C K Venkataraman
CEO - Jewellery, Titan Company Limited

C K Venkataraman holds a postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. After working in the advertising industry for 5 years, Venkat joined Titan in 1990. For the next 15 years, he held various responsibilities in marketing and sales in the Watches division of Titan.

In 2005, he moved over to head the Jewellery division of Titan.

Lavanya Nalli
Vice Chairperson, Nalli Group

Lavanya Nalli is Chairperson of Nalli Group, a 650Cr national retail chain specializing in textiles and women’s ethnicwear. Established in the year 1928, the iconic brand from South India is a category-killer in saris, and famous for its Kanchipuram silks.

She started her career with Nalli in 2005. During her tenure, Nalli doubled its revenues, and expanded from 14 to 21 stores. Under her stewardship, Nalli also diversified into other businesses and newer formats.

Lavanya graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA in 2011, and worked at McKinsey & Company (Chicago) advising CXOs of Fortune 500 companies on issues ranging from top-line growth and profit improvement initiatives, change management programs and multi-channel strategy.

She moved to India in 2013 into the e-commerce world as Vice-President at Myntra (Flipkart Group) and is now back at Nalli Group, leading new business initiatives, as well as growth and expansion efforts for its core businesses. By 2017, Nalli has expanded its footprint to 34 stores.

The Economic Times named Lavanya as among corporate India’s fastest rising women leaders. She has also been named by Forbes as “Asia’s Women to Watch” in 2016. She is a frequent speaker at industry events, and is an ambassador for Government of India’s innovation efforts and “Champions of Change” program.

Sanjay Behl
CEO, Raymond Ltd.

Sanjay is currently the CEO at Raymond ltd. He has a 21 year work experience across FMCG (HUL), telecom (Nokia and Reliance Communications) and Textiles (Raymond). 4 years in sales and 10 years in brand & marketing and 7 years in business leadership assignments in India, Asia-Pacific and Global level.

He has a proven and an exceptionally consistent track-record of exponential growth in business revenues, market shares, profits, brand health and shareholder value creation.

Sanjay is a passionate business leader and a committed professional with strong clarity of purpose and objective analytical power.

Ram Mehrotra
Vice-President, Decorative Sales and Marketing, Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd

Mr. Ram Mehrotra has been with Kansai Nerolac since 1998 and brings with him over two decades of sectoral experience.

While in Kansai Nerolac he has held variety of roles in the sales and marketing domain. He started his journey at Kansai Nerolac as Area Sales Manager, Ludhiana and then took on the role of Regional Sales Manager for the eastern market. In March 2004 he became the Division Sales Manager and got further promoted as General Manager Sales in May 2006. In April 2012, he was handed over the responsibility of managing Marketing Operations of the company as General Manager. He currently holds a larger role of Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Kansai Nerolac, Decorative Paints since October 2015.

Mr. Ram Mehrotra holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and an MBA in Marketing.

Ravi Desai
Director, Mass and Brand Marketing, Amazon India

Ravi is currently Director, Mass and Brand Marketing at Amazon India. He has handled Brands across Cigarettes, Paper and Foods categories. Successfully conceptualised and launched the brand Bingo!, ITC Food's foray into the Impulse snacks market in India and has worked extensively in Trade Marketing & the Sales and Distribution function at ITC Ltd.

Specialties: Category creation, New Brand Launches, Entry Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Sales and Distribution, Trade Marketing

Veejay Ram Nakra
Chief of Sales & Marketing, Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

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Vivek Sharma
CMO, Pidilite Industries Limited

Vivek leads corporate brand marketing planning & implementation across businesses, marketing talent management, and continuous improvement in marketing processes like innovation and new product launch.

An industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, Vivek has held senior leadership positions at Philips, MIRC Electronics, Ogilvy Advertising and Cadbury Kraft (now Mondelez). He brings with him a unique blend of business and brand development experience across FMCG, Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Durables encompassing B2C, B2B and B2G.

As VP Indian sub-continent at Philips India Ltd., he built ‘ONE PHILIPS’ and led the marketing, planning and implementation for the three Philip’s businesses viz. Consumer Lifestyle, Lighting and Healthcare.

As Vice President – Marketing, Sales and Service, MIRC Electronics Ltd. (ONIDA), he spearheaded the re-launch of the ONIDA brand across product categories.

At Ogilvy, he led the Hindustan Unilever (HUL) business nationally across functions and geographies.

Vivek holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and Bachelor of Technology from Indian School of Mines (now IIT, Dhanbad).

Amit Tiwari
Vice President Marketing, Havells India Ltd

Amit is a Marketing professional with over 16 years of experience. During this period, he has built and expanded multi-million dollar businesses for leading global and Indian brands such as Havells, Philips, Hero Honda, Nestle, Perfetti, and ITC.

He is known for cultivating Marketing and Digital transformation as a core marketing function to tap emerging digital trends and disruptive technologies. He is a thought leader in the digital realm with a keen interest in automation, data analytics, IoT, AI, and is a strong advocate of digital transformation. He has a proven track record of enabling brand transformation through digitization of Consumer Decision Journey (CDJ).

Amit is currently serving as Vice President – Marketing for Havells India Ltd, entrusted with the responsibility to establish a strong brand identity for all of the 4 power brands–Havells, Lloyd, Crabtree, and Standard–by implementing long-term brand strategies in both B2C and B2B segments.

Anuradha Aggarwal
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Marico Ltd

Anuradha Aggarwal is the Chief Marketing Officer at Marico Limited. Prior to Marico, Anuradha was working with Mondelēz International as Director Innovations, Biscuits Category for Mondelēz Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for leading innovation strategy, new product development and global brand deployment in China, India, Australia, South and South East Asia.

A marketing veteran with 18 years of experience across diverse consumer businesses, Anuradha started her career at Hindustan Unilever, where she worked for 12 years, across sales, marketing and general management functions, managing local and global brands and businesses across India and South Asia, and was at the helm of many iconic brand transformation projects. Post Unilever, Anuradha was Senior Vice President – Brand Communication and Consumer Insights with Vodafone India for 4 years.

Anuradha holds a Post Graduate Degree in Business Administration from IIM, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University.

Bhaskar Choudhuri
Director Marketing, Lenovo India

Bhaskar Choudhuri is responsible for leading the Marketing function of Lenovo India across all its segments, including Commercial and HSB (Home and Small Business) and Tablets. Choudhuri has over 17 years of experience in sales and marketing.

Vikram Tanna
VP, Head Of Advertising Sales and Business Head Of Regional Clusters
Discovery Communications India

As a media and entertainment expert, Vikram has scaled the industry spanning Broadcast, Gaming and Digital Media in various capacities. In his current role, Vikram heads the revenue function for Discovery Network’s bouquet of premium channels, the newly launched mass entertainment channels and the network’s digital assets.

Prior to Discovery, Vikram was Sr. Vice President, Star India, heading Product & Revenue strategy for three of the major channel clusters- Hindi Movies & Music and HSM Regional Channels (West Bengal & Maharashtra). Vikram joined Star India from Zapak Digital Entertainment where he led the revenue function and development of multiple business avenues.

Siddharth Banerjee
EVP Marketing - Vodafone

Siddharth Banerjee is an experienced consumer business leader across Telecom and CPG / FMCG for the past 17 years and is currently the Executive Vice President (EVP) - Marketing and Head of Brand, Insights, Media, Activation & Digital at Vodafone India.

In his 15 years of FMCG / CPG experience, including the last 13 years in Unilever, Siddharth has worked across Country P&L roles and Global / Regional Brand Marketing roles, with rich exposure across Developing & Emerging Markets. His last role in Unilever was as the Country Marketing Director / CMO & a member of the Management Committee at Unilever Sri Lanka. He has lived & worked across India, Singapore, the UK & Sri Lanka.

Siddharth is an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow & holds B.A. Economics (Honours) and M.B.A degrees from the University of Delhi. He is a National Talent Scholar, the highly competitive scholarship under the aegis of NCERT - Government of India. Siddharth has also been awarded the Chevening-Rolls Royce Innovation Scholarship to study at Oxford, under the prestigious UK Government Chevening Scholarship Scheme.