Digital
Manika Wadhwa joins Teads as industry director
MUMBAI: Television, digital, and branded content sales – she’s done it all. And now Manika Wadhwa has transitioned to the programmatic advertising platform side. She has hopped on to Teads – a leading cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media.
As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies. For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers and content providers.
Manika has joined Teads as industry director from November 2024.
She has the pedigree: sales lead -west for ESPN Digital (ESNPcricinfo, ESPN Sports) at Disney Star India; national sales head for The Economist (at Zirca Digitla Solutions); manager – sales, monetisation, brand solutions – digital media at Sony Pictures Networks India (for SonyLiv), assistant manager digital meida – Aidem Ventures and assistant manager -NDTV India.
“Thrilled to join the team and contribute to this journey. Let’s aim for the stars!,” she said on Linkedin.
So be it!
Digital
OpenAI’s Stargate lead Peter Hoeschele exits with two senior leaders
Trio behind compute push set to join new startup amid leadership reshuffle
SAN FRANCISCO: Peter Hoeschele, a key figure behind OpenAI’s early Stargate data centre initiative, has exited the company, according to a report by The Information.
The departure is part of a broader leadership shift, with two other senior executives, Shamez Hemani and Anuj Saharan, also set to leave in the coming days. All three are expected to join the same new startup, although details about the venture remain under wraps.
The trio played a central role in OpenAI’s Stargate effort, an initiative aimed at building large-scale data centre capacity in-house to reduce reliance on external infrastructure providers. Their exits mark a notable moment for the company’s compute strategy as it continues to scale rapidly.
OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to The Information, “We’re grateful for the contributions Peter, Shamez, and Anuj have made to OpenAI and wish them the very best in what comes next.” The company also pointed to the recent appointment of Sachin Katti to lead its industrial compute organisation, signalling continuity in its infrastructure roadmap.
OpenAI has indicated that it does not plan to directly replace Hoeschele’s role, suggesting a possible restructuring of responsibilities within the team.
As competition intensifies in the race to build next-generation AI systems, leadership changes in core infrastructure teams are likely to draw close attention. For now, the spotlight shifts to what this departing trio builds next, and how OpenAI adapts as it scales its ambitions.
