Leroy Alvares
President

Mr. Leroy Alvares is currently the President of Rediffusion-Wunderman and Sudler & Hennessey India.

Leroy has a career over 16 years across Advertising, Brand Management and Direct & Digital. He has extensive experience across several categories like Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Information Technology, Pharma, Services, Travel & Tourism and Fashion and Lifestyle.

Leroy has worked earlier with Ogilvy & Mather, iContract and Tribal DDB India – in his last stint he was President of Tribal DDB India with operations across 5 cities in India.

Leroy led the team that won the first Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions Direct and three Effie’s including the Grand Effie for the ICICI Children Growth Bonds a product from the ICICI Bank. He also led the team that developed the Integrated Lead Generation System (ILG) Winner of the ITSMA Awards – Gold for most effective Marketing Program and the IDC Awards for Wipro Technologies.

Leroy has a superb track record of brand building through relevant, innovative and impactful communication solutions that work across media platforms. He has the unique distinction of being a part of the team that won the 1st ever Gold Lion in Cannes Direct Marketing, in addition to winning both an Effie and a Grand Effie. Under his leadership, Tribal DDB India grew to be the biggest and the most awarded digital agency in the country with over 40 local and international awards in 3 years.

Leroy firmly believes that there is a great need to integrate interactive, direct and relationship marketing disciplines to deliver quick, highly impactful and sustainable solutions to clients.

Leroy is married to Sharmila and they have two children (Kenneth & Angelina).

Leroy’s hobbies are observing wild life, traveling, fret work.

 

Ravindra Pamadi
General Manager - Finance

Born in South, brought up as a Maharashtrian and married to a girl from North - he’s an Indian in the true sense. A commerce graduate and a trained journalist, Ravi has 26 years of experience behind him. Now in his 7th year at Rediffusion-Wunderman, he is an absolute no-compromise individual at work. When he is not working he’s busy trekking to the Himalayas.

 

Subhojit Dasgupta
Head – CRM Strategy

Subhojit comes with over 18 years of experience across a variety of industries. He holds a post graduate diploma in Computer Science and is a certified Oracle professional. He joined the CRM space in 1999 and later specialized in loyalty, analysis, MIS and reporting domain. He has worked for leading companies like Enterprise Nexus Direct, Direm, RMG Connect and Cartesian. He has been credited for successfully managing several key accounts like BPCL, HPCL, ICICI, Taj Hotels, Wills Life Style, Exide, Manhattan Credit Card, Vodafone, Dominos Pizza, etc.

 

Ajay Gupta
Group Head – Planning

A mechanical engineer with an MBA from the prestigious Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), Ajay brings brand management, digital communication and direct marketing capabilities to the table. He has worked across categories and managed several National and International brands such as Idea Cellular, Nike, Kingfisher Holidays, Wrigleys, LIC, Honda and Timesjobs.com among others. He was part of the team at the Tribal DDB India that won several prestigious awards such as ABBYs, EMVIES, etc. Presently, he is Group Head - Planning at Rediffusion-Wunderman. His belief is simple – real ideas come from real life.