Mr Rajesh Patalia
First Executive and Dean
Having over 25 years of experience across FMCG, Telecom & Media Industries, Mr Patalia is a veteran in his field. He has helmed some of the best brands in the country during his tenure with various organizations. Kingfisher, Sand Piper, Zuska, Zuci, RCOM, Hutch, MudraMax & Zero B to name a few.
His passion for creating brands from scratch; based on his sound understanding of fundamentals of Business & Marketing, is unparalleled in the Industry. His ability to identify key insights often set businesses on the path of exponential success. Well beyond his core forte of Marketing Strategy and Brand Management, he is often invited by his clients to chart strategies impacting the future of their businesses.
A dynamic teacher at heart, Mr Patalia never misses an opportunity to interact with management students or mentor budding entrepreneurs. He teaches the all important Marketing Orientation Program and audience profiling for refresher course in Digital Marketing. He also teaches advanced courses in Marketing & Brand Positioning. His workshops in Consumer Profiling are a real eye opener even for the most seasoned professional and are completely based on real live cases.
Hitesh Khakhar
A First Class MCom alumni of Mumbai University, having more than 20 years experience in the education sector, he is the founder of HSPT classes.
Friendly, approachable and insightful, he remains a favorite amongst more than 5000 plus students whom he has groomed over the years. Specializing in Accounts yet versatile in most subjects across Commerce, Arts and Management streams, his expertise and unique style of teaching has made him a popular teacher amongst the academic circles in Mumbai. He also coaches CA, CS, BLS, LLB and CPT and IPCC students as well as aspirants for CS and CLAT exams.
Born in a family of Gujarati Entrepreneurs, he started HSPT classes from a single room in Kandivali, Mumbai in 2012. Today, HSPT classes boasts of 3 branches across Kandivali west, Malad west and Borivali west. His latest venture, Insta Holidays caters to the growing student tourism, which combines learning with travelling !
Tushar Khakhar
First Executive, AGENCY09
Tushar Khakhar is a Non Engineer, Non IT, Non Coder, Non MBA and Non BMS or BMM guy running an Integrated Marketing Communication Company; AGENCY09. He has more than 18 yrs of work experience in Marketing, Research, Media Planning, Operations and Sales.
Noteworthy career milestones in Tushar’s work life include Marketing Research with ICM Research(UK), Media Planning and Buying for Steve & Barrys, USA. Account Management with Think Why Not. His last job stint was as Chief Operating Officer at Studio High that completed the loop by equipping him with sharp entrepreneurial skills and thorough knowledge of the digital world.
He started AGENCY09 in 2013, a bootstrapped company, which today, boasts of a 60+ member team with 25+ services & 150+ projects delivered today from a mere 3 member team at Inception. It stands tall as one of the fastest growing agencies in Mumbai having presence across the world; in Dubai, Adelade, Singapore, London, Toronto & New York.
He has partnered with clients like Mahindra Group, Reliance General Insurance, Lakme Fashion Week, Times Fashion Week, Tips Films, Future Generali Life Insurance Corporation, Edelweiss, Lokmat , Gowardhan, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Chopard, Ferrari & Disney Pictures amongst others.
He leads of a team of young curious minds who are committed to changing the way the digital world is perceived; a team who strives to ‘Simplify the Web’.
We present to you the man who calls himself, ‘First Executive’
Gautam Anand
Chief Strategy Officer
Having over 25 years of experience across FMCG, Telecom & Media Industries, Mr Patalia is a veteran in his field. He has helmed some of the best brands in the country during his tenure with various organizations. Kingfisher, Sand Piper, Zuska, Zuci, RCOM, Hutch, MudraMax & Zero B to name a few.
His passion for creating brands from scratch; based on his sound understanding of fundamentals of Business & Marketing, is unparalleled in the Industry. His ability to identify key insights often set businesses on the path of expwp1ntial success. Well beyond his core forte of Marketing Strategy and Brand Management, he is often invited by his clients to chart strategies impacting the future of their businesses.
A dynamic teacher at heart, Mr Patalia never misses an opportunity to interact with management students or mentor budding entrepreneurs. He teaches the all important Marketing Orientation Program and audience profiling for refresher course in Digital Marketing. He also teaches advanced courses in Marketing & Brand Positioning. His workshops in Consumer Profiling are a real eye opener even for the most seasoned professional and are completely based on real live cases.
Bipeen Nadgauda
Chief Strategy Officer
Having over 25 years of experience across FMCG, Telecom & Media Industries, Mr Patalia is a veteran in his field. He has helmed some of the best brands in the country during his tenure with various organizations. Kingfisher, Sand Piper, Zuska, Zuci, RCOM, Hutch, MudraMax & Zero B to name a few.
His passion for creating brands from scratch; based on his sound understanding of fundamentals of Business & Marketing, is unparalleled in the Industry. His ability to identify key insights often set businesses on the path of expwp1ntial success. Well beyond his core forte of Marketing Strategy and Brand Management, he is often invited by his clients to chart strategies impacting the future of their businesses.
A dynamic teacher at heart, Mr Patalia never misses an opportunity to interact with management students or mentor budding entrepreneurs. He teaches the all important Marketing Orientation Program and audience profiling for refresher course in Digital Marketing. He also teaches advanced courses in Marketing & Brand Positioning. His workshops in Consumer Profiling are a real eye opener even for the most seasoned professional and are completely based on real live cases.
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING (SMM)
In today’s connected world, Social Media is the fulcrum of a persons’ interaction with friends, family, peers & society at large. A person’s need to connect and interact with like minded individuals is fulfilled by Social Media. Unlike other mediums such as SEO or SEM, Social Media is ‘pull driven’. Being a User Generated Content and Governed medium, it is very different from all other mediums of content proliferation; with privacy forming the core of its usage. Marketing on Social Media is a specialized skill which has built careers of many and has a great demand amongst all Digital Marketing Professionals.
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