Vikas Handu Email & Phone Number

Noida, UP, IN

Noida Area, India

• Managing overall digital P&L with an aim to achieve business goal in terms of profitability and positioning.
• Grew traffic significantly to become the second largest Indian publisher on YouTube in News category.
• Expanded India TV Digital's network to 12th position on comScore ranking.

Noida

• Re- launched the brands Indian Express, Financial Express, Loksatta, Jansatta to enter in a league of over 100 million page views / month.
• Elevated the group from 19th to 5th position in unique visitors as per comScore ranking in News and information category.
• Enhancing profitability of the group by contributing 35% group's Digital revenue through content syndication & business development activities
• Took Entertainment & Technology vertical to No1 and No2 position in unique visitors as per comScore ranking in their respective categories.
• Created the entire Technology & Product Strategy for digital with a vision of users first approach which eventually got converted to unique user base.
• Launched Apps for all brands i.e Indian Express, Financial Express, Loksatta, Jansatta on IOS and Android Platform.

Noida

• Part of leadership team that re-established digital strategy with a responsibility of creating Product & Technology Development Strategy for India Today Group.
• Conceptualised & architectured robust technology platform (CMS ) with futuristic approach to launch India Today, Aaj Tak, Cosmo, Business Today. The CMS is padded with all technology features.
• Featured the group into top 10 players in Digital News industry as per comScore with 100% web traffic growth.
• Constructed the Mobile Apps Product & Technology strategy for the group and launched Apps for all brands i.e India Today, AajTak, Business Today, Cosmo..
• Worked with leading mobile companies like Samsung, Nokia, and Blackberry including Microsoft & Intel to make group apps available on their platform.
• Represented India Today Group at Global at Asia launch of Blackberry 10 platform at Bangkok

New Delhi Area, India

• Was part of leadership team for setting up the digital operations for the group.
• Conceptualized, planned and implemented the launch of the www.hindustantimes.com website and was part of Mindtree team, who was deploying centralized CMS for Print and Digital both.
• Launched digital arm of the group by launching HindustanTimes.com, HTCricket.com, HTTabloid.com, HTNext.com, HindustanDainik.com websites.
• Responsible for the launch of HindustanDainik.com along with local editions like Lucknow, Patna and Ranchi, etc. available on the web.
• Conducted live webcasting of the events like Leadership Initiative, launch of HTCity Food Guide, Metropolitan Model of the year 2003. Etc
• Also responsible for managing alliance partners for sending feeds. Our alliance partners include MSN, BBC, Yahoo, Cricmania, Tendercity, Sulekha, Factiva, Dialog, ZDNet, etc.

• Member of the production team and head of HTML of www.go4i.com and www.go4cricket.com. Was also responsible for all in-house developments.
• Key Technical developer for Classifieds Channel.
• Solely responsible for Go4i Shopping Channel. Job involved sourcing and coordinating partnerships with brands like Baazee.com, Musicworld.com, TSNshopping.com, etc.
• A member of task force created to identify & implement site management & eCRM solutions

New Delhi Area, India

 Key Technical developer for the development of the website www.iqlnet.com and www.iqf-india.org comprising detailed information of its activities and also featuring online FAQs. Designed and maintained database comprising detailed information of client organizations, interface organizations & key individuals. Solely responsible for development of.