Arnav Ghosh

With over 20 + years of experience and leadership roles across multiple markets in India | southeast Asia & Europe with some truly innovative platforms & projects . Most were early-stage startups across mobile | digital & immersive tech with some scaled to a unicorn and some failures. An avid traveler & an apprentice investor across emerging tech start-ups. Have been wearing a consultant hat to various start ups | projects since 2019 focused on digital transformation | Metaverse | Digital twins | Immersive tech ( AR|VR) across product | growth and commercial mandates with key market focus in Middle east | Korea and UK.

• Brands and businesses, advisor, future readiness for metaverse
• Start ups, advisor, creating commercial roadmap | products
• Kerala and North east start up ecosystem programs, advisory panel, immersive tech

• Blippar, India & Asia, Nov 2013 - May 2019, Setup Blippar in Asia from scratch, took the team to over 100 resources by 2014, Made India the Hub for delivery to do fulfilment across markets & set up a global engineering hub out of Bangalore, Developed Hub offices in Singapore, Japan that established Blippar as a disrupter in creating benchmarks globally in immersive Tech (AI & AR)
• Havas Media, India & South Asia, May 2011 - Aug 2013, Regional Digital Director, Havas Media, a Global Communications company successfully launched the "mobile marketing division" (Mobext) in India & South Asia, Built /operated & ran MOBEXT as a specialized Mobile consultancy & media business in the region
• Iris World Wide, India, Jan 2010 - Mar 2011, As Sr. VP & Head Digital - India, was responsible to create and run Sony Ericson's Digital Platform for India & Create a larger footprint for IRIS in the region, Created a Market first Social Media only campaign launch for Sony Ericson & Coke Studio at a time when Facebook & other Social Media platforms were trying to leverage their presence
• Publicis Modem (Publicis), India, Aug 2007 - July 2009, Was Publicis's first digital hire in India & as Vice President & Head of Digital, successfully launched the Digital Business of Publicis, (Publicis Modem) in India, Worked with global clients like HP & LG; Was part of the global team to win the Global digital mandate for LG, Launched the first web 2.0 platform with LG, Launched the first mobile banking platform for Citibank in India
• UN projects, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 09 - Dec 09, Part of project management team to launch world first global climate change project "Hopenhagen"
• 2 ergo Plc, London, United Kingdom, & Spain (Europe), Aug 2002 - Jun 2007, Worked with the core product and marketing team in London for enabling the Launch of "Orange Wednesday" which is one of the world's first & largest mobile CRM /couponing program, A similar program was launched with the Spanish Telecom giant "Telefonica" to BOR the CRM program in Spanish., Led a Multi- Million dollar project delivery in India with Orange/Hutch/Vodafone, (Presently known as Vodafone Tuesday) with diversification to retail, lifestyle, food, restaurants & multiple components & complexity in the program module, Part of the very first mobile tech foot prints in India by launching India's first multi-level mobile marketing suite & ad platform

• India (Mumbai)
• Dubai | Singapore

• Parallax labs Lab, Korea and UK, Consultant, drive growth for their business
• Metadome.ai, palo alto, Consultant, drive their global growth strategy
• Blippar 1.0, Consultant, restructure and build their global Saas business around their no code creator platform & web sdk to help enterprise and creators to build seamless content experience in Metaverse