Network18 expands leadership roles across digital, social, CTV and linear

Network18 has announced additional responsibilities for its editorial leadership across social, digital, CTV and linear platforms.

In an internal communication from Rahul Joshi, it was informed that Smriti Mehra, S Shivakumar and Mitul Sangani will now work directly with the Network18 MD & Group Editor-in-Chief. 

While Ganesh lyer and Abhinay Chauhan will continue to work with Joshi, Prabhat Chatterjee, Business Head - Forbes, and Arun Thapar, President - Content & Communication for AETN-18, will report to Smriti and drive revenue growth, marketing and product initiatives. 

Mallika Nath Handa will lead the building and scaling of special projects such as new shows and non-linear properties and will also report to Smriti. 

Jayesh Gokalgandhi, CFO for AETN18, will report to Ramesh Damani, Sidharth Newatia, CRO-ILC, will report to Mitul and scale up reach and revenue growth across the Hindi and regional language markets, with special focus on expanding Tier-II & III markets. 

Meanwhile, Pankaj Soni, Head of Marketing-ILC, will report to Mitul and work functionally with Ganesh lyer.

Joshi also said that the branded content business of Moneycontrol was being consolidated with News18 Studio. 

While Don Zarrar will now work with Shiv in the News18 Studio business, he will continue to lead his current Studio/Focus teams at Moneycontrol.

Pranav Bakshi will be taking additional charge of the international business, besides continuing to drive growth in Connected TV and Social Platforms. Naveen Mathur, who heads Revenue Management for Network18’s international business, will report to Pranav, who in turn will continue to report to Puneet Singhvi.

Rajesh Sharma, Head of Broadcast Technology & IT; Rahul Singh, Head of Events & Technical Operations; and Bhupender Bhardwaj, Head of IT Security, will now report to Puneet.

Darshil Parekh, Head-Sales Strategy, Planning & Ops, will work directly with Ramesh Damani and me. Stanley Cyril, who manages Digital Sales Operations, will report to Darshit. Darshil will now work closely with the CEOs and Business Heads. 

Jitamitra Mohanty, who leads critical viewer and audience-linked Research & Analytics function, will now work with Santosh Menon, translating data on reach and engagement into actionable insights that drive content strategy, product innovation and sustainable viewership growth.