Rishabh Poddar (he/him)

Education: Masters in Management Studies, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, US; graduated in 2021.

Bachelors in Electronic and Communication Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, India; graduated in 2018

Pre-MBA industry: Marketing (Media and Politics)

Pre-MBA role: Associate Director – Marketing, Smartpower Automation

Clubs: Student Association (Executive Committee, Marketing Officer), Marketing and Strategy (Senior Executive Committee, Events), Music (Executive Committee, Music Creation)

About me: Coming from a family of entrepreneurs in India, my journey has been rather unconventional. I studied Electronics Engineering as an undergraduate, but in my sophomore year, I discovered a deep fascination for marketing. With a little help from my friends, I started an ad-tech venture, where we created music for video games and radio jingles and learned how psychology, music and storytelling come together in marketing.

In 2020, I moved to the US to pursue my masters in Management at Duke University. After that, I went to Washington DC, working at the intersection of marketing, media and politics, a space I have now spent six years navigating. The work was intense and rewarding, and I believe we made the world just a little better through the impact we created.

After the 2024 US presidential elections, I moved back to India to reconnect with family and reflect on what I truly wanted to build next. In 2025, my next chapter at LBS is unfolding, exploring organisational behaviour and marketing from a global lens, while sipping coffee with some of the most high IQ, high EQ people I’ve ever met.

At my core, I’m passionate about people, music and airplanes.

Three topics I can be approached about: Marketing; being involved on campus; life in US schools versus UK.

Email: rpoddar.mba1y2026@london.edu