Rajiv Bakshi
COO, Revenue, Zee Entertainment

Rajiv comes with deep experience in P&L and Operations Management, Brand & Corporate Marketing, Sales Strategy, Project Management, Content and Product Development and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Currently, he is the COO, Revenue at Zee Entertainment where he contributes towards achieving the company’s revenue objectives by identifying and leveraging internal synergies across all linear TV and digital platforms.

Prior, he was the CEO of Reliance Entertainment's Big Synergy - and is credited with a legacy of creating 5,000+ hours of path-breaking original content for TV & OTT platforms.

Previously, he has been instrumental in the turnaround of Discovery Networks’ India & South Asia. And in the 13 years at Discovery, he has accomplished many a milestones and has built its entire 11-channel portfolio and garnered undisputed 10-year leadership for the Discovery Channel.

Prior to Reliance, Rajiv was the CMO of Intex Technologies, where he envisioned the Go-To-Market strategy across its product verticals i.e. Mobile Phones, TVs, ACs, Washing Machines and Accessories achieving “a unit sale every second”

Udit Malhotra
Head of Marketing, MG Motor India

Udit is a result oriented Marketing and Communications Professional with over 11 years of rich experience in Integrated Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Transformation, Social Media Marketing, Content Strategy, Online Reputation and Crisis Management, Technology Products and Services.

He has worked closely with Small Businesses as well as large Multinational Organizations and delivered effective and award winning Digital Marketing Solutions for Fortune 500 brands like Ford Motor Company, American Express, Avon, PepsiCo and Nestle in a short span of time.

As a part of his current stint he is the Head of Marketing at MG Motor India.

Geetanjali Kothari
Head – Marketing and Corporate Communications, Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Geetanjali Kothari is the Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Bharti AXA Life Insurance. She leads Brand, Marketing, Corporate Communications and Customer Experience initiatives for the organization.

Geetanjali has 16 years of experience across BFSI, media and retail industries in organizations such as Bharti AXA General Insurance, Future Group, HT Media and Mudra Max. She has completed her Post Graduate in Marketing.

At Bharti AXA Life, Geetanjali and her team strategize and implement multiple marketing and advertising campaigns across conventional and new forms of media. As the Head of Marketing, Geetanjali is committed to being the prime innovation catalyst and empowering her team to experiment with new ideas, utilize state of the art platforms and explore alternative media. Her vision is to augment marketing efforts by embellishing it with robust capabilities such as measurable frameworks, digital fluency and analytics.

She is also responsible for spearheading engagements with our channel partners and customers by driving multiple initiatives. She is focused on transforming marketing into a significant growth enabler while remaining a vocal customer champion within the organization. She shares a keen interest in marketing research and believes that placing the consumer at the core of communications is the art of marketing.

Pankaj Singh Parihar
Vice President & Head - Digital Marketing & Transformation, Godrej Consumer Product Ltd

Pankaj Singh Parihar, is a digital business leader, with over 19 years of experience, including the last 15 yrs in the Digital industry. Pankaj, is currently part of the Leadership Team at Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL). He heads digital center of excellence & digital transformation at GCPL & guides various Godrej Group of companies in their digital journey. Pankaj, also leads complete lifecycle of Digital marketing for all brands at GCPL.

Before joining Godrej group, Pankaj was a VP and Business head – at OmnicomMediaGroup (OMD | PHD) India, and was also business head for Unilever India digital business & other key clients, for Omnicom group. In the past, he has worked with marketing communications giants like WPP Digital, O&M, Times of India Group.

He is a multi award winner true-blue digital native and a thought leader in this space. He also contributes to various industry bodies in India - IAMAI, MMA, Ad:tech, et cetera through active participation & bringing in thought leadership. He is a regular at marketing jury panel and speaks on digital practice and digital transformation at various industry events/forums.

He teaches digital marketing at various top B schools in India like SP Jain, Symbiosis et cetera, and considers himself as an “Hyperadopter” of all things new, is a petrol head, and a food & fitness enthusiast.

Vijayaraghavan Venugopal
CEO & Co-Founder, Fast&Up

Vijayaraghavan Venugopal, CEO of Aeronutrix Sports Products Private Limited. He is a co-founder of the company and has been instrumental in building the Fast&Up brand in India. He has over 17 years of business experience in diverse fields which includes pharmaceuticals, Healthcare and Information Technology. He has been responsible for business development in multiple geographies including the Triad (USA, Europe and Japan) He has worked with TekFriday, Dr Reddy's, Lupin and Emcure in different senior management roles. He was Lupin's country head in China for three years. He is a mechanical engineer and an MBA in international business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi.

Vijay is passionate about sports and is an avid marathoner. He is one of the fastest amateur marathoners in the country having participated in sub 3-hour marathons, 5 times in majors cities of the world like Boston, Chicago and Berlin. He believes sports brings a lot of inherent skillsets to building a business, and he thoroughly enjoys leveraging them in his current role.

Rama Paul
VP- Marketing, Consumer Research and Marketing Services, ABP Network

Rama is currently spearheading the marketing division at ABP Network as VP – Marketing, Consumer Research & Marketing Services. She has made crucial contributions in the successful launch of ABP Asmita and ABP Ganga – AN’s regional channels and brand identity change of ABP Network.

Before ABP Network, she was associated with organizations such as Dabur, Mudra, McCann and Leo Burnett. A true-blue industry specialist, she has also worked for prestigious organizations such as Frito-Lay, Nestle, General Motors and Microsoft. Rama is a Delhi University topper in B.A. (Hons) Maths.

Khatija Lokhandwala
Head- Marketing, Zivame

Ms Khatija Lokhandwala heads Brand Marketing at Zivame and is passionate about building brands that solve for real consumer needs. An alumna of LIBA, Ms Khatija has over 12years of experience in brand marketing across multiple categories like Personal care, Foods and Fabric care. Through the course of her career, she has been instrumental in building brands and driving growth for various FMCG brands.

About Zivame: Zivame was founded in 2011 with the vision to facilitate women to shop uninhibitedly for intimate wear and to make lingerie shopping personalised and convenient. Zivame is now the No. 1 B2C intimate wear brand in India with 40+ retail stores and presence in 1000+ partner stores across India with the mission to be a one-stop destination for every woman’s intimate wear needs. Zivame believes that every woman is unique, and wants to deliver a platform that allows her to browse, discover and shop what she desires.

All the products at Zivame stem from the desire to design something that is a blend of quality, innovation and comfort. Zivame offers trendy lingerie, activewear, sleepwear, and shapewear in over 3000 + exclusive designs and 100 + sizes catering to women across all body types Website: https://www.zivame.com/

PAWAN SARDA
Group CMO- Future Group- Digital, Marketing & e-commerce, Future Group

More than 20 years in retail gave him an opportunity to be a part of retail revolution in India. He started his career with Future group in 2000 and was a part of group’s journey. He played a pivotal role in shaping up Big Bazaar and went on to lead marketing function for Big Bazaar and most future group retail businesses across lifestyle and value segment

He also played a key role in repositioning FBB. Today FBB is a leading fashion retail chain in India.

After retail, his next stint was in housing at TATA Housing. He was heading Marketing and Product development function for India and International market. As part of TATA’s vision to provide homes for India at large, the first step towards that was to use the fastest growing digital platform and sell homes online, bringing about a revolution in real estate industry. This has helped to create wide reach across the globe and more than 100% growth in unit sales. He has created first of its kind selling of homes through Google and Facebook. Some of his work has been recognized by Facebook and Google worldwide.

In his current role at Future Group, he has similar mandate to create online ecosystem. He has been able to create online to offline for all Future Group formats and help drive business. He is also instrumental in driving online commerce for the group. He is currently spearheading online businesses, shop.bigbazaar.com, allonline store.in

Pawan holds an MBA degree in Marketing from Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore.

He has been awarded as Marketer of the year- Retail by IAA Leadership Awards 2017, excellence in Marketing, Advertising and Media. Digital Marketer of the year- Retail, 2017 by Internet and Mobile Association of India. Top 30 Digital Marketer by Brand Equity, Economic Times, 2019.