Editorial Team

Nita Kapoor, with over two and half decades of marketing and communications experience, is responsible for brand / marketing at Godfrey Phillips India across the categories of tobacco and other diversifications like tea and candy. She also handles the Godfrey Phillips corporate image. Nita spoke to Paul Writer on the changing…

Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, marketer Mahesh Murthy set up Pinstorm in 2003; the agency today handles digital marketing for savvy brands such as ICICI, Jet Airways, HSBC, Nestle and Greenpeace. He spoke to Paul Writer on what it means to be a smart brand online. Hear Mahesh speak at The Futurist…

Lloyd Mathias now drives growth & performance for Tata Teleservices Ltd as President, Corporate & Monitoring. In his previous role as the CMO of Tata Teleservices, Lloyd led marketing, product management, device management; alliances and VAS, and was responsible for building Tata Photon into India’s #1 broadband wireless service. Paul…

Ashutosh Tiwari heads Strategic Marketing Group for Godrej and is responsible for building the value of Godrej brand and that of constituent businesses across group companies. He played a key role in the relaunch of Godrej brand in April 2008, as well as internal, strategic initiatives like Employee re-energising, Brand…

As the Head of Brand & Corporate Communication, Abraham Alapatt is responsible for overseeing the Advertising, Public Relations, Sales Support, Marketing Support, Market Research, Media Relations and the E-Business strategy for Future Generali's Life & General Insurance businesses. Abraham’s 16 year marketing career spans across advertising, web/technology, brand strategy, corporate…

As Vice President of Childhood Growth and Development, Shubhajit Sen leads one of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare’s three new global business verticals. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President – Marketing for the company, driving significant double digit growth across the GlaxoSmithKline portfolio. Shubhajit played a key role in the launch…

  64 % marketers haven’t attended marketing training in the past one year This certainly will hamper marketers abilities to stay abreast of the trends, network with peers and learn from industry best practices. In other words, stunt their potential to become Futurist CMOs.  However, our survey also results showed…

45% of firms have vacancies for marketers. Only 17% of marketers would recommend a friend to apply to their firm As a marketer it is always a challenge to find that talent- experience- opportunity match, as a result most end up relying on peers networks and employers for referrals. The survey…