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DIGISOL Appoints Krushna Garkhede as Head of Marketing
Mumbai: In a bid to strengthen its core team, DIGISOL Systems Ltd., a leading provider of IT Networking products, appoints Mr. Krushna Garkhede as Head of Marketing. In his role, Krushna will drive the company's marketing efforts to support overall strategic objectives for DIGISOL 2.0 and impel growth by focusing on market opportunities.
Announcing the appointment, Mr. Devendra Kamtekar, CEO, DIGISOL Systems said, “We are extremely delighted to welcome Krushna as Head of Marketing. With his expertise in both online and offline marketing, and deep understanding of consumer and enterprise behavior, we are confident that he will help drive the next phase of growth.”
Speaking on his new role, Mr. Krushna Garkhede, Head of Marketing said, “I am excited to join the Digisol team. It’s a privilege to work with an organization that has been digitally empowering businesses through its solution in India since 3 decades. In this role, I am excited to identify strategic opportunities that would amplify our voice and presence in the market even more, through various marketing initiatives.”
Mr. Krushna holds 12+ years of experience in Marketing. Prior to joining Digisol, he has worked with brands like Videocon Industries Ltd, Meru Mobility Tech Private Ltd, Kail Ltd (Sansui-Kelvinator) & Ion Exchange India Ltd.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
