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Tilt Brand Solutions appoints Paul Dueman as chief strategy officer
MUMBAI: Brand & communication consultancy, Tilt Brand Solutions has brought digital specialist Paul Dueman on board as chief strategy officer. He will replace Kedar Teny, who has moved on to pursue other opportunities.
Dueman has been one of the Industry’s first digital evangelists, with a two-decade career spent entirely in technology and digital marketing. Over that period, he has helped shape the digital narratives on businesses like Dabur, HUL, Tata Group, Maruti, Arvind Mills, Cummins and eBay India.
Tilt Brand Solutions founder chairman and MD Joseph George (Joe) said, “Full-Brained Thinking is the philosophy that drives our strategic approach; it is a seamless blend of left-brained expertise in digital and data and right brained competence in culture, behaviour and attitude. To take our strategic offering to the next level, we needed someone like Paul who is a technology and digital marketing native and specialist, and one who also understands and appreciates brands and the communication process.”
Paul Dueman said, I’m really excited to be a part of this crazily talented team. Tilt is the only brand and communications company that has appointed an out and out digital specialist as its CSO. This is reflective of Tilt’s belief and conviction in analytics and digital marketing being a core critical part of brand building and communications today. I’m looking forward to leveraging my experience in the digital space to drive and build on Tilt’s full-brained thinking philosophy and finding solutions for the challenges that our clients and brands face”.
Teny concluded, “Tilt has been and will continue to be family. I am thankful to Joe for having given me the opportunity to play a critical role in shaping a new age brand and communication consultancy. It is deeply gratifying to see how Tilt has shaped up in its first 24 months. I sign off with immense confidence that the journey ahead for Tilt is only going to be bigger and better and will always be its loudest cheerleader.”
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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.
