Manjula is an award-winning, strategic, and creative leader with a 20-year career building brands, products, and platforms that have moved the world. Born in India, raised in the Middle East, and forged in the US, she thrives at the intersection of culture, media, entertainment and technology.

She is a hyphenate, a dot connector, and a creative futurist. She led Strategy and Creative Innovation at Twitter, and helped build the internal creative studio, designing 0-1 possibilities across brand, marketing, content and product. Before Twitter, she consulted with startups like Airbnb, where she helped the in-house team launch  Experiences.

As a creative innovation leader, she helped transform and grow agencies like  Venables Bell and Partners, Mekanism, and  Attik into strategically led, creative powerhouses. She started her career in Asia, as an art director and launched global brands like Levis with McCann Erickson, took Unilever and the HindustanTimes digital, worked in camera for the BBC in London, and traveled the film festival circuit. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Cannes Lions, the One show, the Clio awards, the Webby’s, the FWA’s , Tribeca and more.

She combines strategy, creativity, and tech to inspire the purpose-driven, culture-defining brands and products of the future. She’s had incredible opportunities to collaborate with brilliant creative teams, partners, and agencies worldwide. As a perpetual immigrant and world traveler, she is committed to raising all her communities through positive action. 

And she makes a mean cuppa chai.