Speakers

Indrajeet Mookherjee is President – Integrated Client Management at dentsu India, with over three decades of experience shaping brands and driving transformation across India and Southeast Asia.
Over the course of his career, he has held senior leadership roles across global networks including Ogilvy, Lowe and dentsu, working across a diverse portfolio of leading global and Indian brands, including Apple, Unilever, Nestlé, Mondelēz, ITC, Toyota, IKEA and Bangalore International Airport.
A strong believer in the power of understanding people, Indrajeet brings together curiosity, consumer insight, and creative thinking to build communication that moves beyond awareness to deliver meaningful business impact. His experience spans brand strategy, integrated communications, and transformation, with a consistent focus on turning a deeper understanding of human motivation into ideas that drive growth.

Anupam Nair is the Chief Marketing & Growth Officer at MTR Foods, part of Orkla India. With nearly two decades of experience in the FMCG sector, he brings deep expertise in brand building, consumer engagement, and business growth.
At MTR Foods, Anupam is responsible for strengthening brand relevance, accelerating portfolio growth and driving market expansion. His remit spans brand strategy, integrated marketing, portfolio innovation and identifying new growth opportunities across channels.
He has a strong track record of translating consumer insights into impactful marketing strategies that drive both brand equity and business performance. His perspective is rooted in combining sharp consumer understanding, creativity and a growth-oriented approach to build brands that remain relevant in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Drawing on his extensive experience across FMCG marketing and growth, Anupam offers valuable perspectives on evolving consumer behaviour, the changing role of marketing leaders and the strategies shaping the next phase of FMCG growth

Ratnesh Pandey is the Vice President of Marketing for Schneider Electric India. In this role, he leads the company’s marketing function, overseeing brand strategy, integrated marketing, digital engagement, customer experience, and commercial excellence to reinforce market leadership as India accelerates its digital, electric, and sustainable transition.
With over 17 years of experience spanning brand leadership, digital transformation, marketing, and corporate communications, Ratnesh has spent nearly 12 years driving growth and transformation within the Schneider Electric ecosystem. Most recently, as Director and Head of Marketing & Communications for Lauritz Knudsen Electrical and Automation, he spearheaded one of the most significant brand launches in India's electrical industry, leading the successful transition from a legacy market leader to the iconic Lauritz Knudsen brand across India, the Middle East, and Africa. Under his leadership, Lauritz Knudsen made a high-impact market debut through marquee platforms including the Indian Premier League (IPL) and a landmark partnership with Mumbai Indians as Principal Partner, rapidly building nationwide awareness, accelerating brand salience, and establishing Lauritz Knudsen as a future-ready industry powerhouse.
Throughout his journey at Schneider Electric, Ratnesh has managed marketing initiatives across diverse domains, including consumer and retail businesses, sustainability, energy management software, buildings, home automation, and strategic growth programmes. His proficiency covers integrated B2B and B2C marketing, channel engagement, and the translation of complex technology-led value propositions into high-impact market outcomes.
Before joining Schneider Electric, Ratnesh held marketing and brand management positions at HCL Infosystems and Digitas India, driving strategies across the technology, financial services, and consumer sectors. He has also completed executive leadership programs at HEC Paris and INSEAD.

Sandra Daniels is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for Enamor. Created in 2001 as a JV with Barbara of Paris – a 70-year-old French heritage lingerie brand, Enamor brought premium fashion lingerie to Indian women. With over two decades of experience, Sandra is a dynamic, passionate, and creative marketing professional who relies on innovation and emerging brand-building solutions. She leads the planning and creative execution at Enamor, establishing the legacy brand as a thought leader in the fashion lingerie segment. Over the years under her leadership and vision, the brand has become synonymous with being fun, fabulous, futuristic, and now unapologetic, having recently onboarded Taapsee Pannu as its brand ambassador. At Enamor, Sandra spearheaded the brand’s largest repositioning project which led to establishing a new brand identity - Fabulous, As I Am. Even today, she motivates her team by stating "The whole idea is to be very agile and to be open and say, look, I'm learning."

Omkar Sardessai leads brand and marketing for Tally Solutions in India, where he is responsible for how one of the country’s most widely used business software brands shows up across every consumer and business touchpoint. He joined Tally in December 2022 and has since owned brand positioning, communication development and the full 360-degree marketing calendar for the business.
He brings over a decade of brand and growth marketing experience built across consumer internet, fintech and technology businesses, including Clear, Medlife, Runnr and Tapzo. That mix has given him an unusually practical view of how brand building and performance marketing work together, and he is known internally for a customer-first approach that starts with research rather than creative instinct.
His work spans brand management, media planning across television, print, radio, digital and OTT, creative development, influencer and social media marketing, and both qualitative and quantitative market research. He also tracks brand health metrics closely and uses them to shape the next cycle of planning, which makes him a credible voice on marketing effectiveness, category building in business software, and how legacy brands stay relevant to a younger, digital-first audience.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Brand positioning and end-to-end brand management
• 360-degree campaign conceptualisation and execution, across ATL and BTL
• Media planning and implementation across TV, print, radio, digital and OTT
• Creative development and communication strategy
• Social media and influencer marketing
• Consumer and market research, qualitative and quantitative
• Brand health tracking, growth strategy and marketing effectiveness
CAREER TRACK
2022 – present Brand Head, India, Tally Solutions
2021 – 2022 Senior Brand Manager, Clear
2017 – 2021 Brand Manager, Medlife.com
2016 – 2017 Manager, Strategy & Marketing, Runnr
2015 – 2016 Manager, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Tapzo
2014 – 2015 Analyst, Retail, Time Inc.
RECOGNITION
• ET Gold Award for Best B2B Campaign
• Best Digital Marketing Campaign
EDUCATION
• PGDBM, Marketing and Finance, Goa Institute of Management (2014)
• B.E., Computer Science, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering (2011)

Russhabh Thakkar is the Founder and CEO of Frodoh World, an experiential content creation platform. Recognizing the immense potential in the intersection of technology and user experience, Russhabh founded Frodoh World in 2020, to bring groundbreaking ideas to life. As the Founder and CEO of Frodoh World, he leads a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing the way consumers experience and interact with technology. Armed with a Master’s degree in Business Management from Mumbai Educational Trust, Russhabh started his career at Isobar, where he diligently navigated numerous campaigns for diverse brands. Prior to founding Frodoh World, he co-founded an advertising technology company, Dialstar Digital. Russhabh is also a member of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), actively contributing to conversations shaping the country’s digital future.
Under his entrepreneurship, Frodoh World is making waves in the connected TV advertising space, seamlessly integrating interactive and engaging digital ads. With an aim to contribute meaningfully to the evolving digital advertising landscape, Russhabh’s vision for the company aligns with the bullish outlook on the CTV space in India. His commitment to innovation and adaptability, positions the company as a trendsetter in harnessing the potential of CTV, ensuring that Frodoh World remains at the forefront of industry advancements.

Varun Nair is the Head of Marketing at Lumio, a Bengaluru-based consumer electronics brand building smart TVs and projectors for the modern Indian home. He leads brand strategy, marketing, and go-to-market for the company, focusing on community, storytelling, and staying close to what consumers actually want.
Before Lumio, Varun spent over a decade building brands across some of India's most competitive categories. He was Head of Brand Marketing at POCO India, where he ran brand strategy, media, community, and partnerships in the smartphone space. Prior to that, he led PR, brand, and digital marketing for the cycles and EV businesses at TI Cycles of India. He also worked at 22feet Tribal Worldwide and Experience Commerce, supporting brands like Toyota, Lexus, Lenovo, MRF, and Amazon. He started his career at Ogilvy.