Aakash likes to partner with founders in that early stage to enable them to generate maximum momentum, which makes the most significant difference to all value creation that comes after.

He believes that how you start as a company mostly determines how far you can go, and thoroughly enjoys partnering with founders in those early days of the hard and lonely startup journey.

In the past, as an active angel investor, he has enabled 100+ founders to start and build compelling businesses, and even today he spends time talking to founders at the earliest possible point - even incomplete

Ideas or when they're in stealth mode!

Having experienced the wild ride of starting a company twice as a founder himself, he provides his unwavering support to entrepreneurs. He continually strives to make it super easy to unlock tactical company building advice from other fellow founders and the larger startup ecosystem.

A leading voice on user growth and product-led monetisation, he is most excited about collaborating with founders on all things GTM.

"Abha Maheshwari currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Allen Digital. She leads Allen’s digital and technology teams, building digital-first products for enhancing delivery of outcomes for Allen’s students.
Prior to this, she was at Meta Inc (formerly Facebook) in San Francisco for the past 10 years and has held a variety of different leadership roles at Meta Inc. She was the Director for Partner Product Solutions for Commerce and Signals at Meta in San Francisco, where she led the strategy, product development and execution on Commerce platform integrations and scaled it to a global program. She was also part of the core leadership team that built and scaled Facebook's Ads developer ecosystem to a multi billion dollar program. 
She relocated to India in Jan '21 as the Director for Commerce, Payments and Platform integrations where she oversaw shopping and commerce experiences and payment partnerships and programs across Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp for India.

Abha holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, Masters in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, Berkeley."

"Abhay Tandon is the Digital Innovation and Partnerships Officer at TVS Motor Company as well as Co-Founder and General Partner at 3to1 Capital.
In the past, he has led Innovation in India for three Fortune 100 companies – Lowe’s, Target and AbInBev. Over the last 10+ years in technology innovation function, he has executed over 50 deep technology projects with startups and other innovation stakeholders across the value chain of retail and FMCG. Prior to that, he has also worked in startups, VC and consulting roles ranging across functions. He has also been awarded as ‘Top 10 Corporate Innovation leaders in India 2021’
Abhay is an angel investor and has invested in 30+ startups and runs his own angel syndicate and upcoming fund called 3to1 Capital focused on emergin technologies startups. He is the faculty on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. He is an official global member of the esteemed Forbes Technology Council, a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), an upcoming author on a Corporate Innovation book and a contributing author in varied publications including Times of India, Forbes etc. Abhay is also recognised as a ‘Super Mentor’ at AIM iCREST, an Incubator Capabilities enhancement program by NITI Aayog, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation. He has been associated with multiple startup incubation and acceleration programs in the past in the capacity of a selector and mentor. Abhay is an alumni of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and IESEG School of Business, France. 
Apart from being passionate about Innovation, he enjoys spending his time watching Sci-Fi shows and travelling
"

"Abhinav Sinha is the Global Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at OYO, a company building technology products and services out of India for hotels and homes across more than 35 countries. He oversees the commercial, supply and business operations verticals at OYO, in addition to driving the company’s technology-first approach. 
He joined OYO in August 2014 and has played an instrumental role in expanding the company’s presence cross the globe, including South East Asia and the US.

Abhinav started his career at ITC Limited, where he spent four years in roles spanning operations, production planning, quality control and process excellence. He later joined The Boston Consulting Group in their Dallas office in 2009 where he learnt the ropes of scaling a business through strategy, innovation, talent and operational discipline. After working for four years and rising to the position of a Principal, he moved on from BCG and returned to India to join Ritesh in building OYO.

Abhinav completed his Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and earned an MBA in General Management from Harvard Business School. He won the Young Alumni Achievers Award from his alma mater IIT Kharagpur in 2019, and was recognized as The Economic Times 40 Under Forty for 2018"

"Abhishek Dhoreliya is the visionary Founder & CEO of MarkScan – a premier Digital Content Protection, Research & Policy Advisory firm working alongside top content owners globally. 

Prior to founding MarkScan in 2014, Abhishek had spent ~15 years in strategy consulting and investment banking across London, Dubai, Sydney & New Delhi. He left an indelible mark in restructuring companies and government departments during his tenure at esteemed organizations like Booz & Company, Citigroup, and Barclays Capital. 

Abhishek has an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kharagpur) and MBA from London Business School, which ignited his entrepreneurship skills with immaculate passion. 

Establishing MarkScan's HQ in Delhi, Abhishek has spearheaded its remarkable growth, assembling a dedicated team of over 300 professionals. Together, they coordinate with content/brand owners and ecosystems across geographies to become one of the leading service providers across genres of content including Sports, Gaming, Streaming, Music, Broadcast etc. 

Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavors, Abhishek's adventurous spirit knows no bounds. He has travelled the globe while cultivating passions for scuba diving, off-roading, hiking, and trekking expeditions to the remotest corners of the Earth, covering the three highest roads in the world within 24 hours. He is also a certified rescue diver and has undertaken multiple expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico, the Red Sea, etc.

He is the true luminary in the realms of business and adventure alike."

Abhishek has over a decade of experience in the Indian Gaming Industry, with extensive experience in creating games. Abhishek has established himself as a respected expert in the field of Gaming. He has worked on a variety of successful games, bringing his unique perspective, innovation and creativity in building games and business from scratch into success stories loved by users and the gaming community. In his current role, Abhishek leads the Overall Business at First Games (formerly known as Paytm First Games).

Abraham is a Marketing & Brand professional with over 25 years of varied experience at senior strategic levels across the varied domains of Brand & business Building, Business Communication, Business Innovation, PR/media relations & customer-centric marketing from ideation to process engineering and a passion for MarTech.
During this period, he has worked as part of senior management teams, with 2 advertising agencies including Ogilvy, an international web solutions start-up, a leading asset management company (Reliance Capital), a bank (DCB Bank), a national life + general insurance company (Future Generali Life & General) and currently leads the Marketing, Media Relations, Service Quality, Innovation and Value Added Services teams of India’s largest integrated travel services group – Thomas Cook India.
Thomas Cook India operates brands like Thomas Cook, SOTC, Sita, Distant Frontiers, TCI勝景遊 in Hong Kong, and a Global Destination Management network across Asia, Australia, Africa and North America spanning 28 countries and 5 continents. The Group also has significant investments in Quess Corp (a listed entity that is a leading provider of staffing solutions), DEI (a global leader in attraction imaging based in the UAE) & owns Sterling Holidays & Resorts.
Abraham serves on the Executive Council of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) and is a part-time writer/columnist/panelist/speaker who has featured in various business publications & Brand & Marketing forums and publications. He has served on the juries of the Asia Pac Effies thrice, India Effies thrice, and Maddies - among many others.
Abraham has also been instrumental in setting up and currently serves as pro bono CEO of the Fairfax India Charitable Foundation (www.fairfaxindiafoundation.org) that has since its registration in November 2016, embarked on a National Dialysis Initiative aimed at enhancing sustainable, free/affordable dialysis access in remote areas of the country. FICF has installed over 1200 free to use dialysis machines across 200 centres spread over 26 states and delivered over 1.5 million free dialysis sessions for needy patients.
Abraham is a Commerce graduate from Loyola College, Chennai and an MBA in Marketing & International Marketing from SCMS Cochin School of Business.

"Aditya is the Co-founder of Campus Sutra.

Campus Sutra is the Biggest Bootstrapped D2C Fashion and Lifestyle brand in the Country. Campus Sutra is available online and in more than 500 leading retail outlets in India. Campus Sutra is now available in 21 countries in the Middle East, Europe, North America and Singapore.

Campus Sutra has been Awarded
- D2C brand of year - Fashion' 2022 at the prestigious India D2C Summit
- Ranked India's fastest growing MSME in Apparel by renowned The Economic Times's #ETRISE
- Indian Achievers' Award for the most Promising MSME 2022
- BW Business World 40 under 40
- Selection Champion Award Amazon 2017
- Indian Brands to Watch out - Amazon Seller Summit Dubai
- Smart CEO Award – Most admired D2C Brand in India

Aditya began his career in Loreal and Tally Solutions and performed a variety of roles in Marketing, Channel Management, Sales Training and Business Development. Aditya is a Computer Science Engineer and has done his MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar. In his Role as the Co-Founder of Campus Sutra, he has seen the company grow from doing 1.6 cr revenue in first year to currently on track to clocking 400 cr.

The Vision of Campus Sutra now is to “Create the biggest House of Global Super Brands in the lifestyle segment” The time is ripe to create the next set of global brands from India. Campus Sutra is poised to pioneer that movement and establish Indian brands on the global map."

"Akhila Shankar is a music exec and award-winning marketer with over a decade in the Indian media and entertainment industry. Through her career, she has worked alongside audio platforms, advertising agencies, music labels, artists, and live music promoters. 

Currently, Akhila spearheads TuneCore's South Asian operations, empowering independent artists across the region. Between 2014 and 2021, she worked in various roles at the leading music streaming service for South Asians, JioSaavn (then Saavn), including Head of Marketing. She set up the platform's music marketing vertical with a key focus on independent music, community building, live IPs, and partnerships. From creating India's earliest digital concert IPs like live@saavn to marketing the country's earliest and most recognized podcasts like #NoFilterNeha, she has been instrumental in building brands through community and pop culture. In 2018, Saavn was acquired by Jio, India's largest telco operator, to form JioSaavn in a deal valued at over $1 billion. She co-led the rebranding campaign spanning across 22 states in India. As the Director of International Growth for Luminary, the world's largest subscription podcast network, she expanded Luminary's app's global footprint from 11 to 60 markets, including India, where she led the launch of the company's first South Asian originals with Masaba Gupta and Konkona Sen Sharma. 

She has represented the Indian music industry at global events like SXSW (Austin) and OyaFestival (Oslo). She was recognized by Exchange4Media in their annual Content 40 under 40 (2020), Marketing 30 Under 30 (2021), and Social Samosa's India's Best Marketers & Media Planners (2021). "

Aloke Bajpai is the Chairman, Managing Director and Group CEO of ixigo. He is responsible for the overall management of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technology (electrical engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD. He worked as a software development engineer and subsequently, as a system and network engineer at Amadeus in France prior to co-founding ixigo.com in India in 2007. Aloke Bajpai is a charter member of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (“TiE”) and an elected member of the governing council of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (“IAMAI”) and was awarded, along with Rajnish Kumar, (i) under the Comeback Kid category at the Economic Times Startup Awards 2021, and (ii) the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Service Business – Travel 2021’ at the Entrepreneur Awards 2021. He was also awarded with the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022’ from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Under his leadership, our Company has evolved into India’s leading OTA for the ‘next billion users’ with the highest Monthly Active Users across all OTAs as of September 2023.

Ambrish Sinha is the Founding CEO at UNext Learning Private Limited, part of the Manipal Education & Medical group. UNext is an ed tech platform offering online courses and programs in the higher education space. UNext aims to solve for the twin problems of affordability and accessibility of good quality higher education for its learner community in the country.

Ambrish has successfully straddled the corporate and start-up world when he ran the business side of Zopper, which built India's first hyperlocal marketplace and POS (point of sale solutions) for small retailers. Zopper raised ˜20 million USD from investors like Tiger Global, Blume Ventures and had a successful exit when a part of its business was acquired by PhonePe in 2018.

Prior to this, he worked in the financial services sector and has held leadership roles at HDFC Life and ICICI Prudential. He is deeply passionate about technology and the impact it can create to transform businesses and community at large.

He holds an MBA from TAPMI, Manipal and a bachelor’s degree in Economics (first class) from the University of Pune. He has also completed an advanced leadership and digital strategy program from INSEAD, France in 2018-19.
 

"Amit Gujral is a marketing maverick who’s been associated with the world of branding and advertising for more than 25 years. He has been at the helm of many award-winning and celebrated marketing campaigns, and has led successful product launches over the years. Currently the Chief Marketing Officer at JK Tyre & Industries Ltd, he previously led marketing excellence at LG Electronics as the CMO. A computer science graduate, his skill at linking strategy with creativity provided him a launch pad into the world of marketing. In his words, ""the process of bringing a particular communication to life is thrilling for me."" As the CMO, he is creating campaigns that directly connect with the audience. Under his aegis, JK Tyre has won numerous brands & marketing awards, ranging from Iconic Brand of the Year by ET to Brand of the Decade by BARC Asia.
For his efforts, he has been awarded the ‘Digital Person of the Year’ title by Stars of India Award by CMO Global & Golden Feather Awards ‘Marketing Professional of the Year’ by Asian Leadership Awards, ‘Marketer of The Year (Gold)’ by Digixx, and the ‘Best CMO’ by Exchange4Media. He is also a keynote speaker and has been a part of various events for panel discussions, conferences, and as a jury to name a few. He is also an avid poet and an orator and enjoys different forms of art."

Amit Gurbaxani is a Mumbai-based journalist who specialises in writing about the Indian music industry. He is a regular contributor to international publications such as Billboard and Music Ally and writes a column for the blog of ticketing platform Skillbox. A features writer for over two decades, his work has been published in Firstpost, India Today, Music Business Worldwide, Red Bull, Scroll and The Hindu, to name just a few. He is also the co-host of The Indian Music Charts Podcast, the country's No.1 music commentary podcast.

Amitabh Bishnoi, serving as the Group President of Valueleaf, epitomizes the pinnacle of strategic leadership and innovation in the corporate arena. With an illustrious career that extends over three decades, he has fundamentally transformed the domains of customer acquisition and business development. His significant tenure with industry giants such as The New Indian Express Group, Sahara India, and Dainik Jagran, along with his entrepreneurial journey, underscores a narrative of dynamic versatility and groundbreaking achievements. Bishnoi’s path is marked by the relentless pursuit of excellence and insightful foresight, making him a formidable influence on today's and tomorrow’s business leadership, while continuously elevating industry benchmarks.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Viacom18 Sports, Anil Jayaraj oversees the growth and expansion of the sports business at Viacom 18, across TV ( Sports 18) and digital (JioCinema). Anil and his team made JioCinema the go – to destination for all key sports events in just 2 years, achieving record scale of viewership and business metrics while building digital as the pre dominant destination for sport viewing in India. This includes FIFA, IPL, NBA, India cricket, BWF, WPL among others.
 
Prior to Viacom18, Anil has had successful stints at Disney Star, Pidilite and Castrol / BP in India and the UK. He passionately follows a number of different sports. Anil also finds time to mentor start-ups in addition to conducting guest lectures at various B Schools.

As the Chief Business Officer, Enterprise of MapmyIndia, Ankeet leads the enterprise business, its growth, and its profitability across India and global markets. Ankeet manages teams across business development, pre-sales & solutioning, product development & product management, product marketing, sales, and customer experience, and works closely with the CEO and MD on the company's strategy and direction.

With more than 13 years of experience in the technology industry, Ankeet has been part of MapmyIndia's journey from its very early stages to IPO, helping build a profitable business with an extremely skilled and loyal team. Ankeet has also invested in and nurtured a few deep-tech startups like Pixxel, a space data company that is building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites. He has a background in electronics engineering and has completed his Bachelors in Engineering from BITS Pilani. Ankeet is also a black belt in Karate and a seasoned musician. He and his wife, Sneha, love to travel and explore new cities and countries.

Ankit Jain is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of StepChange, a leading corporate sustainability platform that empowers industry-leading Indian brands including BFSI to accelerate their transition to NetZero via a suite of targeted product offerings and decision-making tools.

Ankita Dhakar is the founder of Capture The Bug, NZ's First Bug Bounty and Pentesting as a service platform powered by AI. As a cybersecurity influencer and advisor to tech startups in NZ and the U.S., Ankita has fearlessly secured 100+ high-growth tech startups worldwide. Her electrifying presence on esteemed stages like NZ Cyber Security Challenge and Christchurch Hacker Conference leaves audiences in awe. With unwavering passion and expertise, Ankita spearheads innovation, empowers others, and revolutionizes the cybersecurity landscape. She is a trailblazer destined to shape the future.

Ankur leads the Conversation Messaging business unit of Sinch India. He has more than 20 years of experience in product and business domain in IT, Telecom, Media and CPaaS industry. Before joining Sinch, he has worked with some of the leading brands like Bharti Airtel and Times Group. He is a strong believer of CPaaS and see endless opportunities on how the technology will transform the whole landscape of business performance and measurement across marketing, services, and support.
 

19 years of experience in building & digitizing supply chain for Consumer Goods Organizations.
Currently leading Supply Chain for Omni Channel Business of Electronics Vertical of Reliance Retail

"Anu represents Indian and multinational banking, broker-dealer, exchange, asset management, speciality finance, fintech and information/ emerging technology companies on transactional, enforcement and regulatory matters. 
His transactional practice focus is on public & private M&A, capital raising, commercial agreements and activism matters. 
Anu advises financial services clients on matters before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Ministry of Finance, Enforcement Directorate and appellate tribunals. 
‘Anu Tiwari is widely regarded as an expert in regulatory compliance and transactional matters, as well as fundraising.’ ‘Anu is one of the smartest lawyers I've had the pleasure of working with. He asks the right questions, efficiently focuses on the material issues and offers practical, business-friendly advice.’ ‘Anu has been a fabulous support. His knowledge of the regulatory domain is commendable. He is able to advise his clients in a timely fashion and bring valuable insights for critical decision-making.’ ‘He is very good about managing client relationships and goes out of his way to corral company resources to answer any questions we might have.’ – Chambers & Partners, 2024 (Asia Pacific Edition) 
‘Anu Tiwari is exceptional in understanding the regulatory framework and the Fintech industry and syncing the same with the needs of the business while always ensuring compliance.’ – Legal500 APAC 2023"

Armaan Malik, a 28-year-old multilingual singer-songwriter with over 300 songs, has achieved 4 billion streams and 10 billion views, marking a significant impact in the Indian music scene before gaining international fame. His accolades include 2 MTV EMAs, 3 GIMAs, and securing the #1 spot on Billboard's Top Triller Global Chart. Hits include 'Control', ‘You’ and '2Step' remix with Ed Sheeran, showcasing his wide global appeal and versatility.

Arnaud Frade is President, Commercial for Nielsen's Audience Measurement business in Asia. In this role, Arnaud leads all commercial operations in the region, working with blue-chip clients across a broad range of sectors, including Agencies, Advertisers, Broadcasters and Platforms.

Prior to this role, Arnaud has led a number of businesses and large-scale projects related to Retail, Shopper & Consumer Marketing and Branding, for leading global firms, including American Express, WPP, Omnicom and Accenture in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East & Africa. He has been a resident of Singapore for the past seventeen years.

"Mr. Arun Prakash, the Founder & CEO of GUVI, whose success strategies have made GUVI
stand where it is now as a leading startup in the EdTech industry. He is well known as
T-Man(Technology man) because of his strong affinity towards technology. Arun upscaled GUVI from a startup to an EduTech Brand by winning the Most Trusted Vernacular EduTech Award from ZEE Digital. His 18+ years of work experience in well-reputed Tech companies like Honeywell, PayPal, Kalido, and Symantec as a skilled technologist, has enabled him in
playing a crucial role in the democratization of tech skills to learners all around through GUVI.
Since 2014, It took a tough grind of 5 years of endeavor & smart implementation of the ideal
thoughts inspired by the late-co-founder Ms. Sridevi Arunprakash for the evolution of GUVI
to arrive at its best shape meeting the users’ needs. Arun’s energetic focus, creativity & sound technical expertise from the industry has been an accelerating fuel to run GUVI with Success. Arun’s journey started with a YouTube channel that became a tech sensation with more than 2 Million viewers. His smart efforts earned him recognition as a Youth Icon at the IYONS international summit, further cemented his winning of the Leading Social Entrepreneur Award by ‘Action for India’ in 2019. He also motivated thousands of tech enthusiasts as a Successful Tech Entrepreneur & TEDx speaker."

Ashish Munjal is the Co-founder & CEO of Sunstone Education, a leading higher education service provider that works with academic institutions in up-skilling students for employability.
An MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and a CFA from the USA, Ashish has diverse experience in various Financial and Consulting roles. Having over 12 years of corporate experience, he has also worked at TCS and Deloitte Consulting early on in his career. Ashish specialises in strategic planning and business analysis having worked as an investment banker with Bank of America and part of the corporate strategy team at Knowlarity.
With a passion for building start-ups, Ashish co-founded Crownit- an offline to online research platform providing consumer insights into brands and enterprises across the Indian market. A serial entrepreneur, Ashish went on
along with Piyush Nangru to co-found Sunstone Education Pvt. Ltd. His vision for Sunstone is to transform a learner's life by providing high-quality industry-ready education, enriched by accessibility, technology and a modernized learning approach.
Inspired by existing domain challenges, Sunstone is accelerating towards creating services & providing an accountable resource for a thriving career. This is the cause that fuels Ashish’s passion for entrepreneurship & value creation. Being a deeply spiritual person who loves to share his experiences over a cup of tea, Ashish believes in continuously growing and learning with the people around him.

Ashok Hariharan is the founder & CEO of IDfy, an Integrated Identity Platform. Our mission is to transform billions of lives by unlocking opportunities for trustworthy people and enterprises. We do this by helping enterprises eliminate fraud and establish trust through products and solutions for KYC, KYB, Background Verification, Risk Assessment and Digital Onboarding.

Ashok has steered IDfy to a market-leading position, trusted by companies like Amazon, Induslnd Bank, HDFC Bank, PhonePe, Dream11, and Hindustan Unilever.

Ashok holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a BSEE from Penn State University
He has worked in the strategy team, across functions on cost optimization, product strategy/management, and pricing strategy at British Telecom in London.


 

Ashwin Suresh is a founder of Loco, the world's leading independent esports and live-streaming platform. Loco is one of India’s fastest growing startups and has raised over $50 million from global and Indian investors such as Sequoia Capital, Krafton, Makers Fund, Korea Investment Partners, 3one4 Capital, Catamaran, and Lumikai.

Ashwin is also the founder of Pocket Aces, one of India's most successful digital entertainment companies. The company operates India’s largest socially distributed content network comprising popular brands FilterCopy, Dice Media, Gobble and Nutshell. Dice Media, Pocket Aces’ long form studio, has created some of India’s most popular shows, including “Ghar Waapsi” on Disney+ Hotstar, “Little Things” on Netflix, “Crushed” on Amazon MiniTV, and has the highest series renewal rate in the industry. Pocket Aces also runs a talent management business, Clout, which represents some of the most popular digital creators in the Indian entertainment ecosystem.

Ashwin has been featured on Fortune’s 40u40 list twice, as well as on various other prestigious lists such as Social Samosa’s 40u40, IMPACT's 40u40 Entrepreneurs, BWDisrupt’s 40u40, and CNBC Young Turks.

Prior to founding Loco and Pocket Aces, Ashwin was the Creative Head at Junglee Pictures, Times of India Group’s film studio, which he helped set up in 2013. Previously, he was a Creative Executive at Reliance Entertainment, where he produced a variety of Hindi feature films. Before entering the Indian entertainment industry, Ashwin worked in finance - at Citi and StepStone Global in New York, first in investment banking, focusing on advisory and M&A for financial institutions, and subsequently in private equity investing, including direct investments, co-invests, secondaries, mezzanine debt, and fund-of-funds investing.

Ashwin holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Diploma in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy.
 

"Bharat Sethi is the CEO and Founder of Rage Coffee, a coffee company that manufactures, markets, and distributes innovative caffeine products in emerging categories. The company is in its growth phase having scaled its market penetration and customer base quickly since launching in 2019. Investors include VC firms such Sixth Sense Ventures, Refex Capital, 9 Unicorns, DS Vision Capital amongst other strategic and financial investors.

The company, which is backed by the ace Indian cricketer Virat Kohli who also is the brand ambassador of the brand, started with creating a craft coffee that is instantly consumable, affordable, comes in a variety of flavors and is ready to mix. Rage Coffee products are retailed through their own website, all leading online platforms, and 5000+ touch points offline PAN India through a network of 200 distributors. The brand has also set up a fully automated facility of 30,000 sq ft for production and warehousing in IMT Manesar. Rage Coffee products are US FDA, FSSAI, ISO registered and manufactured at a GMP compliant facility.

He has been a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past: PosterGully in 2012, which was an online consumer brand for millennials to shop for clothing, and wall decor. The company was largely bootstrapped and as a young entrepreneur, Bharat was able to create a powerful brand online with direct to consumer marketing and sales. He later exited that business to start an online B2B e-commerce marketplace - iDecorama in 2016."

Vishal is a Managing Director in PwC Advisory India. He has over 30 years of professional experience and heads the Aerospace, Defence, and Space practice in India, dedicated to serving institutional and commercial stakeholders in these sectors.

Vishal is a trusted advisor in A&D and Space market assessments, policy, transformation and regulatory matters, and has extensively supported ministries, agencies, and private sector players in Europe, US, Middle East & South Asia.

He has extensive experience in military and corporate; he Commanded two warships and the Mauritius Coast Guard and is currently leading PwC India’s Aerospace & Defence and Space practice for the last five years, focused on growth strategy, market entry and business transformation projects.

Vishal is an alumnus of National Defence Academy & Defence Services Staff College and an MBA from Indian School of Business.   He is a regular panel speaker at A&D and Space-related events worldwide.

Daniel D’souza is a MBA from Pondicherry University with a EGMP from IIM Bangalore. Daniel has over 25 years of experience in the Travel and Tourism Industry and has grown within the organization from frontline Sales to Heading the Business. His forte lies in strategizing towards Business Growth and Building Scale thereby increasing market share and revenue. He has been responsible for building a strong Sales organization and capitalizing & broadening the franchisee network & streamlining processes at SOTC, thus enabling the organization to grow faster than the Market. With a clear focus and vision of SOTC being a Customer Centric Organization, Daniel has made significant contributions in driving the CX Journey by introducing Holidays Co-created by Customers, Holiday Essentials – a Product line for Travel Merchandise and other innovative offerings within the Holiday Category. Daniel is responsible to drive the Holiday Business, across all channels – Retail & Franchisees, NRI Markets and E-Business, Product & Operations and Customer Service Delivery.

Dhruv Chopra, is responsible for overall marketing at Chalo and runs it with a soft spot for all things digital. He’s passionate about taking cars and bikes off the road and replacing them with public transport because he believes that we will all have happier lives with stress-free travel, and have a lot more time to ourselves to do what we want to.

Prior to Chalo, Dhruv held the positions of Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, for CarWale and BikeWale, India’s #1 auto portal, from 2009 to 2017. He has also managed digital marketing at HSBC India (2006 - 2009), run his own IT company, and programmed online video games in the early part of his career.

When work allows him some leisure time, he is an avid foodie and incredibly passionate about travel and the movies.
 

An Electrical Engineer with Doctoral Degree from IIT Kanpur, Dr. AK Garg is a seasoned technocrat with 25 plus years of experience and a proven track record for professional excellence. Known for his target-driven approach and pushing the boundaries of innovation, Dr. Garg devised and led from the front myriad mission-critical digital transformation initiatives at MeitY apart from being a key contributor to various technology oriented and Trade & Policy related strategic forums of GoI which include AI, Data, Cyber Security Technology Regulations and Emerging Tech.
Currently Dr. Garg is heading the Digital Tech and Law Group at Anand and Anand where the firm is the process of evolving expertise on Legal and Advisory aspects on Emerging Tech including AI considering the fact that it will be central to future Innovation and Economic Growth.
Till recently as a Senior Director in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, he was tasked with the responsibilities of key divisions including Startup, Innovation and IPR, International Cooperation and IT/ITeS Industry Promotion among others. During his stint he had formulated and implemented some of the ground breaking initiatives such as MeitY Startup Hub, National IT policy and National Policy on Software Products.

He had strategically negotiated and managed various agreements, trade issues and MoUs with 50+ countries amid lean resources and outcome complexities. Till recently, he was the ‘Lead Negotiator’ for Digital Trade Chapter in various FTAs including that for RCEP, UAE, UK, IPEF and Canada. Dr. Garg was consistently engaged as Country Ambassador and a key representative in large international multilateral forums such as G20, WTO, BRICS RCEP and UNCITRAL and Shanghai Cooperation-strengthening India’s position vis-a-vis key ICT challenges.

A keen planner, strategist and implementer, Dr.Garg is passionate about promoting startup-entrepreneurial ecosystem especially in the realm of emerging technologies in the country.

Dr. Aditya Gupta is currently employed as the Chief Operating Officer for the Supply Chain Management Center, which is one of the centres of excellence located at IIM Bangalore. In addition to this, he also serves as the head of the newly established TCI-IIMB Supply Chain Sustainability Lab at IIM B. Prior to his academic pursuits, Dr. Gupta gained extensive experience as a supply chain practitioner in the corporate sector, holding various positions of responsibility at organizations such as Tata Group, TVS Group, Jindal Group, Virgin Mobile, and Moser Baer, for a period of 23 years. He completed his PhD in 2019 and subsequently transitioned from a career in corporate to academia.

Dr. Gupta is deeply passionate about sustainability and has developed tools like the Transportation Emission Measurement Tool and Carbon Accounting Tool to measure emissions. He collaborates with organizations to establish environmental stewardship initiatives, enhance supply chain sustainability, and promote ESG practices through research papers, case studies, and articles.

Gaurav Arora is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Jagran New Media, the digital wing of India’s largest print and radio publisher group, Jagran Prakashan Ltd. Having worked for over two decades, his journey of driving sales, strategic alliances, audience acquisition strategies, and enterprise success across diverse industries has been nothing short of fulfilling.

In his current role as COO, he spearheads transformational growth in revenue & operations and new product innovation to generate more revenue streams. He is responsible for leading critical imperatives to enhance overall organizational effectiveness with a focus on people strategy and development, accompanied by managing affiliate sales, video production, beneficial monetization prospects, audience acquisition, and the marketing blueprint that fuels the brand's upward trajectory. He strongly believes in leveraging the power of content & technology to build and nurture high-performance teams.

In his last role as Chief Revenue Officer, his contribution helped drive the growth curve in the dual role of guiding revenue and product strategy. In association with key leadership teams, he built a sustainable revenue architecture, devised go-to-market plans, resolved deal-flow bottlenecks, and executed growth initiatives. Cross-functional efforts spanned across sales, business development, programmatic platforms, AdTech, and more.

During his tenure at Times Internet Ltd., he pioneered innovative sales strategies and fostered client relationships to achieve incremental revenue growth. Led sales efforts and synergies to enhance brand visibility via multi-geographic brand campaigns. As an Assistant Manager at HCL, he established robust processes for smooth workflow across teams. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Business from Adam Smith University, Northern Mariana Islands, and graduated from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi.
He believes in cultivating a culture of agility, innovation, and adaptability with ingenious foresight & excellence to contribute to the overall success of the organization.
 

Gaurav Goel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Toprankers, which is India’s largest platform for careers beyond Medical and Engineering. Gaurav is currently based out of Bengaluru, responsible for driving and shaping the company’s strategy, product, growth, and new initiatives.  

Gaurav honed his skills in the software space with stints at FaceTime Communications and Informatica. Gaurav also successfully sold one of his SaaS businesses Vidu.tech to ClassPlus.

Following his graduation from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. In 2017, Gaurav continued his further education as he was 1 of 45 entrepreneurs chosen by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business for the SEED program. Also Include he is Edtech CEO of the Year 2022 and also BW 40 under 40  

Gaurav Laghate is the chief of Mint's Consumer Bureau that covers FMCG, consumer durables, retail, media, advertising, hospitality, tourism, luxury and the business of sports. An accomplished business journalist with a career spanning over 16 years, he has reported on the significant advancements in the industry. Beyond his role as a journalist, Gaurav is recognised as a steadfast observer of the media landscape, having spoken at several industry events and panels.

Gautam Rajesh Shelley is a Tech Entrepreneur, the Founder & CEO of AiSensy. AiSensy has been helping 25000+ Businesses with its WhatsApp Marketing & Engagement Platform. Gautam brings in his expertise of growing startups, driving marketing and helping businesses with their revenue growth.

Girish is a professional with 25+ years of experience in M&A, Strategy and Consulting, with a specialisation in the Media, Digital, Gaming and Consumer Internet sectors. He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at JetSynthesys, one of India's most innovative companies in the Gaming, Digital Media and Consumer Internet domains. Prior to this, he has spent 20+ years in KPMG with 14 of those years in the Deal Advisory practice covering Strategy and M&A Advisory.

Gourav Rakshit is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Digital Ventures. As part of
the role he is responsible for driving the growth agenda of the network’s digital businesses. Sincejoining Viacom18 Digital Ventures Gourav has built a strong and robust digital ecosystemwithVOOT, India’s first and only multi-platform kids’ app, VOOT Kids and the recently announcedVOOT Select. Under his aegis VOOT has witnessed exponential growth with achievinganewviewership benchmark of 100 Million MAU’s, emerging as the most engaged premiumAVODplatform with 100 billion minutes of watch time in the year. Prior to joining Viacom18 he was President and CEO of People Group that owns andoperatesShaadi.com. A University of Rochester and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Gourav has anin-depthunderstanding of digital disruption and a proven track-record of envisioning subscriptiongrowth. Over the course of 11 years at Shaadi.com, he has been instrumental in building oneof India’smost iconic brands and a robust consumer subscription play, while delivering one of thefewprofitable P&Ls in the Indian internet ecosystem. With over 2 decades of experience in Consumer Technology, IT and FMCGsectors, Gouravstarted his career with Nestle and took two more stops – Planetasia and Infosys Consulting- before joining People Group. At Planetasia, he had his first brush with the media &techindustry, and at Infosys he successfully led consulting engagements for diverse consumer clients includingApple, Safeway and Wells Fargo. Gourav has been a leader both on and off-field and is a true sports enthusiast at heart. Hehasrepresented school & college teams in football, rugby, cricket, squash, pool and tabletennis, captaining them in many instances. As a working professional he continues to explorenewer
avenues to further his sporting passion.

A practicing lawyer over 27 years, Gowree Gokhale leads the IP,
Technology, Media and Entertainment, Cyber Security, Data
Protection Law, Pharma medical devices practices at Nishith
Desai Associates. She is expert in various high tech industry
aspects as also fintech, medtech, edtech. Nishith Desai
Associates is a research and strategy driven international law
firm.

"Hari Krishnan Nair is the Co-founder of Great Learning, a leading global ed-tech platform for working professionals to upgrade their competencies and succeed in the digital economy. He co-founded Great Learning with a vision to make it a lifelong learning partner for young professionals. In 2007, Hari cofounded iLabs, a technology start-up that built a product for content management and analytics in social media for retail brands. In 2010, he successfully exited the company by selling it to a large IT Enterprise company. Hari has also worked with Withya, an incubator and an angel investor who provides capital investment, guidance, infrastructure, far-reaching experience, mentorship expertise, and industry insight to early-stage companies with innovative ideas. Hari served as one of the members of the strategy formulation and implementation for the marketing initiatives of the company. Hari is an alumnus of the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon."

Mr. Harsh Thakrar is currently associated as a Professor of Finance at ASMSOC NMIMS University, and Director of Investments at Leonem Advisory Private Limited, with over 10 years of experience in Capital Markets. He serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard Business Review and Management Institutions in India. His previous stints include working as a strategy consultant with Kotak Mahindra Bank and a portfolio risk manager with JM Financial. He is a Chartered Accountant, CFA and is currently pursuing his PhD in Finance. Apart from his professional commitments, he is pursuing his graduation in Piano performance from London College of Music, is a national mental-arithmetic champion and a Formula-One enthusiast. He has penned guest editorials for prominent newspapers including The Times of India and The Free Press Journal. Furthermore, his perspectives on markets and the economy have been featured in various national newspapers. He organized and moderated the International Roundtable on FinTech 2023 at NMIMS (TheWeek IndiaToday). Additionally, he was invited to deliver a Master class at the Global Fintech Fest 2023 during which he shared his insights on “Future of Banking – It’s not what it seems”.

"Hrushikesh Mehta is Senior Vice President – Financial Services at ONDC where he is helping democratize access to financial services in India. Prior to this he was a volunteer at iSPIRT and Co-Founder, CredAll. He is responsible for driving the awareness and adoption of standardized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that facilitate digital lending. The APIs are called the Open Credit Enablement Network or OCEN. There are many lending processes that have not been uniformly automated.
Hrushikesh has a degree in Business Administration from Bryant University (USA) and a post-graduate degree in Management from Indian School of Business (Hyderabad)."

We are delighted to present the profile of Imran Shaikh, Founder and CEO of Albatross Asia Pacific Private Limited, for consideration as a speaker at your esteemed event.

With a rich experience of over 15 years in the dynamic digital landscape of India, Imran Shaikh has consistently demonstrated his prowess in driving business growth across various sectors, including Real Money Gaming, Online Gaming, Real Estate, Media, and Entertainment. His exceptional ability to deeply understand the intricacies of clients' businesses has not only facilitated successful project deliveries but also contributed significantly to client acquisition and retention.

Imran's expertise particularly shines in the realm of Real Money Gaming (RMG), where he has amassed invaluable knowledge over the past decade. Beyond executing impactful marketing campaigns, Imran extends comprehensive support to aspiring players in the RMG market, offering strategic consultation from inception to market entry. Under his visionary leadership, Albatross Asia Pacific Limited has emerged as a market leader, serving a diverse clientele exceeding 400, with over 100 esteemed clients within the RMG sector.

Imran Shaikh's profile reflects a remarkable blend of experience, strategic acumen, and industry insight, making him an ideal candidate to share his expertise with your event attendees. We are confident that his participation will enrich the discussions and contribute significantly to the success of your event.

Jay Mehta has nearly two decades of experience in the entertainment and telecom sector and has not only revitalized the businesses but also directed companies through utilizing strong and effective strategic leadership.

In his present role as a Managing Director of Warner Music India, he is tasked with building multi-level partnerships and driving initiatives to further the company’s positioning and market share across the Indian subcontinent.

With a master’s degree in marketing, Jay is a passionate leader and synergist who tends to enthuse focus and professionalism in his team without losing a smile on his face.

Jay got his start in the music Industry in 2016, when he joined Sony Music as Director of Digital Business. It was an exciting time for the industry as streaming services were starting to enter the Indian market and major labels were diversifying the music they put out.

Jay joined the newly formed Warner Music India in 2020. At the time, the market was still heavily dominated by the Bollywood studio system but, thanks to an emerging young middle class with more diverse tastes, there were huge opportunities for Jay to grow Warner Music into a market leader.

He quickly made a number of strategic partnerships and acquisitions that allowed Warner Music to tap into local experts. Warner Music's deals with Divo, Ziiki Media and Sky Digital have helped grow its footprint and make an impact on the local music scene.

Jay has been instrumental in the recent success of rapper and singer King, who became the first Indian artist to break into the Spotify Top 30 with his track 'Champagne Talk'. He also became the first Indian artist to have to track reach more than 30 million streams on Spotify and is the only Indian artist to break into the Billboard charts.

Earlier this year, Jay was pivotal in the formation and launch of the ground-breaking label, 91 North Records, which is a joint venture between Warner Music India and Warner Music Canada. Based in Toronto, the label not only celebrates the musical styles of artists with Punjabi heritage, but also leverages the market potential of uniting two distinct fan bases to bring this music to the global stage.

Jay and his team continue to look for more opportunities that can help grow Warner Music India's presence, as well as partnerships that'll enhance its artist value proposition, with recent deals with the likes of E-Positive further adding to its expertise and 360 offering. They are also supporting local artists such as Darshan Raval, Diljit Dosanjh, Himonshu Parikh, Jasleen Royal and Armaan Malik, on their journey to global superstardom.

Karan Anand has over 15 years of experience in conceptualizing, planning and executing breakthrough digital campaigns for leading brands. A seasoned strategy leader, he brings together technology, innovation and consumer insights to deliver exceptional business results. Karan has helped implement strategic media frameworks for some of the world’s leading companies across verticals like eCommerce, automotive, entertainment, and consumer packaged goods (CPG).

"Kiran is a Partner in PwC and has ~20 years of experience across consulting and industry. 
His areas of expertise include Supply Chain and Operations including strategic sourcing, planning, network, logistics and manufacturing. He has worked with many leaders across the automotive and industrial sector. Over the last 5-7 years, Kiran has been working at the intersection of Strategy and Digital/Analytics to deliver cutting edge solutions to his clients.
Kiran is a Mechanical Engineer by profession and holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB). "

Kshitij Sheth is a Managing Director with ChrysCapital since 2011. He focuses on the digital economy and pharmaceuticals sectors. Some of the investments he leads in the new economy sector are Awfis, Dream11, FirstCry & Xpressbees and in the Pharma sector are Mankind Pharma, Corona Remedies, Intas Pharma & Eris Lifesciences. He was previously with Citigroup Global Capital Markets in New York. Kshitij received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

A passionate entrepreneur, Mahesh is a qualified CA, CMA and ACS. He started his career as an investment banker with SBI Capital Markets. He was associated with the Outlook group for 17 years and headed it for more than 10 years. Mahesh believes that the demographic dividend India seeks can turn into a nightmare if youth are not shown the right direction to maximize their capabilities. CAREERS360 is the result of his deep understanding of student issues, and the information gaps that need to be filled to help students take an informed career decision.

Mayank Kumar is one of the sharpest minds leading the edtech revolution in India. Mayank is the Co-founder & MD of one of Asia’s largest integrated learning skilling and workforce development majors – upGrad which has enrolled over 10M+ learners worldwide. Mayank has spent most of his professional career in the education sector, where he has been involved in deals with over a billion dollars flowing into the sector. He has served as VP - Education at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media and education conglomerate, where he oversaw the education strategy and its multi-million-dollar investments in India. Prior to joining Bertelsmann, Mayank was the Senior Principal at The Parthenon Group, where he advised clients in the education sector on market potential, growth and market entry strategies, investment decisions as well as revenue and profit uplift strategies. He participated in deals worth US$1Bn flowing into the education sector. He worked with global clients across all geographies including China, South-East Asia, Middle East India, and South America. He has also worked at the Tata Strategic Group, advising Tata’s strategic direction. Mayank for his sincere contribution within education has been recognised with several titles including: · Forty under 40 achiever by Economic Times in 2023 · IDFC FIRST Private – Hurun India’s – India’s Top 200 Self-made Entrepreneurs of the Millenia 2023 · ‘Personality of the Year’ Award at the 8th FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards 2022

A CEO, highly entrepreneurial, with an unbroken record of success in building award winning, leading edge international digital education businesses and platforms. These include my work building Emeritus, Manipal ProLearn and MeritTrac.

Mohit Joshi

CEO, Havas Media Network India

With an extensive track record spanning over two decades in the media industry, Mohit Joshi stands as a highly respected figure within the Indian advertising realm. Presently, he holds the position of Chief Executive Officer at Havas Media Network India (HMNI), the specialized media division of Havas India.

Mohit drives the media network team which offers a wide range of integrated marketing solutions covering strategy, media planning & buying, PR, social media, mobile, sports & entertainment, data, research & analytics services across traditional and digital media. It consists of media networks – Havas Media and Arena Media, and specialist brands – PivotRoots (integrated digital), Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (entertainment, gaming, sports and fandom), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (social media), & Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home).

His influence extends beyond his executive role as he actively engages with various industry organizations, making substantial contributions to the field. Mohit Joshi holds significant roles in prominent industry associations, including the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He is also a Charter Member at TiE, Delhi-NCR (The Indus Entrepreneurs).

Notably, he co-chaired the illustrious Goafest 2023, a premier advertising event in India. Moreover, he has lent his expertise as a jury member and speaker at distinguished gatherings such as those organized by ENBA, The Economic Times, Businessworld, Exchange4Media, Afaqs, Tie India Internet Day, and the South India Media Summit, among others.

Mohit's dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is unwavering, and he has played a pivotal role in ensuring that his organization reflects these values, fostering a robust and positive work environment.

Mohit holds an engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

"Naiyya Saggi is the Co-founder of the Good Glamm Group - Digital first beauty and personal care conglomerate built on the  flywheel of content, creator, community and commerce. The Good Glamm Group comprises a portfolio of proprietary beauty & personal care brands that are powered by its digital ecosystem of content, community, and creator assets.

Within the Good Glamm Group, Naiyya is the CEO of the Good Community,  an omnichannel interest-based network of consumers and experts focussing on shared deep interests of beauty, parenting, sexual & intimate health, wellness and sustainability.
 
In 2015, Naiyya founded BabyChakra, India’s most trusted parenting platform with the vision of making parenting easier. The platform provides, to be & new parents with relevant information via blogs & content along with access to trusted professionals in the medical world. BabyChakra has been consistently recognised as one of the Top Pregnancy Parenting technology products by Global Tech Powerhouses such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft as well as by international tech and health publications such as Healthline, Inc etc. 

In July 2021, BabyChakra merged with MyGlamm and Naiyya joined MyGlamm as a Co-founder and Board Member to further strengthen the content to commerce approach adopted by MyGlamm. This then led to the formation of the Good Glamm Group in September 2021.  The Good Glamm Group is valued at USD 1.2 Billion and is backed by Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Warburg Pincus and Prosus Ventures.
 
A Harvard Business School Graduate (MBA 2012) where she was a Fulbright & Tata Scholar, Naiyya has always been a tech enthusiast. She was formerly a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. and at The Bridgespan Group (Boston) where she worked extensively in Scaling Healthcare & Education Ventures. Naiyya is also a qualified lawyer and has a BA.LLB (HONS) from National Law School, Bangalore where she was elected University President.
 
Today, she is one of India’s Top Entrepreneurs and Women in Tech. She has been profiled on Business World's Young Entrepreneurs Awards, ET Now Leaders of Tomorrow, CNBC Young Turks, Economic Times Young Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Women Entrepreneurs and by the Government of India under its Startup India program amongst others. Naiyya has been a mentor at Facebook's flagship #SheLeadsTech where she was actively involved in mentoring women entrepreneurs. She is recognised as one of India’s Top Emerging Leaders by Entrepreneur, The Economic Times & Business World."

"Naveen Kukreja is the Co-founder & CEO of Paisabazaar - India’s largest digital marketplace for consumer credit and free credit score platform. Paisabazaar is a part of PB Fintech – a public listed company in India. 

Under Naveen’s stellar leadership, Paisabazaar today is the market leader and one of India’s fastest growing fintechs. Since 2017, it has also been running India’s largest credit awareness initiative, helping over 42 million consumers from 823 cities and towns across India become credit aware.

Naveen is one of the most prominent faces of India’s fast evolving fintech sector and a key industry voice. He continues to play a key role by representing the fintech sector in dialogues with the Government, Regulator and at industry forums on important issues like inclusiveness, data democratization, digitization etc.

Naveen has an experience of over 2 decades in the financial services markets of India and Europe, having worked in leadership roles at Citibank, Capital One Bank and Aviva Life Insurance. He is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and Delhi College of Engineering."

Nikhil is the Head of Customer Growth at Infobip and leads the strategy and execution of expanding and retaining Infobip's customer base across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience in startups, telecom, and retail, acquiring a broad and thorough grasp of the communications business. With a diverse background in sales, marketing, and customer success, he effectively drives profitable growth, surpasses revenue goals, and fosters strong client and partner connections.
 

Mr. Nikhil Sharma is the Market Managing Director, Eurasia Region for Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and an author of a book Rumi & Kabir Consulting. In his current role, Nikhil holds a full management remit encompassing. a full management remit encompassing franchise operations support, regional sales, revenue management services, while also steering the development strategy for the region. Nikhil is also instrumental in further nurturing the relationships with owners and franchise partners to drive system contribution, revenue, performance, quality, operational excellence and brand engagement

Nikhil Sharma is currently a Board Member at FHRAI (Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Association of India) and HRANI (Hotel and Restaurant Association of Northern India). He is an Elected member in the Delhi State Council at CII Delhi

Nikhil Sharma brings over two decades of experience in the hospitality industry, having worked for major players in the region across strategy and planning, business development, revenue management and distribution. Prior to WH&R Nikhil was the Chief Operating Officer at Ginger hotels, A TATA Enterprise, where he led the company’s operations, growth portfolio, as well as its
digital and loyalty strategy. He was also one of the founding members at the Lemon Tree Hotel Company, building India’s fastest growing upscale hotel brand. As COO East, Central & West, he reported to the CMD; owned full P&L / ROI.

Nikhil holds a Diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management, Pusa, New Delhi and a certification from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. He has collaborated with many high-profile industry organizations, serving as Chair and Convener for Skills and Entrepreneurship, Confederation of Indian Industry, Delhi State Council, and the Steering committee of Confederation of Indian Industry.

Niraj is the founder of Eleride, a cutting-edge e-Mobility startup revolutionizing the last-mile distribution industry. With a wealth of experience in the automotive and EV industry, including positions as CEO of Bike Bazaar and heading Regional Business & Expansion for OYO, Niraj brings a unique blend of strategic vision and operational expertise to the table.

"With a career spanning for over two and half decades and spread across marketing of healthcare & nutrition products to holiday brands and destinations, Nishant’s done it all from traversing across the length and breadth of India setting up distribution network for nutritional health drink, PediaSure, to working across various cultures internationally. A keen observer of trends and societal changes, Nishant is known to keep things simple, have clarity of objectives and believes in superior execution of strategies to achieve business objectives.

Having joined Tourism Australia in 2010, and as the captain of Team Australia, he has been responsible for driving visitation and tourist spend by raising Australia’s awareness and appeal in India. Under his leadership, arrivals from India to Australia have more than tripled over the last decade to reach 400,000 and he has been instrumental in strengthening the people to people links between the two countries.

Hailed as a market leader and voted amongst the top 30 CMOs of India by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), Nishant is often invited to speak at various marketing and tourism conclaves.

During his own time, Nishant enjoys playing professional cricket on every weekend and searching for new food haunts. Pro tip, he always knows the best places for food. Good thing, Nishant works for a country that’s as passionate about cricket and food as him.
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I've been in the media space for the last 15 years. My primary work focus is around how media spends can drive meaningful business impact across the funnel. My approach is medium agnostic and consumer led. I currently leading the Media Center of Excellence for GCPL globally. At the Media COE we seek to bring alive data science and technology led media planning and deployment across mediums. Prior to this, I was with Mindshare, on the HUL account for 9 years and led Strategy, Digital and Planning sciences over that period. I've also spent time on the publisher side and at DDB Mudra.

Hailing from a textile business family, Nitish was hooked to interactive gaming at the mere age of 7 when he coded his first game. He then went on to setup his own bulletin board service at 14 and finally merged his passion for gaming with the zeal to create something substantial, he founded Nazara Technologies at the age of 19. Nitish led Nazara to a very successful IPO as India’s first gaming company to list with an oversubscription of 175 times. A sharp-eyed business mind facilitated him to take the Indian gaming industry to new heights with Nazara. Onboarding marquee investors like WestBridge Capital and the famed investor and market expert Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was rather a phenomenon as this was Jhunjhunwala’s first investment in a gaming/tech venture. Furthermore, from Nazara’s stellar growth under the leadership of Nitish led to WestBridge seeing an exit of INR 1000 Cr with an investment of INR 12 Cr to the company becoming the first public listed gaming company from the country, with a valuation of nearly $1 billion, the success story is an aspiring one. Now, Nazara’s acquisition kitty includes a bunch of premium companies, each a leader in its space. The strategic and well-informed acquisitions by Nitish Mittersain’s Nazara like Next Wave Multimedia (Number 1 mobile cricket game in the world), Nodwin Gaming (Largest esports company in India), Paper Boat Apps (Leaders in kids’ ed-tech space) has catapulted the company’s portfolio to an all-encompassing one in the gaming space in India and worldwide. Nitish has also served as the chairman of the Mobile Value-Added Services Expert and on the Asia board of the MEF (Mobile Ecosystem Forum), a global association for mobile content and commerce. He has also been widely recognized for his contribution to the gaming and digital entertainment industry internationally. Investing in and mentoring multiple start-ups independently from Nazara, he is however wise enough to know that all work no play is not the way to go. So, when not at work, Nitish likes to relax and play a range of wood-wind instruments such as the clarinet and saxophone. He is a member of a jazz band called the Jazz Junkies that has been playing in Mumbai clubs for over 20 years. He is also a Level 2 practitioner of Krav Maga, a type of martial arts and also a trustee of the Dr. B. K. Goyal Heart Foundation and the Dhanvantari Foundation.

Ms. Noopur Chaturvedi is the CEO of NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited (NBBL). NBBL is the wholly owned subsidiary of NPCI, and a first of its kind platform for processing all recurring payments in the country. In this role, Noopur’s responsibilities would include formulation & deployment of business strategy in line with NBBL’s overall mission of safe, reliable, interoperable and accessible payment infrastructure for all recurring payments across the country. Prior to joining NBBL, she has held executive positions in PayU (Country Head – SMB) and Airtel Payments Bank (Chief – Corporate Business and Alliances).

Noopur has over two decades of experience in Banking and Financial Services across several leading organizations like Citibank, ING, Samsung and others. She has worked in both B2C and B2B domains, across roles spanning P&L management, Sales and Alliances, Marketing as well as Product and Portfolio Management. She is a growth hacker and has launched several new businesses and revenue lines in the organizations she has worked with.

She holds a PGDBM degree from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, and is a B.Tech. in Computer Sciences from Harcourt Butler Technology Institute, where she was a merit holder.

"Nruthya Madappa is the Partner and Head of Growth and Capital Development at 3one4 Capital. She supports investments, topline and capital growth for the portfolio at the firm, and works closely with global institutional and strategic investors to drive growth of 3one4-portfolio companies. Her team partners deeply with portfolio companies in planning and achieving financial and strategic objectives including capital raises, revenue acceleration, M&A, and exits.
Over her career in the US and India, Nruthya led global teams across technology, finance, real estate, education, and economic policy. Before 3one4 Capital, Nruthya founded and led The CoWrks Foundry (a business accelerator for early-stage companies) as Managing Partner, investing in over 25 companies and establishing global partnerships with Yale and Columbia University. 
Prior to The CoWrks Foundry she drove the Revenue and Growth orgs at Cuemath. Throughout her career, Nruthya has designed and scaled products, and raised capital for high-growth companies - strengths she brings to bear for the 3one4-portfolio. Nruthya holds Bachelor’s of Science and Master’s of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School."
 

Pankaj is a serial entrepreneur and industry leader in the consumer retail, technology, brand creation, and omnichannel business spaces. He has co-founded 3 companies, having taken through successful exits. His past ventures included a travel search startup (successfully acquired by Exponential Inc, U.S.) and an ed-tech venture funded by Intel Capital and JAFCO Asia. He also setup an incubator for Mountain Partners, Zurich and invested in concept-stage ideas in India. In 2015, he founded Brand Clovia and took it from bootstrap to now selling 1 piece every 1.5 seconds. The brand was built on back of many industry-first disruptions led by technology and has won multiple awards, including Super Startup Asia 2018, Retail Brand of the Year 2019, MAPIC Most Admired D2C Retailer of the Year 2022, and Economic Times Promising Brands 2022. Pankaj was recognized as Business World 40 Under 40, Retail CEO of the Year 2019, and Entrepreneur of the Year (Retail) in 2022. Reliance Retail acquired a majority stake in Clovia for 950Cr in 2022, in one of the largest deals in the space.

Pankaj is a graduate from IIT Delhi. He is an active member of the Delhi Theatre Circle, a Reiki Raj Yoga practitioner, and an avid pilgrim. He also actively advises startups in the retail and technology space.

Pawan has over two decades of experience in the gifting industry, With 23 years at FNP, he has reshaped the gifting landscape through innovation and growth. Under his guidance, FNP has become India's largest modern gifting brand, serving 99% of pincodes and expanding into international markets like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Singapore. As a pioneer in both offline and online retail, Mr. Gadia spearheaded the expansion of FNP's Flower and Cake Stores to over 350 outlets. Co-pioneering FNP's online division in 2002, he transformed it into India's leading flower and gifting platform, fnp.com. With a focus on nurturing talent and fostering excellence, Mr. Gadia continues to lead FNP to new heights.

Piyush Bhartiya, an esteemed graduate of IIT Roorkee and IIM Bangalore, stands as the Co-Founder of AdmitKard and an ex-strategist at The Boston Consulting Group. His journey is marked by a deep commitment to excellence and a leadership style that inspires. At the heart of AdmitKard, his innovative spirit thrives, transforming the way higher education applications are approached. Piyush is not just leading a brand; he's on a mission to redefine student guidance and pave the way for their successful futures.

Prabhvir is a highly experienced business leader with more than 15 years of digital advertising & technology experience. He currently serves as Senior Director, Samsung Ads India, a leading provider of Advanced TV advertising solutions.

As a founding executive of Samsung Ads India, Prabh was instrumental in setting up the Indian arm of the business. Armed with a deep understanding of ad tech, media and viewership preferences Prabh is tasked with driving commercial expansion and adoption of CTV in the region.

Prior to Samsung Ads Prabh pioneered programmatic advertising at Google, headed up search and mobile at Mindshare and worked at multiple technology driven media solution companies.

"Prakash Sangam is the CEO of redBus, India’s largest online bus ticketing platform
that has transformed bus travel in the country. By bringing convenience, choice and unmatched prices,
redBus has become the first-choice of millions of customers and thousands of bus operators.
Prakash joined redBus as its CEO in June 2014. Before taking over the role at redBus, Prakash was at the InfoEdge group where he built Shiksha.com from ground-up and also managed Jeevansathi.com along with the Ad sales business unit.
Prakash started his professional career with Hindustan Unilever as a Management Trainee and then did multiple stints in sales and marketing with his last role being that of Regional Marketing Manager for South Asia.
Prakash has been instrumental in amplifying the leadership position of redBus in online bus ticketing in India, expanding the business to markets outside India, and also in extending redBus into other travel segments such as Rail Ticketing & Info-services and Cab & Bus Rentals.
Prakash Sangam is an Engineering Graduate from Mumbai University, and completed his M.B.A from IIM, Calcutta. In 2015, Prakash was featured in the list of Economic Times' ""Forty Under 40 - Hottest Business Leaders in India""."

Prashant is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of LeadSquared. He heads all post-sales customer centric operations and is responsible for business retention, growth, and expansion. Prior to LeadSquared, Prashant was the co-founder of Proteans, and he served as the COO. Post Symphony Teleca acquiring Proteans, he served as the Vice President and P & L Head for the business unit of Energy, Healthcare and Media verticals. Prashant is an alumnus of IIT Delhi. Prior to founding Proteans, he was part of several product development teams in Telesoft, i2 Technologies and Oracle.

Priyanka Shah is a seasoned marketing specialist with over 16 years of experience, currently serving as the Head of Digital Marketing and Sales at Bajaj Auto. She has delivered comprehensive business and marketing solutions to a diverse range of B2B and B2C clients across APAC, US, UAE, and UK markets. 
Throughout her career, Priyanka has held key positions in renowned organizations, contributing significantly to their success. Prior to his current role at Bajaj Auto, she has been associated with reputed companies like YES Bank, Lodha Group, Kingfisher Airlines, Shaadi.com and Percept Group.

Puneet Gupt is the COO of Times Internet, the digital arm of The Times of India Group, where he drives the strategy, vision and execution for all the internet mobile and properties of the group. He is also a Mentor at Tventures, an Angel Investor at PregBuddy and an advisor to several Indian startups.

Puneet is a seasoned digital product and business leader with 20+ years of experience in the sector. Prior to TIL, he was heading product at hCentive in the USA and returned to India to head Internet Broking for Unicon Investment Solutions.

Puneet is an IIT-Delhi and IIM Calcutta alumnus.

Partner & Leader - Digital, Media & convergence

A passionate Sales & Marketing professional with a proven track record of over 2.5 decades in the services sector, of which the past 19 years have been in the Travel domain. Having worked with the best brands in the travel & hospitality segments, Raghav has an extensive exposure to marketing as well as Operational & Strategic Decision making, New Business Setup, Developing Marketing Plans, Contracting and People Development.

Raghav Himatsingka is a Stanford and Georgia Tech graduate, whose life's mission is to raise a whole new generation of kids for happiness and success through accelerated learning and early childhood interventions. He founded his company Raising Superstars and his Prodigy Baby mobile app during the pandemic, and the company is now a category creator and leader in its space across the world with paying customers from over 150+ countries around the world.

"Today, we have with us Mr. Rahul Attuluri, the Founder and CEO of NxtWave. 
Under his lead, NxtWave helped over 1,600 companies, ranging from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 giants, hire high quality, trained and skilled software engineers for their teams. Through NxtWave, Rahul has created a bridge between education and employment by aligning training with real-world industry needs.
Despite the global recession and challenging market conditions, Rahul demonstrated remarkable resilience by securing $33 million for NxtWave, arguably India’s largest series-A fund in EdTech while the industry was going through a funding winter. And guess what? He built a business that’s been cash-flow positive from day one. 
He’s not just a CEO, he is a technology expert and a loved teacher too. With stints at Amazon India and Bwin Technologies, he has honed his skills in some of the most demanding tech environments. He stands as a role model for his students and gathered an exceptional following among students that only a few great teachers command. Many students regularly share their gratitude towards Rahul on various social media platforms for their success."

Rajesh Kalra is the Executive Chairman of Asianet News Media and Entertainment Pvt Limited. (AMEL) that straddles print, TV, Radio and Digital in seven Indian languages and English.
A veteran journalist, Kalra is a pioneering internet entrepreneur and one of the earliest leaders of India's Digital Media charge.
Before joining AMEL, Kalra was the Chief Editor of Times Internet, the repository of everything digital of The Times of India Group. He was also an entrepreneur from 2000-2006 when his company managed the dynamic portions of websites such as Yahoo India, MSN India, Mantra Online and started India’s first 24*7 news website, NaradOnline.
During his stint at Times Internet, where he became the youngest Chief Editor at the age of 40, he was instrumental in the launch of almost all the news and entertainment properties of the group – TOI, ET, Mumbai Mirror, Bangalore Mirror, Ahmedabad Mirror, Pune Mirror, NBT, MT, Indiatimes, Ei Samay, I am Gujarat, Vijay Karnataka and the three Samayam properties (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam).
Kalra started his career with the computer publication, Dataquest and thereafter had stints with the print editions of the Times of India, Business Standard and The Economic Times.
His move to digital happened after ET, when he became the first Editor of Times Interactive in 1999, before he moved on as an entrepreneur.
Kalra is an avid sportsperson, a trained high-altitude mountaineer, a marathoner and a mountain biker who has ridden twice from Manali to Leh. He has been the member of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Olympic Task Force and the All India Council of Sports. He is also a non-motorised transport evangelist and is a founder Trustee of the ‘Raahgiri’ Foundation.

An alumni of Harvard Business School (HBS), Rajkiran, received his BE degree in Electronics, being a University Topper. He also holds an MBA degree and a degree in Export-Import Management, where he stood All India First.
Rajkiran Kanagala is the President & Chief Business Officer at Transport Corporation of India (TCI), where he has been working since 2006. He is currently involved in projects encompassing strategy and growth initiatives within the areas of technology, innovation, brand, marketing, sourcing and HSE + ESG as his core competencies. He also heads the SAARC and Chemical verticals at a P&L level.
With an exposure of 16+ years now in the domain of Supply Chain, Logistics & Transportation, Rajkiran has been invited as a distinguished speaker on this subject by some of the most respected institutions and academia. He has authored several technical articles and worked on research projects.
Rajkiran is currently serving as the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Tech Committee at Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) with a vision to aid the logistics industry in thriving on the power of digital technology. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Moving India Taskforce on Emissions Trucking & Elorry ConCom by IIT Madras, along with being an active part of the country’s apex associations like ASSOCHAM.
With an overall exposure of 25 years, Rajkiran has worked in various roles in international and domestic markets. He also serves as a member of the Executive Committee of TCI Group. Currently, he is steering a unique national initiative on road safety and health, "TCI Safe Safar", which has won awards and witnessed great partnerships from numerous organizations.
Rajkiran is an ardent fan of superheroes and comics. He is also a passionate follower of history and sports and is fond of exploring latest technologies and performing fitness activities.

Rehan is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience and the founder of three businesses. At Orios, he has a diverse portfolio of investments in Consumer Tech, B2B Tech, HardTech, AgTech, and Fintech.
Rehan's expertise ranges from leadership and marketing to sales and operations. He gained early insights into digital marketing and complex processes at his last company, Flora2000, which he founded in 2004. He also learned deeply about sales, inventory and working capital management at his previous two businesses, which were both B2B.
He studied for his bachelor's at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and his masters at Columbia Business School, New York.
Rehan has consistently contributed to India's entrepreneurial ecosystem as the founder of Indian Angel Network's Mumbai Chapter and co-founder of Harvard Angels India. He also served on the Executive Council of the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and is a TiE Charter Member. When he's not making investments, Rehan is also our chief foodie and has founded two gourmet clubs. Luckily for us, all our offices have gyms in their vicinity.
Rehan is also the co-author of "Make Your Own Luck", a book that encourages people at startups, in large corporates and generally in life, to take control of their destiny.

Revant Bhate is CEO & Co-Founder @ Mosaic Wellness, a platform of Personalized Digital Health Coaches backed by Marquee investors like Elevation Capital, Matrix Partners India and Peak XV. Before starting Mosaic, Revant was a venture capitalist as a Partner @ Kstart, Kalaari Capital' seed program, where he invested in multiple B2C businesses. Revant has had a long operating experience with India's largest food delivery business viz. Rebel Foods as an Entrepreneur in Residence over a period of 5 years. Before Rebel Foods, he spent 5 years in Banking and Financial Services for the Consumer & Healthcare sectors in India.

Saahil Nayar, the CEO of Swiss Beauty. With over a decade of experience in the beauty and fashion industry, he is driving a remarkable 500 crore business towards growth. Known for his marketing and business genius, Saahil has successfully scaled renowned brands like Kama, Moms Co, and IDAM, driving their growth. An expert in strategy and planning, he has revolutionized the industry with his visionary approach. With an unwavering passion for beauty and fashion, Saahil Nayar continues to redefine norms, propelling Swiss Beauty to new heights and solidifying its position as a trailblazer in the industry.

Sajith Sivanandan, Head - Disney+ Hotstar, India

As the head of Disney+ Hotstar, he drives India's overall strategy, growth, revenue and product operations. He is also responsible for developing the streaming services' strategic business goals and outlining a sustained and exponential development roadmap. Collaborating closely with the Disney+ team across the United States, APAC and EMEA regions, he supports the continued expansion of Disney+ Hotstar, making it India's most extensive streaming service.
He began his career at Star T.V., followed by successful stints at The Gallup Organization and Affle, based in Singapore. He then went on to join Google, where he strongly contributed to growing Google's presence by building its Malaysian operations from the ground up. He eventually ran and managed their operations across Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and emerging countries. After a 20-year stint in Southeast Asia, he returned home to India and was instrumental in expanding the Google Pay business before joining Disney+ Hotstar in 2022.

An athlete at heart, he represented Singapore in cricket as well. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in History from Hindu College, Delhi University, an MBA from Fore School of Management, New Delhi and another MBA (with distinction) from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines.

Sameer is currently the Head of Gaming, APAC at Google Cloud and the former Territory Head of Epic Games, ASEAN and South Asia.

He was the Co-founder and CEO of Culture Machine, one of India’s largest digital media firms that reaches 300 million unique audiences per month with one billion monthly views.

Sameer is a National Award-winning film producer, ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ in 2017, and holds 3 US technology patents to his name.

He is a founding investor in Visceral Capital, which invests in gaming and spatial startups in South Asia, and has led 12 investments in the space over the past 3 years.

"As an early investor in InMobi and InfoEdge two of India's billion dollar technology companies, Sandeep Murthy is one of the builders of India's Internet economy. He hasn't just seen the highs and lows play out as an investor, but actually roughed it out in operational roles including one as the CEO of Cleartrip in 2006 for three years.
A dreamer from the start, who doesn’t believe in choosing between “this or that” he did his undergrad in both business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Like all good Penn grads he dove into investment banking. However, since it was the height of the dot.com boom, he did it a little differently by moving out to Palo Alto, California to join CSFB Technology Group.
He teamed up with a friend to build a digital music company that was incubated by Sony Music and ended up selling the company to Sony after the Internet bubble burst. Sandeep lived the Bay Area dream for a few years before moving to New York to join InterActive Corp (IAC) the owners of Expedia, TicketMaster and Home Shopping Network where he helped launch Gifts.com. He started to explore the India technology opportunity and ultimately moved to Mumbai to manage investments for Sherpalo Ventures, a fund based out of Menlo Park in California.
Today he's a co-founder and partner at Lightbox, a Mumbai-based venture capital firm investing in Indian consumer technology companies. Lightbox has raised over $380M from leading institutional investors. Notable investments include PayMate, Droom, Rebel Foods, Dunzo and AI-platform Embibe, which received a $185MM investment commitment from Reliance, India's internet super power. This is the largest AI investment in edtech anywhere in the world. Sandeep also supports platforms like Magic Bus, a non-profit organization that uses activity based curriculum to teach underprivileged kids life skills.
Most of his time is spent figuring how to make something different happen. With an all-in, nothing-held-back style, he loves diving in, getting to the heart of the matter, trying new things and getting as many people as possible involved. In a somewhat unpredictable market, Sandeep’s investment success stems from a combination of deep product instinct and unconventional thinking."

In his role as Country Manager, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia, Booking.com, Santosh Kumar plays a critical role in driving business growth, strategy and operations across one of the most dynamic regions for the company. A seasoned leader, Santosh brings over a decade of leadership experience from the travel and hospitality industry.

Santosh joined Booking.com in July 2022 and was previously Managing Director, Indian subcontinent at HRS Group, a global SaaS-based corporate travel accommodation technology provider. He has also worked at American Express Global Business Travel and has extensive consultancy experience working with Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Deloitte, Collabera and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants in USA and India.

Santosh holds a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Indian School of Business. He is passionate about driving sustainability in the travel industry. In his free time, Santosh likes to travel, watch sports and experience the unadulterated joy of parenthood with his son.

Shantanu is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Interactive Avenues – one of India’s largest full-service digital agencies and a part of IPG Mediabrands India.

An MBA from Narsee Monjee, Shantanu has been at the forefront of developing his agency’s comprehensive range of cutting-edge services. With ~800+ digital specialists across 5 locations, Interactive Avenues offers E-Commerce, Creative, Social & Influencer Marketing, ORM, SEO, Tech Development, Analytics and Media Strategy, Planning, Buying & Execution. The agency has won 300+ awards in the past 3 years, including Internet & Mobile Association of India’s coveted ‘Digital Agency of the Year’ (for the 10th time in 2023) and Campaign India Digital Crest Awards ‘Agency of the Year’ in 2023.

In his spare time, Shantanu restores vintage British motorcycles and is an adventure sports junkie.

Mr. Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Officer at Maruti Suzuki, is a business leader par excellence and is widely recognized as one of the most influential marketeers in India, having led and steered the Marketing & Sales function at Maruti Suzuki through its most challenging phases of covid pandemic and supply chain disruption.

In a career spanning more than 3 decades at Maruti Suzuki, Mr. Srivastava has worked in both domestic and international marketing, and has witnessed the evolution of Indian automotive industry from its nascent days to today’s hyper competitive phase.

An alumnus of the prestigious IIM Ahmedabad, in his current role, he is transforming Marketing & Sales function at Maruti Suzuki, and preparing it for the disruptive mobility ecosystem ahead. His digital transformation initiatives include making MSIL the 1st automotive OEM globally to take vehicle bookings on Metaverse.

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For his contributions to automotive industry at large, Mr. Srivastava has been widely recognized with a slew of awards:
• Automotive Leader of the Year
• Business Leader and CMO of the year
• CMO Award for ‘Disruptive Marketing Excellence’
• Business World India’s most influential Marketing Leaders 2023
• Impact Digital Top 100
• Financial Express Visionary Leadership
• ET Auto Retail Personality award
• Storyboard 18 ‘Visionary Award‘ 2023 – Excellence in Marketing
• ‘Zee Real Heros Award’ for business excellence in Automobile sector

He is a member of various industry bodies such as
• Vice Chairman, Media Research Users Council India (MRUCI)
• CII National Committee on Marketing
• Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI)
• Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA)
• Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)
• Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)
• Indian Readership Survey (IRS)

An avid social media user and influencer, Mr. Srivastava can be followed on the handle @shashankdrives on Twitter and Instagram.
His interests include Travelling, Reading and Chess.
He is married and has two daughters.

Marketing professional with 18+ years of experience and worked across media agencies and brands like OLX, big FM & Spotify currently.In all my years of experience have contributed in the field of business driven media strategy, martech, brand partnerships & on-platform marketing.

Expertise working with diverse teams for clients across US, UK, APAC, Middle East, LATAM and India geographies. Lead strategy and business transformation initiatives across gaming and esports sector working entertainment, media , Telco's and gaming companies. Key client include - Disney, Digicel, Sony, Google, MPL, GXR, etc.

I am based out of Bangalore, India.

I joined ITC in 2007 as Head of Consumer Insights and over the last 15 years I have been lucky to be a part of the organization which grew ten folds to 1.5 Billion Dollar Business. I was instrumental into our forays into multiple food and beverage categories like Snacks, Juices, Chocolates, Noodles and Coffee.

Understanding consumers and their needs has always excited me and the quest has hence been to innovate systems and processes to keep ITC ahead of the curve and create winning solutions for the business. As data and analytics became more important in the area of decision making, I got the opportunity to spread my sphere of contribution. Today we have been able to go beyond the traditional analytical process to adapting the new age practice of machine learning and using artificial intelligence to predict outcomes with higher degree of accuracy.

Having set the practice of analytics, we focused to develop capabilities in the field of Digital Marketing. As a CDMO, I get the opportunity to be at the cusp of strategy, creative thinking, build innovative offers and create capabilities in the organization to be future ready. I feel like being a student 20 years back and even now. Hope to continue in the quest of knowing the new and implementing the best.

With 16 years of experience in creative and content, Siddhant has been responsible for numerous award winning campaigns over the years. As Head of Mediabrands Content Studio in India, he leads creative thinking with a strong media lens for the entire network and client portfolio. In his current capacity, he handles original content, brand content, tech innovations and campaigns for Interactive Avenues, Initiative and UM Lodestar.

Soumya has been a key member of the SVF Team to launch hoichoi, which has become one of the Top 10 Entertainment OTT Platforms in India today. He started out as a Digital Lead and was soon leading Operations for hoichoi. After heading the Business & Strategy in India, Bangladesh and other international territories in Strategic Partnerships, User Acquisition & Retention, Content, Marketing and other Revenue verticals. He is at present the Chief Operating Officer for hoichoi India and Bangladesh and has also very recently taken over the reins as the Originals Head as well. Currently at over 120 originals, hoichoi is looking forward to launching many more in the upcoming timeline. Prior to working at hoichoi, Soumya was one of the core team members to launch e-Commerce in India for Global French Retail Giant, Decathlon.

Sreeraman is co-founder and CEO of Agrahyah Technologies, aawaz.com & Chessniti Academy. 

Agrahyah started in 2017 as ‘India’s first Voice Agency’ where it specialized in Conversational AI. Aghyahyah has since diversified into domains including Web, Mobile and Cloud Technologies, Integrated Communications, and Digital Transformation and counts clients such as Honda, Hyundai, Samsung, Abbott, NPCI, Federal Bank, Google, Tata Asset Management, Wipro Enterprises & IBM. 

aawaz.com, the product owned and operated by Agrahyah is the largest spoken-word audio and podcast network in Indian languages. It is currently available in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Marathi & English. 

Sreeraman, a passionate chess player, also co-founded Chessniti, a professional chess training academy based in Mumbai with 100s of students across 4 countries. 

Sreeraman started his career in 2002 at ICICi Bank. Built and sold his first ad agency in 2008-11; and during 2014-17 he was Vice President of Digital Marketing at Publicis India, he's also the founder and chapter manager of Google Business Group Mumbai.  He also runs MaLAI Club & VOICE Talks India which aims to be a forum for Voice, ML and AI enthusiasts to learn and share knowledge better. 

He's a writer byline for The Economic Times & Mint and other pink papers where he writes about the impact of technology on business & society. 

He’s also an Adjunct Professor of Digital Transformation at IIM Trichy and delivers guest lectures at institutes including IIM Indore, SP Jain, NMIMS, among others and provides bespoke CXO training in digital technologies & transformation. 

Sreeraman is also a mentor at Google For Startups.

Sreeraman is an active council member in MMA & IAMAI for Voice and Audio charter and Digital Transformation council. 

He was listed as (GDE) "Google Developer Expert - Marketing' by Google from 2015-19

Sreeraman holds an MBA in Marketing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA and Bachelors in Management and Marketing from Bangalore University.

He was born and raised in Bangalore and now lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai. 

Head - Corporate Brand and Communications Group

Sujit Ganguli is the Head of Brand & Communications at ICICI Bank. In this role, he is in-charge of the Bank’s brand, media, digital marketing, market research and external & internal communications portfolio.

Prior to this, Sujit worked in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, where he handled multiple responsibilities across sales, marketing and service functions.

Sujit is a Physics graduate and he completed his management education in 1994 from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He began his career with HUL.

Sujit relaxes by reading, watching sports programs on TV and spending time with his wife & daughter. He thoroughly enjoys going on vacations with his family.

An avid gamer, photographer and a motorcyle enthusiast, Sukamal has been working for the development of the Indian gaming industry for over 12 years and he is as excited about it as he was when he first joined the industry. Currently he leads Esports for the South Asia region for Riot Games, bringing the VALORANT Champions Tour products to the fans here.

Co-Founder of Yocket, been in the education industry since 2010. Engineer and Lawyer by qualification. Started Yocket in 2015 to build a community of students planning to pursue higher education outside their home country. Today the community is more than million students with the student diaspora across the globe.

Tomoharu Urabe is a principal partner at MIXI Global Investments, which is newly established in 2023 and is an early-stage corporate venture capital for India and Global market. Its parent company MIXI is a post-IPO company in Japan running Digital Entertainment, Lifestyle and Sports businesses.

Ujjwal Singh, Founding CEO, Infinity Learn CEO, Infinity Learn | TEDx Speaker | Education Futurist | Patent Applicant in India & US | Rapid Prototyper A tech enthusiast and innovator, Ujjwal Singh, CEO of Infinity Learn is a strong believer in modernising education and breaking the barriers of conventional education systems. Ujjwal stands for the values of ideation, innovation, constant improvement, and inclusivity. Currently heads Infinity Learn, an outcome-based learning EdTech start-up by Sri Chaitanya Group. At the company’s helm, Ujjwal is responsible for the overall management of the fast-growing brand, ensuring that its mission and vision are successfully implemented across the operations. With his 25 years of experience in the education domain, he has successfully delivered business value through frugal product development with two patents filed in his name. Before Infinity Learn, he was associated with Pearson, where he has successfully built businesses to scale from scratch and implemented education programmes across geographies. At Pearson, he has served leading roles like Chief Product Officer and Vice President. So far, he has created multiple innovative digital-first education products that have received tremendous positive customer responses. He believes in being a better self each day and encourages and supports his teams to outdo themselves consistently and pushes them to the highest level of self-actualization. An empathetic leader, a design thinker, a serial entrepreneur, an inclusivity advocate, a customer centric product developer, an IDEO certified rapid prototyper, Ujjwal dons several hats with ease. He brings with him, an experience of over two decades in the education industry. His career straddles management and product development in equal stead and he always enjoys a challenge, especially if it is a timebound one. Through Infinity Learn, he aspires to create an immersive and measurable learning system and achieve physical classrooms’ engagement levels in a digital setting – A New age Platform for a New age Learner. Ujjwal is also a sports enthusiast and loves binge-reading and watching shows in varied genres.

Vamshi Reddy is a Partner at Kalaari Capital, focussing on different sectors including Gaming, Media & Entertainment. He comes with varied experience across geographies and sectors and has been an entrepreneur himself - launching and scaling a profitable OTT startup. He brings hands-on experience of an Entrepreneur’s journey to the venture capital side.

Varun Parihar is the Vice President & Head of Corporate Affairs at Shiprocket, India’s leading eCommerce enablement platform. With a steadfast commitment to fostering the growth of the SMBs, Varun leads the charge on policy and corporate affairs, playing a pivotal role in Shiprocket's impressive trajectory of success in recent years.
Varun has over 16 years of experience in leadership roles at distinguished organizations, including FICCI, OLA, and Udaan. His vision for Shiprocket focuses on positioning the platform as a leading eCommerce enabler for small businesses, particularly in the D2C segment and fostering adaptation and growth through eCommerce.
Varun manages corporate affairs, nurturing relationships with key stakeholders. He leads efforts to drive innovation and advocate for policies that benefit eCommerce sellers and MSMEs, aligning with Shiprocket's overarching mission to support the growth of MSMEs on their eCommerce journey.

Vasuta is the Chief Business Officer of InMobi group. She leads the performance advertising and the ad monetization business for the group's consumer properties globally across markets covering revenue, product, go-to-market and operations functions. She has been featured in the list of IMPACT's 50 Most Influential Women since 2018, the Economic Times' 40 under Forty List for 2021, and Campaign Asia's 40 under 40 Class of 2021. She has been with InMobi for over 10 years and has worn many hats in her time there from Founders’ strategy to product to business roles. Before InMobi, she was at McKinsey and Intel. She is a graduate of BITS, Pilani and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Vijay Amanna is a senior business leader with a career spanning 20 years, during which he has built a niche for himself in the geospatial solutions domain. He has extensive experience in running large Operations, Process and Program Management.

Vijay joined HERE Technologies, a global leader in the location data space, in 2009 and has held multiple leadership roles since then. He is currently Vice President - Operations, responsible for navigable map content creation and maintenance, leading a 3000+ strong team based in India and Mexico.  

During his career, Vijay has developed deep expertise in handling customer service processes responsible for driving operational excellence, together with significant exposure and understanding in setting up new processes from scratch including hiring, contracting and site setup.

Before joining HERE, Vijay worked with prominent companies such as Genesys International, Patni Computer Systems, and Da Vinci Engineering. Vijay has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, started his career in manufacturing, and then moved on to Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM).  His first exposure to Geospatial and GIS solutions was with Patni Computer Systems in 1998.

Vijay is married, has one son, and is based in Mumbai. In his free time, Vijay plays sports like cricket and football, and spends much of his spare time with his family.

Vikash is an entrepreneur and a self-driven individual who loves to build businesses / products from scratch. "Zero to One" is what fascinates him and loves pivoting to newer business models, finding the right Product Market fit and then scaling them aggressively. He has versatile experience across Technology, Product and Business roles across companies like Infosys, Goldman Sachs, Flipkart and Paytm. He was one of the first to also launch his own company in the shared economy space in the country. He currently is the Chief Business Officer at Paytm where he leads the Travel business.

Vishal is an engineer by heart and entrepreneur by choice. He is a co-founder of REConnect Energy - a climate tech start-up offering Industrial AI and Smart Grid technologies. Vishal is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and St. Cross College Oxford. He is an electrical engineer and an awardee of Chevening Research, Science and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP).

Through its platform GRIDConnect, REConnect Energy offers AI, IoT and Grid Automation software products to energy ecosystem players like - renewable energy developers, transmission companies and distribution companies. REConnect Energy is a 160 member strong organisation working with ~2000 renewable energy developers and ~15 electric utilities in India.

Vivan steers our client-servicing and advocacy. He is Secretary of the Esya Centre, a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, and serves on the boards of several innovation-centric organisations. He is also the author of "Wonked!: India in Search of an Economic Ideology", published by Bloomsbury in 2019; and co-author of "The Dazzle of the Digital: Unbundling India Online", published by Routledge in 2022.

Vivek Malhotra, Group Chief Marketing Officer of India Today Group, leads the marketing and strategic planning divisions across the Broadcast, Digital and Publishing properties of India’s most respected and pioneering news entity - ITG.
He also serves on the Technical Committee of world’s largest TV measurement currency BARC, works very closely with comScore and has served as a Technical Committee member on IRS (Indian Readership Survey), the largest continuous readership research study in the world, and is a leading member of the Technical Committee of NBA (News Broadcasting Association). Besides this he has actively contributed to industry debates, sat on juries and powers CMO Group conversations on hot topics like dynamic pricing.
He is an avid news consumer and an equally passionate marketeer of media brands. Previously, he has worked with India extensions of international brands like CNBC where he set up their Viewership Intelligence Unit – ‘The Edge’. As the former marketing head of Bloomberg, he was also closely involved with the brand’s entry into the Indian TV space and articulated the positioning for the brand and identified core consumer segments. He has hands on experience across all verticals of News TV - namely Regional News (Marathi and Bangla for Star TV), English Business, Hindi Business, English General and Hindi General News. In the digital space, he has worked on the Heartland News Heartthrob TheLallantop.com and launch of bangla and Malayali sites. He additionally has centrally led a marketing team of an over 20 radio station network.
Besides Marketing, he champions paywall and consumer revenues at the group, is investing heavily in a subscription engine and has devised a top of the line global first integrated news consumption reporter that fuses digital, social and TV metrics. Has been widely recognized for a complete understanding of media business from tracking and projecting ad expenditures to placement withing frequencies and LCNs, power of multiple feeds, and accordingly has forged long lasting partnerships with allied fraternities like Bollywood and Trade media and has been the man behind industry’s some of the most remarkable campaigns. The Team returned with both a Gold and a Silver from Promax this year.
The core belief system allows him to keep the consumer revenues/interest ahead of the chase for advertising. And the scope of the current role empowers him to galvanise multiple screens into one uniform experience for the biggest OMNI CHANNEL brands like Aaj Tak, India Today and the news launched Good News Today, the first of its kind experiment in the fierce arena.

Yashwant Deshmukh is the Founder-Director of C-Voter, leading expert agency with about 25 years of experience in Public Opinion Research & Election Management. The Center for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (C-Voter) was started in 1993 as an initiative to act as an interface between the people and the polity. Over two decades now, it has established itself as one of the leading research groups of Public Opinion apart from Socio-Economic-Political & Developmental studies.  The market and social research arm of Team CVoter is the only real-time Research agency with CATI, CAPI and App based on-line facilities in India. In the last 10 years, it has conducted and analyzed interviews of more than a million respondents on CATI alone. It has research teams covering entire South Asia with 100+ well-trained researchers speaking 11 languages. The operations are led by a core team of 20 highly experienced professionals who have steadfastly served within the organization for an average of 15 years. Yash is a keen follower of the media and education sectors as a first-generation entrepreneur. He has worked on various assignments and start-ups in many transitional states and societies across Asia, America, Europe and Africa.  He is trained in Evaluation of Peace Process and conflict resolution from INCORE (Institute of Conflict Research) in University of Ulster-Northern Ireland (UK), as an International observer from EHRO (Election & Human Rights Observation) in University of Bergen (Norway) and CERA (Certified elections and registrations administrator) from The Election Center at the University of Auburn (USA). In the last 25 years, he has conducted and analyzed surveys in many developing countries for reputed international clients including the World Bank, Transparency International, SIDA, UPI, BBC, Reuters and a number of Ivy League Universities. He is also PI (Principal Investigator) in India for major multi-country research initiatives including ISSP, WVS, GlobeScan Radar and WWbI. As a seasoned journalist, he has anchored/produced more than one thousand hours of Live telecast on leading Broadcasting networks. His expert comments on Indian and South Asian social trends are regularly sought after by major international newsgroups.   Yash is also an accomplished speaker, mentor, coach and trainer for media and communications students. He has taken workshops in various International as well as Indian universities. His workshops Global Election Scenarios are also keenly attended by Foreign Services Officials of India and other South Asian Countries at Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Services.  Currently, he is serving as President of WAPOR Asia (Asian chapter of World Association of Public Opinion Research) and Vice President of RC33: ISA Research Committee on Logic & Methodology at International Sociological Association. He is a member of Standing Council in ISSP (International Social Survey Program) and also serves on India’s advisory council to UNESCO. 

With a determination to make a significant contribution to the male-dominated logistics industry, she has been fighting tooth and nail to combat a lot of logistics dysfunctions. Advancing through a series of ideas, Miss Zaiba Sarang’s leadership has expanded beyond boundaries and has positively affected multiple business arenas. Not only that, but the idea has also driven down cost, increased revenue and reduced return and refund rates of e-commerce to almost 5 to 10%.

iThink Logistics was Featured under Top Tech30 Startups of India in 2018 by YourStory.
She was fortunate to get mentored by one of top startups in the USA all credit to a joint program organized by US Embassy and TiE Global.
She was part of NSRCEL by IIMB and ISB Cohort.
iThink Logistics was selected as ET Now Leaders of Tomorrow Winner
Times 40 Under 40