MICA, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad , Gujarat

Manmeet Vohra is currently the Director Marketing and Category at Starbucks.She did her post graduation from MICA - Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad and graduation from SRCC - Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University

Prasad Venkatraman, is our alumnus from the CCC stream. He has an experience of over 11 years working for organizations like Publicis Ambience , McCann Erickson, BBDO and Percept/H. He started his career with Publicis Ambience Advertising in 2004 as a Senior Copywriter where he served for 3 years before joining McCann Erickson as Group Head in 2007. He continued with McCANN Erickson till 2010 when he shifted to BBDO, Sri Lanka. After working with BBDO till January 2012 as the Group Creative Director he came back to Mumbai to work with Percept/H as the Creative Director. He has lately joined Black Swan Life as a senior creative director.

Charu Harish is an alumnus of PGP Communications from 1997-1999 batch. She has an experience of over 13 years. She has been with the Grey Group since July 2002 where she currently functions as the Director Planning APAC & Team Leader Allianz APAC and has been handling the responsibility since September 2006. She has been Championing consumer insights and thought leadership initiatives aimed at accelerating individual market thinking capabilities & New Business growth. She started with Rediffusion DY&R as an Account Executive before moving on to Mudra Communications as Supervisor Strategic Planning. In July 2002, she joined Grey group as Director - Strategic Planning & Consumer Insights. As a Director planning she was the Category expert & brand custodian for Grey Worldwide & G3 brands across all the offices in India.

Praveen Sharma is our alumnus from the 1994-1996 batch of PGDM-C. He started his career off as Media Director at Lintas in 1998, he continued to work with Lintas for five years before progressing to his one year stint as the Business Director in MEC. In 2005 Praveen took up the role of COO in Madison Media Plus (Madison Communications). After working in the Marketing and advertising industry for a decade, Praveen moved to the digital space in 2010. He joined Google as the Head of Agency Business where he ran agency sales for Google India. In 2012 he took up the position of the Head of Display Sales, India. He became a part of the Indian leadership team at Google and APAC Display Sales Organization, and ran Google display sales for India across several digital channels like YouTube, Google Display Network and Mobile. Recently about four months ago, Praveen expanded his role to the Head of Product sales, for India and Greater China. Now, he is a part of the Leadership team of Google Greater China along with Google India and APAC Product sales organization.

Saurabh Varma is our alumnus from the PGP batch of 1995-1997. He is currently the CEO of Leo Burnett India. In his career of fifteen years, Saurabh enjoys a rich experience of having worked across many categories including FMCG, Banking & Finance and Consumer Durables. He has been with the Leo Burnett group for about 8 years now. Some of the brands he has worked on include Lakme (Unilever), Vicks (P&G), NIVEA, Fosters, Philips, HP, Blackberry, Samsung, Friesland Campina Asia Pacific (Dutch Lady/ Foremost/ Frisian Flag), MCYS and UOB Bank. In 2013, Saurabh launched the Leo Burnett Institute of Behaviour (LBIB), a Singapore-based consulting, innovation and research division of the Leo Burnett Group, Asia Pacific. Saurabh also represents Leo Burnett Asia Pacific on the Global Planning Board and presides over the APAC Effectiveness Council.