Ajit as a Chief commercial officer is spearheading the Revenue and Marketing function at ShareChat with a focus on rapid and sustainable growth. He is an accomplished Global Media Leader known for his business centricity and digital excellence. Ajit has a glorious track record of 25+ years of leading large-scale businesses Skilled at driving change by building vision, a strong inclusive employee culture, backing it with products/capabilities, and ensuring delivery with strong accountability. He has coached and mentored numerous employees to earn promotions to C-suite roles across the globe. A sought after speaker and recognized subject matter expert on leadership and business transformation.
Board Member Category: Speaker
ACHINT SETIA
Achint looks after Myntra’s Digital marketing, Branded content, Loyalty program and Marketing strategy & Analytics. He has rich experience across E-Commerce, Media, Management consulting and Software development.
SANTOSH IYER
KARTHIK NAGARAJAN
Prior to this, he set up the social media practice for GroupM India and also led the digital insights agenda.
Before joining GroupM, Karthik was the Country Head for Nielsen’s online division and also for NM Incite – the joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey.
Karthik is a visiting faculty in many prestigious B-schools across India and a board member at I-COM (The premier global forum for marketing data & measurement).
When he is not on his day job, he is a screenwriter and host of “The Filter Koffee podcast”.
JAMIE JOUNING
Jamie Jouning is Global Head of Advertising at The Economist, and holds a seniorleadership position within the B2B organisation. He is responsible for driving the commercial strategy where it pertains to advertising. Working closely with editorial, sales and product teams to ensure that The Economist delivers a best in class advertising proposition for clients and advertising agencies alike. Prior to that, Jouning was Global Chief Revenue & Country Manager UK of Italian owned digital pure play, Freeda Media. Responsible for driving revenue growth across both the media and nascent technology/marketing consultancy product offering.
Jouning spent the majority of his media career at Condé Nast, rising to Global Chief Client Officer. He built from scratch and rapidly expanded a central global commercial function, Global Commercial Partnerships, generating revenues through a wide range of business initiatives across the 32 markets which comprise Condé Nast, including advertising partnerships, sponsorships, events, video, branded content and programmatic sales. He was also responsible for the strategic management of clearly defined set of global key accounts, a collection of clients that comprised +30% of all global advertising revenue. Prior to the integration of Condé Nast US and Condé Nast International, Jouning was the Chief Revenue Officer at CNI, a position he held for 4 years.
He joined CNI from Condé Nast UK where he spent 3 years as Publishing Director of Glamour, helping to reimagine the 15-year old title with a new format and a strategic repositioning. He also enjoyed 4 years as Digital Director of Condé Nast UK, overseeing all aspects of the digital business. Prior to successfully launching WIRED as Publisher in March 2009, Jouning was Associate Publisher of GQ and GQ STYLE, the dominant quality men’s magazines. He has also been Promotions Director of GQ and a Sponsorship Manager at Sky TV and has 30 years publishing/media experience.
SANJAY SINDHWANI
Sanjay has over 25 years in the Media Industry primarily across Digital with earlier stints in Print and Television.
At IEOMSL, Sanjay has been responsible for a strong turnaround of the company in the current FY, in spite of the Covid & Lockdowns hitting the media industry severely in Q1 & Q2. He was also involved in the acquisition of MyInsuranceClub.com an Insurance aggregator and the launch of subscriptions for Indian Express.
Prior to joining IEOMSL, Sanjay has worked with Times Internet, Television 18, and Bennett Coleman across functions like P&L, Business Strategy, Business Development, Product Management, Editorial and New initiatives.
As the business head @ ET Sanjay was responsible for conceptualizing and launching ET Prime and making ET the undisputed No.1 in terms of reach across all business and financial websites.
You can follow Sanjay on twitter @Sindhwani_IE or https://www.linkedin.com/in/sindhwani/
HEMANT JAIN
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.
JEREMY GILBERT
Jeremy Gilbert is the Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy.
Both his work and teaching focus on the content and revenue strategies of existing and emerging media companies. He explores the intersection of technology and media, examining how new tools and techniques will affect the creation, consumption and distribution of media.
Prior to assuming the Knight Chair, Gilbert was The Washington Post’s Director of Strategic Initiatives where he led an award-winning team that transformed The Post into an international, digital-first news organization.
Gilbert’s other past roles included developing a digital strategy for National Geographic, helping The Poynter Institute rethink and redesign its industry leading website and art directing newspapers.
