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ET Edge, an initiative of The Economic Times has been founded to empower
multiple sectors, industries and segments through the dispersion of critical
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Foreseeing the tremendous potential which India has in store, ET Edge strives to
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 PRESIDENT’S NOTE

Deepak
Lamba
President - Times Strategic
Solutions Limited
CEO - World Wide Media

Fueled by strong economic activity and growth in consumer spending globally,

the architecture and real estate segment has been growing exponentially in
the last decade till Covid-19 halted its meteoric rise since the beginning of this
year.
The unavailability of a vaccine and the fear of contagion has brought about
a paradigm shift in the thought process of businesses, and a change of
priorities including, but not limited to remote working, social distancing, space
optimization, and low-touch experience especially in spaces where humans
gather in large numbers and interact is becoming the new norm.
Thus, altering of the life spaces we interact with right from workplaces to
educational institutions, from the hospitality and travel industry to government-
led infrastructure projects, from residential to commercial real estate will lead
to re-imagining of life spaces from physical to digital physical spaces. That is
reconfiguring of spaces with the help of sensors, the internet of things (IoT),
artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies.
Thus, as an agent of change, it is a constant endeavour by The Economic Times
to address issues of importance that are central to the growth of businesses and
our nation. This year we bring to you an exclusive platform – TOI DesigNXT, a
virtual gathering that will highlight the endless smart possibilities for connected
living, right from workplaces to educational institutions, from the hospitality
and travel industry to government-led infrastructure projects, from residential
to commercial real estate. While governments, corporations and industries at
large, try to adapt to the new normal, it is our hope to present them with
solutions that will make the restoration of our routine lives a seamless process.
The conclave will bring together global thought leaders to debate, deliberate
and arrive upon innovative solutions for a post pandemic, highly connected,
low-touch world.
Through this forum, we have tried to consider and address the most relevant
and most pressing issues of this function. I urge you to make the best of this
platform to interact, engage and share knowledge with your peers. Look
forward to an interactive day.
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How Pando helped
Britannia achieve
100% freight
network visibility
Biscuits and Britannia go a long way
back. 102 years to be precise. Their
history goes back to the era of World
War II when biscuits sales soared and
Britannia catered to them. Being India's
100 Most Trusted brands, Britannia
constantly experiments with diversifying
its range of products and aims to be at
the forefront of technology and
automation in their supply chain.
Getting aboard Pando’s digital platform,
Britannia gained greater visibility and
control over their network and saw
savings of up to 6.5% in their freight
spend.
The challenge ahead
Britannia has large-capacity factories
and depots spread all over the
country to ensure the smooth delivery
of their packaged goods to
consumers. Keeping the wheels of
their supply chain running are multiple
stakeholders of varying levels utilizing
different tools and platforms.
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“We decided to digitize our supply
chain to both sustain and power
our growth. Pando is helping us do
this and completely resolving all
problems and adding value”
- Ashok Kumar,
Supply Chain Director at Britannia
Their biggest challenge lay in unifying
these technologies and driving
productivity across the chain. Working
together on a single platform was their
prime objective.
How effectively we
deliver will depend on how
cohesively we move together
as a full-function
- Ashok Kumar, Supply chain
director, Britannia Ltd.
At Britannia, they were also looking for
a way to optimize their goods
movements with the latest technologies
and data analytics. “ We realized that
there is a large potential in the way we
are moving loads from the factory to
sales depots and into our distribution
centers,” elaborates Harish Navarathna
- Head of Corporate IT at Britannia
Industries
 Why did Britannia choose Pando?
We evaluated a lot of platforms
and found while each product
addressed just a part of the
transport module, Pando brought
all the players in the transport
business together.
Intelligent dispatching of products was
achieved by maxmizing truck utilization
and mapping out optimized routes
through the Optima module. Pando
could also deliver granular insights on
the strategic location of depots in
different regions, further reducing
transportation costs for Britannia. 

- Harish Navarathna Additionally, the Pando Pay module

Head of Corporate IT, Britannia Ltd
enabled Britannia to get rid of their
paper-based approvals, thus shrinking
the payment cycles. Pando automated
workflows with their finance and audit
teams and generated digital invoices
with auto-calculated freight rates.

The solution Recounts Harish, “When we were

looking at a finance integration, we want
Understanding Britannia’s need for
certain things the way we work now, and
better visibility and freight optimization,
the team at Pando was willing to take
Pando plugged in their factory, depot.
that approach. They are flexible to look
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company, and that’s the reason we
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volume, weight, cost per kg, truck rates,
etc.. from different depots across the
country.

Britannia could now track and have

visibility over the trips made between
every node in their freight network.
Their regional depot managers were no
longer in the dark regarding the load
movements and worked confidently
with the data in hand.

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The Results

As Britannia explores different product ranges that serve the needs of a million
households, they now do so on a transparent and organized logistics network
that eases collaboration and streamlines their day-to-day operations.

Reduction of TAT for invoices

6.5% Savings in freight spend 80% from delivery to payment

Pando is helping us make sure that we have our issues resolved

through a single platform across multiple stakeholders, and we
now have complete visibility across the system.
- Ashok Kumar, Supply chain director, Britannia Ltd.

Ready to gain visibility and take

control of your freight network
like Britannia did?

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Guest of Honor

Rita
Teaotia , IAS (Retd.)
Chairperson
FSSAI

Ms. Rita Teaotia joined the Indian Administrative Service in the year 1981
and served in the Districts of Panchmahal and Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
Subsequently, she worked in the energy sector as Managing Director, Gujarat
Industries Power Company Ltd., and Secretary (Energy), Gujarat.
From 2003-2007, she worked as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare, Government of India, focussing on Food Safety, Drugs Control
Administration and National Disease Control Programmes.
From 2012 to 2015, she worked in the Ministry of Telecommunications
and Information Technology, Government of India, in the areas of
Telecommunications Policy and Governance. In this capacity, she has worked
on standards, telecom manufacturing and telecom policy.
Over a career spanning 35 years she has worked extensively in both policy
making and practise in varied sectors including Energy, Health, Rural
Development, IT and Telecommunications.
Ms. Rita Teaotia worked as Commerce Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce
& Industry from July 2015 till July 2018. Her special areas of interest were
Standards, Logistics and Government e-procurement.
Ms. Teaotia joined as Chairperson, Food Safety & Standards Authority of India
from 28th Nov 2018.

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Abhijeet
Ranade
Partner and Head -
Customer and Channel
KPMG in India

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Ajay
Khanna
CMO
Amway India

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Ajay
Motwani
CMO, Consumer Business
Adani Wilmar

Mr Motwani joined Adani Wilmar, with presence in edible oils, basmati rice,
atta, RTC, soya chunks, besan, pulses, Soaps & FMCG etc, more than three
years ago. He is responsible for driving profitable ‘Market Share’ gain across
the diverse categories it operates in and the creation of a healthy pipeline of
new products.
Designated Assistant Vice President, Mr. Motwani leads Consumer insights,
Media- Traditional/Digital, Activation-Trade/Consumer, apart from the
Category teams.
Prior to joining Adani Wilmar, Mr Motwani worked with Dabur India for a
decade, in different roles in category management, in Personal Care/Foods/
Home Care verticals, in consumer goods companies. He has also worked with
Marico & Castrol in a career spanning more than 23 years.
Mr Motwani believes in driving competitive and profitable brand growth
through insightful strategy translated into product, packaging, communication,
branding solutions, etc.
Mr Motwani has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Veermata
Jijabai Technological Institute(VJTI), Mumbai, and MBA in Marketing from
SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.

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Avinash
Kant Kumar
Executive Vice President –
Supply Chain
Jubilant FoodWorks

Avinash Kant Kumar, Executive Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain, Quality
& Regulatory Affairs, and Restaurant Engineering at Jubilant FoodWorks
Limited is an IIT graduate (IIT Kharagpur) with a post-graduation in Industrial
Engineering from NITIE, Mumbai. In a corporate career spanning 26+ years,
Avinash has worked with renowned FMCG companies like P&G, Coca-Cola,
Reliance Retail, McCain Foods, etc.,
Domino’s Pizza India is the LARGEST and FASTEST Growing MNC Food Service
Brand in India, with a network of 1230 Domino’s Pizza restaurants, across 279
cities. Also, Domino’s Pizza India is also the LARGEST MARKET FOR DOMINO’S IN
THE WORLD (outside of USA). In February 2011, company entered into Master
Franchise Agreement with Dunkin’ Donuts for developing and operating its
restaurants in India and has 68 Dunkin’ Donuts Restaurants in India.
Jubilant FoodWorks Limited went to Public (IPO) in February 2010, making it
the 1st Company in QSR Industry in India, to be listed successfully on the stock
market. JFL’s IPO was rated as the BEST IPO in 5 years, by ET NOW - the share
price posted 700% gain since listing and has created shareholder wealth of
almost INR 7000 crores. The success of JFL has catalysed flow of PE money
into the organized FOOD RETAIL (Also, the upbeatness in the Retail industry in
general). The Company has become a benchmark of successful and profitable
retail story, not only in India, but also overseas.
Along the way, JFL has won highest level of accolades as “The Most Promising
Company in India” (by CNBC), “Best Emerging Company in India” (by Economic
Times), “Most Admired Food Service Company in India”, One of the “Top 7
Most Innovative Companies in Asia” (by BNP Paribas’ Consumer Innovation
Thematic Report 2014). Additionally, Jubilant Foodworks, is also rated as one
of the “BEST EMPLOYERS”, in India, as per “Hewitt Best Employer’s” survey and
“Great Place to Work” study.

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Deepak
Iyer
Managing Director
Mondelez International,
India

Deepak Iyer is Managing Director of Mondelez India Foods Pvt. Ltd and is
responsible for leading the business of Mondelēz International in this dynamic
and emerging market. Deepak is also part of the Asia Pacific, Middle East and
Africa (AMEA) Leadership Team.
With close to twenty-five years of management experience spanning sales,
marketing, franchise management and general management, Deepak has
extensive experience in the FMCG space.
Prior to joining Mondelez India, he was the CEO and Managing Director of
Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Ltd.
He has also served as CEO and Managing Director, Indian Subcontinent at
Wrigley India Pvt. Ltd,
Deepak was earlier with PepsiCo Inc. for 17 years working in different roles in
India, South Asia and Africa. He has also worked in Marico Industries, Coats
Viyella India and Tata Telecom Ltd.
He holds a Master of Management Studies (MBA), Marketing from SP Jain
Institute, Mumbai and a Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics from Sardar Patel
University, Gujarat.

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Gagan
Deep
Head Packaging Development
The Himalaya Drug Company

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Harsha
Razdan
Partner and Head - Consumer
Markets and Internet Business
KPMG in India

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Hetal
Gandhi
Director
CRISIL Research

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Kalpesh
Parmar
Country General Manager
Mars Wrigley
India in conversation

Kalpesh Parmar is Country General Manager for Mars Wrigley India. Currently
leading the Mars Wrigley business for India, he is based in the Gurgaon office
and a member of Mars Wrigley’s Global Emerging Markets Leadership Team
since January 2020.
An alumnus of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Kalpesh is a
seasoned business leader with 21 years of experience in consumer industry
spanning across South Korea, Singapore, Dubai, Turkey, Nigeria and India,
with specific focus on business development, brand building, route to market,
e-commerce and capability building.
Kalpesh was associated Unilever for the past 12 years. He was most recently
designated as the CEO for South Korea, Pacific Islands and Mongolia, and he
also managed the Ice Cream business in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Prior to this, he was designated as the Global Customer Collaboration Director
based out of Singapore. He was the member of Global Customer Development
team and was responsible for managing 30 customer insight and innovation
centers across the Globe. He was driving the joint business planning process for
developed and emerging markets for Top 40 markets. At Unilever Nigeria, he
was leading the Shopper & Customer Marketing agenda, supporting customer
marketing and modern trade development for Sub Saharan Africa. Kalpesh has
also worked with Gillette and Marico in India prior to Unilever.

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Kamaldeep
Singh
President - Food & FMCG
Future Group

‘Kamaldeep Singh is an accomplished leader with over 18 years of rich &

diverse experience. He is currently President, Food & FMCG at Future Group.
Future Group is leader in Food and FMCG Retail with more than 1000 stores
with Leading Formats like Big Bazaar, Hyper City, Easyday and Heritage. He has
over a decade of experience at Future Group.
He is instrumental in handling strategic projects & initiative for group. He was
working as Food & FMCG Business Head before taking over as President. He
brings strong cross functional & rich experience in Sales and Marketing in Retail
& FMCG Industry. He also plays leadership role in development and launch of
own brands.
Previously he worked with Reliance Retail. Before that he was working with
Wrigley in Sales & Marketing. He holds Post Graduate Diploma (PGDRM) from
IRMA
He is an avid reader and likes to cook in his free time.

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Kamlesh
Karamchandani
Director - Sales & Marketing
HyFun Foods

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Kevin
Vyse
Head of Technology
RAPUK

Kevin Vyse has over 35 years experience in the packaging industry and has
worked on all sides of the business from supply chain to retailer and from
design to production. He began his career with Metal Box, one of the UK’s
largest packaging companies before moving to SC Johnson and then his own
packaging design business for 10 years. In later years he has been Head of
Design at Tesco and Senior Packaging Technologist at Marks and Spencer.
He is now Head of Technology for the packaging company Rapid Action
Packaging. He is a well known advocate of the Circular Economy contributing
to conferences and articles on the subject and has worked with the Ellen
MacArthur Foundation, the UN and HRH Prince Charles’s Sustainability Unit on
plastic reduction initiatives

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Madhusudan
Gopalan
CEO
P&G India Sub-Continent

Mr. Madhusudan Gopalan is Managing Director & CEO of India Sub Continent
at Procter & Gamble where he is responsible for developing P&G’s business,
organization and corporate reputation. He has more than 18 years of experience
working for the company across business units and diverse geographies like
India, US and ASEAN countries. Prior to his India role, Madhusudan was leading
the P&G business in Indonesia where he has led strong sales growth, share turn
around, strong value creation and cash productivity. As a passionate advocate
of diversity, he spearheaded the development of local talent in Indonesia and
under his leadership, the company recently achieved the milestone of having
more than 50% women managers in the workforce. Madhusudan also served
as the Chairman of Indonesia Chapter of US ASEAN Business Council and
advised the Indonesian government on policy matters.
Madhusudan started his career with P&G in India 1999 as a new hire in the
Sales function from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and worked in
various locations across India including being part of P&G’s first Modern Retail
team in India. His first international assignment was to P&G’s headquarters
in the United States, where he worked with the P&G-Walmart business
team. He returned to India as the Head – Market, Strategy & Planning and
oversaw the rapid growth of P&G’s business that grew 10 times in the space
of a decade. He then moved to Indonesia as Head of Sales where he learnt to
speak the local language, Bahasa Indonesia. Madhusudan later assumed the
position of ASEAN Commercial Leader based in Bangkok, where he oversaw
the commercial category teams across all P&G ASEAN countries and helped
set up P&G’s e-commerce business teams in the region. Post this assignment,
he returned to Indonesia as the Head of the P&G business before taking over
as India CEO.

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Manoj
Kothari
VP & head of Supply Chain Godrej
Africa, USA & Middle East
Godrej Consumer Products

Manoj Kothari is an innovative and transformative global supply chain leader,

with experience building and leading end-to-end supply chain for supporting
growth of the business & delivering P&L. Collaborate with key stakeholders,
senior management and cross-functional teams to make supply chain
deliver value to businesses. Leading supply chain of 350 Million USD cluster
encompassing geographies across Asia, Africa & North America. Handling
diverse supply chains of Consumer Products Goods (CPG) to Fast fashion.
Manoj is entrusted with additional charge of USA with manufacturing facility
in GA. He played crucial role in upgrading manufacturing infrastructure,
improving DC operations, adhering compliances & serving world’s biggest
retail chains with most stringent norms of OTIF & fill rates. Africa & middle
east continues to be on a path of efficiency & agility, delivering in some of the
most challenging & hostile environment.
His expertise includes:
• Supply chain based on TOC
• Fast Fashion supply chain
• P&L
• Strategic partnerships
• Category expertise of personal care, Hair care, Home Insecticide, Cosmetics
& synthetic hair products
• Cost Optimization
• Inspiring leadership
• passion to create legacy

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Narasimhan
Eswar
SVP - South Asia
RB Hygiene

Narasimhan ‘Nachi’ Eswar is Senior Vice President, RB Hygiene, South Asia. In

his current role Nachi is responsible for the overall management and business
operations in South Asia.
In a career spanning 28 years, Nachi has worked in multiple roles in Sales and
Marketing and has held senior management and leadership roles in the FMCG
industry.
In his career at RB, prior to his current role, he has held the position of Managing
Director in South East Asia (Thailand, Philippines and Indo-China). He has also
been the Managing Director in Hong Kong and Taiwan and has held strategic
roles in Spain, Portugal and the UK.
Prior to joining RB in 2007, Nachi worked in the FMCG industry for several
years across Switzerland, UK, South Africa and India.
Narasimhan has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT BHU
Varanasi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

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Navin
Tewari
Chief Executive Officer
Capital Foods

Navin Tewari is the Chief Executive Office of Capital Foods India, India’s one
of the fastest growing food companies with presence in over 10 countries
worldwide. The company offers to create excitement in food through innovative
solutions each time through two distinct brands – Ching’s Secret and Smith &
Jones. Ching’s Secret owns the ‘Desi Chinese’ cuisine block and offers masalas,
soups, sauces, noodles and chutney. Smith & Jones offers Indian cooking
pastes, sauces and masalas.
Through the company Navin is working on a mission to make ‘Ghar Ka Khana’
(Homemade Food) exciting by making the cooking experience enjoyable – 3
times a day, 7 days a week, on all 365 days a year – at a great price.
Known for his empathetic and people oriented approach Navin, has worked
with varied industries ranging from food, cement, mutual funds to various
aspects of financial services. Prior to joining Capital Foods, Navin was the
Executive President of UltraTech Cement Limited where he was responsible for
accelerating the business engine to grow to scale the newer heights in already
established and successful cement business.
As Head of Sales and Marketing in Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund his work mantra
is to ‘Always keep things simple’. During his tenure, assets of BSLAMC has
grown from approximately Rs 22,000 crores to ever highest Rs. 86,000 crores
in 4 years’ time, moving up the company to rank No. 4 in the industry in terms
of Average Assets Under Management from No.8 earlier.
He began his career as Merchant Banker in 1995. Over the years, he has worked
with organizations such as Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company Ltd as
a founding team member, AVIVA Life Insurance and the erstwhile Birla Sun Life
Distribution, now known as Aditya Birla Money.
While Navin is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Bachelor in Commerce, he
prefers to refer to himself as an explorer, who always in search of implementing
new ideas to bring disruption in the industry and thereby build sustainable
scale.

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Neil
George
Managing Director
NIVEA India

Neil George is the Managing Director for Nivea – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Nepal and Bhutan; one of the fastest growing subsidiaries for the Beiersdorf. He
is also a member of the Global Leadership Council for the company. Beiersdorf
is a €8 Billion DAX 30 corporation and owner of brands like Nivea, Nivea Men,
Eucerin, La Prairie and Labello.
Neil has previously worked with Beiersdorf (in Northern Europe and in Dubai),
Reckitt Benckiser, Private Equity and Procter & Gamble managing businesses
and teams across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and on roles of
increasing responsibility.
Neil is an Alumnus of the London Business School and is a visiting Faculty at
various business schools in Asia. Recent professional successes include his
teams winning ‘Brand of the Year –U.K and Netherlands’ and double gold at
the ‘Digital Impact Awards 2013’ & ‘Global innovation of the year award 2015’
and ‘Economic Times Promising Brands of India – 2019’
His interests include the Arsenal football club, wine regions, photography and
he recently published his and the World’s first brand management comic “
Building the Perfect Beast – What Really Happens in Brand Management ”
published by Harper Collins.
Neil lives in Bombay with his wife and two children.
Twitter: @omnikarma @btperfectbeast
Website: www.omnikarma.blogspot.com, www.btperfectbeast.com

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Nigamanth
Srivatsan
Director, Customer Success
Pando

Nigamanth heads the solutions division for Pando, exploring opportunities

to reach new industries and geographies and was previously driving valuable
customer relationships in his role as Director of customer success at Pando.
During his stint with Miebach Consulting as project manager, Nigamath steered
supply chain transformation projects in the area of network optimization,
supply chain strategies, freight cost optimization, and many more for Fortune
500 clients like Unilever, Mondelez, PepsiCo, ITC, Cipla, and Myntra. His
expertise spans across multiple industries including FMCG, F&B, auto parts,
e-Commerce, and pharma consulting for clients in India, China, APAC, and GCC.

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Nitin
Jayakrishnan
Founder & CEO
PandoCorp

Nitin Jayakrishnan is co-founder of Pando and oversees Pando’s global

expansion and go-to-market. Pando is a network-powered, all-in-one freight
automation platform built to unshackle operations and power cost-effective
growth for global manufacturers of all sizes. Before Pando, Nitin co-founded
and led operations at iDelivery, a technology-enabled transporter aggregator
platform. He is an alumnus of Singapore Management University, New York
University’s Stern School of Business, and Warwick Manufacturing Group,
University of Warwick, with degrees in Finance and Technology Management.

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Philippe Gerwill
Executive Consultant - Fusion Consulting,
Digitalization Humanist, Futurist,
Mentor & Coach - IT, Healthcare and
Pharmaceutical industries, Official
Mentor - Cherie Blair Foundation for
Women

He is a TEDx and inspirational speaker, a digitalization humanist, a futurist and

a mentor/coach with a proven record of accomplishment especially in the IT,
Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries.
He is regularly speaking at major events in Europe but also a lot in Asia, mainly in
Singapore and China. Philippe received an “Oversea Think Tank Expert Award”
granted by Chinese government officials during the 3rd World Intelligence
Congress held in Tianjin in May 2019.
He is an Industry Advisor for Healthcare at AllTingsConnected and IoTSG in
Singapore since beginning of 2019 and became an Executive Advisor at the
IMA (International Manufacturing Alliance) and at the A.Brain Groupin Tianjin,
China in 2019 as well as a Senior Advisor for COSMOPlat/Haier Advisory
Committee in Qingdao, China in 2020.
He is also an official mentor at the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women since
beginning of 2018 as well as an Advisor for Antler, a Singapore based incubator
and VC company, in their new branch in London since March 2019. Since June
2020 he is also a member of the Advisory Committee at WISeKey, a leading
information security and identity management company based in Geneva,
Switzerland.
While being quite knowledgeable on most of the new digital trends where he
got also a certification on Artificial Intelligence from the University of Helsinki,
Finland in summer 2018 and an Industry 4.0 certification from the Honk
Kong Polytechnic University in July 2020, Philippe remains a big supporter of
sustainability and an adept of Pr. Gunter Pauli’s Blue Economy.
He is always putting the Human at the center of the discussion and trying to
keep digital transformation, nature and humanity aligned.
Before that he spent about 30 years in various positions in big corporations in
Basel, Switzerland, half of it in the Specialty Chemicals Industry including also
an 18 months expat assignment in the USA in 2002-2003 and the other half
more recently in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Industry.

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Piruz
Khambatta
Chairman & Managing Director
Rasna

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Praharsh
Chandra
Co-Founder and COO
Shadowfax

Praharsh Chandra is the Chief Operating Officer of Shadowfax – the Uber of

last mile deliveries and India’s largest crowdsourced logistics platform. He
graduated from IIT Delhi in 2013 and started his career as a consultant with AT
Kearney – a global management consultancy firm. In March 2015, he joined his
friends Abhishek and Vaibhav with an aim to transform the logistics ecosystem
in the country – taking a plunge into entrepreneurship, which ultimately led to
the creation of Shadowfax.
Under Praharsh’s stewardship, the company has successfully navigated through
the highly competitive logistics and hyperlocal landscape, receiving several
accolades in the process such as Niti Ayog’s Champions of Change Initiative. It
has come out as one of the winners and the ones to watch out for in the future.

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Prasanna
Rai
Vice President and Chief
Marketing Officer
Wipro Consumer Care, India

Previously worked with J&J, Lenovo and ITC. Was involved in the launch of
Aashirvaad, Kitchens of India and Listerine in India and have been in the
consumer marketing space for more than 20 years.

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Rahul
Prithiani
Director
CRISIL Research

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Rajat
Wahi
Partner
Deloitte Consulting

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Raosaheb Patil
Danve
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs
Food & Public Distribution
Government of India

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Rohit
Malkani
Vice President, Marketing
Crompton Greaves Consumer
Electricals

A Mechanical Engineer and MBA by qualification, Rohit has worked across the
Sales and Marketing function over the years and is the CMO & Vice President
Marketing at Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd since 2018.
His 23+ years career has been spent contributing to the growth story at some
of India’s leading companies. Starting out as an Engineer with Larsen & Toubro
Ltd he moved to work across sales and marketing in Gillette India Ltd (now
Proctor & Gamble) before moving to Asian Paints Ltd in the year 2000. He has
spent 18 years at Asian Paints driving excellence in sales, customer centricity,
category management, digital marketing, services, retailing, insights and
innovation.
Rohit is an alumnus of Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai, Sardar Patel College
of Engineering, Mumbai and XLRI Jamshedpur. Interests and hobbies include
wildlife, travel, reading, music and golf.

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Sachin
Chhabra
Founder
Peel-Works

Sachin Chhabra, the founder of Peel-Works, started his journey in the FMCG
industry around 25 years ago with Hindustan Unilever. After working across
a variety of roles, he founded Peel-Works in 2010 with a mission to provide
‘Better Lives to India’s CornerStores’. Taikee by Peel-Works is a B2B e-commerce
platform that makes sourcing grocery inventory convenient for small and mid-
sized retailers. An alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Sachin’s vision is to create
a sustainable business built on inclusive practices and larger social good.

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Sanjay
Singal
COO - Dairy & Beverages
ITC

Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for ITC’s Dairy & Beverages business.
In this role, he handles the P&L for the business encompassing all aspects
including R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and Operations. Prior to
that, he was Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited
handling brands like Real Fruit Juices. In a career spanning nearly 25 years, he
has handled senior P&L responsibilities and Functional leadership in Marketing
and Sales for Personal Care and Foods businesses in India and abroad.
Sanjay started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited in 1995, after
completing his MBA from IIM Bangalore. At Unilever. he handled various
responsibilities across Sales & Marketing for over 11 years in India and overseas
on brands like Fair & Lovely and Dove with Asia responsibilities. Post that, he
joined Yum Restaurants International as Senior Marketing Manager where he
handled the ‘Pizza Hut’ brand for South Asia from 2005 to 2007.
Sanjay is associated actively with various Industry associations like Indian
Beverage Association and Indian Dairy Association.
At ITC, Sanjay has led the entry of ITC into Dairy category with the launch
of Fresh Dairy and Dairy Beverage businesses. He is also a member of the
Divisional Management Committee of ITC Foods.
He is based in Bangalore. His wife is an artist and homemaker, his Son is
pursuing Undergrad course in US and daughter is in school.

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Sankalp
Potbhare
Chief Commercial Officer - Asia
The Kraft Heinz Company

16+ years of CPG industry experience across Asia Pacific markets at global
organizations like Kraft Heinz, Reckitt Benckiser, and PepsiCo. Worked across
multiple business domains like leading large teams & P&L, Consumer Marketing,
Trade & Key Account Management, B2B (Partnerships) and Strategy function.
Currently working with Kraft Heinz as Chief Commercial Officer – Asia. Prior
to that have done roles like South Asia Managing Director for Kraft Heinz,
Head of Go To Market (Offline) and Ecommerce for Asia Pacific for the same
organization (based out of Singapore)
Before that Sankalp has had a fast track career across the past 16 years in
world’s leading CPG companies like PepsiCo and Reckitt Benckiser.

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Santosh
Hegde
CEO
Salesdiary

In 2012, Santosh Hegde, capitalized on his 10 years of expertise of software

architecture and product development experience by launching his own
SaaS product, SalesDiary to solve some of the most complex problem sets
of supply and demand in the FMCG industry. SalesDiary is now being used
in many parts of the world. Santosh has also been consulting in the areas of
Satellite Communication and Mobile Device Management (MDM) sectors. In
2017 he launched his 2nd SaaS product Emmlyt in collaboration with Google
and samsung which is been widely used across the globe by Enterprises and
Government Agencies.

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Smerth
Khanna
Business Head - Ecommerce
Dabur

Smerth is an E-commerce leader for high velocity businesses with significant

experience in building online sales channels, driving digital transformations
and developing new avenues for growth acceleration.
He is currently leading and building Dabur India’s eCommerce business –
strengthening partnerships, new product development and pivoting innovation
in e-commerce product line.
In his previous role, Smerth has worked with Snapdeal where he was leading
brand alliance division for IT category and was successfully driving a revenue of
$400M in gross sales value, serving 6M+ customers annually.
He also comes with a rich experience of working with top global companies like
Microsoft & HCL to understand the sales and market dynamics.

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Sudhir
Langer
Chief Executive Officer
Raymond Consumer Care

Sudhir Langer is the CEO of Raymond Consumer Care since March 2020.
He joined Raymond Consumer Care in May 2019 as the Business Director
wherein he was responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership
with P&L accountability for the Personal & Home Care cluster. A seasoned sales
& marketing professional with 20+ years, Sudhir has an illustrious experience
managing different categories and brands within the consumer goods industry.
He has worked in India and the UK and has rich experience in global brand
marketing, category marketing and innovation.
Earlier, he was associated with Tata Global Beverages as the Vice President &
Global Category Director for the Tea category.
He has also worked with Reckitt Benckiser and Colgate Palmolive in various
roles in sales, customer marketing and global brand management.
Sudhir is an Architect and is a marketing post graduate from MDI, Gurgaon.

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Sumit
Khandelwal
CEO
Xoxoday

Sumit is an MBA from TAPMI. He has 12+ years of experience in business

strategy, consumer sales, brand management, investor relations and finance.
Sumit has worked with companies such as Wipro Consumer Care, Hexaware
and Metro. He has a rich experience in FMCG & Retail. He sits on the Board of
Studies for MBA colleges like IFIM, Wellingkar.
Sumit loves to spend time with young professionals and entrepreneurs,
exploring ideas and working with them. He is always up for sports, likes to
ride bikes, travels often for business or spends personal time with family. He
is a Half Marathon runner & Adventure loving, In his free time, he prefers to
workout and plays a game of snooker.
LinkedIn Profile -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitkhandelwal2/

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Sunil
Kumar
Country President
Henkel Group – India

Sunil Kumar was appointed President of Henkel in India, effective October 01,
2020, responsible for steering the company through its next growth phase. In
addition, he is the Regional Business Director – Packaging SBU for India, Middle
East & Africa, Henkel Adhesive Technologies. This is a role he has been essaying
since January 2020.
He joined Henkel in January 2015 as Business Director – Packaging & Consumer
Goods, South Asia. In this role, he was responsible for Flexible Packaging,
Packaging and Labelling, Paper, Tapes, Labels, Personal Hygiene, Building,
Construction and Sports and Fashion businesses in the country.
Sunil started his career in 1990 with the Carborundum Universal Ltd., a division
of the Murugappa Group. He has also worked with Castrol between 1992
and January 2015 in various sales and marketing positions in the Industrial
segments of Automotive, Metals amongst others.
Sunil holds a Bachelor’s in Technology degree (B.Tech) in Chemical Engineering
from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, CIT Coimbatore. He has also
completed an Executive Certificate Program in Business Management, Indian
Institute of Management, Kolkata.
Sunil resides in Mumbai with his wife Anitha Sunil Kumar, MBA in HR and an
established artist, who has held multiple solo art shows at renowned galleries
across India. His daughter, Varsha Sunil Kumar, has completed her B.Tech in
Chemical Engineering and is currently planning to pursue her Master’s degree
in the US.

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Sushant
Patil
Associate Director
Itelligence India

Sushant Patil is an Information Technology Graduate for Mumbai University

with more than 15 years of Sales & Business Development Experience across
various industry verticals like Telecom, Global resourcing, Cloud Consulting
and Global ERP’s like SAP, Oracle & Microsoft. He played a key role in setting
up India, South East Asia and Middle East Business Unit in Companies like HCL
Services, ITPC AG etc., with a successful track record for Business Expansion in
SAP and Cloud Consulting.

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Terry
Chan
Founder & CEO
JUSTT GROUP & EC-Post
Worldwide

Terry Chan empowers technology driven eCommerce ecosystem over 20 years.

He is the Founder & CEO, JUSTT GROUP, a pioneer and innovative new retail
(eCommerce) enabler in Hong Kong, offer end-to-end omni-channel solution
revolutionizing our clients’ businesses, empowering their brands as well as
bringing their products to the most leading e-Commerce markets across the
globe such as, China & South East Asia.
He is the Founder & CEO, EC-Post Worldwide Co Ltd, Forbes Interviewed –
An eCommerce Supply Chain Consultancy & Accelerator, help e-Merchants to
succeed in South East Asia & China via end-to-end supply chain and omni-
channel solutions. The Founder & Chairman, Hong Kong eCommerce Supply
Chain Association HKeCSC – The first & the only one in Hong Kong which tailors
for the Executive & Leaders who are working in the eCommerce/New Retail
Industries and focus on the Supply Chain Management with focus on the South
East Asia Market
He has been recognized as The Most Promising Business Leader of Asia 2019
by Economic Times at Singapore The 50 Fabulous Innovative Leader at the
World Innovation Congress in 2020 at India
Former GM, Alibaba Group & Lazada 3PL – The leading eCommerce Marketplace
in South East Asia. Adjunct Lecturer, Institute for China Business, University of
Hong Kong – teaching eCommerce, New Retail, Supply Chain in China, Hong
Kong and South East Asia Market. Advisor & Mentor, the Hong Kong Science &
Technology Parks Corporation. (HKSTP) – for eCommerce, New Retail, Supply
Chain focus on the China, Hong Kong and South East Asia Market.
Advisor, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) – eCommerce, Retail,
Supply Chain in Hong Kong, China and South East Asia Market. Corporate
Trainer, Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) – eCommerce, New Retail,
Supply Chain in China, Hong Kong and South East Asia Market

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Umesh
Joshi
Associate Director
Perfetti Van Melle

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Vikasdeep
Katyal
Director Marketing - Kids Nutrition
Unilever

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Vinay
Kushwaha
Vice President - Supply Chain
Britannia Industries

He completed a B. Tech degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi and

joined Hindustan Lever in 1986 as a management trainee. In his career of 22
years with Hindustan Lever, he did a variety of technical and supply chain roles
and in different businesses and rose rapidly to the position of a Vice President.
He worked in the North African business of Unilever as a Supply Chain Director
for 3 years and as a Regional Vice president for Skin care category for Asia. He
was part of the Unilever’s Singapore based Supply Chain Leadership team for
Asia.
Before joining Britannia, Vinay worked with Dabur India where he was
Executive Director-Operations responsible for India and global operations of
the Company.
Vinay Singh Kushwaha joined Britannia in August, 2010 and was appointed
Vice President -Supply Chain effective 1st August.
In his current role, Vinay is responsible for manufacturing, projects and
technology, planning & replenishment.

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