 Mr. Raj Nayak
Designation: MD & Founder Director
Raj Nayak is one of the most respected and well-known names in the Advertising, Marketing & Media circles in India. He is known to be a thought leader and is recognised for his vision & foresight. With over 23 years of experience, he began his career with Tata Economic Consultancy Services and has since worked in various capacities both in the print & electronic media.
Raj Nayak joined NDTV as its CEO in 2003 to set up NDTV Media Limited. Under his leadership, NDTV Media soon became the leading revenue generator in the Indian Advertising Industry across television, internet and digital cinema. With over 1500 clients on board, NDTV Media today has the largest client count for an independent Indian media marketing company.
During his career he has contributed greatly to the growth of the STAR TV Group (a News Corporation company owned by Rupert Murdoch) as the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. For over 10 years, he was responsible for strategizing, packaging and marketing of all the STAR TV channels and for the group’s advertising revenue. He was a key member of the STAR TV India management committee and was also on the Board of Vijay TV & Indya.com. It’s no wonder, then that he brings with him a proven track record for revenue generation and an in depth understanding of the media industry.
AIDEM Ventures Pvt. Ltd., is his vision to be India’s largest and most respected independent Media Knowledge Process Outsourcing, Consulting, Sales & Marketing Company The company already has 10 offices with over 200 employees amongst the finest media professionals in the industry. And for those who don’t know what AIDEM means – "It’s the true reflection of MEDIA".
Raj has always been known to be thought-leader and has been respected for his vision and foresight. He is astute and sales-savvy and his biggest strength is his entrepreneurial style of functioning. He appreciates the value of long-standing relationships with agencies, clients and the talent fraternity and his ability to mingle with ease across levels and across industries is certainly unique to him.
He is also the immediate past President of the International Advertising Association (IAA) – India Chapter and is currently on its board.
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Ashok Kumar Gupta
Designation: Chairman
Ashok is the Chairman of AIDEM. He brings with him over three decades of experience most of which has been spent in leadership roles across various sectors.
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Karan Kumar Gupta
Designation: Director
Karan, son of Chairman, Ashok Kumar Gupta received his education in Virginia, USA. Having completed his B.Sc in International Finance, he has enrolled for the final semester of MBA in Corporate Finance at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. He was designated as President and Chief Analyst of the Student’s Managed Investment Portfolio of the Virginia Commonwealth University, for two consecutive years.
He has been nominated as member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, USA and International Honors Society of Financial Management Association. He is also Director of Group Housing Development Pvt. Ltd. and Gold Finger Realty Investors Pvt. Ltd.
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Mr. Suku Murti
Designation: Director
With over 25 years of experience across the media and entertainment industries in India and overseas, Suku has held various managerial and leadership positions in Media Management functions, spanning a wide spectrum of advertiser and media organisations – from multinationals like GroupM , Unilever, Colgate, JWT to successful Indian enterprises like Reliance and Eenadu. Before joining Aidem, he was Head - Media Strategy and Alliances with the Reliance ADA Group. At Aidem, Suku looks after the expansion in business operations in new geographies and verticals.
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Vikas Khanchandani
Designation: Director
Vikas is a senior media industry professional with more than 15 years of experience. After an initial stint of running his family business in Medium Enterprise Financing and Estate Management, he joined STAR TV as a key member of the Strategic Planning and Management team which worked on sales strategies for the entire Star bouquet of channels across multiple genres. After STAR TV, Vikas was part of the core leadership team which set up NDTV Media. As Senior Vice President – Advertising Sales in charge of the English and Hindi news channels of NDTV, Vikas played an important role in helping the NDTV network optimally monetize its revenue potential.
As Director of Aidem Ventures, Vikas plays the dual role of managing existing businesses of Aidem with his operational skills even while he is aggressively driving the growth agenda of Aidem which is to build a unique and valuable media sales and services company. Vikas enjoys broad and deep relationships across the marketing, advertising and media industries in India.
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Kaushal Dalal
Designation: Executive Vice President
A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Kaushal has 21 years of experience in Consulting, Strategy, managing complex projects, building new businesses/collaborations and teamwork with people across borders. Kaushal started his career with Arthur Andersen and later moved to STAR TV as Executive Vice President leading Corporate and Ad Sales Strategy and Business Development of all new businesses/transactions for India. He was also responsible for making several businesses profitable, including International Channels and Allied Revenues. He started the mobile business for STAR, one of the first in India. At Aidem, Kaushal looks after the Business Development and Strategy.
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