Amitava Bhattacharya is a Chief Operating Officer at The Wall News. They possess expertise in advertising, business development, leadership, key account management, strategic planning and 28 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "Immense Energy, full of Action” That is how I would describe Amitava. Working with him closely during my Bennett days in Kolkata in 2008-2009, Amitava was instrumental in driving phenomenal growth for the Kolkata branch, in times of a recession when the rest of the company was de-growing. His thorough knowledge of the Customers, keen insight to spot opportunities, high creativity to ‘co-create’ opportunities with his clients, immense drive to capitalise on this, and great leadership to drive his team were instrumental in achieving this result. Thus his high Leadership and Managerial competencies are his major assets. He has great people skills (good balance of ideation, drive for results) as well. He will be a true asset to any organisation in a Leadership role. " and "In my capacity as the Chief People Officer of Zee Media Corporation, I was a part of the selection panel for the business role of Executive Vice President - East. The CEOs and I moved for Amitava's selection given his extensive experience in media in different roles notably roles that impacted revenue via sales and other growth vehicles. Remarkably, for someone who had to learn the ropes of the television business ground up and for the first time in his media career, Amitava quickly moved up the learning curve and delivered even in greenfield projects such as the launch of the Oriya language channel. To Amitava's credit are positive working relationships with internal peers and colleagues, team work and of course, core delivery. Under his leadership, East revenues grew over 70% over the 2014-15 FY and delivered an unprecedented EBITDA growth as well. Amitava established channel and network credibility in a difficult market, contributed to corporate initiatives and led his team to out perform competition and made them competitive in the process. All the best to Amitava in his next innings. "