Shahzad Khan

Current

• Founder and Managing Director at Conversations Digital Media Pvt Ltd

Past

• Manager: Account planning and social media at Quasar Media
• Business Development (Intern) at Vitcom Consulting
• Senior Associate at American Express, Gurgaon

• Territory Sales-incharge at Shivdeep Foods Ltd.
• Specialist in Customer Support at Dell

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Education

• Mudra Institue of Communications, Ahmedabad
• Visvesvaraya Technological University
• Army School, Bikaner

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Recommended

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Connections

186 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Blog

Shahzad Khan’s Summary

A Gold medalist from MICA, Shahzad Khan has worked with companies like Dell, American Express and Haldirams before his PGDM and had very closely observed how brands were built. Shahzad Khan joined Quasar Media Pvt. Ltd (A WPP Company), after completing his PGDM (Communications and Entrepreneurship) from MICA-EDC, as a Manager- Social Media and Account Planning.

During his tenure at Quasar Media, he worked on some of the dream accounts including Sony, Microsoft, Delhi Daredevils (IPL), RPG, Skoda, Make My Trip, General Motors and many others. He worked on a 360 degree basis on most of these profiles. Right from the online strategy building to Client servicing, he took every project as a turn-key project. He made a record with the Delhi Daredevils project in which the members’ club website was launched in just 15 days.

Currently, Shahzad is working as Managing Director at Conversations Digital Media Pvt Ltd which is his own brainchild. A company which integrates technology, marketing and anthropology together.

At Conversations, he has headed many successful campaigns including Microsoft's VSTS campaign, NDTV Imagine's RAKHI KA SWAYAMVAR and Delhi Daredevils' online membership club, to name a few.

Shahzad Khan’s Specialties:

Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing (Web 2.0 + Mobile), Semiotics, Brand Building, Reputation Management, Crisis Management, Identity Management, Corporate Communications and Cultural Communications.

Shahzad Khan’s Experience

• Founder and Managing Director

  Conversations Digital Media Pvt Ltd

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2009 — Present (10 months)

  At 'Conversations', we don't just create online brochures for our partners, we don't just plainly sell our partners' products online. But we initiate 'Conversations' between our partners and their target group. We build and develop new touch points and at the same time, we leverage the existing online touch points to reach out to our stake holders. We are not digital gurus, we are not Social Media experts.. We are a bunch of people who want to revolutionize the way Digital Medium works.

• Manager: Account planning and social media

  Quasar Media

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)

  Manager- Account Planning and Social Media Marketing

• Business Development (Intern)

  Vitcom Consulting

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  November 2007 — October 2008 (1 year )

  I worked there as an Internie on a continuous internship program during my PG at MICA. Worked on several accounts including MySpace, NDTV lumiere and others.

• Senior Associate

  American Express, Gurgaon

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXP; Financial Services industry)

  March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

• Territory Sales-incharge

  Shivdeep Foods Ltd.

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  April 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 9 months)

• Specialist in Customer Support

  Dell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 2004 — April 2005 (8 months)

Shahzad Khan’s Education

• Mudra Institue of Communications, Ahmedabad

  PGPCME , Communications, Brand Building, PR, Advertising , 2007 — 2008

  Always been the toppers' list at MICA-EDC, I have been participated and won various prizes at different competitions.

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice President of the Students Cell at MICA-EDC, Lead singer of the college band, Member of an NGO called 'Hassnain Charitable Trust'

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  1999 — 2004

• Army School, Bikaner

Additional Information

Shahzad Khan’s Websites:

• My Blog

Shahzad Khan’s Interests:

Psychology, Philosophy, Culture and Communications, Semiotics, Social Media Marketing, Web Analytics, Branding

Shahzad Khan’s Groups:

MICA Alumni, Brand Ambassador- Emotional EnduranceTM
Alumini- SEB, University of Essex

•    Dell Alumni
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Alumni of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA)
•    American Express Network
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    C# Developers / Architects
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Designers Talk
•    Future Social Media
•    MICA-EDC
•    A Brilliant Idea Every 60 Seconds
•    Interactive Media Worldwide
•    Dream.In.Code
•    KBN College of Engineering, Gulbarga Alumni

Shahzad Khan’s Honors:

Gold Medal- Academic Excellence (College Topper)
Entrepreneurial and Creative Excellence Award
Best Performer at Dell Hyd (Emea) Q3
Best performer (Kaizens) at AMEX gurgaon (LMS)

Shahzad Khan’s Contact Settings

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