Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Officer at Maruti Suzuki, is a business leader par excellence and is widely recognised as one of the most influential marketeers in India, having led and steered the Marketing & Sales function at Maruti Suzuki through its most challenging phases of covid pandemic and supply chain disruption. In a career spanning more than 3 decades at Maruti Suzuki, Shashank has worked in both domestic and international marketing, and has witnessed the evolution of Indian automotive industry from its nascent days to today’s hyper competitive phase.

 An alumnus of the prestigious IIM Ahmedabad, in his current role, he is transforming Marketing & Sales function at Maruti Suzuki, and preparing it for the disruptive mobility ecosystem ahead. His digital transformation initiatives include making MSIL the 1 st automotive OEM globally to take vehicle bookings on Metaverse.

 For his contributions to automotive industry at large, Shashank has been widely recognised with a slew of awards:

• Automotive Leader of the Year
• Business Leader and CMO of the year
• CMO Award for ‘disruptive marketing excellence’
• Business World Top 50 Marketers
• Impact Digital Top 100
• Financial Express Visionary Leadership
• ET Auto Retail Personality award 

 He is a member of various industry bodies such as

•  CII National Committee on Marketing
• Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI)
• Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA)
• Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)
• Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)
• Media Research Users Council (MRUC)
• Indian Readership Survey (IRS)