Arvind R P
Director- Marketing & Communications, Hardcastle Restaurants (McDonald's -West & South India )

Arvind R P is the Director – Marketing and Communications, McDonald’s India, heading overall marketing and communications strategy for brand, to further strengthen its leadership in the QSR space.

He joined McDonald’s in January 2019, before which he was the Vice President and Head – Marketing & Analytics at Kaya Ltd. At Kaya, his unique and insightful strategies played a crucial role through various brand building initiatives, product & services innovations & category building initiatives.

He has over 18 years of experience in Marketing and Sales across various geographies and categories such as Retail (Levi Strauss), Consumer goods (Britannia) and Automobiles (TVS Motor Company). His career at TVS Motors included an assignment for the SE Asian market based out of Jakarta.

Arvind started his career with TVS Motors and worked across various roles including Consumer & Market insights, Brand Management and Sales. He was also selected to be a member of a start-up team at TVS, to set up business in Indonesia. Post TVS, he joined Britannia to head the Dairy Category Marketing and lead the innovation process. He also had an exciting stint with Levi Strauss where he headed Brand and Retail Marketing.

Arvind holds a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and his MBA from Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy and has also completed various executive education programs from Kellogg Scchool of Management, Northwestern University.

Prashant Verma
VP Marketing, Grofers

Prashant is an internationally awarded marketeer and brand strategist with experience across e-commerce, FMCG, financial services and corporate branding. He currently leads marketing for Grofers including all sub-functions of brand management, reengagement, digital & mobile marketing, consumer insights and PR.

Prashant's interests lie in brand strategy, new age media, engagement marketing, consumer behaviour, insights & advertising. He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from NSIT Delhi (2004) and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (2007).

Rajan Bhalla
Chief Business Officer & Group CMO, HT Media Limited

Rajan has 27 years of experience in General Management, Sales & Marketing across multiple industries – Advertising, Consumer Durables, FMCG & Media. He has worked in companies like Contract, Whirlpool, PepsiCo & HT Media. He is part of the Core Leadership Team in HT and has played a key role handling various positions in HT over the last 12 years

Satish NS
Senior Vice President - Sales & Marketing, Haier Appliances India

Mr. SATISH N.S is currently the Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Haier Appliances India Pvt. Ltd. A seasoned business leader with more than two decades of experience, Satish leads all functions for sales and marketing operations at Haier India. As part of the Haier leadership team, he has successfully streamlined and consolidated the sales function and strengthened the channel network for the brand across cities. His relentless pursuit for success with teamwork at the core has made him one of the strongest pillars at Haier.

Mr. Satish has been a driving force in developing unique strategies for the brand that have helped the company to penetrate deeper into the tier 1, 2 and 3 markets in India. His innovative approach to marketing across India has played an integral role in establishing Haier as a preferred brand in the industry. Under his guidance, the brand has been able to significantly evolve its approach and adopt newer means of connecting with the Indian consumers.

In the past, he has held several leadership positions with some of the leading companies like Onida, Samsung, Panasonic and Videocon. Satish holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Zameer Kochar
Head – Marketing & Member Engagement, JetPrivilege

Zameer is a high impact marketer demonstrating a strategic mind-set towards Brand Marketing & Strategy, Business Growth & Expansion, Performance Measurement & Category Management. At JetPrivilege, he has been instrumental in driving new member acquisition, deepening existing member engagement to build businesses through creation of strong brand equity and reputation resulting in sustained top and bottom-line performances. Apart from the above, he has also been responsible for delivering a Customer Centric, Life cycle Management driven approach to develop, grow, market JetPrivilege as an everyday, lifestyle loyalty & rewards program.

After completing his Masters in Business & Management Studies from M.E.T Institute in the year 2003, Zameer started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited in the Personal Wash Category where he delivered various successful stints within the organization looking at aspects like Brand Visual Identity & Brand Architecture, Integrated Marketing Communication, Research, Insights & Brand Equity Measurement, New Proposition, Product & Packaging Development & Deployment.

Zameer with over 15 years of work experience in Brand Management is a Certified ROI Marketer and has worked in FMCG, Media & Loyalty companies before his stint at JetPrivilege. In previous stints he has independently led work to launch multiple brands, multiple categories and has been responsible for delivering the overall brand’s business results and marketing objectives.

One of his key areas of expertise is leveraging optimized 360 media mix of mass, direct and digital to build sustainable brands with purpose and drive market leadership. In his free time he loves to spend as much as time he can with his 5 year old daughter.

Chandramouli Venkatesan
CEO, Special Projects, Pidilite

Chandramouli is a B Tech (Chemical Engineer) from Anna University, Chennai. After completing his PGDBM from XLRI in 1991, he joined Asian Paints wherein he spent close to a decade in Sales and Marketing. Thereafter, Chandramouli had stints in GE Countrywide Consumer finance and Mirc Electronics Limited (Onida) post which he joined Mondelez International in 2005. In Mondelez, he had varied range of roles spanning Strategy, Innovation, HR, Marketing at Asia Pacific level regional roles culminating in being the MD for Mondelez India.

Interests: Golf, Social impact

Vision: To create lasting business and societal impact, to be a transformative change agent.

Favorite quote: "You are not as good as your best success and you are not as bad as your worst failure"