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Pallavi Barman

Pallavi Barman is an informed, well networked, and future-ready brand specialist with over a decade of industry knowledge and understanding.

An engineer in her process orientation and a quasi-tech evangelist coupled with her affinity for planning and detailing acquired through an MBA – Pallavi has stepped up in her career bit by bit, garnering experiences from retail, fashion, consumer goods, and telecommunication to scale up to become a business Head at HRX and the Founder at LAP ventures.

HRX is India’s first homegrown fitness brand which is a forerunner and pioneer in several path-breaking initiatives in the world of fitness. If heading the business and growing it at a positive rate is stimulating for her, being a part of the on-ground communities, content writing and blogging are her passion projects. Being a fitness enthusiast herself, Pallavi doubles up as a KOL for the brand with her commentaries on fitness, nutrition, Women’s health, and holistic fitness. With the attitude and mindset of an everyday athlete, she has created a following for the brand and for herself as a content creator. Pallavi formally trains in calisthenics and practices movement training, weight training, and long-distance running on other days. She is a self-educated nutrition expert with a keen interest in research and experiment who has also counseled people and put them on the path of living a sustainable and holistic lifestyle through course correction, discipline, and course correction.

With her experience at HRX and consulting at other successful celebrity brands like House of Pataudi – the confidence in creating, building, and sustaining successful celebrity propositions was further strengthened and this was the germ that took the shape of LAP Ventures at the peak of pandemic. While most people were consolidating and withdrawing during the pandemic, Pallavi’s contrarian approach make her expand her horizons further and LAP ventures were set up in March of 2021.

Harminder Ari

Harminder is an Insead alumni and a high-impact and committed solution sales leader who has worked with Fortune 500 companies with 15 years of experience in technical & functional applications sales, strategic & key account management, business development and people management. He’s a committed individual who is eager to boost revenue by utilizing his consultative selling skills and is currently spearheading the India business while leading teams, promoting & growing sale of products and services at WebEngage. He has managed to transit his enthusiasm, creativity and experience into a position where he could continue to provide the strategic and tactical leadership critical for generating revenue, customers, profitability and retaining valued customers of various organizations. He is excited to bring WebEngage and their unique culture to his management abilities in order to find, nurture and grow the business in the India market.

His avid interest in emerging technologies has helped increase the value of various companies like Walmart, Panasonic, MakeMytrip, Pepsico, Skoda Volkswagen, Valvoline etc during periods of successful innovation, while he was associated with many other previous employers such as SAP, Oracle and Ramco. His readiness to try new things has given him the capability to move between and understand many complex business situations. Besides his impressive performance in the tech industry, he’s also a divergent thinker with a passion for education and learning, Harminder has also recently completed courses in general management from Insead Business School, as well as technology entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School.

Married, blessed with a daughter and lives in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Despite being a passionate ultra-cyclist he also finds solace in hiking and is also fond of adventurous sport such as Formula 1 and dirt biking. He has also visited many wild life sanctuaries and other historic locations around the world, and enjoys dining at Michelin-starred restaurants.

Harminder’s hands-on approach to business has set his foundation for success, following a philosophy of customer relations that embraces sales as the only part of a larger strategy of building and maintaining new markets. Especially within fields of emerging technologies, he has experienced the value of multiple perspectives first hand. The diverse and stimulating work environment offered at WebEngage is an ideal place for Harminder to continue his career making connections midst engagers, innovators and producing value for growing the organization.

Niti Kumar

Niti Kumar is the Chief Operating Officer at Starcom India. She closely works towards Client deliverables, Revenue Growth and New Business Development across the agency’s offices. 
 
She is an experienced media and marketing professional with two decades of rich experience in media planning, marketing, digital communications and media investment management. In her career span, she has worked across a variety of categories like Publishing, FMCG, Telecom, Automobiles, Garments and BFSI.
 
Before joining Starcom, Niti worked at Penguin Random House India, where she spearheaded marketing along with the digital and data initiatives of the organisation. A graduate from MICA, she has worked in leadership roles at GroupM (Managing Partner North & East at Mediacom) and Mudra Communications (Office Head, Media, Delhi & Kolkata). 
 
A TEDx speaker, Niti has closely led and managed media investments and strategy for global and local businesses like Mars Wrigley, Shell Plc, Makemytrip.com, Gillette, Amway and Reckitt Benckiser, to name a few.

Dr. Ashish Bajaj

Dr Ashish Bajaj has over 12 years of experience in working with leading Healthcare and Mobility startups amongst others.

Dr Ashish Bajaj has several awards and recognitions to his name including being the first to represent India at Young Lions Media competition at the Cannes, First and only from India to win the Media Gold Medal for crafting a Media strategy for World Health Organization at Young Spikes Asia, Singapore and more recently Marketeer of the Year award winner by CMO Asia and National Feather. His key achievements include driving the rapid growth of Medibuddy by building partnerships to scale B2C2C business and winning the “Best Marketing campaign” in health category for two years for B2C business as well. He has also launched several campaigns for new categories like Ola Micro, Ola Auto, Ola Prime at Ola including the launch of Ola Australia and UK. In addition to his professional achievements, he has an MBA in Marketing and International Business and a B. Tech in Electronics and Communication.

Vadim Aidlin

Vadim Aidlin – Co-Founder and CEO of Pushnoti Limited is a professional with 15+ years of experience in Online Marketing and user acquisition. Pushnoti Limited was founded on 2019 with collaboration of like-minded founders, a strategic period when the digital industry was evolving into a disruptive environment of connecting the world together.

PushnotiAds offers a 360° approach to media industry which bridges the gap between the advertisers & publishers enabling digital monetisation. PushnotiAds is a must have SAAS product enabled on media publications, digital news portals, news curating websites, bloggers & influencers sites to enable innovative way to monetise the traffic along with implementation of high-quality advertising tools for brands using a push notification Advertising/Monetising Platform – www.pushnotiAds.com

PushnotiAds is now geared up to launch themselves in India and eventually in other parts of APAC after having a successful kickstart and operational headquarter in Cyprus and offices across India, Israel, Malta, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ukraine.

Our main vision is to provide REAL non-bot traffic for the advertisers using a transparent monetisation with publishers.

Pranjal Desai

Pranjal leads MediaMath’s India business as the Country Manager for India. Pranjal brings a wealth of regional expertise to Mediamath including a combination of business acumen, technical knowledge, and far-reaching industry experience across digital, marketing and ad-tech. Pranjal is overseeing MediaMath’s growth across India and is ensuring the demands of its clients and partners are satisfactorily met.

VIPUL KEDIA

Vipul is one of the earliest team members at Affle and has played a key role in building the brand over the last 18 years. He has played a multitude of roles across different business units and functions including Business Development, Partnerships, Account Management, Product and Operations.

In his current role he is responsible for driving the growth of Affle’s platforms in India. He has a keen interest in mobile advertising fraud and big data technologies.

Vipul has over 19 years of experience in Consulting and AdTech. Prior to joining Affle, he worked with IBM business consulting specializing in the Telecom Practice. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Technology with a major in Computer Science Engineering from IIIT-Hyderabad and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

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