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Umag Bedi, Managing Director, Adobe on CNN-IBN’s ‘CEO of Life’
MUMBAI: Continuing with its commitment to providing viewers with differentiated programming, CNN-IBN announces a one-of-its-kind series ‘CEO of LIFE’, in association with Urbana, a Lifestyle brand of Future Group. The show hosted by CNN-IBN’s Business Editor Karma Paljor, celebratesIndia’s distinguished young entrepreneurs who just not believe in driving their business but do it with a lot of passion.
In a candid conversation, Umang Bedi, Managing Director, India & South Asia, Adobe shares his experience on heading a software company while he was merely 29 years old and then on his journey. He says that age is just a number wherein, businesses are yearning for significant value add from the younger generation. Also, catch Umang reveal his passion for Golf which he believes is like meditating and finding time to be with your own self.
To know more about Umang Bedi, don’t forget to watch ‘CEO of Life’, this Saturday, November 29, 2014 @ 08:30 PM, with repeat telecasts on Sunday @ 12:30 PM & 7:30 PM, only on CNN-IBN.
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
