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Conference and Expo5-6 March, 2025Awards6 March, 2025

Conference and Expo5-6 March, 2025Awards6 March, 2025

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Board Member Category: Speaker 2022

Deepti Khutal

Deepti Khutal is the Director of Operations for India at Invidi, and responsible for the client relationships within APAC & South Africa. She has been instrumental in the success of advertising across various partners in the region. She is a goal oriented professional with an experience of over 17years in identifying the business opportunities and managing clients from inception to launch.

Deepti received her Masters in Engineering from IET, DAVV and started her career at TCS, where she progressed in various roles leading sales & partnerships for business horizontal across multiple categories such as Manufacturing, Telecom, HiTech, Travel & Hospitality. Deepti lives in Pune with her husband and a son. She is an avid reader and enjoys teaching underprivileged kids.

RJ Abhinav

Based in Delhi, RJ Abhinav is an Indian content creator, popularly known as ‘Faad Magician’. Having previously worked as a radio jockey on India’s most popular 98.3 radio station, Mirchi (Delhi), Abhinav may indeed be described as a jack of all crafts His videos are primarily centred on realistic and observational humour about everyday situations.

RJ Abhinav has collaborated with some of the country’s most well-known brands, including Disney Plus Hotstar, Dineout, and Amazon Prime India, to create meaningful digital content that has fueled the creator economy. He has been recognised and awarded for his contributions to the digital space in a number of creators’ forums.

Abhinav effortlessly adopts characters that the audience can relate to, ensuring that his content goes viral. He has a unique sense of humour, which shines through in his delightfully created videos.

Samriddh Dasgupta

Samriddh Dasgupta is the Chief Marketing Officer at Heads Up For Tails, India’s Largest Omni-channel Petcare Destination. Samriddh has been instrumental in building and scaling brands like Dineout, HCL Tech, Aakash Digital and Bombay Shaving Company.

Adam Skinner

Adam holds dual roles at CitrusAd – being the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO), Adam’s role touches all areas of product strategy, engineering, platform operations, security, and commercial teams. Adam was the former CTO at Asia Pacific’s largest health, fitness and lifestyle holding group (Fitness and Lifestyle Group) where he spearheaded digital transformation across 6 businesses. As a visionary, in the technology, ecommerce, adTech and marTech space; Adam’s digital experience means he provides a consultative, ‘over-the-horizon’ and collaborative approach to product design, strategy and technology architecture – meaning that CitrusAd and their retailers will always be ahead of the pack.

Varadharajan Ragunathan

Varadha is the head of monetization and partnerships at Big Basket, India’s largest online e-grocer. He has 20 years of experience across Adtech, e-com and finance and is passionate about the intersection of human psychology and progressive technology and believes advertising is on the cusp of being transformed into personalized, contextual nudges. In his spare time, he runs endless loops in his mind on behavioural economics and observational psychology and is an part time investor in the markets.

Monaz Todywalla

Monaz Todywalla is the Chief Executive Officer at PHD Media India, where she leads a team of highly engaged and creative media experts, delivering disruptive and forward-leaning solutions for the business needs of the agency's diverse roster of
clients, helping them Make the Leap.

With over two decades of experience across media, marketing and communications, Monaz is an inspiring leader with an in-depth understanding of business, strategy, media planning and buying, analytics and market research.

Over the years, she has lent her knowledge across various roles at Wavemaker, Madison Communications and Lodestar. With expertise in mentoring cross-functional regional teams and assimilating learnings, she has diverse exposure across industries like FMCG, Telecom, BFSI and Retail, among others.
 
Monaz aims to create an inclusive work environment that is driven by results. Striving to deliver greater value to clients than just the required business KPIs, she has also been at the forefront of innovative campaigns for renowned brands such as L’Oréal, Vodafone, Kotak, Abbott Nutrition, HDFC Life, Starbucks, Tata Cliq, Asian Paints, MDLZ, Amul, and Marico.

With a number of distinctive accolades to her credit, some of the more recent recognitions include ‘Impact 50 Most Influential Women 2022’, BW Businessworld's '20 Most Influential Women' (2022) and 'Top 40 under 40’ by IMPACT (2017).

Nitin Pai

Nitin Pai is the CMO and Chief Strategy Officer at Tata Elxsi. He brings over 25 years of industry experience in product development and R&D, new business incubation, and global marketing for technology and design services in the automotive, consumer electronics, media and telecom industries.

As head of global marketing and corporate strategy, he helps the company develop business and market strategies, steer business units and Tata Elxsi in select verticals and markets, and drive strategic partnerships to strengthen its service portfolio, value proposition and business growth.

He started as a designer in one of the world’s largest motorcycle companies. He moved to Tata Elxsi and built and grew a business around industrial design and user experience, which is among the leading design agencies in the world today.

He then moved to a corporate role to lead marketing and strategy, and brings deep insights into design-led thinking and digital, and how that can be used strategically to impact brands and businesses.

He is an alum of INSEAD, IIM-Bangalore and BITS – Pilani.

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