ABOUT US

PARTNERS

• • Founding Partner

    Rahul Kaloti

    

    Rahul loves throwing curve balls. Like when he decided to take up a job in advertising after completing his B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Mumbai in the mid-90s.

    Before co-founding Open in 2011, he lead agency teams on a variety of national and international brands across categories. At Open, he mentors and guides clients to maximise the potential of their businesses. He believes that powerful brand idea is a form of energy - it moves business owners and the world and wants to build Open as an institution that excels at creating brand energy for businesses.

  • Founding Partner

    Mangesh Rane

    

    Mangesh has been through the corridors of Enterprise, Trikaya, Contract, Rediffusion and Lemon and has been voted Designer of the Year for three consecutive years. He has won and been on the jury for numerous national and international awards and helped build brands such as Louis Phillipe, Shoppers Stop, Cadbury, Taj Hotels, ICICI Bank, and UB Group, among others.

    He co-founded one of the most reputed art and culture magazines to come out of India - Gallerie. Mangesh believes almost everything in India, from cityscape, housing and education system to fashion, lifestyle and behaviour, needs design to evolve.

  • Creative Head & Partner

    Ashutosh Kharkhanis

    

    Ashutosh been a part of and led advertising, design and digital agencies in India and abroad for over two decades. His work has benefited many brands, notably Britannia, Unilever, HSBC, Asian Paints, Economic Times, Kingfisher Airlines, Tata Nano, Tata Sky and P&G, winning him pretty much every major national and international creative award around.

    Ashutosh loves to see the world through his camera. His work has been featured in the National Geographic Worldwide Photography Contest (Editors’ Choice) and won at Spikes. He feels it is important for creativity to always be on its feet and not get wedded to a medium.

• • Managing Partner

    Asparsh Sinha

    

    Asparsh believes that all new value gets created at cusps. He was drawn to advertising after studying software engineeringwhen he realised that the profession was the quintessential cusp discipline. In the one and a half decades of his career, he has helped brands such as Asian Paints, Cadbury, HSBC, Shoppers Stop, Tata Indicom, Marico, Godrej, GVK, and CRISIL make better sense of their space.

    At Open, he is currently focused on designing a more robust practice of brand building. He sees brand as an operating system, and spends a lot of time exploring the intersection of business and design.

  • Strategy Head & Managing Partner

    Puneet Pandey

    

    Puneet sees culture as a system of biases and helps brands develop better instincts in gauging these biases. For over a decade and a half, Puneet has looked at consumer strategy from many vantage points - as a qualitative researcher (at IMRB), as a communication strategist (at Contract Advertising) and as a brand strategy consultant (with Future Brands).

    During this time, he has helped locate the strategic ground of brands like Pepsi, Kellogg’s, Cadbury, Royal Enfield, Wild Stone, Madura and Future Group. Puneet believes that structures in flux, where deep-rooted ways and fast clip change collide, are fertile grounds for brand building.

  • Business Head & Managing Partner

    Amit Sharma

    

    Amit’s career path of 15 years has been a journey of playing roles that help build marketing strategy on the back of consumer intelligence. He started as a qualitative researcher with IMRB before moving to Bharti Walmart, where he was part of the team responsible for building the brand in India.

    Before joining OPEN, he was heading marketing at Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance. Amit has unflinching faith in the consumer’s ability to discern and reward brands that are able to build empathy.