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.

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.

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.

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