Apurva Chamaria heads global brand and digital marketing for HCL Technologies, a 6 Bn US$ IT major and is responsible for global brand marketing, employer brand, employee and community marketing, thought-leadership marketing and digital marketing.

He’s performed various roles @ HCL including being a part of the CEO’s Vineet Nayar's office and being a Sales Director - Healthcare at HCL America. Prior to taking over as the Sales Director - Healthcare, Apurva was the Global Head of Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications & Enterprise Transformation at HCL leading a geographically distributed team. This line of business then contributed 1 Bn US$ to HCL.

He has healthcare industry experience having worked in various international sales and marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. He’s also been a journalist and a client servicing executive at a large MNC advertising agency. In various parts of his career he’s worked in Asia-Pacific, India, Africa and North America.

He's a regular speaker at industry conferences and his articles have appeared in the Huffington Post, Indian Express, Pitch magazine etc. He teaches as a Guest faculty at leading B-Schools and is working on completing his first book.

He holds a double masters in business management (PGP from IMI) and advertising (from IIMC, JNU). He has done his schooling from the prestigious Mayo College. His twitter handle is @a1purva.