FOUNDER

Akshaya is a Marketing & Strategy professional with over 17 years of multi industry and cross cultural experience. Having started his career with advertising agencies he then worked for considerable time on fashion and luxury industry development role with FDCI.
His relentless drive at FDCI saw India Fashion Week bloom to biannual format in 2006 and lead the FDCI team that independently handled all projects without agency partners in 2008.
He has been integral to the conceptualizing and establishing of properties that have changed the landscape of Indian fashion earning him a fashion industry expert tag internationally.
He has launched properties like India Mens Week, India Couture Week, ICI Trends Tour, New Zealand's WOW India Shows and Gitanjali Luxury Style Fest. He developed Fashion retail business for Gitanjali Gems and many of his IP models have been adopted by brands as their event properties.