Vikas Khanchandani

Group CEO - Republic Media Network

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Vikas is a media professional & entrepreneur with 20 years of multifunctional experience working across digital, television and ad/ media technology. He is one of the few privileged media professional with varied experiences and exposure within the industry working with some of the finest media companies and evolving into an entrepreneurial role. Vikas started his media career at STAR India working directly with Raj Nayak on Sales and Marketing strategies for STAR Network of channels. Partnered with him to set up NDTV Media Ltd, the commercial arm for NDTV and drove phenomenal growth for the company creating a benchmark within the news genre and leading the category.

The news landscape continued to change and fragment whilst they continued to build the brand and innovate on monetisation. The journey with Raj Nayak continued to set up an independent Media Services business at AIDEM and then an opportunity to captain the ship through some rough weather as an entrepreneur to safer waters. Vikas and Raj managed to build a technology media services business from scratch to the leading player within the digital delivery of ad commercials, a non existent market until eBus. They also managed a successful and valuable exit from the JV to the global player IMD and retain the business as an exclusive service provider for sales and support.

The duo took some of their digital publishers partnership to build a new company called Zirca DIgital which is already a well recognized Digital services player on the supply side working with some of the finest global publishers, tools and technology.

Vikas has experiences and in depth understanding within Television, Digital and Media Technology. His current experience with Republic has been extremely fulfilling as it gives him yet another entrepreneurial opportunity to build business ground up. The ability to launch massive news operations with differentiated commercial, marketing and sales strategy has helped the business build value for shareholders within an unbelievably short time frame. Vikas feels, the future of media is convergence and the ability to monetise the audiences across multiple platforms with data and technology enabling, optimising and simplifying the experience. AI will further enable buyers of media to plan and execute efficiently.

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