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Read More Rupesh Kumar Shah, CEO and Co-Founder InOpen Technologies As an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, Mr. Rupesh Shah, is a very creative and assiduous individual. His passion lies in leveraging Open Source based content and technology for Education. Rupesh always wanted to impart knowledge and share his experience with others and this is what motivated him to create educational solutions that focus on creating content that is innovative and one of its kind in its ..... Read More Natasha Mudhar, CEO and Owner of Sterling Media A proud CEO and MD at Sterling Media, one of the UK’s leading international communication agencies, the incredible woman is known today for her phenomenal contribution in the field of brand management, marketing, public relations, advertising, online and events. Committed and hard-working in extreme, Natasha started her journey of success at an early age and never looked back. In 20 ..... 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Read More Murali krishnan B., Country Manager, eBay India eBay India is the country's biggest online trading community that offers auctions, fixed price and classifieds modes of person-to-person trading and deals with a wide range of products under an array of categories like technology, lifestyle, collectibles and media. Muralikrishnan B., Country Manager, eBay India, joined eBay in 2005 and has held a variety of leadership roles in eBay ..... Read More Ritesh Malik, Founder, Creative Thinks Media(CTM) Ritesh Malik, Founder, Creative Thinks Media(CTM) has over 14 years of experience in media sales in various organizations, starting out at Videocon as an ad sales executive in 1995, then moving on to Tata Donnelley Ltd., where he quickly rose to head the ad sales division for there ‘Search Magazine’ for a part of the Delhi Region. Later,in 2003 he moved to RED FM, where he was Head ..... 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Read More Amarjit Singh Batra, Country manager, Olx.in Currently serving as Country manager, Olx India, Amarjit leads the category development efforts, executes marketing programs to create brand awareness and improve user engagement, build strategic partnerships and formulate strategies for driving growth. Prior to Olx, Amarjit was at eBay India where he was heading the New Business and Global Trade function and was a member of the India Management t ..... Read More Alok Sanwal, Editor and Project Head,, I next Alok Sanwal is a media professional with over fourteen years of experience in the fields of sales, services, brand management, media services and running a print media set up. He is a Communication Post-graduate from MICA & an Engineering Graduate from BITS, Pilani. He started his career in 1993. In the past 16 years, he has worked for 3 years for Thermax Ltd. as Senior Sales Engineer, for 6 ye ..... Read More Kaushik Srinivasan, Founder and CEO, eventManao.com Kaushik Srinivasan is the founder of eventManao.com (www.eventmanao.com), a division of Cadenza Solutions, a young and dynamic events company promoted in 2009. The company leverages technology to offer event management services, including parties for individuals and conferences & summits for companies, thereby making it a full service event management agency. Even before his curren ..... Read More Shailesh Kapoor, Co - Founder, Ormax Media After finishing his Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, Shailesh Kapoor pursued his MBA from IIM Calcutta in 1999. His passion for the media and entertainment business brought him to Mumbai, where he started his career in Sony Entertainment Television in the marketing department. Since then, Shailesh has worked across various leading entertainment brands like indya.com, Zee Cinema ..... Read More Suman Srivastava, Founder and Innovation Artist, Marketing Unplugged A graduate of Delhi University, IIM Ahmedabad and IMD Lausanne, Suman Srivastava is an advertising man, strategist, author, marathon runner, teacher, social worker, sports fan, creative bartender and now an entrepreneur. Srivastava started his career with Lintas India where he spent 7 years post which he spent 4 years with SSC&B Lintas as Associate Vice President. He joined EURO RSC ..... Read More Lavina Tauro, Sr. Vice President, Voice Products, Interactive - UTV Lavina Tauro, Sr. Vice President, Voice Products, Interactive – UTV has to her credit a massive experience of above 12 years in the media business and has been a part of the New Media industry for over four years. Before joining UTV Interactive she held the position of Senior Manager in Disney, where she was for 7 years. Now that UTV Interactive has established itself as a prominen ..... Read More Harrish M. Bhatia, CEO, My FM Harrish M. Bhatia has been associated with 94.3 MY FM since the very birth of the channel about 4 years ago in 2007. Under his leadership the channel has climbed many a milestones making a mark as the largest non-metro network with the fastest launch of 17 stations in tier II and tier III cities and numerous pioneering programming ideas for our listeners. He has not left any stone unturned to t ..... Read More Avinash Kaul, zoOm Entertainment Network Ltd. Avinash Kaul is the Chief Executive Officer of zoOm Entertainment Network Ltd. He brings with him significant experience in the Media and Entertainment sector, especially in the television space. He is also the Head of Digital Media for Times Television Network. He has earlier worked with HTA Fulcrum, Discovery Communications, Star India and NDTV Media in diverse roles. He was also h ..... Read More Rahul Johri, Senior Vice President and General Manager - South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia - Pacific Rahul Johri currently leads Discovery’s South Asia operations, which includes India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal markets. Johri joined Discovery Communications India in 2001 as Director - Advertising Sales from IMG. He was promoted as Vice-President in 2003 and as Senior Vice President in 2006. Rahul has more than 15 years' experience in the Indian me ..... Read More Smeeta Chakrabarti - Chief Executive Officer NDTV Lifestyle and Head of Operations NDTV News Smeeta has been with NDTV since inception and has handled production of its pioneering shows and channels. As Head of Operations for the Group, she is the guiding force behind the quality programming of the three news channels. 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Currently he is in an Entrepreneurial venture in partnership with Sequoia Capital & Nexus VP to create India's largest Consumer TV Guidance and EPG powerhouse in a swiftly transforming and digitalizing TV industry environment. The What's-On-India company ..... Read More Jwalant Swaroop, COO, Lokmat Media Ltd Jwalant Swaroop is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Lokmat Media Ltd. He has worked with Lokmat for last 19 years. During this period he has played an active role in building the print business of the newspapers. Lokmat (Marathi) having circulation of 17.5 lakh copies and a readership of 2.38 crores, Lokmat Samachar (Hindi) having circulation of 1.48 lakhs copies and a readership of 15.4 lakh, ..... Read More Keith Alphonso - Business Head UTV Bindass Keith Alphonso, Business Head for Bindass has to his credit a massive experience of above 14 years in media business management and has been a part of the broadcast entertainment industry for over seven years. Before joining UTV Bindass he held the position of National Sales Head in Zoom for 4 years, prior to which he worked with MTV India as Regional director Ad sales (West & South) and has al ..... Read More Debarpita Banerjee, Vice President - Marketing, FOX International Channels, India Debarpita Banerjee is the Vice President, Marketing for FOX International Channels in India. She is responsible for marketing and communications for the bouquet of channels under the company in India, including National Geographic Channel, FOX History & Traveller, Baby TV, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Music and National Geographic Channel HD. Debarpita has nearly 15-yea ..... Read More Ashvini Yardi, Head Programming, Colors Ashivin Yardi, a lady who transformed the whole idea of programming. She is the Head of Programming for Colors channel. Ashvini Yardi has collected several laurels for her crown. The channel’s line-up consisting of shows like Balika Vadhu, Naa Aana Isse Des Ladoo, Uttaran Big Boss 2 and Khatron Ke Khiladi have all been runaway successes. Ashvini has brought the channel to the No. 2 ..... Read More Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman of McCann Erickson India Prasoon Joshi is a multi tasking personality. He is the Executive Chairman at McCann Erickson India and Regional Creative Director for Asia Pacific and also a lyrists in Bollywood. He is the winner of more than 400 awards which includes Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and accolades at other awards shows; he had also judged and chaired D&AD, the Clio Awards, Cannes Lions and oth ..... Read More Lutz Kothe, Head of Marketing and Public Relations, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Group Sales India Private Limited Lutz Kothe assumed the responsibility of heading the Marketing and Public Relations department for the Volkswagen Brand in Indiafrom the year 2009. Here he is in charge of developing and implementing brand strategies as well as marketing and public relations communications. Additionally he is in charge of product planning and product marketing along with sales control operations for the Brand i ..... Read More Archana Vohra , Vice President and Business Head - Communities, Times Internet Limited Archana is new media professional with over 12 years of experience in the internet and mobile VAS space. She is Vice President & Business Head – Communities( Indiatimes Email, Speakingtree, Itimes and Hotklix.com), Times Internet Limited. Archana has immense expertise in strategic planning, product life cycle management, business development and operations and commands proficiency i ..... Read More Robin Wight - President, The Engine Group Limited As President of both Engine and WCRS, Robin was part of the management team that led the management buyout from Havas in 2004. Robin began his career by setting up a student advertising agency while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. After working as a copywriter in a number of agencies, including Collett Dickenson Pearce and Partners, he co–founded Wight Collins Rutherford Scott with ..... Read More