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MICA Alumni are many top CEOs, CXOs, HR Heads, top managers, entrepreneurs, from its PGDM-C and PGDM programs. MICA Ahmedabad Alumni are holding the top positions in many top companies in India and abroad. There are hundreds of notable alumni of MICA Ahmedabad. MICA Alumni are the torch bearers of their alma mater and are the inspiration for the budding managers studying in MICA Ahmedabad. Watch this page for some of the MICA famous alumni. Some of the MICA Ahmedabad alumni who are making their B-school proud and are the constant inspiration for the upcoming management graduates are as below:

Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO, YourStory Media

Shradha Sharma passed out of MICA in 2004. She has worked with The Times of India as the Brand Advisor and has founded YourStory, India’s leading online media venture for Entrepreneurs and Startups. She has been with YourStory for 13 years and 8 months.

MICA Alumnus Shradha Sharma is a successful media entrepreneur and a big evangelist of Indian Startup Movement. She founded online platform Your Story in 2008, with the aim of championing the untold stories of entrepreneurship in India. Since its launch, YourStory has profiled the narratives of over 40,000 entrepreneurs. She says her mainstream media experience at CNBC and Times of India gives her an understanding of how media businesses run, what works and what doesn't. Read more on LinkedIn

Sushant Dash, CEO at Tata Starbucks

Sushant Dash is a 1996 passout from MICA. After MICA he joined ORG MARG as the Associate Research Director. After working there for 3 years and 11 months, Sushant started his career in TATA as the Sr Brand Manager and since the past year he has been the CEO of Tata Starbucks Ltd.

MICA Alumnus Sushant Dash is the CEO of legendry global Coffee brand Starbucks India operations. Prior to his elevation as the CEO, Sushant was the President of packaged beverages at Tata Consumer Products. Starbucks first launched operations in October 2012 in a 50:50 joint venture with Tata Consumer Products. Dash was part of the core team that opened the first Tata Starbucks store in the country and was directly responsible for the strategy and marketing of the Starbucks brand. Earlier, as the president of the packaged beverages business at Tata Consumer Products, Dash is responsible for the India, Bangladesh and Middle Eastern markets. Read more on LinkedIn

Chiradeep Gupta, Global Media Strategy Director at Unilever

In 2018, Unilever appointed MICA Alumnus Chiradeep Gupta as the global media strategy director in London office. Prior to his elevation, Gupta was playing the Global Media Director role in Singapore for three years. Gupta joined Unilever in 2011 and began as a Global Media Innovation manager. Prior to his assignment at Unilever, he was the ASEAN Regional Director at Starcom (a media agency) for two years. He also held roles such as Communications Manager, Associate Director for Innovation, Regional Director and many other functions. He has worked in both India and Singapore. He had first joined Starcom India in 2001 from MICA. Read more on LinkedIn

Praveen Sharma, CEO - Paytm Payments Services Ltd, Paytm

MICA Alumnus Praveen Sharma runs a few different businesses at Paytm. Paytm is one of most diversified consumer Internet company in India with interests in Payments, commerce, financial services, gaming, travel, ticketing etc.

Before his stint in Paytm, Praveen spent almost 9 years with Google in India and Singapore. His first stint in Google was on the India leadership team where he ran the Youtube and Display advertising sales for India. YouTube monetization in India was just getting kicked off and this allowed him to drive penetration of online video in the ad ecosystem of the country. In his second stint, Praveen led an APAC wide distributed team that worked with individual country sales leadership to drive revenue of all advertising products across performance marketing (includes search, app promotion, shopping/commerce, measurement and analytics etc). A key part of his role was to represent APAC performance products to the global product organization of Google. Before Google, Praveen held several senior level positions across the most reputed advertising agency groups. In his last role as COO, he ran the P&L of Madison Media Plus. Read more on LinkedIn

Amol Gurwara, Country Manager, Amazon, Kindle

MICA Alumnus Amol is the Country Manager, Kindle Content, India, based out of Amazon's Singapore office. He is a media technology industry leader with a proven track record of building and running businesses comprising of creative, design, product management and technology focused functions.

Prior to Amazon, Amol worked at Electronic Arts for 11 years, as the Managing Director of EA’s India operations, running a video gaming business with a portfolio of leading global game franchises like Bejeweled, Tetris and Plant vs Zombies. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and Director of Operations at Aurona Technologies, where he set up managed a team of 100+ game programmers, software engineers and game artists. Before co-founding Aurona, he was at Recreate Solutions Limited, UK, handling client interaction across UK. Prior to that, he was Head of Rich Media Services at Sriven Multitech Limited, an outsourced animation production company.

Amol holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications from MICA (Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad) and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Technology from Loyola Academy, Secunderabad. Read more on LinkedIn

Vinay Subramanyam, Chief Marketing Officer, Pidilite Industries Limited

MICA Alumnus Vinay Subramanyam is the CMO of Pidilite Industries, the adhesive manufacturing giant that owns brands like inconic Fevicol. Prior to joining Pidilite, he was the vice president of marketing at Britannia Industries. Subramanyam’s last working month at Britannia was in the December of 2021. He had joined it in the February of 2015 as the category manager of health and vitality and moved up the ranks to become the vice president of marketing in August 2019, a post he held until his last working month. He joined Britannia in his first stint in 2007 as a product manager and worked at the FMCG company for just over three years and five months.

Subramanyam’s has also worked in marketing and brand management areas in leading companies like Kellogg, General Mills, and VIP Industries. Read more on LinkedIn

Pankaj Bhalla, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Grooming, Procter & Gamble

Pankaj Bhalla is a MICA pass out and is currently the Vice President at Procter and Gamble. Prior to this he worked with HERO as the Assistant Marketing Manager. He started his P&G journey with being the National Sales Planner for Gillette and worked his way up to the designation of Vice President as he stuck with the company for 17 years 8 months and continuing.

MICA Alumnus Pankaj Bhalla leads P&G’s US$ 3 Billion Europe Grooming business which includes iconic brands such as Gillette®, Venus®, Braun®, Daisy®, Satin Care® as well as recently launched brands with King C. Gillette® and Sunny®. Pankaj is responsible for Sales, Profit, Value creation, Market Share, Innovation, Communication and Commercial selling for all 10 European market clusters covering Western, Central, Eastern Europe, Turkey & Israel. Pankaj Bhalla started his P&G career in the Gillette company in the early 2000s, a few years ahead of the Gillette Company’s acquisition by Procter & Gamble in 2006.

With twenty years experience in local, regional and global assignments, Pankaj has worked in sectors such as Automobile, Fast Moving Consumer products and Consumer Appliances. As leader, Pankaj is known for setting a clear vision early, making very few, simple, bold strategic choices, communicating them impactfully and repeatedly and executing them with excellence. Pankaj is a passionate brand builder and a courageous leader that take smart risks to promote the values he strongly believes in. He is a guest speaker at Harvard and a lecturer of consumer behavior at his Alma-mater MICA. Read more on LinkedIn

Kunal Jeswani - CEO, Ogilvy, India

Kunal Jeswani is a PGP alumni from the first class. He is now the Chief Operating Officer of Ogilvy India. Kunal Jeswani has nearly 19 years of experience in the sector, having worked for companies such as The Republic and Ogilvy One. Prior to becoming the CEO of Ogilvy India, he served as the Chief Digital Officer for Ogilvy India for two years, overseeing the company's digital strategy in India across all domestic markets and disciplines. He credits the very first agency he worked for, Enterprise Nexus, with teaching him the trade of advertising and allowing him to develop such a successful career in this sector. Read more on LinkedIn

Kanika Mittal - National Business Head, Twitter

Kavita Chaturvedi started her career with ITC Limited as the Marketing Service Manager and handled media for ITC. She has been with ITC since 2003 and currently is the Chief Operating Officer, Snack Business. 

Leading Brand Solutions for India's biggest and most exciting brands across the Tech, Tech OEM, Auto, BFSI, FMCG etc. I am proud to drive Revenue for Twitter India's largest business portfolio. With this role intersecting marketing, technology, digital first thinking and culture, I have found a #passion that I can drive with #purpose.
 

Before Twitter, I was the Marketing Head at Reebok and led the brand through a number of noteworthy milestones:-

1. Delivered extremely strong brand health metrics. Like Topping the sports and footwear category in Brand Equity’s most Exciting Brands despite lowest MWB spend and achieving the Highest Quality of Consideration Score (QCS) in the world
2. Re-positioned into a premium fitness brand through an invigorated brand ambassador mix, inspirational brand communications, revamped point of sale consumer experience and digital transformation.
3. Disrupted the market with a Women’s First approach. Created #FitToFight and #GirlsFight Campaign with Kangana Ranaut breaking stereotypes and addressing issues of Gender Pay Gap and Eve Teasing.
4. Moved to an always-on Digital Approach with focus on content, influencer and community marketing and a Mobile First + Omni Channel Strategy and Implementation
5. Spearheaded Thought Leadership with #FitToFight Awards, Youth Talks, Fit India Survey etc Read more on LinkedIn

Here is a list of more famous MICA Ahmedabad Alumni

1. Aparna Mahesh - Chief Marketing Officer, BankBazaar
2. Kavita Chaturvedi - Chief Operating Officer, ITC Limited
3. Aditya R Kanthy - CEO and MD, DDB Mudra Group
4. Manmeet Vohra - Head Marketing India and South Asia, VISA