Sandeep Sugla

Founder, CEO & Chairman

Sandeep is the Founder and CEO of MarketsandMarkets. Always an entrepreneur at heart, Sandeep has 18+ years of experience in consulting and technology.

He founded and grew MarketsandMarkets into a 1000+ resources organization in a span of six years. He is an innovator and is on the verge of introducing disruptive technology platforms in the Market Research space. With a vision to revolutionize the market research industry, Sandeep is driving MarketsandMarkets towards a perfect integration of Technology, Innovation and Excellence.

Deepak Kedia

Chief Financial Officer

As a CFO of MarketsandMarkets, Deepak brings in a very strong strategic business aspect of how we build fundamental building blocks of business, such as account penetration, resource productivity, territory view, and pipeline management. His focus will be to bring in predictive growth across these fundamentals, which cut across major functions, along with clear visibility of what is working. Deepak's mantra for the finance function, 'Making numbers talk instead of talking numbers,' aligns with our strategic direction.

Deepak has two decades of global finance leadership experience and has been instrumental in growing and transforming multiple tactical businesses into strategic functions across the globe.

Deepak is a trusted and technology-savvy finance leader, having multi-cultural and multi-industry experience across international markets in high-tech industries - Information Technology, mission-critical, and consumer-centric communication solutions. He has diverse experience in leading, influencing, and supporting business strategies, growth and outcomes, M&A (mergers & acquisitions) strategies, pricing strategies, every other aspect of the finance function, and building a world-class finance team.

Before MarketsandMarkets, Deepak worked as a finance leader in various Fortune 500 companies like Wipro, Hewlett Packard, NTT Ltd, and Motorola Solutions.

Aman Gupta

Vice Chairman

As the Chief Strategy Officer, he plays a pivotal role in the execution of all strategic plans including but not limited to M&A, Financing, Partnerships and Alliances, Legal. As a Strategy expert, Aman has executed multiple businesses across Retail, Healthcare, Real estate, Market Research, IT & ITES, Technology and mobility.

He has always believed in start-ups and has handled multiple assignments from ideation to profit churning. Specifically he has played a pivotal role in the founding and growth of a health-care service business provider, an advisory Real Estate firm that integrates Real Estate and IT, a leading brand in tablet, smart phone and mobility device production. Aman’s passion lies in driving profitability for the organization. He is adept at multitasking and managing businesses across multiple sectors. Aman believes in young talent, technology and revolutions and so has a natural inclination to groom and mentor young minds. While promoting and nurturing multiple ventures, he also has invested in a few start-ups, both individually and institutionally.

Neeraj Bhargava

Senior Managing Director and CEO, Zodius Capital Advisors

Neeraj is the founder of Zodius and leads the firm. Prior to Zodius, he was the co-founder and CEO of WNS (listed at NYSE), Managing Partner of eVentures India, where he was also the first investor in MakeMyTrip (listed at NASDAQ), NetMagic (sold to NTT), Customerasset (evolved into India-listed FirstSource) and Mentorix (sold to LionBridge), and a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Neeraj sets the strategic direction for Zodius and plays active Chairman and Board roles in its companies. Neeraj lives in Mumbai with his wife and two sons.

Bradford Bernstein

Managing Partner - FTV Capital

Brad heads the FTV-Capital New York office and leads investments in enterprise technology & services and financial services. He has over 20 years of private equity experience. Prior to FTV Capital, Brad was a partner at Oak Hill Capital Management and its predecessors where he managed the business and financial services group. He began his private equity career with Patricof & Company Ventures and started his professional career in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch in New York. Brad received a BA magna cum laude from Tufts University.

Vishal Gupta

Managing Director - Mantra Group

Vishal is the Managing Director of Mantra Group, a diversified Group having interests in varied sectors such as Real Estate & construction. He is a third generation entrepreneur and over the past decade, he has handled and mastered the areas of Project Execution, Quality, Technology, Process & IT, Customer Relationship Management, Design & Engineering and many other facets of the business. Besides MarketsandMarkets, he has active interest in Healthcare industry through Med DataCare Pro LLC ( a leading American healthcare service provider) and the telecom industry through Swipe Telecom (Leading brand of tablet computers in India)

Shailendra Singh

Board Member

Shelly has over 25 years of experience in managing global businesses in big data analytics, decision sciences, and BPO industries. He was one of the early employees of Daksh and subsequently enabled its acquisition by IBM. After the merger, he served several global leadership roles with IBM. He left IBM at a Senior Partner level to join Mu Sigma as the global head of sales & client services and a member of Mu Sigma Japan and Germany Board. Shelly also played Interim CEO role at Mu Sigma. He is a member of the Institute of Cost Accounts in India, and has participated in Harvard executive programs focused on long term negotiations.

Adnan Ahmed

Global President

Adnan sets the strategy and leads overall operations across all functions globally for MarketsandMarkets. His main aim is to deliver breakthrough growth for our customers by helping them unlock the full value of MarketsandMarkets’ industry leading platform, with unique insights into the fastest growing 30,000+ emerging technologies and markets. He will lead high performance teams across the globe to drive hyperscale growth through excellence in Product, Research, Go-to-Market, and Corporate functions.

Adnan has been a growth-focused CEO with over 25 years of experience leading teams and building disruptive data and technology businesses within Fortune 500 companies, as well as start-ups. He has led global businesses and teams in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and brings with him a strong mix of strategy and operational execution. Most recently, Adnan was CEO at Blue Top Capital, a real estate crowdfunding platform that he co-founded. Prior to Blue Top Capital, he was CEO at Marketwired, a global newswire business, where he led its transformation from a traditional newswire business to a global social communications company, which resulted in a successful merger with Nasdaq.

Krishnan Chatterjee

Chief Operating Officer

Krishnan holds the overall responsibility to drive operational excellence at MarketsandMarkets. He plays a vital role in enhancing and expanding the overall customer lifecycle, driving the sales and marketing ecosystem, and delivering a high-impact customer success journey for our revenue impact story.

Krishnan is a multi-disciplinary professional with over 25 years of experience straddling consumer goods (B2C) and technology (B2B) industries in domestic (India) and global markets. He is known for creative breakthroughs in the functions he has led across organizations. Krishnan's last assignment was with SAP India, where he donned the dual hats of Head of Marketing and Chief Customer Officer. He has also worked with HCL and ITC, where he was responsible for leading strategic marketing initiatives. Krishnan also enjoys the privilege of being inducted into Paul Writer's CMO Hall of Fame, a platform celebrating senior marketers developing and enhancing India's marketing ecosystem. Krishnan is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta and has an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

Sachin Bajaj

Chief Growth Officer

Sachin holds responsibility for global growth of MarketsandMarkets, this includes all revenue channels, enterprise, mid-market and global verticals. Sachin will also drive inorganic growth through incubating new verticals, partnerships and strategic acquisitions.

Sachin Bajaj comes with 23 years of technology industry expertise. An explorer at heart, Sachin is a builder of businesses, he has incubated and scaled out several practices into multi-million dollar businesses. He believes, both at work and personal life, taking a "people first" approach is the only fool-proof path to success. In his last assignment, Sachin was EVP and global head HCL's digital business go-to-market function. He spent over a decade as a part of the core leadership team in HCL to build and grow out the digital business. He also drove strategic growth in data analytics, digital marketing and modern technologies. In the early stages of his career, Sachin worked in several technology start ups and continues active involvement in Fintech, Consumer Tech and IOT. Sachin has an MBA from Schulich School of Business, Canada.

Anoop Garg

Co-Founder

Anoop Garg, Co-Founder of MarketsandMarkets, has more than 17 years of experience working under guidance of Sandeep Sugla. He has successfully built the team and revenues for the partner relationship division along with the Conference division from scratch as a revenue and marketing division for MarketsandMarkets. He is overlooking IT support, office administration, and the finance department.

Sulakshana Patankar

Chief People Officer

Sulakshana leads Global Human Resources function as a strategic partner to CXOs to achieve MarketsandMarkets’s hypergrowth. She is instrumental in defining the Employee Value Proposition, Talent Architecture, building Employee Experience in hybrid workplaces and reimaging the FutureofWork. She is passionate about inspiring employees to imbibe the Growth Mind-set.

Prior to MarketsandMarkets, Sulakshana was the Executive Vice President and Business Leader at WNS Global Services for the Utilities, Retail & Consumer Products, Manufacturing and Diversified Businesses. As one of the early adopters in the industry to pivot from the traditional outsourcing business model to complex transformational programs for clients to excel and remain industry leaders, Sulakshana was instrumental in transforming WNS from being a largely captive operations for British Airways to one of the largest global business process outsourcing firms. From founding the F&A practice, which was key in helping WNS establish itself as a leading player in the space, to incubating 5 large verticals, which eventually contributed to 80% of businesses revenues.

Sulakshana nurtured and managed strategic relationships with large established and emerging companies and set up global delivery centres across geographies. To enhance People and Capability Development, she led partnerships with industry and education bodies viz CIMA and Top Management Institutes.

Prior to joining WNS, Sulakshana was a Consultant with PWC. Sulakshana is a Cost and Management Account from ICMAI and an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

Harwinder Singh

Chief Innovation Officer

Harwinder leads Global Research & Consulting division of MarketsandMarkets. He is closely involved in developing overall corporate strategy, product development, planning organizational structure and M&A activities for MarketsandMarkets. Harwinder leads MarketsandMarkets vision to be leader in B2B Information Services and to create a legacy of being one of the most respected brands in Business Research.

Over the course of last 6 years, Harwinder was instrumental in growing "research and consulting" team, which constitutes biggest chunk of 1000+ employees of MarketsandMarkets. With more than 8 industry verticals where MarketsandMarkets provides information services, Harwinder is closely involved in developing disruptive offerings and solutions for its clients which constitute Fortune 5000 companies of B2B world.

Prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, from 2000 till 2010, Harwinder worked in different organizations within the sphere of Healthcare Industry. Harwinder also had entrepreneurial stint in his family owned business "SKF & Associates" for few years. He worked in Mckinsey & Co as healthcare research professional and in marketing and sales functions for Venus Remedies and Eli Lilly.

He was a research associate in 2005 in W.H.O sponsored project titled "Impact of TRIPS on generic drug prices in India" under Dr Parikshit Bansal (Head - Intellectual Property and Technology Cell - NIPER). This report was submitted to Government of India and was used as reference document for framing policy and guidelines on drug prices in India.

Harwinder holds bachelor's degree in pharmaceuticals and master's in business administration.

Rajat Kumar

Chief Knowledge Officer

Rajat manages the India based syndicated research team of MarketsandMarkets. He brings over 10 years of experience in establishing, managing, and growing the research & analysis teams. An astute strategic planner and operations leader, he has been recognized by the top leadership for valuable contribution in engaging large accounts on many occasions throughout his career.

Prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, Rajat worked with GlobalData Research Center for nearly 8 years. He led a team of 100+ analysts and was instrumental in developing & successfully commercializing their oil & gas subscription product. He worked with all major companies across the oil & gas value chain including oil & gas supermajors, national oil companies, independents, oil & gas service companies and professional services companies. Rajat has also worked with the European Energy team of Frost & Sullivan, specializing in the distributed generation technologies such as renewables, fuels cells and power rentals.

Rajat holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XIM Bhubaneswar with a specialization in Finance & Strategy.

Sarwant Singh

President (Europe) and Chief Commercial Officer

With over two decades of global work experience in management, Sarwant is a well-known industry leader who has joined MarketsandMarkets as the President and Chief Commercial Officer for Europe and the Rest of the World. He has pioneered and implemented innovative business propositions that embrace future trends. He has also leveraged transformative trends and delivered high-value engagements to set new benchmarks for emulation.

Sarwant joins MarketsandMarkets™ with a focus on forward-thinking strategic consulting & advisory services within Automotive & Transportation and other growth sectors like Energy, Technology, Aerospace & Defence, and Mobility. He will have a dual role of leading the Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa region and also being the global practice leader of the Mobility group. Before joining MarketsandMarkets™, Sarwant led the Corporate Development and Planning Office at Hinduja Group with Switch Mobility and CEO of Ohm Mobility (a Subsidiary of Switch) in a dual role.

Sarwant is the author of "New Mega Trends," a bestseller in 30 countries, and has been a regular contributor to several leading publications, including Forbes. Sarwant has vast international experience, having lived and worked on four continents and led global teams across 44 offices in 30 countries.

Aashish Mehra

Chief Research Officer

As Chief Research Officer, Aashish leads MarketsandMarkets' Analyst teams across verticals to deliver revenue impact to our clients. He leads our syndicate teams that publish fresh insights on niche, high-growth markets, our Advisory teams that deliver new revenue-growth ideas and insights as part of our Annual Engagement Model, and our custom research work clients. He closely works with our Customer Success teams on Engagement Delivery to ensure multiple client stakeholders benefit from new revenue growth opportunities.

Aashish has over 20 years of experience advising CXOs and senior executives across sales, marketing, strategy, and M&A on revenue-growth problems. His core expertise is in advising clients find new revenue streams from high-growth, niche markets that offer a step change potential in their future revenues. He has advised clients on gaining share in existing markets by strengthening their "right to win" v/s competitors; helped clients diversify into new product segments, regions, technologies, applications, and use cases; and worked with product/innovation leaders on commercializing their new technologies/product ideas. His clients include global leaders in healthcare and chemicals and materials, and some of the largest and most respected technology companies across the US and UK, Central Europe, China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia.

Prior to MarketsandMarkets, Aashish was a Partner with PwC Strategy& (legacy Booz & Co), India. Before that, he co-led the Asia Pacific practice for Strategic Decisions Group, a California-based boutique strategy consulting firm. Aashish is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and holds a BTech degree from IIT Delhi.