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Concept BIU launches JournoLIST
Mumbai: Media monitoring service provider Concept BIU (Business Intelligence Unit) has launched JournoLIST – a unique technology solution that will allow both corporate communication desks and PR firm clients to do faster and sharper journalist relationship management (JRM).
JournoLIST is an intelligent and easy to use software interface that will offer convenience, multi-tasking and ability to maintain a centralised communications channel with journalists across the national and hyper local pockets of the country, the company said.
Endowed with SaaS (Software as a service) model, high-end data security and unlimited archiving facility, JournoLIST provides access to more than 7,000+ journalist databases from different media genres, beats, and mediums. This online software sends your press releases as per your communication plan with mass, as well as, custom mailing features to different journalists as per your ad hoc communication requirements. JournoLIST also suggests new journalist entrants, while helping to store your media list in one place. Reports on bouncing back of emails, quantitative analysis of press releases issued etc are also some of the added features of this tool.
Concept BIU CEO Ankoor Choudharri said, “Brand Relationship across stakeholders and target audiences has become a science and requires intelligent technology intervention. For the world of PR and corporate communications, journalists across media platforms are very important target audiences. JournoLIST will make the lives of PR & communication professionals easier and help them keep abreast with the fast changing media Industry. Concept BIU has always believed in customer-centric innovations and JournoLIST is yet another testimony to our client commitment.”
Some of the other salient features of the tech solution, as per the PR measurement and analytics service provider are: It filters target journalists with simple clicks, it offers multi-client press release handling solution for the benefit of PR agencies and the SaaS based technology model offers high-end data security and unlimited archiving.
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
