Apurva Chamaria

Apurva Chamaria is the Vice President and Head of Corporate Marketing for HCL Technologies (HCL). Under his leadership HCL became the fastest growing brand in the Interbrand top Indian brands league table for 2 years in a row (No. 18 in 2015) and debuted in the Brand Finance Global 500 2015 league table at No. 497 with a brand value of 3.1 Bn US$. In the last 2 years the HCL campaigns have won 70 prestigious global and regional brand and marketing awards. In his 11 years at HCL, he's performed various roles including being CEO's Vineet Nayar's EA, Senior Sales Director at HCL America driving business development and leading Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications Business. He has worked in various sales & marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories, been a journalist and a client servicing executive at an advertising agency. In various parts of his career he's worked in Asia-Pacific, India, Africa, U.K. and North America. He's also a regular speaker at international conferences and teaches a full credit digital marketing course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) & Great Lakes Institute of Management. He's a member of the advisory board at Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad. He's a columnist for the Pitch and Digital Market Asia magazines. His book "You are the key - unlocking doors through Social Selling" (Bloomsbury) hit # 2 in the Amazon India Best-Sellers list* within 20 days of being launched in Jan 2016 and is also a best-seller on book chains like WH Smith.