Ajay Chacko, 33 years, is the Head - Marketing for CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. He is responsible for new products and revenue lines on CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz as well as brand and programming led initiatives. He has been with TV18 since March 2004. Prior to joining TV18, Ajay has worked in a financial services and media for over a decade. His earlier stints were with IL&FS (Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, India) where he looked after marketing for the asset management business. He has also been part of the start up team at Sharekhan (the retail broking venture promoted by SSKI, Intel, Carlyle and HSBC). 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.

Anil Srivastava, 50 years, is the Vice President Corporate Affairs & Company Secretary at TV18. Prior to joining TV18, he has worked for Companies like Kitply Indistries Limited, Phoenix International Finance Limited. He has an overall experience of more than 25 years in the field of Finance, Legal Matters, Corporate Laws, Merchant Banking etc.

He is a Post Graduate in Commerce, a Law Graduate and a Company Secretary.

Anil Uniyal, 33 years, is the National Head Sales. He has been with TV18 Group since April 2001. He has been primarily involved in Sales. He started off by taking care of Property businesses, then moved into Display Sales and was subsequently handling Zonal Sales for West and then for both, West & South. He also headed the Focus division for a while. He headed the Mumbai branch before moving into the current role. Prior to TV18, he was running his own business, Quintessence, which was into consulting, events, promotions & advertising. He also worked for Yellow Pages for a year.

He is a Graduate from Delhi University & is a Post Graduate in Marketing from Pune.

Dilip Venkatraman, 39 years, is the Director Marketing at GBN. He has over 17 years of corporate experience, of which 3 years were in the US. Prior to joining 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. In the last 6 years, he has spearheaded some of the leading initiatives in the media industry. 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.

Piyush Goyal, 31 years, is an Vice President- Distribution. Piyush has been closely associated with the Media Industry since 2001. He has considerable and varied experience and expertise in strategic and marketing planning, distribution of media across various platforms. He played a key role in distribution of NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India, when NDTV launched itself as the broadcasting house. Later on, he also proved his credentials in successful launch of NDTV Profit. And at Setpro, he took up challenge of launching of CNN-IBN, which has grown to attain the number one position within a span of 5 months since its launch.

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

Piyush Gupta, 34 years, is the General Manager of Operations at GBN. He joined TV18 in 1996 as Broadcast Engineer and has worked here since then apart from a short stint with NDTV. He is a graduate in the Electronics stream from the Delhi University and brings with him a rich and varied experience of about 14 years. He has been trained over various broadcast equipment and certified by companies such as Philips, Thomson and Harris.He is responsible for designing the entire premises at Mumbai and NOIDA including the design of the studio and procurement of all broadcast and office equipment. He oversees the day-to-day operations and broadcast of all Channels uplink from NOIDA. He heads the Technical and Administration functions, which include IT, Logistics, Engineering and Office Administration.

He is a Graduate in Electronics from Delhi University.

Piyush Jain, 34 years, is the Chief Operating Officer at IBN7. Prior to joining IBN7, he was with TV18 group & 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 which was then branded as IBN7. Currently, he is looking after the overall operations of the channel. The channel has grown phenomenally in the last 1-year 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.

Rajnath Kamath, 48 years, is the Director Sales at GBN. An expert in media sales and marketing, he has over 22 years of experience in functions ranging from product management, advertising, sales promotions, sales training and research. Prior to joining GBN, he was the Vice President and National Sales Head at NDTV. He helped NDTV attain the fastest revenue growth in the industry within a span of two years. Before that, he spent over 10 years at Star India assuming various roles and responsibilities across their Television portfolio. He also has over 10 years of invaluable experience with top media and advertising agencies such Clarion, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT and Leo Burnett where he was the Group Head for Media Planning.

He is a Post Graduate in Management Studies from Bombay University.

Rajneesh Singh, 42 years, is the Group Head Human Resources. He has around 18 years work experience in the field of Human Resources. He has varied experience spanning the Consulting, Manufacturing, Telecom, Hospitality & the FMCG industries. He has had stints with firms like Hindalco, Eicher, Hutchison Essar & Gillette. His core competencies lie in strategic HR with focus on culture building, team building, learning and employee engagement. In his last assignment with Gillette, he was in a regional role handling talent acquisition for the AMEE Asia regions.

He is a Post Graduate in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XISS, Ranchi.

Sanjay Dua, 39 years, is the Network Regional Sales Head. He has over 18 years of corporate experience, of which the last 14 years have been in the media industry. Prior to joining 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.

He 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, 36 years, is the Vice President Operations for CNBC TV18 & CNBC Awaaz. He started his career with New Video Limited (NVL) as a customer support engineer in 1990. NVL was then the sole sales and service outfit for Sony's professional broadcast equipment. During his tenure of four years at NVL he has done various projects in broadcast like setting up of post- production facilities and broadcast institutes. He also received formal training in professional broadcast equipment from Sony in Hong Kong. Sanjay quit NVL to join TV18 in 1994. Here he heads the operations and has setup a very competitive team. His job profile includes design, operations management & maintenance of the complete broadcast station.

He is a Graduate Engineer in Electronics from Delhi University.

Zubin Driver, 36 years, is the Network Creative Director for the Group. He runs 'the cell', the ultra-cool creative wing of the TV 18 group that creates promos, commercials, advertising and more for all the network brands. Prior to joining the TV 18 group, he was Creative Director of TBWA, Mumbai, where he built a creative team that serviced global as well as local brands. In his 12 years of Advertising, he also worked for India's leading agency networks like Lowe, O&M & Madison.

He is a Graduate in Economics from St. Xavier's College & has a Masters in Literature & Aesthetics.

Lakshmi Narasimhan, 38 years, is Head of Sales for Web18 and Business Head, New Ventures . He started off his career with HTA (now re-christened J.Walter Thompson) as a Media Planner. He was part of the team which started up HTA Fulcrum, the AOR for Unilever in Indi a in 1995. Post his stint with Madison as head of the Coca Cola AOR, he returned to HTA in late-2000 as head of buying on the Unilever business. Prior to joining us, Lakshmi was a national director of the central trading group with Group M (the media arm of WPP). In this capacity, he was heading a team that was buying about 2500 crores of TV media and was instrumental in large measure in 'streamling' the media buying process for the agency.

He is a graduate from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.