On and lots
more.

Ankoor Dasguupta

A passionist at heart, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy & Energize. He brings with him a pedigree of 19 years across the spectrum of print, digital, mobile, events across functions ,along with a strong network of C-Suite which he drives with Return on Relationships. Having had the opportunity to have worked with diverse teams, Ankoor also has been part of the core teams to launch key international IPs and pilot projects in India. Trained from Dale Carnegie in ‘Mentoring to Develop Talent’ , Ankoor also completed a residential executive education program from ISB Hyderabad in Digital & Social Media Marketing Strategies. An avid writer and speakers, Ankoor has done guest lecture at NIT Trichy and was nominated as Chairman and speakers at 2nd and 3rd edition of Marketing Analytics Summit while also being in the Jury panel for DMA Asia Echo Awards 2019. Ankoor believes in unlearning, learning andhaving stimulating conversations around what can make the world a better place.

Angad Bhatia

At Times Internet, he founded the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network which includes Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot etc. and led it through an explosive growth phase, from 5 million to over 40 million unique users in 18 months. ILN is a youth and new media collective that is built around the social web. In December 2016, Indiatimes.com was ranked the world’s most engaged brand on Facebook ahead of Fox, CNN, Nytimes, Huffington-Post, Buzzfeed, etc.

Gayatri Sundaram

Gayatri Sundaram is an experience enthusiast, vibrant content creator and marketing professional with
over 12 years’ across the entertainment industry. In her role at KidZania India as Head of Content &
Experience, she handles a key portfolio of driving customized experiences during the launch of two
facilities in India [Mumbai and Delhi NCR]. Her job is to create mindful and purpose-driven experiences
for brand and business amalgamation.
She has worked with Doordarshan in the films and marketing division, TBWA as a copywriter, At
Big FM she was responsible for the programming, show strategies and brand solutions. During
her tenure with Zee TV, she was largely handling reality shows for Zee Café and Zee Studio
alongside Innovations and AFPs for niche channels.
She practices “Adapt, Adopt, Evolve!”,as the mantra for success in content creation and
consumption. She loves travelling, reading, scuba diving and equipping new moms to tricks and
tips of motherhood. Even in her leisure she continues storytelling but to her toddler son.

Nitin Naresh

Nitin leads one of India’s largest digital-first marketing communications agencies, Magnon\TBWA, in the capacity of its Managing Director. In March 2014, Nitin became one of the youngest multinational agency Managing Directors
in the history of Indian advertising. The agency he leads is part of the Fortune 500 Omnicom Group, and is an integral arm of TBWA, a global top-10 advertising network. While leading the award-winning agency, Nitin loves to stay hands-on with the business. He has directly led winning numerous key relationships for the agency including- Suzuki, Michelin, Standard Chartered Bank, UNICEF, Sony, Hyundai, Daikin, Valvoline, Hilton etc.  His deep understanding of the digital medium and the ability to adapt & align in the ever- evolving advertising domain has resulted into creative disruption for numerous brands. As part of his zeal to give-back, Nitin is associated with several industry & academic forums including IMT Institutes, DMA ASIA ECHO Awards and Silicon India. He is also on the advisory panel of several start-ups in the digital marketing & advertising domain including
The Higher Pitch, Nine Triangles and RefEarn. A Google certified mobile advertising expert and an alumnus of Omnicom University, at heart, he remains a self-proclaimed auto-expert, Schumacher cult follower and a thorough
foodie!

Ashish Khare

Process oriented professional with prolific experience of over 25+ Years in:

Business strategy • Sales strategy and brand promotions •Investor Pitch • Investor Term Sheet • Cash flow management • Customer acquisition & Management • Startup scaling • Time & Resource Management • Recruitment & Efficiency Improvement • Work Allocation & Prioritisation • Quality Assurance & Improvement • Learning & Development • Performance Management •P& L Management • Team Management

* Entrepreneur I Business Coach I Mentor I Life coach I Public speakers I Start-up and incubation Mentor

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Technology and services for customers across 20+ countries.

* Ashish is startup & Incubation Mentor at 91 Springboard and many other communities to mentor many startups from idea to reality and growth stage in various industries and technology like IOT, digital transformation, Media, e-commerce, B2B to B2C and more. I have huge network of startups, professionals, investors from almost all verticals.Ashish also on the Advisory board of various startups in India and abroad

* huge experience working with individuals and teams (students, executives, or entrepreneurs) to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and act as a future leader. He helped them Solve specific situation in life, business and achieve specific results.

* I have been involved with people to build a career path and working towards empowering people to enhance their skills and fulfil their dreams. Being an experienced industry business leader and mentor, he has recently launched Next Gen Mentorship platform (MentorKart) for various target mentee groups e.g. Students, Working professionals, leaders /entrepreneurs & Startups. This platform is launched and recognized by Startup India scheme under Govt. of India. Vision of this initiative is to provide everyone an ideal mentorship.

* Mentorkart was founded by Ashish and his team with mission to provide access to mentors for everyone on a digital platform with easy availability, where experts from various industries can be your mentor and get direct assistance from leading professionals across the globe. Overcome challenges to achieve your personal & professional goals, learn a new job-oriented skill and be successful. From one-on-one (1:1) interaction to Group sessions, MentorKart brings your number of opportunities to develop your key skills and helps you increase your employability, you can stay connected with your personal mentor to Create, track, review and achieve your personal & professional goals from anywhere! anytime! Mentees can Learn from best of industry veterans, Attend Webinars and Mentoring Sessions by Educational gurus, entrepreneurs to handhold you along your journey & so much more!

Professional experience:

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, Ashish led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Information Technology for customers across 20+ countries.

* During his tenures at PC Solutions an IT consulting company having its business in many countries and strong consulting partners of companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Citrix etc, Ashish has grown from engineer

to Vice president and successfully created multiple business units within the company. He has built new business and led large team of IT professionals working in various industry verticals.

* After successful career as IT Professional for around 20+ years Ashish has decided to step into the journey of entrepreneur and founded IOT World Labs Inc knows as D4DT HQ based out of Seattle USA, D4DT developed and launched digital transformation platform for global market and acquired customers in multiple countries. D4DT runs on futuristic technologies like IOT, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, big data. This global Startup is growing fast in a very short span of time of 3 years.

* During his entire professional career his colleagues applauded his strategic ability to plan and execute organisations vision, energetic leadership and strong team building capabilities. Ashish used a distinct leadership practice of ‘leading through mentoring and coaching’.

* Technology Leader with end to end experience of building and managing innovative products & Professional services business; acquired various technical skills on the technology area e.g. IOT, Big data , Digital transformation , Cloud, System Management, Identity Management, Information Security, Business Solutions and Financial Management

* High-Performance Executive with expertise in business performance measurement & management framework, metrics and processes; undertook various process improvement initiatives to achieve maximum efficiency in various operations within organisations, Sales, Marketing, HR, and other Support functions

* Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills; proven ability to juggle multiple priorities and achieve results; hardworking and goal oriented with a high degree of flexibility; energetic and self-motivated with willingness to learn, openness to change and thrive on challenges

Significant Achievements

* awarded with highly prestigious award of the organization “Leadership award for outstanding contribution to the organization “in previous organization

* Achieved average growth of 40% Year over Year for more 10 years

* Expanded team from 0 to 1000+ People

* Travelled across 20+ countries for business and gained extensive experience of working with customers across the globe in different industry verticals

* Successfully increased geography Presence of business across globe

* Instigated paper less operations, starting from all processes like HR, Project management, Time sheet Management, KRA’s, Customer satisfaction, Profit and Loss dashboards, and various other support functions within organisation

* Accredited with “Celebrating leadership award “on 25th Year celebration of the organization

Mohit Malik

Mohit is a graduate in Computer Science from MNNIT Allahabad (Class of 2006), having a total 13+ years of experience in building large scale enterprise level applications. Currently working with Chaayos as their CTO, Mohit is working on building next generation retail technologies. Passionate about programming, he has built the world class retail tech and an ERP solution with team of 5developers. Apart from Software, Mohit also has a team of Hardware Engineers who have built thefirst in the world Automated Fresh Tea Brewing Machine. Prior to Chaayos, he started his career with Globallogic India Pvt. Ltd. Which is one of the best
Software Development Outsourcing Companies, as a Software Engineer for 1 year. After that, he worked at Tribal Fusion which is a technology-enabled media services company that offers Digital Marketing solutions for advertisers and publishers, he was involved with the adApp team as a Senior Software Engineer for 2 years and 5 months. He was the Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Bangalore which is a leading global investment management firm. He worked there for 5 years and 8 months.

Priyadarshi Banerjee

Priyadarshi Banerjee is a cross functional media & marketing strategist with a decade’s experience having worked across multiple functions in the publishing industry – including Consumer Marketing, Retail Sales, Digital Brand Solutions, Content and Audience strategy, Circulation Sales & Distribution, CRM & Analytics, E-commerce, Creative Strategy and Campaign Management. He has spent over 10 years working for global publishing brands like Readers Digest and National Geographic in India and Singapore, where he looked after their Direct-to-Consumer, International Licensing and Merchandising Businesses.

Priyadarshi has also had a short stint in the business of Advertising, where he worked in the area of Aviation, Lubricants, BFSI and FMCG brands specializing in running consumer & trade loyalty programs. His educations background includes prestigious names like St. Xavier’s College Kolkata and IMT Ghaziabad. In his current role with Worldwide Media Pvt Ltd, Priyadarshi handles a unique dual portfolio of being a product marketer and a digital brand solutions strategist, championing both traditional and new media causes for the company, by focusing on print readership growth, as well as digital ad revenues.

Priyadarshi is an empiricist to the core, a firm believer in the new media revolution and consumer evolution theories, apart from being a part time musician and an avid traveler.

PARUL OHRI

Starting her career in 1994 as the youngest member of a PR firm, Parul went on to work in different aspects of Corporate Communications over the next decade at organizations such as Perfect Relations, Media Workshop and Ascom India. This wide ranging experience gave her a comprehensive understanding and hands on exposure to various aspects of Corporate Communications – from media strategy to content creation across print, multimedia and Internet.

She took a break from full time corporate work only when her children arrived and then decided to spend quality time with them. While she may have stepped back from a full time corporate career, she found a new calling in creative content generation. She credits her two daughters for unleashing her creative side like never before. Parul continued to write on a project basis and also co-founded Tweetmintt, a creative agency that conceptualized and produced personalized, innovative products for children.

Parul is part of the founding team of Momspresso (mycity4kids) and was responsible for the content generation for the website. With a combination of her experience with content and the unique ‘mums’ perspective, she has been able to contribute immensely to the strategic positioning of the platform, including coining the new name – Momspresso.

In addition to her role as Chief Editor, Parul is also heading Momspresso Studios, the video production arm of the company. She brings her core strength in content creation to conceptualizing, scripting and producing videos across several formats. The films that hold particular place of pride in her portfolio include funny slice-of-life videos shot entirely on an iPhone, documentaries made on women’s health issues and critically acclaimed concept-based digital campaigns for brand partners. While conceptualizing these films, her focus is to ensure a progressive and realistic portrayal of women, smashing stereotypes pushed by commercial media for years. She has also anchored over 200 panel discussions, live social media sessions with other mothers and experts and interviews with celebrities.

On Women’s Day 2019, Parul launched Momspresso’s very own talk show, ‘Let’s Talk with Parul’. The talk show stands for Momspresso’s vision to be a driving force of inspiration for women and aims at taking up issues that impact their lives, but are rarely spoken about. Each of our topics leads to thought-provoking conversations with the accomplished guests on our panel – whether an expert, a celebrity, a survivor, an inspirational personality or the quintessential mom-next-door, but each one with a personal story of strength and inspiration. ‘Let’s Talk with Parul’ is produced in partnership with Facebook and is broadcast live from the Facebook Studio every fortnight.

PRASHANT ROHATGI

With over 20 years of experience in architecting Enterprise Solutions, Prashant has the mandate to digitally transform Products & Services at Denave. His focus is to progressively build technology enabled processes, support revenue and business growth drivers and enrich service/product offerings.

In his past stints, Prashant had built several strategic systems for Snapdeal and managed large-scale transformational programs for Infosys. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Nordstrom, Emerson, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Arrow Electronics, etc. across locations in America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and India. Over the years, he has architected and successfully managed ERP, CRM, SCM, HCM, BPM & BI multi-million dollar engagements. He has expertise in strategizing IT to align with organization’s vision, engineering business design to meet defined objectives, and deploy right technology solution to succeed.

Under his guidance, the team is focused on creating centralized database offering on cloud, identifying whitespace with statistical intelligence, building propensity platforms, enhancing Sales Motion Products & Services and automating internal functions.

Mandar Natekar

Mr. Mandar Natekar is the Chief Business Officer at KidZania India, He is responsible for building business & taking forward the brand with his vast knowledge and focus to deliver Magical and Memorable experiences.He has over two decades of experience in the media & entertainment industry working with leading media brands like TOI, Sony, BigAdda, HBO, Movies Now & MTV, During his last stint with Viacom 18, Mandar was responsible for managing the entire revenue stream for brand MTV, Pepsi Mtv Indies & Mtv Beats across Ad-Sales, Large Format Sponsorships, Digital Properties & Branded Content. His expertise lies in creating large format revenue partnerships and creating newer opportunities for scaling up revenue streams across start-ups to established businesses. An avid cricket player and a trained boxer, Mr. Mandar is also passionate about story-telling and has his own blog – soccerdad.in

Ashish Kapoor

Ashish is a part of Group Management Cadre, ‘General Management Program’ of the Mahindra Group designed to create a future leadership pipeline by hiring top talent from premier B Schools and giving them exposure to multiple functions, domains, and industries.

Being an electronics engineer & a general management professional, Ashish challenged the status quo of industry conventions, with an open outlook towards technology and formulated a go-to-market strategy for a B2B start-up in Mahindra group.

As a Country Head of Business Development & Strategy, he incubated and established the strategic business unit to a turnover of ‘USD 100 Million in 3 years’ by offering Industry solutions on next gen real time cloud based platform.

Ashish leads Strategic Consulting with C-level executives to bring business transformation with digitization, process automation, technology roadmap formulation, building strategic alliances and evaluating the new market potential and growth opportunities.

A brief snapshot of his profile is as follows-

1. Steered the BU to 3X growth : Recognised as ‘Emerging EPC Company of the year 2018’ at 8th EPC world Awards
2. Youngest professional to receive ‘Person of the year 2018’ award at the CIA World Infra Award
3. Contribution recognized in the M&M flagship program- ‘Mahindra Miracles’ to showcase “How I built a company
4. Co-published a Research Paper at International Conference of the Emerging Markets
5. Group Management Cadre (GMC) – 2015, Mahindra Group
6. Institute Rank 2/600 during PGDM course at IMT Ghaziabad

Demonstrated Competencies – Sales & BD | Digital transformation | Business Consulting & Strategy | Process Automation | Real time Cloud Based Project Management | Start-up Incubation | Market research & Analysis | Channel Management | Product Development | Digital Marketing | P&L Management | Financial Modelling & Valuation

Amit Purohit

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Meghana Bhat

Meghana Bhat, Chief Marketing Officer at ScoopWhoop Media Pvt Limited, has spent over a decade in experiential & digital marketing. In her current role, she is responsible for brand building and B2B marketing strategy while also overseeing ScoopWhoop Mumbai operations. She joined Scoop Media Pvt Ltd. in 2016, as part of the senior management team.
 
Meghana has been instrumental in setting up and growing the Mumbai operations from 4 person to now a 20+ member team with editorial fiction, branded content and regional sales all based there. She's also been a key facilitator of the growth in revenues from branded content, expansion of the client roster as well as building strategic relationships with brands and agencies.  

Meghana was previously with Dentsu Webchutney as National Creative Director and Chief Operating Officer where she was responsible for delivering award-winning solutions and achieving record revenue growth. Apart from work, she loves parenting, travel and trying out new experiences.

Rajiee M Shinde

A Dada Saheb Phalke Film Foundation awardee, Rajiee M Shinde is CEO, Showbox, and a

prominent figure in the Punjabi music industry with wide-ranging experience in

entrepreneurship, programme planning and production. She is a well-known film producer with

chart-busting Punjabi films like Disco Singh and Zorawar to her credit. She has conceptualized

and launched numerous events and talent hunt shows in India and abroad.

Ms Shinde was CEO with PTC Network, where she launched and managed four Punjabi

channels. Ms Shinde is a former business head at ETC Punjabi channel of Zee Group.

Ms Shinde has been conferred with many prestigious awards such as Dada Saheb Phalke Film

Foundation Award for ‘Women Entrepreneur of the Year for TV & Films’. She is the recipient of

Magicka Women Achiever Award 2016, Sangrur Heritage Award 2016, and Vishwa Punjabi

Gaurav Puraskar 2016 for her immense contribution to the Punjabi entertainment industry.

Additionally, she has been conferred with Excellence in Media in the BIMSTEC-SAARC Women

Empowerment Forum 2017 organized by ASSOCHAM under the Ministry of External Affairs.

Arjun Satya

He is currently Co-founder and Head of Product for Colombia SaaS, at Times Internet, leading the business strategy and the product roadmap of building the tech stack. Working on performance adtech, content personalization, native ads, data, yield optimization, recommendation engine, AMP/adblocker management, demand mediation and more.

Arjun joined Times Internet Limited in India in July 2014 as a Product Manager for the Company’s ‘Audience Platform’. Mr. Satya has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was conferred with Undergraduate Research Award for his final year project.

In 2014 Times Internet launched an in-house Advertising Platform called Colombia, which is responsible for managing and generating most of the advertising driven revenue for the company. Today, Colombia reaches nearly 450 million consumers across the world, in addition to having hundreds of marketers using the Colombia platform in India including a significant number of the Top 500 brands in India.

Previously, Mr. Satya became Chief Manager II of the Audience Platform– a sub-unit within Colombia which forms the bedrock for machine learning based revenue optimization for Colombia. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the Audience Platform and currently leads a 41-member product, tech and operations team comprising of Product Managers, Developers, Designers, Architects and Quality Assurance Engineers, along with a dedicated team which is responsible for operating this platform for direct sales and advertising campaign operations.

Saurabh Taneja

Saurabh is an entrepreneur interested in the areas of Media , IT and Satcom. He Is a professional Chartered Accountant with a degree in international business management from IIFT , one of India’s premier B – Schools . Saurabh believes in India’s growth story and believes that entrepreneurship has to be promoted and practised like any other profession. He is a firm believer of business ethics and investing in people some things which he learnt from his experience at Tata Sons and General Electric. Saurabh joined Tabsons in 2008 , at a time when it was into metal fabrication for consumer durables. Today Tabsons is a leading player in media and satcom industry . It is the largest supplier of DTH antennas in north India and is monitoring more than 600 channel feeds for nation’s leading audience measurement entity. Apart from above the company is doing work in the fields of video fingerprinting solutions , advertisement tracking , content metadata extraction using technologies like face , logo recognition and Speech to Text.

Bijai K. Jayarajan

Bijai K. Jayarajan is an entrepreneur who lives and works between Singapore and India. Bijai is the Founder & CEO of Houm Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. Houm Technology is headquartered in Singapore, with a subsidiary in the United States and contractual tech development centres in India and Canada. Houm Technology is established with a vision to bring back privacy on the internet, via the revolutionary concept of ‘private ownership of the internet by the end consumer’. Houm Technology enables each consumer to build and own a digital home on the internet – a piece of the internet that you personally own, where you can keep your private data actuall private. Houm Technology’s mission is to build a few billion digital homes on the internet – houms that are owned and accessed only by the respective owners, thus getting privacy and ownership back on the internet. Prior to starting Houm Technology, Bijai founded Loylty Rewardz Mngt Pvt Ltd in 2008, and worked as the Founder CEO for ten years, and grew it into India’s largest consumer relationship management company. Bijai raised over USD 30 million of venture capital investment into Loylty Rewardz, and eventually gave his VC investors VenturEast and Canaan
Partners a multi-bagger exit. In 2017, Loylty Rewardz was acquired at a valuation of about USD 100 million by BillDesk, India’s #1 bill payments company (www.billdesk.com), whose investors include General Atlantic, Temasek, TA Associates and Visa Inc. At the time of Bijai’s exit, Loylty Rewardz managed the loyalty program for over one billion consumer profiles in India, processing over 200 million transactions and awarding over 2.5 billion loyalty points monthly. Prior to founding Loylty Rewardz, Bijai worked with MasterCard Worldwide as the Head of MasterCard’s relationship with the largest bank in India – the State Bank Group, and with Jet Airways India Pvt. Ltd. as the head of its frequent flyer loyalty program – Jet Privilege. Bijai is also a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Vikalp India Private Limited, a school education-focused start-up based in Delhi that is working with hundreds of schools in Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, New Delhi, Punjab and Maharashtra Bijai graduated as part of the Founding Class of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.

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Prashant Puri

Prashant Puri is the co-founder & CEO of AdLift, a global digital marketing agency. An alumnus from Columbia University, Prashant is a digital marketing expert having an extensive 15+ years of industry experience. With his ability of building websites into multi-million dollar enterprises, he played an instrumental role in setting up the company and taking it to a high growth trajectory. Prior to founding AdLift, Prashant played the Head of Global Marketing at eBay’s comparison-shopping arm – Shopping.com, where he established footprints of the company worldwide. Before that, Prashant’s leadership role at Yahoo! revolved around cutting edge technologies that focused on driving synergies between search and display.
In 2005, he successfully nurtured A&T Interactive into the second largest local search player by leading their foray into the digital marketing world. Today, AdLift is one of the country’s top search-marketing firms, focused on delivering digital marketing ROI. To keep company’s elevations high, Prashant works closely with a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Gaurav Bansal

Gaurav Bansal is the Brand Head at India’s No. 1 millennial focused lifestyle network, the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network featuring MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot and Indiatimes.com. Gaurav has 17+ years of experience in creation and placement of brand marketing efforts that support some of India’s largest businesses including Philips, Pepsico, Wrigley’s, HBO & Twinings through media planning, creative development, metrics, market research, and vendor management. Before joining Times Internet, Gaurav was the Senior Associate -Content & Creative Excellence with Coca Cola India, and was working with some of its key brands including Sprite, Limca and Thums Up. He has also held senior roles in some of the biggest ad agencies in the country including DDB Mudra Group, Ogilvy & Mather and Dentsu. Gaurav holds a PG Diploma in Advertising & Marketing from the Institute for Management Studies & Information Technologies, New Delhi YMCA.

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

Nayan Patel

Nayan Patel currently works as Associate VP – Digital at World Wide Media. Nayan is responsible for enhancing the online user experience across brands, whilst ensuring consistent growth in traffic to all of the group’s digital assets. This includes managing and enhancing the user experience of over13 million followers across social assets, and growing this fan base in line with the organizational
strategy. Prior to joining World Wide Media, Nayan worked as General Manager (Products) at musafir.com, where he managed the P&L for the business and vendor relationships, together with driving technology and ROI-led marketing initiatives amongst other responsibilities. Prior to this, Nayan held key positions at Thomas Cook India Ltd, including General Manager (Products) and Senior Manager Leisure Travel (Outbound). Nayan’s work led him to receiving the National Annual Pride Award 2012for “Pioneering the Future” at Thomas Cook India Ltd. Nayan began his professional career at Larson & Turbo Ltd, where he worked on two of the most critical projects for the Indian Naval Weapons System Upgradation. He has been a recipient of the “Order of Merit” Award by the Marketing Agencies Association’s Global Academic Challenge 2009 for paper on promoting India as a tourist destination during recession. Nayan graduated from the University of Mumbai, and further went on to pursue an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai. Nayan is an E-commerce enthusiast and a passionate reader.

Amit Bhagat

CTO and strategic leader with a proven track record of digital transformation through formulating & translating business vision & strategies into products and businesses that have generated maximum ROI for the best interest of stakeholders, customers and employees.

Expert in technology forecasting, solutioning, developing strategic technology plans/roadmaps that directly or indirectly lead to enhanced profitability. Have managed technology and product development investments as large as $4 million a year and have directly managed business lines as large as $250 million a year in the space of Retail & Digital Transformation

Amit Sethiya

Manav Sethi

Tushar Ghagawe

Prabhjyot Singh

Balaji Vaidyanathan

Sai Narayan,

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Angad Bhatia

Archana Tiwari Nayudu

Vivek Jain

Pravinkumar Bhandari

Perizaad Zorabian

Sweta Piprodia

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.

Prabhjyot Singh

Prabhjyot Singh is a Marketing professional with 15+ years of experience in the industry. His experience spans across sectors like media houses, e-commerce and digital agencies. Currently, he is the General Manager – Marketing & Digital, Strategic Planning, Events & Content at ShowBox – National 24×7 Music TV Channel.During his career, he has been responsible for the launch campaigns, media buying, budget allocation, overall growth of the companies, scaling up the e-commerce business through digital mediums, generating new revenue streams and strategic planning for the new business development. Worked on several expansion plans in entertainment media, digital, publishing, OTT.

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.

Farahjaan Sheikh

• Senior Professional, with eighteen years of experience in feature Film/Tv Productions.
• Director for an Indo-Swedish Production film “Boy In Bollywood”.
• Screenwriter for feature films “Hum Tum Shabana” and Jia aur Jia”.
• Five-minute feature director for nonfiction Tv shows.
• Pre-Wedding film director for India’s biggest wedding filming “Ram Bherwani Productions”.
• Strong leader with motivational management style and reputation for building and retaining highly motivated film Production teams and networks.
• Results-oriented achiever with a successful track record for completion of films, Tv projects on schedule; within budgets.
• Established relations with key players, strategic partners and significant talents from the Indian Film Industry.
• Expertise in all filmmaking aspects having hands on experience on all pre-production, on floor filming and postproduction on all size of films and Tv fiction / non-fiction shows.

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.

Saurabh Varma

• Film Director
• Content Creator
• Film Marketing, Distribution & Sales Consultant
• Develop Strategies for Film Marketing & Release
• Trade & Studio Networking
• Script Analyser from Commercial Apect
• Chairman Events, IFTDA, Indian Film & TV Directors Association
• Written & Directed ‘7 HOURS TO GO’ (June 2016), ‘MICKEY VIRUS’ (Oct 2013) and Solid Patels (Unreleased)

21 years of experience in: Content Creation | Production | Filmed Marketing | Film Exploitation/Distribution | Film Programming | Content Acquisition | Cinema Management | Movie Promotions | Strategy Development | Developing Film, Production, Cinema Process and Systems | Cinema Tactical Marketing | Brand Building | Advertising | Cinema Launch | Corporate Communications | PR | Event Management | Visual Merchandising | Merchandise Development and Promotion

Neeraj Joshi

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.

Angad Bhatia

Angad Bhatia is a part of the senior leadership team at Times Internet. He is the Founder of
MensXP and the COO of TIL’s emerging media track called Indiatimes Lifestyle Network.
At Times Internet, he founded the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network which includes
Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot etc. and led it through an explosive growth
phase, from 5 million to over 40 million unique users in 18 months. ILN is a youth and new
media collective that is built around the social web. In December 2016, Indiatimes.com was
ranked the world’s most engaged brand on Facebook ahead of Fox, CNN, Nytimes,
Huffington-Post, Buzzfeed, etc.

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