Kiran Khalap
Kiran Khalap is a brand consultant, author and founder of Chlorophyll brand & communications consultancy that was setup in Mumbai, India 1999.
In 2009, chlorophyll became the first Indian consultancy to win Best Website in the Professional Services Category at the global Internet Advertising Competition Award.
Kiran plays the role of a brand guru, and is invited to write and speak on branding , as also marketing and the economy by leading publications and organisations.
He was one of the 13 professionals handpicked to write the definitive book on brands in crisis in 2007. . He has been speaking to CEOs and CFOs on branding issues since 1995 at the IMA Forum.
Kiran is also known as a writer of features and travelogues. He won the Indo-UK Asian Age Short-Story Writing competition in 1995. His novel “Halfway Up the Mountain” was first published in 2003 in India and then in the UK and US in 2005.