Siddharth Banerjee

Siddharth Banerjee is one of India’s leading Consumer Tech CEOs, with 25 years of diverse experience building businesses globally. As CEO & Board Member of UNIVO Education, he leads one of India’s largest EdTech companies, enabling universities to go online. Earlier, as Managing Director & SVP for Pearson, he led the digital transformation of the higher education business in India & Asia. Prior to this, Siddharth was CRO & Global CMO at Games24x7, helping build a gaming powerhouse which became the 99th Unicorn in India. He also served as Country Director - Global Sales Organization (GSO) at Facebook India and as EVP-Marketing at Vodafone India, leading a global Vodafone business accelerator unit (mWomen) across Asia and Africa. Over 12+ years at Unilever, Siddharth worked in multiple roles at country and global levels across emerging markets, with his last role as Country Marketing Director/CMO & member of the Management Committee at Unilever Sri Lanka. Siddharth has been on the Investment Advisory Committee at KStart (Kalaari’s Seed Fund) and is currently Chairman of CII NR Committee on Education. He is also an angel investor and mentor in new-age Media & D2C CPG start-ups. Siddharth holds a B.A. (Hons) from La Martiniere College, Lucknow, and an MBA from the University of Delhi, coupled with executive education from ISB Hyderabad, IIM-A, and Harvard Business School. He is a National Talent Scholar (NTSE) and a Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford.