As Group CMO, Manav looks after both Eros Now and the studio business. He is responsible for brand, consumer growth & retention, talent, trade and PR across both these businesses. In his earlier role he was founder CMO for ALTBalaji, India’s first SVOD OTT platform which broke the notion that Indians don’t pay for content.
In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.
At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. He was also part of founding co worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.
In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.
He has formal education in Management and Law.
18 years of work-experience in Corporate Strategy, Business Planning, Consumer Insights & Analytics across industries in marquee organizations.
As a part of the top management team in South Asia, shaped strategy and drove key business decisions in the entrepreneurial initiatives of Discovery Network in India.
Recommended the strategy for Discovery Kids’ channel (DKids) relaunch which zoomed ~500% since then. Created and executing strategic plan for further growth of DKids and DTamil Channel.
Pioneered the use of Data Analytics in Star TV Network as a means for identifying key opportunity areas for organic growth and cutting costs. Recommended (1) strategy to increase the network share by plugging-in consumer and content whitespaces, (2) strategy to increase rural penetration (new channel) and (3) closure of Channel V as a Youth Entertainment Channel.
Conceptualized cloud-based database as a first step towards big data platform that aimed to integrate various data sources for better measurement (viewership), content feedback and advertiser metrics in addition to reducing data extraction time by 90%. Led the creation of mobile app for bringing all this data graphically to everyone’s fingertip for quick decision making across functions.
As a part of Chairman’s office at RIL, program managed the Strategy & execution for Content acquisition for Jio.
At Times Internet, evaluated business plans, recommended cost saving (USD 10 Mn) and value creation measures (Additional revenue ~ USD 5 Mn) that included rejig of Auto (Zigwheels) and shutting down of unprofitable businesses –Email and Shopping. Evaluated multiple potential equity investments. Was a founding member of TLabs, a mentorship based Startup Accelerator by Times Group. Closed funding for 10 startups in Batch 1 & 2.
A Digital Marketing & Transformation Leader with over 18 years of experience. He specializes in Digital Marketing Communications, Marketing Transformation and Online Sales across functions in Banking, Insurance and Technology.
A Digital Marketing & Transformation Leader with over 18 years of experience. He specializes in Digital
Marketing Communications, Marketing Transformation and Online Sales across functions in Banking,
Insurance and Technology.
With Business & Metrics performance as a focus, he has consistently melded together online
transformation platforms, techniques and approaches to construct new and exciting ways of generating
revenue from the digital medium – Online, Mobile & Social channels across Global Markets
His work has been recognized by industry experts and thought leaders in the B2C and B2B industries.
2019
With Business & Metrics performance as a focus, he has consistently melded together online transformation platforms, techniques and approaches to construct new and exciting ways of generating revenue from the digital medium – Online, Mobile & Social channels across Global Markets
His work has been recognized by industry experts and thought leaders in the B2C and B2B industries.
2019
– Awarded “50 Most Influential Digital Marketing Leaders” by CMO Asia
2018
– Awarded “50 Most Influential Digital Marketing Leaders” by CMO Asia
– Awarded “100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders” by World Digital Congress & CMO Asia
He presently works as Head – Digital Marketing Transformation & Marketing Automation leading
Tushar Tyagi is an Indian born and raised filmmaker. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering Roorkee in India and a degree in Directing and Filmmaking from New York Film Academy. From a very early age, he realized he wanted to tell stories, and show life as art and art as life. ” I want to let the world experience how it is like to be inside my mind, where breath taking things are being created every passing second”. He decided to be a film maker to transform his imagination to the big screen”. The world inside him “is way bigger and better than the world I live in.
Tushar currently finished post-production in New York City on “Gulabee”. It tells the story of a young woman coping with unprecedented life choices as a prostitute, in which her will and courage are challenged in pursuit to escape her past. The film will be in the festival circuit beginning in January 2014, and will be released in local theaters shortly thereafter.
Efficient, innovative & results driven professional with 6+ years work experience in e-Commerce domain, handling Digital Marketing, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships
Executing successful Digital/Online Marketing campaigns for customer acquisition initiatives – Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Affiliate Marketing, Mobile App Marketing, Re-targeting Specialize in building scalable products that provide compelling business value
Highly detail-oriented & execution focused with strong networking, mentoring and consensus-building skills
He has taught Film Studies for the past 23 years now.
Apart from that he was the Deputy Director of SIMC for nine years. During the concerned period the Institute was ranked among the top 10 Institutes offering a PG programme in Mass Communication, by various publications every year.
Also, he was the Director of SCMC for 10 years. During the concerned period the Centre was ranked as India’s Best Mass Communication College by the annual India Today-Nielsen surveys for five consecutive years (2013-’17).
He has also taught at FTII, IIMC, Sophia College for Women as well as at the various Film Appreciation Courses organised by NFAI.
After completing a degree in computer science and pursuing post graduate courses in Mathematics and Japanese, He moved towards filmmaking by choice. He joined FTII Pune in 1991 for a 3 year cinematography course which got completed in 1994. Since 1995 he has been professionally active in Mumbai. His years of participation in the Indian Media and Entertainment Industry have also coincided with the tectonic shifts that our industry has been witnessing over the past two decades. Having an unconventional approach – both in thinking and practice with an ability to quickly learn and adapt have been my core strengths.
As a result, 3 of the films that he has worked on got National Award whereas 1 got nominated as the official entry into Oscars from India. He would consider himself fortunate that he could become part of some of the key projects which became cornerstones of future trends in an industry which remains forever compelled to reinvent itself. In 2014 he started a social enterprise called Cinevidya with a purpose to spread audio visual content creation skills amidst children at grassroot level all over India.
* Has done more than 1000 TVCs for some of the top indian as well as international brands; mainly known for feature films “Khosla ka Ghosla”; “Chillar Party” and “The Good Road”.
Managing Director & President PTC NETWORK, Rabindra Narayan is the founder of the first ever Punjabi satellite channel in the world (PUNJABI WORLD) and has had a long stint with media houses like ZEE, ETC, TEJ PRESS, SUNDAY MAIL, WEEKLY SUN and more. He has also had a long and illustrious career as a Punjabi & Hindi theatre actor and director having to his credit the first ever multimedia sound and light show in Punjabi – AAZADI DE TARAANEY. A team leader who leads with example and at the forefront, Narayan branched out in early Nineties from print journalism (as Editor of The Weekly SUN) to broadcasting and is known as the person who brought Gurbani from Golden Temple to the television screen. He is also credited with conceptualising and founding the World’s first-ever Punjabi television channel, PUNJABI WORLD. He went on to start ETC PUNJABI for ETC Network and be the Business Head of ZEE PUNJABI in addition to heading ETC PUNJABI with the Zee Group. A passionate writer and a dedicated mediaman, Narayan feels proud to be heading the World’s Number One Punjabi Television Network team at PTC NETWORK.
Debdatta is a former business journalist turned Content Marketer. She has worked with some of the biggest media brands in the country including The Hindu, Times Group and NDTV. She currently works as the Editor of Branded Content for Money Control, Network 18’s largest digital platform. She believes that in the current age of information technology, content is the king for any kind of marketing. Especially when it comes to effective ways of telling the story of brands and organisations.
Prabhjyot Singh is a Marketing professional with 15+ years of experience in the industry. His experience spans across sectors like media houses, e-commerce and digital agencies. Currently, he is the General Manager – Marketing & Digital, Strategic Planning, Events & Content at ShowBox – National 24×7 Music TV Channel.During his career, he has been responsible for the launch campaigns, media buying, budget allocation, overall growth of the companies, scaling up the e-commerce business through digital mediums, generating new revenue streams and strategic planning for the new business development. Worked on several expansion plans in entertainment media, digital, publishing, OTT.
With hands on marketing experience across several service categories backed by solid direct sales experience and having worked in 2 start-up operations, Sugato brings a cross industry learning of service marketing for organisations looking for rich experience with performance. When you add 8 years of working with the top ad agencies in the country, Sugato combines go to market scaling up skills with a thorough experience of brand building.
Specialties: Start-ups, product launch, media distribution, service marketing, service brand operations
OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN LEADERSHIP ROLES ACROSS A&R, CREATIVE CONTENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT.
Have grown the ranks in the business of media and entertainment, an area I am extremely passionate about. Have held leadership roles with proven and established organisations , India and globally.
A sharp and proven business acumen and a keen eye for winning content , discovering and launching music talent in India have been my core strengths. Some of the biggest names and IPs in the Indian music business have been my contribution over the years.
My areas of specialisations over the years have been:
*Content- Across music, television, radio & films.
*Sharp acumen for growth riders.
• Film Director
• Content Creator
• Film Marketing, Distribution & Sales Consultant
• Develop Strategies for Film Marketing & Release
• Trade & Studio Networking
• Script Analyser from Commercial Apect
• Chairman Events, IFTDA, Indian Film & TV Directors Association
• Written & Directed ‘7 HOURS TO GO’ (June 2016), ‘MICKEY VIRUS’ (Oct 2013) and Solid Patels (Unreleased)
21 years of experience in: Content Creation | Production | Filmed Marketing | Film Exploitation/Distribution | Film Programming | Content Acquisition | Cinema Management | Movie Promotions | Strategy Development | Developing Film, Production, Cinema Process and Systems | Cinema Tactical Marketing | Brand Building | Advertising | Cinema Launch | Corporate Communications | PR | Event Management | Visual Merchandising | Merchandise Development and Promotion
Archana is part of the leadership team at upGrad, which is a high-growth EdTech promoted by Ronnie Screwvala. It is positioned to be a disruptive leaders in EdTech and towards curating human capital to serve the future. The company has been awarded the ‘Best Tech for Education’ by IAMAI in 2019. upGrad also received the ‘Best Education Brands’ award by Economic Times and has made it to LinkedIn’s ‘Top 25 Start-ups’ two years in a row in 2018 and 2019.
Archana comes with over 18 years of professional experience with a strong focus on creativity, context and commercial goals spread across all mediums and formats of media : Print, Digital, Television & Live Events including CNBC TV 18 & The Economic Times. She is experienced at front ending brand outreach projects as well as managing seamless backend processes. Skilled to deliver original content and creative ideas, she has created and managed end-to-end content and communication marketing projects. Rich B2B experience, hands on working experience with SMEs and start-up eco-system globally, Archana has the distinguished career with highlights including being invited by the Rashtrapati Bhavan to curate Global Innovation roundtable and being part of international forums along with being the force and face of ET Digital Transformation Series in her past assignments. Highly networked professional with strong connects with industry influencers, academia and policy makers, she believes education and technology when combined has the potential to change the future and fortune of Bharat & India. She promotes learning for all and learning as a way of life to stay relevant amidst technological disruption and economic upheavals.
Jatin Chhikara is an experienced marketer, strategist & creative thinker with over 13 years of multi-faceted experience of working as a brand strategist, advertiser, digital marketer, entrepreneur, project manager and process improver. He has gained hands-on expertise to lead multi-disciplinary projects in digital transformation of brands, brand experiences & marketing strategies.
A passionate consumer marketer and business enthusiast with 2 decades of experience across consumer goods sector with companies like Pepsico, Bayer, Nerolac & Currently working as Business Director – Luxury Grooming at Raymonds. He has played a key role in building PARK AVENUE as one of India’s foremost Male Grooming brands at Raymonds. Apart from consumer marketing, he loves watching movies in multiple languages
Vidyut Patra is Associate Vice President, Special Projects, WWM Group. Having joined Worldwide Media in 2013, Vidyut in his current role is responsible to extend the brand proposition of the titles and create monetizable original content (fiction & non-fiction) for TV & digital while overseeing all business operations and leading cross functional teams. With a deep understanding of creative businesses, his strengths lie in incubating & managing new businesses and projects that help meet long & short term objectives of the organization.
An alumnus of the reputed Bournemouth Media School, UK, Vidyut has spent over 13 years in the Media and Entertainment industry. Starting his career with brands like Radio Mirchi & Channel V, Vidyut went on to become the brand manager for 9XM. He later moved on to a content solution role at MTV and also spent time heading events and client servicing for them. Post his stint at Viacom 18, he further went on to take up leadership roles; beginning with heading the Mumbai station for Red FM and then as the Business Head of Femina Believe.
Coming from a strong broadcasting background, Patra’s forte lies in brand development, content creation, strategy & revenue.
Angad Bhatia is a part of the senior leadership team at Times Internet. He is the Founder of MensXP and the COO of TIL’s emerging media track called Indiatimes Lifestyle Network. At Times Internet, he founded the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network which includes Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot etc. and led it through an explosive growth phase, from 5 million to over 40 million unique users in 18 months. ILN is a youth and new media collective that is built around the social web. In December 2016, Indiatimes.com was
ranked the world’s most engaged brand on Facebook ahead of Fox, CNN, Nytimes, Huffington-Post, Buzzfeed, etc.
Archana is part of the leadership team at upGrad, which is a high-growth EdTech promoted by Ronnie Screwvala. It is positioned to be a disruptive leaders in EdTech and towards curating human capital to serve the future. The company has been awarded the ‘Best Tech for Education’ by IAMAI in 2019. upGrad also received the ‘Best Education Brands’ award by Economic Times and has made it to LinkedIn’s ‘Top 25 Start-ups’ two years in a row in 2018 and 2019.
Archana comes with over 18 years of professional experience with a strong focus on creativity, context and commercial goals spread across all mediums and formats of media : Print, Digital, Television & Live Events including CNBC TV 18 & The Economic Times. She is experienced at front ending brand outreach projects as well as managing seamless backend processes. Skilled to deliver original content and creative ideas, she has created and managed end-to-end content and communication marketing projects. Rich B2B experience, hands on working experience with SMEs and start-up eco-system globally, Archana has the distinguished career with highlights including being invited by the Rashtrapati Bhavan to curate Global Innovation roundtable and being part of international forums along with being the force and face of ET Digital Transformation Series in her past assignments. Highly networked professional with strong connects with industry influencers, academia and policy makers, she believes education and technology when combined has the potential to change the future and fortune of Bharat & India. She promotes learning for all and learning as a way of life to stay relevant amidst technological disruption and economic upheavals.
As Group CMO, Manav looks after both Eros Now and the studio business. He is responsible for brand, consumer growth & retention, talent, trade and PR across both these businesses. In his earlier role he was founder CMO for ALTBalaji, India’s first SVOD OTT platform which broke the notion that Indians don’t pay for content.
In his last role at Getit he launched multiple businesses and brands in India and Malaysia across Yellow pages, Horizontal Marketplace and verticals like grocery and furniture, mobile wallet and a merchant lending platform.
At Reliance Big Entertainment, he was the founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from Justdial. He was also part of founding co worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG.
In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs.
He has formal education in Management and Law.
Prabhjyot Singh is a Marketing professional with 15+ years of experience in the industry. His experience spans across sectors like media houses, e-commerce and digital agencies. Currently, he is the General Manager – Marketing & Digital, Strategic Planning, Events & Content at ShowBox – National 24×7 Music TV Channel.During his career, he has been responsible for the launch campaigns, media buying, budget allocation, overall growth of the companies, scaling up the e-commerce business through digital mediums, generating new revenue streams and strategic planning for the new business development. Worked on several expansion plans in entertainment media, digital, publishing, OTT.
18 years of work-experience in Corporate Strategy, Business Planning, Consumer Insights & Analytics across industries in marquee organizations.
As a part of the top management team in South Asia, shaped strategy and drove key business decisions in the entrepreneurial initiatives of Discovery Network in India.
Recommended the strategy for Discovery Kids’ channel (DKids) relaunch which zoomed ~500% since then. Created and executing strategic plan for further growth of DKids and DTamil Channel.
Pioneered the use of Data Analytics in Star TV Network as a means for identifying key opportunity areas for organic growth and cutting costs. Recommended (1) strategy to increase the network share by plugging-in consumer and content whitespaces, (2) strategy to increase rural penetration (new channel) and (3) closure of Channel V as a Youth Entertainment Channel.
Conceptualized cloud-based database as a first step towards big data platform that aimed to integrate various data sources for better measurement (viewership), content feedback and advertiser metrics in addition to reducing data extraction time by 90%. Led the creation of mobile app for bringing all this data graphically to everyone’s fingertip for quick decision making across functions.
As a part of Chairman’s office at RIL, program managed the Strategy & execution for Content acquisition for Jio.
At Times Internet, evaluated business plans, recommended cost saving (USD 10 Mn) and value creation measures (Additional revenue ~ USD 5 Mn) that included rejig of Auto (Zigwheels) and shutting down of unprofitable businesses –Email and Shopping. Evaluated multiple potential equity investments. Was a founding member of TLabs, a mentorship based Startup Accelerator by Times Group. Closed funding for 10 startups in Batch 1 & 2.
• Senior Professional, with eighteen years of experience in feature Film/Tv Productions.
• Director for an Indo-Swedish Production film “Boy In Bollywood”.
• Screenwriter for feature films “Hum Tum Shabana” and Jia aur Jia”.
• Five-minute feature director for nonfiction Tv shows.
• Pre-Wedding film director for India’s biggest wedding filming “Ram Bherwani Productions”.
• Strong leader with motivational management style and reputation for building and retaining highly motivated film Production teams and networks.
• Results-oriented achiever with a successful track record for completion of films, Tv projects on schedule; within budgets.
• Established relations with key players, strategic partners and significant talents from the Indian Film Industry.
• Expertise in all filmmaking aspects having hands on experience on all pre-production, on floor filming and postproduction on all size of films and Tv fiction / non-fiction shows.
OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN LEADERSHIP ROLES ACROSS A&R, CREATIVE CONTENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT.
Have grown the ranks in the business of media and entertainment, an area I am extremely passionate about. Have held leadership roles with proven and established organisations , India and globally.
A sharp and proven business acumen and a keen eye for winning content , discovering and launching music talent in India have been my core strengths. Some of the biggest names and IPs in the Indian music business have been my contribution over the years.
My areas of specialisations over the years have been:
*Content- Across music, television, radio & films.
*Sharp acumen for growth riders.
• Film Director
• Content Creator
• Film Marketing, Distribution & Sales Consultant
• Develop Strategies for Film Marketing & Release
• Trade & Studio Networking
• Script Analyser from Commercial Apect
• Chairman Events, IFTDA, Indian Film & TV Directors Association
• Written & Directed ‘7 HOURS TO GO’ (June 2016), ‘MICKEY VIRUS’ (Oct 2013) and Solid Patels (Unreleased)
21 years of experience in: Content Creation | Production | Filmed Marketing | Film Exploitation/Distribution | Film Programming | Content Acquisition | Cinema Management | Movie Promotions | Strategy Development | Developing Film, Production, Cinema Process and Systems | Cinema Tactical Marketing | Brand Building | Advertising | Cinema Launch | Corporate Communications | PR | Event Management | Visual Merchandising | Merchandise Development and Promotion
Binda has over 15 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Intellegence & Consumer Analytics. She comes with a deep understanding of the Indian media and entertainment space and has led marketing campaigns across categories for different markets. She has been awarded by BBC Knowledge as one of ‘the Greatest Marketing Influencers of 2017.
She currently heads marketing for Red Chilies Entertainment and is responsible for customer loyalty and creating business opportunities across platforms. She has led 360 degree campaigns for wide range of movies like Dilwale, Raees, Dear Zingagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Ittefaq, Zero and ongoing projects like Badla.
She has also led the marketing initiatives for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2016, developed the #AmiKKR campaign, which deeply resonated with the fans. KKR became the first team to have an exclusive television show, called ‘Knight Club’ on Star Sports and the fan engagement rate on social media not just surpassed other IPL teams, but also long established teams with global following like Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.
During her stint at Star India, she has steered strategic projects for their Hindi, Regional and English Entertainment channels. She was instrumental in developing campaigns such as ‘Rishta wahi, Soch nayi’ for Star Plus, which catapulted the brand back to its leadership position, ‘Cholo Paltai’ as the war cry for Star Jalsha launch in West Bengal, which connected with the audience at a personal level and took the channel to the #1 position and ‘Watch with the World’ for Star World Premiere’s launch, which created a paradigm shift in TV viewing trends in India.
Angad Bhatia is a part of the senior leadership team at Times Internet. He is the Founder of
MensXP and the COO of TIL’s emerging media track called Indiatimes Lifestyle Network.
At Times Internet, he founded the Indiatimes Lifestyle Network which includes
Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot etc. and led it through an explosive growth
phase, from 5 million to over 40 million unique users in 18 months. ILN is a youth and new
media collective that is built around the social web. In December 2016, Indiatimes.com was
ranked the world’s most engaged brand on Facebook ahead of Fox, CNN, Nytimes,
Huffington-Post, Buzzfeed, etc.
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