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Third Content Marketing Summit Asia announced list of speakers
MUMBAI: CMS Asia 2016 continues its tradition of delivering great content through a very unique set of experts & speakers year on year. As the event gets ready for its 3rdedition, the event organizers have released first list of speakers. This year experts from Facebook, Flipkart, Google, ScoopWhoop, ESPNCricinfo, Yashraj Films, Panasonic, Craftsvilla, Reliance, Autocar, GroupM, HCL, VML among others will be seen at the grand stage. The detailed first line up is as following
Brands
Senjam Raj Sekhar, Head of Corporate Communications, Flipkart
Sandeep Bhushan, Business Head – India & South Asia, Facebook
Amarjit Singh Batra, CEO, OLX
Pankaj Khushani, Head – Media Technology Solutions: SEA, India & Korea, Google
Naveen Malhotra, Head – Marketing & Product Planning, Mahindra Two Wheelers
Sarthak Seth, Head – Brand & Marketing Communications, Panasonic
Sandep Walunj, CMO, Reliance Nippon Life Insurance
Bianca Ghose, Chief Content Officer, HCL
Manish Kalra, Chief Business Officer, Craftsvilla
Publishers
Ashish Patil, Vice President, Yashraj Films
Sambit Bal, Editor-in-Chief, ESPNCricinfo
Sattvik Mishra, CEO, ScoopWhoop
Hormazd Sorabjee, Managing Director, Autocar India
Pradyuman Maheshwari, CEO, MXM India
Gautam Bhimani, Cricket Commentator
Marketing Partners & Agencies
Samir Bangara, Managing Director, Qyuki
Roopak Saluja, CEO, The 120 Media Collective
Mallikarjun Das, Group CEO, Starcom Mediavest Group
Tushar Vyas, Chief Strategy Officer, GroupM South Asia
Tripti Lochan, CEO, South East Asia & India, VML
As always, the largest content marketing conference in APAC brings together many C-Level experts to share their experience with delegates. The speakers are a good mix of advertisers, publishers, agency partners, technology providers & celebrities from Cricket & Bollywood. CMS Asia 2016 plans to have 30+ speakers for the 3rdedition.
The 3rd edition of annual Content Marketing Summit Asia plans to strike the right balance between Ground Reality & Virtual Reality which has always been the challenge for new age marketers but will be crucial as we step into the future of marketing. Content promises to be the bridge but is always looked at as a short-term tactic to win quickly. Scale & ROI have always been relatively unanswered questions when it comes to content marketing. While everyone tries to figure out wherein lies the future of marketing, CMS Asia 2016 provides a platform to explore it collectively. It also touches upon softer aspects like Quality of Content and Art of Storytelling for consumers today who are flirting with multiple platforms simultaneously. With content marketing practitioners in the house from leading brands & technology companies, the platform is all set this year to take Content Marketing discussion to its next level.
According to RP Singh, Conference Producer & Chairperson, “We are thrilled to have a great set of speakers this year too and I am grateful to all the experts for taking out time from their busy schedules to help create & spread the ecosystem of content marketing in India. With a joint effort like this, I have no doubts that the discipline is only set to grow from here in this part of the world”
He informs further that for this year, CMS Asia has started getting registrations quite well in advance as compared to previous editions, which signifies the importance, & expectations people have from this event.
CMS Asia as an event caters to Marketing professionals, PR professionals, Content Creators, Agency Partners & Technology companies in this space.
Brands
YES Bank hands the keys to SBI veteran Vinay Tonse as it bets on a new era
Former SBI managing director appointed as YES Bank’s new MD and CEO
MUMBAI: YES Bank is done rebuilding. Now it wants to grow. The private sector lender has appointed Vinay Muralidhar Tonse as managing director and chief executive officer-designate, with RBI approval secured and a start date of April 6, 2026 confirmed. The three-year term signals the bank’s intent to shift gears from crisis recovery to full-throttle expansion.
Tonse, 60, is no stranger to scale. Most recently managing director at State Bank of India, he oversaw a retail book of roughly $800bn in deposits and advances, one of the largest in the country. Before that, he ran SBI Mutual Fund from August 2020 to December 2022, a stint that saw assets under management surge from Rs 4.32 lakh crore to Rs 7.32 lakh crore across market cycles. Add stints in Singapore and four years leading SBI’s overseas operations in Osaka, and the incoming chief arrives with a genuinely global CV.
His academic grounding is equally solid: a commerce degree from St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bengaluru, and a master’s in commerce from Bangalore University.
The appointment follows an extensive search and evaluation process by the bank’s Nomination and Remuneration Committee. NRC chairperson Nandita Gurjar said the committee unanimously backed Tonse, citing his leadership track record, governance credentials and ability to drive the bank’s next phase of transformation.
Non-executive chairman Rama Subramaniam Gandhi was unequivocal. “I am certain that Vinay Tonse, with his vast experience as a senior banker, will propel YES Bank to its next phase of growth,” Gandhi said, adding that the bank remains focused on strengthening its retail and corporate banking franchises and expanding its branch network.
Rajeev Kannan, non-executive director and senior executive at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, the bank’s largest shareholder, said Tonse’s experience across retail, corporate banking, global markets and asset management positioned him well to lead the lender. SMBC said it looks forward to working with Tonse and the board as YES Bank pursues its ambition of becoming a top-tier private sector lender anchored in strong governance and sustainable growth.
Tonse succeeds Prashant Kumar, who took the helm in March 2020 when YES Bank was in freefall following a severe financial crisis, and spent six years painstakingly stabilising the institution, rebuilding governance and restoring operational scale. Gandhi was generous: “The bank remains indebted to Prashant Kumar, who is responsible for much of what a strong financial powerhouse YES Bank is today.”
Tonse, for his part, struck a purposeful note. “Together with the board and my colleagues, I remain deeply committed to creating long-term value for all our stakeholders,” he said, pledging to build on Kumar’s foundation guided by his personal motto: Make A Difference.
Beyond the balance sheet, Tonse played cricket at college and club level and represented Karnataka in archery at the national championships — sports he credits with teaching him teamwork, situational leadership, discipline and focus. In quieter moments, he reaches for retro Kannada music, classic Hindi songs, and the crooning of Engelbert Humperdinck, Mukesh and Kishore Kumar.
YES Bank has its steady-handed rebuilder in Kumar to thank for survival. Now it has a scale-obsessed growth banker at the wheel. The next chapter starts April 6.
