Rajiv Dingra is the Founder and CEO of WATConsult, the most awarded independent digital and social media agency, founded in the year 2007. A 29-year-old entrepreneur and a thought leader in the digital space, he currently leads a team of 150 people at WATConsult. WATConsult is headquartered in Mumbai and has offices across Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. The agency, recently, got acquired by global media giants – The Dentsu Aegis Network.

In a span of 7 years, he has worked with more than 100 clients across India. Some of the brands include Warner Bros, PVR, SAP, Nikon, Tata Salt, Godrej, Bajaj Allianz and Mahindra & Mahindra. WATConsult recently won 48 digital and social media awards for work done across 12 distinct marketing campaigns. These include the prestigious global DMA echo in San Diego, ‘The most progressive digital agency award’ at CMO ASIA Singapore and ‘The social media agency of the year 2014’ at Socialathon Delhi. Rajiv personally was nominated as the digital person of the year at E4M Indian digital media awards and also won ‘The young social media entrepreneur of the year’ at CMO Asia Singapore.

Rajiv has been a global speaker at Social Media Enterprise Forum, Dubai, Malaysia social media week and Afri-tech Summit Kenya. He was also on the Jury of the Bees Social Media Awards, San Francisco; DMAi awards, India; and Smarties Mobile awards, 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 14 countries in the last 7 years. He is also an adventure junkie and is an amateur scuba diver, having dived in waters of Bali, Maldives and Mauritius and has flown a two seater plane in UAE. Beyond travel and adventure Rajiv is a big movie buff and a cricket fan.