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EDB appoints Ramesh Mamgain as VP for India & SAARC region
Mumbai: Enterprise DB (“EDB”), a leader in accelerating Postgres® in the enterprise, announced the appointment of industry veteran Ramesh Mamgain as Vice President for the India and South Asia region. This strategic move under scores EDB’s commitment to expanding its footprint across the region and empowering businesses and government entities to leverage the full potential of the world’s most advanced open-source database.
EDB VP & GM, APJ Stuart Fisher remarked, “The convergence of data and AI technologies is set to redefine India’s business landscape, unlocking new opportunities for efficiency, personalization, and growth across sectors while shaping the nation’s journey towards digital leadership. Ramesh’s expertise and leadership will be instrumental in driving our expansion efforts and serving clients across new geographies. We warmly welcome Ramesh Mamgain to the EDB family and look forward to achieving remarkable milestones together.”
Mamgain’s appointment as vice president for the India and South Asia region at EDB highlights his remarkable track record in driving business growth. With extensive experience in both large multinational corporations and mid-sized companies, Mamgain has successfully grown businesses by fivefold to over $100 million in annual revenue and more than tenfold within a span of five years. His strategic vision and proven ability to deliver outstanding results make him a valuable addition to EDB’s leadership team as they continue to expand their presence in the region.
With a wealth of experience in senior sales leadership roles covering India and South Asia, Mamgain brings invaluable insights to EDB. Commenting on his new role at EDB, Mamgain stated, “India has witnessed a remarkable surge in the adoption of open-source databases, driven by the need for scalable and cost-effective solutions. With an increasing number of enterprises embracing open -source technologies, India is poised for exponential growth in its digital infrastructure and innovation ecosystem. I am excited to join EDB and lead the region’s growth to a new era.”
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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.
