Speakers
Gayatri Sundaram
Head of Content and Experience KidZania US
Head of Content and Experience KidZania US
Ankit Mehrotra
Co-Founder & CEO, Dineout
Ankit Mehrotra is a start-up and tech enthusiast with special interests in understanding customer behaviour across the web and mobile.
He is the co-founder of Dineout, which is India’s Largest Dining Out Platform seating more than a million diners a month across 8000 restaurants in India.
He is the winner of the Education UK Alumni Awards 2016 in which he received the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Additionally, Dineout won the TechRocketship Award and the India Emerging 20 Award, both by the Govt of UK & India in 2018.
Before starting Dineout, he lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas, London, a top tier Investment Bank, in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management managing a portfolio of UHNWI. He is also a CFA charter holder since 2011.
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.
Aditya Kasyap
VP Marketing, Jio Saavan
Aditya Kasyap is the Vice President ofMarketing at JioSaavn, South Asia’s largest digital music streaming service. In hisrole, Adityaspearheads the company’s end-to-end marketing initiatives and is also responsible for building ‘Brand Love’ for JioSaavn amongst its large – and growing – global audience.
Prior to joining JioSaavn, Adityawas associated with Unilever in key leadership roles. During his time at the company, he implemented several successful sales and marketing campaigns across traditional and evolving media to expand the brand’s global user base. He has also handled Unilever’s larger P&L objectives and played an integral role in facilitating its maiden foray into the male hair grooming segment; this includes the re-entry of an iconic brand, Brylcreem, in the Indian market, as well as revamping packaging and best-in-class products.
A BITS Pilani and IIM-Balumnus, Aditya has a great taste in music. He is a professional bass guitarist with his own band, Agam, and has performed in over 300 gigs across the globe.
Varun Jha
Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Growth, Zoomcar
Varun Jha is Chief Marketing officer and Head of Growth at Zoomcar. He is part of the top management at Zoomcar and spear-headsperformance marketing, consumer products, strategic alliances, brand marketing and content. He is also the P&L in-charge of the self-drive rental business at Zoomcar and heads a team of over 45 folks across product and marketing.
With over 12 years of experience, Varun has worked in leadership roles at reputed consumer internet firm like PayU and Snapdeal. In 2015, the global leadership of Naspers (PayU’s Parent group)elevated Varun to take charge of PayU’s global growth marketing function for 16 countries across 4 geographies spanning across Latin America, Central, Eastern Europe and MENA.
Varun has launched and scaled several industry first consumer offering like PayUMoney wallet in 2014 and ZAP Subscribe – car subscription product in 2018.
Ayushman Chiranewala
Head of Product & Marketing – Fastrack, Titan Company Limited
Ayushman Chiranewala, Head of Marketing – Fastrack, is amongst the top 25 Hot Young Marketers, 2018 in the country by Economic Times Brand Equity.
Ayushman has completed his MBA in Marketing and Finance from SCMHRD, Pune. He started his career as an Area Sales Manager at Titan Company Limited in the year 2008 and has been with Titan ever since. He was responsible for brands such as Fastrack Watches and Eyewear, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo.
Later, he moved on to become the Brand Manager for Sonata,India’s largest selling watch brand, where his role primarily focused on launching and taking theSuperfibre range of watches to its 1 millionth sale in year one. In the year 2011, he joined Titan’s international business division as a brand manager, where he was responsible for brand promotion, development of marketing campaigns andconsumer research for international business. After a successful run in the Indian Market, he took over the role of Country Manager for Titan’s global markets.
Since 2016, Ayushman holds the role of Head of Product & Marketing at Fastrack – country’s coolest & buzziest youth brand, leading the brand to new heights of top line & bottom-line achievement and making it the fastest growing brand in the company. He has successfully launched the first smartwatch brand Reflex within Fastrack, and made it the number 2 brand as per IDC within the country.
Kavita Nair
Chief Digital Transformation and Brand Officer – Vodafone Idea Limited
Kavita Nair is the Chief Digital Transformation and Brand Officer of Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s largest telecom service provider.
A member of the National Leadership Team, Kavita leads Digital Transformation across all functions for the organization and drives the strategy, course and communication of its two iconic telecom brands – Vodafone and Idea.
Prior to her present role, Kavita Nair was Associate Director for Commercial Operations at Vodafone India across Customer Operations, Retail, Digital, Customer Experience and Business Transformation. Her primary focus was to deliver a superior experience to customers across all touch points and helping Vodafone to become the Most Loved Telecom Brand in the country.
A career telecom professional, Kavita’s career mirrors the evolution of mobile telephony in India. As the industry matured from basic voice and text to the multifaceted world of data, Kavita played a key role in driving this transformation with a multitude of roles focused on driving innovation and bringing delightful experiences to customers, while creating value for the business. She has held leadership roles in diverse functions across both consumer and enterprise domains. Kavita’s areas of expertise include marketing, digital, retail, pricing, product management, channel and customer operations. She has a strong track record of building some of the most admired telecom brands of the country and Vodafone’s iconic Zoozoos were born during her tenure as the Brand Head at Vodafone India.
Her talent and success has been acknowledged at several prestigious forums - Economic Times included her in its 25 Rising Women Leaders of India Inc. in 2015; Business Today voted her as one of the Hottest Young Executives to watch out for in 2011 and Brand Equity named her amongst the 8 Marketing Premier League Icons in 2009.
Kavita is an alumnus of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), M S University, Baroda where she did her MBA in Marketing and has also completed Senior Leadership Programs from London Business School and IIM Ahmedabad.
Jayraj Jadhav
Vice President, Head Marketing & Digital Business, Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited
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Vishal Dwivedi
Vice President - Marketing & Communications (Digital Marketing), Yes Bank
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Aloke Bajpai
CEO & Co- Founder, Ixigo
Aloke Bajpai is the CEO & Co-Founder of ixigo, India's leading travel search marketplace. A travel industry veteran, he worked in various product & technology roles at Amadeus, France, prior to launching ixigo in 2007. Under his leadership, ixigo has built the most innovative travel technology brand in India. Aloke is also a key investor and advisor for several startups and accelerators. An IIT Kanpur alumnus and MBA graduate from INSEAD, Aloke loves discovering new cultures, creative writing, history and gadgets.
Dante DiCicco
Head of International Expansion, Snapchat
Dante leads international expansion and growth for Snapchat's advertising business.
Dante has been at Snapchat for 4.5+ years where he has held various posts, including building and leading Snap's global brands business, overseeing the revenue strategy for Snap's premium content business, and leading Snap's partnerships with global publishers. Dante was on Snap's IPO team in 2017, and began his career at Snap as a Business Analyst within Corporate Strategy.
Prior to his time at Snapchat, Dante was an Associate at BlackRock within their Financial Institutions Group, overseeing over $40 billion in global Assets Under Management.
Dante received his B.S. from Stanford University
Laxman Tari
Head – Marketing Communication & Brand Management, Legrand Group India
Mr. Laxman Tari is the Head – Marketing Communication & Brand Management of Legrand Group India. A marketing professional with diverse industrial knowledge across finance, paints and electrical industry, Laxman is associated with Legrand Group for over a period of three years. As part of the Legrand India, he is responsible for the brand and communication strategy for Legrand India & Indo Asian. With expertise in marketing strategy, brand and product management, schemes, incentive & loyalty programs, activation campaigns, digital marketing, communication and advertising, Mr. Tari has successfully launched campaigns around the domains. Laxman has worked with different set of consumers including end customers, influencers, dealers of B2B and B2C category. Prior to this, Laxman was associated with Kansai Nerolac Paints, Shalimar Paints and Kotak Life.
Rahul Mishra
Head of Marketing & Comms, Shemaroo Entertainment Limited
Rahul Mishra is an experienced marketing professional with demonstrated history of enabling brands to excel in Media & Entertainment sector. Prior to Shemaroo , Rahul has had a successful stints with BBC Global News where was he the Marketing Manager APAC and has also led marketing for IndiaCast Media (a viacom18 & TV18 venture). He is an expert in marketing management, channel launches , digital strategy and partnerships. Rahul is an alumnus of INSEAD & IMI.
Saurabh Mittal
Head - Open Banking, Remittance and KYC, PhonePe
Experienced in product & business strategy, tech investments across APAC. Currently in a P&L ownership role with PhonePe McKinsey: Focused on TMT and automative sectors in Corporate Finance and Strategy
PayPal: Led India Strategy and M&A as part of APAC Strategy & BD team PhonePe: Head of Banking business across bank accounts, KYC, cross border remittances Investing: Worked on several large ticket investment / acquisition opportunities at PayPal, briefly managed investor relations at Urban Ladder Specialties
Growth strategy | Strategy | Tech M&A | Startup-funding | Consumer Tech | Payments | E-commerce | Internet of Things Academic record:
- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (Top 10% of class)
- B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT, Warangal (merit scholar)
Yogesh Manwani
Head AVOD, News and Stories, ZEE5 India
Yogesh Manwani is a Business and Management professional who has spent 20+ years thus far continually honing and using his skills of understanding human behaviour to build brands, curate content and grow businesses.
A UCLA Anderson alumnus, he has successfully shouldered and delivered the responsibility for business growth, market share leadership, revenue & profitability by leveraging his skills, experience and ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic, complex and collaborative environment.
He comes with a unique experience profile spanning Advertising, IT and Media. Previously, he has worked in established global organisations such as The Walt Disney Company (Star India - formerly owned by 21CF), Lowe Advertising (IPG), Ogilvy (WPP) and Planetasia (Microland).
While being a Marketing expert, he has learnt and shouldered responsibilities of other functions like Content Marketing, Business Planning & Strategy, Distribution and Experiential Marketing. Yogesh has managed responsibilities across various content genres - Hindi News, Regional News, Regional Entertainment, Hindi Entertainment & English Entertainment. And also across mediums - TV & digital. In these roles he has successfully undertaken varied challenges like business turn around, brand strategy, customer acquisition, customer retention, market development & affiliate marketing.
He is a UCLA Anderson alumnus and has completed PGPX program from there. He has done his PGDBA from MET and graduation in B.Com honours from University of Mumbai.
Sarada Prasad
Vice President - Performance Marketing at Ventes Avenues
In a professional career spanning more than 10 years, Sarada has been working on various verticals like FMCG, Insurance, Telecom VAS and now in digital marketing with his current capabilities at Ventes Avenues. Sarada is an avid learner and professional marketer who excelled in performance marketing and technology despite coming from a non-technical background. He has spearheaded the domestic and international business expansion for Ventes Avenues performance business since its inception. Putting footholds in south east asia markets like Indonesia, China and Vietnam. Changing trends in performance marketing industry and new technology has been his interest area of learning in the performance marketing business.
