With over a decade of automotive experience ranging from mass to luxury brands, from two wheelers to four wheelers, in his latest assignment Mr. Abhinandan Gopalsetty has helped make BMW Motorrad the Highest selling premium motorcycle brand in India. He has managed to do by defining SOP’s to enhance customer experience and by extending the brand’s digital reach through different digital-led initiatives. Chief among them being creating awareness through a plethora of activities in a bid to establish the brand in India. Today, BMW Motorrad is at the pedestal position in the Indian Premium motorcycle market.

Adityan is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years of experience across traditional and digital media and communication. He has been a specialist at launching brands for a large part of this time having worked on launches for brands ranging from Jio, Mercedes-Benz, Hasbro, Tata Cliq, Tata Motors, Lodha, Parle Agro, Skoda, Jeep, Anheuser-Busch InBev to name a few.

The work he’s done across these and other brands has won him over two dozen honours local and global and has got him listed in 30 under 30 and 40 under 40 marketing lists in the past.

Prior to this, he was at the NBA where he was the lead for content and distribution partnerships. He led the licensing of NBA rights to Star India and then most recently to Viacom18. He also licensed the NBA 2K League (esports) rights to Loco through 2 cycles, created their first digital weekly basketball analysis show, led the rollout of their first branded content property (which won 2 Promax awards) and signed a partnership with the national broadcaster for non-live content.

He is currently part of the global brand team at BYJU’S where he heads social media, digital brand marketing and brand partnerships across geographies. His focus is to build the brand’s personality and build brand love on digital platforms.

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Anil Kumar Singh comes to [email protected] with more than 17 years of experience in digital advertising. currently working with [email protected] as a National Director of SEO. There he is Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision, and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads, supporting the Client Services team, and playing an active role in New Business opportunities.
He was previously India Head of SEO in Interactive avenues, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands . He had built SEO team & business from scratch and stabilised IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market working with major brands like ICICI BANK, Micromax, Cleartrip, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, GENPACT,Dishtv, Airtel and BookMyshow. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years.
Qualification : Master of Computer Science (M.Sc) Honors

A Digital immigrant, driven by passion, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy and Energize while bringing to the table a pedigree of 22 years across the spectrum of media – print, digital , mobile, event productions , some successful marquee pilot projects. Having worked across multiple functions – ad operations, business operations, content, strategy, sales, event design, media planning & buying, Ankoor has also learnt from the experience of having worked in different cultures and set-ups in national and international environments along with working at cross-functional roles. Ankoor is working with the vibrant and wonderful team at Arm Worldwide and driving the Content Marketing vertical.

Archana Aggarwal is a passionate marketeer with 20+ years of experience. She is responsible for some critical and strategic areas such as media planning and buying, analytics, digital capability building, performance management of the media agencies, etc. Prior to Airtel, she was Country Media Manager for P&G, India. She was instrumental in P&G winning their first Cannes in India in 2006 post which they won many prestigious international awards for the Gillette Shave India Movement. She also led media for the high decibel launch of 4G and Payments Bank in India.

Avi Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Join Ventures. He leads global marketing for Join Ventures and its portfolio companies – IGP.com, IGP for Business and Interflora India.
Recognized among the Top 30 CMOs by IAMAI, Kumar brings over a decade’s experience in online business and marketing leadership roles to Join Ventures.
He is a digital eclectic recognized for converting data to consumer insights to market strategy for growth and has built large brands in the Tech, Content and CPG space. As the Head of SVOD and Brand Marketing for India’s leading OTT platform, ZEE5, he was responsible for the growth of D2C and B2B business through a host of multimedia campaigns and industry first innovations to establish the brand as the streaming platform of choice for millions of consumers in a short span of 3 years. Prior to ZEE5, Avi has led the marketing for India’s largest radio brand Big FM and was instrumental in the growth of Oriflame in India.

Balaji Vaidyanathan is an award winning and accomplished global marketing leader with over 20 years of experience driving ground-breaking integrated marketing campaigns and strategic initiatives, leading from the front to build and inspire global cross-functional teams across complex organizations to enhance brand positioning, value, and revenues. In his current role since February 2019, Balaji is responsible for building the marketing value proposition and growing the brand’s strategic and digital footprint for the CEEMEA region, based out of Dubai. He also drives the marketing efforts for a global strategic project to launch the first ever fintech wealth management platform in Germany as part of a broader European market penetration strategy.

Prior to this, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India based out of Mumbai, since February 2010, responsible for multi-million $ budgets and leading all key brand initiatives including advertising, investor education, events and advisor engagement. In the initial part of his career, he was associated in various capacities with the Edelweiss Group, Lotus Mutual Fund and the Aditya Birla Group, all based in India.

Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, content marketing and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer life-cycle journeys have won him over 100 awards globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness.

Balaji is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. He also holds a Professional Diploma In Digital Marketing and has completed multiple Leadership Development Programs with the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow.

Marketing professional & Automobile Industry Expert with 11 years of successful track record in Brand Development, Product Marketing & Planning, Marketing Communication, Category Management, Marketing Operations, Strategy and Media Advertising. Outstanding performance in CFT leadership, Brand Communication, ATL/BTL, Product Development, Product Launches, Special Editions, Events & Sponsorship, Media Planning, Digital Content, Agency leadership, Celebrity management, Retail Marketing, Luxury & Sports Marketing, Business Planning & CRM. Currently heading Marketing & PR for Harley-Davidson India. Was associated with Nissan Motor India as Head – Marcom for Datsun brand. Prior was Sr. Group Product Marketing Lead & Country Chief Marketing Manager for Hatch, Sedan, Luxury SUV, Sports, Electric Vehicle & Connected Car(Intelligent Mobility) segments leading the product, pricing, Go To Market and project management strategy for Nissan India. Before Nissan, was Sr. Category Brand Head – Commuter motorcycles for World’s largest two wheeler manufacturer (Hero MotoCorp- formerly known as Hero Honda), taking care of brand development, marketing communication, strategy, digital content nationally for the 10-brands portfolio along with key corporate marketing and global business projects. Started career as Marketing Lead for North with focus on regional media, BTL activations, rural, sales support & CRM. Part of strategic projects as a CFT member/leader like CBU Business model, Intelligent Mobility, Scenario Planning, DMS, Dealer websites, Marketing Planning & Budgeting Software, QBR – Commonwealth Games, IPL, MTV Roadies, HIL, Hero World Challenge, FIFA, ICC, Employer Branding, National Dealer Conclaves, Auto shows, Factory Launches, International Marketing & CSR. An MBA in Marketing & Operations; Also a Mechanical Engineering Degree holder along with Executive programs in Digital Marketing & Leadership. Ad Awards Jury & Globally certified GT-R instructor.

Kaushik Chakraborty
Sr. VP Digital | Tata Capital
A digital business leader with over 20 years of extensive cross-functional experience in digital transformation, driving online sales and service excellence. Kaushik has been at the forefront of the digital transformation journeys of organisations like Tata Capital & UTI Mutual Fund. He has set up digital businesses for Retail & Commercial banking consumers from scratch in various organisations and in his current role is driving digital transformation at Tata Capital. He calls himself a “digital-first marketer” as prior to the advent of the digital-social-mobile era he was happily honing his skills in Sales and Service functions of organisations like Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank. An out-of-the-box thinker with a flair for identifying & adopting emerging trends, he has gained a rich and varied experience across NBFC, Consumer Banking, Asset Management and SME Banking spaces during his professional career. A passionate foodie and a hardened sport lover, his passion is to leverage all things digital to improve the customer experience.

Manu has over 20 years of experience in Integrated Marketing Communication, Brand Management, Direct marketing, Public Relations, E-Commerce, and Digital Media. Having worked on both sides i.e: Marketing communication agencies and with Corporate clients, having developed overall brand and communication strategies and implemented Integrated marketing plans for blue chip Brands, in E-commerce, Hospitality, IT & Telecom, Oil & Gas, FMCG, Automobile, BFSI, NGO’s, Education and Entertainment Industries

Currently heads Marketing and Corporate Communications for Hero electric Vehicles.His past experience has been with UTStarcom India as Head-Marketing for India and South Asia, with Bharti Airtel Ltd. as Head-Brand Communications for Enterprise Services BU. 
He has also worked with Chevron Texaco as Brand Manager for Lubricants, and with Result McCann/Solutions Integrated Marketing services, working on brands like, Coke, Shell, Motorola, Channel V, MTV, Intel, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank, Gillette, Oxfam, Save the Children, Sony, ESPN, Yamaha etc. and created and implemented 360 degree marketing programs for these clients.

His hobbies are sports, photography, reading and he is an avid wildlife enthusiast.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuk/

Managed an advertising agency for more than 25 years. Now a strategist consultant for SMEs that want to grow. My competency is marketing & branding, Go To Market (GTM) and business strategy for small and medium enterprises (B2B / B2C)
Having closely worked in the following sectors, I understand their ecosystem – Hotels, Restaurants, Food, Wines, Real Estate, Education, Health, Fitness, Leisure, Media, Logistics, Infrastructure, Retail, Manufacturing, NGOs, Consultants and Not-for Profit Social Enterprise.

I am now Director of Business and Corporate strategy at UJA – Udyen Jain & Associates

I love teaching and training and am a guest faculty / speaker for advertising, brand management and marcom in some of the leading undergraduate and post graduate schools.

I have written text books for distant learning on advertising and marketing communications (marcom) and currently writing a book on marketing in the new environment.

I collaborated on a coffee table book ‘Merchants of Pune’ with Sakal Publications. The book profiled 100 year old business families of Pune who enriched the city, created employment opportunities and created something unique for the city.

When invited, I am one of the jury for digital marketing awards

Currently learning SQL server, Power BI and soon Python.

Piali Dasgupta is currently Senior Vice President, Marketing, at Columbia Pacific Communities, India’s  largest senior living community operator. Columbia Pacific Communities is part of the Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management. which has presence across USA, Canada, China and India. Piali started her career in journalism with The Times of India, and crossed over to Marketing and Communication with playing key roles in creating impactful content marketing strategies for Myntra and later Amazon. She was responsible for creating Myntra's very popular style makeover series along with celebrity style chat show series. In a career spanning 14 years, Piali has created a number of award winning marketing campaigns and served on juries. She is on Social Samosa's Top 40 marketers under 40 list for the year 2019-2020 and has also been awarded the Content Mogul title by CMS Asia (Content Marketing Summit Asia) and has been named one of the top 10 Content Marketing Leaders in APAC in 2020 by CMS Asia. She has also been recognised as the Woman Marketer of The Year at MCube (Masters of Modern Marketing) Awards 2020. She was also part of Social Media Superwomen 2018, that recognised the top 50 women in
marketing in India.  She has worked across print media, e-commerce (Myntra, Amazon), retail (Aditya Birla Fashion
Retail) and real estate and is currently building a compelling brand narrative around senior care inIndia. 
Her core expertise lies in content marketing, storytelling, building brand narratives and strengthening
brand positioning through storytelling. According to her, good content is one that is purposeful, uplifting and has the ability to startconversations and believes that we are long past the age of "vanity content" or content for the sake of content. Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, is a voracious reader, spends time sketching and is also a
strong mental health advocate, doing her bit to remove long standing stigmas around mental illness.

Priyanka Sehgal has over 19 years of experience across TV and digital, with stints in some of the largest media organizations in the country, including Network 18, Times Now and NDTV. With extensive experience across strategy, product, growth, monetization, content, programming and partnerships, she has set up processes, created content and launched channels which still run effectively across organizations. She has overseen primetime programming, created and executed IPs, turned around TV ratings, set up broadcast chains, forayed into regional content and managed P&L responsibility.
Additionally, she has worked with different brands across TV & digital while setting up branded content divisions, which has given her an in-depth understanding of brands and their ethos. Her IP, ‘Power of Shunya’, won a silver at the Goafest Creative Abby’s 2014 and ‘Amazing Indians Awards’ won at the WOW awards for the on-ground event category. Priyanka’s current focus in Network 18 is on scaling up the digital and leading content, strategy, product, and revenue. Priyanka is recognized as an inspiring leader with exceptional creative and commercial discipline, and a unique ability to embrace change and consistently innovate in an industry that is constantly disrupted across content, carriage and consumer tastes.
She was awarded the Women Leadership Achievement Award in 2016 & the Women Super Achiever Award in 2017 at the World Women Leadership Congress. During the time she was overseeing primetime programming, NDTV 24×7 won the Best English News Channel of the year award. She contributed to ET Now dislodging the number 1 channel – CNBC. In her current stint at Network 18, Moneycontrol was awarded the Content Marketeer of the year award at DMAI Awards for a project she led, her recent IP on Firstpost 9 Months qualified as a finalist in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Sector at the Indian Marketing Awards.

A seasoned marketing professional with 25+years of work experience across the FMCG and media industry with a deep understanding of content marketing, driving content subscriptions and ad monetizing. In my professional journey, significant time has been spent in product marketing and business partnerships, leading to pioneering work in creating and implementing the strategy for revenue streams for the content distribution platform.

Digital evangelist and Omni Channel Marketing professional having more than 18 years of diverse experience at various organizations in making strategies, plans and driving execution for achieving business goals. Currently Steering the Digital and Omni-Channel landscape of Dr Reddys globally as Head of Digital Marketing for emerging markets including Russia, LATAM, ASEAN, Asia, China, ANZ, Africa and Subcontinent.

Have worked with companies like PHILIPS, DuPont, GroupM, Hindustan Times, Indiamart etc. in the past and have successfully launched and delivered on various digital and integrated initiatives across a range of industries, sectors and brands. I believe in amalgamation of marketing and technology to build customer centricity in organizations.

This journey has been attested by multiple Industry awards and individual recognitions like-

• World Women Leadership Award 2020
• BBC Knowledge Women Leadership in Industry Award 2017
• ‘Woman Super Achiever in Digital and Social in Asia’ in 2014 by CMO Asia Singapore
• Most Influential Digital Media professional 2015 and 2018 by World Marketing  Congress
• ETNow digital award in 2018 and Mobbys in 2013
• Adobe Brand & Content custodians in 2017.
  
  

Besides being an avid reader I like to travel, sing and cook to unwind my tech brain cells.

With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.

Specialties: Start ups, product launch, media distribution, service marketing, service brand operations