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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
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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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