Board Member Category: Speaker 2025

Neha Markanda is the Head of Industry, E-commerce at Google India, bringing 20 years of experience and deep expertise in the Indian market. She also leads Google India’s health strategy and is deeply involved in driving business transformation and AI solutioning across both retail and health tech sectors.

A business leader, Neha’s diverse career spans consumer products (ITC, Pepsico, GSK) and tech (Meta, HCL Technologies), with experience across Sales, Innovation, Marketing, and Strategy.

She is known for her ability to identify growth opportunities and manage change and challenges with agility.

A steadfast right-brained strategist and a firm believer in agile thinking, Anisha joined OMD India in January 2022 to lead the helm of affairs.

With a career spanning two decades in the advertising business, with a niche in digital and technology, she is responsible for leading the organizational vision and steering strategic goals across the business, with a focus on leading future-ready teams, enhancing client relationships and delivering best-in-class solutions, by building a culture of creativity, innovation, and agility.

An empathetic thought leader, Anisha is future-forward and people-oriented. She has a knack for delivering exponential business growth seated in digital transformation. She has lent her expertise over the years, delivering cutting-edge solutions and strategies for clients spanning FMCG, Pharma, Auto, Travel, Telecom, eCommerce, Food and Retail businesses and her previous stints include working across Mindshare, Madhouse and Group M.

Anisha has been with Omnicom Media Group (OMG) since 2019; when she joined OMD Malaysia as its Managing Director before moving on to OMG Thailand in early 2021 as its Chief Product Officer – her previous stint before taking over the reins of OMD India.

She has been recognised across various illustrious forums like Campaign Asia’s ‘40 Under 40’ List of 2023, Impact Magazine’s ‘50 Most Influential Women’ of 2024, 2023 and 2022, and BW Marketing World’s ‘Most Influential Women’ of 2024, to name a few.

Anisha frequently takes the stage to share her opinions on a myriad of topics. Recent endeavours include jury appointments at Effies India, Cannes Young Lions, Dubai Lynx, Emvies, & more, and interviews & speaking engagements with Forbes, DRUM, afaqs, Financial Express, and CNBC, among others.

Driven by the aspiration of synthesizing a proud workforce, Anisha leaves no stone unturned in enhancing the culture and performance of her teams to deliver client success with empathy and compassion. A creative soul at heart, in her free time, she loves to travel, absorb new cultures and discover the joys of gastronomy one destination at a time.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder of Info Edge India Ltd. – the company that owns Naukri.com, India’s leading job site. It also owns 99acres.com, Jeevansathi.com and Shiksha.com. In addition it has invested in over one hundred start-ups including Zomato, Policybazaar, Shopkirana, Gramophone, Bijnis, Shipsy and Dotpe.

Sanjeev schooled at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi. He graduated in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and began his career working in advertising with Lintas. After working for three years he did his post-graduation from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989 and joined the consumer marketing firm HMM Ltd. (now called Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.). He quit his job for entrepreneurship eighteen months later and co-founded Info Edge.

For the first seven years as an entrepreneur, Sanjeev drifted and did a number of small businesses – from salary surveys to databases, to feasibility studies, to training. For a brief period, he was the Consulting Editor of Avenues – the careers supplement of ‘The Pioneer’ newspaper.

In 1997, Info Edge launched Naukri.com and transformed itself into an Internet company. Starting off from a servant quarter above a garage and with seed capital of two thousand rupees, the company grew and attracted investment from leading venture capitalists. It was the first Internet company to list on Indian stock exchanges. Today Info Edge employs over 5500 people and has a market capitalization of over USD 12 billion.

Sanjeev is active in various industry forums and is a contributor to the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He has served as the President of the Delhi chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). He has also served as a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE.

He serves as a Member of the Council of Management of All India Management Association. He has been Chair of the Internet Council of NASSCOM. He has also served on the Venture Capital Investment Committee for the SIDBI Fund of Funds for startups. Sanjeev is a member of the Board of the CIIE Initiatives at IIM Ahmedabad. He is also a member of the National Startup Advisory Council.
Apart from this, Sanjeev is engaged in philanthropy. He is a founding trustee of Ashoka University. He supports 1947 Partition Archive – a not for profit that is building an oral history archive consisting of video interviews of people who experienced partition. He also supports several other non-profit organisations.

Sanjeev has received several awards and honours.

He received the “Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2008 for Business Transformation. Sanjeev also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in the same year. In 2011, he was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus award by IIM Ahmedabad and in 2012 he was honoured with the CF Andrews Distinguished Alumnus award by St. Stephen’s College. He is the recipient of the Lakshmipat Singhania – IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award, as Young Leader in the Business Category for the year 2012. In April 2017, Outlook Magazine selected him as one of India’s fifty greatest CEOs ever. In 2019, he received Lifetime Achievement Award in IT given by the Financial Express. He was honoured with the Pride of India Award 2021 for Lifetime Achievement from Chiratae Ventures. In December 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Amity University. In January 2022 he received the Midas Touch Award at the ET Start-Up Awards 2021. Recently he was honoured with North Star Award 2022 by Old Columbans Association.

Sanjeev was conferred with the Padma Shri in 2020.