MUMBAI: Ashit Kukian has been promoted to the post of President, Sales at Radio City, as part of the organisation’s exercise of re-aligning the entire sales team.
Kukian has been with Radio City since 2005, when he joined the organisation, as National Head – Sales. He was currently holding charge as executive vice president and national sales head.
Praviin Belman, who was Senior Manager – Mumbai, has been promoted to General Manager and now will be in charge of Mumbai and Kolkata. He will be assisted by Jitendra Boricha of Retail business now heading the role as Deputy General Manager. The Corporate business will be handled by Ahmed Nazari. Ravi Thakur who was earlier playing the role of Senior Manager – Pune has become General Manager and within his new role he will be responsible for Pune, Nagpur and Rest of Maharashtra. Deepali Chavan has been promoted to Senior Manager, responsible for Pune –Corporate and Nagpur – Business, will continue to report to Ravi Thakur.
Vinita Bhatia who was earlier the General Manager and Market Head Delhi will lead the role of Associate Vice President and will be assisted by Firoz Ansari, who has been promoted to Deputy General Manager – Corporate Business, while Anshul Munjal has been promoted to Deputy General Manager and will be Incharge of Retail Business.
Deepa Dave –General Manager and Head of Gujarat, Lucknow and Jaipur is now Associate Vice President. Tasneem Contractor who was earlier Creative Head of Ad Sales has been promoted to General Manager.
The team has been further strengthened with the appointment of Satyanarayan Murthy, who has been roped in as South Head and will be based out of Bangalore. He will be responsible for the five south markets i.e. Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Vizag and Coimbatore.
Sitaram Prabhu has been promoted to Deputy General Manager and will be heading Bangalore, Chennai and Coimbatore markets reporting into Satyanarayan Murthy.
Kukian’s mandate is to ensure maximisation across various verticals besides regular Free Commercial Time, Radio City Connect – a dedicated full spectrum activations cell providing end-to-end 360 degree brand marketing solutions along with monitoring the brand’s in-house Creative Client Solutions Cell and Planetradiocity.com, India’s most extensive and all-inclusive music portal. He will also work closely with his team to offer clients innovative brand solutions that would allow more effective use of radio as a medium. He would also focus on the outsourced business module like Friends FM-Kolkata, and Suno lemon, Gwalior. Besides this his focus will also be on identifying newer revenue opportunities for the group.
Says Kukian, In the current market scenario, it is imperative today to offer impactful options to the clients and to redefine the service levels, besides setting new benchmarks in the industry….
In an official communiqu?©`, Radio City CEO Apurva Purohit said, It is such a delight to see Ashit becoming President – Sales now , as he has been with the organisation right from 2005 .His ability to drive and motivate his team and build value for the business is excellent. His extensive experience and knowledge of the media industry obviously helps to drive our strategy forward especially in today’s rocky times!”