Suraj is a leader in consumer marketing with more than 15 years of experience with leading Indian and international brands across diverse categories-Beverages, Paints, Cements, Ecommerce and Fashion retail. An Alumnus of INSEAD business school Singapore , his body of work includes managing multi category portfolios across Beverages and Paints , leading brand communication as a part of a ecommerce start up , and launching some iconic brands in India.

Suraj brings on board strong business leadership expertise, experience in driving brand innovations across digital/offline revenue verticals, and execution excellence across customer acquisition, retention, media, PR and market research

He has worked across a multitude of consumer facing brands like Diageo, Berger Paints international, UltraTech, abof.com and VanHeusen India. Suraj has won multiple awards in the field of brand and service innovation including the Prestigious Economic times awards for Brand Innovation. He has recently won the Aditya Birla Retail award for Process excellence in new store penetration. Suraj has a passion for mentoring and coaching teams and a deep interest in reading on human psychology, wellness, mental health and positivity. He believes optimism and positivity play a strong role in building teams and he actively coaches people on career transitions, financial investing and personal effectiveness and positivity.

Suraj is also an avid speaker and has delivered numerous talks at B-schools and industry forums like DMA Asia, ET insights, ET Edge etc.

Suraj is a foodie and enjoys travelling, stock market investing and thriller movies. Currently associated with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail as Head of Marketing - VanHeusen INDIA.

A Brand, Communication & Media expert with 30+ years of rich experience, Anita Nayyar is a veteran of the Indian media industry. She is currently the COO-Media & Communication for Patanjali Ayurved Limited, a revolutionary FMCG giant. In her previous assignment she was Head of Customer Strategy & Relationships at Zee5, where she helped grow the revenue by >50%. 13 years as the CEO of Havas Media Group, she As a CEO, expanded the group's footprint in the emerging South Asia markets (including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) in 2006, leading a team of 800+ people. India & SEA markets were her mandate markets in the region. Under her leadership Havas Media Group India grew 15 times over a period of 12 years. She is the National President of the Digital Media Council at WICCI. For 2 nd term. A prominent speaker, moderator, panelist and judge at all the major events and awards year on year; her views and opinions are sort by the industry. She has been an esteem jury & judge at prestigious awards- D&AD, Cannes, You Tube Works, Kyoorius, to name a few.

Anita has been awarded APAC CEO of the Year at Campaign Asia's Women Leading Change Awards 2018 and APAC Vision leader in 2019. As the 2nd most influential media person in India by ET Brand Equity she has led many leading agencies and brands across categories. She remains among the top media personalities of India and features in the Impact top 20 Women in the industry year on year. She is on the board of leading media corporates. Anita holds a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and has done her Post Graduation in Advertising and Marketing with a Masters in Management.

Currently leading Marketing at Byju's - The Learning App. Atit also has vast experience across media, marketing, digital marketing, content and brand building through his previous organisation like Sequoia Capital, Hindustan Unilever, Colgate Palmolive and Group M.

As Chief Executive Officer at The Q, a fast- growing Hindi general entertainment channel, Simran leverages her experience and insights to provide strategic direction to create new opportunities for the company and drive organizational growth. Since her appointment, Simran has built a strong and robust entertainment ecosystem for The Q. Under her aegis, the Hindi general entertainment channel has witnessed exponential growth in the industry with numerous milestones.
With experience of over two decades in the media industry, Simran is one of the youngest women in a senior C-level leadership role in India.
With a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM) from The Times School of Marketing, New Delhi, Simran worked as a Senior Officer with The Times of India Group, thus beginning her journey in the media and entertainment industry. Prior to joining The Q, Simran held the position of Executive Vice President and Head of Ad Sales at Viacom18. At Viacom18, under her leadership, the team successfully established COLORS channel as the leader in revenue amongst all Hindi general entertainment channels. She has also worked in various leadership positions at leading media and entertainment conglomerates such as Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Star India and Sony Entertainment Television. Simran, a Delhi University graduate, completed her B.A. Economics (H) from Miranda House. Her passion and ethics come from her defence upbringing, taking all the organizations she worked with, on a proven growth track. An ardent result-oriented personality who values hard work, Simran is a risk-taker with astute thinking and creativity.
As a proud pet mom, Simran is a member of Pet & Animal Shelter Forums. She is also a keen traveller and a sportsperson with interests in marathons and horse-riding.

Archana Aggarwal is a passionate media advocate with 20+ years of media experience. She has worked across multiple brands at both media agencies and advertisers. Her last assignment was Country Media Manager, P&G where she spent 8+ years and has now been with Airtel for the last 7+ years as VP, Media. She was instrumental in P&G winning their first Cannes in India in 2006 post which they won many prestigious international awards for the Gillette Shave India Movement. She also led the media for the high decibel launch of 4G and Payments Bank in India. She identified ideas like Sim sampling with Economic Times, Roshandan and Google countdown clock.

Azmat Jagmag is Head Marketing and Corporate Communications at Discovery Communications India. In her role at Discovery she oversees Brand Marketing, Corporate Communications & CSR for both the OTT & the linear business which includes 14 channels- Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Kids to name few and the OTT platform discovery+.

With an illustrious career that spans across 15 years in corporate and entrepreneurship roles, Azmat has worked on both launching as well as building iconic brands. Her journey began in the world of advertising, where she worked with Amul and Bajaj, with her longest stint being on the brand side of the entertainment and media conglomerate ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. During her time with ZEE, she led the marketing function for ZEE TV, ZEE Cinema as well as ZEE Anmol and spearheaded the digital transformation of ZEE TV. From there she forayed into entrepreneurship building a brand marketing, content and production specialist company, with noteworthy success working with OTT, Films, Music labels and TV brands.

With an MBA from Mumbai University, an executive MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and various certifications from Harvard Manage Mentor, Azmat's put her skills to use and acquired a number of recognitions over the course of her career. She has been recognized by Google as a leading Woman in New Media, Indian Television's Wonder Woman in Media, holds a Guinness record for setting up the largest dance mob and has co-written an IIM-A case study on the iconic brand 'Dance India Dance'

An analytical mind coupled with a creative flair and excellent people management skills, Azmat is a learner for life and a pop culture enthusiast. A closet writer, Azmat regularly chronicles her travels and life experiences as #MidLifeMusings on her social pages.

Prabhvir Sahmey (Prabh) is currently a Senior Director at Samsung Ads. His remit is to setup the Samsung Ads business in India & South East Asia by pioneering the arena of Connected TV. Which is at a very nascent state in 2020. Prior to Samsung, Prabh pioneered Programmatic Advertising at Google, Search advertising at GroupM and e-education with Tata Interactive Systems. A journey spanning over 15+ years. From starting a small Bulletin Board System (pre visual internet era) to transforming services as a web developer, content writer, graphic designer and a project manager; the last few years were invested with a leading market transforming teams and product in getting digital marketing initiatives holistically right.

Over years, Prabh has been identified as a domain expert for all things online, go-getter, calm, and goal- oriented individual who encourages collaboration across various teams to achieve the business goal. The enterprising sprit enables me to work in start-up environments or be the change driver in slagging business conditions. Interesting Stuff At one point in time I owned a Subway restaurant in Bangalore. Pretty much decide to pursue a career as a chef. From the last time I attended the MMA session; I had a target of hitting 4000 skips in 30mins. That has been achieved. New goal is to hit 100km cycling; currently hitting the ceiling at 33kms. Inspiration Outside of nature. There have been many books that inspired me to think differently. The most impactful one's have been - 7 habits of highly effective people, start with why, death - an insider story, trillion dollar coach. Amongst many others. Hobbies Cooking, cycling, walking and gaming. A random reading. Not an avid reader.

A postgraduate in Management from North Maharashtra University and currently based in Mumbai, B. Krishna Rao has more than 20 years of work experience in the FMCG sector across several leading companies such as Parle Products, Uncle Chipps, Maxwell Apparels and Excelcia Foods. Over the years, Krishna has also grown to become one of the key opinion leaders within the industry on several aspects such as manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, advertising and branding to name a few.
In his current role as Senior Category Head, Krishna is responsible for Parle's entire Snacks, Confectionery, Cakes and Rusk portfolio. Krishna works closely across teams within the company to drive need gap identification and new product launches, pricing and profitability, advertising and media management, building brand equity and imagery and budget management.
In the 18 years that Krishna has spent at Parle, some of his landmark achievements include launch of Parle's snacking portfolio comprising brands like Parle's Wafers, Chatkeens, FullToss and Mexitos, launch of Parle's Kachha Mango Bite to be the leading candy brand in the category and launch of Magix cream biscuits to be a market leader within a span of three years of its introdction. A strong believer in work-life balance, Krishna enjoys playing word games, reading, watching Bollywood movies and listening to retro music in his downtime.

A Brand, Communication & Media expert with 30+ years of rich experience, Anita Nayyar is a veteran of the Indian media industry. She is currently the COO-Media & Communication for Patanjali Ayurved Limited, a revolutionary FMCG giant. In her previous assignment she was Head of Customer Strategy & Relationships at Zee5, where she helped grow the revenue by >50%. 13 years as the CEO of Havas Media Group, she As a CEO, expanded the group's footprint in the emerging South Asia markets (including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) in 2006, leading a team of 800+ people. India & SEA markets were her mandate markets in the region. Under her leadership Havas Media Group India grew 15 times over a period of 12 years. She is the National President of the Digital Media Council at WICCI. For 2 nd term. A prominent speaker, moderator, panelist and judge at all the major events and awards year on year; her views and opinions are sort by the industry. She has been an esteem jury & judge at prestigious awards- D&AD, Cannes, You Tube Works, Kyoorius, to name a few.

Anita has been awarded APAC CEO of the Year at Campaign Asia's Women Leading Change Awards 2018 and APAC Vision leader in 2019. As the 2nd most influential media person in India by ET Brand Equity she has led many leading agencies and brands across categories. She remains among the top media personalities of India and features in the Impact top 20 Women in the industry year on year. She is on the board of leading media corporates. Anita holds a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and has done her Post Graduation in Advertising and Marketing with a Masters in Management.