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Nikita Aneja joins Netflix talent team
MUMBAI: Nikita Aneja has announced on Linkedin that she is joining Netflix’s talent team as an HR business partner, effective July 2025. Aneja shared her “excitement” about the move, noting her long-standing admiration for Netflix’s innovative approach to work culture.
Prior to her move to the streaming behemoth, Aneja served as lead – HR business partner for digital biz & sports monetisation at JioHotstar for nine months. Before that, she was the head of HR at Viacom18 Sports for three years.
Her extensive career in human resources also includes a three-year, three-month stint as a senior human resources business partner at Disney Star. Aneja also spent over three years at Edelweiss Financial Services, where she held roles as a human resources business partner and manager for talent management, campus relations, and strategic HR. Her early career saw her as lead – campus recruitment & employer branding at Tata Motors and assistant manager, corporate HR at Godrej Industries Ltd.
Aneja holds an MBA in human resources management from the Goa Institute of Management (GIM), a management development programme qualification from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, and a bachelor of business administration from Jai Hind College Entrepreneurship Summit. Her appointment is set to bolster Netflix’s talent strategies in the region.
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
