February 2024 – storyboard18

Zetwerk appoints Josh Foulger as president – electronics

Previously, Josh Foulger also worked with Nokia Corporation, where he spent seventeen plus years with the company.

In his new role, Josh Foulger will spearhead the consumer and electronics manufacturing segment of the company and work closely with Rahul Sharma, co-founder of Zetwerk.

In Pics: Guests arriving at Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebrations in Jamnagar

The other attendees are international pop singer Rihanna, Adam Blackstone, multi-instrumentalist and song writer, and J Brown, singer and song writer, among others. (From left to right: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, Meta's chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and international pop singer Rihanna. (Image source: Firstpost)

Notable figures from all walks of life, including business tycoons, singers, actors, and sportspersons are expected to attend the pre-wedding festivities. The guest list includes India’s top billionaires, including Gautam Adani and Sunil Bharti Mittal, mega stars from the film industry such as Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, and cricket icons from Sachin Tendulkar to MS Dhoni.

Pidilite appoints Sudhanshu Vats as MD designate; Kavinder Singh as joint MD

Commenting on the announcement, M. B. Parekh, executive chairman of Pidilite Industries, said “The appointments of Sudhanshu and Kavinder will reflect the next phase of the Pidilite leadership journey. I look forward to working with the two of them in building the Pidilite of the future." (From left to right: Sudhanshu Vats, Bharat Puri and Kavinder Singh)

Sudhanshu Vats and Kavinder Singh will take charge of Pidilite after current Managing Director, Bharat Puri’s term ends.

Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant pre-wedding festivities: Salman Khan to Rihanna, celebs arrive in Jamnagar

Several other Indian celebrities who are expected to mark their presence at the lavish event are Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Rajinikanth. Besides, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Katrina Kaif, Karan Johar, Varun Dhawan, and Shraddha Kapoor will also be adding glam to the mega event with their presence. (From top left to right: Salman Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt and Rihanna)

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan made a dashing entry for Anant and Radhika’s pre-wedding celebrations.

WPL 2024: Puma onboards Kareena Kapoor Khan, Masaba Gupta, Vineeta Singh among others to champion women athletes

In the digital film, the personalities pledged to not only come together to watch the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the stadium, but also welcomed women from all walks of life to join them and enjoy watching the game as a collective over this Ladies‘ Night.

Under this one-of-a-kind association, the selected women leaders as voices of change will be jointly attending a Women’s Premier League (WPL) match in New Delhi on March 10 for a Ladies’ Night to support and celebrate women athletes.

OTT originals in regional languages growing; will reach 50 percent of all OTT originals in 2024: Sanjay Jaju, MIB Secy

“We have close to 90 crore internet users, more than 60 crore smartphones, more than 4 crore connected TVs,” Jaju said.

At the India Digital Summit 2024, Sanjay Jaju, secretary at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, also stated that over 200 films were released on the digital platforms in the last year, including 75 films which were released directly on the digital platform without a theatrical release.

Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Snowflake as chief executive officer

Sridhar Ramaswamy started his career at Telecordia Technologies, and went on to work across Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, E.piphany, Google and Neeva.

Sridhar Ramaswamy succeeds Frank Slootman, who announced his retirement. But, he will continue to serve as chairman of the board.

Reliance and Disney deal: A media and ad powerhouse emerges in India

According to Elara’s analysis, the merger may result in improved profitability for the combined entity as there may be a reduction in employee cost, production cost and marketing costs on the TV side and content costs, particularly on the OTT side, which could contribute to a more sustainable path to profitability over the medium to long term. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Post the merger, the combined entity will command a TV, advertisement, TV subscription (excluding distributors/DTH/MSO revenue) and Total TV market share of 40 percent, 44 percent and 42 percent respectively.

Storyboard18 Visionaries: Britannia’s Varun Berry shares leadership lessons

Varun Berry talks about change and says that he has seen more change in the last two years than that in the last 35 years of his work life.

Varun Berry, Managing Director, Britannia Industries shares his leadership lessons that he learnt over the past 39 years of working at the Bangalore chapter of Storyboard18 Visionaries.

Rayomand J Patell joins Laqshya Group as group chief creative officer

Rayomand J Patell began his career at Everest Young & Rubicam, and went on to work across SSC&B Lintas, Contract India, Havas Worldwide and Idealake Information Technology Pvt. Ltd.

As group chief creative officer, Rayomand J Patell’s role will be to significantly raise the bar on creativity, effectiveness and integrated synergies.