Board Member Category: Speaker 2024
Rajat Khullar
Amaresh Godbole
Amaresh Godbole is the CEO, Digital Technology Business at Publicis Groupe India. In this role, Amaresh leads the Groupe’s digital experience and technology agencies Digitas, Razorfish and Indigo consulting for the India market. Prior to this, Godbole was Head of Creative and Capability at Google India, and he also has a history of over a decade with Publicis Groupe, where his last role was CEO, Digitas India.
Amaresh has been recognised in prominent industry accolades such as Campaign’s Asia Pacific 40U40, IMPACT magazine 40U40, and Campaign’s ‘Most Admired Agency Leaders in Asia’ amongst others. A regular speaker at key events, he has also been a contributor to industry bodies such as advertising industry regulator ASCI, helping them shape digital regulation.
Rajiv Dubey
Chandan Mukherji
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.
Medhavi Singh
Medhavi Singh is the Country Head for Criteo India. She is responsible for driving growth and strategic partnerships while strengthening Criteo’s new and existing partnership with advertisers and agencies in India.
Prior to Criteo, Medhavi started her journey with Google where she worked across three different markets – US, UK and India, and across 3 different verticals – Travel, E-commerce and FMCG. She then joined Criteo where she has worked for over 6 years starting off as an Account strategist, quickly rising to Head of Large Customers Business and now leading the India business.
Ashish Tiwari
Ashish comes with 20+ years of corporate experience across consumer (FMCG/FMCD), telecom, Insurance and new media domains. Ashish has been practicing brand marketing, digital transformation, technology and data analytics. He is currently with Home Credit India as Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for the Go-To-Market strategy, customer experience and the digital-led omni-channel brand building. His previous role was as Chief Marketing & Digital officer with the Indian arm of Italian Insurance giant Generali, where he was leading the brand, engagement, PR and digital for the company. Earlier, he was leading digital transformation strategy for HMC, A Hero Motors Company where he led the digital for the group across the globe. Before HMC, while working at Jubilant, he proactively planned and implemented best-use practices in marketing communications across mediums – trade, digital, mobile, ATL and BTL. He is equipped with a post-graduate degree in Business Management from LBSIM, New Delhi combined with a digital and social media specialization from IIM, Bangalore.
Gulshan Verma
Gulshan Verma is a digital technology and media executive with over 20 years of experience building fast growing organizations across the USA, UK, APAC and India.
Currently Gulshan leads JioAds – the advertising arm of Jio Platforms Limited which reaches more than 450M users.
Prior to JioAds, Gulshan was the Head of Advertising and part of the management team at Disney+Hotstar, India’s largest streaming platform where he grew the platform’s revenues more than 8x over three years. He has held other leadership positions in Times Internet Limited, Outbrain, Komli Media, Yahoo!, Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Co and IMG.
Gulshan holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, MSc. Political Economy of Transition in Europe and a BSc. Economics from the London School of Economics.
Neha Kulwal
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 and other APAC markets. 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.
