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Ajith Singh Rajapoopathy is an accomplished product leader with 15 years of experience in the technology industry. He began his career in IT sales before transitioning to consumer product development at CaratLane, India's leading omnichannel jewellery retailer. Starting as a Product Manager at CaratLane, Ajith has advanced to leading the entire product team, overseeing the development of systems and products used by millions of customers daily. An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, Ajith is passionate in building and scaling products that create meaningful experiences for both customers and employees.

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In her role at Levi Strauss & Co., Amisha Jain is responsible for leading the company’s operations in SAMEA and ensuring that the geography continues to drive expansion and growth, contributing to the company’s success in Asia and around the globe. Prior to this, Amisha was the CEO at Zivame. She built the innovation-led consumer centric brand and lead the fastest growing women's organization for intimate wear and set it up to catapult the business to greater heights. She is a firm believer of “One Team, One Voice”. And this has been her foundation to build teams that are all individually strong and collectively effective at delivering business results. An alumna of INSEAD and Mckinsey, she has over 18+ years of experience in technology, consumer and retail sectors. Prior to joining Zivame, Amisha was heading the Arvind Sports Lifestyle business and the Digital Centre of Excellence for the Arvind Group. Through the course of her career, she has been leading the growth and transformation initiatives for multinational consumer goods, and apparel brands. During her stint as the Head of Sales at Nike, she was also chosen for the prestigious ‘40 under 40: India’s Hottest Business Leaders 2015’ and ‘India Inc’s rising women business leaders’ 2015’ award by the Economic Times & Spencer Stuart, respectively. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and camping with her husband and her six-year-old son. About Levi Strauss & Co. Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) is one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. The Company designs and markets jeans, casual wear and related accessories for men, women and children under the Levi’s®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™, Denizen®, Dockers® and Beyond Yoga brands. Its products are sold in more than 110 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers, department stores, online sites, and a global footprint of approximately 3,100 retail stores and shop-in-shops. Levi Strauss & Co.’s reported 2021 net revenues were $5.8 billion. For more information, go to http://levistrauss.com, and for financial news and announcements go to http://investors.levistrauss.com.

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Anvesha leads digital commerce for the Home Care business at Unilever. She started her career with Google, where she worked closely with clients across different verticals. She's been instrumental in shaping the digital marketing strategies of brands like Asian Paints & L’Oreal. She has been an Economic Times Young Leader & was also placed in Top 30 Digital Marketing Leaders by Brand Equity, Top Digital Marketing Leaders by Exchange4Media in 2023. She is extremely excited and optimistic about the adoption of digital technology in India and is excited about how digital is resharing the world of marketing.

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Anand leads the consumer industry for Deloitte Consulting in South Asia. He is responsible to grow the business and technology consulting practice for Deloitte Consulting across four verticals – consumer products, retail, auto and hospitality, transportation & services.​ Anand has around 20 years of experience from both an industry and consulting perspective and has executed over 100 engagements in strategy formulation and implementation. He is a graduate from BITS Pilani and has completed his MBA from IIM Indore and PhD from IIM Bangalore. ​ Anand has extensive experience in assisting clients with their business transformation including formulation of growth / entry strategy, designing operating models, preparation of business plans and assisting with implementation support. He incubated the sales acceleration practice and helps clients achieve profitable growth through front end transformation from a brand, product, sales, channel, distribution, store and commerce standpoint. He also advises governments from a policy standpoint in the areas of economic development and investor promotion.​ Anand started his career with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in various sales & marketing roles. Prior to Deloitte, he was a part of the management consulting practice at KPMG where he led the consumer practice for management consulting. Anand also led the channel and salesforce effectiveness solution for the practice. He also founded the Food, Agribusiness and Retail COE in the Indian practice.​ In his spare time Anand teaches courses in the sales and marketing area for management schools in India and abroad.

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I am an IT professional with 19 plus years of experience across Information Technology , Retail , Ecommerce , Real Estate , Logistics & Hospitality organisations. Currently moved as CIO at Lulu Group India . In my pervious capacity as General Manager - IT innovation at Tata Starbucks & Head –IT, Trent Hypermarket Pvt. Ltd. I have worked extensively on the company’s digital transformational projects, Cloud & Mobility Platforms, Retail Analytics, Enterprise systems and Security & Information management systems. Prior to Trent Hypermarket, I have worked with Cybage Software as a Solution Architect in the retail CoE focusing on digital and e-commerce solutions. Having worked with companies such as Future Group, Wadhwan Retail and Zensar Technologies has also given me vast techno-functional experience. In my career as a technology consultant, I feel extremely passionate about using the latest in technology to provide business solutions to accelerate growth. The areas that challenge my interests are Artificial Intelligence, ML, Blockchain and robotics and I am always keen to enhance processes to up the customer experience in my organizations.

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Apoorva Maheshwari is seasoned marketer with rich and diverse experience across industries including FMCG, Premium Retail, E-commerce, and Hospitality in India. She is currently heading marketing at BESTSELLER India, which is a part of BESTSELLER, a family-owned fashion company founded in Denmark, Europe in 1975. BESTSELLER India is redefining fashion retail through its brands JACK & JONES, VERO MODA, ONLY, and SELECTED Homme

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Mr. Ashmeer M. Sayyed comes with more than 2 decades of experience across retail in fashion, apparel, FMCG and telecom. He holds expertise in strategic planning, retail store operations, sales and business development, inventory management, E-Commerce set up initiations, revenue and profitability management, store merchandising, franchise, and multi-channel distribution through EBO (Exclusive Brand Outlets) & MBO (Multi-brand outlets). He is adept in carrying out category and catalogue development, product portfolio development and developing an end – to – end customer experience journey through business partnering and key stakeholder management. Presently, Ashmeer is spearheading the Offline Business for DaMENSCH, the fastest growing men’s fashion brand in the space of penetrated online fashion. DaMENSCH is a new-aged fashion brand for the aspiring population who seek for more than the available options in the Indian innerwear and athleisure offerings. The initiatives encompass the space of offline distribution with focus on the Exclusive Brand Stores (EBS), Controlled General Trade (CGT) and NCR – National Chain Retail stores, the LFS business. Ashmeer was previously associated with Page Industries for over a decade, where he led the International as well as the Domestic business. While the domestic business focussed on the EBOs (Exclusive Business Outlets), his international exposure included the LFS, E-com & GT business channels apart from EBOs. He has worked for driving e-commerce online initiatives for different geographies like Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, UAE, Oman, and Qatar. His milestone development has been in driving expansion of the retail stores across India to encompass Business Development and Projects, retail sales and operations with many product launches. Subject-Matter Expert He has been an industrious player in the old-school retail arena and has played a major role in the new-age industry through his entrepreneurial mind of ‘Freedom of Concept’ where activation of brand for the segmented audience is the ultimate goal.