In her role at Levi Strauss & Co., Amisha Jain is responsible for leading the company’s operations in SAMEA and ensuring that the geography continues to drive expansion and growth, contributing to the company’s success in Asia and around the globe.

Prior to this, Amisha was the CEO at Zivame. She built the innovation-led consumer centric brand and lead the fastest growing women's organization for intimate wear and set it up to catapult the business to greater heights. She is a firm believer of “One Team, One Voice”. And this has been her foundation to build teams that are all individually strong and collectively effective at delivering business results.

Arghya Chakravarty is an accomplished business leader with nearly three decades of rich and diverse experience in the Media and Entertainment industry. In his role as the Chief Operating Officer of Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd., he drives the overall business strategy and operations for the growth and success of the brand. Under his leadership, Shemaroo is poised to build a healthy and successful brand, in keeping with its vision of providing wholesome entertainment to all of India.

Arghya’s understanding of the industry and consumer needs along with his ability to smoothly transition the business to meet the changing macro environment has been instrumental in the brand’s progress. Under his leadership, Shemaroo is building a thriving B2C entertainment portfolio.

In his stint of 30+ years, he has held leadership positions across a gamut of reputed organizations including Times Innovative Media, PepsiCo, and Asian Paints. With his expertise, he has built scale, relevance, and market leadership across these organizations. Before taking up the role at Shemaroo, Arghya spearheaded the entertainment business and ad sales for Disney Star India as an EVP.

Mr. Arnab Banerjee is the Managing Director & CEO of CEAT Limited. His 30 years of experience spans organisations like CEAT, Marico and Berger Paints Arnab is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (AMP190), IIM Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur. He also holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Certification.

He joined CEAT in the year 2005 as Vice President-Sales and Marketing. Over the years he has shouldered many diverse responsibilities and was the Chief Operating Officer at CEAT since 2018 prior to taking over his current role.

Everything about customers is his passion. He also takes interest in amateur stage acting, photography, high altitude trekking and long-distance running. He loves his Kindle and is always ready for ‘adda’ on anything under the sun!

Deepak Gupta is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer (C00) at Bombay Shaving Company, leading the vision of taking the homegrown Hair Removal & Personal Care brand to '2 crore bathrooms, with 5 products, creating 10 minutes of happiness everyday'. He leads the mandate of driving the Company into the new era of the Consumer Products business across domestic and global markets. Under his leadership, Bombay Shaving Company has scaled 6X to a 360 ARR company (Projected FY 24), started a women's hair removal brand, Bombae, and an independent D2C Services division - 100Days, specializing in building and managing digital value chain for large traditional players. Since Deepak took over as COO in 2021, Bombay Shaving Company has transformed into a truly omni-channel enterprise with a solid people centric culture.

Before this, Deepak spent 10+ years leading strategic efforts across Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain for one of the world’s most penetrated companies - Colgate-Palmolive. During his tenure as the Head of Sales Operations and Strategy in China, Deepak witnessed a tremendous mushrooming of brands which launched online and quickly scaled offline. Bombay Shaving Company has followed a similar trajectory and today caters to over 1.5 million customers every quarter.

Deepak is an alumni of IIT- Bombay with specializations in Strategy, Analytics and People Science. In 2022, he was recognized as a ‘Fortune 40 Under 40’ Business Leader for his stellar contributions to Bombay Shaving Company, and for being an influential voice in India’s startup ecosystem. As a distinguished TEDx Speaker, Deepak enjoys sharing his personal and professional learnings for the benefit of an aspiring generation of professionals, entrepreneurs and students in India.

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Manish Kapoor as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Pepe Jeans India Limited, is responsible for the growth of the existing business portfolio and is instrumental in designing effective strategies that are aligned with the broader global strategy.

Manish joined Pepe Jeans India in the year 2014 as Vice President Sales. Within a span of two years he was promoted to Sales Director and was heading the sales vertical for the entire business that comprises of company and franchisee owned exclusive stores, department stores, e- commerce, distribution and off-price verticals. With his growing understanding and contribution to the growth of the brand, in April 2019, he was elevated to Chief Business Officer and shortly appointed as Chief Executive Officer in September 2019 to head the entire Pepe Jeans business in India. Starting Jan 2022, he was promoted to the position of Managing Director in continuation to his existing role as CEO.

Manish Kapoor is a skilled business professional, with overall experience of 20 plus years in the world of fashion retail with great exposure to all business functions like product, supply chain, brand management, marketing, brand operations and retail operations.

During his time with Pepe Jeans India, Manish Kapoor has led the brand to win numerous industry accolades and helped the company earn recognition for its consumer focused business strategy. Pepe Jeans was the recipient of the Images Retail Most Admired Retailer: Retail Re-imagined 2021 for its ground-breaking & innovative campaign Pepe HD (Home Delivery) for having converted Pepe stores in to fulfillment centers to cater to its customers and offer same day delivery in the absence of a website. Kapoor has often been awarded for his exemplary leadership and business know-how. In 2021 he was recognized as The Economic Times Inspiring CEO for his efforts in helping steer Pepe Jeans to great heights even during unprecedented times of the Covid 19 aftermath. In the same year Kapoor was also acknowledged for his efforts towards sustaining a high-trust high-performance culture by Great Place to Work – India’s best Leaders in Times of Crisis 2021.

Manish Kapoor is a strategist & implementer with demonstrated abilities in accomplishing business growth on a consistent basis. He has previously held key leadership roles in brands such as French Connection, Sisley, Benetton India, Pantaloons and Madura Garments to name a few.

Kapoor acquired a B-Tech degree from the Technological Institute of Textiles and Science in 2000 and further continued to pursue a diploma degree in Apparel Marketing and Merchandising Management from NIFT in 2002. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Academic Excellence at NIFT and was an All India topper in his PGDAMMM course across all NIFT centers.

Nilesh Shah is Managing Director of Kotak AMC.

Nilesh lead his team to the Best Fund House of the Year Award at all the mutual funds where he has worked viz. Kotak, ICICI Prudential and Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund.

Nilesh is a part time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He is a part time member of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). He is a member of the Board of Association of Mutual Funds in India and a Member of CoBoSAC committee of SEBI.

Pankaj Gupta has over 26 years of rich experience in Financial Services across Banking and Life Insurance sector in highly reputed companies such as ICICI, Citigroup and HDFC, both in India and overseas. In his most recent role, Pankaj was a member of HDFC Life Executive Committee and Group Head - Credit Life, Banca Alliances, Strategic Alliances, Digital Alliances and Distribution Strategy.

In his last assignment, Pankaj was responsible for signing up and managing over 300 partnerships across India. He was also the Chief Marketing Officer of HDFC Life; responsible for Brand, Channel Marketing, Market Research, Corporate & Internal Communications, CRM and Voice of Customer from 2017-21. His prior assignments include a more than three-year tenure in the USA with TCS as SVP, Citibank US Consumer Banking Relationship. He was earlier also the SVP and Head International Banking COE for Citigroup Global Services and National Sales Head, Payment Solutions for ICICI Bank.

Pankaj has broad experience in Financial Services at various leadership levels with a track record of building and operating high growth profitable businesses. He is a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow.

Making waves as a first-generation, modern-day entrepreneur in India and beyond — Priyanka Salot, cofounder of The Sleep Company has revolutionised the comfort tech sector after a 60-year-long hiatus. Within the short span of two to three years, The Sleep Company, led by Priyanka and her husband, has till date raised INR 13.4 CR in a pre-series A round, followed by a Series B investment of INR 177 CR and Series C round that totaled up to a whopping 184 Cr. With her ground-breaking work on the SmartGRID Technology, for which the brand holds an exclusive patent, Priyanka has led her team to build India's most successful comfort technology startup.

An alumni of the prestigious IIM-Kolkata, Priyanka has over a decade of experience in the consumer durable industry. After brief stints as an Analyst at JP Morgan and a Strategic Consultant for several major healthcare companies at Frost & Sullivan, Priyanka joined the American multinational consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G) shortly after graduation. During her eight years at P&G, Priyanka oversaw the company's US$350 million Fabric Care business and spearheaded several innovative initiatives, including the Mamy Poko pants/pampers campaign for the Asian region, which sparked her interest in the consumer durables sector.

In 2019,soon after giving birth, Priyanka and her husband, Harshil, finally took the plunge into entrepreneurship with The Sleep Company. A company that has now become the pioneers and advocates of sleep-technology in Asia, started off from Priyanka’s difficulty in falling asleep at night as a new mum. Her research brought Priyanka the realisation that the Indian mattress market lagged far behind its Western and Asian counterparts, which piqued her interest in studying sleep science and sleep technology further.

With the SmartGRID Technology developed with an-DRDO scientist, she unveiled the legend of the Indian mattress market, setting the stage for a game-changing breakthrough. The company has since diversified into new areas of comfort technology, releasing products like the Elev8 Smart Adjustable Bed, SmartGRID Chairs, and Smart Sleep Accessories.

Currently, Priyanka is focusing on executing the brand's most talked-about omnichannel strategy, which aims at launching 100+ state-of-the-art comfort boutiques by March 24, in addition to the brand's continued successful expansion in the Japanese and UAE markets. Currently TSC has 64 stores across 20 cities in India. Her ambitionis to grow the brand into a market leader in the industry and revolutionise the way people sleep and sit across the globe; and she aims to do that with a business strategy focused on entering the rapidly growing comfort-tech industry in international markets and developing innovative products that improve customer satisfaction.

Priyanka and her husband Harshil are now eyeing on making The Sleep Company a 500cr brand by 2024 and become the world’s leading comfort-technology company. Their efforts in this direction have been appreciated, which is also reflected in the awards and accolades they have received. The Sleep Company recently won Retail Start-up of the year at the Entrepreneur Awards 2022,they were awarded IMAGES Most Admired D2C Brand ofthe yearand the brand is also part of the Inc42’s FAST42 List as well as India’s Most Coveted List For D2C Brands. Additionally, Priyanka Salot herself has received numerous honours and awards from prestigious media outlets, including the BW Disrupt 40 under 40, Fortune 40Under40 2022 as wel list for her outstanding achievements, and the Wonder Women 100 list by IMAGES Group forbeing a formidable female leader.

Shailendra Katyal is the Vice President and Managing Director of Lenovo India. Lenovo is a global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, with an industry-leading portfolio of pocket-to-cloud solutions. Lenovo remains the #1 PC brand in the world, is recognized as one of BCGs Top 50 Most Innovative Companies and ranks #8 in Gartners’s annual Supply Chain rankings. With iconic brands like ThinkPad, Motorola, Yoga and Legion, Lenovo remains committed to bringing Smarter Technology for All.

Shailendra has been at the helm of Lenovo India since 2021 and is entrusted with driving Lenovo’s transformation from a devices leader to an end-to-end technology solutions leader, backed by a strong local manufacturing capability. Lenovo India shipped out over 5 mn Made In India products in FY2223. Over a 24 year long career, he has had extensive experience in the traditional FMCG and new-age technology sectors across domains of business leadership, strategy, marketing and M&A.

Shailendra holds a PGDM degree from IIM Calcutta and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from Delhi University. He is based out of Bangalore.

Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for ITC’s Dairy & Beverages business. In this role, he handles the P&L for the business encompassing all aspects including R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and Operations.
Prior to that, he was Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited handling brands like Real Fruit Juices.
In a career spanning nearly 25 years, he has handled senior P&L responsibilities and Functional leadership in Marketing and Sales for Personal Care and Foods businesses in India and abroad.

Sukhleen Aneja is a seasoned executive and CEO of the Good Brands Co division of the Good Glamm Group, South Asia's largest beauty and personal care conglomerate built on the flywheel of content, creator, commerce and community. The Good Glamm Group is valued at USD 1.2 Billion and backed by Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Warburg Pincus, and Prosus Ventures. She was appointed to the role in December 2021 to lead the company's beauty and FMCG brands and build a digital-first beauty and personal care conglomerate.

In her current role, Sukhleen is responsible for creating a strategic roadmap for leading digital-first brands, integrating and scaling acquired brands, and leveraging the unique digital ecosystem of the company, including content, creator, and community, to build strong FMCG beauty brands. Brands under the Good Brands Co are MyGlamm, The Moms Co, St Botanica, Organic Harvest, Sirona, and BabyChakra. She brings nearly two decades of experience in FMCG and beauty, having previously led the marketing operations for Reckitt's Hygiene portfolio across South Asia.

Tarun has his feet set firmly in today’s competitive environment which is evident by the fact that he has spearheaded three successful organizations. His endeavours include heading Business at Box8; one of the largest food delivery chains with 60 outlets in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. The man is behind the Setup and scaling up the entire business from scratch over 2 years while managing over 600+ team members across verticals.

The man is not just a connoisseur in the business world but in the tech world as well. His tenure at Mphasis, a sister concern of HP gave him a chance to root himself in tech. Tarun’s excellence in every field speaks volumes of how he has scripted the evolution and helped draw a veneer outline of brands he’s had his share work with. Aside from this, stand-up comedy is what excites him, and he enjoys being on the stage once in a while.

In mere 7 years, Tarun Sharma with his strongest team has built mCaffeine that today dominates with 4 major product categories across Face Care, Hair Care, Body Care and Lip Care, making it as the world’s largest single ingredient brand. The brand has also stepped into the cosmetic segment by launching lipsticks and concealers. Confidence over Colour and Addicted To Good are the simple thoughts that have guided the development of mCaffeine in India’s beauty and personal care industry. Inner beauty trumps everything else was an idea that Tarun Sharma, Vikas Lachhwani, Vaishali Gupta, Mohit Jain, and Saurabh Singhal were absolutely convinced about. While conceiving the identity and character of the brand, they also laid out strict boundaries for it. With the market full of brands that makes you look down upon yourself, Tarun Sharma with the team has made sure mCaffeine as a brand will never sell insecurities and that’s what makes it today as the most loved millennial brand today.

mCaffeine was founded by Tarun Sharma, Vikas Lachhwani, Vaishali Gupta, Mohit Jain, and Saurabh Singhal when millennial India craved for products it could identify with. It took this need gap to heart, and by placing foremost importance on customer centricity - united the holy trinity of its audience’s love for coffee, need for identity and thrill of innovation - for a smart slice of its customers wallet. Inspiring with his entrepreneurship skills, Tarun Sharma swears by 4 Key Strategies - Efficacy, Ethos, Experience and Emotion to make mCaffeine a customer-centric brand that further emphasizes gender neutrality.

mCaffeine is currently armed with a curated range of select 95 caffeine-infused products in its portfolio. And its products are available on all major shopping portals namely – Amazon, Nykaa, Flipkart and sells through its own e-commerce portal www.mcaffeine.com. The brand is also present in more than 20,000 offline stores across India and has expanded globally to 21 countries. Almost half of mCaffeine products are best sellers in the categories they operate in across marketplaces

Vivek Gupta is credited with bringing the left-brain elements to the table as Co- Founder of India’s most loved food brand - Licious. His leadership style is marked by an unwavering dedication to sustainable growth, all the while maintaining a sharp focus on providing outstanding value to customers.

Prior to Licious, Vivek spent close to a decade at Helion Ventures, where he played a pivotal role closely collaborating with portfolio companies of the fund, gaining valuable insights into operational strategies. Another stint he had was as the Non-Executive Director with MobiCom America LLC, a B2B mobile & web commerce products and solutions provider for dedicated commune verticals.

In 2019 Vivek was honoured as part of Fortune India's 40 Under 40, celebrating India's young and brightest entrepreneurs. Further underscoring his influence, he was included in The Economic Times' prestigious list of Most Promising Asian Business Leaders in the same year. In 2018, his disruptive entrepreneurial spirit earned him a spot on Business World's list of 40 Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs. That same year, he was featured in GQ's prestigious list of 50 Most Influential Indians. In 2013, Vivek was among the Top 100 Indian Future CFOs, showcasing his financial expertise.

Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavours, Vivek Gupta is a passionate badminton player who relishes a good, competitive game every morning. His passion for the game has brought him accolades in prestigious corporate badminton tournaments as well. He has been the reigning champion at the Bertelsmann Badminton 2023 Championship for 3 years in a row.