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BIDISHA NAGARAJ Group President Marketing at Coffee Day Group Alma Mater: Bangalore University Ethnicity: Indian Bidisha Nagaraj is president, marketing, at Café Coffee Day, the Indian retail café chain. Prior to this, Nagaraj was head of consumer marketing at Google India. Her chief responsibility at Café Coffee Day is to enhance the position of the brand and increase its consumer loyalty through various innovative channels. She started her career in advertising at Lowe (then Lowe Lintas Advertising), rising up to become group account manager within five years, before applying her entrepreneurial skills to start her own handicraft exports company. Her exp