With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.
Specialties: Start ups, product launch, media distribution, service marketing, service brand operations
Balaji is an integrated marketing communication professional with over 16 years of extensive experience in building brands for both global and Indian companies.
In his current role as Marketing Director, CEEMEA for Franklin Templeton, Balaji is responsible for marketing strategy and building brand SOV for the CEEMEA region. The region covers over 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses both on institutional and retail businesses.
Prior to this role, Balaji was Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton India and was responsible for leading all key brand initiatives. Balaji has been one of the early adopters of leveraging gamification, video content and storytelling in the mutual fund industry to promote investor education in the online space. His deep understanding of consumer marketing and customer lifecycle journeys have won him multiple awards in India and globally across creativity, content, innovation and effectiveness. Very recently, he was conferred with the citation of “Marketing Influencer of the Year” by DMA Asia at the 2018 DMA Asia Echo Awards.
Piali Dasgupta is currently Vice President, Marketing, at Columbia Pacific Communities, India’s largest senior living community operator.
Columbia Pacific Communities is part of the Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management. which has
presence across USA, Canada, China and India.
Piali started her career in journalism with The Times of India, and crossed over to Marketing and Communication with playing key roles in creating impactful content marketing strategies for Myntra and later Amazon.
She was responsible for creating Myntra’s very popular style makeover series along with celebrity style chat show series. In a career spanning 14 years, Piali has created a number of award winning marketing campaigns, served on juries and has been on Social Samosa’s Top 40 marketers under 40 list for the year 2019-2020.
She was also part of Social Media Superwomen 2018, that recognised the top 50 women in marketing in India.
She has worked across print media, e-commerce (Myntra, Amazon), retail (Aditya Birla Fashion Retail) and real estate and is currently building a compelling brand narrative around senior care in India.
Her core expertise lies in content marketing, storytelling, building brand narratives and strengthening brand positioning through storytelling.
According to her, good content is one that is purposeful, uplifting and has the ability to start conversations and believes that we are long past the age of “vanity content” or content for the sake of content.
Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, is a voracious reader, spends time sketching and is also a strong mental health advocate, doing her bit to remove long standing stigmas around mental illness.
Amit Sethiya is currently serving SYSKA Group as Head Marketing from June 2016 onwards to drive the Marketing deliverables for its FMEG (Fast Moving Electrical Goods) products like LED/Personal care appliances/Mobile Accessories/Wires and Cables/Home Appliances/Smart Home Products segments.
Mr. Sethiya is a result-oriented professional having 17 years of rich experience in delivering optimal results & business value in high-growth environments across various categories like Steel, Real estate and Consumer electronics through Integrated Marketing Communications, Branding, Digital and Social media marketing, Consumer insights and research, Product launches, Market Segmentation and business development activities, Public relations and more. He has experience across all facets of business development, strategic management & leadership, project management and sales. Proven capabilities in designing innovative marketing strategies to generate desired resonance across potential market segments. He has previously worked with renowned business Groups like JINDAL and TATA before taking the marketing role with SYSKA – A highly diversified business entity head-quartered in Pune.
Ms. Varsha Ojha is the Vice President and National Head, Brand & Digital Marketing and Corporate Communications at Radio City & Mid-day. A multi-disciplinary business and marketing leader, Varsha has around two decades of experience working in the Media & Entertainment industry and helps efficiently drive brand marketing, corporate communications and Digital marketing for Radio City and Mid-day.
As a core member of the leadership team, Varsha has been successfully leading brand strategy and communication across all media. Varsha is one of the rare marketing leaders, who believes in the power of creativity in every aspect of business, and not just communication. She has been at the forefront of establishing Radio City and Mid-day as brands to reckon with by conceptualizing the brand positioning – ‘Rag Rag Mein Daude City…FM Bole Toh Radio City’ and ‘Mid-day, Made in Mumbai.’ She has been a leading force in launching the first ever interactive digital tabloid, Mid-day, a one of its kind innovation in the print industry during the pandemic reaching 10 cr readers amidst the pandemic.
Digital evangelist and Omni Channel Marketing professional having more than 18 years of diverse experience at various organizations in making strategies, plans and driving execution for achieving business goals. Currently Steering the Digital and Omni-Channel landscape of Dr Reddys globally as Head of Digital Marketing for emerging markets including Russia, LATAM, ASEAN, Asia, China, ANZ, Africa and Subcontinent.
Have worked with companies like PHILIPS, DuPont, GroupM, Hindustan Times, Indiamart etc. in the past and have successfully launched and delivered on various digital and integrated initiatives across a range of industries, sectors and brands.
A FinTech Marketeer, striving to make financial ecosystem inclusive for millennials!
“My success lies in turning cost centers into revenue centers for organizations and building organic
ecosystems, which deliver not just sustainable but also scalable business growth,” says Vishesh
Sharma who has recently joined Bajaj Financial Securities as its first Chief Marketing Officer.
Vishesh belongs to a rare breed of professionals with a journalistic background who have
transcended the world of Finance and entered the highest echelons of Marketing. Previously, he was
the Chief Marketing officer at Ashika Group, India’s leading diversified financial services group with
four key business verticals including Retail Broking, Institutional Broking, Startup Funding and Global
Family Office Services.
Vishesh’s experience cuts across diverse marketing disciplines, including brand communication,
content marketing, corporate communications, reputation management, product marketing, public
affairs, and financial education. He started his professional career with The Hindu, and continued his
journey with renowned publications, including Dalal Street Investment Journal and Progressive
Media Group. Thereafter, Vishesh switched to the corporate world and worked with reputed
companies including Sharekhan by BNP Paribas and Angel One before joining Ashika Group.
Throughout his career, Vishesh has been recognized for his remarkable professional
accomplishments. In 2020, he was named Content Marketer 40u40 by Exchange for Media and the
Marketing Leader of the Year in the BFSI segment by Nasscom. A year later, he was honored as the
Rising Media Star by Best Media Info, Corporate Communications Person of the Year by AdGully, and
40u40 PR Professional by Reputation Today. He won Gold at Inkspell awards under the category of
Content Marketing Professional 2021. Vishesh was also bestowed with Excellence in PR award by
Adgully under their Leader 2.0 awards in 2022 and was also felicitated by World Marketing Congress
as one of India’s Top 50 Influential Marketing Leaders.
Recognised as a thought leader in Fintech Marketing, Vishesh is a frequent keynote speaker at many
educational institutes and thought-provoking events like IIT FinFest, Amity University, IMT Nagpur,
NMIMS, among others.
He strongly believes that 3Vs (Voice, Vernacular, and Video) are the key pillars that will define his
legacy as a Marketeer over next 10 years
Madhumita Phukan is a Marketing, PR and Corporate Communications professional with over 19 years of experience in various industry verticals. Madhumita is currently working with Tech Mahindra as the Global Marketing Head for AI Businesses. Prior to Tech Mahindra, she worked with Concentrix as Associate Director, Marketing and with IBM as a Brand & Communications Leader – India/South Asia for Global Technology Services Client Innovation Centres, Labs, Social Media, CSR, Crisis Management.
She is an alumnus of MICA, IIT Delhi Management School, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Amity School of Communications and Guwahati University. Besides, she is also an independent Blogger. She loves to write about her personal experiences, short stories, different social issues, opinion articles and review various products and services. Many of Madhumita’s blogs, poems, articles and stories have been published in different portals and publications e.g, Women’s Era, Business World, Assam Tribune, The Sentinel, StoryMirror, BeyondClassrooms etc.
Madhumita won many pan India Blogging Awards, and she was among the TOP 5 Bloggers in India in WIN 2015 and also, she won National Award in All India Cartoon Contest, 2003.
Madhumita is also the Communication Chair for IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Market, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction and IEEE Sustainable Development Platform Program.
Experienced Marketing & Media specialist with demonstrated track record for more than 18+ years in Consumer Health, OTC, and FMCG categories. Skilled in Traditional & Digital Media Strategy, Marketing Management, Market Planning, Integrated Marketing solutions and Advertising. Currently leading Cipla’s biggest patient awareness initiative #BerokZindagi Consumer Campaign in Cipla.
Zaheen Ekhlas is a Vice President of Marketing Digital Business at Sony Pictures Networks India. Starting his career at the organisation as AVP of Marketing, during his tenure of 7+ years, he led the team that conceptualised and executed the multimedia launch campaign of Housing.com, ‘Look Up’, which gave housing a leadership position amongst real estate portals.
Zaheen has donned many hats over the years and has led Brand Management, Content Analysis, and Consumer Insight mining efforts at various organisations in his career.Networks India.
