Ajay Chacko, 38years, is President of AETN18 Media, ajoint venture between AETN and Network18. He is responsible for the day-to-day operational, strategic and financial management of the joint venture and its suite of channels and services.

Ajay has been with the group for over 8 years now. In his earlier role, he was responsible for new products and revenue lines on CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz& Forbes India. Through his leadership of the brand and programming strategy for the channels and the magazine, Ajay has been instrumental in their ascendance as market leading media brands in the country. Ajay also led the group’s efforts in the business media domain apart from managing the operations and P&L of TV18 properties. Prior to joining the group, Ajay worked in financial services and media for over a decade. His earlier stints were with IL&FS (Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, India) and he has also been part of the start-up team at Sharekhan. He started his career in the Indian Express Group where he worked in different capacities.

Ajay is a Management Graduate from the Dept. of Management Studies, University of Pune. He also has a post management qualification from IIM Bangalore.

Ajit Singh Vig, 40 years, is the EVP – HR, Network18 and Head – HR, News Network. He has over 15 years work experience in the field of Human Resource Management. Ajit has a diverse experience spanning Information Technology, Engineering, Financial Services, BPO & Travel/ Logistics industries. He has had stints with companies like GE, Citigroup, Kale and Gati. His core strength is HR Strategy with focus on Execution, Process Excellence, Organization Development, Employee Engagement and Team Building. In his last assignment he was HR Head of the GE Consumer Finance Servicing business’s operations centres in India, Philippines and Guatemala.

He is a Top Rank Holder of Delhi University in the undergraduate degree in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, a PGDBM in HR from IILM, Delhi and a Law Graduate from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University.

Anil Srivastava, 56 years, is the Senior Vice President - Corporate Affairs & Company Secretary of the Network18 Group. He has extensive experience in handling public issues, corporate laws, legal, finance, foreign exchange, Trade mark, Information & Broadcasting matters in career spanning over 29 years in organizations such as Kitply Industries (1984 - 1991), Lifeline Injects (1991 - 1993), Phoenix Group (1993 - 1998).

At Network18 he has been instrumental in raising of funds through Public, Rights Issues as well as debt funding. He played an active role in the restructuring of the Group and has handled a number of due diligence processes for the group companies. As a senior management person in Network18, he is responsible for managing the public issues & secretarial matters, finance, strategy related matters including Intellectual Property related matters across the Group apart from dealing with Information & Broadcasting Ministry. He manages the affairs of 3 Indian Listed companies and a large number of closely held companies including foreign companies.

He is an alumnus of University of Delhi (graduating batch of 1976), Post Graduate in Commerce and a Fellow member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a law graduate.

Anil Uniyal, 40 years,joined the Group in 2001. Prior to his appointment as the CEO of the CNBC Channels, Anil was leading the commercial arm of the Group, Network18 Media with responsibilities for driving the top line for the CNBC Channels and Forbes India. He has played a leadership role in building different revenue verticals for Network18, from inventory sales to setting up the customized solutions business. As the CEO, Anil is responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of India's No.1 business news network.

Anil is a Graduate from Delhi University & a Post Graduate in Marketing.

Kshipra Jatana is Group General Counsel for Network18. Kshipra oversees legal operations and regulatory matters for all group businesses and joint ventures including A+E Networks | TV18, Viacom18, HomeShop18 and Indiacast. Earlier Kshipra has been Head, Legal for the Group’s news networks and General Counsel at Capital18, the group’s investment arm where she was responsible for deal structuring, legal and compliance for its portfolio investments. Kshipra brings with her 17 years of work experience in the legal advisory and corporate law space. Prior to joining Network18, she was the General Counsel/Head of M&A at MIH India and has also worked with Star TV and AZB & Partners in the past. She holds a degree in law & sociology from the University of Delhi.

Dilip Venkatraman, 46 years, is the Chief Executive Officer of CNN-IBN. Dilip is responsible for the strategic, financial and operational management of India’s No. 1 English News Channel. In his earlier role he was responsible for all marketing operations for all existing and upcoming IBN channels & managing the overall operations of IBN Focus the alternative media solutions unit that develops context for brands through customized content, using a 360 degrees approach. He is also responsible for all brand communication for our corporate brand. Dilip has over 21 years of corporate experience, of which 3 years were in the US. Prior to joining ibn18 Broadcast Ltd. (formerly GBN), he held key positions at India Today and the Zee Network. He was the Head of Brand Management at Zee News and the President of Marketing for Dish TV. He also spent over a year as the CEO of Pugmarks, a technology company. The CNN-IBN Indian of the Year, Real Heroes, IBN7 Diamond States Awards, Citizen Journalist Awards and IBN7 Super Idols are some of the awards conceived by him. He has to his credit the introduction of the first sms short code in Indian Television on a nationwide basis. He is also the man behind the Zee News LED News tickers that won him the coveted 'Indian Marketing Award'.

He is a Graduate in Public Administration, and has completed his management Programme from IIM Bangalore, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, Boston.

Lakshmi Narasimhan, 44 years, is Chief Executive Officer of Web18. Prior to this, he was the CEO for the Magazine Publishing Business at Infomedia18. He started his career with HTA (now re-christened J.Walter Thompson) as a Media Planner. He was a part of the team which started up HTA Fulcrum, the AOR for Unilever in India in 1995. Post his stint with Madison as Head of the Coca Cola AOR, he returned to HTA in the late 2000 as the Head of Buying on the Unilever business. Prior to joining Network18, Lakshmi was the National Director of the central trading group with Group M (the media arm of WPP). In this capacity, he headed a team that was buying about Rs. 2500 crores of TV media and was instrumental in 'streamlining' the media buying process for the agency. 

He is a graduate from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University

Piyush Goyal, 37 years, is President- Network Development & Distribution. He heads the Distribution arm of Network18 group, Setpro18 Distribution Limited. Piyush has been closely associated with the Media Industry since 2001. He has considerable and varied experience and expertise in planning, implementation and execution of distribution and placement strategies on various platforms. He had earlier proven his credentials by successful launch of NDTV’s 3 news channels during his stint at NDTV. Currently, at Setpro18, he leads a team of 50 professionals, handling distribution of many news and non-news channels in the challenging environment. He is credited with grand launch of CNN-IBN, which grew to attain the number one position within a span of 6 weeks since its launch.

He holds a B. Tech. and a Masters in Business Administration from Nirma University, Ahmadabad.

Piyush Gupta, 40 years, is the Operations Director and CTO-Broadcast at Network 18. He is responsible for setting up the work processes and technology within the group. Prior to this role he led various projects for Network18 including designing of studios and setting up various facilities at Mumbai and NOIDA. Starting with launch of CNBC TV18, India’s first business news channel, all TV channels under the umbrella of Network18 were setup and launched under his leadership which include but not limited to CNBC Awaaz, CNN IBN, Home Shop 18 and Colors. He also maneuvered the migration of broadcast operations of Viacom channels viz MTV, Nick and vh1 from Singapore to India after yet another successful takeover of IBN7 (earlier part of Jagran Group).

He comes with rich experience of more than 17 years in the field of broadcast operations. He has been responsible for scaling up as well as setting up new verticals in Operations within the group. Starting with a small team consisting of 20-25 people in late 90s now he leads indisputably the best team having strength of 250+ professionals spread across the network. He joined Network18 in 1996 as Broadcast Engineer and has worked here since then apart from a short stint with NDTV.

He is a Graduate in Electronics from Delhi University and a member of EMPC (Electronic Media Production Centre) committee at IGNOU.

Piyush Jain, 39 years, is the Chief Operating Officer at IBN7. Prior to joining IBN7, he was with Network18 & was responsible for Corporate Development & HR. He was with the TV18 Group for 8 years before moving to IBN7. At JTV, he has been responsible for the launch of the 24-hour National Hindi Channel, Channel7 which was later branded as IBN7. Currently, he is looking after the overall operations of the channel. The channel has grown phenomenally in the last few years of its operations and is now poised to be a leading news channel in the Hindi language space.

He is an Electronics Engineer and a Post Graduate in Business Management with specialization in Marketing & IT.

Sandeep Khosla, 48 years, is the CEO of Network18 Publishing. Network 18 Publishing encompasses Business to Consumer (B2C) magazines, Business to Business (B2B) magazines and Business Directories Division (BDD).The division also conducts exhibitions, produces TV content apart from generating & publishing content for the web. As a natural extension to the magazines, the division conducts seminars, conferences and awards for diverse industries. Sandeep brings with him over 25 years of rich experience in the media industry and has been with the Network18 group for the past 2 years. Before joining the group Sandeep headed the Business Publications Division, International Marketing and Special Events & Projects group at The Indian Express. In his earlier stint at The Indian Express, Sandeep was the Head of All India Sales & Marketing, The Financial Express, Lokasatta & Screen. Sandeep is a graduate from Kanpur University & has undergone the LMI course from Mumbai.

Sanjay Dua, 45 years, has over 20 years of corporate experience of which the last 18 years have been in the media industry. Prior to joining ibn18 Broadcast Ltd. (formerly GBN), he was heading all India sales for Zee News and Zee Business. He has also worked with Bennett Coleman and Walt Disney where he was in charge of sales across their various channels in India. Along with Anil Uniyal, Sanjay is the leadership face of our client facing Sales Organization, Network18 Media Network. Sanjay's specific responsibilities include identifying and capitalizing on sales growth opportunities for the IBN Network. Having handled Ad sales for brands like ESPN, HALLMARK, Sahara with his stint at Walt Disney, Sanjay has a keen understanding of the television ad sales business across various genres.

Sanjay is a Hotel Management Graduate from Lucknow University and has undergone various executive training programs, the most recent one being from Mudra Institute Of Communications in Ahmedabad.

Sanjay Sharma, 42 Years, is the Director Operations of Network18 and COO of IBN Lokmat, the regional news channel of IBN18 and Lokmat. Sanjay had worked with NVL (NVL was the first company to provide technical support and guidance in the broadcast arena in India) for first 4 years of his career. He joined Network18 in 1994 and has been involved in each and every project which Network18 group has undertaken in the last 15 years. Sanjay is responsible for all the technical and operational related matters of the broadcast, web and print businesses of the group. He is also responsible for the business aspects of IBN Lokmat.

Sanjay has done his B.Sc. in Electronics from Delhi University.