Executive Team

Harsh Mariwala

Founder, ASCENT Foundation

 

Harsh Mariwala leads Marico Limited as its Chairman. He is also Chairman & Managing Director of Kaya Limited. Over the past three decades, Harsh Mariwala has transformed a traditional commodity-driven business into a leading consumer products and services company in the Beauty and Wellness space. From a turnover of INR 50 Lakhs in 1971, Marico’s products in hair nourishment, male grooming and healthy foods generated a turnover of about INR 6,333 Crores during 2017-18. Marico’s market capitalization stood at INR 42,089 crore on March 31, 2018. Further, the skincare and solutions business under Kaya generated a turnover of INR 400 crores for FY 2017-18. Under his leadership, Marico & Kaya have received more than 280 awards in the last few years. Harsh Mariwala’s entrepreneurial drive and passion for innovation enthused him to establish the Marico Innovation Foundation in 2003. The Foundation acts as a catalyst to fuel innovation in India. Harsh Mariwala started ASCENT in 2012, a not-for-profit expression of his passion to create a unique trust-based peer-to-peer platform for high potential growth-stage entrepreneurs that leverage the “power of the collective” and enables them to share and exchange experiences, ideas, insights and create a healthy ecosystem to learn from each other and grow their enterprise.   He also founded the Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) in 2015, with the philanthropic aim of giving back to society. Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) is the leading funding body in the field of mental health in India.

Anuj Singh

Assistant Manager, ASCENT Foundation

 

Born and brought up in Mumbai, Anuj Singh earned his graduate degree in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai – Wilson College. His initial experiences with Radiant Bay and Marico Innovation Foundation was focussed on new product development, social media, MIS, event management and content generation. Anuj has been associated with ASCENT since March 2018 and has been involved with social media, community building, planning and executing events/workshops, strategic campaigns and other projects. Passionate about football, he enjoys participating at district/state level tournaments since school days apart from cooking, travelling, art being his other areas of interest.

Sravana Reddy

Senior Manager, ASCENT Foundation

 

Sravana Reddy is a marketing profession with 5 years of diverse experience in Brand management, Client Experience and Community Management. In her stint with LTI as the client and employee experience expert, she played a crucial role in redesigning and digitizing customer engagement practice. Her creative ability and flawless execution of internal campaigns enabled the organization to win multiple awards in the employee engagement space.   Previously, she has worked with Deloitte Technology Services as a Quality Assurance Analyst with expertise in service management platform and ITIL processes.   At her current assignment with ASCENT, she aims at leveraging her skills on digitization and knowledge on customer experience to forge a digitally sustaining ecosystem for the ASCENT Community.

Pankti Gala

Manager, ASCENT Foundation

 

Pankti Gala comes in with over 9 years of experience in Marketing and Strategy. Her last major stint was with Under The Mango Tree, a premium organic honey brand, where she worked as a Strategy Manager. She has also been a strategic partner to an online D2C footwear brand – Blue Baksa. She has a master’s degree from Grenoble Graduate School Of Business, France. At ASCENT, Pankti is responsible for the overall Marketing and Communications, PR and Social Media, Member Acquisition and Trust Group management.