Sumeet Bhutada

Head of Marketing and Communications @Chirec International School

Hyderabad, TG, IN
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WORK HISTORY

Dec 2025 — Present

Head of Marketing and Communications @Chirec International School

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Hyderabad, IN

Leading marketing at CHIREC International School.CHIREC is amongst India’s finest K12 brands, with a legacy of high quality education and a state of the art learning environment. The brand enjoys strong awareness, credibility, and parent advocacy built over the years. The focus now is on building on that foundation and sharpening the brand further.Working on strengthening how the brand is presented and leveraged across communication, rankings, and parent perception to build a stronger and more consistent brand aura.Alongside that, the focus is on bringing more structure into the marketing function across team, processes, and clearer brand goals so that execution becomes more consistent, scalable, and aligned with the organisation’s growth agenda.Also aligning marketing more closely with admissions and growth priorities, so that brand strength translates more predictably into outcomes.Taking a strong institution and making the marketing function work harder for growth.

EDUCATION

2004 — 2005

Times School of Marketing

Masters in Marketing, Marketing Management

1991 — 1998

St.Andrews

SSC, SSC

N/A

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Executive Education , Managing and Building Brands

2000 — 2003

Osmania University

Bachelors of commerce, Commerce

SKILLS

Market ResearchTeam LeadershipStrategyMarketingMedia MarketingAdvertisingMarketing CommunicationsSalesBrand ManagementMarketing StrategyEvent ManagementProduct DevelopmentBrand DevelopmentMedia PlanningResearchManagement

ABOUT SUMEET BHUTADA

I have spent most of my career trying to answer one simple question. How does marketing actually drive growth, not just activity? Over the last 20+ years, across media, advertising, and now education, I have worked on building brands, but more importantly, building systems that convert that brand into revenue. At Silver Oaks, this came together well. We scaled from about 2,500 to over 6,500 students while expanding to multiple campuses. A big part of that was not just campaigns, but putting a structure in places such as CRM, demand generation, and a more thought through admissions experience. The other piece was clarity on what the brand stood for. “Character Before Competence” was always there in spirit, but we made it sharper and more usable as a marketing and admissions anchor. Right now at CHIREC, the work is more foundational; getting the team, structure, and execution rhythm in place so that marketing can consistently support growth. Earlier in my career, I have worked across Times of India, Zee, Dainik Bhaskar, and also ran my own consultancy. That phase gave me a solid grounding in how different businesses use marketing and where it breaks. I don’t think marketing has a campaign problem. It has a structure problem. Most places do a lot, but very little compounds. That’s been the area I’ve been most interested in working on, Marketing as a compounding business asset.

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