Siddharth Banerjee is one of India’s leading Global executives who has consistently, over 26 years, transformed businesses by combining product strategy, AI, digital platforms, commercialization and international market expansion across both iconic MNC companies (Unilever | Vodafone | Facebook | Pearson) as well as high-growth technology firms (Univo Education | Games24x7).
Siddharth was, till recently, the CEO & Board Member at Univo, one of India’s leading education technology companies. Earlier, Siddharth was the Managing Director & SVP for Pearson, leading digital transformation of the business in the higher education ecosystem across India & Asia. Prior to his EdTech experience, Siddharth was the CRO & Global CMO at Games24x7 helping build a gaming powerhouse which became the 99th Unicorn in India. Siddharth honed his digital skills as part of the Leadership Team at Facebook India as the Country Director -GSO. Prior to Facebook, Siddharth was the EVP-Marketing at Vodafone India and also led a global Vodafone business accelerator unit (mWomen) across 12 markets in Asia-Africa.
In the first 15 years of his career, Siddharth built a strong foundation in the CPG / FMCG industry with most of his business and leadership experience forged at HUL / Unilever. Over 12+ years at Unilever, Siddharth worked across Country P&L roles and Global / Regional / CMO roles, with rich exposure across Emerging Markets. His last role in Unilever was as the Country Marketing Director / CMO & a member of the Management Committee at Unilever Sri Lanka.
Siddharth is actively involved in the Internet Ecosystem in India. He was on the Investment Advisory Committee at KStart (Kalaari’s Seed Fund) and is currently on the board of select industry bodies and organizations. Siddharth is also an angel investor in new-age Media & D2C CPG start-ups and a mentor for early-stage Tech founders.
Siddharth is an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow & holds B.A. Economics (Honours) and M.B.A degrees from the University of Delhi. He has coupled this with executive education from ISB / IIM-A and the Harvard Business School. He is a National Talent Scholar (NTSE) and a Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Siddharth is the bestselling co-author of Speechless (Bloomsbury) and 52RedPills (Pan Macmillan), a regular at Marketing Jury Panels & a top-ranked Keynote speaker at industry conferences across APAC. He is a big believer in hyper-learning & has co-founded www.52RedPills.com with his wife, Eika Chaturvedi Banerjee.
