angad s m

Toronto, Canada · North America & Global

Marketing & GTM Executive · Product Marketing · Filmmaker & Registered Producer

Angad S M

I connect customer insight, positioning and go-to-market execution to turn ambitious ideas into market momentum.

Portrait of Angad S. Manchanda
Marketing executiveToronto, ON
$4M+Annual marketing budget managed
125+Restaurant & franchise locations supported
6M+Monthly social media reach
15+Years leading growth

01 / Profile

A growth operator with a creative pulse and an enterprise-scale point of view.

Angad is a Toronto-based marketing executive with 15+ years of experience driving revenue growth, brand transformation, customer acquisition and digital innovation across North America and Asia. He brings an enterprise-level perspective shaped by building an international agency, leading multidisciplinary teams and directing integrated marketing across hospitality, retail, technology, entertainment, nonprofit and consumer sectors.

He has led multimillion-dollar marketing investments, built high-performing teams and developed multi-location marketing systems — taking campaigns from strategy through production, delivery and measurement.

Global brand leadershipProduct marketing lensPositioning & messagingGo-to-market strategyLaunch strategyPerformance marketingAI-enabled campaign strategyFilm & content productionP&L managementDemand generationCustomer journey & activationStrategic partnerships
UNICEF India Performance marketing & customer acquisition initiatives

03 / Experience

Confidential · $500M+ Hospitality BusinessDirector of MarketingMay 2025 — Present
Toronto, ON

Building connected growth and go-to-market systems across a national hospitality portfolio.

Executive marketing leadership for a multi-brand hospitality business supporting more than 125 locations across Canada, with a focus on national growth, franchise marketing and integrated campaign delivery.

  • Owns a $4M+ integrated marketing budget
  • Led NFL and NHL brand activations
  • Generated 2M+ monthly social media reach
  • Created multiple 1M+ organic-view campaigns
Chimp&z Inc. WorldwideCo-Founder & Chief Marketing Director2013 — 2025 · South Asia & Canada

Built an independent agency into an international growth engine.

Co-founded and scaled one of India’s Top 10 independent digital agencies, growing the business to approximately $5M in annual revenue across multiple markets.

  • Built and led a 100+ person multidisciplinary team
  • Led UNICEF India performance marketing and customer acquisition initiatives
  • Pioneered AI-driven creative and marketing frameworks
  • Secured six-figure engagements including UNICEF and GroupFit

Earlier career / brands in motion

Jack in the Box WWSenior Business Manager · Red Bull, Pepsi, Microsoft · Red Bull Stratos 2012 and Windows Phone TV launch.
CogmatManager, Digital Brand Solutions · Digital campaigns across beauty and lifestyle.
FoxyMoronSocial Media Manager · Timberland, FCUK, L’Oréal and Castrol.

04 / Client portfolio

Global names. Category-defining work.

A portfolio spanning purpose, mobility, entertainment, technology, wellness and consumer growth.

UNICEF
DHL
Tata Motors
Discovery Channel
Animal Planet
Cartoon Network
DC Comics
Bodog Canada
GroupFit
Altius
Alberta Bud
75+ global brands in total

05 / Portfolio

Strategy, story and impact — built into the work.

Selected work across product launches, positioning, go-to-market strategy, franchise growth, Generative AI, performance media and creative production.

Brand systems01

Branding & Packaging

Concept, framework, strategy and production across visual identity, packaging and brand expression — including Alberta Bud in Canada and Maserati creatives.

Alberta BudMaseratiIdentityPackagingProduction
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Generative AI02

AI-Native Campaign Launches

Concept, writing and direction for GroupFit Canada’s launch film, created completely with Generative AI, plus a Generative AI campaign for the launch of PayU.

GroupFit CanadaPayUConceptWritingDirection
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Performance marketing03

Tata Play Brand Transition

A performance-led brand transition campaign delivered across concept, strategy, optimization and execution — translating a major identity shift into measurable digital communication.

ConceptStrategyOptimizationDelivery
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Creative-first campaigns04

Motion Built for Attention

Creative-first campaign work spanning a motion video campaign for coffee and the Suzuki Jimny launch — shaped from concept through delivery for fast-moving digital audiences.

CoffeeSuzuki JimnyMotionLaunch creative
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06 / Product, positioning & GTM

Find the customer truth. Clarify the value. Take it to market.

I bring a product-marketing lens to executive growth leadership: understand the audience and the problem, sharpen the value proposition, align the story across touchpoints, and connect launch activity to commercial goals. My background spans technology and payments campaigns, brand transitions, AI-led storytelling and complex multi-location growth systems. The focus is practical: make the offering easier to understand, easier to choose and easier to bring to market.

01 / POSITION

Positioning & messaging

Turn complex offerings into a clear value proposition, audience-specific messaging and a story that gives customers a reason to care.

02 / LAUNCH

Go-to-market strategy

Connect launch objectives, audiences, channels, creative, partners and field execution in one coordinated go-to-market plan.

03 / ADOPT

Demand, activation & adoption

Build integrated campaigns that move beyond awareness — supporting discovery, trial, conversion and ongoing engagement across the customer journey.

04 / LEARN

Measurement & iteration

Use campaign performance and customer response to understand what resonates, optimize investment and sharpen the next iteration.

Executive lens: Align leadership priorities, customer-facing narrative, creative, media and field execution around one clear market proposition.

Relevant work: technology and payments launch campaigns, AI-led product storytelling, brand-transition communications and repeatable launch systems. These examples demonstrate adjacent GTM and positioning experience; product adoption, retention or product-led growth results are not claimed unless supported by verified data.

07 / Recognition

2016

Top 30 Under 30

Recognized among India’s leading digital media professionals.

Press

Featured in Forbes

Recognized for global strategy and digital innovation, with features across 100+ publications.

Work

Award-winning campaigns

Campaign leadership for Red Bull, UNICEF and Pepsi across Asia and North America.

Voice

LinkedIn Top Voice

Recognized for marketing perspective and industry leadership.

08 / Contact

Build what others follow.

For growth strategy, integrated marketing leadership, brand transformation and advisory work, send Angad a message using the form below or connect on LinkedIn at /in/angadsinghmanchanda .

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