Speakers

A veteran of Indian Media, Advertising & Marketing industry, Anita is currently the COO- Media , Branding & Communication at Patanjali Ayurved Ltd where she is responsible for streamlining the entire function working on growth strategies. She was been heading the Customer Strategy & Relationships for ZEE5, supporting them in increasing their yearly revenue by over 50%. She has worked with large advertising agencies & publishers including Ogilvy, Lowe Lintas, Mediacom, Starcom, Bennett Colemen Group and Havas Media Group. She grew the Havas Media Group as CEO-India & SEA, 13 times in 13 years and launched many markets in the SA region.

Deepit Purkayastha is the Co-founder of Inshorts and Public app. Deepit, a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, started building Inshorts in the final year along with Azhar Iqubal and Anunay Arunav Pandey.

He is responsible for overseeing Product, Data and Strategy in the company. He has also made it to Forbes Asia '30 Under 30'- Media, Marketing and Advertising list for 2018 and Forbes India '30 Under 30'’ list for 2016.

Dolly has 25 years of rich experience and leads the Media Business in India. She steers Nielsen’s efforts in providing entities across the media, marketing and entertainment industry - including Advertisers, Agencies and Content Creators with a view of Total Audience and our principle of #OneMediaTruth.

She leads Nielsen engagement with the most influential joint industry committees in India. Under her leadership, Nielsen India has launched various industry-first solutions and currency initiatives in India like Digital Ad Ratings to bridge existing gaps in Media Measurement in India.

Gaurav Arora, currently working as Chief Revenue Officer at Jagran New Media is responsible for the overall P&L of the digital business and growth of the company. A results-driven, tenacious, and energetic digital sales professional with a robust experience of over 20+ years’ and an ability to adopt a consultative client acquisition and servicing approach to understand requirements, win business, and hence increase the overall revenue for the organisation.

Manoj Jagyasi is a young & dynamic business leader with over 2 decades of rousing work experience in broadcast and FMCG having worked with leading organisations like India Today, Network18, Zee Media and HUL.

Given his ‘solution based’ approach towards business, Manoj has not only added and sustained top clientele for the channels but has also successfully converted countless non-advertising clients to the portfolio. He is, therefore, fondly known as ‘The Turn Around Man’ among friends and colleagues

Mansi Datta is a media advertising professional with almost 2 decades of rich experience. In her role at Wavemaker India, Mansi is responsible for managing North and East region operations for the agency. 

Her career spans across advertising agencies as well as corporates. Mansi has worked with diverse set of industries including FMCG, Consumer Durables, Education, IT, Spirits, Carbonated beverages, Telecom and Ecom. 

Mansi is passionate about arts and music. She is also fond of playing the piano – with focus on western classical music.

Having joined ABP Network since 2019 as the Chief Revenue Officer, Ms. Mona Jain has played a pivotal role in the revenue management of all channels. She has over 30 years of experience with Zee Enterprise Ltd, Vivaki Exchange, Contract Advertising, ZenithOptimedia, Lodestar, GlaxoSmithKline Beecham, Cheil Communications, and Mudra Communications, amongst others.

A professional marketing expert Mona is fond of reading autobiographies and historical fiction and travelling to the mountains. She also leads a Buddhist way of life and practices Soka Gakkai Buddhism. Mona’s main mantra in life: ‘Be Happy and Make Others Happy.’

Prasad has been with the group for over three years and has been working towards the digital transformation of the group, especially on content initiatives across platforms.

Prior to joining HT, Prasad was the Group Editor (Digital) for the Zee Media group. He has also worked as Editor, timesofindia.com and Editor (News) NDTV Convergence. Prior to that, Prasad worked in various capacities as a broadcast journalist in ANI, CNBC-TV18, CNN-IBN and NDTV.

Raktim brings with him over two decades of rich experience in leadership positions. Known for driving future growth agendas and turning around incumbent businesses, his expertise runs through key functional areas ranging from Business Strategy, Content Planning to Brand Management & Marketing to Ad Sales and Branded Content. He successfully launched many global media brands in India and has to his credit many industry-first and award-winning initiatives.

Ram heads the media function across all touch points for the group responsible for client budgets over $330M (RECMA) in P&L in India.

Ram is a CXO level digital leader having been an entrepreneur thrice and successfully exiting twice. His first venture NetworkPlay was sold to Bertelsmann AG’s Gruner and Jahr GMBH in what was the first multi-million-dollar ad-network exits in India. His second venture was merged with SVG Media, which is now part of Dentsu Aegis Network. His last venture VelfieApp couldn’t scale as planned and is parked.

Samir Sethi is the VP & Head of Brand Marketing for Policybazaar and has extensive experience in leading brand and consumer marketing, with expertise in consumer communication, media planning and investment, content marketing, market research and social media.

Sudipto left Kolkata in 1991, took up a sales job, and started his career. With an experience of over 3 decades and almost 29 years out of that in advertising sales, Sudipto has sold advertising in almost all forms - yellow pages, Business directories, Print, TV and even Digital (lately). He has worked extensively across 28 cities in India and can manage a business for about 10 different languages. Sudipto has worked with brands like India Today, Zee Network, Zee News, INX media, ABP News (earlier Star News) and TV9 Kannada.

Sudipto currently leads the Product Initiatives for Indic Languages Business at Times Internet. He has more than 18 years of rich experience in building and scaling a diverse range of consumer-facing digital products across News Publishing, Classifieds, eLearning and eCommerce industries.

He is a technology enthusiast with strong business acumen and loves to solve consumer problems with the right blend of strategy, design, product and technology.

Sumeer has more than 20 years experience. His professional journey in advertising and communication is unique and included Rediffusion DYA&R, Lowe Lintas, JWT, DDB Mudra and Edelman. Over the years he has held National, Regional and Global strategic responsibilities for many brands. Prior to this he was the National Strategy Head at Havas Creative.

He has worked on many of India’s most iconic brands, across sectors which include Hyundai, Colgate-Palmolive, Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear, Fair & Lovely, Airtel, Horlicks, Royal Enfield, Livon, Taj Hotels, UNICEF, Adidas, LG, Microsoft, Bira & Muscle blaze.