India Head & CMO Pushnoti
Responsible for the India Operations, building go-market strategy, business growth, Sales enablement, Compliance management and leading Marketing & Communication function with Digital Marketing, Presales & Public Relations.
Background – Overall 20+ Yrs of experience in the corporate sector, leading and handling 360° Marketing & Communications function for large IT companies, Amdocs, Satyam Computers (BPO), Publicis Sapient (Sapient Corporation), Hewlett Packard. Started career with media companies like Ogilvy & Mather, Lowe Lintas, DNA Networks.
Was instrumental in handling the Satyam Computer (BPO) Crises of 2009-10. Managed aggressive media by pushing positive stories to keep a positive reputation of company to enable buyer interest. Eventually Mahindra group bought Satyam.
In 2015 went solo with Entrepreneurship setting up A Buzz Company a marketing outsourcing organization, followed with Global News Terminal a SaaS based product that automates public relations.
To empower and encourage the start-up ecosystem an initiative & community called Start-Up to Stand-Out was formed by Manjulla Nair to deliver STARTUP MENTORSHIP on Growth Management, Business Planning, Go-to Market Strategy, 360° Marketing & Communications, Associated with premium universities and incubation centres like Stanford University as Stanford seed mentor, NICMAR University, IIT Roorkee, College of Engineering Pune – Bhau Institute, MIT, Bharatiya Vidyapeet, Atal Incubation Centres and many more.
“Mentored over 1K+ Start-ups, 10K+ Entrepreneur Leaders, Founders, CEOs & 1Mn+ Students across various education Institutes.”;
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:
– STREE SHAKTHI AWARD for pro-bono contribution to the Incubation centres and Start-up Communities in India
– WOMEN CMO of the Year – by India Women Empowerment and Leadership Summit.
– MOST TALENTED MARKETING PROFESSIONAL AWARD by World Marketing Forum
– Great Companies Award presented the PROMISING CMO of the year award.
– Govt of India’s NARI SHAKTHI AWARD Nomination
– Pune’s BEST COMPANY AWARD