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Manish Shrivastava
At PulteGroup, Manish Shrivastava turned a career built on brands and shopper behavior toward a purchase where price, place, design and identity arrive in the same decision. His work shows what marketing becomes when the product must be bought, built and then inhabited.
Ranjan Kumar
Ranjan Kumar is a Bengaluru-based technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Entropik, a Human Insights AI company he started in 2016 to reinvent the century-old market research industry. An IIT Kharagpur graduate who once headed business at Citrus Payment Solutions before its acquisition by PayU, he built Entropik around Emotion AI - facial coding, eye tracking and voice analysis - to read the subconscious signals behind consumer decisions. He is now building his next venture, DecisionX AI, and describes himself as a three-time founder.
Anne Hay
Anne Hay is EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at PayNearMe, a fintech company focused on frictionless bill payment and money movement. A journalist by training, she has spent more than two decades in B2B SaaS marketing, including 16 years in payments technology, building brand recognition and consumer research programs across bill pay, lending, iGaming and online sports betting. She was named to the 2023 FINITE Influential 30.
Anita Batho
Anita Batho is the Co-Founder and Principal at Torch (torch.com.au), a boutique brand strategy and innovation consultancy based in Sydney, Australia that has illuminated brand futures for blue-chip clients since 1999. Drawing on a career spanning consumer goods giants Unilever (Best Foods) and ICI Paints, and senior roles at Kantar, Anita built Torch into a respected agency known for immersive consumer research, bespoke brand workshops, and commercially grounded innovation work for clients including Arnott's, Telstra, PepsiCo, A2 Milk, Mercedes-Benz, and Moët Hennessy.