Ratan KK

Mr Ratan KK has spent more than fifteen years teaching businesses, and business students, how to grow online. He leads GutsGo, the digital marketing consulting and training firm he has run since 2009, and has designed digital strategies for enterprise clients including DuPont and GlaxoSmithKline.

His grounding is in the work itself. Before GutsGo, he headed global delivery at Pinstorm, one of India's pioneering performance-marketing agencies, and earlier held operations and programme-management roles at Sutherland Global Services. He has since run corporate workshops and taught search, paid media, social media and web analytics at leading business schools, training thousands of marketing professionals along the way.

An engineer from Osmania University and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, he lives by a simple motto: "Add value. Create wealth." At First Bridge, he teaches growth and digital marketing the way he practises them, and measures his own success by how far his students go.