Dun & Bradstreet Celebrates Marketing Excellence at the 2025 Marketing Mavericks Summit

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, successfully hosted the Marketing Mavericks Summit 2025 on August 22, 2025 at Hotel Taj Santacruz, Mumbai. Themed "The Changing Role of CMOs – Leadership Redefined", the event brought together some of the country's most visionary marketing leaders to recognize and celebrate those redefining the marketing landscape with innovation, strategy, and customer-centric thinking. Dun & Bradstreet India Logo The summit featured a series of dynamic sessions including keynote speeches, panel discussions, and a compelling fireside chat titled "Building a Brand vs Building Revenue: Aligning Short-Term Wins with Long-Term Growth". Topics explored ranged from UX optimization and B2B relationship marketing to the growing intersection of technology, personalization, and storytelling in modern brand-building. A key highlight of the summit was the launch of Dun & Bradstreet's latest special report, "Rethinking the Future of Marketing", which offers data-backed insights, case studies, and expert viewpoints on how marketing leaders are navigating change and driving growth in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. This report can be downloaded from the website of Dun & Bradstreet India (www.dnb.co.in). Another major moment of the day was the celebration of the 2025 Marketing Mavericks, a distinguished group of CMOs and senior marketing professionals from high-growth companies who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, strategic foresight, and innovation in their roles. Selected by a jury panel that included prominent advertising personality KV Sridhar (Pops), Global Chief Creative Officer, Nihilent Limited and veteran marketer Partha Sinha, Chairman, Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI, the achievements of these Marketing Mavericks reflect the rising importance of marketing as a core driver of business transformation and competitive advantage. "In today's dynamic business environment, CMOs are no longer just brand custodians—they are growth strategists, technology enablers, and experience architects," said Avinash Gupta, Managing Director & CEO – India, Dun & Bradstreet. "Through the Marketing Mavericks platform, we are proud to recognize the trailblazers who are not only delivering business impact but also reshaping the future of marketing in India." The list of 2025 Award Winners is given below: Sr No. Award Winners Name Designation Business name 1 Adishri Charla Head of Marketing UiPath Robotic Process Automation India 2 Anil Grover Head of Marketing and Communications Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants (India) 3 Ankit Chothani Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications UGRO Capital 4 Ankur Dasgupta Head of Marketing NTT DATA, India 5 Annkita Karrva Associate Director – B2B Marcom BenQ India 6 Chetan Baregar Senior Director – Marketing Recykal (Rapidue Technologies) 7 Devang Mehta Head of Marketing Anand Rathi Group 8 Dr. Kiran Veigas Head – Corporate Marketing, Branding & Communications Happiest Minds Technologies 9 Jitesh Gautam Head of Marketing V Trans 10 Ketan Mankikar Head – Marketing & PR Zuno General Insurance 11 Meghna Ramchandani Director – Marketing & Communications Grant Thornton Bharat LLP 12 Noel Mascarenhas Head of Marketing Aadhar Housing Finance 13 Pritika Shah Head of Marketing HDFC Life Insurance Company 14 Rajat Abbi Vice President – Marketing Schneider Electric India 15 Ranjani Krishnaswamy Chief Marketing Officer – Analog Watches Titan Company 16 Roch Ferreira Global Vice President – Corporate Marketing Virtusa Consulting Services 17 Sameer Arora Chief Marketing Officer IKS Health (Inventurus Knowledge Solutions) 18 Shamik Biswas Head of Marketing Plintron India 19 Sudhanshu Tripathi Chief Marketing Officer Quick Heal Technologies 20 Vincent Noronha Head of Marketing HyFun Frozen Foods About Dun & Bradstreet: Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, enables companies around the world to improve their business performance. Dun & Bradstreet's Data Cloud fuels solutions and delivers insights that empower customers to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate risk and transform their businesses. Since 1841, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity. Dun & Bradstreet India is also proud to be Great Place to Work® Certified (2025-26), a recognition of its commitment to fostering a high-trust, high-performance workplace culture. For more information on Dun & Bradstreet, please visit www.dnb.com. Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Private Limited is headquartered in Mumbai an