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Cyient appoints Meenu Bagla as vice president and CMO
MUMBAI: Cyient, a digital technology and engineering solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Meenu Bagla as vice president and chief marketing officer. As CMO, Bagla will be responsible for strengthening the brand reach, relevance, and advocacy to deliver accelerated business growth in new and existing markets.
Before joining Cyient, she served as the global head of marketing at Tech Mahindra. She has also held marketing leadership positions at major multinational companies, including Quinnox, Wipro, Oracle, Aditya Birla Group, and CSS Corp.
Throughout her career, Bagla has evangelised and implemented a lean marketing strategy that is fuelled by digital technologies and powerful storytelling. It has helped her transform the marketing function into digital growth engines and deliver business impact faster.
Bagla was featured among the "Top 20 Women Leaders in 2020" by Mediavataar, received the "Global Digital Marketing" award for women leadership in the industry by the World Digital Marketing Congress, and has won several marketing excellences awards for her work throughout her career.
Cyient president and COO Karthik Natarajan said, "I am very excited to welcome Meenu to Cyient as we take on the transformational journey from services to solutions. With her comprehensive and proven marketing experience across tech start-ups, mid-sized, and large IT firms, she will play a pivotal role in further building brand awareness, deepening relationships with our customers, and driving Cyient toward the next phase of growth."
He further added, "Having held global leadership roles for tech brands, and contributing to their stellar business growth in highly-matrixed business scenarios, she is a natural addition to our leadership team."
Bagla holds an MBA in marketing from the Nirma Institute of Management and has completed executive programs from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School. She is actively involved in community service through women empowerment initiatives, green programs, and social media education projects.
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Dish TV shareholders approve three independent directors
99.49 per cent vote of confidence strengthens board as company expands into connected TV, e-commerce and OTT.
MUMBAI: Dish TV has just been served a near-perfect vote of confidence and the shareholders have dished it out in style. Shareholders of the DTH operator have approved the appointment of three new Independent Directors with an overwhelming 99.49 per cent approval. The three appointees are Mr Arun Kumar Kapoor, Ms Heena Naishadh Bhatt and Mr Ashok Anant Paranjpe.
The strong mandate reflects continued investor faith in the company’s strategy, disciplined execution and long-term value creation. It comes as Dish TV focuses on stabilising its core DTH business while actively scaling new verticals connected TV platform VZY, B2B e-commerce ShopZop, and OTT service Watcho to build a more diversified and resilient growth trajectory.
Dish TV India Limited, CEO & executive director Manoj Dhobhal said, “We are encouraged by the shareholders’ approval of the appointment of the Independent Directors and sincerely thank them for their continued trust and confidence. The Board is already benefiting from the Directors’ collective experience, which will further sharpen strategic focus and support disciplined execution.”
With a fresh, strengthened board in place, Dish TV is well positioned to navigate the evolving media landscape. In a sector where every percentage point matters, a 99.49 per cent thumbs-up is the kind of ringing endorsement that suggests the company’s recipe for the future is already tasting right.
