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Onsurity names Asleen Madhok as PR & corporate communications head
Mumbai: Onsurity, the tech-led monthly subscription-based employee health benefits platform has named Asleen Madhok as its public relations and corporate communications head.
Madhok is a seasoned communication professional with over 12+ years of extensive and diverse work experience across all facets of public relations including corporate communications, reputation management, internal communications, public affairs, brand communications and corporate social responsibility. She has headed several projects with her pragmatic approach by customising global strategies to create a strong regional relevance.
“We are on mission to serve Healthcare for all especially SMEs and start-ups. Asleen comes with a firm grip on the industry nuances while being in-tuned with all new developments,” stated Onsurity head of marketing and growth Samar Kagalwalla. “Our leadership team has been further strengthened with her presence as we are at an exciting juncture of our growth story and strongly believe that communication is one of the key drivers in establishing a brand’s stature.”
In previous roles, Madhok has worked with notable agencies and corporates like Adfactors PR, Alibaba and Satin Creditcare Network.
“I am intrigued to put my expertise in a cause of expanding the healthcare benefits to millions at an affordable cost,” said Asleen Madhok on her new role. “The healthcare sphere is on the cusp of a digital transformation, and I look forward to leading the communication mandate for a brand like Onsurity which is rewriting the rules of providing affordable healthcare benefits and working towards social security for gig workers.”
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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.
