Gaurav Misra

Gaurav Mishra helps global brands benefit from Social Squared, the intersection of social as in connecting people and social as in benefiting the society, as Director, Digital, MS&LGroup Asia.

Previously, Gaurav has studied at IIM Bangalore, held senior marketing roles at the Tata Group, taught social media at Georgetown University as the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow, launched crowd-sourced election monitoring platform Vote Report India and co-founded social media agency 2020 Social.

Gaurav is frequently invited by Indian and international media to participate in panel discussions, comment on stories and contribute op-eds .Gaurav has written several book chapters and is now working on his first novel.Gaurav advises several non-profits and startups formally or informally, both on the product and the strategy side.

Manish Sinha

Manish is presently working as Chief Strategy Officer, Digitas India. At Digitas India Manish works with clients like Samsung, Airtel, Met Life and Nestle, etc. Prior to this he was with WPP’s The Futures Company – a trends and innovation consultancy, heading the Delhi office. Manish has worked at top agencies in a career spanning more than 15 years – JWT, O&M, Leo Burnett, Mudra and Bates handling clients like Pepsi, Ford, Cadbury, BBC, etc. An early adopter of the digital medium, he has espoused digital thinking at Bates, Tribal DDB & now Digitas. He is a frequent speaker at B-Schools and an avid blogger. He occasionally writes for MINT, DNA, ET, audiencematters, the Digital Media magazine and imediaconnection.com – Hong Kong. In 2008, Manish was commissioned to write a book on ‘New Marketing & Bollywood’ by John Wiley Singapore.

Glen Ireland

Glen is a practicing Digital consultant - he is also the founding director of the IDMI.
He has spent over 18 years in the area of marketing communications and comes with a truly diverse & comprehensive repertoire of expertise.

He has played various leadership roles in the past from Regional Strategy Director – APAC (Digital, CRM & Analytics) with WPP/ Enfatico based out of Singapore to VP & Branch Manager at RMG Connect, India.

His other lead roles include Digital Planning Director at Wunderman - Sydney & CRM strategist with Publicis Mojo, Australia.