Senthil is the spearhead of the creative firepower at VML, the world’s largest creative company that’s powering the business of ideas and inspiring growth for several international brands and national market leaders, working with multilingual creative and digital teams across the country. He believes in leading by example and leading from the front with insightful ideas that have built legendary local brands like Wipro, The Times Of India, Tata Steel, Tata Gluco Plus, Himalayan, Apollo Tyres, Hero Motors, Aditya Birla Fashion, Murugappa Group, Nestle Munch, Star Sports and leading global brands like Nike, Levi’s, Puma, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, KitKat, Johnnie Walker, Google, Facebook, Rotary International, Shell, Unilever Radiant and Unicef.

THE ECONOMIC TIMES gave Senthil the coveted title of ‘Lion Hunter’ for winning India’s first Gold Lions in Film & Film Craft at the Cannes Lions International Festival. He has also won India’s first One Show Gold Pencils in Film, Film Craft and Film Innovation and several D&AD, Spikes, Clio Awards and New York Festival Gold Medals. With over 300 International Awards, Senthil is the most awarded writer, creative director and film director in Indian advertising, while leading the company to several ‘Agency Of The Year’ and ‘Campaign of the Year’ titles. Senthil has been voted ‘Copywriter of the Year’ and ‘Film Director of the Year’ several times at the National and Asia Pacific regional creative festivals.

Joono is a seasoned creative leader with over 25 years of experience in driving creative excellence across top global advertising networks, including Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, DDB Mudra, and JWT. In his career journey, Joono has built a reputation not only as a great creative mind, but also as someone who has a keen eye for fashion and lifestyle as a category. Currently as the Founder of Brave New World, Joono helms a 9 year-old independent integrated advertising agency with a focus on creating integrated brand experiences for a diverse portfolio of some of leading Indian and International brands like Swadesh, Zalora, Myntra, Un etc to name a few.

Joono is also the founder of Un Denim - India’s first circularity-centric up-cycled denim brand.

Throughout his career, Joono has garnered an impressive array of accolades, including over 50 international advertising and marketing awards. His achievements include multiple wins at Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Spikes, and The Effies - with a remarkable eight wins in the fashion and lifestyle category alone. Notably, Joono brought home India's first Promo Lion at Cannes Lions and led JWT India to its first-ever Cannes Lions win in 75 years. Joono has also served as a juror for prestigious global award shows and was a member of the JWT Global Creative Council.

A two-time Cannes Gold Lion winner, and recipient of over a 150 international and national awards, Vishnu Srivatsav, National Creative Head, 22feet Tribal Worldwide is in charge of the digital creative output of the DDB Mudra Group’s robust client roster including Flipkart, Volkswagen, Acko, Pedigree, Whiskas, Spotify, Puma, Royal Enfield, TTK Prestige, USLDiageo (McDowell’s No. 1, Royal Challenge, among others), Peter England, Pepsico, Tanishq, Xiaomi, Porter, Star India, Krafton and many more.

With experience of over 22 years, Vishnu began his career with RK Swamy BBDO and has also worked with leading creative agencies including FCB Ulka and Grey Worldwide. Some of the other world-renowned brands that he has worked with include Gillette, DHL, Fiat Punto, Honda Brio, Duracell, Killer Jeans, Indian Oil, Britannia, Bajaj Allianz Insurance, Dabur, Bharti Axa Insurance, Reliance Mobile, National Geographic Channel, Aircel Cellular, Lee Jeans, 3M, Dell and TimesPro.

In 2013 and 2014, his work for Duracell has won back-to-back Cannes Gold Lions, as well as a Bronze Lion. He has also been awarded with a Cannes Bronze Lion for his work on DHL in 2013. Other commendable accolades won by him include an Adfest Gold Lotus, D&AD Inbooks, One Show Merits, and a Pencil from D&AD for ‘Writing in Press Advertising’.

Adweek named his campaign as one of the world’s best print campaigns of 2014, and his film for Gillette is still one of the most watched ads on cricket on YouTube

He and his team from DDB Mudra South, created the iconic Suede Gully work for Puma, which was also recognized at Cannes 2018 with 3 shortlists.

He also worked on the Battlegrounds Mobile India (known as PUB-G worldwide) campaign for Responsible Gaming, which was awarded the Grand Prix and 3 Golds in Spikes 22, a D&AD pencil, a Bronze Lion in Cannes 2022 and a Gold, Silver and 2 Bronzes in LIA, 22.

He also contributed to Indeed’s “Hire Right” campaign that won a Grand Prix at WARC.

He also led the 22Feet team for Disney Star’s Words of Pride project, which was awarded a Grand Prix in the Drum Asia 2024 awards as well as a Silver and a bronze in Spikes Asia 2024.

Rated by Economic Times Brand Equity as one of the twenty hottest Creative Directors. Won over 45 international and national awards. Worked with Ogilvy, Grey Worldwide, and JWT (Last post held in the organised world, VP and Executive Creative Director).

Started Why Axis in 2005, a Bangalore-based multi-channel creative solutions agency. Why Axis has worked across 35 different verticals across India, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Africa.

Jury member New York Festivals, Jury at Ad Club award shows and former Secretary of the Advertising Club of Bangalore. Guest faculty and speaker at PG institutes and communication seminars.

Columbia Business School Emeritus program on Digital Marketing and Strategy. Wharton Sticky Communication certification. Harvard certification in Rhetoric, the art of persuasive writing and public speaking. There’s more.

Chockalingam a.k.a Chocka stumbled into advertising when Chennai was still Madras. From Lintas, Madras to JWT, Chennai and then LOWE, Delhi he had some adventurous stints everywhere he went. The day he realised he was becoming unemployable, he OPN'ed his best innings yet. Today, fans across the world love to whistle every time an IPL team in yellove enters the ground. And OPN is to be blamed for it partially.

When it comes to digital advertising, we all need to speak the internet and know it inside out. From making geocities webpages to managing brand social pages to developing award-winning campaigns for India's most loved brands, Sanket has come a long way. After leaving MICA, he went on to become a Creative Director at Dentsu Webchutney, leading creative work for brands like Swiggy, Airtel, Twitter, Flipkart, Fastrack, Wildcraft, Google and more. In the past decade, his work has gone on to win multiple awards at Cannes, OneShow, Spikes, Kyoorius and Goafest, including being named 'Top 30 Under 30 in Advertising' by IMPACT Magazine and Social Samosa.

Teresa Sebastian is a creative & founding member at Talented, India's hottest independent creative agency. She has represented Indian creativity at the world's most prestigious creative forum, Cannes Lions. In 2024, she won the National Young Lion title. In 2023, she represented India at The One Club’s ADC 101+1, and won Storyboard18's Youngun honour. Her award-winning body of work is known to weave together diverse disciplines to create visually uncomfortable work. She believes advertising is an art form. Whether it’s showing female pubic hair on screen with Bombae razors, or busting myths about consumer attention spans with ‘Why Is This A Swiggy Ad?’, she has redefined charters for the country’s biggest brands. In her downtime she experiments with artificial intelligence, and uses her emotional intelligence to mentor an eclectic team of GenZ artists.