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We Communicate Your Leadership Thoughts
CEOInsightsIndia Team
A Chief Marketing Officer is a senior executive responsible for shaping an organization’s overall marketing vision, brand strategy, and go-to-market execution. The role goes far beyond promotion - CMOs sit at the intersection of brand, growth, customer experience, and business strategy.
In today’s digital-first and data-driven environment, CMOs lead efforts across brand positioning, demand generation, digital marketing, customer engagement, and market intelligence. They translate customer insights into compelling value propositions, ensure consistent brand narratives across channels, and drive measurable business outcomes such as revenue growth, market share, and customer loyalty.
Modern CMOs are also stewards of transformation. They work closely with sales, product, technology, and data teams to align marketing with organizational goals. From leveraging analytics and AI to overseeing omni-channel strategies and personalization, CMOs ensure marketing remains agile and relevant in fast changing markets.
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Top 10 Chief Marketing Officers - 2025
A Chief Marketing Officer is a senior executive responsible for shaping an organization’s overall marketing vision, brand strategy, and go-to-market execution. The role goes far beyond promotion - CMOs sit at the intersection of brand, growth, customer experience, and business strategy.
In today’s digital-first and data-driven environment, CMOs lead efforts across brand positioning, demand generation, digital marketing, customer engagement, and market intelligence. They translate customer insights into compelling value propositions, ensure consistent brand narratives across channels, and drive measurable business outcomes such as revenue growth, market share, and customer loyalty.
"As businesses compete in crowded and evolving markets, the Chief Marketing Officer plays a critical role in connecting strategy with storytelling, insight with execution, and brand vision with sustained growth"
Modern CMOs are also stewards of transformation. They work closely with sales, product, technology, and data teams to align marketing with organizational goals. From leveraging analytics and AI to overseeing omni-channel strategies and personalization, CMOs ensure marketing remains agile and relevant in fast changing markets.
Equally important is their role as brand custodians and culture builders. CMOs shape how organizations are perceived externally while fostering creativity, innovation, and collaboration within marketing teams. Their leadership influences not just customer perception but long-term brand equity and trust.
As businesses compete in crowded and evolving markets, the Chief Marketing Officer plays a critical role in connecting strategy with storytelling, insight with execution, and brand vision with sustained growth.
CEO Insights in this issue presents a list of ‘Top 10 Chief Marketing Officers - 2025' who have leveraged their extensive industry expertise and experience in offering effective skills to the market. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board. We recognize their valuable contribution to the ever expanding and competitive market and their ability to sustain themselves and emerge as top contestants through their reliable knowledge.
Our subscribers play a decisive role in finalization of our annual list of "Top 10 Chief Marketing Officers - 2025" by nominating those which have served them with excellence and are praiseworthy. If you feel there is a company that deserves to be on our annual list, do write to us about them mentioning their value proposition.
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Anurita Chopra, Chief Marketing Officer | Haleon | A marketing leader with 24 years of experience building category-defining brands, driving consumer demand, shaping industry influence, and advancing marketing innovation collaboratively |
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Deepak Mahnot, Chief Marketing Officer | Soch Apparels | He has over 25 years of experience driving brand growth, digital strategy, CRM, e-commerce, creative development, media planning, consumer insights, communications, and marketing transformations |
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Rahul Karthikeyan, Chief Marketing Officers | Interview Bit | With a career spanning ad networks, digital leadership, and edtech brand building, he specializes in creating trust-driven, product-first marketing strategies, leveraging data, AI, and storytelling to build lasting brands |
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Rajat Abbi, Chief Marketing Officer | Schneider Electric | A marketing leader overseeing Greater India for a multinational group, with experience across B2B and B2C, P&L, sales, strategy, and industry committee leadership roles, markets, operations |
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Ranjita Gosh, Global Chief Marketing Officer | Wipro | She is an experienced marketing leader with over 20 years of expertise in driving growth, partnerships, influencer engagement, brand positioning, go-to-market strategies, and customer advocacy. |
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Rohia Munavar Shaik, Chief Marketing Officers | CyberMindr | With a career built across journalism, digital marketing, and strategy leadership, she has worked across global industries, including AI, technology, gaming, events, and data, shaping impactful narratives that connect brands with audiences |
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Rohit Talwar, Chief Marketing Officers | JSW Paints | With 20 years of global experience, he drives multi-cultural teams, brand growth, creative engagement, and impactful consumer experiences across diverse markets |
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Sumit Virmani, Global Chief Marketing Officer | Infosys | With over 20 years of marketing leadership, he drives global brand growth through strategic positioning, digital transformation, customer advocacy, and impactful communications that deliver measurable business outcomes |
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Sunder Madaakshira, Chief Marketing Officers | Sinch | A marketing leader with 25 years of B2B and B2C experience, driving brand excellence, demand generation, digital transformation, global teams, and sustained revenue growth |
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Tarun Bhagat, Chief Marketing Officers | Pepsico | With over 17 years of experience as a global marketer, he has driven business growth through strategic marketing, brand innovation, advertising, and the execution of impactful initiatives |
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