Ajay Vidyasagar

Ajay Vidyasagar
Born 1969
India
Nationality India
Occupation Regional Director, APAC
Employer Google Inc.
Known for Management of Media and Entertainment

Ajay Vidyasagar (born 1969 in India) is an experienced executive in the TV and online video industry. He studied Economics in the University of Madras and obtained two post-graduate certificates from the Indian School of Business. He is linguistic in English and several Indian languages, namely Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.

Career

Ajay started as an account manager at Oglivy & Advertising. He progressed quickly to become the President of Star India Pte Ltd[1] and was awarded STAR Employee of the year in 1997, and STAR Achiever of the year in 2002. He then became the Chief Operating Officer of Sun Network in 2009,[2][3][4] one of the most profitable broadcaster in Asia. Under his leadership, Sun TV launched successful shows such as Robot, starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan opposite Rajinikanth.[5] Sun Network also joined Network18 Group to form a new distribution company[6] Sun 18 Media Services which today distributes 32 channels in India.

After quitting Sun TV he joined Google as regional head and based out of Singapore since 2011. He is leading its New Product & Solutions function for YouTube and the Google Video Network in the Asia Pacific.[7][8]

Awards

Presentations

2007, Seven things that shaped the Indian Television Industry, at event by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India

2013, Move People to Choose your Brand with Youtube, keynote address at Think with Google in Seoul

2008, India Conference at Harvard Business School[10]

References

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