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Smarties India - Jury

  • Jury Chairs

    Geetika Mehta Managing Director Nivea India
    Arvind R P Chief Executive Officer Lenexis Foodworks Pvt. Ltd.

    Grand Jury

    Rohit Dadwal CEO & BOD, MMA APAC, Global Head of SMARTIES MMA Asia Pacific
    Gaurav Agarwal Co-founder 1mg
    Aditya Anand Co-Founder Yoga Bar
    Pooja Asar Head of Marketing EV Tata Motors
    Pooja Baid CMO Versuni
    Divya Batra Vice President – Marketing & Ecommerce Haldiram Snacks
    Kaushik Chakraborty Head Marketing & Corporate Communication Tata Capital
    Suresh Chand VP Marketing & Executive Committee Member - Snacks, Noodles & Pasta ITC
    Shawn Chandy CMO Paragon Footwear
    Diptakirti Chaudhuri CMO Casagrand Premier Builder
    Anurita Chopra Category Head - Oral Health, Middle East & Africa Haleon
    Prashant Choudhari Head - Marketing Fino Payments Bank
    Ipshita Chowdhury Head of Marketing Motorola Mobility (A Lenovo Company)
    Ajay Dang President, Head- Marketing Ultratech Cement, An Aditya Birla Group Company
    Ankit Desai Head - Media & Digital Marketing (India & Global Centre of Excellence) Marico
    Joywin Fernandes Head - Media, Digital & Ecommerce Danone
    Rohit Gulati Marketing Director, India & South Asia Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision
    Ayesha Huda Chief Marketing Officer Mars
    Vikas Iyer Marketing Head Lenexis Foodworks
    Manoj Jain SR VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER (ELECTRONICS) Reliance Retail
    Girish Kalra Chief Marketing Officer TATA AIA
    Nikhil Kant India Lead - Marketing & Sales Flixbus
    Shreyashi Keshri Head of Marketing McCain India
    Nikita Khanna Co-Founder Moxie Beauty
    Richa Khera Global Social Media Director Schneider Electric
    Moneka Khurana Country Head & BOD Member MMA India
    Vandana Krishnia Chief Marketing Officer JSWDULUX
    Varun Kulkarni Director - Marketing, Digital & Growth NoBroker
    Suhayl Limbada   Chief Marketing Officer KFC India & Partner Countries                       
    Kunal Madan Chief Marketing Officer Radico Khaitan Ltd
    Jiten Mahendra CCA & CMO Shoppers Stop
    Megha Manchanda Head of Marketing, Strategic Growth. India, SLBD HP Inc
    Saakshi Verma Menon Chief Marketing Officer, India Foods PepsiCo
    Abhishek Mishra Country Head- Brand & Marketing Narayana Health
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    Anupam Nair CMO MTR Foods
    Goodies Narayanan Director Marketing-CMO India Bacardi
    Gaurav Nijhawan Marketing Head MMTC-PAMP
    Jennifer Pandya Head Of Marketing Skoda India
    Amruta Pawar GM - Digital Marketing & Marketing Strategy Hafele India
    Sonam Pradhan Head - Media & Digital Marketing (South Asia) Kellanova
    Priyanka CMO Haier Appliances India
    Anu Raj Chief Marketing Officer Mahindra Finance
    Deepti Sampat VP Marketing and Digital IndiGo
    Pawan Sarda Chief Growth Officer The House of Abhinandan Lodha
    Varun Sethuraman MMA India Board Member; Head of Marketing Communications - India Nestle
    Rajesh Sethuraman Head of Marketing Marks & Spencers
    Darshana Shah Brand, CX Leader & Ex CMO

    Qualifying Jury

    Shreyas Sathe CEO & Co-founder INSEA Hybrid INSEA
    Harsh Agarwal Associate Director- Brand Marketing MakeMyTrip
    Saurabh Aggarwal Founder & CEO Insybit
    Yazad Aria Senior Manager - Marketing and Data JCDecaux India
    Gaurav Arora Co-Founder Social Panga
    Preetha Athrey Head Marketing The Trade desk
    Amit Bapna Business Journalist
    Vinita Bhatia Editor Campaign India
    Ritam Bhatnagar Founder IFP
    Namita Bohara Head Customer Centricity Hindalco Industries Ltd
    Abbhishek Chaddha EVP & Business Head – North and East Interactive Avenues
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    Vikas Chawla Co-founder Social Beat
    Suprit Chawla Regional Marketing Communications & Sales Excellence Manager: India & MEA Henkel Adhesive Technologies, Packaging Products
    Piyush Chhabra VP Sales - India & SEA Escape Velocity
    Animesh Das Awards Director & Producer Kyoorius
    Biprorshee Das India Editor WARC
    Upali Dasgupta Senior Director, Field Marketing APAC Meltwater
    Siddharth Devnani Co-founder & COO SoCheers
    Shetanshu Dikshit Lead Digital Communications Pernod Ricard India
    Aniketh Dsouza Strategic Marketing Partner & Founder Mindstorm
    Vivek Gambhir Venture Partner Lightspeed India
    Siddharth Gupta Founder & CEO NVECTA
    Kanishk Gupta Co-founder, Director Sukoon Health
    Mehul Gupta Co Founder & CEO SoCheers
    Karishma Gupta Partner, Consulting Deloitte India
    Nimisha Iyer Director - MarComm Frost & Sullivan
    Shweta Jain Chief Marketing and Sales Officer The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts
    Sucheta Jha AVP, Insights & Strategy JSW Dulux
    Nikhil Jhunjhunwala Sr. Vice President & Head of Revenue afaqs!
    Benjamin Joy Agency Lead LinkedIn
    Chaitanya Kakkar VP Business & International Expansion SingleInterface
    Anjali Kamath DVP Marketing Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
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    Archana Kandankerry Senior Brand Manager McDonald's India
    Samir Karpe Country Manager DoubleVerify
    Rudresh Kaul Sales Manager British Safety Council India LLP
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    Avinash Kaul
    Reneta Kripalani Global Head of Marketing Communications, Consumer & D2C InMobi
    Santosh Krishnamoorthy Head Of Global Strategic Accounts,India LinkedIn
    Abhilash Krishnan Director, Creative (Marketing) Affinity Global
    Shweta Kumar APAC Digital Lead Tupperware
    Niti Kumar CEO Spark Foundry
    Manish Lohana Consumer Experience Lead, , Biscuits, Beverages & Candies Mondelez
    Pratik Maru Vice President Marketing Sony Pictures Networks India
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    Anurag Mazumdar Director and President, Revenue The Logical Indian
    Sagar Mehta Co-Founder & Creative Head WHAT ARE YOU SAYING (WAYS)
    Rajesh Mehta Chief Strategy Officer Medulla Communications
    Shailee Mehta Business Head The Womb
    Sarina Menezes Senior Vice President - Marketing & Corporate Communications Oberoi Realty Limited
    Aditi Mishra Chief Executive Officer Lodestar UM
    Himanshu Mody Partner & Head of India Dept
    Jennifer Mulchandani Co-Founder Acture Media
    Narayan Murthy Head of AdTech Business ASEAN/SA Moving Walls
    Deepthi Nagarajan VP Marketing Netcore
    Pulkit Narayan Founder & CEO Dangle Ads
    Nabajit Nath Sales Director, India Kargo
    Suman Pal Head of Media, Analytics and Partnership Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting
    Abinash Panda Digital Lead, Brand Portfolio Zydus Wellness
    Alok Pandey VP - Sales & Marketing Xapads Media
    Prasad Patil Director & Founder Drink Water Design Studio
    Yorick Pinto Sr. Creative Director BC Web Wise
    Atishi Pradhan Visiting Faculty IIM Ahmedabad
    Abhishek Pujar Commercial Lead Integral Ad Science
    Neeraj Rai Marketing Head, Large Customer Business Amazon Ads
    Vishal Raj Business Head - APAC Performace
    Dipshika Ravi National Creative Director Schbang
    Monica Reddy Brand Marketing Lead Lenovo India Pvt Ltd.
    Ekta Relan Chief Strategy Officer Saatchi & Saatchi India
    Prrincey Roy Co-Founder & CEO  Huella Services
    Gandharv Sachdeva Country Head - India Hybrid
    Dr. Kushal Sanghvi Director Komerz
    Rashmi Sehgal Chief Growth Officer Zenith
    Abhay Sen IR Manager,India Google
    Priyank Shah General Manager, Marketing The House of Abhinandan Lodha
    Chirag Shah Business Head Aleph India
    Zaid Shaikh Vice President HiveMinds
    Rishika Sharma Head of Marketing ShareChat
    Samarth Sharma Chief Operating Officer Asianxt Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd
    Saurabh Sharma Head of Marketing HT Media Group
    Amrita Sharma Founder MRJ India
    Ronak Sharma Head of Digital & E-commerce Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd
    Aastha Sharma DGM & Head of Marketing Silverpush
    Bhasker Shrestha Deputy Director - Brand Marketing Myntra
    Sonal Shrivastav Digital Head Kenstar
    Niranjan Singh Head of Media - India Monks
    Gyan Pratap Singh Head - Growth Times Prime
    Gaurav Soni Head of Media Perfetti Van Melle
    Rahul Sridhar Head of Agency Sales PhonePe Ads
    Bhavin Thakkar Digital Marketing Lead Kimberly-Clark
    Ronnie Thomas DGM Digital – India/APAC Hershey India Private Limited
    Aditya Tibrewal GM - Brand Solutions Strategy (Global) | Growth Businesses (IN & MENA) AnyMind | POKKT
    Anupam Tripathi Founder Oren
    Shaurya Bhushan Tyagi Head of Digital Marketing JSW
    Aarooshi Tyagi CEO Momentus Digital Media Private Ltd.
    Anshul Vasu Vice President, Media & Consumer Accenture

  • Jury Chair, Day 1

    Nikhil Sharma
    Managing Director
    Perfetti Van Melle India

    Jury Chair, Day 2

    Virat Khullar
    Head of Marketing
    Hyundai Motor India

    Jury Chair, Day 3

    Ruchira Jaitly
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Diageo

    Jury

    Tejas Apte
    General Manager, Media- South Asia
    Unilever
    Pooja Asar
    Head of Marketing EV
    Tata Motors
    Akash Deep Batra
    MMA India Board Member; Head of Marketing - India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh
    HP Inc.
    Anushree Bose
    Marketing Head
    Nandos
    Kaushik Chakraborty
    Head Marketing & Corporate Communication
    Tata Capital
    Suresh Chand
    VP Marketing & Executive Committee Member - Snacks, Noodles & Pasta
    ITC
    Diptakirti Chaudhuri
    CMO
    Casagrand Premier Builder
    Shantanu Chauhan
    Director - Marketing
    Noise
    Harsh Deep Chhabra
    Global Lead Media
    Godrej Consumer Products Limited
    Ajay Dang
    President, Head- Marketing
    Ultratech Cement, An Aditya Birla Group Company
    Ankit Desai
    Head - Media & Digital Marketing (India & Global Centre of Excellence)
    Marico
    Rajiv Dubey
    Vice President Marketing
    Dabur India Limited
    Mahip Dwivedi
    VP & Head of Marketing & Growth
    Pepperfry
    Ranjita Ghosh
    Global Chief Marketing Officer
    Wipro Limited
    Rohit Gulati
    Marketing Director, India & South Asia
    Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision
    Anu Gupta
    SVP Strategic Planning and Finance
    Starbucks
    Ruchika Gupta
    Director Brand Marketing
    IndiGo
    Piyush Jain
    Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Digital Officer
    Ex Agilus Diagnostics
    Chandrika Jain
    Marketing Head
    Lenovo
    Girish Kalra
    Chief Marketing Officer
    TATA AIA
    Suraj Kathuria
    VP and Head of Marketing, Sunfeast Biscuits and Cakes
    ITC Limited
    Taranjeet Kaur
    Head of Media & Digital Marketing
    Tata Consumer Products
    Richa Khera
    Global Social Media Director
    Schneider Electric
    Moneka Khurana
    Country Head & BOD Member
    MMA India
    Deepa Krishnan
    Head of Marketing - India & Southwest Asia
    Hyatt
    Anjali Krishnan
    Consumer Experience Lead
    Mondelez
    Vandana Krishnia
    Chief Marketing Officer
    JSWDULUX
    Nitin Malhotra
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Livpure
    Geetika Mehta
    Managing Director
    Nivea India
    Deepali Naair
    MMA India Board Member; Global Head of Brand, Marketing & Corporate Communications
    Biocon
    Ramkrishna Naik
    CMO
    Nerolac
    Sai Narayan
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Policybazaar Group
    Nishant Nayyar
    VP & Head Marketing
    Kaya Clinic
    Lalatendu Panda
    Sr. VP & Business Head
    JioMart
    Ajay Pandey
    Vice President - Media & Digital
    Sleepwell & Kurlon
    Chella Pandyan
    MMA India Board Member; Chief Growth & Marketing Officer
    Jubilant FoodWorks (Domino’s India)
    Pradnya Popade
    Head of Marketing
    Welspun Global Brands Ltd.
    Anu Raj
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Mahindra Finance
    Darshana Shah
    Brand, CX Leader & Ex CMO
    Abhishek Shetty
    Head Marketing
    Swiggy Instamart
    Greishma Singh
    Vice President Marketing, India & South West Asia
    The Coca-Cola Company
    Sunil Suresh
    CMO
    Air India
    Rohit Talwar
    Chief Marketing Officer
    JSW Paints
    Saumya Tandon
    Marketing Head-KFC
    Devyani International Limited
    Ashish Tiwari
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Home Credit India
    Anupam Tripathi
    Founder
    Oren
    Ruchika Varma
    Chief Marketing & Customer Officer
    Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited

    Jury Facilitator

    Rohit Dadwal
    CEO & BOD, MMA APAC, Global Head of SMARTIES
    MMA Asia Pacific

    Jury Observer

    Abhinav Anthony
    Client Director & Jury Observer (SMARTIES)
    Toluna
    Shreya Roychowdhury
    Client Director & Jury Observer (SMARTIES)
    Toluna
    Ankan Sarkar
    Senior Client Director
    Toluna

    Selection Jury

    Shreyas Sathe
    CEO & Co-founder INSEA
    Hybrid INSEA
    Harsh Agarwal
    Associate Director- Brand Marketing
    MakeMyTrip
    Udit Agarwal
    VP and Global Head of Marketing
    Exotel
    Saurabh Aggarwal
    Founder & CEO
    Insybit
    Supraja Apparla
    Senior Manager
    Adscholars Marketing India Private Limited
    Yogesh Apte
    Head of Digital Business
    Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund
    Sourabh Arya
    Associate Director
    Deloitte
    Chetan Asher
    Founder & CEO
    Tonic Worldwide
    Amit Bapna
    Business Journalist
    Anshul Batra
    Vice President - Advertising
    Paytm Ads
    Vivek Bhargava
    Co-founder
    ProfitWheel Inc
    Sneha Bhaskar
    Marketing Director
    Teads
    Vinita Bhatia
    Editor
    Campaign India
    Ayan Biswas
    Head Digital Acquisition
    YES Bank
    Namita Bohara
    Head Customer Centricity
    Hindalco Industries Ltd
    Frederic Brun
    Managing Director, India
    JCDecaux India
    Anand Chakravarthy
    Chief Growth Officer
    Omnicom Media Group India
    Chinmay Chandratre
    Sr. VP - Media
    FCB/SIX India
    Animesh Das
    Awards Director & Producer
    Kyoorius
    Anshuman Dhanorkar
    Regional Digital Lead - South Asia
    AkzoNobel
    Shetanshu Dikshit
    Lead Digital Communications
    Pernod Ricard India
    Vishnu Kanth Gokul
    Co-Founder & CRO
    The Leapfrog Network
    Rajiv Gopinath
    Chief Solutions Officer
    Publicis Media
    Trideep Goswami
    Director, Business and Marketing Solutions
    Hansa Cequity
    Madhur Goswami
    General Manager Marketing
    Tata Communications
    Ankit Goyle
    Head of India Marketing
    Snap Inc.
    Puneet Gupt
    Chief Operating Officer
    Times Internet
    Siddharth Gupta
    Founder & CEO
    NVECTA
    Nimisha Iyer
    Director - MarComm
    Frost & Sullivan
    Akila Jayaraman
    Head of GTM – Strategy & Marketing & Business Head – Ecommerce Ads
    JioAds
    Chaitanya Kakkar
    VP Business & International Expansion
    SingleInterface
    Shubhra Kakkar
    Managing Director-India & SEA
    Media Marketing Compliance
    Samir Karpe
    Country Manager
    DoubleVerify
    Siddesh Kerkar
    Principal Partner – Digital
    Mindshare World
    Saurabh Khanna
    Sr. VP - Large Client Solutions & Agency Partnerships
    Vserv
    Mansi Khanna
    Director, Ads and Brand & Reputation Marketing
    Google India
    Mansi Khattar
    Head - Organized Trade and ECommerce
    Nestle
    Hari Krishnan
    Managing Director
    Publicis Content & Groupé Marcomm
    Nikhil Kumar
    Chief Growth & Marketing Officer (India & Emerging Markets)
    Affle
    Nishant Malik
    Senior Director
    Affle
    Sameer Malik
    Head of Digital & D2C, India Sub-Continent
    Haleon
    Pratik Maru
    Vice President Marketing
    Sony Pictures Networks India
    Deepa Mathew
    Chief Insights and Digital Marketing Officer
    CEAT
    Sagar Mehta
    Co-Founder & Creative Head
    WHAT ARE YOU SAYING (WAYS)
    Rajesh Mehta
    Chief Strategy Officer
    Medulla Communications
    Reena Mishra
    Partner Director-Microsoft Advertising, India and Southeast Asia
    Microsoft
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    Priyansh Mishra
    Associate Leadership Team
    ICICI Bank
    Shilpashree Muniswamappa
    Director, Esg & Communications
    Colgate Palmolive
    Narayan Murthy
    Head of AdTech Business ASEAN/SA
    Moving Walls
    Deepak Oram
    Sr. VP - Growth Marketing & Martech
    HDFC Bank
    Suman Pal
    Head of Media, Analytics and Partnership
    Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting
    Alok Pandey
    VP - Sales & Marketing
    Xapads Media
    Sandeep Pandey
    CEO & Co-Founder
    Skewb Analytics Private Limited
    Namit Pandit
    General Manager - Digital Commerce
    Hindustan Unilever
    Anang Pandya
    Head of Marketing Solutions
    TransUnion
    Pradyumn Pasari
    Growth strategy & planning
    HP Inc
    Kunik Patel
    Director & Head of Brand Business- INSEA
    InMobi Exchange
    Atishi Pradhan
    Visiting Faculty
    IIM Ahmedabad
    Abhishek Pujar
    Commercial Lead
    Integral Ad Science
    Neeraj Rai
    Marketing Head, Large Customer Business
    Amazon Ads
    Girish Ramachandra
    Co-founder & CEO
    Shopalyst
    Sairam Ranganathan
    Chief Digital Officer
    Wavemaker
    Sakshi Rastogi
    Digital Marketing & Media
    Mother Dairy
    Amit Rathi
    Managing Director India
    Channel Factory
    Vanita Uppal Rathore
    Sr. DIrector - Global Ads sales
    TrueCaller
    Kalpana Ravi
    Independent Journalist
    Sarika Ravindran
    Tata Consultancy Services
    Head, Creatives and Multimedia, Growth Marketing
    Ankit Rawal
    Vice President International Sales & Marketing
    Affle
    Srikanth Rayaprolu
    CEO & Founder
    AdTech Today
    Prrincey Roy
    Co-Founder & CEO 
    Huella Services
    Gandharv Sachdeva
    Country Head - India
    Hybrid
    Shilpa Sadana
    Country Manager India
    Digital Turbine
    Umma Saini
    Chief Creative Officer
    Schbang
    Dr. Kushal Sanghvi
    Director
    Komerz
    Raahul Seshadri
    Director, Tech & AI
    WebEngage
    Amit Sethiya
    CMO
    Polycab
    Chirag Shah
    Business Head
    Aleph India
    Zaid Shaikh
    Business Unit Head
    HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions Pvt Ltd
    Sudha Shankar
    Senior Director Marketing, APAC
    Epsilon
    Rishi Sharma
    Senior Vice President, APAC
    Affinity Global Inc.
    Shailendra Sharma
    Associate General Manager, Systems
    Asian Paints
    Saksham Sharma
    Head of Media for Luxury and Dermatological Beauty division
    L'Oréal
    Rishika Sharma
    Head of Marketing
    ShareChat
    Ronak Sharma
    Head of Digital & E-commerce
    Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd
    Ravi Shharma
    Chief Business Officer
    Bobble.ai
    Sonal Shrivastav
    Digital Head
    Kenstar
    Shishir Shukla
    Chief Manager II - Digital Marketing
    ICICI Bank
    Gyan Pratap Singh
    Head - Growth
    Times Prime
    Bobby Sinha
    Digital Lead India
    Spotify
    Chintan Soni
    Co-Founder and CEO
    mFunnel.ai
    Gaurav Soni
    Head of Media
    Perfetti Van Melle
    Soumya Sreekumar
    Global Brand Manager
    Bata Group
    Rahul Sridhar
    Head of Agency Sales
    PhonePe Ads
    Ritika Taneja
    Senior Vice President - eCommerce
    WPP Media
    Aditya Tibrewal
    GM - Brand Solutions Strategy (Global) | Growth Businesses (IN & MENA)
    AnyMind | POKKT
    Aarooshi Tyagi
    CEO
    Momentus Digital Media Private Ltd.
    Shaurya Bhushan Tyagi
    Head of Digital Marketing
    JSW
    Tarun Ummat
    Managing Director - India
    Teads
    Umanath V
    Managing Editor
    MediaNews4U
    Rachita Vaid
    Founder
    Tailwind
    Anindita Veluri
    MMA India Board Member; Director Marketing
    Adobe
    Udit Verma
    Co-Founder & CMO
    Trackier
    Ankur Wadhwa
    Director
    Flipkart Ads
    Amit Yadav
    Country Manager-South Asia
    PubMatic
    Anubhav Yadu
    AVP & Head, Consumer Vertical
    Performics India

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