Nandini A. Nandakumar

Global Marketing Director, Smirnoff North America
Diageo

    Nandini is an intrapreneurial Marketer and a collaborative leader with over a decade of experience in Marketing Fortune-500 brands within Consumer goods, retail and e-commerce. She is a global marketer having worked across Asia, Europe and North America and has a track record of delivering strong business performance on legacy and turnaround brands. What fires her up is having an impact on consumers’ lives, business and society at large. She is currently the Global Marketing Director for Smirnoff with Diageo North America. Nandini.  A strong advocate of the importance of leadership in marketing, she is also one of the peer mentors in the Marketing Leadership Masterclass with Thomas Barta & Syl Saller. 

    In her current role, she has spearheaded the positive drinking platform for Smirnoff and in partnership with the Creative Equals team anchored a program called Creative Comeback – which gives women and non-binary gender an avenue to work on a live brief. The program was a huge success with the responses making way into actual execution plans of the brand and the participants having an avenue to showcase their work to the best of agency networks in New York and by way of which opened doors for their coming back to work. She has also been on panels in New York and featured on podcasts. She is also recognized as LinkedIn’s ‘Top Voice on Brand Strategy’.

    An engineer and MBA by vocation, she loves the art and science of marketing and believes in the power of marketing to impact business, consumers and society at large. 

    Nandini A. Nandakumar
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