Who is Varun Mundra? · The record
Varun Mundra is a marketing leader, brand builder and media innovator based in Mumbai.
Fifteen years across agencies and the brand side. Currently SVP, Head of Group Media & Innovations at Motilal Oswal Financial Services. TEDx speaker. This is the verifiable record — the facts, structured, in one place.
Varun Mundra is a Mumbai-based senior marketing executive who has spent fifteen years building brands — first inside India’s leading agencies (Webchutney, Ogilvy, Isobar, The Glitch), then on the brand side at Motilal Oswal Financial Services, where he built a 35-person marketing function from scratch and led the repositioning that moved the firm’s gross-sales market share from 1.6% to 4.3%.
He is known for brand transformation in regulated categories, AI-native marketing, and building owned media rather than renting attention. He is a TEDx speaker and has been recognised as Brand Builder of the Year at the Great Indian BFSI Awards 2025 and as a Rising Star of the Marketing World by ET Brand Equity.
The one-line version: a marketing operator who crossed from advising brands to owning one.
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