Mr. Amit Goenka, President - Digital Businesses & Platforms, is responsible for spearheading the digital businesses of Company which include ZEE5 (Domestic AVOD+SVOD), ZEE5 Global, SugarBox and Digital Publishing.

Amit has been extremely successful in pioneering ZEE5, the one-stop digital destination for ZEE Entertainment and catapulting the company into its next phase of growth and aggressively expanding the company's footprint in the international arena.

Prior to this role, Amit has successfully managed the technology business of the Essel Group and has played a vital role in the setting up the state-of-the-art processes in all the group companies. Amit was also awarded the esteemed Medaille d’Honneur Award at MIPTV.

Amit's first venture was Cyquator Technologies Ltd - a company which deals into web hosting and e-solutions space. His intense knack in identifying, evaluating & pursuing new business opportunities and developing market strategies was instrumental in the phenomenal success of 'Playwin' - India’s first online lottery, wherein he introduced the concept of MyPlaywin.com cards, enabling an online purchase of the lottery tickets. Furthermore, his innovative ideas gave birth to India’s first pre-paid cash cards service - ITZ Cash Card - a unique payment instrument.

With his sharp acumen and market insight, Amit directed Essel Group's foray into the servicing urban infrastructure. Titled as 'Essel Utilities', this venture has been set up to undertake distribution projects for Power, Water and Natural Gas. With his strategic approach, Amit led Essel Utilities to secure the Power Distribution Franchisee rights for key cities in India.

Mr. Anurag Bedi spearheads Zee Music Company as the Chief Business Officer. Launched in 2014, Zee Music Company is one of India’s foremost music publishing labels. Anurag is responsible for all verticals of the music label viz. Content Acquisition, Revenue Growth, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Creative & Innovation. Today, Zee Music is the No. 2 Music Label & Publisher in India with a pan-India presence across all regional languages.

Anurag has over 18 years of broadcast & entertainment and was previously associated with Star India.

Mr. Punit Misra is the President – Content and International Markets at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL). As the President, Punit oversees content for both the TV network of ZEE as well as its digital offering ZEE5, both domestically and globally. He also manages ZEEL’s international business spanning 190 countries.

Punit joined ZEEL 4 years ago as the CEO of its domestic broadcast business. Under his leadership, ZEEL became India’s fastest growing entertainment broadcast network in terms of viewership as well as revenue, and regained national leadership to become the highest All India viewership share network of India. His relentless focus on consumer centricity as well as on developing institutional strengths across the entire content ecosystem have together led to consistent and broad-based growth for the organization. One of the cornerstones of his strategy for driving growth has been to build a stronger footprint across all regional markets, driven by the belief that in story-telling, it is the lens of culture, not language alone, that is key to success in the beautiful mosaic that is India.

Prior to joining ZEEL, Punit spent 20 years at Hindustan Unilever Limited, where in his last role he was part of the Management Committee of HUL, as the Executive Director in charge of Sales and Customer Development for the company, and a member of the global Sales Leadership team of Unilever. As Punit often remarks - his journey has taken him from selling one kind of soap to another!

Punit also serves as the Chair of FICCI Broadcast Forum and Co-Chair of the CII Broadcast Committee. He is also on the Board of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the industry body for broadcasters.

Mr. Shariq Patel, Chief Business Officer – Zee Studios spearheads the Movies business of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. and is responsible for various aspects of the value chain viz. movie purchase/production as well as monetization, across all markets (Domestic & International).

Following his MBA from NMIMS, in a career of almost 25 years, Shariq has worked across industries across diverse sectors including Financial Services, Radio, Internet, Telecom, Sports Management and Film Production. As a leader in multiple management teams, Shariq has brought core business tenets and processes in multiple large organisations.

Mr. Rohit Gupta is the Chief Financial Officer at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL). A Commerce graduate from Delhi University and Chartered Accountant, Rohit has over 25 years of experience spanning across Finance & Accounts, Investor relations, M&A, Strategy, Treasury and General Management in Multi-national and Promoter led organizations across Technology and Telecom industry.

In the past, Rohit was associated with Chaudhary Group, Brightstar Telecommunications Ltd, NUT Ltd, Virgin Mobile India, Bharti Airtel, British Telecom Looksmart Ltd and Hutchison Max. His last assignment was with the Chaudhary Group, a leading corporate house with interest in Telecom and Mobiles in Nepal, wherein he led Green field roll out of Telecom Services pan Nepal as Consultant.

Mr. Animesh Kumar is the President - HR & Transformation at Zee Entertainment. He leads the people and transformation agenda for the Company and is also responsible for driving the diversity & inclusion, employer brand and the overall organizational change required to enable the ZEE 4.0 transformation. In addition, Animesh works closely and mentors the Corporate Responsibility and CSR teams internally. Animesh joined ZEE in 2018 as its Chief People Officer and under his leadership, ZEE has emerged as the Employer of Choice and one of the Top 50 Workplaces for Women in India.

With almost 30 years of experience across FMCG and Financial Services and the Media and Entertainment sectors, Animesh has led the HR function across large Indian and Multi-National Companies. In his previous stint, he was associated with the Future Group as the Chief People & Transformation Officer and prior to that, Animesh has worked with IDFC Group for almost a decade. As a member of the Executive Committee at IDFC Group, he was responsible for leading the Human Resources; Marketing; Corporate Communication and was the CEO of IDFC Foundation, driving corporate responsibility and community engagement for the Group. In his earlier stints he has worked in RBS; Standard Chartered, Thomas Cook and Marico.

Animesh has served on Boards and has worked closely with non-profit organisations helping them enhance internal capacity to increase their social impact. His interests include leading organization transformations in both, the for-profit and not for profit/social sector, improving diversity & inclusion in organizations and coaching senior leaders.

Mr. Nitin Mittal leads the Technology and Data functions for the Company and supports the digital pivot of the organization. He works closely with organization leaders and businesses to drive the tech/data transformation - lead strategic initiatives to embed technology; automation; AI/ML in all parts of the organization and drive the key shifts required for becoming a data-first organization.

Nitin has acted as a game-changer in many of his past stints - working with NPCI technology team to build the UPI framework for the country and working as the CTO of UIDAI on accelerating Aadhar coverage and launching DBT services. In addition to being a part of the team that has driven these social impact transformations, Nitin has worked in Standard Chartered; IBM, TESCO, BNY Mellon, Wipro and the Future Group. He has also founded and exited multiple companies like in deep tech, wealth tech, health tech and SME platform SOLV.

Nitin’s expertise is in creating stakeholder value using technology innovation, delivering large scale data solutions, setting-up global shared service centres, incubating global practices for business model reboot using data analytics, Big Data technologies and new business architecture. In his multiple stints he has built and scaled digital business in Retail, Finance, E-commerce, FMCG, Healthcare, Insurance sectors and in E-Governance.

Nitin is an Electronics & Telecommunication engineer from Nagpur University and an executive MBA from IIM Bangalore. Prior to joining us, Nitin was the Founder CEO & Board Members for SOLV which is company focussed on creating an open platform for B2B commerce, credit, payment, logistics and skilled workforce for the SME segment in India.

Mr. Ashish Agarwal is the Chief Compliance Officer of the Company. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He holds a Bachelor degree in Law (LLB) and a diploma in Labour Laws from Maharshi Dayanand Sarasvati University, Ajmer (Rajasthan). He is having more than 20 years of experience in the field of Company Law, Corporate Governance, Legal and Secretarial Compliances including Compliances under various SEBI Regulations. He has rich and varied experience in multiple Industries. He has worked with renowned Corporate Groups including Aditya Birla, Balwas, Essel and Reliance ADAG. He has handled various capital raising activities including Initial Public Issue (IPOs), Preferential Issue of Securities, Rights Issue, mega Corporate Restructuring activities i.e. merger, demerger, acquisition and takeover of Companies and businesses.