The Payal Nanjiani Leadership Podcast

 Pradeep Gupta | Chairman  Managing Director at Axis My India Ltd.

Chairman & Managing Director of Axis My India, An Engineer graduated from the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. Belonging to a dusty village in Madhya Pradesh, his roots helped to get an insight into understanding human behavior. 27+ years of hands-on experience that spans various skills – right from printing to advertising to publishing to on-ground activations to Market Research.
Axis My India, has successfully predicted 59 of 63 exit polls since 2013. Axis My India’s 2019 general election and Haryana assembly election forecasts were the subject of a case study at Harvard Business
School. Proud pioneer of Personalized Mass Media in India. Zeal for innovation drove me to turn bills and tickets of Government owned Power, Oil and Railway undertakings into an unparalleled Advertising and Media opportunity.
Driving Mantras - Innovation, Quality and Commitment.
Author of well-praised books, Blueprint for an Economic Miracle, Modi@20, ‘How India Votes and
what it means’ and the upcoming "Who Gets Elected - How and Why".

Vishal Sharma | CEO at Godrej Chemicals

Vishal has worked with Ecolab Inc. in the water, hygiene, and process chemistry space for a decade, in various roles across India, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. He has been instrumental in building a world-class teams.

Vishal has lived and operated across five continents, in both developed and developing markets, in operational as well as strategic roles over the last two decades. 

He has led start-up businesses during his career and is credited with multiple transformational and scale up initiatives.

Vishal earned a post-graduate diploma in Management from the Institute of Management Development and Research in Pune, India, and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from MIT Manipal in Mangalore, India.

Shailesh Kapoor |  Founder & CEO, Ormax Media


After working for leading media organizations like Sony, Zee and The Times
Group, Shailesh founded Ormax Media in2008 as India’s first and only consulting firm specializing in the media & entertainment sector. With over 21 years of experience in the Indian media sector across content, marketing, revenue and strategy, Shailesh has built deep understanding of the Indian media & entertainment landscape and its evolution over the last two decades. He’s passionate about forecasting and data analytics, which combine his two favorite passions entertainment business and
statistics. Shailesh is an alumnus of IIT Delhi (1997) and IIM Calcutta (1999). Besides watching and analyzing media & entertainment content, Shailesh is also a keen follower of sports and politics. He enjoys writing, especially on the topics of entrepreneurship and trends in the Indian media sector.