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
Sumeet Singh is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Info Edge, a seasoned marketing leader with over two decades of experience in brand building, digital marketing, and data-driven strategies.
As a key member of Info Edge’s executive leadership team, she oversees marketing across flagship businesses like Naukri, 99acres, Jeevansathi, and Shiksha. Her role encompasses branding, martech, strategic insights, digital marketing strategies and corporate communication.
Her strategic vision, innovative marketing approach, and commitment to fostering a collaborative work culture make her a pivotal figure in the industry.
She is also a pioneer in performance marketing and predictive analytics, having embraced data-led marketing as early as 2005. Under her leadership, Info Edge has seen some of India’s most iconic campaigns, including the unforgettable Hari Sadu ad to the more recent Fan-in-Chief for Naukri – setting an incomparable benchmark in employer branding.
Beyond her corporate achievements, Sumeet is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of marketing and technology, frequently featured among India’s most influential marketing professionals. Recently, she was honored by IMPACT’s Top 50 Most Influential Women, awarded the Storyboard18 Visionaries honor, and named as one of BusinessWorld Marketing World’s Most Influential Women of 2025.
She also keenly mentors and guides women entrepreneurs and professionals, helping them navigate leadership and growth challenges. Outside of work, she is a mother of two and enjoys traveling, cooking, music, and spending time with her pets.
NALIN MEHTA
Nalin Mehta is Managing Editor, Moneycontrol, Chief AI Officer – Editorial Operations, Network18 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning Indian journalist, political scientist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major media companies and educational institutions; served as an international civil servant with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (La Trobe University, ANU), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (Shiv Nadar University, IIM Bangalore).
Most recently, he has been Dean and Professor at School of Modern Media, UPES University. He has previously been Group Consulting Editor, Network18; Executive Editor, The Times of India-Online, Managing Editor, India Today (TV channel) and Consulting Editor, The Times of India.
Mehta is the author of several best-selling and critically acclaimed books across three domains: politics, tech and social history. These include The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party (hailed as a ‘seminal’ work, No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller lists for 26 consecutive weeks in 2022, and republished worldwide in several languages); India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy, India on Television (Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009), Behind a Billion Screens (Longlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literature Live, 2015) and Dreams of a Billion (2022 Ekamra Sports Book of the Year Award, co-authored).
Mehta is a DFID-Commonwealth scholar with a Ph.D in Political Science from Trobe University, Melbourne; M.A. International Relations from 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 Ramesh is a growth leader and digital pioneer recognized for building the platforms that define how India consumes media. He has a track record spanning two decades of scaling multi-billion-dollar ecosystems at the intersection of technology, content, and commerce. As the Business Head of Entertainment [Digital] Revenue at JioStar, he is currently redefining the commercial engine for India’s largest OTT platform, JioHotstar. In an era defined by AI and data-led precision, Bhaskar is responsible for building a modern advertising framework that translates massive scale into measurable business outcomes for brands.
A 13-year Google veteran and a core member of their India leadership team, Bhaskar was a primary architect of YouTube’s revenue growth in the region and was a key bridge between traditional businesses & digital transformation journeys in India. He led the monetization and product strategies that transformed YouTube into a dominant media force. His career is marked by many “firsts” — from building Google’s CPG practice from the ground up to pioneering omnichannel digitization strategies for the CPG, Retail, Auto, M&E and Finance sectors.
Recognized as one of IMPACT Magazine’s “Top 40 Under 40,” Bhaskar is a trusted advisor to CXOs navigating AI transformation and also an active angel investor with early stage startups. A frequent keynote speaker at global & India forums, he remains a passionate advocate for how data-driven creativity can revolutionize the future of streaming and commerce.
He is an alumnus of SP Jain Institute of Management & Research & also recipient of Highly commendable award for Post Graduate Leadership at AMBA & BGA 2026 global awards.
