Industry Moves

Industry Moves: HT Media’s New Initiative VP Sandip Ghose Quits - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 04 Sep 2007 11:13 PM PST

Vice president of HT Media’s new initiatives unit Sandip Ghose has quit after just two and half years in the company, according to agencyfaqs.com. Ghose, who joined HT Media in…

Industry Moves: Shishir Joshi Takes Over As Mid Day Multimedia Group Editorial Director - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 28 Aug 2007 06:09 PM PST

Former TV Today executive editor and Mumbai bureau chief Shishir Joshi took over as Mid Day Multimedia’s group editorial director. [via Indiantelevision.com] Joshi will oversee the digital content of Mid…

BIG Music & Home Entertainment Appoints COO And New Media AVP
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 27 Aug 2007 10:30 PM PST

Two senior level appointments at BIG Music and Home Entertainment, a Reliance ADAG group company: -- Shweta Agnihotri has been appointed COO of the company, reports Business of Cinema. Prior…

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Industry Moves: Pande Joins Reliance IPTV; Pereira Quits Disney; Ramaraj Joins Sequoia - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 26 Aug 2007 07:09 PM PST

Reliance Infocomm Aparna Pande, former Zoom TV programming head, has been named IPTV content head for Reliance’s DTH and IPTV division. [via exchange4media] Pande will be handling the programming duties…

DGM India Appoints Sohail Khan Head Of Sales And Account Mgt - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 22 Aug 2007 12:19 AM PST

Dgm India has appointed Sohail Khan as Head of Sales and Account Management for West and South India. The company opened an office in Mumbai. Prior to joining dgm, Khan…

Sify’s V. ChandraMouli To join AutoIndia.com as CEO - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 17 Aug 2007 02:25 AM PST

Binu TG, co-founder of auto classifieds website AutoIndia.com informs us that V. Chandramouli is joining the portal as CEO. Chandramouli has put in his papers at Sify, where he was…

Buongiorno India Appoints Media Alliance And Operations Head - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 16 Aug 2007 02:59 AM PST

Harsh Chutani has been appointed Head Media Alliance and Operations for Buongiorno India, heading operations of accounts related to TV, mobile media, music labels, Internet etc. Chutani joins from TV18…

Jasubhai Digital CEO Quits To Join Chandamama As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 13 Aug 2007 09:22 PM PST

L Subramanyan, who had been appointed CEO of Jasubhai Digital Media last year has left the company to join Geodesic subsidiary Chandamama as CEO, reports the Hindu. Geodesic has informed…

Updated: ABP MD And CEO Pramath Raj Sinha Resigns; D.D. Purakayastha Appointed MD
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 12 Aug 2007 11:24 PM PST

Updated below (Original story: 2007-08-09 08:41 PM PST) Pramath Sinha, MD and CEO of the Anand Bazaar Patrika Group has put in his papers, reports the Economic Times. The story…

Industry Moves: TV18 Elevates Sai Kumar To COO, BSNL Promotes Kuldeep Goyal To CMD - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Fri 10 Aug 2007 01:59 AM PST

TV18’s Sai Kumar Takes on COO position: TV18 has promoted its CEO of TV 18 Media Network, B Sai Kumar, to the post of COO for the entire group. As…

Yahoo India MD George Zacharias Resigns; Gets $20 Million From Sequoia Capital For New Venture - 23 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 09 Aug 2007 04:57 AM PST

Updated below (Original Story: 2007-08-06, 02:12 AM PST) We’d contacted Yahoo India regarding this, and just received a press release confirming that George Zacharias, Managing Director, Yahoo India has stepped…

Industry Moves: Starcom India Names Hari Shankar As Head Of Digital Business
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 01 Aug 2007 10:20 PM PST

Media and advertising company Starcom MediaVest Group India appointed Hari Shankar as head of its digital marketing practice. [via release] Shankar moves to Starcom from Euro RSCG Singapore where he…

Industry Moves: Nokia India Sales Head Sunil Dutt Resigns, Plans Telecom Distribution Venture - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 30 Jul 2007 08:55 PM PST

Nokia’s director of sales Sunil Dutt resigned this month and has plans to start a retail and distribution venture for telecom devices and accessories, the Economic Times reports. The paper…

Industry Moves: Rajat Jain Takes Over As CEO of Mobile2Win - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 25 Jul 2007 08:54 AM PST

Mobile2win has appointed Rajat Jain as a new Partner into the company, and as a result taken over as CEO and MD of the company as well. Jain was most…

Industry Moves: Airtel COO Joins Tanla Mobile As CEO - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jul 2007 12:21 AM PST

N V Subba Rao, former Chief Operating Officer for Bharti Airtel, has joined mobile content solutions firm Tanla Mobile as CEO...the company is a division of Tanla Solutions, based in…

One97 Communications Appoints Head of Content And Enterprise Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 23 Jul 2007 04:45 AM PST

One97 Communications, a mobile Value Added Services company, has made some senior level appointments: Himanshu Shukla has joined as Head of Content, while Arvind Gupta has joined as Head of…

Thomas Cook India Appoints Head Of E-Business - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 15 Jul 2007 10:13 PM PST

Thomas Cook India has appointed Amitabh Pandey has President and Head of its E-Business. Pandey will be responsible for the redesign of their travel portal. Thomas Cook has an offline…

Canaan Partners Promotes Alok Mittal To Managing Director Post - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 10 Jul 2007 11:26 PM PST

Venture Capital firm Canaan Partners promoted its executive director Alok Mittal to the post of managing director, India. [via release] Mittal joined Canaan in March 2006 to launch the firm’s…

Kawasaki, Varian And Mayfield Join Slideshare’s Board Of Directors - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 10 Jul 2007 08:15 AM PST

Guy Kawasaki, Hal Varian and Ross Mayfield have joined the board of directors of Slideshare, Amit Ranjan, co-founder and COO of Slideshare has announced on his blog. Hal Varian is…

UTV Software Communications New Media Head Resigns - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 08 Jul 2007 07:22 PM PST

UTV Software Communications executive director and new media head Ronald D’Mello has quit, according to this Indiantelevision.com report. The company’s new media initiatives—animation, special effects and gaming—were shifted to the…

Viacom 18 Snags Zee Programming Head As Content Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 07 Jul 2007 12:30 PM PST

Viacom and TV18 new JV Viacom-18 has snagged its first big executive: Zee TV’s programming SVP Ashwini Yardi is joining V18 as Head of Content and Creative, reports E4M. In…

Reliance ADAG’s Big Ropes In Studio 18’s Sarkar As CFO - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 03 Jul 2007 01:40 AM PST

Studio 18’s chief financial officer Shibasish Sarkar will be the new CFO of Reliance ADAG’s BIG Motion Picture, according to this Business of Cinema article. The Web site quoted sources…

Bindass Names Zoom’s Shailindra Kaul As Senior Creative Director - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 02 Jul 2007 02:14 AM PST

Bindass, UTV-Astro’s youth entertainment and leisure brand, has appointed Zoom TV’s Shailindra Kaul as senior creative director. Kaul will be responsible for creative services and on-air branding for Bindass, according…

Ajay Chadha Appointed President of Ignition Entertainment’s US Operations - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 01 Jul 2007 06:57 AM PST

Ajay Chadha, founder of Ignition Entertainment, has been made President of the company’s US operations. Until recently, he was the company’s Sales Director. As President of Ignition’s US operations, Chadha…

Bejul Somaia Joins The Board Of Matrix Partners Funded Startup - 4 Interactive - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 28 Jun 2007 06:36 AM PST

Bejul Somaia, an investor with the Band of Angels and a Board Director of UP Twiga Fibreglass Ltd has joined the board for Four Interactive a startup that is currently…