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New Delhi, Dl, In

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Mutual growth partnerships across our world-class brands, such as Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily. Inbound and outbound licensing and rights management across several use-case segments, including those around AI and GenAI. Responsible for all strategic partnerships in Southern Asia.

New Delhi Area, India

Drove the growth with over 1100 news, data, and other content assets in Australia, New Zealand, and South Asian countries, focusing on value for the product and customers.Created & implemented regional content strategy to meet broader company goals.Determined critical decision-makers in the media industry, identified needs and concerns, and presented benefits of content distribution through Dow Jones to news publishers.Successfully negotiated complex agreements with publishing partners. Worked closely with AsiaPac and global management, legal counsel, finance, product, operations, technical & sales teams.

New Delhi Area, India

Joined Dow Jones with the focus on building and maintaining the world's most compelling news and business information collection, giving customers relevant and timely information they need to be more productive and successful.Member of India Leadership Team, Dow Jones India.Responsible for acquiring new content for Dow Jones's Professional Information Business products, primarily Factiva. Negotiating complex agreements and managing relationships with news publishers in South Asia.Partnered with significant media companies in the region. Shaped key content sets to build India business cost-effectively and grow customers & partners.Conceptualized and applied cost-effective, straightforward solutions to speed up content acquisition and strategic news partnerships.

I was responsible for the growth of the content licensing business of India's prominent magazines and TV channels owned by The India Today Group.I led a team of business and operations managers, and we redefined the business strategy to achieve higher levels of efficiency in the company's content business by over 30% in a short span of just one year.Spearheaded internal content acquisition and branded content to strengthen the content portfolio.Finalized content distribution deals with major global players for new business resulting in 155% revenue growth in one year.Conceptualized and integrated automated content rights permissions model for the company.

Digital business alliances & partnerships for NDTV India, NDTV Profit, and NDTV 24X7. Created PowerPoint presentations.

Joined The Times of India Group to manage the Content Licensing and Syndication business of various group publications like The Times of India and The Economic Times, amongst others. Ensured international visibility and revenue through syndication.Initiated strategic alliances with various international business partners, such as The New York Times, Getty Images, South China Morning Post, and others, to source quality content for various Times Group publications and websites.

Lucknow Area, India

Circulation sales

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing & Information Technology

B. Com., Commerce

Senior Secondary Education, Business/Commerce, General

High School