Leena is a PG in Statistics from Mumbai University. She has been a Jury Member at Cannes Direct and at the Loyalty Summit 2017. Leena became the Managing Director of DIREM Mumbai in 2005 and oversaw its transition into Direxions in 2007. Today it is India’s largest, most successful and most experienced loyalty and Customer engagement agency.
She is also Vice Chairman of the InterDirect Network with agency members from over 33 countries across the globe.
He has worked in marquee banks like Citibank, Barclays and HSBC and brings to bear his extensive experience of product management, corporate strategy, operations and technology.
He enables our clients to truly understand their customers, and connect with them in highly relevant ways. He is a mechanical engineer from Mumbai university and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
For 8 years (2015 through 2023), Ashish was the vice-chairman of the Aga Khan Foundation India, and was also the President of the AKDN Council for India. Ashish has an MBA from the University of Rochester, New York (2000), a one-year post-graduate diploma in Advanced Business Analytics from the IIT-Mumbai (2010), and a one-year post-graduate diploma in Market Research and Analytics from MICA (2020).
Suvendra’s ability to understand the complexity of a client’s business and develop solutions that deliver ROI and reduce costs is remarkable. Suvendra started his career with the banking industry in 1995 with The Bank of Rajasthan. He switched to advertising at Enterprise Nexus Direct, Kolkata, working on accounts like P&G and Jenson and Nicolson. He chose Direct Marketing and joined Lodestar Marketing Solutions, Kolkata, managing the accounts of Toshiba Copier, Lafarge and ABP. Schooled at Assembly of God Church School, Kolkata and a Commerce Graduate from Calcutta University, Suvendra enjoys both listening and singing folk music and rustic country music.
Naresh holds B.S. from BITS Pilani and MBA from Ulyanovsk State University (ULSU), Russia.