Rahul helps marketers break down the silos in Digital Marketing and achieve a unified view of their customer, across marketing channels and devices. By leveraging the search “intent” signals into Display, Social and Video advertising, and enabling personalization at scale. He helps digital marketers in making their practice more efficient and accountable.
As a Digital Marketing Practitioner in his previous role, he had played an instrumental role in building India’s largest non travel e-commerce almost from scratch. Armed with this knowledge of knowing what really works, he now endeavors to help other advertisers surpass their goals and expect much more from Digital with the most advanced and comprehensive Digital Marketing Platform available in the market: DoubleClick by Google.
He has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”.
He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress.
Rahul is extremely passionate about Digital Marketing and Technology, likes doing things differently and is very fond of traveling, trekking, food, squash, badminton and swimming.
Specialties: Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Social Media, Online Analytics, Mobile & Internet technology, Business Strategy, Consulting, Product Management, Business Development, Evangelism, Start-ups.
Binda has over 14 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Intellegence& Consumer Analytics. She comes with a deep understanding of the Indian media and entertainment space and has led marketing campaigns across categories for different markets. She has been awarded by BBC Knowledge as one of ‘the Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017.
She currently heads marketing for Red Chilies Entertainment and is responsible for customer loyalty and creating business opportunities across platforms. She has led 360 degree campaigns for wide range of movies like Dilwale, Raees, Dear Zingagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Ittefaq, Zero and ongoing projects like Badla.
She has also led the marketing initiatives for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2016, developed the #AmiKKR campaign, which deeply resonated with the fans. KKR became the first team to have an exclusive television show, called ‘Knight Club’ on Star Sports and the fan engagement rate on social media not just surpassed other IPL teams, but also long established teams with global following like Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.
During her stint at Star India, she has steered strategic projects for their Hindi, Regional and English Entertainment channels. She was instrumental in developing campaigns such as ‘Rishtawahi, Sochnayi’ for Star Plus, which catapulted the brand back to its leadership position, ‘CholoPaltai’ as the war cry for Star Jalsha launch in West Bengal, which connected with the audience at a personal level and took the channel to the #1 position and ‘Watch with the World’ for Star World Premiere’s launch, which created a paradigm shift in TV viewing trends in India.
Head – SEO & Organic Growth | HT Digital Streams
Anil Kumar Singh comes with more than 19 years of experience in digital advertising.
He had worked on more than 100 Brands with experience in multiple categories. India’s most awarded SEO expert with experience in online training & conducting the workshop. Professional SEO speaker
He is an SEO mentor, Blogger, Guest Author, Writer, Speaker, and visiting faculty in Business Schools
He had also worked in a variety industry, including the mobile sector, FMCG, finance, e-commerce, real estate, technology, and health industries. Experience working with Indian & Global companies.
Currently, he is working with HT Media where he Oversees all SEO efforts for the HT Group’s asset portfolio (hindustantimes.com, livemint.com, livehindustan.com, and more)
Lead SEO content strategy across all HT Group assets, collaborating with editors on editorial strategy.
Identify market opportunities to increase organic search traffic, then develop ways to capitalize on those prospects.
Assist Product and Engineering teams in identifying and prioritizing website optimizations, landing page builds, and testing roadmaps, among other things.
Models of income potential are used to identify priority efforts. Regularly monitor critical SEO KPIs and develop and submit reports
His last organization was NEO Media World as a National Director of SEO. There he was Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads. He has set up SEO practices & businesses for Pan India.
He worked with Interactive avenues as an India Head of SEO, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands. He had built an SEO team & business from scratch and stabilized IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years
Speaker, writer and marketer, he has been recognised in India’s Powerful Influencers List 2020 by Adgully. Top 100 Content Marketers in the World ’18 (Express Writers USA). Adobe & Paul Writer Top 100 Content Leaders (2017 & 18) and India’s Most Influential Content Marketing Professional by World Marketing Congress (2017).
Has written on culture, behaviour and social media in ET Tech, BusinessWorld and BusinessLine. Published more than 200 articles in India’s leading newspapers.
Speaker at events including IAMAI digital summit, mCube Awards, PitchCMO Summit, Social Beat Digital Summit, NASSCOM and XIME, he occasionally writes for Economic Times Tech, BusinessWorld and BusinessLine. He’s also a jury at mCube Marketing Awards, Drivers of Digital Awards and Content Awards BestMediaInfo. He tweets at @rajasekarks_
Rajiee M Shinde, A Dada Saheb Phalke Foundation awardee is a seasoned media professional with over 20 years of experience in the Indian television industry. She’s credited with launching the first ever Punjabi TV and Music Channel – ETC Punjabi followed by founding PTC networks with bouquet of channels PTC Punjabi, PTC Chak de, PTC News and heading the operations successfully as the CEO for 10 years. Her assignment as a CEO of SHOWBOX, A national music channel under IN10 Media achieved the incredible no. 3 position in less than 8 months.
Rajiee’s core strength is business startup and expansion with the ability to develop strategic and tactical solutions to build business from ground up, ascertaining a competitive advantage, sustainability and exponential growth. With a strong Programming background she has successfully launched Music and Film Awards in Punjabi, Live Musical Events in India and Internationally and a host of Reality and Talent Hunt shows. She has also produced two chart busting Punjabi Films Zorawar and Disco Singh of YO YO Honey Singh & Diljit Dosanjh. Building IP’s on ground, on air and digital is her core strength.
For her phenomenal work in the Indian Television Industry she has been honored with numerous awards and accolades notably Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awardee-Women Entrepreneur of the Year TV and Films, Jewels of Punjab honored by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh. She is the recipient of Magicka Women Achiever Award 2016, Sangrur Heritage Award 2016, and Vishwa Punjabi Gaurav Puraskar 2016 for her immense contribution to the Punjabi entertainment industry. Additionally, she has been conferred with Excellence in Media in the BIMSTEC-SAARC Women Empowerment Forum 2017 organized by ASSOCHAM under the Ministry of External Affairs.
A decade of experience in Marketing and Brand Communication with specialization in Digital.
Astute understanding of various digital marketing channels coupled with solid technical knowledge gives me an edge in implementing brand related campaigns derived from the overall business objectives. Data is an integral part of my work style ensuring a fair balance of execution and result KPIs, important for any strategy to be successful.
The work done during my stint with Godrej won awards by “Asia Retail Congress” and “CMO Asia Brand and Marketing Excellence Awards”.
Relevant areas of core strengths – Digital strategy in Search, Social, Mobile, User Experience on web and mobile, Analytics mapping on Search and Social channels, User journey management, SEM, Online Reputation Management, SEO, eCRM, Media planning and performance marketing.
Coming from a family of Advertising professionals, she has derived her training in advertising from
Damodar Warrior, (ex Creative Director JWT) one of the leading creative gurus of Indian Advertising.
She managed an advertising agency for more than 25 years and now is a branding and marketing
consultant. She is Brand Director at UJA, a global advisory and business consulting firm, where she
is responsible for GTM strategies, marketing and branding advisory to international companies
coming to India.
Her core competencies lies in developing branding and marketing strategies, design & aesthetics,
brand building, having serviced various B2C and B2B brands (process, food, hospitality, wellness,
entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, infrastructure etc).
She has a special interest in providing branding and marketing strategies to startups and social
enterprises.
A Digital Marketing & Transformation Leader with over 18 years of experience. He specializes in Digital Marketing Aquisition, Media & Communications, Marketing Transformation and Online Sales across functions in Banking, Insurance, Travel and Technology.
With a focus on business growth, he has consistently melded together online
transformation platforms, techniques and approaches to construct new and exciting ways of generating
revenue from the digital medium – Online, Mobile & Social channels across Global Markets.
His work has been recognized by industry experts and thought leaders in the B2C and B2B industries.
2022
-Top Digital Marketer 2022 – CMO Asia award
– Jury at Inspell media Digital awards 2022
2021
– On the recruitment panel for one of India’s Top Business School
– IMPACT – Digital Power 100 by Business World & Exchange4Media
– Jury & Speaker – 5th Annual Driver of Digital & Marketing Summit.
– Speaker at DigiMarCom Leadership Summit.
2020
– Awarded “100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders” by ET Now & CMO Asia
– Member of the Grand Jury, vIDEA 2020 – Video Media Awards & Summit
– Jury member at “Indian Digital Marketing Awards” 2020 by e4m, Exchange4Media
2019
– Awarded “100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders” by World Digital Congress & CMO Asia
– Jury Member: Indian Digital Media Awards 2019, M3 Modern Marketing Awards 2019
He presently works as Head – Digital Marketing at Mahindra Holidays & Resorts
Ankitt is a global consulting professional, enabling enterprises across the globe to adopt and benefit from progressive technology. Discovering intersection between technology geeks and business use cases is what keeps him on the toes. He is a Blockchain Guest Faculty at Institute of Charted Accountants of India and is working towards training some of the sharpest minds in the Finance, Accounting & Technology on this Future of technology and methods of work.
She is the Founder and CEO of DViO Digital – a global integrated creative-tech and digital-first marketing organisation that focuses on the 360˚ digital transformation of brands and businesses spanning across a multitude of sectors.
In addition to being the driving force behind DViO, Sowmya is also a start-up investor, a prolific TEDx Speaker and Chief Mentor at the MAD-Tech Incubator, a marketing incubator for start-ups in advertising, content and marketing technology. Her incubator currently houses five start-ups, and she intends to grow the portfolio to 25 + start-ups in the coming year. It’s a unique initiative to connect brands with the innovation and value that start-ups have to offer and has been seeing immense traction and value in the market.
Under her conduction, the organization has been selected for the prestigious Elevator Program by Google India besides winning many awards for various campaigns across clients. In the past 12 years, she has been a consultant to more than 100 businesses. She is an exuberant speaker at international and domestic conferences on topics concerning leadership, digital media, etc. amounting to her copious knowledge of the same. She is also a trainer in leading management colleges and has contributed significantly in various strategic discussions on digital marketing for the Government of India.
In her extremely hard-won free time, when she isn’t attending boardroom meetings; she would be seen attending the PTA ones for her young daughter or even hitchhiking across Bhutan with her friends and family. An avid reader, she spends her non-existent idle time mentoring young talent and listening to podcasts.
To know more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sowmyaiyer/
Abraham is the SVP & head of the digital division at Toonz. The division operates a very successful bouquet of You Tube channels with close to 20 million subscribers, digital distribution partnerships with leading OTT platforms & Toonz’s own OTT platform, MyToonz. MyToonz is live across all the leading play stores, Smart TV play stores & is also integrated with leading Telecom player platforms.
Abraham Uthup has multi-industry & multi location work experience. His experience straddles from industries like FMCG, Consumer durables, FMCD, Telecom, Cable & Broadband and Media across regions. He has been into media business since 2010 with experience in Television, Print & Digital media. Abraham has been personally involved the design & roll out of MyToonz & is actively forging a strategy to get MyToonz into multiple geographies.
Hansveen Kaur is the Business Head at Momspresso’ India’s largest content and influencer platform for mothers. A seasoned marketer with over 15 years of experience in the creation and successful execution of Marketing Strategy, Customer Experience Management, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Business Development and Marketing operations in B2B & B2C, while enabling strong alignment of Marketing function with Sales & Customer Service
– A Logical, decisive, result-oriented and effective leader with excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship management skills.
Specialties: Brand & Marketing strategy development, Brand Management, Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing & Syndication, Corporate Communication, Consumer Insights & Market research, B2B Marketing, Experiential Marketing
Experienced Marketing Head in Digital Media & Entertainment. Skilled in Marketing Management, OTT Marketing ,Broadcast Marketing ,Digital Strategy, Content Creation, Experiential and Market Research. INSEAD Alum.
IIM Bangalore Marketing Gold Medalist | Entrepreneur | Proven Career Track Record
Business Ops & Innovation Expert | Leading Thought Leader | High Impact Business Leader
Cross-Industry Expertise | Led marketing for 30 Billion INR Business
PT is a passionate individual blessed with a curious mind & a caring heart. He is committed to a goal-oriented life serving his business and social communities with sustainable beneficial outcomes and positivity.
In professional terms, he is an entrepreneurial business leader with a proven ability to add value in many business contexts in Indian & MNC organizations. The core of his professional expertise is built around creating strategic clarity, driving innovation and ensuring disciplined execution by mentoring teams for sustainable profitable business growth.
In summary, PT has around 15 years of rich & illustrious work experience including 5 long years with Marico Limited handling classical FMCG positions of increasing responsibility in Marketing & Sales functions. Currently, he leads a Boutique Consulting and Training organization, The MargDarshak Inc, with major focus on Sales & Marketing and CSR areas.
Digital Marketing professional with 12+ Years of Media strategy and Transformation experience, with a focus on customer engagement, data driven marketing and automation capabilities that strengthens the funnel and helps achieve effective ROAS.
With over a decade of automotive experience ranging from mass to luxury brands, from two wheelers to four wheelers, in his latest assignment Mr. Abhinandan Gopalsetty has helped make BMW Motorrad the Highest selling premium motorcycle brand in India. He has managed to do by defining SOP’s to enhance customer experience and by extending the brand’s digital reach through different digital-led initiatives. Chief among them being creating awareness through a plethora of activities in a bid to establish the brand in India. Today, BMW Motorrad is at the pedestal position in the Indian Premium motorcycle market.
Manu has over 20 years of experience in Integrated Marketing Communication, Brand Management, Direct marketing, Public Relations, E-Commerce, and Digital Media. Having worked on both sides i.e: Marketing communication agencies and with Corporate clients, having developed overall brand and communication strategies and implemented Integrated marketing plans for blue chip Brands, in E-commerce, Hospitality, IT & Telecom, Oil & Gas, FMCG, Automobile, BFSI, NGO’s, Education and Entertainment Industries
Currently heads Marketing and Corporate Communications for Hero electric Vehicles.His past experience has been with UTStarcom India as Head-Marketing for India and South Asia, with Bharti Airtel Ltd. as Head-Brand Communications for Enterprise Services BU.
He has also worked with Chevron Texaco as Brand Manager for Lubricants, and with Result McCann/Solutions Integrated Marketing services, working on brands like, Coke, Shell, Motorola, Channel V, MTV, Intel, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank, Gillette, Oxfam, Save the Children, Sony, ESPN, Yamaha etc. and created and implemented 360 degree marketing programs for these clients.
His hobbies are sports, photography, reading and he is an avid wildlife enthusiast.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuk/
A Digital immigrant, driven by passion, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy and Energize while bringing to the table a pedigree of 22 years across the spectrum of media – print, digital , mobile, event productions , some successful marquee pilot projects. Having worked across multiple functions – ad operations, business operations, content, strategy, sales, event design, media planning & buying, Ankoor has also learnt from the experience of having worked in different cultures and set-ups in national and international environments along with working at cross-functional roles. Ankoor is working with the vibrant and wonderful team at Arm Worldwide and driving the Content Marketing vertical.
A digital business leader with over 20 years of extensive cross-functional experience in digital transformation, driving online sales and service excellence. Kaushik has been at the forefront of the digital transformation journeys of organisations like Tata Capital & UTI Mutual Fund. He has set up digital businesses for Retail & Commercial banking consumers from scratch in various organisations and in his current role is driving digital transformation at Tata Capital. He calls himself a “digital-first marketer” as prior to the advent of the digital-social-mobile era he was happily honing his skills in Sales and Service functions of organisations like Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank. An out-of-the-box thinker with a flair for identifying & adopting emerging trends, he has gained a rich and varied experience across NBFC, Consumer Banking, Asset Management and SME Banking spaces during his professional career. A passionate foodie and a hardened sport lover, his passion is to leverage all things digital to improve the customer experience.
26+years of experience in partnering brands and businesses in India , with the WPP group in leadership roles – JWT , Rediffusion Y&R.
Experienced leader with a demonstrated history seeking consumer insights that lead in building brands and revenue growth. Known for passion, driving results and galvanizing teams to adapt to changing environments. A powerful communicator and an authentic, supportive leader .Skilled in Brand Management, Advertising, Design ,Market Rsearch and interest in CRM.
Have worked across categories on leading brands both multinational and local :
ITC , Surya Nepal, BAT Srilanka , GSK , Hamdard , Tata Steel , Emami , Big 92.7 FM, Zee TV , Pepsi, Airtel & USL ( Circuit work) , Dr Reddy , Jagatjit Industries, GPI, Tea Board of India, Coffee & Spice Board of India, Amway, IFFCO, Resurgent Rajasthan Summit , Unicef ,Videocon and all local jewellery brands of Bengal. I have worked across markets of India, Nepal, Srilanka, South Africa and Kenya for tobacco and health food products.
I am a member of Cherie Blair Mentor Alumini, , Mentoring in Business Beyond Boundaries programme & W4 and am on the Advisory Board for NGO’s.& work as an Independent Director with the Board of a Retail Jewellery brand, Speaker in many forums on subject related to brands/ advertising marketing/ women issues
Nidhi S Mittal is a recognized name in the marketing and branding field with her work spanning over the last 18 years across areas of growth marketing, business development, lead generation, and profitability. With an International MBA from Top-100 B School along with numerous industry certifications, she has extensive knowledge and experience in marketing and global account management with exposure of living and working in diverse industries and cultures like India, UAE, the US, and Australia.
She has also spearheaded various projects, where she established the foundation of functions and contributed to yearly business growth through Service Delivery, Brand Establishment, Marketing, and Sales Enablement.
Nidhi has recently joined JioSaavn as the Head of Marketing where she is leading all the B2B solutions for the audio streaming service. Prior to this, she played a pivotal role at Tata Advanced Systems in establishing & integrating marketing and inside sales business functions. She also consulted a few startups where she orchestrated projects including up-selling, cross-selling, and creating OEM distribution & reseller channels (Pan Asia & Pan & Middle east). Some of the other multinationals she has been associated are DXC Technologies, British Council, Steria Sopra, Toyota Financial Services.
She has also been part of the admission selection jury with Shiv Nadar University and conducted various speaker sessions with over 200+ participants on personal branding & marketing at top colleges in India like IIM Lucknow, NIIT University, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Fore School of Management, and IIDE to name a few.
In her spare time, you will find her caught up in the fire of creativity as a Profuse Reader, Thoughtful Writer and an all-time Philozoic.
Navigating my way through various roles in Titan over the past 11 years, I’ve honed my skills in designing strategy that cuts through the clutter, amplifying small ideas into delivering a big impact.
I thoroughly enjoy the process of brand building and brand management and go by the philosophy that ideas and people are at the core of it. Time and again, I’ve realized that the key to driving any idea to success lies in keeping the team motivated at every step of the way. Strongly believe in charting out a metrics driven approach with clearly defined and quantifiable goals that we as a team need to pursue.
Mukul Kumar Sharma is a media-tech leader shaping the future of entertainment & lifestyle content as the Chief Operating Officer of Pinkvilla, the country’s leading digital platform. With over 10 years of experience in actively scaling up digital content in the industry, his vision has helped the company adopt the most agile and forward-thinking processes and radically increase its reach.
Whilst spearheading Pinkvilla, Mukul is constantly enabling the company to capitalize on strategic opportunities and grow in every metric, right from digital presence, to revenues to partnerships. This approach has led the brand to generate 50M+ monthly website visits today, along with millions of Social Media followers.
His strategy is also about pioneering the most effective market practices to stay ahead of the changing times, as he continually oversees the brand’s evolving expansion into new genres and markets. A people’s leader, he is passionate about empowering the Pinkvilla team by providing them with just the right platform, to showcase their talents and ideas to facilitate holistic growth.
Rajiee M Shinde, A Dada Saheb Phalke Foundation awardee is a seasoned media professional with over 20 years of experience in the Indian television industry. She’s credited with launching the first ever Punjabi TV and Music Channel – ETC Punjabi followed by founding PTC networks with bouquet of channels PTC Punjabi, PTC Chak de, PTC News and heading the operations successfully as the CEO for 10 years. Her assignment as a CEO of SHOWBOX, A national music channel under IN10 Media achieved the incredible no. 3 position in less than 8 months.
Rajiee’s core strength is business startup and expansion with the ability to develop strategic and tactical solutions to build business from ground up, ascertaining a competitive advantage, sustainability and exponential growth. With a strong Programming background she has successfully launched Music and Film Awards in Punjabi, Live Musical Events in India and Internationally and a host of Reality and Talent Hunt shows. She has also produced two chart busting Punjabi Films Zorawar and Disco Singh of YO YO Honey Singh & Diljit Dosanjh. Building IP’s on ground, on air and digital is her core strength.
For her phenomenal work in the Indian Television Industry she has been honored with numerous awards and accolades notably Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awardee-Women Entrepreneur of the Year TV and Films, Jewels of Punjab honored by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh. She is the recipient of Magicka Women Achiever Award 2016, Sangrur Heritage Award 2016, and Vishwa Punjabi Gaurav Puraskar 2016 for her immense contribution to the Punjabi entertainment industry. Additionally, she has been conferred with Excellence in Media in the BIMSTEC-SAARC Women Empowerment Forum 2017 organized by ASSOCHAM under the Ministry of External Affairs.
Ayush is a creative professional with experience across diverse industries, ranging from media and marketing to product management. Currently at Dream11, Ayush leads the content division that analyses how users interact with the product and builds creative, data-driven solutions to aid user acquisition and retention. His experience within the sports industry extends beyond his current role, having worked in the past with sports media companies like Sportskeeda and Bleacher Report. Previous to his current role, Ayush also spent over 5 years at 22feet Tribal Worldwide, one of India’s largest digital agencies, where he led strategy and content-focused initiatives for a diverse set of brands.
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
A Digital immigrant, driven by passion, Ankoor believes in the power of Energy and Energize while bringing to the table a pedigree of 22 years across the spectrum of media – print, digital , mobile, event productions , some successful marquee pilot projects. Having worked across multiple functions – ad operations, business operations, content, strategy, sales, event design, media planning & buying, Ankoor has also learnt from the experience of having worked in different cultures and set-ups in national and international environments along with working at cross-functional roles. Ankoor is working with the vibrant and wonderful team at Arm Worldwide and driving the Content Marketing vertical.
Nidhi S Mittal is a recognized name in the marketing and branding field with her work spanning over the last 18 years across areas of growth marketing, business development, lead generation, and profitability. With an International MBA from Top-100 B School along with numerous industry certifications, she has extensive knowledge and experience in marketing and global account management with exposure of living and working in diverse industries and cultures like India, UAE, the US, and Australia.
She has also spearheaded various projects, where she established the foundation of functions and contributed to yearly business growth through Service Delivery, Brand Establishment, Marketing, and Sales Enablement.
Nidhi has recently joined JioSaavn as the Head of Marketing where she is leading all the B2B solutions for the audio streaming service. Prior to this, she played a pivotal role at Tata Advanced Systems in establishing & integrating marketing and inside sales business functions. She also consulted a few startups where she orchestrated projects including up-selling, cross-selling, and creating OEM distribution & reseller channels (Pan Asia & Pan & Middle east). Some of the other multinationals she has been associated are DXC Technologies, British Council, Steria Sopra, Toyota Financial Services.
She has also been part of the admission selection jury with Shiv Nadar University and conducted various speaker sessions with over 200+ participants on personal branding & marketing at top colleges in India like IIM Lucknow, NIIT University, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Fore School of Management, and IIDE to name a few.
In her spare time, you will find her caught up in the fire of creativity as a Profuse Reader, Thoughtful Writer and an all-time Philozoic.
Rajiee M Shinde, A Dada Saheb Phalke Foundation awardee is a seasoned media professional with over 20 years of experience in the Indian television industry. She’s credited with launching the first ever Punjabi TV and Music Channel – ETC Punjabi followed by founding PTC networks with bouquet of channels PTC Punjabi, PTC Chak de, PTC News and heading the operations successfully as the CEO for 10 years. Her assignment as a CEO of SHOWBOX, A national music channel under IN10 Media achieved the incredible no. 3 position in less than 8 months.
Rajiee’s core strength is business startup and expansion with the ability to develop strategic and tactical solutions to build business from ground up, ascertaining a competitive advantage, sustainability and exponential growth. With a strong Programming background she has successfully launched Music and Film Awards in Punjabi, Live Musical Events in India and Internationally and a host of Reality and Talent Hunt shows. She has also produced two chart busting Punjabi Films Zorawar and Disco Singh of YO YO Honey Singh & Diljit Dosanjh. Building IP’s on ground, on air and digital is her core strength.
For her phenomenal work in the Indian Television Industry she has been honored with numerous awards and accolades notably Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awardee-Women Entrepreneur of the Year TV and Films, Jewels of Punjab honored by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh. She is the recipient of Magicka Women Achiever Award 2016, Sangrur Heritage Award 2016, and Vishwa Punjabi Gaurav Puraskar 2016 for her immense contribution to the Punjabi entertainment industry. Additionally, she has been conferred with Excellence in Media in the BIMSTEC-SAARC Women Empowerment Forum 2017 organized by ASSOCHAM under the Ministry of External Affairs.
Rahul Kaushal is currently working as an E-commerce head for Casio India. An ex consultant, he has now been associated with eCommerce for close to a decade now and is very enthusiastic in helping build businesses in online space. In the past he has been associated with Monitor consulting, Honeywell, Snapdeal, Nokia. He is an engineer (Delhi College of Engineering) and an MBA (MDI Gurgaon, Bocconi Italy) by education.
An avid reader, he reads regularly on ecommerce, product design, AI, human psychology and history.
In his spare time he likes to travel and explore new places.
Head – SEO & Organic Growth | HT Digital Streams
Anil Kumar Singh comes with more than 19 years of experience in digital advertising.
He had worked on more than 100 Brands with experience in multiple categories. India’s most awarded SEO expert with experience in online training & conducting the workshop. Professional SEO speaker
He is an SEO mentor, Blogger, Guest Author, Writer, Speaker, and visiting faculty in Business Schools
He had also worked in a variety industry, including the mobile sector, FMCG, finance, e-commerce, real estate, technology, and health industries. Experience working with Indian & Global companies.
Currently, he is working with HT Media where he Oversees all SEO efforts for the HT Group’s asset portfolio (hindustantimes.com, livemint.com, livehindustan.com, and more)
Lead SEO content strategy across all HT Group assets, collaborating with editors on editorial strategy.
Identify market opportunities to increase organic search traffic, then develop ways to capitalize on those prospects.
Assist Product and Engineering teams in identifying and prioritizing website optimizations, landing page builds, and testing roadmaps, among other things.
Models of income potential are used to identify priority efforts. Regularly monitor critical SEO KPIs and develop and submit reports
His last organization was NEO Media World as a National Director of SEO. There he was Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads. He has set up SEO practices & businesses for Pan India.
He worked with Interactive avenues as an India Head of SEO, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands. He had built an SEO team & business from scratch and stabilized IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years
An e-com degree holder with a management education from Birla Institute of Management & Technology, My working career started in the year 2008 from Marketing domain in a well-known FMCG (No Marks) & thereafter in the year 2010 onwards I have stepped into affiliate marketing industry in which I have got the opportunity to work in a role of Sales & BD ,Account Management, Publisher Management with ad networks like Manhattan Communications, DGM India, Adsplay International, Opicle. With these learning & experience along with the relationship from Indian advertisers and publishers, I moved forward in March 2016 to found my own affiliate ad network named “Cratis Media Pvt ltd” which was a bootstrapped with building a network of more then 2250+ publishers & 140 clients with a self-funding way & a team of fresher passed out from colleges/institutes. Cratis Media has been acquired & merged in the year 2020 April .
Now since Dec 2020 I am associated with an organization called Collectcent Digital Media based out at Gurgaon as a Director –Business development, where my role is seeking & creating a business opportunity then establishing with a scale on revenue & running it smoothly . Introducing Collectcent a big digital tech network company with a capability of driving digital branding and performance led campaigns programmatically. We work with major brands in the country directly, offering a huge ability to identify the audience, create interest and desire, and deliver the desired action, through various programmatic techniques, which has helped us gain the top position in the country today. We are a leading digital agency with a capability of driving digital Branding and Performance led campaigns, with a team of over 200+ people in Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Toronto, London, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Jakarta & Guangzhou.
In this 14 year+ of my entrepreneurial & corporate journey, I consider myself to be lucky to be awarded & recognized in the Industry for my dedication & hard work. Recently I was nominated & then awarded by my Alma mater BIMTECH management Institute as “Entrepreneur of the Year 2019” . Recently India premier b-school Great Lakes Institute of Management has approached & impanelled me for guest lecturer & mentor/trainer for its student in the field of Digital Marketing. I am as a Guest lecturer & visiting faculty to B-schools like Apeejay Institute of Mass communication Dwarka ,New Delhi ,Great Lakes ,Birla Institute of Management & others .
I like travelling & listening music in my leisure time .
Sai Thota is the Head of Digital Marketing at FNP. He is responsible for digital marketing across all the global locations viz., UAE, Singapore, Saudi & Qatar other than the home country India. He is a post graduate from the University of Hyderabad & did his executive program in Management from IIM Ahmedabad.
Sai aspires to be a social entrepreneur and is also currently researching on that future project.
Gaurav has over 20 years of rich experience across his “T-shaped” career. In his first 15 years, Gaurav built expertise in category management via stints across sales, retail, and brand management across world-class brands like Coca Cola, Nokia, Citibank & Tata Docomo.
And then he took the plunge in back to back entrepreneurship stints between 2016-2021 which helped him reskill deeply for the digital-first world- from building a digital content app that converted non fiction books into WhatsApp chat format summaries, to building a digital-first insurgent brand in the D2C men’s wellness space.
A 2001 alumna of IIM Ahmedabad, Gaurav is currently reskilling & building a business in the Creator economy with Momspresso MyMoney
Sachin Vashishtha comes with over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, having worked across industries, including BFSI, e-commerce and steel.
As Director & Head of Digital Marketing, Sachin is responsible for spearheading digital marketing efforts at Paisabazaar.com. Under his leadership, the company’s website traffic crossed the 25 million mark in just 5 years. He also built the in-house CRM and cross-selling model for Paisabazaar.com, leading to ~30% of the organizational revenue.
In his previous role, he co-founded a digital agency, spearheading over 25 accounts, spanning across industries like education, travel, BFSI etc.
I am fortunate to have had an enriching experience across 4 companies Swiggy, Coca-Cola India, Asian Paints Ltd & The Murugappa Group, having handled a diverse set of roles across geographies and functions. Currently I am the Director for Marketing for Regional and Pvt Brand marketing at Swiggy. I started my journey in sales prior to my MBA with the Murugappa Group in their steel division. My last role in Coca-Cola was as Country Marketing Manager for Nepal & Bhutan. Innovation, art and the way businesses work, are the most fascinating aspects for me and this drives me on.
Baptised into the Digital & performance marketing ecosystem as early as 2007 by Google India as their 1st landing team @Gurgaon, and with 16years of experience across various industry verticals, he currently leads the overall marketing at Maison D’ Auraine as VP – Marketing
Known as an ‘unconventional marketer’, he has been known to break platform myths by delivering results for brands. His acts of myth breaking go as early as 2012 with the General Motors Brand to as recent as 2022 with Future Retail Group. This ‘driven by passion’ personnel has worked across many verticals & industries like FMCG, Telecom, Consumer Durables/Electronics, Publications, Healthcare, Automobiles, IT, and more. He has also helped set up a few brands in Central Africa.
Besides being a strategy consultant, Kaustav has been known to put great ideas into execution, build strong brands and deliver business results.
“Being an unconventional marketer, I have always opted for roles which allow me the opportunity to feed this hunger of mine. At Maison D’ Auraine, which is a house of brands for some of the largest global brands in hair care such as GK & PH, I have been tasked by Arpit Jain, Founder & MD, to build the brands as d2c leaders & create an omnichannel consumer experience for our salon partners & retail consumers.” shares Mr. Mukerji. He brings in the capability to blend creativity with business understanding. With hands-on experience in implementing digital initiatives, he can translate ideas into Integrated & digital experiences.
His key skills are performance marketing, brand management, revenue enhancement, integrated & digital marketing strategy, road map development, marketing operations management, customer experience design, etc.
Mr. Mukerji has previously added value to the brands like General Motors, Honda Motors, TATA Motors, Yamaha, SBI, Andaman Tourism, Samsung, Aircel, Havells, Yamaha, BlackBerry, Airtel, SBI, J&K Tourism, Future Retails brands such as Bigbazaar, Hometown, Brand Factory, AIPL, Shobha Builders to name a few.
Juhi Garg (see LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juhi-garg-58507613a/) is a Journalism graduate from Delhi University, a Masters in Corporate Law from National Law School of India, Bangalore and a Grade 5 western classical jazz Piano degree holder from Royal Schools of Music, London. She has worked for HBO and Cartoon Network India in communications, as well as been India Partner for one of the top 3 global consulting firms to law firms.
She co-founded ED Times, a youth news media startup which is now Google News funded, rated as the top 10 youth blogs worldwide for third year in a row, focused on creating responsible news content whilst trying to change reading habits of young India, clocking 1 Million views every month.
ED Times is winner of the Best Blog Award (Gold) at the India Digital Summit 2019 of IAMAI (India’s Premier Digital Organisation headed by Google Asia VP) in association with Times Now and Network 18, partnered by Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. It is also nominated for India 500 Startup Awards 2020 and recently listed under the Top Entertainment Blogs 2020 by Sparpedia.CH.
World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Culture 2020 and 2021 has her as an invited member, where she is also one of the core drafters for “Pathways to Digital Justice”, a Whitepaper for law and policymakers, released in September 2021.
The FLO (FICCI) compendium of 100 successful women entrepreneurs in MSME, brought out in collaboration with the Ministry of MSME, unveiled by Hon. Minister Sh. Nitin Gadkari also features her in the list, which is available on MSME’s website.
She was awarded the Women in Business Award 2019 for the Media domain (by Easy To Pitch) and as the ‘Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2019’ by Payal Foundation supported/presented by Indian Chambers of Commerce and Ministry of Finance.
She also received the ‘Indian Women Excellence & Leadership Award 2019’ by WIEF, supported by Government of India’s Startup India, MSME, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment & Business World, presented by Hon. Minister Sh. Suresh Prabhu.
Juhi is convenor of the Media & Entertainment panel for CII Delhi’s Executive Council 2021-22.
She has been a speaker at the IAMAI’s Edutech 2020, CII’s Annual North India Business Conference alongside MP Kirron Kher, Noida Literature Fest, India Youth Forum, World Masters: Law Asia, Leader Summit at College of Business Studies, B-school MDI Gurgaon’s flagship event, CII’s Delhi Youth Conclave, Indian Youth Leaders Rendezvous by Indo American Center & US Embassy with political personalities, and various other platforms, and has been quoted in Economic Times. Plus, been panelist on national TV debates.
ED is a place where Indian millennials comment on news and stories around them, an opinions place by and for really young people and is made of a team of 20+ bloggers.
It was covered by Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, Timesnext magazine, and has been the official blog partner with blockbusters such as Akshay Kumar-Dharma Productions’ Kesari, T-Series’ Cheat India, Alia Bhatt and Dharma Productions’ Raazi, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Vidya Balan’s Tumhari Sulu, and Saif Ali Khan’s Kaalakaandi.
It also ranks amongst the top 5000 websites in India, and top 60k websites globally, across genres, and is partner with Google News, Zee5, Xiaomi, JioNews, Yahoo News and Daily Hunt news app with 90 million users.
Juhi has been featured in Verizon Media’s Makers India (in collab with Yourstory), Next Gen Entrepreneurs Campaign, She At Work, India Women Blog, Youth Ki Awaaz, Insights Success magazine, Young Ficci Ladies Organisation and more. She was also a member of the Grand Jury for mCube 2019- Masters of Modern Marketing Conference and Awards 2019.
She has been Chair of the organ donation vertical and previously the child rights vertical at CII’s Youth arm. She was a mentor at Young India Challenge 2019 and keynote speaker for Punjab Engineering College’s Leadership Summit 2019.
Digital advertising specialist with demonstrated success in performance media management and brand marketing. A native digital professional with 8 years of digital and 3 years of mainline media and marketing experience, He is currently playing the head digital marketing role in maintaining brand awareness levels and generating revenue through digital.
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