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.
Board Member Category: Stage 3 Speaker 2022
Archana Vohra
Varun Gupta
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.
Anushree Ghosh
Anushree is a marketer with varied experiences in managing and thinking about brands both as a brand owner and a strategic planner. She has amassed great learnings along the way in creating, managing and re-imagining brands across traditional and digital spaces. She has nurtured keen interest in the start-up space, e-commerce and all things technology.
SUNDER MADAKSHIRA
Sunder Madakshira is the Chief Executive Officer of Rezolve India. Sunder will lead all aspects of growth for Rezolve’s business in India like sales, marketing, operations and customer success. He will engage with the brands in India that are looking to take their customer experience to the next level and to ensure Rezolve’s customers and partners are successful.
Sunder has held leadership roles for over 26 years in Sales and Marketing with companies such as Adobe, Hindustan Unilever, VISA, SAP WIPRO and Infosys. He is considered a pioneer in Data Driven Operating Models (DDOM) in B2B marketing in India.
He is a recognized speaker in industry forums such as ASSOCHAM, NASSCOM and CII. His views on marketing have been quoted by publications such as Forbes, The Economic Times, Mint, The Drum, Times of India and Hindu Business Line. His weblog www.madakshira.com has 180,000 subscribers.
He shares his expertise in Marketing and Sales with B school students in India and abroad including IIMs in Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, Shillong and Amritsar. Internationally, he has spoken at The Columbia Business School, New York, The Stanford Business School in California and The London School of Business, London.
He volunteers his time with the non-profit organization Madhvacharya for the Youth, which seeks to create awareness about Indian scriptures amongst the youth.
PRASAD SHEJALE
Prasad Shejale, Founder & CEO, of Logicserve Digital. He is a voracious reader and a keen learner in the field of Digital Marketing and technologies. He founded Logicserve Digital which is one of the largest digital marketing companies in India.
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.
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
Dhiraj Gupta
Dhiraj Gupta is the Co-Founder and CTO of ‘mFilterIt’, the world’s leading trust partner offering neutral third-party solutions for Ad Fraud detection and prevention.
He leads the global technology and operations of the company, catering to customers across the globe, helping them enable trust and integrity in the digital ecosystem. In a career spanning over 15 years, blended with telecommunications and emerging technologies, Dhiraj has worked with companies like Nokia Networks and Wipro Technologies in different roles as System Engineer, Technical lead and Solution engagement.
With a strong personality and determination, Dhiraj has proved to be a successful entrepreneur. One of his biggest strengths is his ability to nurture relationships with his clients which has helped him to successfully harness big companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Unilever, Noon, KFC, as mFilterIt clients among others, in the USA, EMEA and APAC.
He is the greatest proponent of the need for building the trust that exists through the digital value chain. He is the mastermind behind identifying a bad BOT and demarcating it from a good one in the digital world and he loves to develop technologies for them. Exceptionally passionate about the Digital World, Dhiraj is always in a discovery mode. He enjoys immersing in autonomous technologies and develop robots in his leisure.
Dhiraj has done his MBA from the prestigious, IIM Lucknow and is an Engineering graduate from Delhi College of Engineering.
