My distinguished guest on this, the 92nd episode of our award-winning MVP, the Master's Voice podcast, is Mehernosh Pithawalla, Senior Vice President and Head of Brand and Strategic Insights at Godrej & Boyce. In this episode, which is available as a video on YouTube and also as an audio podcast across the top podcast directories in India and across the world, Mehernosh shares his journey from starting as a salesperson in Godrej locks to his current position and highlights the challenges...

Partha Sinha, President - Times of India Group, speaks with Pavan R Chawla on Print, Digital, measurements, the A&M industry, knowledge, passion, impact, empowerment, and more.  In the 91st episode of the highly acclaimed MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast, the distinguished guest is none other than Partha Sinha, the President of the Times of India Group. Partha's vibrant energy, relentless ideas, and unwavering enthusiasm make him the Pied Piper of Print, Passion, Knowledge, Empowerment,...

My distinguished guest on this, the 90th episode of our award-winning series MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast, is the iconic Radio RJ and creative content professional, Hrishikesh Kannan, popularly known as HrishiKay, Producer and Presenter on Radio One India's flagship daily morning show Good Morning Mumbai, on 94.3 Radio One.  Hrishi brings distinguished radio presentation skills and strategic content-creation abilities to the table from decades of experience. To my knowledge, Hrishi is one...

This, the 89th episode of our award-winning series, MVP - The Master's Voice podcast, is very special, because it marks the publication of our audio podcast  with a separate video version too (on YouTube). My distinguished guest on this episode is young Keshav Maheshwari, Managing Director of Allen Overseas. We had a captivating conversation about Allen Overseas' strong growth through international expansion, and the remarkable potential of digital technology in the education...

Nachiket Deole, the Head of Sales for India at DoubleVerify, a digital media measurement company that offers transparency and security in the advertising industry, speaks with series host Pavan R Chawla, who is Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. DoubleVerify is known for powering performance for the world’s largest brands, marketplaces and publishers and brands to make advertising better and effective by ensuring ads are seen by real people in the intended geographies in brand-safe...

My distinguished guest in this  episode of our award-winning series, MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast, is the young veteran, Puneet Das, President - Packaged Beverages, (India & South Asia), Tata Consumer Products Limited. Puneet is a passionate driver of profit, purpose, delight, and value for the business. Puneet, who joined Tata Consumer Products Ltd in November 2017, was appointed President – Packaged Beverages (India & South Asia) in April 2021. Prior to that, he held the...

The 86th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com features two eminent advertising-world leaders, Srinivasan K Swamy and Ramesh Narayan, speaking with passion about the promise of the upcoming Goafest 2023. They speak with Pavan R Chawla.  GoaFest 23 will celebrate creativity, campaigns, and cocktails as India's biggest advertising festival from the 24th of May to the 26th of May this year, in Goa, of course. It's hosted by the Advertising Agency's...

This, the 85th episode of our award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast from features the feisty Media & Entertainment leader who is as much of a content-expert as he is business leadership-adept -- Ajit Thakur, Co-Founder, Director, and CEO of aha, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla. Sixteen of the most recent years from Ajit’s 26 years’ work experience  have been in the media industry, working with companies like UTV (where he started in 2007) Sony Entertainment Television, Star...

  Our distinguished guest on this, the 84th published episode of our award-winning MVP The Master's Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, is the peerless Leena Jaisani, Assistant Secretary General and Head of FICCI Entertainment Division, FMCG, Retail, and E-Commerce.   Leena is is at the helm of organizing and rolling out the Maha Kumbh for Indian and global M&E professionals and industry - FICCI Frames, and right now, she and her team all set for this year's edition of Frames, the FICCI...

On the 83rd episode of our award-winning MVP, the Master's Voice Podcast,  Yash Sheel Srivastava, Managing Director Asia-Pacific at Coda Payments, joins Pavan R Chawla for an in-depth discussion.  Yash is an IIM Operations and Entrepreneurship graduate with experience in India, China, the United States, South East Asia, and the Middle East in industries such as fintech, logistics, ride-sharing, and electric mobility. He discusses Coda Payments, its offerings for gaming publishers and...

This episode of our award-winning MVP - The Master’s Voice Podcast features Rajeev Singh, Managing Director of BenQ India and South Asia, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla.  With more than 23 years of work experience – the last 11 of which have been impactfully spent at BenQ in India — Rajeev brings valuable insights from working with big names in the tech consumer industry. BenQ is a USD25+ billion company with almost 20 independent companies operating in over 30 countries, employing over...

Episode 81 of our award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, features the visionary Bikky Khosla, Founder of India's largest online B2B marketplace, TradeIndia.com, in conversation with me, Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. TradeIndia.com is the complete solution for SMEs. Bikky has been empowering almost every SME and MSME across the length and breadth of India for more than a quarter century -- 27 years now, to be exact, actually. I flew up to Delhi to record with...

This, the 80th episode of our award-winning series MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, features an accomplished marketing leader with a global powerhouse in hospitality – Khushnooma Kapadia, Senior Area Director of Marketing, South Asia – Marriott International Inc. Khushnooma drives marketing across 144 operating Marriott International Inc hotels across South Asia and India, and is a leader who joined Marriott way back in 2003 when the group had just 3 hotels in India,...

Delighted to welcome, to the 79th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s  Voice Podcast series, a respected leader from global advertising, marketing and more - Sean Donovan, President Asia of Tbwa, which, as ‘the Disruption company’,  prides itself on developing disruptive brand ideas that change culture and drive impact.  Sean brings a rich and powerful combination of experience, knowledge, strategy, delivery and thought-leadership to TBWA. He is charged with further advancing...

My distinguished guest on this, the 78th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, is the soft-spoken knowledge-driven media captain and expert across the entire News spectrum in India, Avinash Pandey - Chief Executive Officer, ABP Network, and President of the NBDA (News Broadcasters And Digital Association), and the  India Chapter of the IAA (International Advertising Association).  Truly a thought-leader-statesman for the News space in India, Avinash has kept Purpose...

In this, the 77th episode of our award-winning MVP -The Master’s Voice Podcast, we bring you a chat with a young pioneer from  News broadcasting and now, of course, digital too - Zakka Jacob, Managing Editor of one of India’s best English News channels, CNN-News18. Zakka speaks with Pavan R Chawla, show host and Founder-Editor of Mediabrief. Com.    This well known, respected  television news journalist with close to 20 years experience in anchoring and covering some  defining news stories...

My very special guest on this, the 76th episode of our award-winning series MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, is Achille Forler, Founder & Executive Director - SyncMama, and a distinguished expert and thought leader who brings enormous experience and learnings wide and deep from across the spectrum of radio, audio, music and more. Achille is like an audio guru -- one of the wisest, and a most experienced, deeply knowledgeable and sagacious professional who has worked for the best...

In this, our 75th and very special  Platinum episode of our award-winning MVP The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, I am delighted to bring you an insightful conversation with the amazing Tania Yuki Comscore’s Global Chief Marketing Officer, and  EVP  of Digital at the company that stands apart from and above all other measurement providers when it comes to the Web metrics, Video metrics, and to measuring Social Media engagement. Tania, who graced this milestone episode all the...

This, the 74th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, features Midhula Devabhaktuni, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder, Mivi, in conversation with host Pavan R Chawla, who is also Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com.  Midhula leads leads and manages the marketing and sales part at Mivi.  Conceptualized in 2015 and several years in the planning, design, creation and rollout, Mivi today is a growing, significant player in the consumer wearables electronics industry,...

My guest on this, the 73rd episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast Series, is Harsh Pokharna, Co-Founder and CEO of OkCredit, which is empowering the underdogs of India’s retail story through solutions that solve various pain points for small store owners Harsh had envisioned a career as an entrepreneur ever since he graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2014, and his vision was ‘to create a business that can transform at least a billion lives with the power of technology...

Moneka Khurana, Country Head and Board Member of the India chapter of MMA Global, is my special guest on this, the 72nd episode of our award-winning podcast series, MVP - The Masters Voice Podcast. Moneka, an important enabler for the entire fraternity of marketing professionals in India, speaks with me, Pavan R Chawla, about helping MMA India empower the entire marketing fraternity in the country for better business salience and results. And more. I  caught up Moneka for the recording in...

This, the 71st  episode of the award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series, features the visionary, spirited, straight-talking, wonderful leader, Sigal Atzmon, Founder and CEO of Medix Global, which provides multiple services and tools to streamline and optimize quality healthcare, globally and in India. Sigal speaks with Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com.  To borrow from Goscinny and Uderzo, and in a lighter vein, of course, Sigal, to our  mind, is like the Getafix...

This, the 70th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series, is a deep dive with my distinguished guest,  Siddhartha Roy, Chief Executive Officer,   Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Private Limited, about Hungama and its offerings, growth, relevance, connects and promise for the future. Hungama – for 20  years a formidable digital entertainment company in South Asia, a pioneer in music and video streaming with 87 million monthly users who, in 190 countries,...

My distinguished guest on this, the 69th episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, is respected brand strategy expert and author Ulli Appelbaum, well known as founder of the brand strategy firm First The Trousers Then The Shoes Inc, and now author of the brilliant, simply written and empowering new book,  The Brand Positioning Workbook: A Simple How-to Guide To More Compelling Brand Positionings, Faster. Ulli has been working on developing brand positionings for brands across the world for...

This, the 68th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, features Karan Abhishek Singh,  CEO - Hindi News, at Network18. Karan is a leader who brings to the TV News industry wide, rich, deep and diverse work experience across verticals at torchlight brands in their sectors. Karan  joined Network18, one of India’s leading television broadcast networks, in Jan 2019, and is responsible for the overall P&L of the Hindi Languages channel cluster in...