Digital Media India 2024

Andy is the Chief Executive Officer of KG Media, a media group consisting of print, broadcast, and digital platforms. As CEO, Andy is responsible to lead KG Media through a dual-transformation process:

Sannuta Raghu leads Scroll.in’s AI projects for news and journalism. Scroll’s AI Working Group is currently testing a URL-to-video tool (capable of output in English and Hindi) they’ve built over the last year, with funding from Google. They are also building two LLM-based research tools, which allow for natural language querying of Scroll’s award winning journalism as well as large datasets and documents from credible government sources. Scroll’s editorial team is also conducting experiments to test for accuracy on in-house style, summarisations, SEO, multi-language translations and bias detection.

Aroosh Chopra serves as the Owner of the prestigious Punjab Kesari Group of Newspapers. With a wealth of experience of over 13 years in the media industry, Aroosh has played a pivotal role in the success of Punjab Kesari since assuming the responsibilities of a Director within the organisation.

Suparna Singh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Frammer AI. Until recently she was the President and CEO of NDTV Group where spent 25+ years spanning across all aspects of functions – editotrial in both broadcast TV and internet, revenue and cost management. She was also a core member of team that built NDTV Convergence into India’s leading online news destination. Currently she is building Frammer AI, a unique tool for converting long form videos to short form.

As a Partner at Innovation, Juan Senor has directed projects all over the world helping news operations to re-invent their products and stay relevant with shifting audiences. He has worked and advised hundreds.

Mr. Avinash Pandey is the CEO of ABP Network. ABP Network is India’s leading
television and digital network with 4 TV channels running 24×7 on cable and
satellite, serving in 8 languages on Digital, touching a total audience of over 265
million. He has over 28 years of experience in Media, news, Advertising and Digital.

Rupa Jha is a highly driven creative media executive and editorial leader with more than twenty years’ experience of working for the BBC, in India, The UK and Nigeria. As BBC Head of India since 2016, she is building and leading the BBC’s strategically important language operation in India, which has been one of the biggest growth stories in the entire organization. She also led Nepali, Indonesia, Sinhala and Bengali services .

One of Ozone’s earliest hires, Dipti Patel joined the Publisher Services team with responsibility for building new relationships with premium publishers across the UK and beyond. As a platform built for brands by publishers, Ozone’s proprietary technology helps these publishers build more sustainable digital revenue streams, while also creating greater controls over their highly valued inventory and data assets.

Puneet Gupt is the COO of Times Internet, India’s largest digital products company, where he has the privilege of driving hyper-growth for 15+ category-leading businesses. With his early career roles in coding, product management, and growth hacking, he has learned the levers of product-led growth and leveraged them along with sales, partnerships, corp dev and M&A to drive outcomes on market share, revenue, and profitability.

Puneet holds a BTech from IIT Delhi and an executive MBA from IIM Calcutta. Additionally, he is an active angel investor in health tech, media tech, nutrition & wellness, and B2B commerce. Puneet has won numerous awards and honors, including Best Local Language Website for NavbharatTimes – 5th India Digital Awards and Best Entertainment & Lifestyle Website Service (Silver) – HappyTrips.com, among others. He loves meeting new people and hearing new perspectives.

Mayura Shreyams Kumar, Director – Digital Business at the Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Company Limited. Mathrubhumi is a Media Conglomerate involved in the publishing of the Mathrubhumi Daily and 11 other periodicals, Mathrubhumi News TV Channel, Kappa, Club FM Radio, Mathrubhumi Online and Books Division. She is a graduate in Communication & Media, Literature & Psychology, from Christ University, Bangalore, and started her Professional Career in 2017.

Later in 2018, She was appointed to the post of Director- Digital Business shouldering the responsibilities of the holistic development of all the Digital Properties of the Mathrubhumi Group. In addition to that, Mayura takes care of Club FM, [ 6 stations around Kerala and a radio station in Dubai], Kappa & Mathrubhumi Books, publishing house, are the other verticals that she handles in Mathrubhumi.

Her hobbies include Photography, Music, and Travel.

Pradeep Gairola is VP & Business Head for The Hindu Group . He has over 25 yrs of rich experience wherein he has been mostly associated with News and EdTech. Before joining The Hindu, he had worked on building subscription business for EdTech start-ups for about six years.

He started his digital journey in 1997, when internet was just making its presence felt in the world and Google was yet not launched, since then, he has worked with five startups, to learn the art and science of building businesses. His experiments with digital subscription, started in 2012, which was about one year after NY Times launched its digital subscriptions and when digital subscriptions were still in early stages of development, since then, he has been learning this evolving field, that is now widely being adopted by various industries including Publishing, FMCG, CD, Software, Fitness, Education, Apparel, Entertainment etc. His expertise lies in transforming legacy businesses to digital and in scaling up businesses

Ritvvij Parrikh is a two-time entrepreneur and investor. He is currently at Times Internet in India, leading the rollout of personalization. Prior to this, he led Editorial Products at TOI.

Tajdin Hassan is a marketer, change-maker, and author, currently serving as the Chief Business Officer at The Daily Star, the leading English daily in Bangladesh. He is also the COO of Keeron, the upskilling platform of The Daily Star. Additionally, he co-founded Stygen, an online gift shop, and co-initiated Mission Save Bangladesh, a social foundation. Tajdin is a popular speaker at several international conferences in India, Indonesia, and around the world.

Abhilash Mallick is a journalist who works as the editor of the fact-checking team at The Quint. He has close to six years of experience as a journalist and mostly works on stories at the intersection of technology and disinformation. When not debunking online disinformation, he enjoys working on investigative pieces to identify bad actors spreading online hate and propaganda.

Purva Misra is the Chief Human Resource Officer of the India Today Group of companies and the Chief Operating Officer of the India Today Media Institute. With 22 years of experience in HR strategy, operations, and management consulting, Purva was previously associated with MakeMyTrip.com as Sr. Vice President, with Max Healthcare and Max Neeman as Director HR, and with Aon-Hewitt as Principal Consultant and Asia-Pacific HR Director.

Akhand Pratap Singh is a seasoned Marketing Strategist and Revenue Expert with over 17 years of experience in Digital Revenue & Marketing, Agency management, and Government liaison across India.

Liat is a Manager with several years of experience working in consulting, technology, and venture capital in Canada, Southeast Asia, and the UK. Prior to joining FT Strategies, Liat served as a Management Consultant at Bain in the Toronto and London offices where she has worked on €500M+ org restructuring, digital transformations, and several private equity deals. She is a Toronto native who is fascinated with media polarisation and mis/disinformation.

Puneet Jain comes with 15+ years of rich corporate experience across consumer internet and management consulting. He has proven track record of building and scaling large consumer tech businesses in India as well as advising large corporates on their growth agenda.

Puneet is currently the CEO of HT Digital (2020 – till date), the digital arm of the venerable HT media group. During his stint so far, he has grown the digital news business to significant revenue and profitability levels. In this period, he scaled HT Digital’s user reach to 200mn+ monthly users, launched several new content offerings, expanded reach in the vernacular space, scaled digital subscriptions and spearheaded group’s overall digital transformation journey.

Previously, Puneet worked with Paytm as its Senior Vice President (2014 – 2020) where he built its Payment Gateway business from scratch and led the journey to market leadership. Puneet was among the earliest person in Paytm’s payments business and drove its trajectory from a few hundred transactions more than a billion transactions with value running into billions of dollars.

Puneet started his career in management consulting where he worked for more than 6 years with global firms like Accenture and Diamond Management and  Tech Consultants advising firms in areas such as New Product Launch, Revenue Enhancement, Sales Strategy, Consumer Experience etc. helping organizations drive their growth and business transformation.

Pradyuman Maheshwari is a seasoned media professional with over 35 years of experience. He has held key roles at The Indian Express, Mid-Day (as Editor and Head of Interactive Services), the Sakal group, DNA (as Senior Editor and Editorial Board member), and exchange4media.com (as Group Chief Editor).