About VGC
VGC’s holistic design and communications track record spans over ten years. It operates from its offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru. The team at VGC works with passion, verve and an entrepreneurial spirit to deliver innovative solutions right from developing strategy to completing a superior creative expression across all media vehicles.

Preeti Vyas
Chairwoman

Chairwoman Preeti is widely regarded as one of India’s foremost creative minds. In 1997 Vyas Giannetti Creative was the new kid on the block with the aim to transform the dreary Design and Communication landscape with cutting edge, media-neutral ideas that could be applied across a variety of media with longevity. Today the agency is a living testimony to Preeti's early ideaology.

Her many achievements include
One of the leading creative minds of India by an Economic Times Report, she is ranked amongst India's Greatest Brand Builders by CMO Asia. Amongst the 25 most powerful women in India by Business Today. Amongst the 50 most influential women by Verve magazine. Award winning supporter of women entrepreneurs. Jury member at Cannes, New York Advertising Festival and Sri Lanka’s first International creative awards. Indian representative at Indian Creative Showcase at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Speaker at Industry conclaves such as CII, Design and Communication events and India’s leading communication education schools. Columnist for the Times of India newspaper. Member of the CII Design Committee, Executive Committee of NID’s Design Entrepreneur Incubation programme. An advisor at Mudra Institute of Communication. Preeti and VGC are also featured in a communications case study at Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmedabad. A passionate painter Preeti has exhibited her art in group shows and maintains and online gallery www.preeti.vgc.in.

Richa Panigrahi
Brand Partner
 

Richa is an Architect by training, however her 13 year career track has taken her from Architecture to Holistic Strategic Brand planning, to Retail Design, to Visual Merchandising & Shopper Marketing, to Brand Environment Design and Exhibitions. This panoramic span has been very exciting and rich with experience considering her passion for Brands and their stories; and the journey so far has been logical, inevitable and challenging. She strives to balance her passion for creative excellence and need for business justification, successfully and with panache.

Her stints with varied specialization firms like Touchpoint (Rediffusion Y&R), Steve and Barry's, Primesite (Mudra), Meroform and Pico have given Richa the opportunity to work with various media and dimensions of Brand Building and added immensely to her holistic knowledge and experience. Added to that she has skilfully spearheaded business development and managed large teams for these companies. She has worked with blue chip clientele such as TATA Motors, Tata tele-services, Samsung, Mahindra 2 Wheelers, Ashok Leyland, HDIL, HCC, Hyundai, Hindustan Times, L'Oreal, maybelline, Equal, Hinduja Hospitals, Biotique to name a few.

Neha Tulsian
Brand Partner Bengaluru
 

Neha is a passionate, talented designer who works with her head as much as with her hand and heart. Having studied at the London College of Communications she enjoyed the opportunity of working with some wonderful design studios in London like SAS Design, Johnson Banks, Radford Wallis, Together Design, Un-real design and Williams Murray Hamm amongst others.

Back in India, Neha worked in Bangalore with Ray and Keshavan Design, The Brand Union. She also did a short stint with HKLM Design, Johannesburg, developing the brand language for a Nigerian Bank. She has immensely enjoyed working and contributing her expertise on brands like Typhoo Tea, Network 18, Concern Worildwide, Wipro, Satyam, SABMillerand Shoppers Stop, Unilever and ACC. Absolute commitment, a global perspective and with a specialist understanding of branding, Neha is now heading operations for VGC, Bangalore doing what she’s best at – creating a brand new world for our clients. Part of the jury panel at the Abby Awards, 2009. Work Showcased in Indian Graphic Design Magazine, Kyoorious Exchange – Brand Identity, 2007. Member of International Society of Typographic Designers, 2004.

Siddharth Khandelwal
Brand Partner
 

Siddharth has earned a Masters Degree in Design from the University of Technology, Sydney. He personifies VGC with his energetic nature and passion for excellence. A valuable assignment with the Strategy Guru Martin Lindstorm in Sydney marked the beginning of his career. Sid helped Martin set up his website and consecutively worked on a number of strategy projects in Australia.

With a single-hearted desire to build brands, through a charged vigour, he returned to India in 2005. This followed a prolific stint for over 4 years with Lowe Lintas, Mumbai. Sid created branding solutions across many sectors and successfully breathed a new life into a number of eminent Unilever Brands such as - Bru, Lakme, Lux, Liril and on other prestigious brands like Essar,Tata, Hinduja, Aditya Birla Group, Godfrey Phillips India, ITC, Wills Lifestyle, Idea Cellular, Johnson & Johnson etc.

Swati Paranjpe
Brand Partner
 

A tranquil dreamer of strong convictions –Swati, believes in striking a fine balance between work and play, creatively dynamic but strategically driven, commercially viable yet socially responsible design. A Graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto and Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai (holding a BFA in Graphic Design and Applied Arts) Swati has worked with some leading Design Agencies in India as well as a successful Independent Designer for clients of repute in Canada and Dubai.

Her work experience at dcell, Lowe Lintas, Grandmother India and Rabia Gupta Designs in India formed a rock solid foundation in allowing her to tackle a multitude of projects. She then moved to Canada to pursue further studies and worked with a radical and independent not-for-profit media organization while building her own mainstream clientelle. This gave Swati an opportunity to work on a rich array of prestigious brands since 2000 like Primus Telecommunications, Sutton Realtor and Global Aware in Canada. Connect Telecom, Abu-Dhabi women’s college, ADMA and Valley Dez in Dubai. Unilever, Nestle, Bajaj, ITC, Christies, Enron, Zandu, Coca Cola, Olay, HSBC and Deutsche Bank in India