Sankalp is a digital business leader. With 17+ years of experience across APAC, he has a consistent record of accomplishing aggressive goals and achieving turnarounds.
Sankalp currently heads monetization for Flipkart. He has orchestrated the rise of Flipkart Ads to a top digital ad platform in India in a short time. An important part of his role is crafting the vision that will unlock the next wave of exponential growth.
Sonia Khurana is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Digitas India. A seasoned marketer and strategic consultant, she values business impact as well as creativity. She partners with her clients helping them navigate the complex landscape of rapidly changing consumer behaviours, digital in its many avatars and new types of competition by delivering experiences that matter.
Her career spans over two decades across reputed organizations such as Ogilvy and Wunderman where she has lent her expertise for clients in industries such as retail, hospitality, telecom, technology, automotive, travel & tourism, and more.
A Marketer with almost 2 decades of experience building brands in the fashion and lifestyle industry, with a Diversified expertise in managing functions of Marketing, Business and Product Strategy, E-commerce , driving Growth through Digital and D2C in sunrise industries.
She has been instrumental in building brands across spectrums in her stints of a large box retailer in Lifestyle, establishing amante as a premium innerwear brand and now is redefining the way India sleeps at Duroflex – The leading omni brand in mattresses and sleep accessories. Smita is the recipient of the DMA Trailblazer CMO Award 2020, Women Super Achiever Award 2019 (World Woman Leadership) , Social Media Superwomen Award (Social Samosa) amongst others.
Smita is an avid traveler and a foodie, with an interest to understand cultures and consumerism across the globe.
Paras is a seasoned & passionate digital advertising professional. Currently, Paras is the Business Head at Matterkind, India and is also leading the Data Driven Programmatic practice for IPG, India since 2019. Paras continues to deliver great results for his clients via Addressable Programmatic solutions using the right mix of audience, talent and innovation.
Ranjana Mangla is the Sr. Vice President, Head of Ad Revenue, SonyLIV at Sony Pictures Networks India. She has been part of the SPN family since 2020 and is responsible for SonyLIV’s Digital Advertising Sales Strategy and Revenue for India Market. She is committed to building an eco-system for advertisers from across geographies prefer SonyLIV as a platform to target and engage with their brand audience through advanced technology solutions in a safe and high-quality curated content environment.
With a career spanning nearly 2 decades, Ranjana possesses rich and varied skills in revenue strategy, show/film launches, market relations across broadcasting products. Before joining SPN, she was Vice President, India Head- Impact Revenue at Disney+Hotstar and has also worked in leadership roles in companies like Discovery Inc, Viacom Colors, NDTV Imagine amongst others.
Akshay Chaturvedi is the Chief Business Officer, Supply for VDO.AI, India, responsible for building and expanding its publishers’ vertical globally. He will be utilizing his skills in business expansion, marketing, and advertising to maximize revenue for publishers across the ad tech ecosystem.
Before VDO.AI, Akshay worked closely with The Times of India group, Gaana.com, and Times Internet as a senior leader.
He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Advertising Agencies Association of India in 2010, the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, the ‘Padma Shri’ (Indian National Civilian Award) in 2016 and the Lion of St Mark, alongwith his brother Prasoon Pandey, at Cannes in June 2018. His first book, Pandeymonium, is on his life and times in advertising.
Ogilvy India has been India’s No. 1 creative agency for over two decades and Piyush has been named as the Economic Times’ Most Influential Person fourteen years in a row. Ogilvy was the first advertising job that he got and that’s where he continues to be.
Read more about his book “Open House” here – https://penguin.co.in/book/open-house-with-piyush-pandey/
Srishti Jha is an English journalist and writer. She has worked in the media for the past ten years with publications like Hindustan Times, India Today among others in both print and digital domains. She has extensively covered features, art, culture, fashion, languages, books and human narratives. She is currently working on her first novel as well as a screenplay. She lives in Bombay.
Mr. Varun Gupta has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia University, New York, USA.
He has been associated with KENT since 2005 and has been looking after Production, Operations, Customer Service, Information Technology and Supply Chain Management. He has spearheaded the modernization movement in KENT. He is on the company’s board as a Director and under his supervision, KENT has established state of the art production facilities and improved its operational efficiencies.
He has been the driving force behind the successful launch of KENT CamEye, which marks the foray of KENT RO Systems into Automotive Security. He conceptualized the product keeping in mind the security of women and children, who travel in chauffeur driven cars and KENT CamAttendance, a completely Touchless Face Attendance System, to manage attendance at offices/sites without risking infection via surface transmission.
He is also actively associated with the PHD Chamber of Commerce and is a Managing Committee Member.
Chandan is the Director of Strategy, Marketing and Communication in Nestle’. He is a member of the Management Committee and has a wide leadership role encompassing Strategy, Brand building, Digital, Communication and Innovation Idea to Launch. He joined Nestle’ in 2004 and was previously based out of the Global HQ in Switzerland leading Consumer & Marketplace Insights. Prior to joining Nestle, he was with Hindustan Unilever Limited working in Consumer Insights and Brand Management roles.
