Mr Rangaswami was earlier the founding editor of Campaign India magazine. Anant has over 23 years’ experience in media and advertising, having worked with STAR TV, Sony’s SET and BCCL’s Times Television and Times FM. He then moved to advertising as Vice President at TBWA India. Anant is the author of two books, ‘Watching from the Sidelines’ and ‘The Elephants in the Room: The future of advertising in India 2016.

With nearly 28 years of experience; she brings expertise in management of television network operations in the Media and Entertainment industry.

She worked as part of the leadership team at Star, Turner and HBO. She has had a consistent record of increasing business performances in the companies she has worked in.

She is currently the Chief Operating Officer of BTVI (Business Television India) India’s Premiere English Business News Channel.

Her efforts were validated when she was recognized as ‘Next 30’ most powerful women to look out in 2010; and was also adjudged as one of India’s hottest young executives of the media industry in 2009 by Business Today.

She is amongst the top 50 influential women in media, marketing and advertising in the country as judged by a leading industry magazine – IMPACT. She has also received Women Leadership award by World Women Leadership Congress in 2014. She was judged amongst India’s top 100 important people in the industry by Digital Studio a leading publication.

She was awarded the “Women of the Decade in Media” by the Women Economic Forum in 2018.

She was the Vice President of the International Advertising Association India Chapter ( 2016-2018) and is currently in its Mancom. and was a committee member for ASCI (Advertising Standards Council of India) 2013-2015. She has been part of Jury of leading Industry awards like International Emmys, Promax, Children’s Film Festival , Golden Mikes Awards , International Women in Sales Awards , Impacts 30 under 30 and many more.

Besides being involved in industry initiatives, she loves to interact with young minds and does that by giving guest lectures in leading Educational Institutes of the Country like IIT, IIM, ISB, UBS, Rims International, Jamnabai Narsee School , Wellingkar Institute of Management, KJ Somaiya etc.

She is also involved as a Volunteer for Isha Foundation – a non-profit organisation started by Sadhguru.

Currently serving SYSKA Group of companies as Head Marketing to drive the functional deliverables across Indian and Foreign markets for FMCG/FMCD/Service segments for its LED/Personal care appliances/Mobile Accessories/Gadget Secure/Home Appliances business verticals.

Experience of more than 14 years as marketing professional with exposure to branding, customer insight, market segmentation and forecasting of trends to yield custom made campaigns for enhanced productivity and profit. Proficient in integrated marketing communication across various mediums, known for building relationships with multiple partners/ agencies.

Manage brands across consumer segments and formats from bottom of the pyramid to ultra HNIs within India and neighboring countries. Served All India Radio as Radio Jockey for 8 years on FM Rainbow channel in Mumbai as a hobby. Also enjoy travelling, photography, gardening, interior decorating, teaching.

Amit Tyagi is the Executive Editor -TV handling entertainment programming at Aajtak. With 17 years of work experience in media and journalism , Amit has been associated with prestigious media organizations of India . He is a MBA in Marketing but also holds a Masters degree in Mass Communications. Amit is passionate about cinema & music and has been an influence of TV and web movement in the last decade as a Journalist . From Producing and directing a daily entertainment show to telling stories that holds audience has been Amit’ s forte as the entertainment editor of India ‘s most watched Hindi news channel Aajtak for last 4 years.

Marketing head at the world’s largest edu-tech company (Byju’s). Helped multiple start-ups for “Go to market” through his stint at Sequoia Capital. Prior experience involves leading media for Unilever – South Asia.

Currently with Sony Pictures Networks as a Senior Executive Vice President and Business Head of Sony MAX, Sony MAX2, Sony MAX HD , Sony WAH, Sony MIX (music channel), Sony SAB and Sony PAL. Have spent 20 years in the organization.
For the first 15 years was in a Sales role and was instrumental in setting up the business down South. Then moved to Delhi as Branch Head and later in 2006 came back to Mumbai as Head of Sales for Channel SET. Moved to a Business role in the year 2011 and was entrusted the responsibility of heading Channel Sony MAX and also launched the network’s first music channel – Sony MIX. Went on to launch Sony MAX2 in the year 2014 (a retro movie channel) and then Sony MAX HD and Sony WAH in the year 2015.
Sony MAX which is now the undisputed Hindi Movie Channel, offers a heady mix of blockbuster cinema. Over the years have worked on numerous IPL campaigns on Sony MAX which have all been immensely popular and established IPL as the most unique sporting / entertainment event in the country.
Sony WAH launched on 2015 is the leading hindi movie channel in the Free to Air (FTA) space.
Virtually relaunched Sony SAB in June 2017, wherein the channel was redesigned and repackaged with a bounty of new shows, which helped the channel gallop towards a broader zone of entertainment.
Neeraj Vyas is a graduate from Mumbai University with a diploma in marketing from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and a diploma in Film & Video Production from Xavier’s Institute of Communication.

A Media professional with 25 plus years’ experience in Broadcasting, Marketing, Event Management, Ad Sales. Her strength lies in – leadership, relationship management, business development, networking, entrepreneurial orientation, multitasking, team building
She gets along with her decades of experience as VP Head Strategy and Consultation for Distribution.
She has been involved with major media companies namely SPNI, Times Television Network, FOOD FOOD Channel, Bag Network and digital platform owner Digital Entertainment Network (DEN)

Pradeep Guha is currently Managing Director of 9X Media Pvt. Ltd., a television broadcasting company (with five satellite and two digital channels) aimed at youth audiences. Prior to 9X Media, Pradeep was the CEO of India’s largest publicly traded satellite broadcasting network, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. Pradeep was also associated with the print medium for 29 years and was President and Executive Director of The Times of India Group. At The Times of India, Pradeep was the Publisher of The Times of India, Femina and Filmfare brands for 10 years. Pradeep was also associated with many bodies in the field of media, marketing and advertising – as President of the Indian Newspaper Society, Chairman of the National Readership Studies Council, President of the Advertising Club Bombay and the first Chairman of the Broadcast Audience Research Council. He recently finished a 4-year stint as Chairman of the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA). Pradeep was also responsible for enlisting India at the Cannes Lions Festival and was its first Country Representative from India for 10 consecutive years. Pradeep helmed the conceptualization, organization and execution of Asia’s largest biennial advertising Congress, AdAsia that was held in Jaipur, India in 2003. As Chairman of the Steering Committee, Pradeep is currently overseeing the organisation and execution of the World Congress of the International Advertising Association to be held in India for the first time (in Kochi) in February 2019.

Shirish is a successful serial entrepreneur who believes in “fail fast and recover faster”. With 2 decades of media buying expertise He owns and manages businesses in India and overseas.

Growing further partnered with Mr. Manish Singhal On Fakt Marathi and being on the advisory board for the Network channels, Dangal (GEC) enterr10 (Hindi Movies) Bhojpuri cinema, enterr10 BANGLA (GEC) have successfully shaped the network channels with the Vision of Mr.Manish Singhal on being the pride of regional channels.

I have over three decades’ worth of experience in South Asia’s rapidly developing consumer product and service markets. My greatest strength is the sheer diversity of categories, organisational environments and business cycle stages that I have seen and dealt with over this period. I have been long convinced that some of the best problem solving in business situations happens when learnings from utterly different environments are brought to bear upon an issue and this is where the pool of anecdote that I have built becomes invaluable.

Specialties: Consumer Product and Service Sales and Marketing, Business Negotiation, Team leadership and motivation, Goal setting and budgeting, Vision articulation