Role Players 2025

Pooja Mukundan, Brand Head for Lakme Academy Powered by Aptech with over 15 years of experience. I have worked on multiple brands right from the start of my career in brand building, advertising and marketing. I have worked on brands like HSBC, Morphy Richards, Asian Paints Royale and many more from the agency end very early on. The last 7 years I have been the brand head for this beauty education brand and I have taken it from strength to strength. From 1 centre in 2016 to 150 centres as of today in 62 cities, it has been quite a journey! Today the brand does close to 130 crores a year and has 3 successful IPs conceptualized and executed by my team and I. We have launched and won the Excellence in Branding award 3 years in a row for various IPs such as Showcase, The Cover Girl and Winged. With a keen interest and pretty accurate gut for beauty I have a strong passion to build businesses ground up within this industry. Storytelling, to build brand affinity is one of my key strengths.