Mr. Sameer Manchanda is our Chairman and is also a promoter of our Company. He is a qualified chartered accountant. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has been associated with the television industry since 1984 and has considerable and varied experience and expertise in distribution; media sector operations, strategic and financial planning, capital structuring, mergers and acquisitions, collaborations and joint ventures. Mr. Manchanda also serves as the joint managing director of ibn18 Broadcast Limited. Further, Mr. Manchanda is also President of the News Broadcaster Association, the industry association for India's leading news broadcasters and was recognized as one of the top 10 Indian media executives in 2009 by the portal Indiantelevision.com.
is our Chief Executive Officer and is a post graduate in Management from S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai and holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Delhi University. He has over 14 years of experience in the media industry. Prior to joining our Company in July 2007 he had worked with SET Discovery Private Limited and Indusind Media and Communications as the general manager of Business Development. Mr. Gandhi was awarded the best distribution head for the year 2006 by the Indian Telly Awards.
is our president of operations and holds a Bachelors degree in electronics and communications from Kurukshetra University and a Masters degree in business administration from the same university. Mr. S.N. Sharma joined our Company in July 2007 and has over 23 years of experience in the media industry. He had previously worked as president northern region of Hathway Cable and Datacom Private Limited and as the, vice-president of Indusind Media and Communications.
is our president of the Digital Services and Corporate Strategy and holds a Bachelors degree in instrumentation from Bombay University and holds a post graduate diploma in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. He has over 14 years of experience in the media and management consulting sectors. Prior to joining us in January 2008, he had worked as the chief content buying and acquisition officer with Tata Sky and as vice president - business development with STAR India Private Limited.
is our Chief Technology Officer and holds a Bachelors degree in physics from Wilson College, Mumbai, and a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Computer Technology from Watumul College, Mumbai and a Masters in Marketing Management from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of Television and Internet services. Prior to joining our Company in December 2007, he was heading the technical division - Consumer Electronic Products of Tata Sky prior to which he worked as Vice President - Technology with Hathway Cable and Datacom Private Limited. He is responsible for designing and implementing the technology architecture of all cable services.
is our President of Strategy and Business Development. He holds a Masters degree in Finance and Control. He has over 15 years of considerable and varied experience and expertise in strategic and financial planning, fund raising, capital structuring, mergers and acquisitions. Azhar's experience in media sector operations has been instrumental in establishing DEN as one of the leading cable service provider in the country.
is our Chief Financial Officer. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Costs and Works Accountant and has over 13 years of experience in best international practices and domain expertise in financial systems and processes, project controllership, treasury and tax compliance. He has previously worked with Price Waterhouse and has held senior management positions at Lucent Technologies Hindustan Limited (a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, a NYSE listed corporation). Prior to joining our Company in September 2007, he was the financial controller at Tekelec Systems India Private Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Teklec, a NASDAQ listed corporation).
Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Hemant has over 15 years of rich experience as a practicing Chartered Accountant. Having expertise in providing consultancy and advisory services in financial planning, business valuations, taxation (direct & indirect), audits and accounting matters, he has been associated with NDTV, GBN (TV 18 group), ICICI Ventures, Baidyanath Group and COIM India among others. Hemant has played a pivotal role in formation and conceptualisation of DEN and its various subsidiaries and has been instrumental in obtaining various compliances and approvals for the company. He has also been supervising various Taxation (Direct & Indirect) and Corporate Law matters of the company.
