Sunita Bangard
Sunita Bangard
Sunita Bangard
Sunita brings over 30 years of marketing excellence across some of the world's most respected brands including Unilever, L'Oreal, Colgate Palmolive, and Godrej. With 14 years at Aditya Birla Group, she has been instrumental in shaping brand strategies that resonate across diverse markets and consumer segments.
Her career spans strategic a
Sunita brings over 30 years of marketing excellence across some of the world's most respected brands including Unilever, L'Oreal, Colgate Palmolive, and Godrej. With 14 years at Aditya Birla Group, she has been instrumental in shaping brand strategies that resonate across diverse markets and consumer segments.
Her career spans strategic and operational marketing roles with both brand equity and P&L responsibilities. At Unilever, she expanded her global perspective working across South and Southeast Asia, while at L'Oreal India, she gained invaluable startup experience as Country Marketing Head during the company's early market entry.
Sunita's philosophy of asking "why not" instead of "why" drives innovation and breakthrough thinking—exactly the mindset needed to challenge traditional approaches to diversity and inclusion.
On the personal front, as well she has been recognised at many industry forums – She has been among the Top 10 in “Impact’s Top 50 Most Influential Women List twice , was nominated as “The Marketer of the Year, Mobile Services” by IAA Leadership Awards, featured in the Top 100 Most Influential Marketing Leaders by World
Marketing Congress (3 years in a row) and in the Adobe Content100, the recognition list of top 100 Brand and Content custodians in India.
An adventurous and fun loving person, Sunita enjoys traveling, music and movies.
Sameer Madan
Sunita Bangard
Sunita Bangard
Sameer is a distinguished CFO with 30+ years of global experience spanning consulting, finance operations and transformation as well as running finance CoEs for Global Capability Centers (GCCs). His career includes pivotal roles at PwC in audit as well as consulting, GECIS/Genpact, and a 19-year tenure at Agilent Technologies, where he
Sameer is a distinguished CFO with 30+ years of global experience spanning consulting, finance operations and transformation as well as running finance CoEs for Global Capability Centers (GCCs). His career includes pivotal roles at PwC in audit as well as consulting, GECIS/Genpact, and a 19-year tenure at Agilent Technologies, where he most recently served as Director Finance. He is a big advocate of leveraging technology for “real time on demand” business reporting/insights and feels in today’s disruptive business environment, benchmarking helps drive strategy and gain market share.
A keen observer of the macro-economic scenario and how interdependent the world has become yet how different the local operating environment in respective countries continues to be. Any commercial organization must devise a strategy to deal with both aspects simultaneously. As a champion for corporate resilience and adaptability, he firmly believes that, in today's RUPT (Rapid, Unpredictable, Paradoxical, and Tangled) world, collectively revisiting and refining strategies through collaboration is vital for achieving sustained success.
Sameer's unique perspective on building inclusive, high-performing global teams while navigating diverse regulatory and cultural environments makes him invaluable to organizations scaling their diversity initiatives.