Jane De Suza Gopalakrishnan

ADVERTISING: Led creative teams in advertising work for 19 years, and built a reputation of work that stuns her clients, customers (and on occasion, herself).

Roles included Creative Director at JWT’s Contract, and Ogilvy, across cities, on multinational brands, and Consultant to branding boutiques. Accounts covered Louis Philippe, The Serai, Apollo Hospitals, Ganjam jewellers, Phillips, Himalaya, C Krishniah Chetty jewellers, Club Mahindra and others, across various verticals.

Creative Lead in Planetasia

Hired by Ogilvy, Bangalore, to set up their Interactive cell on IBM.

BOOKS: Under the name Jane De Suza, author of the fast-selling SuperZero series for kids (Puffin), now running into book 3. Debuted with a humour thriller for adults, The Spy Who Lost Her Head (Harper Collins). Earlier books include Party in the Sky, The Big Little Want, HAN series.

Speaker at leading Literary Fests like Jaipur, Bhutan and Kala Ghoda

Writes stories and book reviews across publications.

MAGAZINES : Contributor to National Geographic Traveller (India), the Mint, India Today Travel Plus, Femina, health, parenting, design and travel magazines. Wrote a long-running column in Good Housekeeping on the wisdom (and follies) of raising kids.

WORKSHOPS: Customises creative thinking/ writing workshops for corporates and schools.

BLOG: www.janekidding.blogspot.com (AWOL)

Currently co-creating an app and a comic series.

EDUCATION: MBA in HR from XLRI. BA in English from Sophia College, Bombay. Diploma in programming.

WHERE SHE SEES HERSELF IN 5 YEARS: (The mandatory interview question). Once those Nigerians who want to will her all their money, finally do, she plans to go underground, where she will create a line of animal products, tested exclusively on humans.