Brand strategy that moves your business

Not just your marketing metrics.

We are not an agency. We are not a traditional consultancy. We solve the business problem behind the brand problem.

Fisher-Price India48%

Top-of-mind awareness lifted through sharper brand positioning and better business alignment.

Category shift

From marketing execution requests to a business-growth diagnosis.

What changed

Clearer narrative, stronger commercial focus, and decisions that scaled past vanity metrics.

Fisher-Price outcomes175%

business growth

Growth curve
Brand clarity
Commercial focus
Compounding growth
$125MportfolioMattel
45%CAGRFisher-Price
Rs 0 to Rs 50 CrBuilt in 4 yearsFaber-Castell
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What we do

Where brands become businesses

Business Turnaround

Fractional CMO

Brand Strategy & Foundation

Growth & Go-to-Market

Coming soon

AI-powered Brand Intelligence

Coming soon

Global Expansion Advisory

What we do

"What Vero is... and what it isn't"

We help growth-stage brands build strategic brand foundations, unlock new markets, and turnaround stagnant businesses, with the intelligence of a FORTUNE 500 CMO and the agility of AI.

Speed and process

Focused, fast, and outcome-first.

×

Expensive, slow, and process-heavy for the sake of it.

Team and execution

Senior expertise with strategy teams can actually implement.

×

Junior-heavy delivery and strategy that stays on paper.

Technology and approach

AI-embedded, India-first, Asia-smart, and globally informed.

×

AI wrapped around generic global playbooks.

Who we work with

People who run towards hard problems

We work with founders, operators, and next-generation leaders who are building, defending, or expanding something that matters.

The Architect

You have product-market fit and the right early signals. Now you need the strategic structure before growth scales the cracks.

The Architect

The Surfer

Revenue is moving, but momentum came from the wave and not the bedrock. You need structure before the market shifts again.

The Surfer

The Keybearer

You are trusted with a brand that has history, meaning, and untapped value. The challenge is opening its next chapter without losing what made it matter.

The Cartographer

You have charted India and now need clarity for the markets beyond it, without copying a playbook that was never written for you.

The Cartographer

Why Vero

Case-study note

Credential Case-study Outcomes

Three proof points from brands Vero helped sharpen, scale, and turn into commercially stronger businesses.

Fisher-Price India
Category comeback/Fisher-Price India

How Fisher-Price became impossible to ignore in India

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Faber-Castell India
Market creation/Faber-Castell India

The four-year build that turned a blank space into a business

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Mattel APAC
Regional scale/Mattel APAC

The APAC growth story that balanced global brand consistency with local market realities

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The Vero method

Five Stages. One Direction

Every Vero engagement runs on this sequence. The depth of each stage depends on what you need. The sequence never changes.

01

DECODE

Decode what is true.

02

DEFINE

Define what the brand stands for.

03

DESIGN

Design the commercial plan.

04

DETECT

Detect change in the market.

05

DRIVE

Drive execution until it works.

What powers the work

The Vero Intelligence Suite

Vero Brand Diagnostic
Vero Positioning Canvas
Coming soonVero Brand Brain
Coming soonVero Market-entry Intelligence
Coming soonVero Signal Monitor

About me

Twenty years ago I walked into a failing brand with 3% awareness and turned it into a category leader.
Sonali Shah | Founder - Vero SGP

Since then, I have managed million-dollar portfolios, built categories from scratch, and scaled businesses across Asia.

Why I started Vero

I started Vero to give ambitious businesses the kind of senior, commercially grounded brand thinking that is often missing between strategy and execution. Vero exists to find the real problem, define the clearest path forward, and stay close enough to make the work deliver growth.

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Sonali Shah, founder of Vero SGP

Leadership team

The people shaping the work

Akash Surendran

Akash Surendran

Creative Partner

Shrinit Mohanraj

Shrinit Mohanraj

Managing Partner

Rohan Abraham

Rohan Abraham

Client Partner

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