Aalok Bhan is a business professional with close to three decades of experience across life insurance, banking and education. He is passionate about growing business and building leaders in equal measure. He strongly believes that humility, re-learning and governance are critical for success. In his current role, he oversees the company’s Product, Branding and Corporate Communication strategies towards strengthening Customer-Oriented Product Design strategies, Brand Positioning and Marketing, as well as manages all Corporate & Internal Communications.

In the past, he has led the company's distribution footprint across the nation with the responsibility of managing and driving agency and all bank partnerships, further strengthening the company’s multi-channel distribution architecture and growing its market share.

He has always believed in having a strong bias for action, unleashing people's potential for maximising revenue and identifying new pockets of profitable growth.

Anand Bhatia is an IIM Lucknow alumnus, he co-founded Ormax Money, a firm of consumer behaviorists focused on the BFSI space, before joining Fino Payments Bank. He has worked across BFSI, Retail and Education.

A long distance running enthusiast, Anand runs and plans his marketing strategies in the same way - for the long haul.

Amit is a seasoned business leader who brings to Zycus about 18 years of experience in strategic marketing and communications, business management, and strategy. As Chief Marketing Officer he is responsible for all aspects of global marketing including strategic marketing, customer marketing, product marketing, growth & demand generation, digital marketing and analyst relations.

Before joining Zycus, Amit was based in London and served as Managing Director at OakNorth, a B2B SAAS unicorn and supported large enterprise engagements across the US, Europe, and Australasia.

Amit holds an MBA from NITIE and B.E from REC Surathkal (NIT Karnataka). He has also completed an executive program in strategic marketing from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was recognized as 40under40 by Reputation Today in 2017, has been a Power Profile on LinkedIn in 2018 & 2016, and has served on the advisory board of S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research and Fintech committee of FICCI.

Aradhika Mehta is Chief Marketing Officer at Soul Tree. A dynamic, innovative & result- driven marketing professional she has a proven track record of delivering high growth and sustained results in the most challenging environments and industries. Having held senior positions across diverse functions of Marketing, Merchandising, Product Development, L&D and Customer Services at top Premium lifestyle brands like Body Shop and Lenskart, she has acquired a unique skill set and understanding of successful business practices and drivers for more than 15 years.

She has managed marketing deliverables across the portfolio of Brand Strategy & Management, Advertising & Communication, Media Planning and Buying, PR, Social & Digital Media Marketing, Product launches, Consumer Activations, Consumer Research & Insights, Customer Experience & Loyalty Management, Market Research & Data Analytics.

Arpanarghya Saha, or Arpan as he is fondly called is a digital veteran in India & APAC. He has 20+ years of experience across e-Commerce, BFSI & Retail industries. He has an MBA from FMS Delhi & is an alumnus of St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata.

Arpan is the Chief Digital Officer at Nippon India Mutual Fund where he is responsible for all aspects of Digital & for building Digital Quotient, driving proliferation & transforming NIMF into a Digital Leader. Prior to this Arpan was heading Digital Transformation and Go to Market for the e-commerce major in APAC, Snapdeal.

An award winning professional, his earlier work is featured in global case studies for pioneering referral campaigns using social media. He was responsible for inventing the LinkedIn and Facebook based referral campaigns that are now adopted by various multinational corporations across industries.

Bhavana is a media professional with a deep understanding of consumers and what it takes to gain the consumer mindshare. She is responsible for media and digital at RPSG Group for brands like Too Yumm!, Spencers and Saregama Carvaan. Prior to this, she has spent almost 10 years shaping top brands like Dettol, Durex, Harpic, Horlicks, Sensodyne etc at Reckitt Benckiser (RB) and GSK.

She started her professional journey in 1998 with Saatchi and Saatchi, launching Hyundai Santro and Accent in India. This was followed by stints in leading advertising agencies. From advertising, she moved over to Media Auditing helping Accenture set up and establish the offering in India in 2007, before foraying onto the brand side.

Regularly a part of multiple media and marketing platforms, she also visits various management campuses to interact with budding managers to understand the millennials as well as provide them support and guidance.

She is also a certified yoga trainer. Recently, she has been awarded the Superwoman 2020 by Social Samosa.

Girish Upadhyay is the Chief Marketing Officer at Axis My India - a leading Consumer Data Intelligence Company.

A senior MarTech professional with blended experience in go-to-market strategy development, digital marketing, marketing communication and media planning & buying, Girish is currently orchestrating a data & tech revolution that will impact 250Mn. Indian households. He comes with over 20 years of experience across diverse categories like Auto, FMCG, Telecom, Media, Kids & Tourism.

Juhie heads brand, communications and digital marketing for Philips in the Indian Subcontinent, and is a part of the India Management Team. Prior to joining Philips, she was the Global Marketing Leader at Aricent (now Altran, part of Capgemini group) where she led the global marketing portfolio including Communications, Digital Marketing, Events and Demand Generation across APAC, US and Europe. She started her career at Lowe (Lintas) in India and has been in leadership roles in marketing communications at IBM, Avaya and Yahoo. Juhie has been a member of The Marketing Society in India since its early days in 2017, and a board member since July 2019. She took over as Chair of the India board in June 2020.

Juhie has 19 years of work experience in Strategic Marketing, Brand and reputation management, Public Relations, External and Internal Communications, Digital Marketing, Demand Generation, Events and M&A strategy.

Juhie has a Bachelors’ in English from Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University, a Masters’ in Mass Communication; and a degree in Marketing Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Juhie is an active member of marketing associations like DMA Asia, IMA CMO Forum and is a prominent speaker at Industry Forums. She has been recognized amongst the Most Influential Marketing Leaders in India by CMO Asia in 2017 and 2018.

Karthik Sathuragiri leads marketing for Amazon Web Services in India & South Asia and is responsible for growth strategies and execution across the region. Before AWS, he led marketing teams at Automation Anywhere, Freshworks, and Akamai.

Karthik has varied experience across the technology stack including Cloud Infrastructure, Software as a Service, RPA, Web Security, Big Data and Analytics.

Karthik did his post-graduation in management from UCLA Anderson School of Management and enjoys mindful conversations and playing tennis.

Malvika Sampat is a Marketing Evangelist at Acadru.com, an experiential multidisciplinary learning platform helping students build profiles for 21st century jobs. ACadru gives access to online learning modules for high school students on unique topics to create a variety of careers aligned with the user’s passion and challenges of the future. At ACadru, Malvika leads the marketing initiatives and also specializes in social media marketing and relationship management. She also dabbles in product marketing, digital marketing, and data analytics.

Prior to joining ACadru, Malvika has worked as a consultant (Content Marketing and Digital Marketing) for Fortis, PepsiCo, Connexus, Whyte Farms, iBrandox, Marwadi Khana, Taxmann and many other startups

Piali Dasgupta is a former journalist and a multi-award winning marketing and communication leader with close to 15 years of cross-category experience across media, e-commerce, retail, and real estate. Her cultivated skill sets in strategising and driving branding, imagery, brand positioning, brand architecture, customer segmentation, PR and corporate communication, storytelling, campaign creation, digital marketing, performance marketing, offline marketing across ATL and BTL. A recipient of several awards, she has been named as India's Best Marketers by Voot (Viacom 18), Woman Marketer of The Year 2020 – Mcube (Masters of Modern Marketing) Awards and is on the list of top 10 Content Marketers in Asia by CMS Asia, among others. She serves on several juries, writes columns on marketing and advertising in publications such as ET Brand Equity, Hindu Businessline, Exchange4Media, MediaNews4U, Adgully, Impact Magazine, Campaign India and 99 Acres and has been a guest speaker at IIM Shillong, IIM Ranchi, and Exchange4Media among others.

She is currently building India's largest senior living community operator. When not working, she reads voraciously, dedicates her time towards raising awareness around mental health, being a mental illness survivor herself, and is associated with the Seattle-based Stability Network.

Purnima is a member of the Executive Council and the CMO at Marlabs, a digital solutions agency with a strong focus in Healthcare, Fintech and Supply chain industries. She has served on the executive councils of Microland and CSS Corp in her past CMO stints. With a marketing experience of over 25 years she has held several leadership roles at Infosys, Tata Telecom and Avaya Inc. Her primary areas of focus in the past years have been on analytics and the impact of AI-related technologies in understanding customers and mapping the customer lifecycles effectively.

Purnima also serves on the advisor board of the yourphilathropystory.com - a platform committed to education and social service in the Karnataka region. She is also an amateur Kathakali dancer and loves to blog on fitness and leadership. Purnima was Linkedin’s ‘Must Know Writers’ in 2016 and 2018 and has won several awards including the Stevie Award for Contact Center leader of the year.

Ramalingam Subramanian (Ram) is the Head of Brand & Communications at CoinDCX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and liquidity aggregator, where his primary focus is streamlining the company's marketing strategies as well as building the platform's global brand. At CoinDCX, apart from high impactful campaigns such as #TryCrypto, Ram has also been responsible for onboarding High Net-worth Individual (HNI) clients, establishing internal processes that have helped transition CoinDCX from a startup to an established household brand. Ram’s areas of expertise also include marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship. He holds a Degree in Information Technology and a Master's Degree in Management.

Roasie Virq Ahluwalia has 25 plus years of experience in PR and Marketing, most of it in the luxury brands space, Roasie is one of the most well -respected professionals in the Indian luxury industry. An expert in image building, she has been instrumental in launching several International luxury brands in India over the last decade in the fashion and lifestyle space. Roasie is now Director Marketing at India Sotheby’s International Realty, which is realty part of the iconic Sotheby’s Auction House brand with a legacy of 277 years. She is a regular panelist at various luxury industry platforms.

When not building brands, Roasie unwinds by spending time at her pet charity projects with rescued and stray animals. She is an ardent animal rights activist and organic farmer on the side. She runs an NGO called www.theairfoundation.org with the objective of spreading awareness about saving the planet and its other voiceless inhabitants. The NGO is hence working on projects to promote lifestyles that are sustainable, thereby arresting climate crises and emergencies across the globe.

Ruchira Jaitly is an EVP Marketing at Diagio

She is a B2C business and marketing professional for the past 23 years, she has worked across stints in sales, marketing, and even led a B2C Start Up, launching a portfolio of F&B solutions to combat the challenge of malnutrition in India.

Ruchira was responsible for building some of the biggest brands for Pepsico in India (Kurkure, Lay’s and Mountain Dew) and creating scale consumer campaigns (Crash the Pepsi IPL, Kurkure Tea-Time and Lay’s Flavor World Cup), harnessing India-led innovations (Nimbooz Masala Soda) and leveraging global playbooks to bring alive brands from Pepsi, 7UP, Mountain Dew and Mirinda to Lays and Cheetos.

Some of her affiliations include, being a member on CII National Committee on Women Empowerment & Indian Women Network (IWN), mentor at the Vedica Women’s Alliance and also Founder at Ashoka University, Haryana.

Shalini Rao is an expert in Brand Building, Customer Experience and Digital Transformation. At BIAL, Shalini is responsible for branding, communication, and reputation management. She is a Director on the Board of KIAF (A Foundation set up to undertake CSR activities of BIAL) and Bangalore Airport Hotel Limited (Subsidiary of BIAL).

Prior to joining BIAL, Shalini was a Customer Experience and Brand Consultant for Tata Sons. She headed Global Marketing for the Taj Group, worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and has held Marketing responsibilities across multiple consumer product companies like Mars India, Gillette India (now P&G) and Marico India.

Shalini holds a Master’s in Marketing from Griffith University, Australia and a Post Graduate Diploma from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar.

Shamik Banerjee is a Chief Marketing Officer at Apollo 24|7, the Health App of India in the making... is an unique platform for every Indian to have access to quality Healthcare, anywhere and anytime. In the past, he has launched multiple customer-facing brands and businesses in India like Iffco Tokio, Apollo Munich, Aegon Life and Reliance Health. He believes in creating marketing led sales programmes using data based decision making. His previous work experience involves extensive focus on digital marketing, research, marketing and management consultancy to brands from healthcare, FMCG, automobile, retail, banking and financial sector, economic policy, etc.

Shamik is one of the founder member of Apollo 24|7, Reliance Health Insurance and Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Limited. Spearheaded marketing, corporate planning, corporate communications, digital engagement and direct sales responsibilities at Apollo Munich and Reliance Health.