For event teams · Speaker kit
Everything your team needs, without an email chain.
Bios in three lengths, the topics, what I need in the room, and how I’d like to be introduced.
Bios — take the one that fits
Short · 30 words
Varun Mundra is SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations at Motilal Oswal Financial Services, a TEDx speaker, and the marketer who built a 35-person brand function from a blank page.
Medium · 60 words
Varun Mundra is a Mumbai-based marketing leader and TEDx speaker. Currently SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations at Motilal Oswal Financial Services, he founded his first studio at 17, spent a decade across India’s top agencies — Webchutney, Ogilvy, Isobar and The Glitch, on brands from Netflix to Visa — and now builds brand, media and AI-native marketing at institutional scale.
Long · 100 words
Varun Mundra is a marketing leader, brand builder and media innovator based in Mumbai, currently SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations at Motilal Oswal Financial Services. He founded Blue Pencil Studio at 17 — famously pricing websites at ₹11 — studied in London, and spent a decade across India’s leading agencies before moving brand-side. At Motilal Oswal he built a 35-person in-house team from zero, led ₹80–100 crore budgets, modernised a 40-year-old brand and pioneered AI-native marketing in Indian financial services, moving gross-sales market share from 1.6% to 4.3%. A TEDx speaker (“I didn’t fail exams, exams failed me”) and Brand Builder of the Year 2025.
Name & title
Varun Mundra — SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Based in Mumbai. Please don’t introduce me as a ‘marketing guru’. Practitioner is fine.
Topics
Marketing leadership · brand building · AI in marketing · media innovation · financial services marketing · high-performance teams · agency-to-brand · career growth · personal branding. Full detail on each speaking topic.
In the room
A clicker, confidence monitor if the stage is deep, and slides in 16:9 — I’ll send them 48 hours ahead. For workshops: a room that can be rearranged, and a hard cap on attendance so it stays a working session.
Photos & assets
High-resolution portraits, the TEDx still and event photography are available on request — tell me the crop and format you need and I’ll send them the same day.