Sunil Kataria is the CEO of Lifestyle Business at Raymond. At present Sunil has embarked upon steering the next wave of growth at Raymond by strengthening the brand’s presence in domestic and international markets. The lifestyle business is the flagship vertical of Raymond Group which includes branded textiles, garmenting, shirting, retail and apparel business. The business includes brands such as Raymond, Raymond Ready-to-Wear, Raymond Made to Measure, Park Avenue, ColorPlus, Parx and Ethnix by Raymond. Sunil’s role will be pivotal in driving the ongoing transformation to create a future ready Raymond that intersperses digital and physical experiences while infusing freshness to the product portfolio to drive growth. With customer centricity at the core, Raymond has been driving an enterprise-wide transformation aimed at harnessing the unprecedented digital opportunity. Kataria has been associated with brands like Godrej, Idea Cellular, Marico and VIP in the past and is also the Chairman of Indian Society of Advertisers.

Ambareesh Murty, an entrepreneur in e-commerce, launched Pepperfry in 2012. With over 14 years of general management experience in the FMCG, financial services & Internet industries, Ambareesh has played a pivotal role in establishing Pepperfry as India’s leading eCommerce furniture and home goods company. He specializes in marketing, sales management, and corporate strategy.

Ambareesh began his career with Cadbury in sales and marketing, followed by a stint with Prudential ICICI AMC (now ICICI Prudential) as VP Marketing & Customer Service.

Prior to founding Pepperfry, Ambareesh was the Country Manager of eBay India, Philippines and Malaysia, where he step-jumped eBay’s growth by tailoring products and processes to local requirements while delivering a superior customer experience. During his tenure with eBay he also served as the Vice Chairman of the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

Previously, he was the brand leader of Levi Strauss India, responsible for product development, marketing, and retail strategies for the brand. His stint with Britannia industries as the marketing manager-mass markets involved him to be responsible for segment P&L and strategy definition.

Ambareesh holds a B.E. from the Delhi College of Engineering and is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Rasika Iyer , is the CMO of Tata Consumer Soulfull Private Ltd since April 2021. In her previous role she served as the co-founder and CMO of Kottaram Agro Foods (Soulfull) for ten years.. She is instrumental in bringing to life Soulfull’s concept of packaging India’s ancient grains in a form that is appealing to the consumer. Rasika has been instrumental in devising the marketing strategies and leading all the marketing initiatives for Soulfull. Till 2018 Rasika was single handedly running the marketing for Soulfull .She has 2 kids aged 3 and 7 and it was this role that intriqued her to bring Soulfull and the healthy products to the forefront and make heath more fun and accessible

Post her MBA in marketing Rasika has worked in various field of advertising and communication which gives her the 360 perspective of branding and marketing. She started her career with Adfactors PR and moved on to being an outdoor advertising expert at Laqshya media. The exciting journey as Activations head at Ogilvy to becoming a Digital Advertising planner at Euro RSCG San Francisco completed the 360 experiences in media, communications and advertising. The stint that started in Mumbai and extended to San Francisco helped her get a holistic understanding of consumers across markets. Having worked on FMCG brands like HUL, Cadburys, Castrol, Fortune, Method Organics to name a few has helped in having the relevant experience that can be applied to her current role.

Aadit Palicha is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zepto - India’s fastest-growing e-grocery company valued at $900 Million following its recent Series-D fundraise of $200M, making it a total of $360M from marquee global investors including Y Combinator Continuity, Kaiser Permanente, Nexus Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital, and Lachy Groom.

Palicha, a Stanford University dropout, cofounded Zepto in 2021, an enhanced version of its initial grocery startup called Kiranakart that was created to make grocery delivery a seamless experience.

Since its inception, Aadit has been the driving force behind taking Zepto to India’s major cities and building a cohesive, high-performance leadership team. Focused on growth and innovations, he spearheads the company’s diverse functions, including business strategy, compliance, delivery approach and expansion across India. His sharp focus on building an ace grocery delivery model in India and tapping the enormous hyper-delivery opportunity has led Zepto to deliver noteworthy success.

Aadit is a Computer Science drop-out from Stanford University, USA, and a Y-Combinator Alum.

Amit Doshi was appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer at Britannia Industries Limited on 17^th January 2022. He is a marketing and sales leader with 19 years of diverse business & capability building experience in key innovation, brand marketing, digital, sales, and customer development roles. In his previous assignment, he was Director, Marketing, and part of the Indian leadership team and Asia-Pacific marketing leadership team at Lenovo. He has also worked with Perfetti Van Melle in the past. Amit Doshi has gained experience in Consumer (B2C), Enterprise, Small & Medium Business (SMB), and Tablet business units at Lenovo and brings a valuable understanding of consumers and markets across product categories.

Gaurav Anand is Chief Digital & Marketing Officer at L’Oréal India and drives the integration of consumer insights, data, strategy, media, and consumer advisory functions to enable L’Oréal’s digital-first brands to deliver accelerated growth on online platforms.

Gaurav moved to L’Oréal India from PepsiCo Europe where he led the snacks business for central Europe and digitization of sales strategy for Europe.

With experience across multiple geographies and diverse categories, he has built core expertise in business strategy & development, customer acquisition, and growing brands with digital & data. One of the key components throughout his career is leveraging digital across all business and people touchpoints to drive disruptive and profitable business growth and create the best place to work for digital and marketing enthusiasts.

Previously, he led digital marketing for P&G SK-II Global Brand (Premium Skincare) in Singapore. He has also led the business development function for Facebook in different geographies in FMCG, Consumer Goods, and Tech companies. He has created a scalable model for both digitally savvy and digital enthusiast clients across Southeast Asia to build both personalized awareness as well as data-backed conversion marketing

Nitin Saini is Vice President - Marketing at Mondelez India Foods Private Ltd and is a member of the India Country Leadership Team.

He started his journey as a management trainee and has been a part of the Mondelēz team for over 19 years. During his tenure, he’s worked with Marketing and Sales teams across different portfolios, building experiences across brands, categories, and sales verticals.

Prior to this role, Nitin was in US leading the iconic Oreo brand globally and part of the Global Marketing leadership team. In this time, Oreo saw double digit growth over 3 years and was awarded ‘Kantar - Brand of the Decade’ award at Cannes in 2022.

He holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Tamanna Dhamija is an ex-investment banker turned community leader and now a community entrepreneur.

he built one of the largest parenting communities Baby Destination, with 2 million mothers across 28 communities, organically and started working with brands, enabling them to actively engage meaningfully in Baby Destination communities.

In 2020, she decided to productize her learnings and founded Convosight.

Convosight is the world’s first and only platform that enables Community Creators across Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Telegram and more to monetize through brand partnerships, meaningfully. Convosight has aggregated over 900 million members, across more than 100,000 communities in more than 75 countries. Convosight has been working with Fortune 500 brands globally like Unilever, Nestle, Reckitt Benckiser, ITC Limited, and more

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Jaya has 17 years of experience, across the country and in global roles at Castrol and Unilever, delivering profitable growth through Purpose‐driven Marketing, Digital Transformation & Influencer Advocacy, and has led Castrol to win many prestigious awards including a hat-trick at the Asia Pacific Effies.

An alumni of IIML, Jaya also teaches at IIML and IIMA as guest faculty.

A Strong advocate of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, especially for the LGBTQI community, she is on the advisory board of Samavesh, a not-for-profit chamber of commerce, focused on the development of business & policy ecosystem for the community.

A Busy Mom, Travel enthusiast, and Amateur blogger, Jaya supports the cause of Endometriosis and Women’s health very passionately.

Manasi Narasimhan is Vice President and head of Marketing and Communications for Mastercard South Asia. In this role, she is tasked with building and driving the equity of the Mastercard brand across six countries, and continually finding ways of delivering business value to Mastercard’s customers – banks, other financial institutions, merchants and consumers.

She joined Mastercard in October 2017 and is responsible for all advertising, promotions, co-marketing campaigns and all communication both internal (employees) as well as external (all media relations). Her responsibilities include positioning Mastercard as a key supporter and partner of the government’s digital & cashless India initiatives, enhancing the equity of Mastercard, working with the bank and merchant teams on unlocking growth and finding ways to drive long term revenue with consumer and customers.

Manasi began her career with Hindustan Unilever Limited, where she held several positions in sales and marketing. More recently, she was with the Godrej Group in a leadership role, heading the corporate brand.

Manasi holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a BA (H) degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

Nikhil is the GM Marketing at Clovia. He is a growth-oriented marketing professional with over 10 years of experience in Brand Marketing & Advertising. With a proven track record of successful brand launches through the development & deployment of 360-degree marketing campaigns, Nikhil is passionate about adding value to brands through innovative content and uncluttered communication.

Nikhil has successfully executed both offline and online marketing strategies for national campaigns while building high performance cross-functional teams & a strong network of vendors across the globe. At Clovia, Nikhil is responsible for leading integrated marketing to grow brand awareness, consideration & advocacy.

Prior to joining Clovia, Nikhil was heading Media Planning at CARS24 and was responsible for New User Acquisition. He was instrumental in the launch of the brand's campaign with MS Dhoni as well as the strategic partnership with the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad. Nikhil has also dabbled in entrepreneurship, successfully building a 360-degree advertising agency. He anchored campaigns for marquee traditional brands across sectors like auto, FMCG & retail.

Nikhil holds an MBA degree from IBS Hyderabad & a PG certificate in Digital Marketing & Communication from MICA.

Mr. Virat Khullar is one of the dynamic personalities of Indian Automobile Industry having a professional experience of over 2 decades. During the past 23 Years, Mr. Virat has worked with Hyundai Motors India Limited, Renault India, TATA Motors & Maruti Suzuki India Limited. With exposure of various verticals such as Marketing, Brand & Product management and Sales Operations, Mr. Virat has a 360 degree profile with contributions to all verticals of Sales & Marketing

Over the past 12 months, Mr. Virat has been key in making “Beyond Mobility” a reality for Hyundai Motor India. Mr. Virat’s team has worked on establishing the youth connect by launching vehicles on Meta, 3D anamorphic OOH for Venue and E-Sports Integration. Namaste Installation at IGI Airport New Delhi reflects the deep rooted understanding of Indian culture while the associations with Indian Women Cricketers showcases the Drive Within. The 8th Wonder exploration campaign, Gateway of India Unveil helped position IONIQ5 as an EV Advanced Tech product.

To conclude, whether it is youth connect, Understanding India or meeting the expectations of Luxury buyers, Mr. Virat displays a 360 degree understanding of all the fronts that make him a perfect deserver of the CMO Award 2023

Vijay is a purpose-driven global executive with 10+ years of experience across the FMCG industry & Healthcare in driving profitable growth at fortune 100 companies. He is currently serving as Head of Marketing at P&G Health India. In his previous roles within P&G, Vijay has been responsible for the brand management of multi-million dollar businesses of Vicks, Gillette, and Oral B as well as Brand Operations leader. He has worked physically in multiple countries like Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam & India while handling businesses in ASEAN, ANZ, Japan, Korea, Middle East Asia and Africa.

Vijay is an achiever par excellence, anchoring Vicks rise with campaigns like “Vicks Touch of Care” Innovations like “Vicks Vaporub Extra Strong” & “Vicks Roll-On Inhaler” , setting up digital ecosystem for Gillette in APAC in his previous roles and more recently pioneered industry leading campaigns like “Neurobion Feel Life” and “Livogen Let Her Break Free”.

Passionate to contribute to society, he is a sponsor of two children (in India and Kenya) and one of the founding members of an NGO.

Consumer Marketing professional with over a decade of experience working in FMCG, Retail, F&B & Ad-Tech set-ups with global brands like Puma, L'Oreal, Cafe Coffee Day and recently Bytedance & InMobi. He was voted & awarded as one of India's Most innovative Mar-Tech leaders in 2019 by World Marketing Congress. With a career spanning over 14+ years - Nikhil has worked across multiple functions with his domain expertise primarily being Brand Marketing (digital & offline), Business strategy/ Sales & Go-To Market plan/ execution across consumer goods, retail & start- up eco system. In his recent roles, he has led business functions across India, SEA, EU & has previously led marketing/business functions at Cafe Coffee Day, L'Oreal, Puma, HouseJoy & InMobi.

He currently leads the business of India & Southeast Asia for mediasmart, an Affle company.

With two decades of experience in the sports and media industry, Yannick Colaco co-founded FanCode in March 2019. FanCode is India’s premier digital sports destination committed to giving all fans a highly personalised experience across Sports Content, Commerce and Statistics.

With all his years of experience in the industry, and being an avid sports fan himself, Yannick was determined to help improve the consumption experience of sports fans, an experience which is fragmented and underserviced when it comes to accessibility to content, commerce and building fan communities. Addressing this, along with another industry veteran - Prasana Krishnan, Yannick co-founded FanCode as a brand under Dream Sports.

Yannick’s vision for FanCode is to create a single destination for all the needs of sports fans, thereby connecting the evolved sports audience with relevant sports Content, Commerce and Statistics.

Prior to FanCode, Yannick was part of the International Leadership Team of the NBA and Managing Director of its India business. During his 6-year stint with the NBA, Yannick was instrumental in driving grassroots development of the sport of basketball, setting up of a full-fledged NBA Academy, and building partnerships across licensing, content and marketing initiatives. He was also instrumental in bringing the first-ever NBA Games to India. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Nimbus Sport in the past.