The unTuned Gaurav Kumar Upadhyay

In this episode of The Untuned, Gaurav had a candid chat with Jin Kan Moller, around importance of simplicity in design. 

Jin Kang Moller is an award-winning customer experience strategist, design practitioner and highly-acclaimed executive trainer. She held design leadership positions to creative value and bottom-line impact in the large financial services firms such as OCBC Bank in Singapore and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, and has led user experience consulting services for leading pharmaceutical companies. With 20 years of practitioner', she is a highly acclaimed executive trainer on design thinking, customer experience and design leadership at Singapore Management University.

She is the author of The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators – creating lovable experiences in a complicated world, a battle-tested strategy and the collection of tools to drive innovation, humanise digital transformation and to win customers’ hearts. She is passionate about how design can create value in business and in life, always looking for ways to design simplicity in life.

Jin is also the director of design at https://designfulcompany.com/

In this episode, Gaurav invited Vineet Panchhi - A Poet , Filmaker and Entrepreneur. 

Over the last few years , Vineet’s work has been going viral across different social media platforms ,where he touches various aspects of life, in in shooting voice - in what he calls as nazm numa items - something like poetry.

After years of corporate experience as a HR head , making some of the well accepted ad jingles and founding few venture on his way to Entrepreneurship , Vineet today runs a media & production firm - word of mouth media.

In this super interesting and candid chat, Vineet shared about his journey , his point of view around different aspects of live and living . And I had a great time learning about so many things . In Vineet's words Sabak jo seekhe zindage - the lessons I learnt from life .

You can see Vineet's profile here : https://www.vineetpanchhi.com/

In this episode of The Untuned, Gaurav invited Prantik Mazumdar , Founder of Happy Marketer and current Managing Director of CXM @Denstu. 

The episode focuses on Value and Impact creation through entrepreurship. 

"Prantik is an entrepreneur & venture investor and acts as a Digital Transformation Catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable change and impact.

After pursuing a major in Computer Engineering & a minor in Technopreneurship from the National University of Singapore (NUS), he kickstarted his career with the Singapore government (Enterprise Singapore) to drive international trade promotion for the island state.

He started his entrepreneurial journey with Happy Marketer in 2011 where he spent a decade building & scaling up one of the best and most awarded independent digital marketing services firm in the region that served brands like Standard Chartered Bank, Income, Great Eastern Life, Royal Brunei Airlines, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Starbucks, Ping An, Grab, Shopee, GoJek, Kimberly Clark, PropertyGuru, PegiPegi, Starhub, Singtel, Nanyang Business School, Kaplan, INSEAD amongst many of it's prestigious clients.

In February 2019, he had a successful exit when Happy Marketer was sold to an American digital enterprise called Merkle, which is part of dentsu International, the largest Japanese advertising conglomerate. He is currently serving as the Managing Director of the CXM Group at Dentsu Singapore.

He is a regular columnist for Marketing Magazine, Campaign Asia, Economic Times, Business Times on all things digital transformation and marketing and has trained over 500 enterprises in the region on this subject. In 2015, he was recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Marketers in the World.

Apart from his corporate role, he is an active angel & venture investor, mentor, advisor and speaker through organizations like Quest Ventures, Tie Singapore, HealthXCapital, NUS Angel Ventures and is an Entrepreneur-In-Resident at INSEAD.

In this episode of The Untuned, Gaurav had a candid chat with Lavania Rosie, Founder & Director of Dance Embassy. 
Lavania is a multi-talented and multi-faceted woman leader. Recognised as Singapore’s Top 20 female entrepreneurs by Zee TV APAC and awarded the Mrs Singapore ASEAN title in 2018 and the Crown of Compassion in 2019, she comes with a decade of experience in dance, fitness and advocates for mental and physical wellness.

Lavania was chosen to create the world's first Bollywood Dance Fitness podcast on Amazon Audible in 2020.

She has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world, making her one of the most respected wellness instructors in Singapore. She opened her first joint venture “BollyFreak Dance Fitness studio” in Mumbai in 2019 and has led several dance workshops in France, Bangladesh, Malaysia & India.
She is the founder-director of Dance Embassy and Tinted Wateva in Singapore, and is a Happiness consultant at KeyTeo. Coupled with a Bachelors in Psychology from Edith Cowan University, she is also a certified Zumba, Zumbatomic, Aqua Zumba, Zumba Gold Instructor and Strong Nation Instructor. This gives her the well-rounded knowledge and experience to help people set and accomplish their fitness goals.

A community builder, Lavania has long believed that empowering others creates growth and opportunities for us all. She works with “Her Rise Above” and gives free mentorship and advice to home-based women entrepreneurs to increase their business avenues and gain higher financial and economic freedom. She sincerely cares about contributing more than she receives.

For collaborations and engagement Lavania can be reached at lavania@danceembassy.com

Simply Blood is World's First Virtual Blood Donation Platform.

Everyday more than 12,000 people fail to get blood and die. More than 2.8 million units of blood was wasted in last 5 years in India and our nation is among those countries where black marketing or paid blood donation is happening on large scale. Change With One Foundation came up with a single solution for all these problems - Simply Blood. Our mission is to save a million lives through blood donation using our platform by 2020.

Gaurav had a heart to heart conversation with Kiran Verma, Founder of Simply Blood. 

https://www.simplyblood.com/

In this episode, Gaurav had a candid chat with Sumedha Khoche, founder and CEO of KinderPass

kinderPass is an early learning company that enables parents to give the best start to their children. Learning begins at birth- with that guiding principle , today kinder pass has 1200+ developmental activities and play ideas for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.

Sumedha started KinderPass as an attempt at using tech as a tool to help parents give their child the best start by making KinderPass their personal child development guide- everything they need to help promote the child’s development- in one app.

Prior to this, Sumdha was leading and managing businesses at Pepsico and Procter & Gamble for 13+ years, in sales, research and marketing across FMCG categories such as beverages, laundry, dish care and air fresheners across APAC-India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia.

https://mykinderpass.com/