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Ruchi tunes in to a new beat as she joins Kuku FM as creative director
MUMBAI: If careers had soundtracks, Ruchi Singh’s would be a genre-blending chartbuster. And this week, she’s dropped her newest track: stepping into the role of creative director at Kuku FM, marking a fresh chapter in a career that has zigzagged across radio booths, newsroom floors, TV studios and now, the growing audio-streaming universe.
Ruchi joins Kuku FM in November 2025, bringing over 15 years of creative, programming, production and storytelling experience across some of India’s biggest media networks. Based between Mumbai and Bengaluru, she takes on the full-time, on-site role at a time when Kuku FM continues to expand its scripted, non-fiction and regional audio play.
Before this move, she served as assistant creative director at Zee Entertainment Enterprises ltd. from September 2023 to May 2024, where she crafted concepts, screen aesthetics and large-format content for Hindi audiences backed by expertise in After Effects and other creative tools.
Her longest stint came at Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd., where she spent 3 years and 9 months (January 2020 to September 2023) as senior programming manager, leading content strategy, programming grids and platform positioning. Prior to that, she held a similar role at Sony Pictures Networks India between August 2018 and December 2019, sharpening her chops in video production, journalism and audience-first storytelling.
Ruchi’s grounding in television dates back to her five-year run at Zee Entertainment (2013–2018) as programming manager, where she shaped content pipelines across genres and platforms. But her creative instincts stretch further back to 2012–13, when she served as assistant creative head at Dancing Water, a production house known for new-format ideation and show design.
Her early years were a whirlwind of hands-on storytelling, post-production roles, scripting, concept creation and content output across Utv Bindass, Sony (MA Exchange), and freelance projects that sharpened her eye for both narrative and execution.
But before television and OTT came calling, Ruchi cut her teeth and found her voice in radio. Between 2008 and 2010, she was an RJ and senior producer at Radio Mantra 91.9 FM in Agra, simultaneously taking on producer and RJ roles at Red FM. The high-energy world of live radio, with its creative improvisation and constant adrenaline, shaped the foundational tone of her craft. She later worked on a BBC Worldwide project with Star Plus as an assistant producer, adding international exposure to her early trajectory.
Across every chapter, her skill set remained consistent, video production, journalism, social media, concept creation, creative direction and programming, the kind of multidisciplinary toolkit that aligns naturally with the hybrid storytelling world of audio entertainment.
At Kuku FM, she steps into a role that demands inventive thinking, new-age content sensibilities and an ear for what young India wants to hear. With her experience spanning radio, TV, production, digital storytelling and network leadership, the platform is betting on her ability to elevate its creative slate across languages and genres.
For an industry veteran who has jumped formats, cracked new ideas, shaped programming blocks and led creative teams across platforms, the move to Kuku FM isn’t just a new job, it’s another remix in a career defined by reinvention.
And if her trajectory so far is any cue, this new beat is just getting started.
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
