Rajiv Dingra

Atheist, Blogger, Business leader, Change agent, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Investor, Marketer, Sales specialist, Technologist, Web guru, World traveler

Rajiv Dingra is the Founder and CEO of WATConsult, the most awarded digital and social media agency in India, founded in the year 2007. A 32-year-old entrepreneur and a thought leader in the digital space, he currently leads a team of 300 people at WATConsult. WATConsult is headquartered in Mumbai and has offices across Delhi and Bangalore. In January 2015 WATConsult became a part of Dentsu Aegis Network when Rajiv exited majority stake in the business for 30 million dollars valuation. In a span of 10 years, he has worked with more than 100 clients across India. Some of the brands include Warner Bros, Swarovski, Oppo Mobile, SAP, Nikon, Tata Salt, Godrej, Bajaj Allianz and Mahindra & Mahindra. WATConsult recently won 100+ digital and social media awards for work done across 2014-15 distinct marketing campaigns. These include the prestigious global DMA echo in San Diego, ‘The most progressive digital agency award’ at CMO ASIA Singapore, ‘The social media agency of the year 2014’ at Socialathon Delhi, Boutique Media Agency of the year at Media Ace Awards, Mumbai, the Campaign Agency of the year India (Bronze) at the Campaign Asia Awards and the DOD Agency of the year. Rajiv was nominated as the digital person of the year at E4M Indian digital media awards two years consecutively and also won ‘The young social media entrepreneur of the year’ at CMO Asia Singapore and the Agency CEO of the year (runner up) at the Media Ace Awards. Rajiv has been a global speaker at Social Media Enterprise Forum, Dubai, Malaysia social media week, Afri-tech Summit Kenya, DMWF Dubai and Amsterdam. He was also on the Jury of the Bees Social Media Awards, San Francisco; DMAi awards, India, Afaqs Digies Awards India, Smarties Mobile awards, India, Effies India and Goafest Abby's India. Rajiv is a guest lecturer at IIM Calcutta and MICA Ahmedabad and has also been actively involved in conducting workshops for social and digital media across India, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Rajiv is a travel enthusiast and has been to 25 countries in the last 10 years. He is also an adventure junkie and is an amateur scuba diver, having dived in waters of Bali, Maldives, Vietnam, South Africa, Thailand and Mauritius. Rajiv also has a love for flying and has flown a two seater plane in RAK, UAE and a helicopter in New York. Beyond travel and adventure Rajiv is a big movie buff and a cricket fan.

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