Anuja Mishra
Category Head - Hydration, Energy & Beverage Innovations, PepsiCo
Anuja has a strong marketing and sales experience and has worked extensively across brand management, innovation strategy and sales development in organisations like Nestle and PepsiCo. She has led iconic brands such as Lay’s, Aquafina, Cheetos where she has led scale consumer campaigns and launched breakthrough innovations like Lay’s Maxx, Aquafina Vitamin Splash and Sting Energy Drink.
Anuja currently leads 3 distinct categories of hydration, energy and functional beverages at PepsiCo.
In a career journey over 12 years, Anuja has handled multiple assignments and brand challenges.
Ashish Bajaj
Media Head, OLA
He is currently with Ola cabs as head of media and was previously with Microsoft India. He is a marketing professional with expertise in not only creating consumer facing communication but with complete knowledge of Media and key expertise across consumer understanding, touch point planning and optimization. Aspire to excel and innovate with relevant and delightful solutions, keeping pace with the ever changing consumer needs and behavior. Has not only proven his mantle at India level but has brought India a lot of glory in his field of media and advertising at a global level.
He was the first to represent India at Cannes creative festival, Cannes, France 2012 in a global Media competition and was even recognized by Times of India and Delhi Govt in 2012 for the same. And in the same year he won the gold medal the Spikes Asia media competition at Singapore. He and his team has won a lot of awards at various award shows like ABBYS, EMVIES, Cannes for the brands he has worked Tech graduate and Master in Marketing and International business
Dibyajyoti Mahapatra
Consulting Partner, La'Mere Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Dibyajyoti Mahapatra has got 19 yrs experience in the industry in the space of Advertising, production, Intellectual Properties, Branded Content and Politcian brand building for the last 2 years. His professional journey has been through Balaji Telefilms, Contiloe, Madison, Mindshare, Fulcrum, Mediacom, Creative Landasia and others.
Now, he is the co-founder of "Lamere" - a company which works in the space of Intellectual Properties for Govt and Corporate Houses and has worked with clients like HUL, ITC, Snapdeal to name a few. Lamere has worked in the branded content and activation space as well for above clients. They are strategic and creative consultant to various Govt initiatives like " Swachh Bharat" for various departments.
Kunaal Bhardwaj
Head of Marketing, ABP News Network
Kunaal Bhardwaj comes with over 15 years of experience in top agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Havas among others where he has worked with various blue chip clients like Nestle, Frito Lays, Times Internet, Volvo and Dabur among others. He has also been instrumental in the launch of brand like OPPO mobiles in the country. He was last working with Dainik Bhaskar as Head of Marketing and was spearheading the marketing initiatives and activities of DainikBhaskar.com and all other websites. He was primarily focused on the emerging markets in India, user-acquisition, amplifying social footprint and market development. He currently heads the marketing department at ANN.
Prashant Gaur
Chief Brand Officer, Pizza Hut India
Prashant Gaur is the Chief Brand Officer of Pizza Hut (Indian Sub-Continent) a Yum! Brands subsidiary & a leading international pizza brand. He joined Yum! Brands in 2015 and has over 15 years of experience in traditional and digital brand marketing.
As the Chief Brand Officer at Pizza Hut, Prashant is responsible for leading the brand’s marketing function. As his interests transcend beyond core marketing, this has alsoresultedin him leading Pizza Hut India’s journey to build its technological and digital capabilities. Under Prashant’s strong leadership, Pizza Hut has been successful in achieving its vision of becoming the most loved & fastest growing pizza brand in the country.
Prior to joining Yum! Brands, he was working as AVP – Marketing and Head - E-Commerce and Digital Marketing, at Dominos. A seasoned marketer, Prashant has worked across industries and categories. He has been associated with renowned brands like MTS Group, General Motors, Maruti Suzuki India and Technopak Advisors.
Prashant completed his Masters’ in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). He is a fitness enthusiast & enjoys strumming guitar chords in his free time.
Subha Sreenivasan Iyer
VP & Head of Media, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd
Subha is Vice President and Head of Media at Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. Alumni of MICA – Mudra Institute of Ahmedabad and specialises in Media Planning, Analytics, Buying and Multi-Media Campaign management.
She’s passionate about the science of Media planning and consumer choices that drive business and in her current role manages multi-media campaigns for one of India’s largest FMCGs. Believes that the power of both intelligent planning as well as eye for detailed execution can never be overemphasized.
Her team has won several industry awards in for best in class media planning, strategy and innovative use of media. Beyond work, she paints and listens to music and is also a qualified Art Therapist