Anant Goenka is the Executive Director of The Indian Express Group.
A brand management graduate of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Anant was awarded a Dean’s scholarship for his Master’s in print journalism from the Annenberg School forJournalism, USC. In a news environment flooded by either advocacy or clickbait, Anant has steered the expansion of the Express’s digital business in tune with the group’s enduring values of fairness, accuracyand courage.
These were burnished by his grandfather Ramnath Goenka when he launched the group 85 years ago and are today the hallmark of the group’s investigative and explanatory journalism.
Today, The Indian Express Group is India’s 2nd largest and amongst the world’s largest digital news media groups reaching well over 148 million unique users a month, in six languages across the world. Its investigative journalism, from Panama Papers to the Videocon-ICICI transactions, from WhatsApp lynchings across India to empty engineering colleges has set off policy changes and shaped public discourse.
Anant’s address at the Gateway of India on the 10th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, his writings on Punjab drugs, the India-Pakistan border parade and on the future of media in a polarised climate, have all been widely shared and discussed. His 2015 interview with Aamir Khan was one of the most watched interviews ofthe year. Forbes magazine says Anant exudes the energy that he promises to infuse into the venerable Express brand; Economic Times recognises him as India’s 40 under-40 business leaders and GQ has listed him one of India’s 50 most influential young Indians.
Before The Indian Express, Anant worked at Spenta Multimedia and with Bloomberg's commercial team in UK. He is an aviation geek, enjoys motorsport, jazz music and, by his own admission, is a persistentlyterrible drummer— but always to his own beat.

Straight out of college, Vivek started his career at Magnon 2 decades ago. The 300+ member Magnon group today is a part of the Fortune 500, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC). Of its three agencies Magnon eg+, Magnon Designory and Magnon Sancus, Vivek leads Magnon eg+ across international markets, including North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, apart from India.
Vivek was named Managing Director of Magnon eg+ in 2014, at the young age of 33. This made him perhaps the youngest ever MD of a multinational agency in India. He has been profiled as a case study in the bestseller book ‘30 Something CEO’.
Magnon eg+ is an award winning digitally-led specialist agency. Major clients include HP, Nestle, P&G, Etihad Airlines, Nissan Motors, Tata Communications, amongst many others. Magnon eg+ is also Omnicom’s largest digital & creative production center anywhere in the world. It works as a strategic arm of Omnicom agencies such as TBWA, DDB and BBDO from around the world and has worked on over 100+ global brands.
Vivek is also on the advisory board of several exciting start-ups, including Talentrack – India’s largest hiring platform for the US$ 25 billion media & entertainment sector. Within 4 years of being set up, Talentrack today aggregates over 300,000 creative talent and 15000+ industry recruiters and is truly digitizing and democratizing the industry.
He is a regular speaker and panelist at various corporate and academic forums and is an MBA from LBSIM, New Delhi.
His interests include swimming, cycling, horse riding, tennis and is passionate about travelling the world. As of now he is worried about strands of grey hair!

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Professional Bio
For Neel Pandya, the biggest leap is to put India on the global map for AI and innovation in marketing and business growth. He aspires to equip brands and marketers with robust AI capabilities to help them effortlessly scale their growth. Having had extensive experience working in digital with global brands such as Loreal, Vodafone and Unilever, Neel is able to accurately identify pressing brand pain points that can be alleviated with AI.

An articulate and driven leader with high energy and an engaging personality, Neel is proficient in building and leading large teams and projects successfully. Instantly identifying growth opportunities and thinking outside the box come naturally to Neel. He has a demonstrated history of working in the FMCG, Telecom, Marketing and Advertising industry.

Currently, Neel has taken on the role of the Chief Executive Officer for APAC, at Pyxis One – a global AI infrastructure start-up. With over 12 years of experience as a marketing expert with focused digital marketing and research expertise, Neel believes that growth and technology go hand-in-hand.

Pyxis One, CEO - APAC
Neel formally joined Pyxis One - a US based AI start-up - as the CEO for APAC, in July 2021. Neel is uniquely equipped to lead Pyxis One’s APAC business as he profoundly understands the intersection of business growth and innovation. With a visionary bent of mind, Neel believes that the future of marketing and business growth is Artificial Intelligence.

At Pyxis One, Neel will be playing to his strengths and drive growth across APAC, spearhead product innovations and integrations, and build a strong community of AI experts within Pyxis One.

Prabhvir Sahmey (Prabh) is currently a Senior Director at Samsung Ads. His remit is to setup the Samsung Ads business in India & South East Asia by pioneering the arena of Connected TV. Which is at a very nascent state. Prior to Samsung, Prabh pioneered Programmatic Advertising at Google, Search advertising at GroupM and e-education with Tata Interactive Systems.

A journey spanning over 15+ years. From starting a small Bulletin Board System (pre visual internet era) to transforming services as a web developer, content writer, graphic designer, and a project manager; the last few years were invested with a leading market transforming teams and product in getting digital marketing initiatives holistically right.

Over years, Prabh has been identified as a domain expert for all things online, go-getter, calm, and goal- oriented individual who encourages collaboration across various teams to achieve the business goal. The enterprising sprit enables me to work in start-up environments or be the change driver in slagging business conditions.

Interesting Stuff
At one point in time, I owned a Subway restaurant in Bangalore. Pretty much decided to pursue a career as a chef. But things did not go as planned.

Inspiration
Outside of nature. There have been many books that inspired me to think differently. The most impactful one’s have been – 7 habits of highly effective people, start with why, death – an insider story, trillion-dollar coach.
I am currently reading – Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger

Hobbies
Cooking, cycling, walking, and gaming. A random reading. Not an avid reader.

Rohit Uttamchandani is one of India’s leading digital consultants and the founder of Tacheon, a leading digital marketing and transformation consulting firm.
He has worked with clients across various sectors to craft their digital strategy, scale their online presence, and leverage digital media to achieve their business goals.
He has been recognized as one of the 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders 2020 by ET Now, World Marketing Congress, Global Federation of Marketers & CMO Global.
He has also conducted over 200 digital marketing and transformation workshops for leading corporates across India, the Middle East, and Africa and has trained over 9000 professionals including entrepreneurs and C-suite executives in digital marketing and strategy.
As a partner trainer for Google India, he also led Digital Unlocked, Google's initiative to help SMBs leverage digital media for growth, sharing the stage with Google CEO Sundar Pichai & India’s IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at the inaugural session.
Owing to his extensive experience in the digital space, he has been invited to speak at prestigious conferences hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry, has been quoted in The Economic Times and The Hindu, and has also been featured twice in talks on NDTV.
He has also groomed and mentored multiple other digital marketing leaders including one who has been recently recognized in the Impact 30 Under 30 list.
He is now working to scale Tacheon to be India’s largest digital marketing consulting and audit firm and is also building and scaling a platform called Smacient to help marketers leverage AI and automation to create delightful customer experiences and drive higher ROI from their digital marketing investments.