Abhishek Gupta heads Marketing at The MobileStore (TMS).
The MobileStore (TMS) is India's largest telecom retailer, with over 900 stores, spread across over 125 cities. He leads TMS’s brand and format strategy and communication all customer touch points. He also drives the loyalty initiatives for TMS.  He has been a speaker at various seminars as well as guest faculty for management institutes. He was recentlyrecognized as one of 25 most outstanding marketing professionals of the country by World Brand Congress and CMO council of Asia.

Prior to this, he has worked with Bharti Retail Limited for five years - where he was instrumental in launching the brand Easyday in the country.  In his last assignment with Bharti Retail he was heading Store Experience.
He has also worked with Spencers Retail Limited, ICICI Bank and Shoppers Stop Limited. He started his career with Shoppers Stop Limited (SSL) as a management trainee. His last assignment at SSL was heading the marketing for the western zone.  In ICICI Bank, he has handled different roles – from Sales to Product management for the mortgages division of the Bank. He has an overall experience of more than 14 years.

Abhishek is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Pune and a management graduate from ITM Business School.

Aditya heads Marico's Global Centre of Excellence for Digital & Media. He is based in Mumbai & his portfolio covers various countries across Africa & Asia. Prior to this he has spent time as an FMCG marketer, working on brands as well as Innovation projects.

Aditya is a mentor partner for Microsoft's accelerator in Bangalore & also serves on the Board of Advisors for DMTI.
Besides this, he is also a mentor to a few entrepreneurs & some technology start-ups in India. 

Aditya co-founded eMart Solutions in 2009 with a vision to revolutionize the domain of loyalty marketing and consumer engagement. Under his leadership, eMart Solutions has delivered benchmark performance, built a culture based on innovation and high ethic, and created enduring stakeholder relationships. His stewardship has helped eMart Solutions to propel itself into the forefront of the loyalty management industry delivering ROI to some of the world’s largest brands on their loyalty programs.

Aditya started his career with Proctor and Gamble (P&G), where he was spearheading the company’s operations in South India. He played a pivotal role in turning around a loss making region into a profitable one in a record time, which then became the highest growth area for P&G. From there he moved on to join iGate, global technology and consulting solutions provider, in London where he was responsible for UK and Western Europe region, before moving back to India to set up Emart Solutions. Aditya completed his Bachelors in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM-Ahmedabad.

Ajay has over 24 years experience across Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Shopper’s Stop, and HDFC Bank. Over the last 7 years, he has in partnership with the Hansa group set up a unique Customer marketing company called Hansa Cequity. The team has built up a strong profitable business based on Analytics & CRM.

He is the Co Promoter & Chief Operating Officer of Hansa Cequity. Cequity is a Marketing Services Provider and helps its clients design engaging customer experiences by leveraging customer information using analytics, technology & marketing communication solutions.

Earlier as Head of Marketing for Shoppers’ Stop (one of India’s leading Department store chains), he was responsible for creating a unique & vibrant loyalty program called First Citizen which is a unique Indian case study on loyalty marketing.

Ajay was earlier Chief Marketing Officer at HDFC Bank, where he led the bank's marketing team on the pioneering path of data-led marketing analytics. The bank executed a unique data based strategy and this led to huge ROI in cross sell and up sell.

With an experience spanning 15 years Amit is a well known name in the Real Estate industry. His success as a real estate professional is been credited for his out of the box thinking and innovative approach. This creative streak gets displayed from his initial phase of his career with Advertising and Media companies like O&M & JWT . Amit forayed into real estate with Damac Holdings Dubai; which gave him an International perspective to market real estate projects .Post which he has had successful stints with the best real estate developers in India and presently heads the Commercial Business for the Phoenix Mills Group - The pioneers in bringing the mixed used development concept to the market.

His understanding and focus on Commercial and Retail developments has helped the group to expand its commercial portfolio across India and the success of the Marketcity Kurla project stands testimony to the fact that it’s becoming a Commercial destination of its own.

Ever enthusiastic, he is an avid reader & a sportsman and believes in playing the game to only WIN.

Bedraj Tripathy started as a grass root sales professional, moved to the field of brand communications and then stepped into the corporate world.

During his over 20 years of experience, he has been instrumental in managing and building a few coveted brands around the world. He has a wide range of experience, retail, BFSI and technology, both in B2C and B2B segments. He has been working with a premier institute in India and one in US to demystify ‘experiential marketing’.

He has a vast exposure in India as a market as well as UK, US and SEA. Currently he is working as AVP, Integrated Marketing, Godrej Interio (the furniture division of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd.)

Bijaei Jayaraj is the Founder & CEO of Loylty Rewardz Mngt. Pvt. Ltd. In a short period since inception, he has grown Loylty Rewardz into one of the largest consumer relationship management and consumer behaviour analytics companies in India.

With a team of over 500+ professionals who have expertise and capabilities to develop and manage large-scale turnkey loyalty solutions, Loylty Rewardz manages loyalty programs for a growing consumer base of over 1 Billion profiles in India under its flagship brand – Max Get More and enjoys more than 70% market share of all debit cards issued in India. Loylty Rewardz currently processes over 2.5 billion transactions yearly and has awarded more than 30 billion loyalty points to consumers in India till date.

Bijaei has raised over INR 160 crores as Venture Capital Investment for Loylty Rewardz since its inception, with the Series B investment coming from Canaan Partners, a globally reputed Venture Capital firm. Bijaei is also one of the few prominent entrepreneurs in India to have offered multibagger exits to his Venture Capital investors.

Prior to founding Loylty Rewardz, Bijaei worked with MasterCard Worldwide as the Head of MasterCard’s relationship with the largest bank in India, the State Bank Group. While at MasterCard, Bijaei was twice conferred with the MasterCard SAMEA Star Award (South Asia, ME & Africa) & once with the APMEA Star Award (Asia Pacific, ME & Africa) for his contributions to MasterCard businesses worldwide. Previously, Bijaei was the Head of Jet Privilege, the loyalty program of Jet Airways. He has also worked in the advertising industry with McCann Erickson Worldwide in Dubai, UAE.

Bijaei earned his degree in business management as a part of the Founding Class of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

With 12 Years' Rich experience in Sales & Operations-Retail, Distribution & Chains, Merchandise Planning, Marketing & Business and Franchisee Development.

Worked with best of the Organizations in the Retail Industry to become a thorough Retail professional, with expertise in Sales Strategy and Store Operations, Merchandise Planning & Control and Linked Synergies, Business & Franchisee Development, Marketing, and Managing Impact of each Function to deliver Business Profitability.

Professionally, a very sound Retail Sales Foundation was laid at Wills Lifestyle. At Levi's, gained expertise in Business Management, Franchisee Development, Business development and Marketing (Micro & Macro)at a regional level.

The stint at French Connection taught what mistakes "not to commit". Presently spearheading Operations and Marketing functions at Crossword Bookstores Ltd.

Driving the business with the clear vision of Inculcating the reading habit amongst the customers. Also, develop community centers where customers get informed, entertained and enlightened.
Continuous interventions to Develop and Execute Sales Strategy for Crossword Exclusive Stores and Institutional Sales Business have ensured that the Crossword Brand Essence is delivered to the Customers.

The Brand ‘Crossword’ is growing from Strength to Strength through specific Product and Promotion initiatives on one hand and Events and PR Activations on the other. In the process ensuring that Customer Satisfaction is the top priority through Store and Back Office Processes on Service Delivery, Continuous Feedback and Customer Loyalty Management. This has ensured that the Crossword Business has not only retained its leadership position but has strengthened itself with sustained profitability.

Kanika Mittal took up the role as Marketing Head of Reebok India at the definitive moment when the brand
positioned itself as the fitness initiators and authenticators of India. With a healthy challenge ahead of her, she undertook her role with a single minded approach to innovate and introduce fresh ideas in every aspect of business. Some of these initiatives included Reebok’s massive brand campaign featuring 3 fitness icons – MS Dhoni, John Abraham and Nargis Fakri to reinforce the fitness positioning , the path-breaking digital innovation ‘Ignite your Fitness Fire’ and more recently a successful global launch for the Reebok ZQuick. Her leadership also led to clutter breaking Retail, OOH concepts with PR & Digital playing a key role in orchestrating the reach and engagement quotient of various marketing programs. The latest addition to her achievements is the undertaking of John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri as the fitness ambassador for Reebok India.

Over the last 7 years as part of the Marketing team at Reebok Kanika has had a range of incredible results across the Communications mandate including Integrated Marketing, Corporate Communications and PR, Research, Product launches and transitioning to a new positioning for the brand. Through marketing innovations, topical digital initiatives and an ability to optimize her budget for best results, Kanika has helped Reebok gain a strong foothold in the consumer mind and heart space while keeping commercial and business objectives at the heart of all strategy.  She has been an integral part of the leadership team and has effectively led the communication of the brand to convey their reinforced fitness positioning.

Kanika has many successful campaigns under her belt including the recent ‘Live with Fire’ campaign featuring MS Dhoni, Nargis Fakhri and John Abraham, the highly innovative ZQuick Campaign, the clutter breaking EasyTone campaign, the campaign which transformed Reebok into a fitness brand - CrossFit and RealFlex and more.

Her work at Reebok has been much awarded in the form of - The ABBYs award, Exchange4Media Award and the Campaign India Digital Award for EasyTone Digital Campaign in 2010, The Exchange4Media ((IODSA) Award and OAC Awards for EasyTone and Zigtech OOH Campaign in 2011, The EMVIES for Reebok’s partnership with the movie GOAL.

As a professional, Kanika is insightful, hands-on, and believes in managing her team by empowering them. Kanika completed her Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University followed by a 2 year MBA from MICA wherein she majored in Brand Management and ranked in top 10% of her batch.

Manish has over 14 years of rich Market Research & Analytics Experience across the Indian and Middle East market. 

During the tenure of his career he has worked with leading research firms such as Nielsen, Synovate (Now Ipsos) and Market Probe with the last one being specialist in customer loyalty assessment.  

He specializes in Customer / Employee Experience (Churn, Satisfaction, Acquisition, and Loyalty), Pricing, Brand Assessment, New Product Development / Line Extension, Volume Forecasting across CPG, Retail, Telecom, Media, Automotive, PSUs sectors. 

In his present role at Absolutdata, he is responsible for mentoring strategic projects, building client relationships, instrumental for new product / solutions development for the organization and also managing a business line. 

Manish is very passionate about Market Research & Analytics and its potential impact, thus, he mentors students at business schools like IBS, MET, Rizvi, Xaviers. 

Manish has a Masters degree in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai.

M V S Murthy, is a consumer marketing professional and brings to the table over 15 years of work experience. During this time he has transitioned from conventional advertising, into digital marketing and then over to the marketer's side. He has been an ICICI Banker for a large part of his career.

The roles he has handled include those of client servicing and account planning, interactive strategy, key account management & business development. With ICICI Bank he has worked on new Customer acquistion both at retail and corporate levels. He was the Head of Product, Portfolio & Marketing for Privilege Banking at ICICI Bank

At present he looks after New Product Development for retail liability products and also the bank's My Savings Rewards Loyalty Program. He is a digital migrant and is presently working on being digital to stay relevant in blurring geographies and data driven marketing.

Passionate about consumer behavior and brand promotions, Nitin is an astute marketer who has built tremendous loyalty and recall for ShopClues among online shoppers. Prior to joining Shopclues, he bootstrapped a health & nutrition startup and was instrumental in setting up its ecommerce channel.

He has over seven years of experience working in diverse industry sectors such as automotive, banking and ecommerce. He pursued the MBA program at XLRI, Jamshedpur and B.Tech (Computer Science) from JIIT, Noida. Nitin enjoys travelling to islands and is a certified open water diver.

Praveer is the Chief Operating Officer of Loylty Rewardz Mngt Pvt Ltd. Praveer holds the responsibility of driving forward a substantial part of Loylty Rewardz, mainly focused on delivering value to our customer and partner organizations. It is also Praveer’s focus area to constantly prepare the organization to achieve our tomorrow’s goals. Towards this, Praveer manages our critical functions such as technology, business architecture, operations, mobile, analytics, marketing and partner relationship management. Praveer has played a critical role in the growth of Loylty Rewardz from its inception days when Praveer was a member of our Business Advisory Board before taking on the full time role as the COO.

Praveer is a member of the Founding Class of the Indian School of Business and a CPA from the United States. Praveer is also a Chartered Accountant and has previously worked with the leading global organization such as Capgemini, Sumitomo, Deloitte, etc. in different geographies including in India, Middle East, Europe and in the US. While at Capgemini, Praveer was instrumental in building their SEPA (Single Europe Payments Area) Payments Practice based out of The Netherlands. Praveer was also a key contributor to some of Capgemini’s large global deals in financial services and consumer goods verticals such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, IKEA in Sweden and Coca Cola in the US.

A published author of the literary fiction Alternate Journeys, Praveer is also a voracious reader, an amateur philosopher, an ardent traveller and an adventure enthusiast.

Rathin brings with him 22 years of experience in Sales & Marketing and running Digital Businesses. His goal is to build the Meru brand, drive consumer demand and grow the Digital Business. He is an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research. His key stints have been with the UB Group, HUL, eBay and Microsoft. Prior to joining Meru he was the CMO of a startup which was engaged in launching a coalition loyalty program.

Armed with an MMS degree in Marketing and experience in Retail, FMCG and Real estate, Roch has worked his way up the corporate ladder and is now heading Marketing for Future's Group's Discount format Brand Factory, which is an 1000 crore format. Prior to this, he has driven the launch and management of "Payback" Loyalty program in Future Group to help the group acquire common loyalty objectives.

Roch has also been exposed to the US Market where he was responsible for marketing and brand building activities for Hirco Developments . Apart from these, he has also led Pantaloons  and Central concepts by Future Group in National Level Role. A thought leader that is, Roch has led multiple teams through multi crore formats, and efficiently so.

As Director, Employee & Customer Engagement, at Enrich Hair & Skin Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Sachin is charged with creating and articulating the pitch & tone of the Enrich brand personality & its expression.

Enrich believes in Employees First and leads the category in people practices. It’s been awarded as the Best HR Practice in the domain across forums for the past few years which is an acknowledgement of its innovative people practices.

Sachin has a little over three decades of active brand building & consumer behavior experience across categories

Sandipan is the F&B Industry’s besotted brand booster. In love with this industry since time immemorial, Sandipan has been credited with boosting the brand equity and profitability of every single brand he has been associated with, over his last 18 brand boosting years across multinationals like Electrolux, Ruchi Soya, Tiffany Foods, Mother Dairy, TATA , MTR Foods amongst others spread across the world! A seasoned-pun intended- branding and marketing veteran with an inimitable background in marketing and finance, Sandipan is the industry’s go-to expert for building brands and boosting business-as he enables organizations to turn around ailing brands, boost profitable ones, make P&L sheets happier by drawing and implementing his invincible marketing wisdom and his innate cognizance of the adage that ‘Every brand’s journey to one’s heart is only via the common man’s stomach.’

A truly global marketing maverick, Sandipan synergizes his passion for all things food and branding in building billion dollar brands with a global food-print. As the Chief Marketing Machine behind the billion dollar Nutrela brand of the Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd, Sandipan has boosted the brand performance by clocking a 34% market growth within his first year at Ruchi. Under his brand stewardship, Nutrela has been the recipient of honors such as Master Brand and Power Brand Awards in 2013. Sandipan has also been accredited with spearheading the historical business transformation of branded food and edible oil business of Ruchi, by evolving the business strategy from commodity oriented modus operandi to a branded product format.

A laudable legacy which boasts of rich national and international lineage across brands like MTR Foods, Tata Chemicals, Mother Dairy, Dhara and Safal, Electrolux and Tiffany Foodsbefore returning to the Indian giant Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd. is what Sandipan calls his humble learning curve. Having spent close to two decades in strategic brand management, marketing and business management, it’s only befitting to have built an enviable portfolio of professional achievements globally acknowledged via international awards and recognition. Sandipan’s marketing genius has been celebrated by honouring him with over a dozen such accolades; some of which are the iconic Best Marketer Award 2004 by the Business Today Group, Brand Leader Award 2009,F.A.M.E. (Fabulous in Marketing Excellence) 2011 by Asian Leadership Awards, India’s Greatest Corporate Leader 2012, Marketing Professional of the Year by Golden Globe Tigers Award 2013 and has been recently hailed as one of the Top 50 CMOs in India by CMO Council in 2013.

Sandipan is often quoted in leading Indian business publications like The Economic Times,  Business Standard, Financial Times as well as popular marketing publications like IMPACT, AFAQS, Paul Writer, Exchange4Media etc. He also takes his brilliant marketing acumen to industry forums such as IMAI,  Exchange 4 Media, Afaqs, and now in Jury for Golden Envies, and also CMO Asia where he inspires the marketing fraternity with his tenacious dedication towards empowering profitable brands to become global power brands.

A chemical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Saurabh also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has worked with Hindustan Unilever for 3 years as Area Sales & Customer Manager - Gujarat (Rural). At Four Fountains De-stress Spa, Saurabh is Director - Operations & Finance.

Remanika, the brand  which stands for beautiful woman is what exactly Seema Kakkar's well known fashion brand has been catering to the fashion needs of young, vibrant and energetic woman in India for the last twenty years.

A graduate  in biology and wanting to become a doctor, Seema instead chose  to follow her passion of making bold independent  and stylish clothing line for the young women of India.

While pursuing her masters in marketing, Seema translated her dream and vision  into  successful brand and business that Remanika is today, spread over 36 cities and more than 160 outlets with a customer base that has since grown manifold. Carefully blending western cuts with traditional Indian embellishments, Remanika offers its customers casual wear, club wear and accessories with a distinct style and attitude.

Shalabh heads Customer Experience at Flipkart. In this role he is responsible for representing the customer requirements within the organization. 

Prior to Flipkart, Shalabh was with Reliance Retail for seven years. He has experience in diverse customer-facing fields such as Strategy, Merchandising, Space Range & Display, Marketing and Loyalty, Analytics & CRM. 

Prior to Reliance, Shalabh had management consulting stints in EY & Cognizant, a Corporate Finance stint in ICICI Bank and an Offshoring stint in Infosys. 

He is an engineer from IIT-BHU and MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.

Shantanu is a graduate of IIT Delhi (2001) and did his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (2009).

Before Smartwards, Shantanu has over 13 years of global experience across ecommerce, Strategy Consulting and Financial Services with FashionAndYou.com, Bain & Co., A.T.Kearney
and Capital One Financial Services.

He moved back to India in 2011 as the MD, Incubator at the Smile Group which has launched multiple e-commerce businesses in India, Germany and Brazil including FashionAndYou.com,
DealsAndYou.com, Freecultr.com, among many others including bringing AirBnB.com to India and S.E.Asia. He was also the CEO of Fashionandyou.com in early 2012 and drove the highest
sales day in the history of the company.

Shantanu is a subject matter expert in Analytics and Loyalty Programs as applied across multiple industries. At Capital One, he managed all parts of the Go Rewards Miles & Rewards credit card, including new product design and marketing. At Fasihionandyou.com, the loyalty program was launched under his leadership.

His vision for Smartwards is to innovate in 360? customer engagement and build the largest customer engagement network in the country. This vision also includes the heart and soul of Indian retail, the Small & Medium Business owner via low cost, yet state-of-the-art customer engagement tools.

Vikas Choudhury is currently COO & CFO of Aimia India. Vikas has over 15 years of experience in executive management roles in retail, analytics, technology, venture capital and consulting. 

Prior to Aimia India, he has founded and sold a Red Herring Top Asia 100 enterprise performance management and data analytics business, run a luxury home store retailer and led a surveillance systems company managing security solutions. Vikas has been a co-founding angel investor in Mumbai Angels. Vikas started his career with Arthur Andersen and CSC in USA. 

Vikas is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and University of Pittsburgh.

Yudhishter is an entrepreneur and founder of Ethniceye Ventures, currently working on a d2c sports-play product. He has 15 years of leadership and management experience and has been working for fortune 100 companies and small enterprises - driving revenue through building and managing strategic relationships worldwide. 

He until mid 2014, headed international business development for July Systems - a cloud based mobile internet platform company powering consumer facing mobile services of some of the largest brands in the world.

He served on the Advisory Board of a few start-ups and was a part of the Management team at July Systems Inc., the pioneers and leaders in Mobile technology and services, until very recently. 

He is a post graduate from the Madras Christian College, India with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines. He also has an advanced diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris.