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Onida appoints Pratyush Chinmoy as Asst GM for marketing
MUMBAI: Electronics brand Onida has appointed Pratyush Chinmoy as the assistant GM for marketing. He will report to Onida chief executive officer G Sundar.
Chinmoy joined the company on 9 August and will be based out of Mumbai and operate from the Onida House.
Chinmoy will head the marketing department with key responsibilities intended towards planning and execution of marketing strategies, brand and category management, marketing communication and working on building a strong brand presence.
Speaking on his new role, Chinmoy said to Indiantelevision.com, “At Onida I will lead the team to manage the ATL and BTL activities along with digital spends. We will create personalised campaign stories and generate more sales and revenue. My primary objective here will be to focus more on digital marketing and we are actually ahead of Samsung and other competition in terms of social presence.”
Onida was started by GL Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukhani in 1981 and has its own legacy. Excited on joining a brand like Onida, he mentioned, “Onida brand has its own legacy in India. I feel humbled to join a brand like this. The brand has grown in retail presence and we are focusing on tier II and tier III areas more. That is one of the gaps that we have identified and want to focus on.”
Pratyush is a B Tech (Chemical Engineering) from NIT Rourkela and holds an MBA in Marketing and Supply Chain from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
A quality-driven professional, he has 8+ years of experience in category marketing strategy, brand management, new product launches, market research, digital marketing, people management and customer acquisition.
He previously led teams in Asian Paints Ltd in brand management and Reliance Industries in marketing for product management.
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Ujjwal Jain steps down from PhonePe’s Share.Market to start new chapter
Founder behind WealthDesk and OpenQ exits after decade-long fintech journey
BENGALURU: Ujjwal Jain, the entrepreneur behind platforms such as WealthDesk and OpenQ, has stepped down from his role as chief executive of Share.Market, the investing platform backed by PhonePe, marking the end of a decade-long journey in India’s capital markets space.
In a reflective note, Jain described his journey from launching WealthDesk in 2016 to building a broader ecosystem that eventually became part of PhonePe. Over the years, his ventures focused on bringing data-driven investing tools and model portfolios closer to retail investors, a space that has seen rapid evolution alongside the rise of discount broking.
WealthDesk introduced curated “WealthBaskets” to simplify portfolio investing, while OpenQ expanded access to quantitative research and analytics. Both platforms were later acquired by PhonePe, forming the backbone of Share.Market, which Jain helped scale as a mass-market investing product.
Calling the experience “brutal” yet deeply fulfilling, Jain credited colleagues, investors and industry partners for shaping the journey, highlighting the role of the PhonePe team in building Share.Market into a large-scale platform.
His exit comes at a time when artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape financial services globally. Jain indicated that his next move will focus on this shift, hinting at a renewed push into the intersection of AI and capital markets.
Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, Jain worked with MSCI Inc. on index products and technology, and with D. E. Shaw India Financial Services in algorithmic trading and high-frequency systems.
While he has not disclosed specifics of his next venture, Jain framed the move not as a departure but a reset, signalling that his next chapter will aim to tackle even larger challenges in India’s evolving investment landscape.
With one chapter closed and another underway, the focus now shifts to what Jain builds next in an increasingly AI-first financial world.
