Entrepreneurship and Personal Branding | Ashutosh Garg, Founder, The Brand Called You

About Ashutosh Garg

• Ashutosh hosts the very successful video and podcast series titled “The Brand Called You” (www.tbcy.in) bringing the stories of successful entrepreneurs, professionals, and senior corporate leaders to thousands of listeners.
• He is a certified Business Coach and coaches/mentors several CEOs in India on business matters, governance, strategic planning, succession planning, personal accountability, and people and culture issues.
• A published author of 8 best-selling books, he has written on Startups, Entrepreneurship, Retirement in the 21st Century, Personal Branding, Work-Life Balance, and Fiction. His latest book on Failure is titled "How to Survive Failure and Come out Stronger”.
• He writes regularly for Times of India and Business World and can often be seen on National Television panel discussions.
• Ashutosh founded Guardian Pharmacy in India in 2003 and built it into India's second largest Pharmacy Chain. He exited the business in 2016.
• Prior to that, he worked for ITC Limited for 17 years leaving in 1996, and thereafter with US Aerospace companies for 8 years as their Head of Asia.
• Ashutosh served on the board of GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance (www.gavi.org) for 8 years. He sits on several boards and advises companies on strategy and governance matters. He was the Chairman of Bizdome, the Startup Incubator of IIM Rohtak till 2018.
• He is a YPO member and was Chairman of YPO South Asia Gold (2017-19). He was recognized as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1994.
• A keen golfer, he plays the Indian flute, enjoys reading and listening to Indian classical music