Kavita currently divides her time being a Board Member, running her own Strategic Advisory practice specialising in growth strategies for Start-Ups and Mentoring young women to unleash their potential in the world of business.

Kavita is a Board Member and serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Blue Dart Express. Apart from this, she is a member of the Angel investing Platform  Inflection Point Ventures.

A dynamic and admired leader, Kavita has proven success in managing a wide range of leadership roles at what is now Vodafone Idea. In her 22 years across the various avatars of the company, she held leadership roles in diverse functions across Consumer and Enterprise domains, Retail, Digital, Data and Customer Experience & Operations. She led the multiple successful brand transformations and built some of the most admired brands in the country [Orange, Hutch & Vodafone]. She was the co-creator and the champion behind some of the most iconic work in the industry & country– the lovable pug and Zoozoos won the hearts and many accolades, locally & globally. Kavita was the chief architect of the Vi brand which emerged from the integration of two popular brands – Vodafone and Idea.

In her last assignment, Kavita was the Chief Digital Transformation and Brand Officer of Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s leading telecom service provider. As a member of the Executive Committee, Kavita led Digital Transformation across all functions for the organization and drove the strategy, course and communication of Vi.

She possesses an entrepreneurial leadership style, a talent for P&L management, and track record of building some of the most admired brands of India. She has pivoted to be a technology thought leader with substantive transformation experience across domains to unleash the power of three – customer, technology and business in complex matrix environments. She is proficient in setting direction and defining roadmaps, capitalising on new business opportunities, and building high-performance teams. Building structure out of deep ambiguity by being ever curious, challenging the status quo, keeping it simple to take people along a shared common goal are her special skills

Her talent and success has been acknowledged at several prestigious forums - Economic Times included her in its 25 Rising Women Leaders of India Inc. in 2015; Business Today voted her as one of the Hottest Young Executives to watch out for in 2011 and Brand Equity named her amongst the 8 Marketing Premier League Icons in 2009.

Kavita is an alumnus of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), M S University, Baroda where she did her MBA in Marketing and has also completed Senior Leadership Programs from London Business School and IIM Ahmedabad.