Brand Building

Gauri Chaudhry

An alumnus of Chetna Business School and an M Pharm graduate, Gauri is the subject matter expert in Pharmaceutical marketing. Over the last two plus decades Gauri has focused all her efforts at improving marketing efficiency at healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. She has worked at Boehringer Mannheim, Knoll [now Abbott] handling several key brands and at FCB Ulka Healthcare, the specialist pharma marketing arm of FCB Ulka. She has worked on numerous brands across a large spectrum of therapies. She is also a visiting faculty at several B Schools in Mumbai and a much in demand trainer for pharma brand marketing teams. She currently heads a specialist consultancy organization, Innerworld.

K Dasaratharaman

Alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, Dash brings rich experience in packaged consumer marketing including deep knowledge of sales systems. Dash headed the ITD marketing for ITC for many years before moving to the organized retail business with the RPG Group. He has set up and run large sales teams as well as large complex organized retail business in consumer goods, healthcare, music etc. He is a certified CEO Coach, serves on several Boards and is a much acclaimed visiting professor at IIM Calcutta.

Kavita Gadkari

Kavita’s advertising career spans over 17years with FCB Ulka, Grey Group (India) and Inca Tanvir Advertising (UAE) through which she has worked across some of the country’s most prestigious FMCG, Durable, Telecom and Automotive brands. Her strengths lie in developing brand strategy from astutely studying the ‘lay-of-the-land’ and its market dynamics with an equally intense understanding of qualitative market research. She has worked on several pan-India and pan-region market studies across sectors to gain invaluable insights on cultural and lifestyle shifts within generations and societies at large.

V S Sitaram

Alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, Kannan Sitaram has over three decades experience in packaged consumer brands spanning many continents. A large part of Sitaram’s career was spent in Ponds and Unilever, both in India and UK. He has launched numerous consumer products and headed the sales organization of HUL, as well as the beverages division. He was COO at Dabur during the period the company made several successful acquisitions and built great momentum as a FMCG company. He turned angel investor in 2010 and currently advises companies involved in consumer marketing.

Vasant Nangia

Alumnus of St Stephens and IIM Calcutta, Vasant brings with him over three decades experience in the business of luxury brands. Starting his career with Asian Paints, Vasant moved to Taj Hotels in their projects team, only to move to Titan as one of the early members of the pioneering team. He helped create and build the iconic Tanishq brand and then went on to set up Oyzterbay, a jewellery retail chain. He currently serves as the CEO of Fossil India and is also an independent advisor to several start-ups in the luxury domain.