Send us a text This, the 67th episode of the award-winning, MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, I’m delighted to welcome an accomplished and diversely experience specialist leader and expert from the Hospitality industry in India - Manish Gupta, Chief Executive Officer of TajSATS Air Catering Limited , which is a joint venture between India's market leader in airline catering, the Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), and SATS. With more than 26 years of experience, Manish toda...
Sep 30, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Send us a text In this episode of our award-winning, MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series from MediaBrief.com , I bring you a deep-dive conversation with a very special, distinguished guest -- Ameer Ismail, President, Lintas Live . Ameer is someone I’ve known for a couple of decades now, and anyone who’s been in the strategic comms space would know Ameer and of him as an expert thought-leader, business-leader, impact-leader in the PR and strategic communications industry and more -- acknowled...
Sep 30, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Send us a text The distinguished guest in this, the 64th episode of our award-winning series MVP – the Master’s Voice Podcast, is the 'Genome Man of India', Sam Santhosh , Founder & Chairman, SciGenom . Sam speaks with Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. On this episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, in a wide-ranging conversation, Sam Santhosh tells me about his journey from being a very successful millionaire IT Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley to becoming the ‘Genome Man...
Sep 14, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Send us a text This, the 63rd episode of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, features pre-eminent thought leader and industry enabler and evangelist Biren Ghose - Chairman CII National AVGC Committee, and Country Head - Technicolor India. Biren is leading the CII team on the major upcoming 3rd Global AVGC & Immersive Media Summit covering Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics, that will roll out across two days on the 29th and 30th of August 2022 at the Hotel Lalit in New Delhi. Biren i...
Aug 22, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Send us a text This special episode of MVP The Master's Voice celebrates India's Independence Day and features Ravi Kumar, Founder and CEO of udChalo in conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com . As our Nation celebrates Independence with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, we are honoured and delighted to bring you a very special episode to record which, we were honoured to welcome the young, visionary, inspirational leader – Ravi Kumar, Fonder & CEO of udChalo -- a company t...
Aug 15, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Send us a text My distinguished guest on this, the 61st episode of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast series from MediaBrief, is Nitish Jain, President - SP Jain Global School of Management , a top professional Management education Institute that's respected for creating globally intelligent, culturally agile graduates and post-graduates, with increasingly relevant and specialist MBA and other programs. Nitish combines a striking and unique statesman-like calm, poise and wisdom w...
Jul 24, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Send us a text My distinguished guest in this episode of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, is Pushkar Gokhale, Business Head at Godrej Security Solutions, a business of Godrej & Boyce, the flagship company of the Godrej Group (Pavan R Chawla) . Pushkar has valuable and wide exposure to highly diverse business practices in a multicultural environment, and leads a motivated team offering peace of mind to a broad spectrum of stakeholders. My chat with Pushkar, who brings 29 ye...
Jul 19, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Send us a text My distinguished guest on this episode of our award-winning podcast series MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcas t, is Anish Bafna Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Healthium Medtech Limited. Healthium Medtech Limited is a company I have enormous respect for – it has redefined the Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission, and walks the talk miles ahead of its other respected contemporaries in the space of Medtech, as the largest independent Medtech entity in India. Listen to Anish B...
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Send us a text My guest on this, the 58th episode of our award-winning podcast series MVP – The Master’s Voice , is Communicator and Coach Nikhil Dey - Executive Director, Adfactors PR. Nikhil brings a strong and significant mix of 20 years of distinguished experience in both, the agency and corporate sides of communications. He is also a big believer in the power of coaching to catalyse positive change, and particularly over the past few years, has been mainlining on what he describes as ‘Build...
Jun 24, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Send us a text This, the 57th episode of the award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast , features industry veteran Paritosh Joshi- Principal at Provocateur Advisory , in conversation with Pavan R Chawla , Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com . and we disuss TRAI's 'regulation of the broadcast sector in general and its most recent consultaion paper on the travesty called NTO 2.0 in particular. The TRAI report card, says Paritosh, has been a litany of failure right from the first mandate it recei...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Send us a text The 56th episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series, features Ronnie Screwvala - Chairperson & Co-Founder of upGrad , and the wonderful first-generation Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist, opinion leader and author and a truly remarkable and inspiring, visionary enterprise leader who exemplifies the MVP acronym of Most Valuable Player in our podcast series title. Along with upGrad, which zeroes in on the massive Online Education market and the fact that Learning for e...
May 24, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Send us a text Dr Mukund Rajan , Chairman at ECube Investment Advisors Private Limited , is in conversation with MediaBrief.com Founder-Editor Pavan R Chawla in this, the 55th Episode of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast series. Mukund's firm ECube Investment Advisors Private Limited focusses on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in India. Mukund also enjoys the distinction of having been the First Brand Custodian of the Tata Group. Till 2019, he was Chief Ethics Of...
May 13, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Send us a text My guest in this, the 54th episode of the award-winning MVP - Master's Voice Podcast series, is Anuj Kumar, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue & Operating Officer at Affle , which is counted amongst the top 300 public-listed companies in India. Affle is a global technology company with a proprietary consumer intelligence platform that delivers consumer engagement, acquisitions and transactions through relevant Mobile Advertising. Affle aims to enhance returns on marketing investment...
May 09, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Send us a text In this, the 53rd episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series, which is based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry – we bring you a titan of the Indian Advertising and Marketing industry; someone who, needs no introduction to any practitioner in the space, because he goes by the name of Sam Balsara. Founder, Chairman & MD of Madison World. More than half a decade of creating avenues for remarkable grow...
May 04, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Send us a text Delighted to share that this, the 52nd episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, features not one but two distinguished guests - Durgesh Kaushik, Managing Director of India & South Asia Market Development at Snap , and Gaurav Jain, Head - Asia Pacific Business expansion. Durgesh has led strategic partnerships, community development and overall ecosystem initiatives to support the growth of Snap in South Asia. Prior to joining Snap, Durgesh worked in lead...
May 01, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Send us a text Neeraj Vyas, Business Head - Sony sab and max cluster of channels at Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) is a business leader driven solidly by a focus on viewer delight for sales, brand salience and industry-wide growth. Over more than two decades at SPNI, Neeraj has been a strong achiever in Sales and, for the last 12 years or so, as custodian of multiple channels that he has been steadily growing. Neeraj began his journey with a sales mandate at Sony Entertainment Television (SE...
Apr 27, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us a text The remarkable Nisha Narayanan, Radio leader and evangelist and COO & Director of Red FM & Magic FM , is our Golden Jubilee as she shines forth in Ep 50 of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast. MVP, the Master’s Voice Podcast, our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry, and we are delighted that Nisha, who ranks right up there with the best, has graced the Golden Jubilee episode of our award-winnin...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 50
Send us a text My guest in this episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series Master’s Voice Podcast, which is based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry – features Beerud Sheth - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the phenomenal unicorn GupShup . (And remember, Beerud is the man who also created and launched Elance, which today, is the remarkable billion-dollar Upwork.) The brand philosophy of GupShup stems from Be...
Mar 20, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Send us a text MVP, the Master’s Voice Podcast – our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry, features Manisha Kapoor, Secretary- General of ASCI, or The Advertising Standards Council of India. Manisha is in conversation with Pavan R Chawla - host of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice, and Founder-Editor of Mediabrief.com. The conversation explores ASCI’s major report, What India Takes Offense To , which is a ...
Mar 13, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Send us a text MVP, the Master’s Voice Podcast – our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry, features global advertising great and The Caples Awards Guy, Patrick Collister in conversation with Pavan R Chawla - host of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice, and Founder-Editor of Mediabrief.com. The peerless Patrick shares some amazing thoughts and insights about advertising, creativity, the entire calendar of the...
Mar 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Send us a text Want to pitch someone to be featured? We have two podcast series : MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast , and MediaCast . Both are published by MediaBrief.com . So, if you want to pitch someone to be considered for our podcasts, here's how you can do it: First, follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Linkedin , Instagram . Then, write to us at pavan [at] mediabrief dot com and alliances [at] mediabrief dot com, and also share links to your profiles that are following us. Connecting socially...
Feb 27, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Send us a text My wonderful guest in this episode of MVP, the Master’s Voice Podcast – our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry, is the peerless Kaushik Roy, AKA Roy Phoenix , one of the most admired leaders whose brilliant campaigns have become part of creative and strategic folklore in advertising and brand building. The man who’s been a remarkable creative leader, is an equally gifted writer. Just read, and reve...
Feb 23, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Send us a text This, the 44th episode of MVP- The Master’s Voice Podcast – our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players / Professionals) across important sectors of the Industry – features K E Ranganathan, Managing Director - Roca Bathroom Products Pvt Ltd , the 100% subsidiary of the Spain-based Roca Group which is a world leader in the definition of the bathroom space. Ranganathan speaks with Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. Ranga – as he is fondly called –...
Feb 14, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Send us a text My guest in this, the latest episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, is someone who brings solid Sales and Marketing experience from some great brands he’s worked with, and today leads the crucial marketing function at a Unicorn -- Anupam Gurani, Chief Marketing Officer of the Unicorn, School EdTech major LEAD. Anupam, who has more than 18 years of experience, working in various roles across Marketing, Digital Marketing, P&L management, Brand building, Sales, Key Account ...
Feb 02, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text Our very special guest on this episode of MVP, the Master’s Voice Podcast -- our series based on conversations with MVPs (Most Valued Players) across important sectors of the Industry -- is Priya Chakravarty, Senior Director – HR at Essar Capital Limited! Essar Capital is at the threshold of another big growth spurt, and of course, its biggest strength has always been its People, and as Senior Director – HR, Priya plays a crucial role in strengthening the People practices across E...
Jan 24, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text My very special guest in this episode of The Master’s Voice Podcast, is Mona Shetty - President, Sound & Vision India, which is India’s biggest and most respected entity for providing globally acclaimed content localization services. Mona herself is the Queen and High Priestess of content localization in India, and a highly respected Voice Actor, Voice Coach and Dubbing Director. Mona, who initially wanted to remain with her piece of the pie comprising of her own freelance voi...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text In this, the 40th episode of The Master’s Voice, I bring you a conversation with someone I’ve always admired -- in equal measure for her career and professional achievements in the Media & Entertainment space, and for the kind of wonderful person she is - Simran Hoon, Chief Executive Officer at The Q India . She is one of the youngest women in a senior C-level leadership role in M&E in India. Before joining The Q, Simran was Executive Vice President and Head of Ad Sales at...
Dec 07, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text In this, the 39th episode of The Master’s Voice podcast series, passionate entrepreneurial leader, Mukesh Kalra – CEO of ETMONEY , speaks with Pavan R Chawla about India’s largest app for financial services that is simplifying the financial journey of new-age Indians. Consumers use ETMONEY to invest in zero-commission Direct mutual funds for Free, protect their families with unique Insurance solutions & use ETMONEY Credit Card to take instant loans at low-cost. Mukesh, a passi...
Dec 02, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text In this, the 38th episode of The Master’s Voice podcast, Pavan R Chawla brings you a conversation with one of FM Radio’s finest professionals, B Surendar - Chief Operating Officer & Director, Red FM network. One of the thought leaders in the FM radio industry in India, Surendar, over the past 16 years, has been playing an important role in helping shape the success of the Red FM radio network, which has grown in India from 7 stations in 2005 to nearly 70 stations now across th...
Nov 24, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text This, the 37th episode of The Master’s Voice on MediaBrief.com features someone who’s in an area of advertising wherein consumer attitudes, opinions and reactions are carefully collected, analyzed, tallied, and held up to the light – Dr Duane Varan, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of MediaScience; former director of Disney’s Media & Advertising Lab; professor at the Audience Lab at Australia’s Murdoch University , and has is a pioneer in the field of market research. Dr Duane is in con...
Nov 15, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 37
