A Winning Equation for Consumer Businesses - 17 Oct 2020

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A WINNING EQUATION FOR CONSUMER BUSINESSES

6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Opening Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA &

Mr Pankaj Seith

Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd

Vice President - Insights

Address by the Speaker

HT Media Ltd

Mr Pankaj Seith Vice President - Insights HT Media Ltd

SATURDAY

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees

OCT 17, 2020 | 6.00 PM

Mr C K Venkataraman Managing Director, Titan Company Ltd

Mr Rahul Varma Co–Founder InfoLeap Market Research & Consultancy

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7:45 PM

Webinar Ends

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profile

SPEAKER

PANKAJ SEITH A professional with nearly three decades of experience in Marketing, Sales and Research/Insights roles across leading companies like Pond’s India

Ltd,

Hindustan

Unilever

Ltd

and

HDFC

Life

Insurance.

Currently

heading the Insights function at HT Media Group and enabling the print, digital and radio businesses of HT Media Group. An avid sports enthusiast and a keen mentor and trainer.

SPECIAL

INVITEES

C K VENKATARAMAN C K Venkataraman became a Director designated as Managing Director of Titan with effect from October 1, 2019. He is a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Management from IIM-Ahmedabad and had joined Titan in 1990 and worked in the Advertising and Marketing functions before becoming the Head of Sales & Marketing for the Titan brand in 2003. Thereafter he took charge of the Jewellery Division in 2005 and subsequently became the

Chief

Executive

Officer

of

the

Jewellery

Division

before

being

elevated to Managing Director.

RAHUL VARMA Rahul has nearly two decades of experience across Consulting, Marketing and Consumer Market Research. Not only has he shown the way to his clients

but

has

also

successfully

run

business

at

a

group

level

and

managed geographies.

Before launching InfoLeap as a dream project, he successfully started and nurtured the Media CT (Content & Technology) specialization as well as Public Affairs specialization for Ipsos in India. Prior to this, he was leading the Synovate research business (Qualitative and Quantitative) in New Delhi.

His

passion

orientation

for

training

research

for

all

also

the

led

him

budding

to

successfully

researchers

manage

joining

the

organization.

He

has

also

worked

in

organizations

like

IMRB

International

and

The

Nielsen company during his stint in consumer market research. He has also co-presented a paper on Brand Value Creator (Synovate's brand equity model) in MRSI. Rahul

started

working

on

his

career

market

entry

from

Tata

strategies,

Economic as

well

Consultancy as

conducting

Services, Techno

Economic Feasibility Report across sectors.

Post consulting, he worked in Automotive sector (Daewoo Motors) and sharpened his skills in marketing.

Rahul holds a BE degree from RV College of Engineering (Bangalore), and completed his post graduation in management from Sydenham Institute of Management (Mumbai)

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