Raghav Bahl, 48 years, is the Founder, Controlling Shareholder and Managing Director of Network 18. Raghav began his career as a management consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co. followed by a stint with American Express Bank before he turned to his first love, media. Winner of the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 1994, Raghav has over 22 years’ experience in television and journalism. He founded TV18 (now Network18 Group) in 1993.

He has been instrumental in crafting successful Joint Ventures with such media giants as NBC Universal, Viacom, Time Warner and Forbes. In a short span of 15 years, Network18 has achieved a market capitalization in excess of USD 0.75 bn.

Raghav is a widely admired entrepreneur and was hailed as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He was also selected by Ernst & Young as 'Entrepreneur of The Year (2007) for Business Transformation'.

An Economics graduate from St. Stephens College, Raghav has done MBA from the University of Delhi.

Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri, 44 years, is Co-founder and Executive Director of the group. He started his career as an independent documentary film-maker for Doordarshan. He went on to direct and present India's first indigenously produced show for satellite television, The India Show. He also received the Onida Pinnacle Award for Excellence in Television in 1995 and a docu-drama series he directed called Bhanwar won the Jury's Choice Award for the Videocon-Screen Awards in 1999 . He has also directed quite a few music videos, corporate films, ad films, chat shows, game-shows and business shows for television. He handles programme development and design and looks after the creative and technological aspects of production for Network18. He is currently working on his first feature film.

He is an English Honours Graduate from St. Stephens College, Delhi University. He also holds a Degree in Masters in Mass Communications from the Mass Communications Research Centre.

Haresh Chawla, 41 years, has been with the Network18 Group for the last 10 years and is today the Group CEO of Network18 as well as the Viacom18 Group. With an experience spanning close to 2 decades, Haresh’s expertise lies in building viable and profitable business models around brands – by identifying opportunities, leveraging synergies across platforms, unlocking people value and then using the Network strength to fuel growth. Under his leadership and within a short span of time, both, the Network18 as well as the Viacom18 Group today reach out to more than 300 million households across platforms - television, print, films, mobile and internet.

The Network18 Group today operates India’s leading business television news services through the CNBC channels (CNBC TV18, CNBC AWAAZ), India’s leading online company WEB 18 (Portals across the content ,transaction & communication space) which is the group’s internet arm as well as India’s leading real time data & information platform, NEWSWIRE 18. The group has also established a leading presence in general news and entertainment with the IBN channels (CNN-IBN, IBN 7 and IBN-Lokmat) and the recently launched Home shopping platform with HomeShop18.

Within 18 months of conceptualising Viacom18, (Network18’s 50:50 JV with Viacom), Haresh has lead unprecedented growth to put all brands in the Viacom18 Group (MTV, Nick, Vh1 and Studio18) in leadership position, including the very successful launch of COLORS, that broke the 9-year old monopoly in the GEC space. With brands that reach out to all possible demographics, Viacom18 is today India’s leading multimedia entertainment powerhouse.

Given his style of functioning and belief in the fact that people are the most valued asset, Network18 as well as the Viacom18 Group have today become an employer of choice in their respective domains.

Haresh's previous assignments have all been with start-ups including the HCL Group, where he headed business development for HCL Comnet; ABCL, where he set up the Film Distribution Business, and at the Times of India Group where he launched their music label - Times Music.

Haresh is an IIT-Mumbai and IIM-Calcutta alumnus.

Sameer Manchanda, 48 years, is the Joint Managing Director of ibn18 Broadcast Limited. His association with the Indian Television industry spans over two decades and he has played an active role in its evolution. Sameer has varied experience and expertise in distribution, strategic & financial planning, capital structuring, mergers & acquisitions, collaborations and joint ventures encompassing all segments of the media industry.

He had started IBN18 in partnership with the Network18 Group, Rajdeep Sardesai and Haresh Chawla. In just around 3 years IBN18 has grown from a single channel company to a 7 channel diversified entertainment & news player. Prior to ibn18, he was a Director at New Delhi Television (NDTV). He is also Chairman of the cable distribution company DEN Networks Limited.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Rajdeep Sardesai, 44 years, is the Editor-in-chief of IBN network . He has 20 years of journalistic experience in print and television. Prior to setting up the IBN network channels , he was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels. He has also worked with The Times of India for over 5 years and was city editor of its mumbai edition at the age of 26. During the last 20 years, he has covered major national and international stories, specialising in national politics. He has won numerous other awards for journalistic excellence, including the prestigious Padma Shri for journalism in 2008, the international broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism award for 2007. He has won the Asian television award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy for six of the last seven years. He is presently the President of the Editors Guild of India.

He has done his Masters and LLB from Oxford University.

Vandana Malik, 50 years, is an Executive Director in the company. She started working for Network18 in 1994 as Mumbai Bureau chief. Prior to Network18, she had a brief stint with Business India group as Editorial Coordinator. At Network18, she has scripted & directed many features and profiles of various artistes for The India Show. For India Business Report, she has interviewed prominent business personalities. She also headed 18 Entertainment, a division of Network18 company.

She is a History Honours Graduate from Delhi University.

Raman Deep Singh Bawa, 58 years, is the Chief Financial Officer for the group. He has 31 years of related work experience in cash flow planning, budgeting, liaison with banks and financial institutions, handling of public issues, project implementation, taxation, secretarial and other legal matters, MIS etc. Prior to joining Network18, he has worked with BHEL, Trackparts of India Limited, Weston Components Limited and Bestavision Electronics Limited.

He is an Honours Graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and a Chartered Accountant.

B.Sai Kumar, 35 years, leads management teams across group companies and works closely with business heads to optimize business value and revenue generation. He is a core member of the group’s business strategy team and through his decade long stint has been responsible for providing operational leadership and enabling stellar organic growth across the group’s market leading brands. Sai also plays an integral role in the various inorganic forays of the group across business verticals. Prior to joining the Network18 Group, Sai was with the Times of India Group, where he worked with Times Music, Times Retail and Times FM.

He holds an MBA in Marketing and an undergraduate degree in Statistics.

Senthil Chengalvarayan, 46 years, is the President and Editorial Director of Network 18’s Business Media. In this role, Senthil heads a host of verticals which form part of the groups Business Media Ecosystem (this includes Business/Tech/Personal Finance magazines, financial portals, business wires and extensions of CNBC TV18 & CNBC Awaaz, business news on the mobile etc.).

Prior to this, Senthil was the Managing Editor of CNBC TV18. A service he helped start as its editor in 1999. As a pioneer of Business Television in India he led a team of journalists that made CNBC TV18 the most successful media network in the Country. Senthil, who has been a business journalist for over two decades, spent his early years with some of India’s leading business Dailies before joining Television Eighteen in 1994 when it was just a 30 man outfit. It was then a company pioneering the entry of private players into Television News in India. Senthil was a key participant in the effort that saw the industry break the shackles of government controlled news and grow into the phenomenon that it is today.

Senthil has been an invited speaker at a number of industry seminars. He was voted as one of India’s top 5 English news anchors by the Hindustan Times C-Fore Survey in 2007, the first Business Anchor to be included in that list. He is also a recipient of the Young Achiever Award from the Indo US Business Council.

A Graduate in Economics from Madras University, he has done his Masters in Journalism from the Times Research Foundation

Udayan Mukherjee, 37 years, is the Managing Editor of CNBC TV18. His first assignment was with United Television where he worked for four years before joining CNBC Asia as Special Markets Correspondent when they commenced operations in India. He subsequently moved to Network18 and apart from working on the daily business news bulletin, he anchors live market shows like Bazaar Morning Call and other daily and weekly shows like Corporate Radar and Taking Stock.

He is an economist, having obtained his B. Sc. in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta and M.A. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Sanjay Pugalia, 46 years, is the Editor - CNBC Awaaz. He is a journalist with 25 years of experience across leading media organizations, both print and electronic. Prior to joining Network18, he was the News Director at Star News, having helped Star TV make its successful foray in the business of new dissemination in India. He also served as the Executive Editor of Zee News and deputy Executive Producer at Aaj Tak when these channels were evolving only to redefine Hindi TV journalism later on. His earlier experience also includes stints with the Navbharat Times, the Business Standard and BBC Radio. He has covered both political as well as corporate events with utmost ease.

He has done his Graduation in Political Science & History.

Ashutosh, age 44 years, is the Managing Editor of IBN7. Prior to joining IBN7 he was the member of Aaj Tak, a leading Hindi news channel, for more than ten years. He was one of the Prime Time anchors on the channel. Other than anchoring, his real strength lies in news management on the desk as well as in the field. He has widely covered India from one corner to another, specially elections and Kashmir, that too when terrorism was at its peak in Kashmir. At IBN7, he is responsible for the overall editorial content that goes on the channel and heads a team of more than 250 journalists. He is also the only Hindi language TV journalist in independent India who was selected for Dag Hammejoldt UN Scholarship. This scholarship is given every year by UN to 4 young journalists from more than hundred third-world countries.

He is a Post Graduate in MPHIL (Soviet Studies) and MA (Philosophy & International Studies).

Surya Mantha, 46 years, is the Executive Director-Convergence for the group. He has the mandate to unlock value by leveraging the digital & community building opportunities across the Group’s TV and print brands. Straddling TV18, IBN18 & Infomedia18 media assets, the focus would be on new convergence initiatives for the Group. He has experience that spans business management, consulting, product and service development, product management & marketing across a range of business and consumer software, hardware & services companies. Within the Network, his earlier responsibility was that of CEO for Web18, the internet business of the group. Prior to joining the group, he was the Sr. Vice President-Interactive Services with Sify India. Prior to that he has worked for RealNetworks-Seattle, PRTM (a leading management-consulting firm)in US & with Xerox Corp. US.

He is a Btech from IIT Kanpur, has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Utah & an MBA from University of Rochester, New York.

Sandeep Bhargava, 43 years, is the Chief Executive Officer. He comes with a rich experience of 17 years mainly in advertising & film production. He started his career with a year's stint with Lintas and then moved on to Mudra Communications where he worked on Client Servicing and worked on various important brands. Subsequently, he spent 3 years at Bates India where he was the Associate Vice President in Kolkata. He moved into the movie business by joining UTV Pictures and was their COO for a year & a half while heading various divisions. His last assignment was with Sahara One where he was the COO for their motion pictures division for 2 years before taking up the assignment with Network18.

He is a Commerce Graduate with a MBA in Marketing & International Business from University of Akron, Ohio.

Sundeep Malhotra, 46 years, is the the Chief Executive Officer for the recently incorporated " Home Shopping Venture". Prior to joining Network18, he was the Executive Vice President Sales with PepsiCo India. In the six years with the organization, he was responsible for building & activating the fast emerging On Premise & Modern Trade sales channels for India & the Subcontinent. He was also spearheading the Key Customer relationships and building system capability to manage critical channels & relationships. Prior to Pepsi, he had a 5 year stint with Benetton India, as their GM Sales & Marketing for the Indian subcontinent and a 10 year stint with Bata India Ltd, across various functions from Brand Management to Retail Head.

He is a Graduate from Delhi University & has done his Masters from AIMA, Delhi.

Pankaj Aher, 42 years, is the Chief Executive Officer of NewsWire18. He started his career with The Financial Express in 1991. He subsequently worked with Business Standard, Dow Jones NewsWires, and BridgeNews before setting up CRISIL MarketWire and then, NewsWire18.

NewsWire18, India's first real-time news and data platform company, has found widespread acceptance among users in a short time from its launch. With customised products for different market verticals and segments, NewsWire18 has notched up a very large number of clients in two years since launch. With more banks and companies as customers than competing products, it is on the way to becoming the largest information terminal vendor in India. Under Pankaj’s leadership, NewsWire18 has the largest editorial team in the country among real-time financial news services as well as the most widespread sales presence across the country.

He has done his Masters in Political Science from the Mumbai University.

Sarbvir Singh, 38 years is the Managing Director of Capital18. Sarbvir has 14 years of global experience in investment management and business operations. He started his career with Emerson Electric in Hong Kong, responsible first for business development across Asia and then marketing in China. Subsequently, he spent five years with Citigroup in New York, where he was responsible for making investments in the global consumer sector. As the Managing Director of Capital18, Sarbvir has been responsible for identifying, investing in and scaling up ventures that meet the investment philosophy of Capital18. Over the past two years, Capital18 has emerged as one of the leading venture capital players in the media & entertainment space and is recognized as a partner of choice for high growth companies across the sector.

He holds a degree in business management from IIM Ahmedabad and is a graduate of IIT Delhi.

Farhad K Wadia, age 46 years, is the Chief Executive Officer of E18. Farhad has 25 years of rich experience in Entertainment, Events and Marketing Promotions and has successfully staged over 300 events across the World. He has also run an extremely successful Event Management Company & Sound Recording Facility in Bombay called Power Production, as the Founder CEO. He was also with Channel 4 Radio & TV Networks UAE & Ajman TV as the General Manager of the Entire Network, heading their Events, Sales & Marketing. In his last assignment, he was working with Hindustan Times in New Delhi as Vice President - Events & Marketing.

Under his stewardship E18 has completed 2 years of success the live entertainment space & BTL / Activation space . E18 also conceptualizes and executes large format business conferences, conclaves and seminars. E18 provides complete solutions for all below the line activities of corporate clients by functioning as a full service agency for corporate events - including product launches, corporate seminars, meets and conferences, retail marketing programmes, including product promotions, road shows, and display promotions, event marketing, sponsorships, barter tie-ups and event promotions.

E 18 has 3 verticals which specialize in Corporate Events, Business Conclaves / Seminars and Live Entertainment.

He is a graduate in Arts (Economics) from Elphinstone College, Mumbai & has also done a course in Sound Engineering / Music business at the Elephant & Castle Polytechnic, London.

Indrajit Gupta, 42 years, is the Editor of Network18’s forthcoming premium business magazine, which will be launched in alliance with Forbes. Before joining the group, he was the Resident Editor of the flagship edition of The Economic Times in Mumbai. He served as National Business Editor at The Times of India during the big newspaper war in Mumbai in 2005.In 1994, he switched from a career in advertising at HTA (now JWT) to join Business Standard, where he edited The Strategist, a prestigious management and marketing weekly as its Deputy Features Editor. He then joined Businessworld as part of its leadership team and played a key role in transforming BW into the country’s leading business magazine.

Indrajit was nominated for the British Chevening Fellowship for Print Journalists awarded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999.

He is an alumnus of the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and also holds a B.Com (Honours) degree from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta.

Nikhil Wagle, 50 years, is the Editor of IBN Lokmat. Nikhil entered the world of journalism in 1977. After a short stint as a freelance writer he became the editor of the very first Marathi news weekly - 'Dinank'. Nikhil is one of the youngest editors in India. He joined the Kirloskar group of publication in 1982 as Editor of their youth weekly. Later, Nikhil started his own publishing house 'Akshar Prakashan.' Nikhil in his span of career has started various magazines and daily newspapers like Shatkar, Chanderi, Mahanagar, etc. As a journalist he has covered all major events over the last 30 years. Along with this, he has anchored various TV shows. Nikhil has also published more than a hundred books in marathi.

Nikhil is a proud recipient of many National and State awards. Recently he has received the award for “Best Anchoring”. Nikhil Wagle is proud of being called “Aam Admi Ka Patrakar!”