Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur who is immensely passionate on the power of internet & its ability to create an impact. He has successfully built 3 internet businesses across various verticals like deals, fashion and automobile. He was the Founder & CEO of Fetise.com - India's leading online fashion outlet for Men and earlier the Co-Founder of DealsAndYou.com – which had a successful exit to Germany based Group Buying Global AG.

Abhishek is currently the Founder and CEO of CommerceX - A New age digital agency specialising in providing e-commerce solutions & work as a digital enabler to consumer retail brands to help them hack their growth story.

Amit Golani is the Executive Creative Director at The Viral Fever. He is credited with the hugely popular and successful video sketches “Bhai Ho” and “Aadha 24” and most popularly as the director of ‘TVF Pitchers’ and ‘Humorously Yours’. Amit is truly a gifted artiste and entrepreneur -- from concocting formulae for viral videos, writing scripts, directing them, editing them and sometimes even act!

A marketing strategist with a penchant for creating and establishing regional and PAN India brands across segments like Steel, Real estate and consumer electronics segments over the last 15 years. He has a passion towards influencing customers mindset across national and international markets by being a creative and business choir for generating optimal brand equity using traditional and digital media. Radio Jockeying, writing, travelling and teaching are the other interests on the personal front that primes up skill sets pertaining to customer understanding, story-telling, project planning, team handling and training etc eventually adding up to the functional efficacies.

Anurag Gupta, CEO, SVG Media has over 20 years of experience across diverse industries – FMCG, Office Automation, Stock Broking, and Media & Internet.

He has been in the Internet space for over 10 years. Currently he is handling business for SVG Media that has leading brands like DGM, SeventyNine, Komli and SVG Mobile. He is also spearheading Columbus India, - the data-driven digital marketing agency from Dentsu Aegis Network.

Prior to this he concluded an MBO of DGM India along with SVG Media.  Anurag has led the charge in scaling up DGM India to be one of India’s largest online performance marketing companies in India.

Prior to DGM, Anurag has also been associated with one of India’s largest Internet entity – Indiatimes.com for 4 years where he was instrumental in creating and heading the Subscriptions business.

Arun Gupta, the Founder and CEO of MoMAGIC is a technology veteran turned first generation serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit, while donning the hat of Director MediaTek, for close to a decade. Known as one of the oldest hats as far as Mobile Technology segment is concerned, in the telecom circle, Mr. Arun Gupta, today is deeply respected and valued as a pragmatic and progressive entrepreneur, having established successful AI technology driven company, which focuses on mobile platform operation and mobile Internet service with offices across Asia.

The company is steadily creating a mark in the AD Tech (mobile advertising and marketing) segment, having reputed brands such as Uber, Opera, PhonePe, UC, Swiggy, Sharechat, and MakeMyTrip etc. in its kitty. Within a span of 7+years of establishing a successful company with MediaTek and FoxConn, as its strategic partner Mr. Gupta forayed and diversified the business into retail – Magic Tel and healthcare – Life Guard Wellness and in Education. Incubated a B2C platform –mChamp Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. - connecting brands to consumers, which today boasts of a steadily B2C engagement.

He strategically entered into a JV in Bangladesh in 2012 and today its e-commerce platform Pickaboo.com in Bangladesh, (launched in 2016), is the No2. e-commerce venture in the country. Mr. Gupta being truly an entrepreneur and a role model for today’s youth is committed to contribute to India’s Mobile Internet journey and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in a significant way.

Mr. Gupta, as Chief Mentor introduced Indian App League in 2015, with the objective to encourage and bring into the forefront, Student startups right @Campus stage, encouraging more innovative apps and games from the Indian Market.

Channan Sawhney, Head of Digital Marketing Consumer India, Johnson & Johnson has had an illustrious career. She has worked with brands like Tata Global Beverages, Asian Paints, Essar, The Mobile Store, Essar, Radio Mirchi and ENIL in the past. Interestingly, she has travelled across the globe for her career choices and has exposure to markets like UK, US, China, Australia and Canada.

Her key skills are digital marketing, sales in the fast evolving universe and deciphering consumer insights leading to customer centricity. She is an MBA from MICA.

Dhruvi Joshi is the Co-founder and Head – Media & Innovation at PivotRoots, one of the fastest growing digital agencies. Dhruvi is responsible for leading the media, social and content team at PivotRoots. She has 10+ Years of experience in the digital domain & has consulted & executed digital brand strategies for some of the largest brands across industries. Few of the current brands include Amazon Prime Video, Disney, ICICI Bank, Pidilite, Future Generali Life Insurance amongst others. During her prior experience at agencies, she has spearheaded multiple digital campaigns for brands across BFSI, Entertainment, Ecommerce, Education & travel space, while her client side experience at HDFC Bank has enabled her in having a deep understanding on the strategic and business aspect of growing the digital business channel.

Gautam Shellar is currently the business head at Moneycontrol, India’s leading financial platform. Gautam’s role as the business head includes building brand strategies, revenue generation through new account development and new business development. At moneycontrol.com he leads a team of experienced professionals to build strong business & strategic relationships with acclaimed ad agencies.

Before joining Moneycontrol, he has always been responsible and played an imperative role for positioning and developing his organization extensively. In the past, Gautam has worked with Times Internet Limited as Head - Agency Relations & News Vertical Sales lead. He was also responsible for leading the programmatic initiatives for TIL. 
Initially, at People Interactive Ltd, his role involved analyzing consumer goods companies, developing sales channels, and leading the sales team.

With over 10 years of digital media experience, he’s a blend of creativity & entrepreneurship. At his previous job, he was a part of the core team, and played a pivotal role in scaling the advertising business to cross a whooping amount of Rs. 300cr.

Apart from possessing various professional skills, Gautam is an optimistic person in real life and has a fervour for farming. He really enjoys coaching and mentoring people who look up to him.

Josy started BBDO India from the backseat of his car in 2008. Josy and his partner Ajai Jhala pioneered the idea of brand movements with the belief that India needs more ‘acts not ads’. In 2016, he was named Creative Agency Head of The Year by the IAA (Indian Advertising Association).

Digital Marketing Professional with 10+ Years of work experience in Large format agencies, eCommerce startups and established global brands. Started career as a techie and moved to account management and digital marketing roles. Hands on experience with Google Adwords(Search and Display Advertising), Facebook, Organic Search Optimization, Email Marketing and Digital Media planning and buying.

Rahul Mishra is an experienced marketing professional with over 14 years of experience and a demonstrated history of helping brands excel in Media & Entertainment sector. Prior to Shemaroo, Rahul has had a successful stints  with  BBC Global News  where was he the Marketing Manager APAC for 8 years and led marketing for IndiaCast (a viacom18 & TV18 venture).

He is an expert in marketing management, channel launches , digital strategy and partnerships. Rahul is an alumnus of INSEAD & IMI.

With an experience of more than two decades, Krishna Rao, senior category head, marketing, Parle Products, has been associated with the company since 2001 and is responsible for the entire snacks, confectionary and rusk portfolio. He has worked with brands such as Uncle Chipps, Maxwell Apparels and Excelcia Foods.

Rubeena Singh not only navigates the vagaries of the digital world with the ease of an expert, she’s helping top brands find their feet by delivering maximum returns on investment (RoI). Under her leadership as CEO, iProspect India aims to achieve its goal of becoming the advisor of choice to its clients, helping them navigate the ever-changing digital world, and achieve maximum possible RoI basis their marketing spends.

She has a deep understanding of traditional as well as digital media with expertise in the areas of profit-and-loss management, emerging technology, content marketing, operations, business strategy, sales and marketing, digital product development and human resource management. Singh’s last sting was as COO at moneycontrol.com, and held various senior positions across Network18’s print and TV properties including Forbes India, CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN News 18 and News18 India. She has also worked with Star TV India.

Shamsuddin Jasani (Shams) has been in the digital industry for over 17 years. He launched Isobar in India in August 2008, he has grown the agency’s billing size from zero to USD 150 million and staff number grew from four to 200-member strong team.

Under his leadership, the agency has been achieved the distinction of being the Digital Agency of the year for India  for three years running from2015-2017 as well as south asia  for two years which is given by Campaign Asia, Isobar has also won Digital Agency of the Year India Silver awards in 2012, 2014 and . Isobar also debuted at number 4 on top digital agencies in the Brand Equity Agency reckoner for 2015. He also oversees the AMNET operations in India. Shams is also a board committee of Dentsu Aegis Network’s Management in India as well as leading the charge on digital as a part of the Digital Council for Dentsu Aegis Network. During his tenure with Isobar, he has overseen two successful acquisitions.

He’s been named an A-Lister on Campaign India’s top 500 people in advertising and marketing list and has featured on e4m's Impact Magazine’s Digital Power100 list last two years in a row. He was also voted by brand equity as one of media's valued players by brand equity across media's. He is one of the few people who has an experience as a Media Owner, agency and client.

In addition to this Shams also oversees the programmatic operations for DAN in india and under his guidance AMNET has grown over 300% in the last 2 years.

An IIM Indore graduate, Sumeli packs in a wealth of experience in leading large and diverse teams to manage complex projects across sectors like FMCG, Media and Entertainment. Having worked with companies like The Coca-Cola Company, Viacom18, Avalon Consulting and Marketgate (Publicis Groupe), she joined Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. as the Vice President, Brand Head of The Times of India -Metro Supplements and Mirror, leading the strategic way forward for the brand across 45+ editions pan India.

Currently, she leads the brands with a focus on developing sound business strategy, conceptualising brand campaigns, IPs , editorial strategy and product innovations. She has managed projects across the complete business spectrum that include brand management, business strategy, portfolio management, content marketing, IP creation, consumer research and sales planning. 

With a diverse and enriching background in business strategy and brand management, Sumeli presently leads a portfolio of brands that is valued at over INR 1500 crores. Leading the way forward on integrated print- digital newsroom and unique IPs, she has been a part of some of Times’ biggest campaigns like #NoConditionsApply and Flirt with your City. Last year, #NoConditionsApply emerged as the most awarded Indian campaign across international forums bagging several wins like the prestigious Glass Lion at Cannes, Effie’s, Spikes, D&AD, New York Festivals Advertising, London advertising Festival, The One Show amongst others.

She has also co-authored several MTV's youth insights publications and been a speaker across various public conferences in India and abroad, as well as been named amongst the Top 50 Most Influential Marketing Leaders by World Marketing Congress.

Varun leads RepublicWorld business (Republic TV digital platform), monetisation, partnerships, operations, strategy, marketing etc. RepublicWorld is completely focused on user experience through cutting edge technology and content diversification.   Varun Mohan oversees the company’s overall digital revenue & strategy in India and International. He has also crafted key partnerships across leading telcos and OTT platforms for distribution of linear feed. With his experience, he helps in creating meaningful interactions with advertisers and further establishing the Republic TV brand in the market. He is also associated with Govt of India, Skill India Initiate as a mentor to new age entrepreneurs and start-ups. He is also a guest lecture for “Digital Media” at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Management Institute and many more.

Prior to joining Republic TV, Varun played a vital role in setting up new start-ups / verticals in India ie launching and setting up India business for artificial intelligence technology company, Appier Inc, for which he was heading India business. Prior to that Brand Solutions Vertical at Vserv Digital (Mobile ad solutions company),  before that Economist Digital Business in India (Economist is one of most preferred global conetent brand) In his rich and eventful 13-year career through his different sales roles he has contributed in the growth of such brands like Appier, Vserv, Economist Online, Microsoft Advertising, afaqs! and Naukri.com.

As a media and entertainment expert, Vikram has scaled the industry spanning Broadcast, Gaming and Digital Media in various capacities for over two decades.  In his current role, Vikram heads the Ad-Sales revenue function for Discovery Network’s bouquet of premium channels and the network’s digital assets.

Prior to Discovery, Vikram was Sr. Vice President, Star India, heading Product & Revenue strategy for three of the major channel clusters- Hindi Movies & Music and HSM Regional Channels (West Bengal & Maharashtra). Vikram joined Star India from Zapak Digital Entertainment where he led the revenue function and development of multiple business avenues.

When he is not working he can be found para-gliding in the Sahyadri Mountains or playing chess with his two children.