Asianet News Media and Entertainment appoints Ruchir Khanna as COO

Asianet News Media and Entertainment has announced the appointment of Ruchir Khanna as chief operating officer of its digital business.

 

Khanna moves from Times Interet where he was head of product and growth. 

 

Rajesh Kalra, executive chairman, AMEL, said, "We're building a media/ent-tech company of the future - building on our strong digital brands asianetnews.com and indigomusic.com and the significant audiences of each of these brands presently. Our mission is to signficantly expand audiences of each of these brands - with more innovation, content and services. Ruchir will provide significant leadership to this mission of ours. He brings with him the experience of building and growing some of the biggest and most successful digital products in India. I am really excited about the leadership team we've built. Ruchir joins us soon after Nachiket Pantvaidya took over as MD. We are now fully geared-up in our mission to make AMEL India's leading media-entertainment tech enterprise."

 

In a career spanning close to 20 years, he has also worked with Hike Messenger, India Today Group and Yahoo.