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Varun Mundra — Marketing Leader, Brand Builder, Media Innovator

Varun Mundra is a Mumbai-based marketing leader with fifteen years across agencies and the brand side. He is currently SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations at Motilal Oswal Financial Services, where he built a 35-person marketing function from scratch and led the brand transformation that moved gross-sales market share from 1.6% to 4.3%. He began at seventeen, co-founding a digital studio that priced websites at ₹11, before studying in London and spending a decade across India’s leading agencies — including Ogilvy, Isobar and The Glitch — on brands from Netflix and Visa to Surf Excel and Zepto. He is a TEDx speaker, recognised as Brand Builder of the Year at the 2025 Great Indian BFSI Awards, and known for brand-building in regulated categories, AI-native marketing and owned media.