Managed an advertising agency for more than 25 years. Now a strategist consultant for SMEs that want to grow. My competency is marketing & branding, Go To Market (GTM) and business strategy for small and medium enterprises (B2B / B2C)
Having closely worked in the following sectors, I understand their ecosystem – Hotels, Restaurants, Food, Wines, Real Estate, Education, Health, Fitness, Leisure, Media, Logistics, Infrastructure, Retail, Manufacturing, NGOs, Consultants and Not-for Profit Social Enterprise.

I am now Director of Business and Corporate strategy at UJA – Udyen Jain & Associates

I love teaching and training and am a guest faculty / speaker for advertising, brand management and marcom in some of the leading undergraduate and post graduate schools.

I have written text books for distant learning on advertising and marketing communications (marcom) and currently writing a book on marketing in the new environment.

I collaborated on a coffee table book ‘Merchants of Pune’ with Sakal Publications. The book profiled 100 year old business families of Pune who enriched the city, created employment opportunities and created something unique for the city.

When invited, I am one of the jury for digital marketing awards

Currently learning SQL server, Power BI and soon Python.

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.

Adityan is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years of experience across traditional and digital media and communication. He has been a specialist at launching brands for a large part of this time having worked on launches for brands ranging from Jio, Mercedes-Benz, Hasbro, Tata Cliq, Tata Motors, Lodha, Parle Agro, Skoda, Jeep, Anheuser-Busch InBev to name a few.

The work he’s done across these and other brands has won him over two dozen honours local and global and has got him listed in 30 under 30 and 40 under 40 marketing lists in the past.

Prior to this, he was at the NBA where he was the lead for content and distribution partnerships. He led the licensing of NBA rights to Star India and then most recently to Viacom18. He also licensed the NBA 2K League (esports) rights to Loco through 2 cycles, created their first digital weekly basketball analysis show, led the rollout of their first branded content property (which won 2 Promax awards) and signed a partnership with the national broadcaster for non-live content.

He is currently part of the global brand team at BYJU’S where he heads social media, digital brand marketing and brand partnerships across geographies. His focus is to build the brand’s personality and build brand love on digital platforms.

Let me know if you need this to be shorter or longer or need a different perspective. Can provide it accordingly.

Avi Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Join Ventures. He leads global marketing for Join Ventures and its portfolio companies – IGP.com, IGP for Business and Interflora India.
Recognized among the Top 30 CMOs by IAMAI, Kumar brings over a decade’s experience in online business and marketing leadership roles to Join Ventures.
He is a digital eclectic recognized for converting data to consumer insights to market strategy for growth and has built large brands in the Tech, Content and CPG space. As the Head of SVOD and Brand Marketing for India’s leading OTT platform, ZEE5, he was responsible for the growth of D2C and B2B business through a host of multimedia campaigns and industry first innovations to establish the brand as the streaming platform of choice for millions of consumers in a short span of 3 years. Prior to ZEE5, Avi has led the marketing for India’s largest radio brand Big FM and was instrumental in the growth of Oriflame in India.

Anil Kumar Singh comes to Neo@ogilvy with more than 17 years of experience in digital advertising. currently working with neo@Ogilvy as a National Director of SEO. There he is Accountable for the agency’s SEO and content vision, and managing the growth of the product by overseeing the SEO Leads, supporting the Client Services team, and playing an active role in New Business opportunities.
He was previously India Head of SEO in Interactive avenues, Digital arm of IPG Mediabrands . He had built SEO team & business from scratch and stabilised IA into a leader in SEO for the Indian market working with major brands like ICICI BANK, Micromax, Cleartrip, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, GENPACT,Dishtv, Airtel and BookMyshow. Anil helped Interactive Avenues SEO Business reach scale in less than 3 years.
Qualification : Master of Computer Science (M.Sc) Honors

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/

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. I believe in amalgamation of marketing and technology to build customer centricity in organizations.

This journey has been attested by multiple Industry awards and individual recognitions like-

• World Women Leadership Award 2020
• BBC Knowledge Women Leadership in Industry Award 2017
• ‘Woman Super Achiever in Digital and Social in Asia’ in 2014 by CMO Asia Singapore
• Most Influential Digital Media professional 2015 and 2018 by World Marketing  Congress
• ETNow digital award in 2018 and Mobbys in 2013
• Adobe Brand & Content custodians in 2017.
  
  

Besides being an avid reader I like to travel, sing and cook to unwind my tech brain cells.

Kaushik Chakraborty
Sr. VP Digital | Tata Capital
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.

Sudeep is passionate about storytelling, building brands & categories and perfecting human connections. He has spent the last 17 years in various sales and marketing roles in Cadbury/ Mondelez and Pidilite, both being companies with incredible brand-building capabilities. This combination also makes him a rare marketer to have built brands in B2C as well as B2B space. He is passionate about everything that’s related to marketing and people. He is also a Marketing educator who conducts a crash course titled “Science behind the art of advertising” at GrowthSchool where he unpacks frameworks to create effective & measurable brand campaigns. His course has added value to around 2000+ industry professionals, marketing enthusiasts and students thus far. He also hosts a marketing podcast titled “CoBB -Conversations over Business of Brands” with his ex-colleague from Mondelez where they try to dispel myths & misinformation related to marketing