Sanchit Chopra, a specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the marketing field. He is one of the select few people in the corporate world who has expertise in management, law, and computer science. An all-rounder, Sanchit has been instrumental in playing an important part in Brand alliances, Tourism boards, Digital marketing, CRM, corporate relations and sales to name a few.

Apart from that, he has demonstrated his abilities across ATL, BTL and partnerships, short, mid, or long term growth strategies, online and offline marketing initiatives, and marketing campaigns.

A person who loves to keep a perfect balance between, professional and personal life, his hobbies include playing outdoor sports like Cricket and Football. At leisure, he loves to meditate and believes in the philosophy of faith, practice and study.

Sumeer has more than 20 years experience. His professional journey in advertising and communication is unique and included Rediffusion DYA&R, Lowe Lintas, JWT, DDB Mudra and Edelman. Over the years he has held National, Regional and Global strategic responsibilities for many brands. Prior to this he was the National Strategy Head at Havas Creative.

He has worked on many of India’s most iconic brands, across sectors which include Hyundai, Colgate-Palmolive, Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear, Fair & Lovely, Airtel, Horlicks, Royal Enfield, Livon, Taj Hotels, UNICEF, Adidas, LG, Microsoft, Bira & Muscle blaze.

He is deeply interested in what motivates people and what gets their attention and using this knowledge to create messaging and communication for brands and campaigns.

An ardent believer in communication that creates business and brand impact, he has played a role in creating work that has won numerous effectiveness awards and served on many industry juries.

An Economics graduate from Delhi University, he completed his post graduation in Advertising and PR from IIMC.

Shivam Ranjanis a renowned marketing leader in the mobile and telecom industry with over 16 years of diverse experience cutting across marketing, public relations, business strategy, and general management. As Marketing head for one of the fastest growing mobile brands in India – Motorola since 2019, Shivam has enabled the brand to more than double its brand preference in the Indian market while also enabling the brand to be recognized as one of The Economic Times Best Brands 2021 and Most Preferred Brands of 2021 by ZEE Business. Before joining Motorola, he was heading Brand & Marketing for Airtel Payments Bank and leading various large product and brand marketing initiatives at Samsung India Electronics, before that.

As a senior Industry leader, Shivam has been featured in top advertising and marketing as well as mainstream media such as ET Brand Equity, Best Media Info, Business Standard, The Financial Expressamong others and is also a regular feature at various industry forums and panel discussions including the Annual India 5G Leadership Summit 2021.

As one of the youngest CMOs in the mobile and telecom industry, Shivam brings in new age thinking, a challenger mindset and a knack for catalysing growth for brands he works on.

Tushar comes with 14+ years of cross industry experience in media planning & buying, development & management of portfolio and strategic alliances. Being a solution driven ad-tech expert he is best known for devising & delivering complex media strategies and implementing bespoke solutions to solve client challenges. He has previously worked with companies like WPP GroupM, American express, Dentsu Webchutney in different capacities as team lead, media strategist and performance marketeer and have worked with brands across categories like telco, technology, auto, BFSI and QSR.

In his current role, Tushar is part of Amnet leadership and leads programmatic growth & partnerships across Dentsu service lines.

Mr. Prabhakar Tiwari is the Chief Growth Officer at Angel One (formerly Angel Broking Ltd). In his role, he holds the baton for Sales, Marketing, and Digital Transformation at the digital brokerage firm.

Under his leadership, Angel One has seen rapid improvements in its digital maturity metrics and market share gains with a strong focus on customer-centric KPIs and a slew of new initiatives. He has been pivotal in the brand’s emergence as the third-largest brokerage firm in India. He spearheaded the brand transformation with the rebranding activity from Angel Broking to Angel One. He made it possible via several award-winning campaigns including ‘Aage Badhne ka Smart Sauda’, ‘#ShagunKeShares’, and ‘Ek Nayi Shuruaat’ to name a few.

Prabhakar’s forward-looking vision has created a strong brand recall of Angel One across both metropolitan regions as well as tier-2 and tier-3 cities and beyond in India. Prior to Angel One, he has worked with several prominent companies including Marico, PayU and CEAT alongside others.

In professional terms, he is an entrepreneurial business leader with a proven ability to add value in many business contexts in Indian & MNC organizations.The core of his professional expertise is built around leading digital & tech-oriented organizations, driving consumer innovation, and ensuring disciplined execution.

He dons multiple hats as a business thought leader and new-age storyteller with a growth hacking mindset. He is highly networked in CXO peer group forums including AIMA, IAMAI, Ad Club, RMAI, and DMAi. He regularly contributes to the business fraternity in many roles as a jury member, panelist, and keynote speaker.

Elizabeth Venkataraman heads the Marketing & Alliances function at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

In her current role, she is responsible for driving the brand’s strategic direction and contributing to business growth. She was a part of the team that anchored the launch of Kotak 811 - India’s first downloadable digital bank account. Campaigns such as #IndiaInvited, #DreamsInvited, Video KYC and the quirky and humourous Home Loan campaign are a testimony to her strength of spearheading campaigns that build strong marketing efficacy. She has played a pivotal role in the launch of Kotak IndiGo Ka-ching credit card for travel enthusiasts across the country.

Elizabeth is driven by her passion to empower women to become financially independent. One of the key marketing initiatives that she drives and holds close to her heart is Kotak Silk, a banking programme exclusively for women. Her love for innovation is represented by her pioneering initiative of taking art off the wall and into the customer’s wallet. She launched the special edition series of debit cards where renowned Indian artists such as Paresh Maity and Seema Kohli made 2” x 3” debit cards their canvases.

Elizabeth joined the Kotak Mahindra Group in 2004. Over the last 18 years, she has worked with a number of businesses including Wealth Management, Securities, Life Insurance and General Insurance.

At Kotak Life Insurance, she delivered a significant brand promise project along with a very successful campaign ‘Sau Saal Jiyo’, which was rated #1 by ETBrandEquity. It delivered a four-point jump in spontaneous awareness and was one of the best product launches by Kotak Life Insurance in terms of sales.

Elizabeth is a graduate in Commerce from Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru, and an MBA (Marketing) from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Outside of work, she is a doting mother and homemaker. She is also a fitness, music, movie and travel buff. While not exploring offbeat locations, she is known to attend first day first shows with her daughter, Mandira and husband, Venkataraman.

PrabhvirSahmey (Prabh) is currently a Senior Director at Samsung Ads. His remit is to setup the Samsung Ads business in India by pioneering the arena of Connected TV. Prior to Samsung, Prabh pioneered Programmatic Advertising at Google, Search advertising at GroupM and e-education with Tata Interactive Systems.

A journey spanning over 15+ years. From starting a small Bulletin Board System (pre visual internet era) to transforming services as a web developer, content writer, graphic designer and a project manager; the last few years were invested with a leading market transforming teams and product in getting digital marketing initiatives holistically right.

Over years, Prabh has been identified as a domain expert for all things online, go-getter, calm, and goal-orientedindividual who encourages collaboration across various teams to achieve the business goal. Theenterprising sprit enables me to work in start-up environments or be the change driver in slaggingbusiness conditions.

Interesting Stuff
At one point in time I owned a Subway restaurant in Bangalore. Pretty much decide to pursue a career as a chef.From the last time I attended the MMA session; I had a target of hitting 4000 skips in 30mins. That has been achieved. New goal is to hit 100km cycling; currently hitting the ceiling at 33kms.

Inspiration
Outside of nature. There have been many books that inspired me to think differently. The most impactful one’s have been – 7 habits of highly effective people, start with why, death – an insider story, trillion dollar coach. Amongst many others.

Hobbies
Cooking, cycling, walking and gaming. A random reading. Not an avid reader.

He is a strong and dynamic marketing leader in food & beverage industry with over 19 years of proven opinion leadership. Awarded as ‘The Most Influential Marketing Leader 2022’ by World Marketing Congress. Has the ability to shape the brand and business culture. He holds a master’s degree in management studies from the University of Mumbai and is also an alumnus of Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Currently serving as a Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Nilon’s Foods. Brand Experience: A well-known name in FMCG industry with India’s most loved brands under the belt: Parle, Bajaj, Bisleri, Camlin, Storia and Nilon's.

Awards & Recognitions:
The Most Influential Marketing Leader 2022 by World Marketing Congress in Nov 2022
Best CMO Award for Top Most Food Brand issued by CMO Asia during Mar 2022
Bisleri is voted as ET Brand Equity India's Most Trusted Brand 2019 for Camel campaign.

Leadership:
Represents active voice on Marketing and Brand Building at various industry forums, panel discussions, judging brand case studies for various publications and business awards. As hobby honors guest lecture to various management institutes as well.

Ankit Desai is the CMO India at The Hershey Company. In his role at Hershey, Ankit brings in extensive experience from renowned organizations such as Kellogg, Perfetti Van Melle, in building consumer brands, across diverse food categories of Chocolates, Breakfast Cereals, Snacks, Groceries, Health F&B, and Confectionary.

Under Ankit’s leadership, Hershey Marketing vertical has deepened its presence in the fast-growing Indian chocolate market with the successful launch of the iconic Hershey’s Kisses and other chocolate brands including Hershey’s Exotic Dark and Hershey’s Bar. During the same period, Ankit has successfully built campaigns, innovations and initiatives, which have led to Hershey being among the top players across multiple categories including chocolate syrup, chocolate spreads, milkshake, soya milk and lollipops.

Prior to joining Hershey India, Ankit has spent more than 11 years in various marketing and sales roles at Kellogg & Perfetti Van Melle.

Ankit’s expertise is in building sustainable & profitable brands. He thrives on unlocking potential and building successful teams, bringing in culture of high bias for action and result-orientation. Recognized industry thought leader, who has contributed to internal senior-level learning interventions, Ankit’s orientation towards ‘thought leadership’, has led to many a successful cross-media campaigns and launches, with 25+ industry awards.

Ankit enjoys spending most of his time post work with his wife, Delnaz, a seasoned HR professional and their nine-year-old daughter Hriana. He is a fitness enthusiast and a movie buff.

Preetham Venkky is the President of 22feet Tribal Worldwide and the Chief Digital Officer of the DDB Mudra Group. Popularly known as Venkky, he has been instrumental in scaling the company’s offerings by developing broad external partnerships, building out internal infrastructures and exploring new business opportunities. Under his leadership, the Group’s talent is trained for the demands of our times and geared to apply technology to solve business challenges. He has over 22 years of experience in some of the most digitally advanced markets in Asia including Hong Kong and China. Equipped with deep understanding of China’s digital ecosystem including social platforms like WeChat and Weibo, his rich portfolio boasts clients across BFSI, automotive, media sector, which includes Fortune 500 companies in South East Asia such as Singapore Airlines, DBS, OCBC, AIA, Volkswagen, Prudential and Singapore Tourism Board. Prior to this appointment, Venkky was Director & Partner at KRDS in Singapore. At KRDS, he built one of Singapore’s largest independent digital agencies from the ground up. Under his leadership, KRDS was awarded ‘Agency of the Year’ three years in a row.

Ram heads the media function across all touch points for the group responsible for client budgets over $330M (RECMA) in P&L in India. Ram is a CXO-level digital leader having been an entrepreneur thrice and successfully exiting twice.

He has held global leadership positions as CEO, MD, SVP, VP and Director at organizations like C1X Inc., Reliance JIO, Ibibo Group (Now part of MakeMyTrip.Com), Tribal DDB (Omnicom Group), Madison Communications, Jobsahead.Com (Now part Monster.Com) and Indian Express. He is a turnaround artist with a special ability to scale startups to multi-million-dollar businesses. His favorite markets are US, MEA, India and APAC.

He has also been Founding Chairman at ad: tech, iMedia and TechCrunch in India and is credited for launching LinkedIn in India through the JVs he formed for NetworkPlay and PlatformPlay.

For some of his stellar achievements he has won several awards across the globe including at Cannes, World Brand Congress and CMO Asia. He is ranked 39th in Impact Marketing 100 List for India in 2020-21 and as recently as January 2022 was named Most Inspirational Leaders of Asia by White Page International.

He also holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from SP. Jain School of Global Management. Ram is a proud Bruins Alumni too having completed his PGPX from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

He holds a Double Graduation in Engineering, A Double master’s in business administration and Digital Business and has completed a residential Executive Management Program from HBS in Strategic Marketing Management.

Prasun is the Head of Growth and Digital Transformation for South Asia at Kantar Insights Division. Prior to this, he was theGlobal Head for Strategic Alliances, Acquisitions& New Verticals for the CustomizedBU ofNielsenIQ. preceded by being President, South Asia zone for Nielsen where he led the company’s business operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Prasun has over 25 years consulting experience across global markets. His expertise spans brand and communications, innovation and new product development, and customer experience management. Prasun has always been interested in leading change by adopting new trends, technologies, products and business areas. He had also led and created Partnerships and Acquisitions especially in digital, tech and other emerging areas.

Prasun was Managing Director for South Asia region at Millward Brownand previously MD for Middle East, North and East Africa for the company. He has also worked with the Gallup Organization in the US, India, and Thailand, heading their consulting division. He has been with IMRB International as Vice President.

Prasun holds an MBA as well as an MS from University of Rochester, New York and a Masters in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Himanshu Goel is the Co-Founder and COO of FUTR studios, building the first generation of Virtual Humans in India. He's a software engineer, a management graduate from MICA Ahmedabad, and an Indian author of five novels. He launched India's first Virtual Influencer Kyra in 2022.

CEO & Founder of "QUESTION WHAT'S REAL"

Question What’s Real is a cross-border new media interactive team nurturing India’s growth ambitions through next-gen technologies with an aim to reshape the face of human computer interaction in order to connect with the individual’s senses.

Suraj has been in the business of distribution, marketing & software development services for over 10 Years. Notable companies that he has served are Ubisoft Entertainment INDIA Private Limited, CoFounder and COO of Sina Vision ( a subsidiary of Sina Group, PRC).

Dimpy Yadav is an award-winning marketing professional with over a decade of experience in digital marketing. Leading the business as General Manager for Xaxis India, she oversees a wide spectrum of clients while helping their businesses grow through digital innovation. In her current role, she focuses on bringing the ROI for businesses with emerging technologies and innovation.

Having joined Xaxis in 2017, she has specialised in client engagement and building market prominence. Today, Dimpy spearheads the strategic development of Xaxis India through the development of advanced, omnichannel digital media solutions optimized with data and artificial intelligence technology to help brands earn valuable business outcomes. Her growth strategies are driven by data and audience research to uncover new opportunities.She leverages her experience across industries to help clients address the growing complexity of the media landscape today and earn real business outcomes.

Dimpyhas completed her post-graduate degree from MICA with a Masters in Sales and Marketing. She is also a star alumnus of Digipivot, ISB’s Google certification programme. Among her many laurels, Dimpy also been recognised as a ‘Young Business Leader’ by Campaign India in 2022 and a top woman professional in ‘Wonder Women 100’ by Indian Television. She has also been awarded ‘Culture Ambassador’ at Choreos - GroupM’s most unique recognition programme.

Akshay Mathur is the Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Partnerships for Tyroo. Akshay began his journey in 1999 as an entrepreneur with his start-up, Orion Technologies which was in the web commerce space.

He is a part of the internet & advertising industry for the past 2 decades and has previously worked with companies like Yahoo! Inc., Bennett, Coleman & Co., People Interactive and SVG-Dentsu Aegis Network.

Akshay has played a crucial role in building the monetisation business as a partner for large ad-tech companies such as Facebook (now Meta), Twitter and Snapchat in Asia. He was also a part of the Impact top 100 Digital influencer list for 2020.

"Ankit is a media professional who has worked in various profiles across the publisher, media agency, broadcaster & advertiser domains.

He started his career with Dainik Jagran as part of their national sales team. His next job with MindShare Fulcrum gave him exposure to cutting-edge work on media and in-particular digital, with HUL’s portfolio of brands, after which he moved to NDTV to be part of the team which launched their general entertainment channel, NDTV Imagine, as part of the Marketing team.

His last stint with Disney+ Hotstar focussed on driving strategic initiatives to build long term revenue opportunities for the platform.

He currently leads the Media, Digital Marketing and Content practice at Marico."

Kosal comes with over a decade and a half experience in building Digital businesses. He has worked on clients like HUL, Asian Paints, Godrej Consumer Products, Viacom, Marico, Mondelez among multiple others. He is currently leading Madison Loop, with a focus on scaling Digital creative, Influencer, Content business.

Amaresh Godbole is the CEO, Digital Technology Business at Publicis Groupe India. In this role, Amaresh leads the Groupe's digital experience and technology agencies Digitas India and Indigo Consulting, as well as the Publicis Commerce D2C practice. Prior to this, Godbole was Head of Creative and Capability at Google India, and he also has a history of over a decade with Publicis Groupe, where his last role was CEO, Digitas India.

Amaresh has been recognised in prominent industry accolades such as Campaign’s Asia Pacific 40U40, IMPACT magazine 40U40, and Campaign's ‘Most Admired Agency Leaders in Asia’ amongst others. A regular speaker at key events, he has also been a contributor to industry bodies such as ASCI, helping them shape digital regulation.

Deepa Krishnan heads Marketing, Category, Loyalty and Digital at Tata Starbucks Private Ltd, the 50/50 joint venture between Starbucks Coffee Company and Tata Global Beverages Limited.

As part of her role, Deepa oversees all aspects of the brand related to Digital, Social media and other media communication, manages the My Starbucks RewardsTM loyalty programme and is responsible for all the Digital initiatives undertaken by the brand.

She has played a key role in shaping the overall innovation strategy at Diageo India. As part of the Futures Company, Deepa has addressed the strategic business issues of renowned brands in areas related consumer trends, brand repositioning, marketing strategy and innovation.

Deepa holds a PGDM degree from IMDR (Institute of Management Development and Research).

She is a passionate marketer and is constantly studying consumer trends and innovation across categories and is focused on delivering consumer insight with a business impact. Deepa is also an avid trekker and traveler and writes a travel blog.