Bhawna Agarwal
CEO, NDTV Gadgets360
India
“Bhawna Agarwal is an award-winning Digital leader & an entrepreneur with 17+ years of multi-cultural leadership experience in leading media houses, Internet companies & start-ups in India. She is currently the CEO of NDTV Gadgets360, which is India’s #1 Digital Technology platform and World’s 7th most visited tech platform, amongst the top international gadgets sites.
Having been a founding team member of leading brands like Yatra.com & Times Internet Limited that have created a benchmark in their industries, she successfully led P&L responsibility, provided operational leadership & built high performing teams. She scaled the businesses from incubation to becoming a leader in the online Travel & Ecommerce industry, building capacities of scale ensuring complete fiscal responsibility & accelerated high business growth.
A true entrepreneurial spirit at heart, she has been instrumental in launching & scaling the companies ground up and turning around businesses with strong focus on industry best efficiencies. Bhawna has carved a niche for herself for starting up & scaling large businesses through strategic vision, business intelligence, product innovation in technology & deep consumer in-sights.
Bhawna is very active across the start-up ecosystem in India & is a member of various forums, where she is involved in mentoring digital start-ups & nurturing entrepreneurship. She is on the advisory board of a lot of leading ventures helping them accelerate their journey to commercial success. Featured in exclusive ‘Linkedin Power Profiles in India’ – selected as one of the 5 most visited Internet industry profiles in Year 2012 among 18mn+ professionals. She is also a guest lecturer at leading B-schools in the country, an avid writer and a keynote speaker at leading industry conferences on digital and e-commerce.”