54 year old Rajdeep Sardesai is a senior journalist, columnist, author and news presenter. Starting his career as an assistant editor at the Times of India in 1988, Sardesai has worked across print and television over the last 31 years. In 1991, he became the city editor of The Times of India's Mumbai edition. In 1994, he joined NDTV as political editor and eventually became managing editor here, overseeing the NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India news channels. In 2005, he set up the Global Broadcast News company and tied up with Network 18 and CNN to set up CNN IBN, and later IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat news channels as founder-editor in chief . In 2014, he joined the TV Today group as consulting editor and prime time news presenter. During his three decade old career, Sardesai has reported on several major stories, specialising in national politics, and has several important news breaks to his credit.

Sardesai has also authored books, including the national bestseller 2014: the Election that Changed India which has been translated into half a dozen languages, Democracy's XI: the great Indian cricket story which was shortlisted by MCC Lords as the cricket book of the year. He has contributed to several edited volumes including a book on the 1992-93 riots "When Bombay Burned' and one on the 2002 Gujarat riots. He also has a fortnightly column on politics in the Hindustan Times, Dainik Bhaskar and half a dozen regional languages since 2005.

Sardesai is the recipient of several awards for journalism including the Ramnath Goenka award for journalist of the year (2007) for his election reporting, the international broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots, the Asian television award five times, the Indian Television Academy news anchor on ten occasions and is a recipient of the Padma Shri in 2008. An alumnus of St Xaviers College Mumbai where he studied economics and Oxford university where he studied law, Sardesai lives in Delhi.

Avinash Kaul is the Chief Executive Officer - etwork18 and Managing Director, A+E Networks TV18. A+E Networks I TV18 includes leading factual entertainment channels such as History TV18and FYI TV18. Avinash joined TV18, one of India's leading television broadcast networks in mid 2014 and since then has been responsible for the overall Profit & Loss responsibilities of all the brands managed by him.

Prior to joining TV18, he was the Chief Executive Officer at Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd (TV Division) and was responsible for overall management of ET Now, Times Now and zoom channels. Under his management, all three channels emerged as leaders in their respective genres. In the past, Avinash has worked with other leading media organizations such as Sahara One Media & Entertainment, NDTV Media Ltd and Star India Ltd, Discovery Communications Ltd. thereby emerging as a veteran in the media and entertainment industry.

Avinash also set up and headed the consulting business of NDTV Media which had various leading brands in media as clients. These include Walt Disney, MSN and various regional channels in India.

Avinash serves as a director on the board of Media Research Users Council, an industry body which owns and manages the Indian Readership Survey, and was a founder member of the Technical Committee of BARC, an industry body that manages Television Audience Measurement in India.

Avinash has done his Master in Media Studies from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and is a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Pune Uni versi ty.

Aditya Ghosh is CEO, India and South Asia at OYO Hotels & Homes. A seasoned professional with over 21 years of experience, Aditya is entrusted with the responsibility to oversee and grow OYO’s business in South Asia, which includes India, Nepal, and the other upcoming markets in the region. He is responsible for continuing to drive growth while delivering high-quality customer experience and sustained yields for asset owners.

Under Aditya’s leadership, OYO Hotels & Homes has emerged as the largest player in the Indian hospitality market with over 18,000 leased and franchised buildings and more than 270,000 rooms across 500 Indian cities. OYO India SA is 12x the size of the second-largest player in the country, and growing at 14x of top 3 hotel chains combined. Aditya is also credited with introducing the first-of-its-kind year-long initiative for fostering a deeper engagement among OYO hotel owners across the country under the OYO Partner Engagement Network (OPEN). OPEN not only aims to drive the growth of thousands of OYO hotel owners but also create world-class benchmarks of quality and consistency across the company’s network of hotels in the region. A strong advocate of philanthropy and giving back to society, Aditya also enabled the launch of OYOReach, the company’s CSR initiative, through which OYO has contributed towards water and environment conservation initiatives, and supported the victims of floods in Odisha, Assam, and Bihar.

Aditya joined OYO Hotels & Homes following an outstanding stint at IndiGo as the President & Wholetime Director of IndiGo, where he was instrumental in turning the airline into the largest and most profitable airline in India, and also one of the fastest-growing low-cost carriers in the world. Aditya was inducted to the Board of Directors of IndiGo in May 2007 and took on the role as its President almost ten years ago in August 2008. As the President of the airline, Aditya headed all operations and management of IndiGo reporting to the Board of Directors. He accepted this role at the age of 33 and turned IndiGo into the largest and most profitable airline in India and one of the fastest-growing low- cost carriers in the world.

Aditya was also a member of the apex Executive Committee of InterGlobe Enterprises at the Group Level and sat on the Board of the hotels and technology businesses as well as the flight simulator training facilities. Under Aditya’s leadership, IndiGo also launched its international operations. He was instrumental to IndiGo airlines pioneering the ‘before-time departure’ concept in the airline industry, which soon became the golden standard in customer experience and a benchmark hard for any other airline to meet.

During his stint at IndiGo, Aditya was also a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion at IndiGo, which is currently credited to have the maximum number of women pilots and a workforce comprising of 43% women. He has also been part of several CSR programmes like IndiGoReach focusing on women empowerment, children and education, and the environment. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre, which aims to transform the delivery of justice, especially in the area of commercial disputes. He is a Senior Advisor to the Tata Trusts and helps lead the Cancer Care Initiative of the Trusts.

Aditya never went to business school and is a lawyer by training. Before his business role, Aditya practised law at the prestigious corporate law firm, J. Sagar Associates and then as the General Counsel at InterGlobe Enterprises. Aditya specialized in corporate commercial law with a focus on acquisitions, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions. Aditya is also considered to be one of the fittest business leaders in India. He also has other interests such as the arts, sports, travelling, camping and hiking, and is always keen to explore and try out new things.

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Debasis Ray is Head -- Communications of Tata Trusts, a philanthropic organization of India, established in 1892 by Jamsetji Tata, the Founder of the Tata group.

His association with Tata began in 2005, in various roles as Head – Corporate Communications, Tata Motors, Chief - Group Corporate Communications, and Group Spokesperson, Tata Sons. Prior to that, he was Corporate Communications Manager of Hindustan Unilever Limited since 1991. He began as a journalist with 'The Telegraph', Kolkata, in 1985.

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Ghanshyam Tiwari is National Spokesperson of Samajwadi Party. An alumnus of Harvard, Kellogg, and IIM Bangalore, Ghanshyam co-founded high school video learning company GoodEd Technologies and serves as the CoChair of EdTech Committee at IAMAI. He has advised Chief Ministers and Parliamentarians, served global organizations such as BMGF and LSE, worked at McKinsey, Intel, and Texas Instruments. Ghanshyam is passionate about building stronger public leadership and transforming high school education for the poor in India. He aspires to build Learner.in into a one-stop vernacular videos platform for Government and low income high school students offering courses for school, competitive exams, and life skills. Ghanshyam is a member of the Executive Council of Harvard Alumni Club of India.

She has worked in the services sector throughout from Hospitality to Healthcare with a short stint in Media.

She started her professional journey as a Direct Marketing Executive with Procter & Gamble and then moved to frontline Sales at Radisson & The Oberoi. Marketing Communication & Public Relations roles furthered her career graph at Max Healthcare and finally, she transitioned to a Brand & Marketing Leadership position at Fortis Healthcare, with additional charge of CSR.

She is credited with lending the Brand a higher purpose through private healthcare industry’s biggest public awareness and sensitization campaign on Organ Donation #MoreToGive (winner of 15+ prestigious awards including Effies India & APAC Finalist)

She believes, firmly, in a higher purpose of existence beyond business performance alone. Lending a voice and scale to socially and environmentally relevant causes is something that she’s the most passionate about.

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Mr. Nazeeb Arif is the Executive Vice President and Chief of Corporate Communications of ITC Limited, one of India’s foremost private sector companies and a multi- business Indian conglomerate with a market cap of US$ 50 billion. Mr Arif is the spokesperson of the ITC Group and on the Company's behalf interacts closely with all its external stakeholders including multilateral institutions, Government, Chambers of Commerce, Media etc. He is also a Member of the Sustainability Compliance Review Committee set up by the Corporate Management Committee of the Company. Currently he is the Liaison Delegate in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, representing ITC. Mr Arif is also on the Board of Trustees of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, a unique institution engaged in the preservation and teaching of Hindustani Classical Music and on the Consultative Committee of Akshay Patra Foundation.

Mr Arif’s professional experience spans 33 years. Prior to joining ITC in 2006, he led the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) as its Secretary General and CEO. Earlier, he has also served the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the apex Industry body in the country. In these roles, he has actively advocated policies for building competitiveness of Indian Industry to enable a larger contribution to national economic development. During this time, he also served as an Adviser to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its South-Asian Sub-Regional Economic Co-operation (SASEC) project promoting greater regional co-operation amongst 4 countries in South Asia.

He has been very actively involved in environmental and sustainability issues, and his initiatives have also been awarded by international organisations. He was awarded the United States Asia Environmental Partnership –“Environmental Leadership Award”. Mr Arif set up the Environment Management Centre at ICC which won the world’s best project by the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the apex body of business in the world. Mr Arif led a team from Europe and India to implement a project funded by the European Union on Industrial Disaster Management.

Mr. Arif was invited by the United States Government as part of the International Visitors Program, and also by the European Commission as part of the European Union Visitors Program. He was also invited to attend the International Institute for Leadership in Germany (Theodore Heuss Akademie, Gummersbach) by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung.

An engineer with MBA in marketing and a Diploma in advertising and PR, Sujit has over the past 20 years, worked with large global conglomerates with vast business portfolios. During this exciting journey he has had fruitful stints in sales, marketing and branding, strategy, corporate communications and PR. He has led some of the best Indian campaigns in the space of reputation management, global branding, M&A communications, sustainability, influencer engagement, Digital PR and Crisis management.Sujit is currently responsible for building and sustaining Godrej group’s reputation across diverse stakeholders. He is among the few IABC accredited business communicators in India and a three time winner of the IABC International Gold Quill award.He has been listed as India’s top ten men in corporate communications by Reputation Today and featured on the PR Week Global Power Book, the definitive guide to PR industry’s most influential operators around the world. Most recently (2018), Sujit has been listed on the Holmes Report’s Influence 100 research and listing of the world’s most influential in-house marketing and communications professionals.

Under his leadership, Godrej has won almost all prestigious industry awards for communications including the Diamond Sabre Award – Company of the year – Asia Pacific and South Asia. He has built a team that has been consecutively ranked number one among Reputation Today’s top 30 corporate communications team in India. Apart from being a speaker and jury at various national and international bodies such as the World Communication Forum, Davos, AMEC, PR Newsweek Asia, etc., Sujit is a part of the prestigious Arthur W Page Society. He volunteers as a guest faculty at various B-Schools, is a weekend farmer, loves travelling, understanding cultures and experimenting with new cuisines.

Vivek joined Pidilite Industries Ltd. in Jan 2015Chief Marketing Officer across all businesses. Here, he is responsible for marketing planning, implementation and brand development for all divisions, corporate brand, innovation, building marketing capabilities and capacities via new processes & systems and marketing talent development across the organization.

Prior to Pidilite, Vivek was Vice President Indian sub-continent at Philips India Ltd. as Chief Marketing Officer & Head – Govt. Affairs. He built ‘ONE PHILIPS’ marketing planning and implementation for the three Philip’s businesses viz. Consumer Lifestyle, Lighting and Healthcare.Vivek also led the engagement of company and businesses with various Govt., regulatory and industry bodies and enabled B2G sales. The combined role spread across B2C, B2B and B2G with a sharp focus on accelerating business growth.

Before Philips, Vivek was with MIRC Electronics Ltd. (ONIDA) as Vice President, Marketing, Sales and Service. At MIRC, he spearheaded the re-launch of the ONIDA brand across product categories.

An industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, he has held senior leadership positions across Ogilvy Advertising and Cadbury Kraft (now Mondelez). At Ogilvy, Vivek led the Hindustan Unilever (HUL) business nationally across functions and geographies.Vivek carries a unique blend of business and brand development experience across FMCG, Healthcare, Lighting andConsumer Durables encompassing B2C, B2Band B2G.

He is sought for his views on brand and marketing dynamics for ‘The Economic Times’, ‘The Times of India’, ‘BusinessWorld’, ‘Forbes’, ‘Pitch’ and ‘The Strategist - Business Standard’.

Vivek is amember of CII National Committee of Marketing and was active in industry forums like FICCI, CII and Assocham. He also guest lectures at premier B schools.

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).

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Adil joined IPAMC in October 2007. In his current role, Adil drives the Public Relations and Communication function for the organization. At IPAMC, he has anchored several functions like Product Communications, Product Development and Management. He has 18 years of experience across Investment Management, Financial Services & Banking, and Auto in Asia, Europe & Africa. His qualifications include MSc in International Banking & Finance from The University of Salford, UK and an MBA from AMU.

An alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai, Ruchita is a strong proponent of the power of Communications in driving successful business outcomes& building organisational image and culture.

In her career spanning 17 years in Healthcare, she has conceptualized and implemented award-winning Integrated campaigns in Diabetes, Immunisation, Infertility, and Consumer Health. Recognitions for her work include the 2018 OPPI Healthcare Communications Award, 2017 Indian Digital Media Awards, 2013 Sabre India Certificate of Excellence, 2012 Skoch Award for Digital Inclusion in Health, 2012 Edge Award for Social Media, 2014 Rx Club Award of Excellence and CMO Asia 2014 ‘50 Most Talented CMOs of India’ Citation. She has also authored a chapter on ‘Counselling in Diabetes’ in Christian Medical College Vellore’s ‘A Practical Guide to Diabetes Mellitus’. Very recently, she has developed and launched Procter & Gamble Health Limited’s new CSR Program ‘SEHAT – Rise with Health’.

Ruchita started her career with Sanofi as a Counselor for Cancer Patients, going on to head Sanofi’s All–India Diabetes and Oncology Patient Relationship Management Teams wherein she also conceptualized ‘Saath 7’ which is one of Industry’s longest running diabetes patient support programs in India. She moved into Communications in 2010 taking on roles of increasing responsibilities in Marketing and External Communications, before going on to lead Sanofi’s Corporate & Pharma Communications in India. She joined MerckKGaAin 2016 to lead Communications for the Company’s combined Biopharma and Consumer Health operations in India.

She moved into P&G Healthin Dec 2018, and currently headsCommunications, CSR& Digitalfor ‘Procter & Gamble Health Limited’ in India.

Nitin Thakur is a senior brand and communications professional with over two decades of experience. He is currently working as Director, Brand & Communication at the Max Group – a USD 3.2 billion diversified Indian conglomerate. His role involves strengthening the Group’s reputation through traditional and digital media and providing leadership and guidance for strategic campaigns such as mergers & acquisitions for the Group’s operating companies, crisis management etc. He is a part of the Group Executive Leadership team and works closely with the Group’s Vice Chairman and the Managing Director. In 2017, he was nominated as one of the Top 100 communication professionals in India by Reputation Today and under his leadership, his team at Max Group has been deemed among the Top 30 Corporate Communications Teams in India by Reputation Today for three consecutive years. He was also awarded the top in-house communication professional of the year, 2018 by The Fulcrum Awards.

Prior to Max, he worked at Microsoft India, managing product advocacy and communications. In the past, he has been in a consulting role, as a part of communications agencies – advising leading brands across verticals such as Technology, Consumer Products, Financial Services and Healthcare.

Nitin is married and has a 13-year-old daughter.

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Nitin brings deep experience in product design and digital customer experience, which he has acquired over the last 19 years across leading internet companies in India. He is currently leading IndiGo as VP Digital to help the group undergo Digital Transformation. He previously built Quikr.com, Yatra.com, Naukri.com, Indiatimes, Rediff and Bharti Airtel. He is an expert in crafting loveable experience for the consumers through simple and usable products. Nitin mentors many startups and has invested in a few of them, as well. He also likes to speak on Design Thinking on many public forums.

Nitin has won the 'Design-led Entrepreneurship Awards' 2017 at TiE 2017. Nitin has been awarded with Karnataka Brand Leadership Award 2017. He got recognised as top digital influencer and made it to Adobe Content 100 list for 2017. Nitin has also made it to Adobe Digi100 list for 2018. He has been chosen as one of the Smarted Digital Marketing Leaders by World Digital Marketing Congress. Recently he has been made it to DMAasia Top Digital Influencer list for 2019.

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Rahul has been associated with Shemaroo Entertainment for more than 2 years now, he is a seasoned marketing professional with over 14 years of experience and a demonstrated history of helping brands excel in Media & Entertainment sector. Prior to Shemaroo, Rahul has had a successful stint with BBC Global News where he was the Marketing Manager APAC for 8 years and led marketing for IndiaCast (a viacom18 & TV18 venture). He is an expert in marketing management, channel launches, digital strategy and partnerships. Rahul is an alumnus of INSEAD & IMI.

Am a seasoned communications professional with proven expertise in designing innovative solutions for enterprises, SMBs and Start-ups. Deep specialization in crafting messages and designing methodologies to influence and manage different stakeholders.

20+ years of rich experience of having been through a part of the transformational journey of the shift of traditional media to new-age media platforms. My rich learnings, observations and deep connects, ensure designing right strategies for a digital brand and its ecosystem.

With sound tactical knowledge of managing campaigns via mainstream, digital, content, I also help enterprises strengthen their brand through sharp editorials and informative pieces.

H.E. ZiauddinAdil’s extensive experience of over 23 years in Research (World Bank), Brand and Trade (British American Tobacco) Brand Marketing and sharp knowledge on matters pertaining to Media (Grey, Masthead PR & Top of Mind) earned him the name “Living Archive of Media” in Bangladesh. He is also the Consul of Democratic Republic of Congo in Bangladesh since 2017.

Education and Career:
After graduating from North South University, he joined British American Tobacco Company in 1996 where he worked for over a year; he held positions in Marketing Research and Media communication. He then joined World Bank where he worked with the consultant team as an active member for over 1 year.
In 1998 he joined Grey, as Associate director Media. His extensive career of 9 years in Grey tuned him in a true Gem with in-depth knowledge of Bangladeshi Audience and that inspired him to start-up his own PR Company – Masthead PR an Internationally Affiliated Bangladeshi PR firm & AOR solution provider -Top of Mind in 2007.
He is also the founder of the Specialized Group; best described as an optimized resource, the team is a diverse mix of young guns and seasoned marked men, all with the ability to see plan and hit bang on the target.

Award and Recognition:
• Awarded the “World's Greatest Leader” in 2019.
• Featured in Asia One as the “Person of the Year
• Awarded as the “Outstanding Alumni” for his remarkable achievements
• Represented Bangladesh in the Festival of Media Asia Pacific as a Jury member.
• Contribution in forming the first ever “Bangladesh Media Forum” as the governing body of the media industry in the country.
• The proud owner of the “Sponsor Rights” of Bangladesh Cricket Team
• Producer of ‘Aynabaji’, one of the most successful Bangladeshi film which had got 8 awards in different categories at 41st Bangladesh National Film Awards

Contribution to the society:
Eye Camp for Villagers: H.E. ZiauddinAdil is also putting his mark in the society by many social development activities in Health, Education area. He has initiated Eye Camp for villagers. He has raised significant amount of donation to support the flood victim as NSU alumni.
The Summer Camp for the under privileged students:He has founded school for under privileged children. Also knowledge workshops like Kudret-e Khuda Science fair was organized in associations like dreams for tomorrow who is always working for the development of students

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Shruti Khanna is the Deputy Manager – Digital Sales & Retail Marketing at Ford India Pvt. Ltd. Prior to Ford India, Shruti was working with Digitas as Project Manager, CRM Programs, where she was responsible for leading the strategy and execution for some big FMCG and Automotive Brands. With over 12 years of experience across Media channels and platforms, advertising agencies with specialization in Loyalty, CRM and Digital Marketing, managing media and marketing for leading local and global brands. For over 4 years now, Shruti has been actively involved in Digital marketing at Ford. The most recent accomplishment being the Best Search Marketing Campaign Award at the 8th IAMAI Awards, held in Jan 2018.

Tuhina is the Head of Global Corporate Communications at Tech Mahindra.
Prior to Tech Mahindra, Tuhina was the Vice President at Media Training Worldwide, and Associate Editor at Aegis News Network. Tuhina has also worked as an anchor and a business journalist in the capacity of an Associate editor –Technology for NDTV PROFIT and NDTV.
A person of many facets, she is also the founder and curator of tucom.in. Tucom is a well-known and renowned specialist firm that works with CEOs, Top level executives, CXOs and Board Members on executive and leadership communications.
Tuhina is an expert on Business Intelligence and analytics and was previously the Sales Head ofBI & Analytics Division at Tech Mahindra in Europe. She was also the founding member of an Analytics start –up, Ananto.
Tuhina’s broad-based professional experience includesBusiness Journalism, Media Training that involves Presence and Presentation, Executive & Leadership communication, Marketing and Corporate Communication, Digital Communication and Business Intelligence and Analytics consulting & sales across industries.
Tuhina is a ‘presenter’ and a ‘story teller’ with global experience and understanding of diverse sensibilities. A thinker and a believer, one of the main ideologies that inspires Tuhina is the power of communication – which can drive the course of history. She wants to contribute with her experience in bridging the gap between business and creativity and help individuals and organizations tell the most powerful stories in a way that moves people to action and understanding.
Tuhina loves to write, photograph, observe and understand human behaviour. Her areas of interest are business, politics, literature, documentaries and films, psychology, travel and most importantly the evolving craft of communication.She has published work with University of Pune ‘Bullish on Business’ - A study on Business and Economic News on Indian Television in post liberal India.
Tuhina has a Masters in Communication studies, Media Research and holds a Major in Accountancy.

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As a seasoned professional, Pawan comes with over 15 years of experience in Advertising, Marketing and Communications, and has been associated with National Geographic for almost 9 years now.

In his current role, Pawan Soni has been leading the charge of the network’s content strategy along with marketing & communication. He has had a focused effort on driving top line growth of multiple brands across various platforms and verticals while shepherding the business through the most exciting and challenging media environment for niche channels. He has been responsible for building a network with continued demand from advertiser, growing consumption across screens with hotstar and shaping cross platform monetization of the channel content, re-building and localization of Nat Geo brand as a strong contender in infotainment category, award winning creative work on both content and brand, new revenues growth on digital and international syndication and social cause led initiatives across consumers, employees and fraternity that underlined the company’s commitment to save our planet.

During his tenure at the organization, Pawan has successfully led roles such as ad sales, distribution strategy, trade marketing and new business development. Before his current role he was the Commercial head for FOX Networks Group, India. He also helped setup Nat Geo’s branded solution business which continues to grow stronger today. At a time when Branded Content was still fairly nascent, he led the wave of strategic brand building through content for brands like Nissan, Ford, Hero & Manipal university.

Prior to joining National Geographic, he was working with JWT as an Account Director where he was looking after the GSK consumer healthcare portfolio with brands like Horlicks & Iodex. At his time with JWT he spearheaded the wave of new product developments for GSK right from concept testing a product to launching brands like Women’s Horlicks, Foodles, Horlicks biscuits.

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