Bhaskar Ramesh
Director- Omnichannel Businesses, Google

Bhaskar serves as Director for Omnichannel Businesses at Google India and is a core member of India leadership team. In this role he is building Google's partnerships across Technology, Retail, Finance, CPG & Automotive businesses accelerating technology transformation across these sectors. He is leading the charge Digitization agenda for India with vision to make Google, a gateway for Omni businesses.

Also, he is the co-chair of women@google India - A thriving community that helps women googlers across PA's succed in having thriving careers. Previously, Bhaskar built YouTube India business heading their monetization and product strategy that turbocharged YouTube growth.

Kedar Lele
Executive Director, Customer Development, Hindustan Unilever

Mr Kedar Lele (45) was appointed as the Executive Director, Customer Development for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) w.e.f. July 1, 2021.

Kedar joined HUL in 2004 after completing his MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and holds a prior degree in advertising and brand management from MICA, Ahmedabad (1998).

Kedar is a well-rounded business leader with over two decades of experience covering General Management, Sales & Customer Development, FMCG Marketing, Internet companies and Advertising.

Prior to his appointment as Executive Director, Customer Development, Kedar led Unilever Bangladesh Limited as Chairman and Managing Director and has been instrumental in delivering consistent, competitive, profitable and responsible growth while making a difference to the country and communities.

Kedar’s purpose is to unleash hidden energy that brings success and happiness to people, business, and society. He brings his passion for balancing the team’s energy and driving accountability while being recognised as a compassionate leader.

Moumita Sarker
Partner, Deloitte

Moumita is passionate about driving the business of analytics for organizations and making an impact through AI. 19 years have seen transformation of the field of analytics and partnerships through AI journeys of various organizations in multiple domains including entrepreneurship and a practitioner of AI.

Anindita Veluri
Director Marketing – Adobe India

Anindita leads Adobe’s marketing across the Indian market, with her strong track record and unique experience of having worked at the intersection of marketing, technology, business and creativity –she is a great partner for our fast-growing India business and plays a critical role in sharing Adobe’s marketing journey with brands in India and enabling their digital transformation strategies.” “Today, businesses understand that building an experience is mission-critical to their growth, and Adobe is at the forefront of delivering next generation technology to power them.”

In a career spanning over two decades, she has held various leadership roles across sales and marketing. She joins Adobe from Deloitte, where she was responsible for building and scaling the Adobe business across India & South Asia. Prior to that, as the India Business Leader for Adobe practice at IBM, was instrumental in incubating the “marketing-as-a-service” model for IBM Services and setting up the MarTech services practice for solution selling across industries. Anindita holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from Times School of Marketing in New Delhi and is a Graduate in Commerce from Mount Carmel College in Bangalore.

Ravi Santhanam
Group Head, Chief Marketing Officer & Head – Direct to Consumer Business ,HDFC Bank

Mr. Ravi Santhanam is Group Head, Chief Marketing Officer and Head – Direct to Consumer Business at HDFC Bank. He is responsible for driving the digital origination and fulfilment of all Bank’s products as well as Direct to Consumer products. He has played a key role in establishing the customer centricity practice at HDFC Bank by setting up the NPS system across the Bank. Mr. Santhanam has previously led Liability Products, Managed Programmes and Corporate Communications at the Bank.

Prior to HDFC Bank, Mr. Santhanam worked with Vodafone as Business Head for Uttar Pradesh market. In 2013, he was given the responsibility to lead the new business vertical of Data, Devices, and Content & Innovation in Mumbai. He has also worked with Reliance Communications, ICICI Bank and PowerGen in leadership roles, spanning across Strategy, M&A and Business. He was the only CMO from India to be featured in the top 50 list of Forbes 'The World's Most Influential CMOs 2020'.

Mr. Santhanam has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Anna University and is also an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Harvard Business School.

Karishma Gupta
Partner, Consulting, Deloitte India

Karishma Gupta, Partner, Consulting, Deloitte India comes with 25 years of experience in helping brands transform how they engage and transact with their customers, build digital platforms and capabilities, and drive change in pursuit of that ambition. She has led engagements for some of the biggest brands in the world, defining and delivering large scale solutions at the intersection of strategy, creativity and technology and leading diverse, multi-cultural global teams, complex and agile program management, and in delivering results for her clients.

Karishma values collaboration, lead with empathy, and always try to do the right thing. Having experienced the benefits of diversity in driving innovation, she is a passionate advocate of workplace diversity.

Ranjani Krishnaswamy
General Manager Marketing, Titan Company Limited

A passionate Brand Builder with 16 years of experience in Marketing Leadership Roles. Fortunate to have journeyed a rich, diverse spectrum of Markets (Developed & Emerging economies), Roles (national, regional and global), Brands (Mature as well as Nascent); managed product as well as service, led brand innovation & renovation projects; in large complex as well as small nimble teams. Brands that fueled my learning curve –Dove (Hair & Skin), Yardley London, Hindustan Times, Lever Ayush, Santoor, Giffy, Carrie Junior, Wipro Lighting. Markets that rooted me in their consumer understanding – India, SEA, Japan, US, EU, Middle-East.

Manish Makhijani
Partner
Positron Advisor

Manish has worked for more than 26 years in the insights and analytics space, 19 of which have been with Unilever; where he has lived and worked in four countries, across brands and categories in different leadership roles within businesses. Manish’s expertise is to make the businesses more consumer centric and integrate insights with the business strategy. He has pioneered several new initiatives for Unilever that have become institutionalised, and part of the global best practices used every day – like analysing 6Ps of marketing to diagnose the performance; Growth Scout: a tool for identifying growth opportunities; Demand Spaces: a new way of segmenting the market for category and brand expansion; creating new market development models for expanding categories; accreditation of qualitative researchers across the world to identify the best talent; to name a few. He is recognised as a thought leader in the space of insights globally and won the global prestigious international ‘Ginny Valentine Award’ in 2013 and global ‘Insights 250’ in 2023.

Srivatsan Sridhar
Co-Founder & CEO, Skydo

Srivatsan is Co-founder & CEO of Skydo Inc. Earlier, Srivatsan was head of Business at Rupeek – an asset-backed lending platform, leading teams across growth, business delivery and customer experience. Srivatsan has 19 years of professional experience spanning management consulting, business building and leadership roles in fast growth technology startups. Prior to joining Rupeek, Srivatsan managed the platform Revenue and profitability at India’s largest ride-hailing platform, Ola. Before Ola, Srivatsan led his family-owned automotive parts manufacturing business. He also has 6 years of experience with management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. where he advised clients primarily in financial services. He is most excited by the possibilities to transform business using data and digital technologies, and is passionate about building high performing teams, and mentor students and young professionals. Srivatsan has a master’s degree in industrial Engg from The Ohio State University and an MBA from The Indian School of Business.

Soumya Mukhopadhyay
Head of Innovation, APAC ,Kantar

Soumya Mukhopadhyay is the APAC Innovation lead for Kantar. He has worked in the area of innovation for more than two decades across different categories and clients including ITC, BAT, Pepsi, Coke, Colgate, Mondelez, Nestle, GSK, L’Oreal, Google, Amazon. His areas of expertise include thought leadership, solution development and strategic consultancy in the early stage of innovation, pricing, portfolio & revenue management and forecasting. He has been the Global R&D Head of Innovation for Kantar leading the development and successful launch of behavioural idea and concept testing offers; e.g. Idea eValuate, eValuate in Context.

Anand Santhanam
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Saint Gobain

Anand Santhanam brings over 22 years of experience and expertise as a well-seasoned sales, marketing and business development professional. He has a successful track record of working in diverse sectors like construction and building materials, automotive, durables and electronics. Anand’s skill sets in marketing management, sales, channel management, consumer insight generation and leadership management have been instrumental in shaping his career graph. Over the years, Anand has held key positions in his various stints across some of India’s best-known companies including Carrier Aircon, ONIDA (MIRC Electronics), Philips India Ltd, Tractors & Farm Equipment (TAFE), Massey Fergusson Tractors, etc. Anand holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering (Instrumentation and Control) from the University of Madras and a master’s degree in management studies (Marketing) from the University of Mumbai. He is an active member of the CII Marketing Forum.

Prabhat Kumar
Vice President - Flat Products, Marketing & Sales, TATA Steel

Mr Prabhat Kumar is the Vice President - Flat Products, Marketing and Sales, at Tata Steel. He has held multiple leadership roles across functions in the organisation since 2008 getting deep exposure to the core business, managing stakeholders and high-level management. Before taking on his current role, Mr Kumar was Principal Executive Officer to CEO&MD, Tata Steel. He has rich experience across Marketing & Sales of both Flat and Long Products and has been instrumental in developing strategies for automotive and construction market segments. Mr Kumar oversaw the launch of several new products to cater to changing market needs. He has rich experience in techno-commercial functions.

Mr Kumar is Mechanical Engineer from B.I.T Sindri and has more than 32 years of rich experience in Tata Steel and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also completed CEDEP General Management Program at INSEAD, France. He joined Tata Steel Jamshedpur as a Graduate Trainee in 1990. In addition, he is part of the Profit Centre Councils in Tata Steel and is also a Member of the Board of Directors of subsidiary companies of Tata Steel.

Ashwin Moorthy
Chief Marketing Officer, India, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL)

Ashwin is a Marketing and Advertising professional with 15+ years’ experience in Media, Marketing and Sales in the Consumer Products industry. He joined Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) in August, 2022. At GCPL, he heads marketing for India, encompassing brands across the categories of household insecticide, home care, personal care and hair care. Prior to this, he was with Hindustan Unilever where he worked across Sales and Marketing, including roles in Skin Cleansing, Beverages, and Functional Nutrition.

Mohit Ahuja
President, Gozoop Group

Mohit is an Experienced advertising specialist with a demonstrated history of working across categories and brands. Skilled in Brand Management, Integrated Marketing, Advertising and Marketing Strategy. An engineer with a PGDACM focused in Marketing and Advertising from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies.

VG Senthilkumar
Head marketing & branding, Bank of Baroda

His current role encompasses the overall Marketing, Branding & Public Relation functions of the Bank. Leadership role at TOP. Executive Grade (TEG-VI ) with direct reporting to Executive Director and MD & CEO of Bank. The Role involves managing a Team of 30+ at corporate level and 180+ at the Zonal & Regional levels. Responsible for building the Marketing Strategy including Digital. Marketing Strategies for Bank across all product lines and strengthening the Brand Value. Responsible for handling all Media channels including Print, Electronic, Outdoor and social media with budget spends of over 23 Million USD. Digital Marketing functions include Paid Digital, Organic and Social Media Marketing. Selected for sharing best practises in Digital Marketing amongst Public Sector Banks under EASE Reforms Agenda of Government of India. Sanctions of Rs 1800 cr + Retail Asset Loans (HL, Pl, CAR, MSME) through Paid Digital Marketing and over Rs 60 K Crores from organic Lead generation through Digital Channels during FY-2022-23. Management of Banks Website which include Development of Content, Trafffic growth & sustenance, Lead Generation & Building infrastucture capabilities alongwith managing other 9 websites of Banks International Territories. Handling the entire gamut of PR functions of the Bank which include Press & Media Releases, announcement of Banks Quarterly Financial Results and Analyst.

Mehernosh Malia
Director, Nestle India

He is Director and Business Head for Dairy and Ready-to-Drink Beverages for NESTLÉ India and South Asia Region. I am also on the Management Council for NESTLE India. I have worked in leadership positions in Coca-Cola, Airtel and now Nestle in Global, Regional and Country-level roles covering consumer cultures across South America, Middle East, West Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia, for iconic brands like Sprite, Fanta, Airtel, Milo, Nescafé, Milkmaid, Nido, EveryDay and Nestlé a+.

In addition to driving business through the traditional FMCG RTM, I have got the opportunity to drive profitable growth across unique Route-to-Market models involving reverse logistics for carbonated beverages in glass bottles, cool-chain for 15-day shelf life fresh-dairy products, direct-to-home for subscription-based water business and for one of the first convergence of the phygital space with the rapid expansion of mobile telephony in India.

Sumeli Chatterjee
Head - Integrated Marketing and Experiences, India & Southwest Asia, Coca Cola

Sumeli leads the integrated marketing communication for India and Southwest Asia for Coca-Cola. She is at the forefront of driving digital transformation, implementing platform strategies, and creating unique brand experiences like Coke Studio in Bangladesh and India. She also leads company's relations with sports associations like the International Cricket Council and spearheads creator programs that foster deep audience connections, especially for youth.

With over 20 years of experience, Sumeli has worked across diverse portfolio of clients, having navigated sectors such as FMCG, Media, and Entertainment. From her early days at Coca-Cola to her stints at MTV and The Times of India, she has consistently managed large and diverse teams, successfully steering complex projects. These initiatives have even earned recognition at prestigious events such as Cannes Lions, D&AD, and CLIO. She has also co-authored several youth insights publications at MTV and has been a speaker at public forums and conferences in India and abroad.