Over 25 years of extensive experience across Media - Print, Radio, Digital, TV and Films in Indian and International markets in strategic, operating and leadership roles. FILMS: Founder & Managing Partner, The Storytellers Fund Building out India's first regional film fund to make films and media content in 10 Indian languages as a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) CAT-II Alternate Investment Fund(AIF). Raising Capital and working on creative film projects across languages. TV: Head - International Business Times Network (Part of the Times group, India's largest Media Conglomerate) Head the International Business at Times Network with P&L responsibility. Launched the Times TV bouquet - TIMES NOW (India's biggest English News Channel), ET NOW (India's #2 English Business News channel) and ZOOM (India's biggest Bollywood Channel) in over 100 countries on 5 continents in under 5 years. Have traveled extensively to build relationships with various distribution operators, media and marketing companies, advertising sales agencies, industry and trade bodies worldwide across North America, Europe, Australia, Middle East Asia and Africa. MEDIA STRATEGY: Head - Strategy and New Initiatives Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (The Times of India group- TV division) As part of the Strategic team, key responsibilities included the identification of opportunities in the TV broadcasting landscape in India and creation of the blueprint for expansion, working extensively with the Times Group M&A team. Was a part of the core management team that launched the business news channel, ET NOW & India's first Hollywood HD English movie channel, Movies Now and acquired cricket channel Willow TV in the USA. In 2008, re-launched the TV website www.timesnow.tv as a video news portal. RADIO: Exec. Vice President and National Sales Director Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM India's Largest Radio Station Network by Revenues Responsible for overall revenues of Radio Mirchi\'s national network of 32 radio stations and the alliance radio network of Radio Mantra. Grew the Net Revenues by 56% Y-O-Y FY' 08, making it the market leader with a 48% revenue market share. This was achieved working through a matrixed team of over 120 Sales personnel, amongst intense network competition. Created and implemented the pricing and inventory management strategy for the network, commanded the highest advertising rates in the Radio industry, higher than some TV networks. PRINT & DIGITAL: Head - Sales & Marketing www.Indiareference.com Created the revenue model for a search engine for businesses. Worked with the tech to build the search engine logic and database management system. Engaged with Consultants Arthur Andersen and key board members for the funding of the portal. Conducted seminars for SMEs in various industrial cities like Ludhiana, Nashik, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, Indore, Gurgaon and Ahmedabad to create revenues for the database portal.Conceptualized and launched new products like "email pages" as extensions of the site\'s marketing strategy. ADVERTISING: Directed the advertising agencies SSC&B Lintas and Enterprise Nexus to create effective and award-winning advertising (Abbys 1998 and D&AD 1999) marketing campaigns. SALES TRAINING: Trained the entire sales force of over 280 sales executives and 45 sales managers across 16 cities on the American 2-step selling module. Was the only Manager to be selected to be trained under Mr. Russ Wilfer, international yellow pages consultant from GTE, USA. ACADEMICS Computer Engineering degree with advance management courses and certification across disciplines. AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS Chairmans Award, Times of India group Porter Prize for Strategy Radio Mirchi "Flamethrower" Award for outstanding sales performance "Mr. Engineer" Award for being the best overall student in College . Presented by Mr. Kamal Kishore Kadam, Education Minister, Government of Maharastra Indian Army scholarship for outstanding academic performance in AISSE -CBSE certificate for being amongst the top 1% of candidates in India ETC. Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Travel, Soccer, Marathons, Scuba Diving and Swimming. Have written for Economic Times, Times of India, Business World, Business Standard (strategist) Have a personal collection of over 2000 books Have traveled to over 55 countries and lived in over 16 cities in India. Speaker at various industry forums, leading management Institutes in India and Canada. Jury at Advertising (IAA, London) and Startup events (BSE Zone Startups) Have run the IAA certified Mumbai Half marathon every year from 2011-2018. Have an Advanced Open Water Diver Certification (Level 3) with over 30 certified deep sea dives in 4 oceans. Certified as a screenplay writer with Indian Screenwriters Association in 2017.