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With over 14 years of marketing experience, Atul is spearheading CaratLane’s marketing and retail initiatives. He graduated from IIM-Ahmedabad and joined Hindustan Unilever Limited from campus. At HUL, he worked in various roles within the sales and marketing function and was the Category Head for Oral Care, India, in his last role.
Inspired by its vision of democratising jewellery, Atul joined CaratLane in June 2015 to head marketing. He is passionate about building brands and delivering customer delight. He leads all branding, marketing and retail sales initiatives at CaratLane.
Atul is a long distance runner and loves reading, playing Scrabble or solving crosswords in his spare time.
With over 18 years of experience, Deepti is a passionate marketer; always challenging the status quo and looking beyond the obvious to drive marketing strategies that deliver strong business results. She has worked on brands like Nestle, Coke, Gillette, Reckitt & Coleman, Dabur and has spearheaded many successful campaigns.
In Hewlett & Packard she has done various roles within the sales and marketing function and led the Retail marketing in her last role. Currently as a marketing lead for printing systems, Deepti is seeking to change the way consumers perceive this category and also the way brand communicates with its consumers.
Her first passion being her work, in which she totally thrives …Deepti also enjoys reading & theater and loves exploring new places and is a keen observer of human behavior.
Jaskaran Singh is a part of Paytm, India's largest Mobile commerce company, as Vice President, Marketing. He’s a part of the team that has been responsible for making Paytm one of the most trusted household names in India, with over 170mn customers.
He is known to be a sound strategic thinker with strong execution capabilities & in- depth knowledge across domains of Marketing, Media, Innovation, Communication Development, Research & Activation.
He leverages 14+ years of work experience across Advertising & Marketing in categories ranging from BFSI, FMCG & Luxury.
Before Paytm, he was Vice President, Marketing & E-commerce at ICICI Prudential Life, India’s number 1 Private Life Insurance company, where he spearheaded all brand building initiatives & many successful marketing, business efforts. Most notable of which is the ‘Achche Bandeh’ campaign which was acknowledged amongst the best marketing initiatives in India. He also managed the companys' E-commerce business.
Jaskaran has also worked with premier advertising agencies such as Lowe Lintas & JWT. His experience here included large-scale brand building, re-positioning exercises, innovative activation projects with some of the world’s leading consumer brands including Unilever Godrej, Philips, De Beers, Standard Chartered Bank, Reliance etc He is a passionate long distance runner & a travel aficionado.
His operating motto—“if everything is under control, you are going too slow”—comes courtesy of legendary race car driver Mario Andretti.
Motivated business leader with a passion for creating value, innovation and delivering technologies that have a positive impact on people’s lives.
20+ years of demonstrated performance excellence in driving n scaling business (national and international both), driving P&L’s, creating recurring revenues worth up to USD 675 MN /year.
With proven track record in groundbreaking business strategy, Integrated and Collaborative Marketing Platforms across sports platform. Presently as a part of the HTC Global Think-Tank, he is actively working on creating and implementing growth strategies across the world.
Adjudged as ‘The Best Employee at HTC’ by CEO Peter Chou, for the year 2013.
Achieved “Bravo Award” for exceptional contribution towards organizational goals & objectives at Motorola Mobility.
Marcom Team won the super star team award for consecutive 2 quarter’s at Tata Teleservices.
Manu comes with more than 20 years of business leadership experience as well as orchestrating 360-degree consumer marketing connect across brands like HTC, Motorola, BlackBerry, Tata Indicom (Tata Teleservices), Idea Cellular, Times of India and Tata Infomedia.
A graduate in B.SC Physics (H) from Ramjas College, Delhi University, Manu completed his Master’s in Business Management from Amity Business School, Noida along with significant a diploma in Export Management from Institute of Management Technology (IMT). A family man and a firm believer in human relationships, Manu loves connecting with people, hearing their stories and motivating them to grow. Whenever off work, you’ll see him spending time with family.
Chief Operating Officer - Dairy & Beverages, ITC Ltd.
Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for Dairy & Beverages business of ITC Ltd. Prior to that, he was the Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited handling P&L responsibility for brands like Real, Dabur Honey & Hajmola.
He joined Hindustan Unilever Limited In 1995, after completing his MBA from IIM, Bangalore. There, he handled various responsibilities across Sales & Marketing for Unilever over 11 years in India and outside including Senior Brand Manager for the brand `Fair & Lovely' and Asia brand manager for `Dove' based in Thailand. He also handled `Pizza Hut' brand for South Asia and has over his 22 year career, handled responsibilities across brand management for Personal Care and Foods, Sales and Pricing.
Shalabh is a founder member & currently looks after the key portfolios of Marketing, Customer Retention, Business Planning, PR & CSR. An MBA in Marketing, from B K School of Business Management Ahmedabad, he has previously worked with Standard Chartered Bank and ING Life Insurance.
He brings with him a strong retail financial experience of 20+ years in Consumer Banking & Life Insurance Industry. Through his career, he has run large profit centre & SBU's across various business lines in the Life Insurance & Retail Banking Industry. Core competence & exposure revolves around Distribution set up & handling sales in large business environment, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Customer Retention, Alliances & Acquisitions, Channel Relationship Management, Market Expansion & Distribution Strategy, Customer Service & Operations.
Shalabh is a self-driven professional and brings a high level of energy, dedication and integrity to the job with a clear focus towards achievement of organizational goals.
Head of Marketing, SKODA AUTO India Pvt. Ltd.
Head of Marketing and Product at SKODA AUTO India. Been with the brand since 2008, including 3 years in Europe, as an International Marketing Consultant, responsible for Brand Stewardship and consulting with markets in Asia-Pacific, Middle-East, Africa and Northern Europe.
Started his career in Advertising and made a shift as a client marketer. Has been in the automotive business for the last 11 years.
A post-graduate in Business Management, he lives in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters. His interests lie in Poetry, Languages, Medieval European Art and Architecture, Literature and Travel. His life’s mantra is ‘listen and learn’.
Service marketing professional with over 27 years of experience across Advertising, Internet, BFSI and DTH working with companies like JWT, Lintas, Standard Chartered, Visa, Airtel and Videocon. Sugato has launched and built many brands. He was part of the core team that started the StanChart Mumbai Marathon and was in the team that started Airtel Digital TV. When he has time from his extensive market visits, he does photography and runs one half marathon a year.
Nissan Motors India Pvt Ltd.
Group Product Marketing Manager – Nissan & Brand Head – Sports Coupe & Hatchback segments, Nissan Motors India Pvt Ltd.
Lalit is a seasoned advertising and media professional with 17 years of experience in the industry. He is currently responsible for leading some of the key business of OMD India. He also heads ‘FUSE’, the content and entertainment division of Omnicom Media Group in India and is driving the agency’s efforts in creating seamless brand and content integrations.
Lalit has led the formulation of successful media strategies for clients across FMCG, Entertainment, Consumer durables, Finance and the travel industries during his career so far. He has worked with some of the leading media agencies in India and prior to joining OMD in 2010 he worked with Star TV in a marketing role. He is passionate about creating content driven solutions for his brands and his efforts have earned him several awards and recognitions.
Category Head, Parle Products Ltd.
Group Brand Manager – Designer Finishes, Asian Paints Ltd.
Shivani heads the marketing function at eBay and part of the core management team that drives the overall business strategy, decision-making and runs the operations in India.
Shivani has been responsible for efficiently scaling the consumer base by driving organizational thought leadership in catering to the Indian online buyers while adopting an open marketplace model. She envisioned and designed a data analytics& ad-tech led integrated digital strategy for accelerated buyer acquisition, engagement and retention. Thereby building a strong consumer-relevant Internet brand with sustained business growth while leveraging the largest and most unique product selection on eBay.
My professional career spans over 14 years in Sales, Marketing & Brand Management across diverse sectors like ecommerce, telecom, media & entertainment. Over the years, shivani has pivoted her expertise from being a traditional brand marketer to being the leading edge of digital technology marketers in India. She is inspired to solve complex consumer challenges through brand innovations and new age technology solutions while driving a high performance team culture. Shivani is an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune University.
Recent Achievements Shivani has been at the helm, establishing eBay as a strong ecommerce player in India that has grown its consumer base to 6X scale in the last 2 years in a highly competitive and heavy investment burn rate industry. She achieved this by evolving a differentiated playbook with a multi-channel digital marketing DNA at it's core – driving the contribution of direct response marketing channels from 18% to 70% of Sales, enabling eBay to achieve internal business growth targets in line with industry growth rates with minimal spends and cost effective unit economics.
Shivani has been at forefront of built dynamically responsive automated systems for IM &CRM driving best in class efficiencies and user engagement. Under her leadership, eBay garnered the position of the most engaged ecommerce brand on social media through an innovative content marketing strategy.
Vikas has spent last 10 years gaining vast amounts of experience & expertise in marketing communications & advertising, Brand strategy & management, PR, Market research & segmentation and consumer behavior. He has worked in industries like Consumer Durables (ONIDA), Retail (Big Bazaar & Food Bazaar), Home Furnishing (Welspun) & Automobile (Mahindra First Choice Services), handled teams of 4-5 members. Currently employed in Mahindra First Choice Services Ltd as Corporate Manager- Marketing, Vikas is responsible for devising Brand strategy, Marketing & Advertising campaigns, Media planning, Brand activations (ATL & BTL), Market Research & PR. He has done MBA in Marketing from ICFAI, Pune and Mechanical Engineering from GZSCET, Bathinda.