Command staff

When you need to win a war, you need experience on your side.

100+ years of combined experience spanning Ogilvy, WPP, GroupM and Titan applied to marketing analytics every day since 2009.

Command staff

The people behind the models

Manoj TadepalliCo-Founder & CEO

Manoj Tadepalli

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

A co-founder, Manoj is the marketing and retail domain lead of RainMan. He has led the effort to make RainMan’s services more oriented to marketing, taking it into promotions and pricing analytics as well as deep dives for distribution. He has also conceptualised the marketing datamart and scenario planner which allows companies to move quickly into a high level of marketing analytics deployment, while scaling up to a company-wide deployment. He has also worked to make marketing analytics more relevant for retailers by bringing in new variables such as festival impact and environmental factors leading to predictive models. He has been the lead on a number of RainMan’s accounts including Johnson & Johnson, Titan and Wipro among others.

Starting as an Account Manager and Planner at Ogilvy and FCB ULKA, Manoj's 25 years of experience has given him a deep grounding in branding, product management, distribution and innovation management. As head of marketing at Titan Industries, Manoj spearheaded the successful turnaround of the Titan brand and the relaunch of Fastrack and Xylys, Titan's premium brands. As a business head in international markets, he planned and executed Titan's forays into Southeast Asia and the United States, where his team that launched Tanishq won the Tata Group's prestigious Innovity award. Manoj was also Country Manager at Enterprise IG for India and built corporate and brand identities for key Indian companies during his tenure there.

V BalasubramaniumCo-Founder & MD

V Balasubramanium ( Balu )

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Co-founder of RainMan Consulting, Balu also functions as the media domain lead of RainMan. He engages with key clients and has been associated with multiple media investment management project implementations. Balu also conceptualised RainMan's analytic benchmark tool, RainGauge. Balu has spent more than 15 years of his career with WPP agencies like JWT, Ogilvy and GroupM in India, China and Global in the media planning, consumer insights and analytics functions. His major responsibility was to create a discipline for marketing performance management with analytics at the heart of the process. As Global Chief Executive Officer of Meritus Analytics Pvt. Ltd. (now Gain Theory) a WPP analytic insights consultancy, Balu was responsible for the set up and the growth of Meritus, making it a top global knowledge focused and consulting company. Prior to joining Meritus, Balu was Director, Advanced Techniques Group (ATG) and Insights for GroupM South Asia.

He was a core executive committee member who set up and steered GroupM in South Asia. He conceived and set up the Global Analytic Centre (GAC), providing advanced analytics for GroupM Worldwide clients. Balu also had a stint with GroupM China in the late 90's to set up its marketing analytics practice. Prior to joining GroupM South Asia, Balu was Managing Consultant, Strategy Planning and Media Development at Ogilvy India for six years. He implemented global standard media tools, planning processes and insight solutions for key clients of Ogilvy India, besides creating a consulting business within the agency. Balu also functioned as a media planning professional with JWT, Bangalore and Mudra Communications, Ahmedabad. Balu is the winner of the prestigious WPP Global Atticus Grand Prix in 1999 for authoring a strategy paper called "Measuring Passion". Atticus Grand Prix is a global prestigious award for excellence in original published thinking in marketing service discipline instituted by WPP Inc.

Krishna Kumar CSChief Analytics Officer

Krishna Kumar CS ( KK )

Chief Analytics Officer & Director

KK heads the analytics practice in RainMan. KK's key responsibility in RainMan is to bring innovation in analytic techniques and to deploy the best and latest of the techniques for actionable insights. KK has been responsible in successfully implementing a variety of new approaches to solve many marketing problems. Empowered with in depth knowledge in direct marketing analytics, KK has been implementing a variety of successful projects in the area of digital marketing and e commerce. KK's first brush with data-heavy projects began in the infancy of analytics, at Ogilvy Direct in the early 1990's.

He has since been a pioneer in the field. After setting up Ogilvy's first analytics team and working with some of its key global clients, he successfully took his expertise to Covansys (now CSC) and Reliance ADAG. KK blends an in-depth knowledge of statistics, IT and marketing with an evangelical belief of using technology and statistics to derive insights from data. A master of Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM), he has worked on global and local brands. KK has a unique way of looking at modelling processes and has introduced many new methodologies in this area. He is also a visiting faculty in Analytics at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Bangalore Campus).

Gideon Anthony D'SouzaManager Data and Technology

Gideon Anthony D'Souza

Manager Data and Technology

As the Manager – Data & Technology at RainMan, he leads the development of analytics platforms, AI-driven solutions, and decision intelligence applications. He works on building scalable technology solutions that support marketing analytics and help clients make informed business decisions. He contributes across software development, data engineering, and analytics, working closely with business and technical teams to develop and enhance the company's technology platforms. His interests include artificial intelligence, data-driven systems, and the applications of engineering principles to solve business problems.

Prior to joining RainMan, he worked on engineering research and analytics projects in ocean engineering and signal analytics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He subsequently worked at Britannia Industries in data analytics, gaining experience in business intelligence for the FMCG sector. His multidisciplinary background enables him to combine engineering principles with advanced analytics to solve complex business challenges. He holds a Master of Science in Mechatronics Engineering from De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering. With over nine years of experience spanning data analytics, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and decision intelligence, he brings a multidisciplinary approach to developing technology solutions for business challenges.

Yeshwanth RajManager Analytics

Yeshwanth Raj

Manager Analytics

As Analytics Manager at RainMan Consulting, Yeshwanth Raj leads our Market Mix Modelling work for CPG and FMCG clients turning "what happened" into "what to do next." He translates regression, Bayesian, and machine learning-based models into budget and channel decisions that hold up under real business constraints, not just clean slides. He brings 6+ years in MMM across RainMan and Nielsen, working the full model lifecycle: design and validation, decomposing short- vs. long-term marketing effects (including Kalman filter-based estimation), brand equity modelling, and media network analysis. He is just as comfortable defending a model to a client's CFO as he is building it.

He started at RainMan as an Analyst, spent two years at Nielsen managing MMM projects and delivery teams for global CPG clients, then came back to RainMan first as Senior Analyst, now as Analytics Manager. That mix of specialist-firm depth and global-measurement-leader scale is exactly why clients trust his team's numbers. As Analytics Manager, Yeshwanth owns delivery end-to-end leading and mentoring the team, running client relationships, and keeping projects on scope, on time, on budget. He's known for keeping a level head under pressure and giving his team the calm, steady direction that gets projects across the line, even when timelines get tight. He holds a Master of Science in Statistics from Loyola College. He builds models that change decisions — not just decks.

Amandeep SinghManager Analytics

Amandeep Singh

Manager Analytics

As Manager of Analytics, Amandeep brings together three disciplines in one: the precision of an engineer, the rigor of a statistician, and the instinct of a marketer. Backed by a BE in Computer Science with a specialization in AI/ML and nearly three years in marketing analytics, he doesn't just report on performance — he builds the systems that improve it. He writes the code, designs and deploys automated algorithms that cut manual effort, and applies statistical depth to separate signal from noise, so every decision rests on evidence rather than guesswork. Whether it's uncovering what truly drives a campaign or forecasting where to invest next, he stays focused on the outcomes that move the business forward.

His proudest work is RainBrain, an intelligent analytics solution he designed, built on his own from concept to code. It reflects how he likes to work: taking an idea end to end and turning it into something that delivers real impact. His principle is simple: jack of all trades, master of impact.

Allied unit

Extending our bench, globally

Lenskold Group
Partner

Lenskold Group

A specialist firm in improving marketing effectiveness and efficiency. Jim Lenskold, its president, is the author of the award-winning book Marketing ROI: The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability. Lenskold Group works with Fortune 1000 and emerging clients globally, creating customised solutions in marketing ROI measurement, tools and process.