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MARKETING STRATEGIST · BRAND LEADER · AI PRODUCT BUILDER

Building brands. Leading teams.
Turning strategy into action.

I’m Rajive Dhavan, a marketing strategist with 22 years of experience across agency leadership, consulting and journalism.
I built and led a 55-person integrated marketing agency serving 100+ brands, including Apollo Hospitals, Novotel / Accor, Ramoji Film City, Bajaj Electronics and Aptronix, an Apple premium reseller. My work spans brand positioning, integrated campaigns, digital marketing and the direction of 100+ brand and corporate films.
Today, I advise businesses through Chapter Won and have built WonDay, an AI-powered marketing strategy platform. I also create Brand Teardowns, sharing my perspective on the decisions behind brands and campaigns.
I’m open to full-time opportunities in brand strategy, integrated marketing and creative leadership..

22 Years of Professional Experience
IIT Bombay & T-Hub Mentor
Built WonDay.ai
16+ Years in Marketing
Built and Led a 55-Person Agency
100+ Brands Served
100+ Brand and Corporate Films
Martech Ai Innovator of the Year 2025
Who am I

A career in marketing.
An entrepreneur’s perspective.

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The Leader. I built and led What’s In a Name, a 55-person integrated marketing agency serving 100+ brands. I owned the business P&L, developed managers and brought together teams across strategy, content, design, performance marketing and production. Through Namesake Productions, I directed 100+ brand and corporate films.

The Marketer. My experience spans brand positioning, integrated campaigns and digital marketing, with ₹40 crore+ in annual client media budgets managed. Clients have included Apollo Hospitals, Novotel / Accor, Ramoji Film City, Oakridge, Bajaj Electronics and Aptronix, an Apple premium reseller. Today, through Chapter Won, I help founders and marketing teams set priorities, improve execution and connect marketing decisions with business goals.

The Builder and Creator. I built WonDay, an AI-powered marketing strategy platform that combines my marketing experience with automated research, report generation and delivery. I also create Brand Teardowns, exploring the strategy and creative decisions behind brands. My background in journalism informs how I research, write and communicate ideas.

What I Do

Three lines of work

M+

Reel views in the last 30 days

Years building and studying brands

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Brands launched and scaled

₹ Cr+

Measurable business impact delivered

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Upto 43% marketing cost savings for consulting clients

What Clients Say

Real numbers. Real words from clients who wrote the cheques.

Healthcare marketing is a different animal. You can't oversell, and most agencies don't get that. Rajive, along with his team at What's In a Name, built trust-led campaigns around our doctors and specialities that felt authentic, not salesy. They were instrumental in building the Apollo E-Doc brand, which later evolved into what is now Apollo 24|7. That kind of work only happens when the people behind the marketing genuinely understand trust.




Apollo Hospitals
Mr. Suresh Kochatil

Former Head of Brand & Communications, Apollo Hospitals

In over a decade of working together, Rajive and his team at What's In a Name became an extension of ours. Seasonal tourism campaigns, destination branding, digital, the Ramoji Academy launch that filled 1,600 seats for various courses in stipulated time. All integrated. He never approached it like an agency fulfilling a brief. He approached it like someone who had a personal stake in the outcome. That's rare. And it showed.



Ramoji Film City
Mr. A.V. Rao

Vice President, Ramoji Film City

Over 15 years with Rajive and his team at What's In a Name. SEO, SEM, social, brand films, OOH, website, festival campaigns. The full spectrum. In a market where every electronics retailer is fighting for the same customer, they helped us stand apart. Walk-ins went up. Ticket sizes grew. Revenue showed a measurable jump we could trace directly to the work. You don't keep a partner for 15 years unless they're in it the way you are.




Bajaj Electronics, EMIL
Karan Bajaj

CEO, Bajaj Electronics (Electronics Mart India Limited)

We were spending heavily on marketing and couldn't tell you where half of it was going. Rajive audited everything and within a few months our spend dropped by 55%. Junk leads fell by 70%. In 12 months we saved over ₹55 lakh. That's not an estimate. That's what showed up in our books.



Smatbot, AI SaaS
Tanvi Modi

CEO, SmatBot

Marketing Strategy
Brand Analysis
Content Creation
22 Years of Real Experience
₹2,000 Crore Impact
100+ Brands
Straight Talk
No Gyaan
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