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Board Member Category: Speaker 2022

TARANJEET KAUR

Taranjeet Kaur is the Head of Media, Digital & PR at Tata Global beverages. She is responsible for media planning and buying, digital & content, brand PR, media agency management and capability building. With more than 14 years of rich media experience across different agencies and corporates like Nielsen, RKS BBDO, OMD, GSK, RB, Piramal Healthcare.

A post graduate from SIMC, Pune ,she was the winner of Cannes Media Lions 2008 and was recognized with Business excellence award for Sensodyne, Crocin and Iodex in GSK. She led the most awarded media innovations for GSK ,VISA & RB and set the bar high for the industry.

She has consulted few start-ups and corporates and help set up media ground for them.

An avid traveller, photographer, Taranjeet spends most of her time reading and watching videos about diverse topics and cultures where she can gather some new consumer insights and behavior.

VISHAL CHINCHANKAR

“Vishal Chinchankar is a senior leader with 22+ years of experience in domestic and International markets managing marketing & sales, He’s the Chief Digital Officer at Madison Media & in past has worked with Group M, Reliance ADA Group Mediaturf, etc.

High energy, inclusive people leader with proven success in marketing services and business development for multi-million-dollar digital advertising organizations. Exceled in dynamic, demanding and matrix environments & Also an active speaker in Digital Marketing events like Ad-tech, Nasscom, IAMAI, E4M, & B-schools”.

LAVIN PUNJABI

Lavin Punjabi is an ad tech entrepreneur dedicated to restoring trust between users and digital ads through privacy-first technology. With a proven track record in developing user-centric ad tech products, Lavin has consistently driven innovation and added substantial value to the industry. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity, a company often referred to as the ‘Columbus of New Media,’ Lavin spearheads a portfolio of ad network and SaaS businesses. The ad networks focus on branding and performance solutions for advertisers across unique formats and placements (mCanvas, VEVE, SitePlug and YieldSolutions). The SaaS businesses include AdOpsOne, NucleusLinks and Opinary, the latter of which was acquired in 2023. These ventures operate on a global scale, spanning the US, UK, Europe, India, Indonesia, and China. Lavin’s profound involvement in the ad tech industry since 2004, marked by his pioneering of privacy-first technology and product-led impact on the future of digital advertising, has established him as a recognized industry expert.

VISHAL JACOB

As a digital marketer Vishal Jacob has witnessed the roller-coaster ride of India’s digital marketing transformation journey from up close and personal – from the dotcom burst in the early 2000’s to the current age of data driven marketing. The purpose has remained the same – enabling brands to establish a deep connection with the consumer – yet the means whether through Search, Social, Mobile, Programmatic etc. have dramatically evolved and are continuing to do so at a frenetic pace.

Vishal considers himself fortunate to have worked with some of the best clients and the best talent in all aspects of digital marketing across India and parts of South East Asia. Vishal has led and assisted clients across industries (Auto, FMCG, Telco, Media & Retail) in their digital transformation journey hinging it on creating a connected ecosystem of paid, owned & earned properties. The result has been a purposeful digital media strategy that drives business outcomes.

During his previous roles he has been instrumental in helping a small 8-member team grow into a 100-member team and become one of India’s finest and most successful digital agencies. Their work has been recognized and awarded in multiple global forums such as the Festival of Media, M&M Global, World Media Awards & WPPED Crème.

Vishal is also a published Author and a certified coach from ICF with further specialization in transactional analysis and NLP, Vishal continues to nurture and coach talent to prep them for leadership roles.In his current role Vishal continues to drive this transformation with a focus rooted deeply in nurturing talent and enhancing digital product capabilities.

TUSHAR VYAS

Tushar is part of GroupM South Asia ExCo and leading digital media practise for GroupM South Asia. Tushar is also responsible for investment and corporate business development.

Tushar had launched Digital Media business unit (Interaction) for GroupM India and build up to 300+ member team and expanded services in areas like Content, search & programmatic buying , mobile, digital activation, Social, Insight and digital analytics. GroupM digital Media practise is today largest digital media solution provider with more than 150 active clients. GroupM digital practise has been consistently best performer across all the media and digital awards.

Tushar was also part of SureWaves start-up team. SureWaves is creating the SureWaves Media Grid

DEEPAK GUPTA

Deepak Gupta is Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Bombay Shaving company .Prior to BSC, he has 10+ year reach experience with Colgate-Palmolive wherein he lead the strategic efforts across Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain. He brings with him experience of working with the world’s most penetrated brand with 3.5+ billion daily active users. Gupta also spent more than two years In China and headed sales operations and strategy for entire Mainland China there and witnessed the tremendous mushrooming of brands which launched online and quickly scaled offline. Deepak is IIT-Bombay alumnus with key expertise in Sales& strategy, Analytics and people science. He loves reading and travelling with eye for history .

NIKHIL KUMAR

Consumer Marketing professional with over a decade of experience working in FMCG, Retail, F&B & Ad-Tech set-ups with global brands like Puma, L’Oreal, Cafe Coffee Day and recently Bytedance & InMobi. He was voted & awarded as one of India’s Most innovative Mar-Tech leaders in 2019 by World Marketing Congress. With a career spanning over 14+ years – Nikhil has worked across multiple functions with his domain expertise primarily being Brand Marketing (digital & offline), Business strategy/ Sales & Go-To Market plan/ execution across consumer goods, retail & start-up eco system. In his recent roles, he has led business functions across India, SEA, EU & has previously led marketing/business functions at Cafe Coffee Day, L’Oreal, Puma, HouseJoy & InMobi.

He currently leads the business of India & Southeast Asia for mediasmart, an Affle company.

Sandeep Bhushan

Sandeep is the Director – Meta Business Group at Meta India. Sandeep has led the scaling of Meta’s business in India over the last 7 years and his current role reflects his passion for harnessing consumer understanding and digital impact for business outcomes. Sandeep is also actively involved in working with industry to build and adopt key digital standards as a Board Member of ASCI and MMA India.

An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Sandeep’s experience spans CPG, Media and Technology, with leadership stints at Unilever, WSJ Mint and Samsung prior to his current role.

Sandeep is a music and triathlon enthusiast, and is a Partner at Social Venture Partners, the global philanthropic network.

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