Shireesh Joshi is Chief Business Officer & President – Network Expansion for Open Network For Digital Commerce (ONDC). He is responsible for expanding the network in terms of participants and domains. Previously he held roles with Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Airtel and Godrej, where he managed multiple brands, geographies and market positions simultaneously and worked on businesses across India, China and South Asia, working with various cultures and languages and has over 30 years of experience delivering successful results with organisations and teams of varying capability and scale. An industry and function leader, he often speaks at industry conferences, serves on various marketing award juries. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore.
Board Member Category: Keynote 2025
Ankit Desai
Shiney Eapen
Sumeet Singh
Meet Sumeet Singh, the face of Marketing at Info Edge. She is credited for contributing in shaping Info Edge into one of the most successful dotcom companies in India, through the marketing function of brand building, corporate communications, digital media, and consumer research for Naukri.com, Naukrigulf.com, Jeevansathi, Shiksha.com, and 99acres.com.
In her years with Info Edge, Sumeet has been the architect of several effective campaigns including the high-recall ‘Hari Sadu’ ad for Naukri.com, the recent ‘Be Found’ campaign for Jeevansathi, amongst others. She has also been instrumental in driving over 150 alliances in association with leading publications across the country, paving ways for showcasing Info Edge as a dynamic brand.
She strongly believes in putting the customer first which is reflected in all her efforts of making InfoEdge a consumer focussed brand, as she says, “Our services relate with the people, making us a potential partner in their most important decisions; be it finding a job, getting married or settling down in a dream home.”
Sumeet has 19 years of experience in marketing, brand management and public relations. A management graduate from Pune University, she is a business strategist, speaker, and the Founder Executive Director of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Delhi. She has also served as the Executive Director of the Indian Venture Capital Association and served on the IT advisory councils of 6 states.
She started her career with NIIT Ltd.
NALIN MEHTA
Professor Nalin Mehta is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major Indian digital, print and TV news companies;
been a communications expert with international financing institutions and the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
He has taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and India. Most recently, Mehta has been Executive Editor, Times of India – Online; Consulting Editor, Times of India and Managing Editor, India Today (English TV news channel).
He has also held senior positions with the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland, and UNAIDS.
Alongside executive leadership position roles in the media industry, Mehta has held senior research fellowships at National University of Singapore; Australian National University, Canberra; La Trobe University, Melbourne; and International Olympics Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland. Mehta has also been Adjunct Professor at IIM-Bangalore, Associate Professor of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University and Senior Research Fellow at India Development Foundation.
Mehta is the author of five best-selling and critically acclaimed books, including India On Television (winner of the Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009) and Behind a Billion Screens (Shortlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literary Live, 2015). His latest co-authored book, Dreams of a Billion (2020) is a national bestseller. Mehta was founding Co-Director of the Times Lit Fest Delhi (2015-18) and a founding editor of the international peer-reviewed journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) as well as the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series.
A DFID-Commonwealth scholar, Mehta has a Ph.D in Politics from La Trobe University, Melbourne; M.A. International Relations, University of East Anglia, UK, and B.A. Journalism (Honours) from University of Delhi.
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
Chanpreet Arora
Chanpreet Arora is the Chief Business Officer at Wholsum Foods, the parent company of Slurrp Farm and Mille – brands redefining our relationship with food. She leads product innovation and business expansion, ensuring that India’s powerhouse super grains reach more families across the country and beyond. Under her leadership, Wholsum Foods has expanded its portfolio, pioneered category-first innovations, and entered new markets, all while staying true to its mission: making food that’s good for people and the planet, without compromising on taste.
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.
Bhaskar Ramesh
Bhaskar is a member of India leadership team at Google & heads their Omnichannel business that comprises Technology, FMCG, Retail, Auto & BFSI sectors. In this role, Bhaskar has been leading high performing teams that do consultative selling by strategically partnering large traditional companies & brands delivering measurable business results through digital. He anchors Google’s efforts in accelerating the digitization agenda solving for omnichannel commerce. He has been with Google for 8 years in various roles in the intersection of Consumers, Technology & Branding in India & US. Prior to the current role, he led the YouTube monetization for India and was responsible for its revenue & product strategy. Before that, he built the CPG practice for Google India. He is a passionate marketer & business leader with 18 years of experience across CPG, Media & Entertainment and Technology Industries. He is also featured among India’s Top 40Under40 by IMPACT Magazine in 2019. He specializes in advising CXOs on marketing in digital world & how to transform their business in an increasingly Digital First India.
