Nipun Marya
Director, Brand Strategy
Vivo Mobile India Pvt. Ltd.
Nipun Marya’s role is to formulate the Brand Strategy for vivo in this ultra-competitive, dynamic, and challenging mobile handset market. He is in charge of strategy formulation that covers all aspects of the marketing spectrum from improving brand funnel metrics to strengthening brand imagery scores by leveraging various mediums such as Brand sponsorships, Celebrity Engagements and advertising across multiple mediums such as TV, Digital and On-ground, amongst others.
In a short span of two years, Nipun has been instrumental in driving the meteoric growth of vivo as the fastest growing brand in the Indian smartphone industry. vivo has not only been widely recognized as the fastest growing brand but has also occupied the number one position in the 20k-30k price segment continuously for the last one year.
His passion for innovation and technology has steered some of the significant investments and initiatives for vivo in India, which are in alignment with vivo’s vision of providing extraordinary experiences to its customers. These initiatives, apart from resulting in an increased market share for vivo have also brought awards such as the ‘Most Progressive Brand’ and the ‘Most Innovative Brand’ by the coveted Mobility Excellence Awards and Smartprix People’s Choice Awards, respectively.
Nipun comes with an industry experience of over a decade across various functions like product planning, product development, product marketing, sales and marketing communications which give him an in-depth understanding of this sector and help him devise diamond-cut brand and marketing strategies to catapult vivo in its India journey.
Earlier, Nipun has held other leadership positions at various consumer technology companies like Samsung India and Lava International Limited.
Nipun holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, the University of Delhi where he was an IFCI scholarship holder. He has done his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.
Abhishek Gupta
Chief Marketing Officer
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance
Abhishek Gupta, currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance, has nearly two decades of experience in the Sales and Marketing function. He has been associated with Edelweiss Group since 2015, and took charge as the CMO of Edelweiss Tokio Life in May 2018.
At Edelweiss, he has been credited with building a sport narrative for the brand and linking it to several marketing strategies both centrally and for businesses.
A passionate marketer with an unflagging desire to do something ‘different’, Abhishek has an innate belief in the power of understanding a customer’s mind-set. His marketing strategies are heavily influenced by a drive to align with customer expectations and influence them positively.
Before assuming his role at Edelweiss, he was part of the senior leadership at The Mobile Store (Essar Group) and led the company’s marketing function. He has worked with several other notable brands in retail and financial services sectors namely ICICI Bank, Shoppers Stop Ltd, Spencers Retail Ltd, and Wal-Mart India.
Two of the most reputed forums – World Brand Congress and CMO Council of Asia – have recognised Abhishek as one of the 25 Most Outstanding Marketing Professionals of India in 2013-2014. He has also been included in the India’s most Influential marketing leaders listing by World Marketing Congress in 2017-2018.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Pune University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing.
Balesh Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
Vodafone Idea Limited
Balesh Sharma is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s largest telecom service provider, effective 31 August 2018.
Balesh’s professional experience of over two and half decades spans across cultures and geographies, building a strong track record of transformational leadership, successful turnarounds and leading for impact.
Earlier, Balesh was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Vodafone India, a Director on the board of Vodafone India Ltd and a member of its Executive Committee. He was responsible for leading the Circle operations, Service Delivery, Marketing, Commercial and Enterprise functions including development of new business initiatives and driving innovation across the organization.
Having joined Vodafone (then Hutch) in 2003, Balesh has held several senior management positions in India and internationally including as the Business Head of Gujarat Circle and as the Chairman and CEO of Vodafone Malta. Prior to taking over his present role, he was the Chairman and CEO of Vodafone Czech Republic, where he successfully transformed the business and delivered strong market share growth with net promoter score leadership and strong employee engagement.
Prior to joining telecom, Balesh gained valuable sales experience in Office automation with Xerox and Ricoh as well as imbibed holistic entrepreneurial learning from then new age technology start-ups.
An alumnus of Mayo College, Balesh completed his Engineering and MBA from the Rajasthan University. He likes to spend time travelling with his family, and enjoys yoga and golf.
Kedar Apte
Vice President- Marketing- India & South Asia
Castrol
Comming Soon...
Anupam Bokey
CMO
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group FMCG
Anupam is a seasoned and passionate marketer with over 24 years of experience across global FMCG giants such as Unilever and Danone. He has worked across various marketing domains such as global & regional brand development, brand building and customer development & sales. He has successfully launched and led over a dozen brands including some iconic ones like Dove, Clinic Plus, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent, Vim, Pureit, Too Yumm! in over 25 different countries.
Anupam’s current role at Guiltfree Industries (RPSG) is focused on overall strategy and marketing leadership for the company. He began with ‘Too Yumm!’ and has successfully turned it into the fastest growing FMCG brand in India with high-impact campaigns such as #WhyChipsVirat within its first year of launch.
During his tenure, Anupam has received several awards and recognitions, including Golden Peacock awards for Innovations, I-Award (UK), Water Digest Awards, Effie. In addition to that he has also received accolades at the Indian Marketing Awards, Prime Time Awards and Kaleido 2019 for the #WhyChipsVirat campaign.
Arun Gupta
CEO and Founder
MoMAGIC Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation
serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of
Director MediaTek, for close to a decade.
Known as one of the oldest hats as far as Mobile Technology segment is concerned, in the telecom circle, Mr. Arun Gupta, today is deeply respected and valued as a pragmatic and progressive entrepreneur, having established successful Data Science driven technology company, which focuses on mobile platform operation and mobile Internet service with offices across Asia. The company is steadily creating a mark in the AD Tech (mobile advertising and marketing) segment, having reputed brands such as Uber, Opera, PhonePe, UC, Swiggy, Sharechat, and MakeMyTrip etc. in its kitty.
Within a span of 8+years of establishing a successful company with MediaTek and FoxConn, as its strategic partner Mr. Gupta forayed and diversified the business into retail – Magic Tel and healthcare – Life Guard Wellness and in Education. Incubated a B2C platform –mChamp Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. - connecting brands to consumers, which today boasts of a steady B2C engagement. He strategically entered into a JV in Bangladesh in 2012 and today its e-commerce platform Pickaboo.com in Bangladesh, (launched in 2016), is the No2. e-commerce venture in the country.
Mr. Gupta being truly an entrepreneur at core and a role model for today’s youth is committed to contribute to India’s Mobile Internet journey and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in a significant way. Mr. Gupta, as Chief Mentor introduced Indian App League in 2015, with the objective to encourage and bring into the forefront, Student startups right @Campus stage, encouraging more innovative apps and games from the Indian Market.
Arun Gupta is credited with being the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI. His expansive experience and profound knowledge base in Product Development and Mobile Technology ensures that MoMAGIC offers a business edge to its partners.
Darshana Shah
Head of Marketing
Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited
Darshana Shah has been the Head of Marketing at the Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited (ABHICL) since Jan-2016. ABHICL is a joint venture (JV) between Aditya Birla Group and MMI Holdings of South Africa.
In her role as Head Marketing, she is driving the key agendas as a ‘Customer Custodian’ in areas of Product Marketing, Channel and Customer Management, Contact Centre, Digital Marketing and Corporate Communications.
Overall, Darshana has 21 plus years of rich experience in marketing, brand & communication. She started her career in 1996 in IT education sector and post that forayed in Retail for the last 15 years. Darshana is the recipient of prestigious ‘Aditya Birla Capital Awards 2018’ in the ‘Functional Excellence’ category and ‘Aditya Birla Group Award 2018’ in the ‘Exceptional Contributors’ category.
Prior to joining Aditya Birla Health Insurance, Darshana was with Hypercity Retail as Sr. Vice President - Marketing and Visual Merchandising. In this role, she was a part of the leadership team and “customer custodian” of Brand Hypercity, leading the marketing, CRM, analytics, visual merchandising and digital marketing functions. Prior to her stint with Hypercity Retail, Darshana has worked with organizations such as Reliance Retail, Future Group and Shoppers Stop.
Darshana has done her Bachelors in Science from Mithibai College and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from NMIMS and also Diploma in ‘Early Child Care’ education from Mumbai University. She has a crazy affinity for beaches, and If not at work she is travelling to some new country as she has a long bucket list and loves meeting people from different culture.
Vikram Tanna
VP, Head of Advertising Sales and Business Head of Regional Clusters, South Asia
Discovery Communications India
Vikram Tanna has led Product and Revenue functions across Digital, Broadcast, Gaming and Music verticals in the media and entertainment business. In his current role with Discovery inc, he heads advertising sales across television and digital platforms for a product suite compromising 11 unique content channels spanning multiple genres including – factual entertainment, lifestyle, and kids entertainment.
Before Discovery, Vikram was Senior Vice President at Star India, leading Product & Revenue for three major channel clusters - Hindi Movies & Music and HSM Regional Channels (West Bengal & Maharashtra). During his stint at Star India, he also led the revenue function for other verticals including digital, events and English premium content. He has also held a senior leadership position at Zapak Digital Entertainment’s gaming ventures.
Vikram is an alumnus of ISB. He speaks at management institutes across the country on diverse topics relevant to the media and entertainment industry.
Karan Kumar Gupta
Managing Director
ZIRCA Digital Solutions
Karan Kumar Gupta is the Managing Director of two independent media companies, ZIRCA
Digital Solutions and AIDEM Ventures. Young and ambitious, he comes from a firstgeneration entrepreneurial family that continues to disrupt the status quo and promote change. His biggest asset is his ability to imagine the future of businesses and strategically invest in them. Using his rich expertise across advertising, broadcast, and digital, he has identified opportunities, secured strategic relationships for his companies across the world, and created
efficient and sustainable businesses.
He applies his leadership acumen to foster innovation in his multiple businesses, strategically diversifying across media and real estate. His ability to unlock the power of partnerships and people has created successful long-term relationships with some of India’s largest broadcasters and agencies, as well as globally recognized brands such as Microsoft and The Economist. He has continued the trend of strategic foresight by growing ZIRCA’s programmatic and search portfolios over the last two years; this has led to profitability from new streams of business within the digital sphere.
His intuitive ability to visualize the future, his risk-taking appetite, and his expertise in finding new ways to create wealth and profit, make him a compelling presence in the Indian media, marketing, and advertising industry.
Prathyusha Agarwal
Chief Marketing Officer
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.
Prathyusha Agarwal is the Chief Marketing Officer at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) driving viewer led brand and business growth for the company. She has been a part of the ZEEL family since January 2017 and leads the marketing function for the Domestic Broadcast business while spearheading key strategic initiatives and driving marketing capabilities across the company.
Prathyusha comes with over 17 years of professional experience across leading global and Indian MNCs across sectors as diverse as FMCG, Consulting, Insurance, and Media and Entertainment. Prior to joining ZEEL, she was Head-Marketing at TataUniStoreLtd -Tata’s ecommerce venture where she launched the much-awaited TataCLiQ in a hyper-competitive ecommerce market. As VP–Marketing and Analytics at HDFC Life, Prathyusha revived the ailing brand by making ‘SarUthaKeJiyo’ relevant to the new age males. Driving network brand strategy for Star India, Prathyusha led StarPlus to leadership in 2010 with the ‘RishtaWahiSochNayi’ Channel Refresh and spearheaded the Star corporate brand revamp and portfolio brand strategy. In her enriching career path, Prathyusha was Founder Director of allOK Tech Support, worked with MarketGate Consulting and honed marketing skills at HUL over 5 years in different sales and marketing roles.
Prathyusha did her post-graduation from IIM Ahmedabad and her graduation in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.
Rama Paul
VP – ANN Marketing & Marketing Services
ABP News Network
Coming Soon...
Rohan Jain
Marketing Head, English Cluster
Sony Pictures Networks India
Rohan Jain is responsible for driving the marketing strategy for SPN’s English Cluster, comprising Sony PIX, AXN and Sony BBC Earth.
He is a marketing professional withan expertise in Product Management, Brand Management, Customer Segmentation and Consumer Lifecycle Management. With over 14 years of extensive experience in consumer marketing, Rohan thrives in influencing consumer behaviour by understanding consumer lifecycle and building experiences that deliver on the brand promise.
Prior to joining SPN, Rohan was with Vodafone Idea where he was leading marketing for the East region.Prior to that, he headedmarketing for the Mumbairegion, and has worked extensively in improving internet penetration via consumer segmentation, pricing and communication.
An engineering graduate from Shri GovindramSeksaria Institute of Technology and Science Indore (SGSITS), Rohan holds an MBA degree from IIM Lucknow.
Rohan has a passion for long distance running,with many marathons under his belt. He also likes to play squash and read about history and politics.
Shamik Banerjee
Chief Marketing Officer
Reliance Health Insurance
Shamik is amongst the founding member of Reliance Health Insurance Company. During the last 32 months with Reliance Health he has worked towards creating automagic health insurance by using technology disruptively. He evangelised the need for paperless health insurance distributed over an omni-channel model with a single view of customer. He has been instrumental in creating the Data-lake at Reliance Health Insurance that has enabled single customer view with fully automated marketing capability based on data intelligence. In the past, Shamik has also been a founder member of Apollo Munich Health Insurance and helped them evolve as a premier insurance brand in India.
Shamik has been instrumental in creating multiple customer facing brands like Iffco Tokio, Apollo DKV & Apollo Munich, Aegon Life and now Reliance Health insurance. He is a believer of data driven decisions and now working towards identifying the new balance between brand and data.
Sanjeev Dhiman
Chief Marketing Officer
Cox & Kings
Multi Industries, Multi Geographies & Multi Cultural experience in corporates including The Times of India Group ( Media), Network18 (Homeshop18) and TATA Group ( telecom), Dr.Batras Healthcare & now with Cox & Kings ( Travel.) Handled Marketing & P&L responsibility for India and International markets. Successfully developed and launched multiple products and services in a global environment.
Some of the fundamental market shifts includes:
- Group CMO , led marketing and business shifts for the Group Companies at Dr. Batras Healthcare across India, UAE & UK
- Biz Head International Retail & Global Head Online Strategy: Lateral & Geographical expansion of International Retail Voice – Tata Communications
- Founding Member of 1st. Home Shopping channel in India – HomeShop18 & Biz Head homeshop18.com
- Founding member of Digital Business for Times Group – Indiatimes
- Founding Member of E commerce business for Times Internet Ltd. Indiatimes Shopping
- Founding member of Radio in India with Times FM/Radio Mirchi - Times of India Group
Vikram Bahl
Area Marketing Lead- Nutrition and Digestive Health
GSK Consumer Healthcare
Vikram has over 23 years of experience in Marketing and Advertising. Prior to joining GSK, Vikram worked with Kellogg in the role of Global Innovation Lead for wholesome and savoury snacks, based out of the HQ in the US. In the past he has led companies like Gillette, P&G and Kellogg, across a wide range of roles and geographies including Asia, Europe and the US.
Vikram has done his MBA from IIM Bangalore and is an alumnus of St Stephen’s College
He joined GSK CH India in 2017 as Area Marketing Lead for Nutrition and Digestive Health for ISC.
Vishwajeet Parashar
Head- Marketing
Bajaj Capital
Self-starter and performance driven marketer with over 17 years of success in developing highly successful marketing programs and advertising campaigns. Consistently delivering high impact comprehensive strategies to position products and marketing to achieve targeted sales growth, while maintaining corporate and brand integrity. Recognized for utilizing innovative approaches and smart business decisions to achieve market positioning and sales targets.
He has been a regular on both print and electronic media as keynote speaker on various topics & personal finance shows. In marketing parlance, he has successfully conducted multiple seminars & webinars on topics such as CX, Digital marketing, Fintech & customer strategy.
Varghese Chandy
Vice President, Marketing, Advertising Sales
Malayala Manorama
With over 2.3 million copies and over 18 million readers, Malayala Manorama is the largest circulated/read regional language Daily in Indian Credited with the founding of Junction K, the integrated Media solutions Platform of the group Served as The Chairman, coordination committee of National Readership Survey and technical committee member of IRS.
Trustree, Pepper creative awards Trustee, CBM an International disability inclusive development Organization Awards Won:
Media Marketer of the Year at ‘Emvies’, Mumbai Ad Club,
Best Research Paper award at Worldwide Readership Research Symposium 2009 held in Spain
Pankaj Singh Parihar
Vice President & Head - Digital Marketing & Transformation
Godrej Consumer Products Limited
Pankaj Singh Parihar, is a digital business leader, with over 18 years of experience, with the last 14 yrs in Digital industry. Pankaj, is currently part of the Leadership Team at Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL)s. He heads digital center of excellence & digital transformation at GCPL & Godrej Group. Pankaj, also leads complete lifecycle of Digital marketing for various brands at GCPL.
Before joining Godrej group, Pankaj was a VP and Business head – at OmnicomMediaGroup (OMD | PHD) India, and was also business head for Unilever India digital business & other key clients, for Omnicom group. In the past, he has worked with marketing communications giants like WPP Digital, O&M, Times of India Group.
He is a multi award winner true-blue digital native and a thought leader in this space. He also contributes to various industry bodies in India - IAMAI, MMA, Ad:tech, et cetera through active participation & bringing in thought leadership. He is a regular at Marketing jury panel and speaks on digital and transformation at various industry events.
He also teaches digital marketing at various top B schools in India like SP Jain, Symbiosis et cetera . He considers himself as an “Hyperadopter”, is a petrol head, and a food & fitness enthusiast.
Karthik Lakshminarayan
VP Media Planning & Strategy - Vibrant
Reliance Jio
Won the prestigious Cannes award for digital category for Madison
Have also won many awards and accolades at the Venice Media Festival and at the EMVIES
Business Head of 'COLORS' at Launch
Launched India's first Food n Lifestyle channel 'FOODFOOD'
Part of Core team that won the P&G media biz for Chaitra Leo Burnett
Specialties: Media, Marketing, Business Planning and Strategy,Broadcasting and Production
Sai Narayan
Chief Marketing Officer
Paisabazaar.com
As CMO of Paisabazaar.com, Sai spearheads Brand, Marketing, Digital and Social Media efforts at Paisabazaar.com. He carries over 14 years of experience across Brand Management, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Social Media and PR functions.
Prior to taking over this role, Sai was Associate Director & Head of Marketing at Policybazaar.com Group. He has also worked within marketing and brand management roles at leading insurance companies, Max Life insurance and Aviva India.
During the early part of his career, he has also worked with leading advertising agencies like JWT and Publicis India.
Sai is recognised marketing thought leader and has spoken at various Marketing, Brand, Social Media, Digital & eCommerce events across India.
Sai was recognised amongst Social Samosa's 40 Under 40 list. In addition to this, has was also recognised as the Most Influential Marketer in the Financial Services category.
Anup Rau
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited
Anup Rau is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited, a joint venture between Future Group – the game changer in Retail Trade in India and Generali – a 188 years old global insurance group featuring among the world’s 50 largest companies.
An industry veteran, Anup, has a career spanning over 23 years of which the last 18 years have been with leading insurance companies. Prior to joining Future Generali India Insurance, he was associated with Edelweiss General Insurance as a Chief Executive Officer. He has also worked with Reliance Nippon Life Insurance, HDFC Life and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance in key leadership positions.
Anup holds an Honours degree in Economics from Delhi University. He has also done MBA in Marketing from Mumbai University.
Sagar Boke
Head Of Marketing - Consumer Products Business and Business Head - Spices
Tata Chemicals
Business leader with core experience in FMCG Sales & Marketing. Diverse experience of working across categories, geographies & work environments. Enjoys challenges that involve setting up businesses/functions and business turnaround. Highly passionate professional with clarity of thoughts & direction.