Swetank Jain Group Chief Communications officer and CHRO for Lodha Ventures

Swetank Jain has joined as the Group Chief Communications officer and CHRO for Lodha Ventures. It’s the parent company of Tomorrow capital a VC fund and it has multiple cos in the portfolio in edtech, Fintech, real estate tech, interior design etc. He will be heading the HR and Comms of parent company; fund and all the portfolio companies.

Swetank is passionate thought leader working in the area of communicaion, people and customers. He is a part of the core business strategy team at Future Group, India's leading retail and consumer products company. In his over 17 years of professional experience, as a young leader, Swetank believes in challenging set norms, creating his own path and setting trends that are followed by others.

Driven by passion, positivity & data, Swetank has always worked with an entrepreneurial zeal in all his roles. In 2010, Swetank, then 29, was handpicked by Future Group’s founder Mr Kishore Biyani as the youngest member to join his core strategy and incubation team. Over the course of next few years, while he worked on setting up the hygiene in the corp comm team like media training, communications & social media policy, content and video team, he also introduced online reputation management, crisis communications SOP and a mix of digital and traditional story telling technique to engage with internal and external stakeholders.

Swetank expanded the scope of ORM to launch a customer experience function, which analysed the ORM data and over time started giving business inputs to various brands within the group, which led to an improved experience for the Future Group customers. This was hailed as first of its kind initiative where critical inputs came from the comms team to business CEOs directly impacting the bottom-line of businesses.

Prior to joining Future Group, Swetank was hired by India’s largest private bank ICICI Bank with a mandate to set up new media practices and infrastructure for the banking institution. In his stint of 1.5 years, Swetank successfully executed setting up a studio with latest capabilities like going live on any news channels at a moment’s notice. This was the first ever fully equipped studio set up by a private company, a suit which was later followed by many IT behemoths.

In addition to this, he also launched multiple video led initiatives as part of the Group’s Comms strategy like Video press releases, Video newsletters and internal news bulletins where employees across India worked as journalists to report on internal news. Swetank started his career as a business journalist with CNBC in 2004 where he quickly rose through the ranks to become the youngest bureau chief of the channel CNBC Awaaz, leading a team of fiery and experienced reporters.

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