Ram is our Country Head and Managing Partner for Integrated Media. He heads the media function across all touch points for the group and is responsible for client budgets over $330M (RECMA) in P&L in India.
He is also a CXO level digital leader having been an entrepreneur thrice and successfully exiting twice. His first venture NetworkPlay was sold to Bertelsmann AG’s Gruner + Jahr GMBH in what was the first multimillion dollar ad network exits in India. His second venture, PlatformPlay Media Ventures, was merged with SVG Media which is now part of the Dentsu Aegis Network. His last venture, VelfieApp, is parked for now. He is considered a turnaround artist with a special ability to scale start-ups to multimillion dollar businesses. His favourite markets are US, MEA, India and APAC.
Ram brings a wealth of experience from his global leadership positions as CEO, MD, SVP, VP and Director at organizations like C1X Inc., Reliance JIO, Ibibo Group (now part of MakeMyTrip.Com), Tribal DDB (Omnicom Group), Madison Communications, Jobsahead.Com (now part of Monster.Com) and Indian Express. He has also been Founding Chairman at ad:tech, iMedia and TechCrunch India, and is credited for launching LinkedIn in India through the JVs he formed for NetworkPlay and PlatformPlay.
For some of his stellar achievements he has won awards across the globe including at Cannes, World Brand Congress and CMO Asia.
Ram is a prolific speaker at large format events, a voracious reader, and a reluctant writer although some of the biggest names in the publishing industry carry his articles around digital marketing, world economy and management.