CHANDANA BANERJI
Senior Vice President Quantitative
Chandana Banerji has over 20 years of experience in various industry domains like automotive, FMCG, retail, finance, telecom, e-commerce as well as the social sector. She has a wide variety of exposure to various types of research like concept testing, ad testing, segmentation studies, product evaluation, pricing studies, portfolio optimization, new product development, usage and attitude studies (U&A), pack testing, brand track dipsticks, ad campaign evaluation, feature testing, customer, customer and dealer satisfaction studies, etc. In social / health research, she has worked towards understanding the needs of the spastics as well a pan-India U&A study among mothers for diarrhoea among children; enumerating number of street children and their detailed profiling to mention a few.
Before joining Karvy Insights she has worked in some of the major research companies, notable among them being IMRB, The Nielsen Company, Ipsos, and boutique companies like AbsolutData. In Nielsen, she headed their Customized Research division for the New Delhi and Kolkata branches. She has also been a visiting faculty at various leading institutions like International Management Institute (IMI), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), etc.
Mr. MUKUND TRIPATHI

Mukund Tripathi is Senior Vice President at Karvy Insights Limited, based in New Delhi. He was appointed to this role in February 2016.Mukund Tripathi started his career by joining Nielsen in 1992, Mukund has lived and worked in four countries and has held leadership roles. He began his career at ORG-MARG (Nielsen India) where he spent 19 years in marketing research and Field Operations and Client Management. From 2010-2012, Mukund served as Head of Nielsen’s MalaysiaRetail Audit business where he led its transition to a growing country in the region. In the early 2000s, he was Country Head of Nielsen’s Retail Measurement Services businesses in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, where he established Retail Audits, which have since become the core of the company’s growing business. He first joined the company as part of Nielsen India (erstwhile Operations Research Group ORG)in the Data Collection team in the field department and where he held various positions with increasing responsibilities based out of Delhi, India.
Mukund has over 23 years of experience in Retail Audit covering various industries like FMCG, Beverage, Tobacco, Semi-Durables, Non-Durables and Durable sectors. He as managed the relationship with large Global clients, Large India client and local clients. He is an expert on Retail Audits, Visibility Track, Consumer Touchpoint monitoring and managing large-scale shop census.
Mukund was instrumental in setting up many new lines of business in his past roles as Head of Bangladesh (First Rural FMCG Reporting), setting up Lubricants Oils audit panel. He led the team from Nielsen side to implement, develop and execute a global protocol for large Beverage client on visibility track. Credited with identifying, developing and nurturing talent, his recruits in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is heading the organization now. In the year 2012, Mukund quit Nielsenafter 19 years of association and go on to incorporate a start-up on market research (EMTEE Research) leveraging mobile based android technology platform for accurate and faster data collection and dissemination. Mukund divested his stake in the year 2015 before joining Karvy Insights team as Touchpoint Audit leader.
Mukund has won various prizes, “Best Director-Nielsen India Region”, “Best Team-Nielsen India Region”. His research paper on work is done post-Tsunami in Sri Lanka (2005) won him Nielsen Global “Research Excellence Award” for exceptional work done by any Nielsen employee team globally. The research findings had helped various MNC/Local Clients and Funding agencies to use information for post-Tsunami damage assessment.
Mukund supports Plan India Charity and was associated with the Rotary Club (Bangladesh) and Loins club (Sri Lanka).He is a sports follower and loves watching Cricket, Soccer, F1, Tennis and other Track and Field sports. Mukund loves travelling and meeting new people. Mukund is a vegetarian by dietary choice and love cooking food for afamily in the spare time. Mukund lives in New Delhi, at sub-city Dwarkawith his7-year-old son (Dhruv) and wife (Deepa).
A Bachelor in Commerce (B.com) from Kanpur University and MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (IMT, Ghaziabad).
SUSMITA MISRA
Senior Vice President Qualitative
Ms. Geeta Zankar
Senior Vice President, Operations
Mr. Dharmesh Korgaokar
Head, Finance
Dharmesh Korgaokar heads the Finance function at Karvy Insights. He is responsible for treasury, tax, audits, MIS, and financial analysis. He also holds additional responsibilities of managing the Finance function within the Karvy network.
Dharmesh has over two decades of experience in senior Finance positions across sectors and geographies. Prior to joining Karvy, he worked with some global market research organizations for almost ten years. His past roles include Director (Finance) at Nielsen South Asia and CFO of Ipsos India.
An accomplished finance professional, Dharmesh is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He was awarded ‘Best Professional Support’ during his stint in Nielsen South Asia, where he was instrumental in implementing many best practices in the Finance function.
RAJIV INAMDAR
Senior Advisor
Rajiv Inamdar is a Senior Advisor to Karvy Insights Limited. He retired recently after an eleven-year stint as Managing Director of Heidrick & Struggles' Global Knowledge Management Center (KMC) based in Gurgaon, India. The Centre supported over 40 offices of the company worldwide with research, database and knowledge management services.
Rajiv has 40 years of international experience in advertising, brand management, market research, consumer banking, private banking, asset management, credit cards and knowledge management with some of the best known companies in the world. These include GlaxoSmithKline, JWT, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Nielsen, IMRB and Egon Zehnder.
Some roles Rajiv has held include Marketing Director for Standard Chartered Bank in the Gulf countries and India; Marketing Director for the Private & Investment Bank and Head of Corporate Communications - Saudi American Bank (Citibank), Saudi Arabia; President & Executive Director, Nielsen India; Executive Vice President, IMRB; and Senior Associate Director, British Market Research Bureau.
During his career he has established and run two companies: Sri Lanka’s first market research company (LMRB) – a part of the WPP Group, and Egon Zehnder’s global knowledge centre in India (EZIRS). He has had rich experience living and working in five countries: UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Sri Lanka, and India.
Rajiv is also advising companies on marketing and brand strategy and positioning.
He has an honors degree in Economics from University of Mumbai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
SANDEEP GHOSH
Senior Vice President
Sandeep Ghosh has been part of the research consulting industry for over 26 years. Before taking up his role as the leader of Development Insights at Karvy, he had been Head of Research at BBC Media Action (India) Limited, and Senior Vice President and Head of TNS India’s Political and Social Research. In the past, he also held senior management positions in India and Nepal for The Nielsen Company.
During his career he has serviced all major bilateral and multilateral donors and a large number of central and state government ministries in India. In addition, as Executive Director of Invest India Dataworks, he worked extensively in the field of retail finance, pension reforms and financial inclusion.
Sandeep has been an independent consultant to the Micro-enterprise Development Division of ILO, and an international faculty at The Springfield Centre for Business in Development. Sandeep has two post graduate degrees, one in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and one in Regional Planning from School of Planning and Architecture.
Rajesh Nair
Senior Vice President
Rajesh Nair is Senior Vice President and Advisor, responsible for driving new products and solutions. Concurrently, he is a Clinical Professor of Marketing at Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He has had over 22 years of experience spanning research, analytics, insights, and the business academe. His areas of expertise include Consumer Motivations and Behavior, Brand Measurement, Segmentation, Pricing, Innovation, Applied Statistical Modeling, and Marketing Science. He has had extensive domain experience in consumer packaged goods, durables, finance, media, automotive, tobacco, agribusiness, and public systems.
Rajesh has held leadership positions in reputed companies and institutions. Immediately prior to joining Karvy, he was Executive Managing Director and Head of AIM Consulting Inc., the business advisory subsidiary of Asian Institute of Management. Earlier, he was Executive Director, Service-Line Leader and member of India Management at Ipsos. He was Executive Director (Customer Marketing) with Time Inc., the former publisher of TIME and FORTUNE magazines, and Director and Regional Practice Leader (Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa) for Segmentation at The Nielsen Company.
He has been a highly rated educator, with extensive teaching and training experience in leading business schools. Since 2016, he has been teaching at Asian Institute of Management. He is also a visiting faculty member at Shiv Nadar University. In the past, he was a member of the faculty at IRMA (Anand), and a visiting faculty member at XLRI (Jamshedpur), TAPMI (Manipal), and MDI (Gurgaon). Aside of his corporate and academic roles, he sits on the Advisory Board of Medha, an NGO dedicated to upskilling and empowering youth in Tier 1 and Tier 2 towns and rural areas.
He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Research Methodology from London School of Economics, University of London.