CubeX in association with Nicholas Hall & Company (UK), has organized the 7th annual consumer healthcare conference, scheduled for 5th December this year. The conference explores the theme of “In tune with the Digital Consumer” . Our keynote speaker and Global OTC expert, Mr. Nicholas Hall, will be giving us a global view of the OTC market. Join us to hear and interact with market leaders who have explored such unique strategies to reach out to consumers and build sustainable brands.
Nicholas Hall has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry and has chaired and moderated over 300 OTC conferences and seminars in 58 countries. He has managed the company’s consultancy practice, which has among its clients many blue chip OTC companies, as well as some of the leading local laboratories in Asia, Middle East and Latin America.
Mr. Narayanan has over 35 years of rich and exhaustive experience in the FMCG Industry. He was the Chairman and CEO of Nestlé Philippines prior to joining Nestlé India in 2015. He is also the Chairman of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. He was awarded the Medal of Commendation by the Government of Singapore in 2010, for excellence in employee relations during this challenging period. He has also been honoured at the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2017 as the Best CEO in the Multinational category. He has delivered talks at NASSCOM forums, various corporates, NUS School of Business-Singapore, American University–Cairo, Columbia University and Business Schools in India among others.
Mr. Mhatre, is an astute commercial leader with 2 decades of experience across OTC/FMHG industry & has to his credit some of the key Rx to OTC/DTC switches across various therapeutic areas. He currently heads the OTC new Business BU which has built a leadership position in the Restoration category (ORSL - Electrolytes) within a short span of 3 years. An extremely talented commercial leader, he understands the pulse of the changing market scenario and builds capability required to succeed consistently. Being an avid marathoner, he firmly believes that building stamina, resilience & consistency works well to succeed both in Business and Running.
Mr. Bijoor is a brand-expert & CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults Inc., a private-label consulting practice that operates in the realm of brand and business strategy. The company has a presence in the markets of Hong Kong, Seattle, London, Istanbul, Dubai and the Indian sub-continent, and operates cross verticals that span technology, pharmaceutical, iOT, Biotech, FMCG, durables and allied categories. Harish is a public speaker who speaks to corporate audiences across the globe in the realm of motivation, people-management issues, brands, marketing and business at large. He has spoken to corporate audiences across the world for 14, 106 hours to date.
Mr. Sharma is a healthcare international business consultant, executive coach, speaker and investor with more than 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, OTC healthcare and coaching spanning the UK, Europe, USA, ANZ, and the developing markets including India . He enables executives, their teams and organisations to learn and grow. He specialises in leadership & executive coaching, business strategy, innovation, brand equity building, acquisitions, competitive intelligence, developing success models and new country entry strategy etc. He is a former Global Director-Healthcare UK, Reckitt Benckiser Plc. UK.
Tanveer has more than 15 years of experience in diverse industries like media, entertainment, sports, lifestyle and fashion. He has worked with various reputed MNCs like Times Television Networks, IMG, LG Electronics and has represented senior sales and marketing positions. He specializes in media sales, content marketing and sponsorship management via different mediums. Currently, at Google, Tanveer is responsible for the management and expansion of partner ecosystem in India.
In this era of rampant digital transformation, Tanveer will help us understand how we can navigate through the digital mesh to bring about new dimensions to the consumer healthcare marketing.".
Deputy Drugs Controller (India), Central Drugs Standard Control Organization.
Prior to this he was the Assistant Director, Drugs Control Administration, Andhra Pradesh.
Under his stewardship, Piramal Healthcare has built a wide category presence in the Indian OTC market. Prior to joining Piramal, Kedar has worked at Hindustan Unilever for 8 years in the sales and marketing department.
Nikhilesh Kalra
General Manager, Consumer Healthcare,
India & South Asia, Sanofi India
Nikhilesh brings with him a diverse and rich experience of over two decades across varied consumer goods and OTC healthcare categories. Prior to joining Sanofi, Nikhilesh was associated with General Mills based out of Singapore as the Regional Marketing Director, Asia & Middle East Africa as well as RB.
Nitika Garg
Director Research, OPPI
With over 17 years of experience, Nitika leads the Research function at OPPI. Her understanding of the regulatory and commercial ecosystem of the pharmaceutical industry assists in strengthening OPPI’s position as knowledge partner to member companies on pharma policy. She was earlier associated with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Glenmark and Biocon.
Rajiv Gulati
Mentor,
Essentium Phygen and Ex-President Ranbaxy
We will now have Rajiv Gulati who is a Mentor of Essentium Phygen, a consumer health company with unique delivery technologies. He is an advisor to several PE firms such as Multiples, Capital Group etc., and assists them in making judicious investments in the Pharmaceutical sector. Prior to this, Rajiv was President-Global Pharmaceuticals Business, for Ranbaxy Laboratories, Global Head of Anti-counterfeiting operations of Eli Lilly in USA. Chairman and Managing Director of Eli Lilly in India and several South Asian Countries.
Sathya Narayanan
Managing Director,
South Asia - Nestlé Skin Health India Pvt. Ltd.
He has close to 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and has worked across various sales and marketing roles. He is currently a member of the executive Committee of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) and is also the chairman of the OPPI HR Committee, Co-Chairman of the OPPI OTC Committee and has also held the post of Chairman of the Legal Committee previously.
Nirmalya Sen
Chief Executive Officer, Havas India
Mr. Sen has 24 years of experience in engineering and re-engineering global and homegrown brands. A Campaign A-lister, he was named in the list of Rainmakers – men and women who have shaped the Indian advertising industry over the last few decades. He was formerly President of TBWA in India, where he also led the Disruption practice for five years. He has extensive experience in the OTC and FMCG categories among many others. And has been a brand design, communication and a brand behavior consultant to brand leaders across GSK Consumer Healthcare, Dabur, Nestle, Unilever to name a few.
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Nicholas Hall has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry. He has chaired and moderated over 300 OTC conferences and seminars in 58 countries. He manages the Nicholas Hall Group's consulting business, which has among its clients many blue chip OTC companies, as well as some of the leading local laboratories in Asia, Middle East and Latin America. The Nicholas Hall Group provides a complete marketing and business intelligence support service for consumer healthcare professionals, offering data and analysis on a truly global basis.
Maria has 20 years of experience in North America, Latin America and Europe. She manages market research, including proprietary meaningful brands study worldwide. She also leads the advanced analytics practice including decision support solutions, and ROI measurement. She has held both operational and strategic marketing roles at various FMCG blue chips, most notably Colgate Palmolive Co & Mondelez.
Arun Mishra has obtained degrees from the Netherlands, Ireland and Harvard. He is an international regulatory expert on drugs, OTC, Cosmetics and Ayurvedic products. He has played a key role in shaping the regulatory framework in the Indian sub-continent and emerging markets.
Subodh Marwah has a career spanning over 2 decades and has wide business management, strategy building, execution and brand marketing experience in FMCG, beverages, small appliances, information services and consumer healthcare industry, across the globe, with companies such as Gillette, P&G, Carlsberg and Thomson Reuters. In his last assignment, he led the consumer healthcare business of Sun Pharma (erstwhile Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare) leading the India business towards becoming one of the top 5 companies in this sector and developing the global business.
Amit Shukla has over 20 years of experience in building growth oriented businesses across developing and developed markets such as North America, Russia, Switzerland, Middle East and Singapore over last several years. He is currently based in India and focuses on maximizing GSK’s growth from emerging markets with both, internal and external possibilities. He has worked cross-functionally across supply chain, sales, marketing and most recently as General Manager in Turkey growing that business 5 fold in less than 4 years.
Brijesh Kapil, alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad, has more than three decades of experience in business, sales and marketing in OTC Pharma and FMCG in India and International markets. Before joining Merck, he was Vice President at Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare, responsible for P & L operations in India as well as for business strategy and marketing strategy support for international markets. He has been awarded 'Outstanding Marketing Professional Award 2012' by Planman Consulting for taking Revital as No.1 brand in IPM. He has been instrumental in growing Merck India’s consumer health portfolio.
Anantha Nayak is a Chemical Engineer and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. Prior to joining Cipla, he was with Procter & Gamble for over 16 years. He had launched Olay and Whisper Choice brands in India. In his last role in P&G, he was leading the Haircare (Pantene, Head & Shoulders, Rejoice etc.) category for developing markets of Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Cipla Health has launched a portfolio of consumer healthcare products, including Nicotex which has become No.1 smoking cessation brand in India.
Venu Ambati joined Abbott India Ltd. as Managing Director & General Manager in September 2016. He holds an MBA degree from IIM, Ahmedabad and Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Bhopal. He has over 24 years of rich experience with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in various leadership positions across the Indian sub-continent, Middle East, North Africa and Asia. With an extensive background in Consumer Goods and OTC products, he brings strong business acumen and the ability honed in both, developed and emerging markets.
Rohan Siroya is founder at Lifezen Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. - an OTC healthcare start up based in Bangalore and Mumbai. Having done his schooling in Dubai, and graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, Rohan presents a global understanding of markets. In 2015, Rohan along with his uncle Shailesh Siroya, forged an association of Bal Pharma Ltd, Rohan’s family driven pharmaceutical company based in bangalore, and BCCL Springboard- the Venture capitalist arm of Times of India- creating his current company- Lifezen Healthcare. The company specialises in marketing OTC healthcare brands that are built on the base of consumer demand.
Kapil Kamboj heads the sales function at J&J Consumer India, a company he has worked at ever since he joined them as a Management trainee, after graduating from IIM Bangalore in 1999. In his current role, he is responsible for overall sales and customer development across India and South Asia markets. He is passionate about developing businesses and capabilities in emerging channels like e-commerce and specialty stores and was instrumental in the introduction of Babycenter.com, one of the leading global parenting websites. He also led the team that relaunched India’s No.1 Teen brand, Clean & Clear in 2008.
Anita Nayyar is a veteran of the Indian media industry. Her 30+ years in the industry have seen her manage a portfolio of brands across sectors. As CEO, she took on the mandate of expanding Havas Media Group’s footprint in the emerging South Asia markets in 2006. Under her leadership Havas Media Group in India has grown has grown 12 times in 10+ years. It has expanded its offerings as an integrated communications group for traditional, digital, mobile, performance marketing and out-of-home. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and has done her Post Graduation in Advertising and Marketing with a Masters in Management.
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Nicholas Hall has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry and has chaired and moderated over 300 OTC conferences and seminars in 58 countries. He has managed the Nicholas Hall Group's consulting business, which has among its clients many blue chip OTC companies, as well as some of the leading local laboratories in Asia, Middle East and Latin America. The Nicholas Hall Group provides a complete marketing and business intelligence support service for consumer healthcare professionals, offering data and analysis on a truly global basis.
Ms.Josi is the Founder & Managing Partner of Sorento Healthcare Communications and has more than 34 years of experience in the healthcare and wellness sector. She has more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare communications. She is an eminent name in the industry across APAC and specializes in OTC Marketing and Social Marketing Initiatives.
Prof.Piyush Kumar Sinha
Professor, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad
A faculty in the area of marketing and retailing, Prof. Sinha has more than three decades of academic and industry experience. He is the Chairperson of the Centre for Retailing at IIMA. He has more than 60 publications to his credit, including a book on Managing Retailing. As the Marketing Manager of an FMCG company, he was involved in myriad activities including new product launches, communication planning as well as media planning and buying.
Mr.Subodh Marwah
Head, Consumer Healthcare, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
In a career spanning two decades in India and globally, Mr.Marwah has immense experience in business management, strategy building and brand marketing across various industries, apart from healthcare. He has spearheaded the launch of Gillette in India. He joined Sun Pharma's Consumer Healthcare (erstwhile Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare) about three years ago with a vision to make it one of the top five companies in India.
Mr.Swapneel Naidu
Vice President, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Mr.Naidu has 20 years’ experience spanning sales, marketing & general management responsibilities across diverse industries and brands such as Ray-Ban, Shell, Lacto Calamine, i-pill, Candid Powder, Scalpe Plus Anti-Dandruff, VWash Plus and many more. Associated with OTC marketing for the last 12 years, currently Mr. Naidu is Vice President, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and leads the OTC initiative of Glenmark in India as well as global markets.
With over 20 years in the field of marketing and advertising, Mr. Gangadhar has worked with leading companies such as Hindustan Unilever, Britannia, Reckitt Benckiser. As Head of Marketing for SET MAX, he conceived the iconic ‘Manoranjan ka Baap’ campaign for the launch of the Indian Premier League.
MEC is a founding partner of GroupM globally and operates in over 90 countries. MEC's client roster includes Colgate Palmolive, Britannia and Reliance Group- to name a few.
With over two decades of work experience, Mr.Singh has been a pioneer in implementing and replicating the Indian model on Rural and Low Income Consumer Marketing in 10 other emerging markets. After having served at leadership positions in agencies like Ogilvy Action, 141 Worldwide and Reliance ADAG, he channeled his expertise to successfully set up Dialogue Factory – a GroupM experiential marketing agency.
Mr.Dinar, currently head integration at J&J Consumer, is an outstanding personality with a great sense of OTC marketing. He has been instrumental in driving key business initiatives for the OTC unit previously at Sanofi-Aventis apart from leading companies like Abbott India and erstwhile Novartis Consumer Healthcare. He is an extremely talented marketer who understands the pulse of the market.
Mr.Rajadnye is the COO of the consumer healthcare business of Piramal Enterprises. Prior that he worked at Hindustan Unilever for 8 years in the sales and marketing function. Under his stewardship, Piramal Healthcare has built a wide category presence in the Indian OTC market. In addition to organic strategies, he has also been instrumental in acquisition of key brands from MSD, Pfizer Ltd. and Little's babycare.
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Session 1: New Thinking, New Realities in the OTC Industry
Nicholas Hall has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry and has chaired and moderated over 300 OTC conferences and seminars in 58 countries. He has managed the company’s consultancy practice, which has among its clients many blue chip OTC companies, as well as some of the leading local laboratories in Asia, Middle East and Latin America.
In a career spanning three decades Mr. Ambi has handled assignments in marketing, sales and advertising across various companies before dropping anchor at FCB Ulka Advertising over two decades ago. Ambi has been contributing articles to premier business publications, has conducted seminars and holding branding workshops for Indian/ MNC organizations and has eight books to his credit currently.
Mr. Macaden is a veteran in the Consumer Research industry. He has dawned many positions across IMRB and Nielsen and is now the Executive Director at Nielsen India.
Ms. Dias has lead Lodestar UM to be crowned the Media Agency of the Year title several times in the biggest Indian award shows. She has won the Media Planner of the year award many times and has been recognized at Cannes and Spikes on more than one occasion.
From his early days of handling Benadryl at Parke Davis, Mr. Mhatre has indeed come a full circle as he just moved from handling Benadryl at J&J to his new role as Head of Integration at J&J Consumer Care. He has been instrumental in driving key business initiatives for OTC previously at Sanofi, Novartis Consumer and Abbott Consumer. He is an extremely talented marketer who understands the pulse of the market in India.
With an experience of more than 22 years in OTC business in India and across Europe, Mr. Fernandes has successfully managed many OTC brands in his tenure. As the Consumer Healthcare Head at BI, he is now steering the successful OTC marketing of their two flagship brands Dulcoflex and Buscogast.
He brings to the table his vast industry experience in areas of sales, marketing and strategic & tactical planning. He has worked with FMCG players like Unilever, Dabur, Paras and Reckitt Benckiser in the bigger league.
He is a professional with a unique combination of Rx, OTC and FMCG sales and marketing experience. He has worked in Indian and MNC organizations and has grown some of the iconic Indian and Multinational brands like Moov, ItchGuard, RingGuard, Krack, D’Cold, Calcium Sandoz, Tiger Balm, KamaSutra and many more.
Brijesh Kapil
Executive Director, Merck Consumer Healthcare India
Having previously steered OTC Operations at Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare, he comes with almost 3 decades of business, sales and marketing experience in OTC Pharma and FMCG in India and International markets, He has been awarded the 'Outstanding Marketing Professional Award 2012' by Planman Consulting. With his experience, Neurobion Forte is the first brand of Merck to hit 100 crores and become India's largest units selling brand.
Shishir Bhartia
GM, Brand Capital
An alumnus of London School of Economics, he now heads the portfolios for Healthcare, Wellness, Home Décor, Consumer Durable and Education sectors in Brand Capital since 2008. Working closely with early stage organisations and high growth MNCs, he has helped them achieve exponential growth through brand building, resource strengthening and business development strategies.
Dr. Jayesh Lele
Family Physician, President Elect,
Indian Medical Association
Currently the President Elect of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Maharashtra and soon to be the President for the year 2015-2016, Dr. Jayesh Lele has held various positions at IMA State and Branch level. He has been the State Secretary for 4 years previously and has conducted many medical camps as well as CME camps for the state.
Bhavik Kumar
Co-Founder, Medibox Technologies
He has over 14 years of work experience with specific contributions in distribution, supply chain solutions, marketing and International trading for pharma/healthcare as a CEO in his previous company. He has co-founded Medibox Technologies which is a digital platform for OTC, pharma & healthcare products in India.
Radhakrishna Hemmad
Regional Director, Asia Pacific,
Probi AB, Singapore
He has over 18 years of experience spanning Consumer Healthcare (OTC) and dietary supplements in the Asia-Pacific region working for organizations like Ranbaxy Consumer Healthcare, Orkla Health & Boots Healthcare International to name a few. Radhakrishna has honed his skills in business development, market –entry strategy & distributor management.
Tina Mistry
Marketing Director Abbott Nutrition, India
In a career spanning over 20 years, .Tina has handled leadership assignments in Marketing and Sales across companies like Nestle, Unilever and Johnson and Johnson. She has successfully built strong brands in competitive and challenging categories of personal care and foods.
Sanjeev Singhai
Business Director, Indian Subcontinent, Buchanan Group
His vast multiple industries sales and marketing experience of 30 years provided him deep consumer insight using which he created unique advertising platforms like Brand Power, Medifacts and Zoot Review. Sanjeev enjoys monopoly in third party advertising in India and has created more than 150 TVCs and hundreds of YouTube Videos for practically all the leading FMCG and OTC clients of India which has been instrumental in driving additional sales and market share for their brands.
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Mr. Nicholas Hall
Suresh Narayanan
Mr. Mhatre
Harish Bijoor
Mr. Anand Sharma 
Tanveer Singh Uberoi
Dr. Chandrashekar Ranga
Sathya Narayanan
Nirmalya Sen
Mr. Nicholas Hall
Ms. Maria Garrido
Dr. Arun Mishra
Mr.Subodh Marwah
Mr. Amit Shukla
Mr. Brijesh Kapil
Mr. Anantha Nayak
Mr. Venu Ambati
Mr. Rohan Siroya
Mr. Kapil Kamboj
Mr. Anita Nayyar
Ms.Susan Josi
Prof.Piyush Kumar Sinha
Mr.Subodh Marwah
Mr.Swapneel Naidu
Mr.T.Gangadhar
Mr.Dalveer Singh
Mr.Kedar Rajadnye
Ambi Parameswaran
Ajay Macaden
Nandini Dias
Gerard Fernandes
S. Raghunandan
Ajay Rawal
Brijesh Kapil
Shishir Bhartia
Dr. Jayesh Lele
Bhavik Kumar
Radhakrishna Hemmad
Tina Mistry
Sanjeev Singhai
