Ruchira leads the Marketing function at Diageo India and is part of its Executive Committee. As Chief Marketing Officer, Ruchira oversees Marketing and Innovation for our wide range of award-winning alcohol and beverage portfolio.

Ruchira is an experienced marketer who has played a pivotal role in building leading consumer brands over the last 25 years. Prior to joining Diageo, she was with PepsiCo India as Senior Director, Marketing, where she was instrumental in building some of their biggest brands, including Kurkure and Mountain Dew. Ruchira led several award-winning consumer campaigns across the Foods and Beverages portfolio of PepsiCo brands, including the very popular Pepsi IPL campaign.

Ruchira has been associated with brands such as Nokia devices and Royal DSM. Under her astute leadership as CMO India & APAC, at Nokia, she helped build a complete portfolio unique to India with innovative marketing strategies. She created an F&B nutrition start-up (MANDI) at Royal DSM to combat malnutrition.

Ruchira started her career with Unilever India as a management trainee and subsequently moved to roles such as Sales & Brand Activation, Brand Strategy, and Innovation.

Ruchira is passionate about investing in talent; she is a co-founder at Ashoka University, supports Vedica Women’s Alliance as a mentor, and was a member of the CII National Committee on Women Empowerment & Indian Women Network (IWN), leveraging her own experiences to help the next generation of Indian women professionals and entrepreneurs.

Ruchira holds an honours degree from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Jon Stona is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Airwallex, overseeing activities to advance the company's brand and business growth across multiple segments. Jon joined Airwallex after working at Stripe and Google in various senior Marketing roles. As a Member of the XA Network of technology leaders, he invests in early-stage Southeast Asian startups. Jon holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Kaveri Khullar is a senior marketing leader at Mastercard Asia Pacific, overseeing Marketing & Sponsorships. Recognized on Campaign Asia’s Power 50 list, Kaveri is a Women in Gaming Ambassador, has served on the ASEAN Awards Committee for Women in Payments, and is an Innovation Award ASEAN nominee for Women in Payments 2025.

She brings over 20 years of experience across luxury, music, spirits, and financial services. Her career spans commercial, marketing and innovation roles in India, and Singapore, including senior leadership at Diageo and Johnnie Walker, where she drove premiumization and global marketing innovation.

Since joining Mastercard in 2019, Kaveri has not only advanced Mastercard’s business-driven marketing capabilities but also pioneered the company’s first-ever gaming product—Mastercard Gamer Exchange. This innovative platform unlocks new revenue streams in the $200 billion gaming industry while addressing critical challenges in loyalty and payments, delivering monetary value to both financial and non-financial institutions.

Beyond leading digital and experiential marketing for banks, merchants, and fintechs, Kaveri shapes Mastercard’s Sponsorship strategy, guiding investments in world-class events like the Australian Open, McLaren, and Cricket World Cup. Her influence extends beyond marketing. She plays a critical role in shaping Mastercard’s Asia Pacific Advisory Board discussions on macroeconomic trends, technological innovation, and sustainability.

Passionate about mentoring the next generation, she lectures on marketing innovation at the Singapore Management University, equipping students with the tools to navigate technological disruption.

Her secret sauce: Common Sense and Empathy!

The Anti-CMO. A whole-brained marketer who’s built a career on the road less travelled, transforming brands across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia with equal parts courage, creativity, and commercial discipline. He doesn’t believe growth comes from shouting louder, it comes from understanding people deeper, respecting culture honestly, and creating work that simply makes people feel something. From helping to turn around powerhouse markets like South Africa and Thailand, to winning multiple global awards, Suhayl is known for being the client creatives trust, and feel trusted by. Heart-led, people-first, and obsessed with pushing boundaries, his willingness to get fired in the pursuit of a big idea has meant a life lived on the edges of comfort, convention, and sometimes common sense.

Spent over 12 years that spans across telco, mobile, gaming and automotive industry that allowed me to bring fresh, new and crazy ideas to the table. Current remit allows me to push the envelope a little more, across offline to online content and communication touch points.

Leader in Marketing Strategy and Insights with 20 years of experience in CPGSs and agencies across Istanbul, London and Singapore. Currently Head of CMI for HEINEKEN's APAC region based in Singapore.

Bhaskar Choudhuri is a passionate marketer with a zest for reinvigorating brands. As Chief Marketing Officer for Lenovo in Asia Pacific, he is responsible for expanding Lenovo’s brand footprint in the Asia Pacific region, and driving sales for the entire portfolio of PCs, mobiles, severs, tablets and smart devices for Asia Pacific. With more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing, including 14 years at Cadbury India, Bhaskar’s diverse experience in marketing ranges across FMCG, consumer technology and B2B technology.

Fleur is a marketing leader in Amazon with over 14 years of e-commerce marketing. As Head of Marketing for Amazon Fresh and Grocery Partnerships in APAC, she oversees performance marketing, digital experience and commercial strategies across Singapore and Japan. She has been in Amazon for over 8 years, where she previously led Toys marketing in Amazon UK. Fleur is also a mentor to female graduates to help them navigate their careers in e-commerce. Fleur graduated from the University of Bath in 2010 with a Master of Science with Distinction

Elaine Tai joins VIVAIA as Head of Brand for Southeast Asia, shaping a vision where elegance cares for tomorrow. Recognized among Asia Pacific’s Top 10 Marketing Leaders (2025) by MarTech Outlook for championing the truth that brands thrive when purpose speaks and stories connect, Elaine brings a proven ability to create strategies that resonate across cultures. Her career spans leadership roles at Furla Asia Pacific, Shanghai Tang under Richemont Group, and GEOX Asia Pacific, where she led repositioning across 12 diverse markets—including South Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore—blending global consistency with local narratives to drive post-COVID recovery through community and wellbeing initiatives.

Rory is responsible for all aspects of the brands creative marketing and leads the PR, brand & social strategy with an emphasis on building irreverent and thought-provoking marketing. His early background included marketing roles in London in the entertainment and sports industry with Everyman Cinema and Paddy Power respectively where focus was on creating disruptive and engaging content. Prior to being CMO at GymNation, he worked for UK brands GymBox, Cineworld & Pizza Express. His passion has always been to work for challenger or rebel brands who like to create disruption and challenge the norm.

Clare Nash leads marketing for Snapchat across the APAC region, bringing nearly 20 years of experience across marketing, media and technology. She began her career in leading media agencies before moving to the publisher side at News Corp and later joining Snapchat, where she now drives business marketing across diverse APAC markets. Having worked in both London and Sydney, Clare brings a global perspective and deep industry expertise to the field.

Arpan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Reliance Ajio. He leads brand, social, performance, content, PR and creative teams. He has a decade and half of experience across FMCG, Ecomm, Real Estate and Auto.

Prior to joining Ajio, he led the launch of Ola Electric in India, led marketing for Britannia in International Markets and launched Tata Prima across various geographies.

Arpan earned his MBA from IIM Kozhikode and completed his engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Business marketing leader with 15 years of B2C and B2B experience across multiple categories including beauty and personal care, food & beverages and eyewear. In my current role I lead Transitions, one of the fastest growing optical brands in APAC. Building brands and unlocking new growth opportunities energizes me. Over the past experiences, I have established myself as a seasoned whitespace expert.

Jyane is a global marketing leader with extensive experience at the intersection of brand, media, data, and commercial performance. In her current role, she leads global planning and effectiveness for Corporate Affairs, Brand, and Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank. Her work focuses on driving integrated marketing strategies, elevating creative and media effectiveness, and embedding measurement frameworks that connect marketing investment to business impact. Having partnered closely with global agencies, platforms and tech, Jyane brings a rigorous yet practical perspective to evaluating marketing excellence.

Ms. Thai Minh Diem Tu is a seasoned marketing and general business leader with more than two decade' experience across the financial services and FMCG sectors. As Chief Marketing Officer of Techcombank, Ms. Tu leads the bank's Marketing Division and oversees the brand strategy for its ecosystem. Prior to joining Techcombank, Ms. Tu held various senior executive positions during a decade with FrieslandCampina and eight years with Unilever. Ms. Tu was named in Campaign Asia's Asia-Pacific Power List for 2024 and 2025 as one of the region's most influential marketers.