Board Member Category: Speaker 2026

Saakshi Verma Menon is the Chief Marketing Officer for India Foods at PepsiCo India. In her role, she is responsible for leading the Foods Marketing agenda and driving strategic brand growth, reporting into the India Leadership Team.

As part of the AMESA Sector team, Saakshi has played a pivotal role in shaping the marketing strategy and led cross-market collaborations to build impactful campaigns across flagship brands like Pepsi, 7Up, and Dew. Her contributions extend to the global front, driving Pepsi’s global equity and meal campaigns.

With over 22 years of diverse marketing leadership, Saakshi brings rich experience across renowned organizations including Colgate-Palmolive, Uber and Kimberly Clark. Her excellence has been consistently recognized, earning a place in Businessworld’s Power List of India’s most influential women and Campaign Asia’s Power List of top marketers across APAC.

Outside of work, Saakshi is a passionate traveler, she enjoys exploring new destinations with her family and is a dedicated Pilates enthusiast.

Her detailed professional journey can be seen in her LinkedIn Profile.

Sarthak Ahuja has over a decade of experience in startup advisory. He is a Chartered Account and a Gold Medallist from the Indian School of Business. As an investment banker, he’s worked with companies in SaaS, eCommerce, and D2C, in industries such as FinTech, EdTech, Gaming, Healthcare, and F&B, among others. He teaches corporate finance and M&A courses. In addition, he’s also been a TEDx Speaker and is invited for keynote speeches, owing to his work and content in areas of startup finance with a combined online following of over 2 Mn.

At Niamh Ventures, he works on building educational content around business and finance for entrepreneurs and founders and is currently a passion project. He has 2M following on Instagram and is a top voice on LinkedIn.