Vishal Gondal to move on from Indiagames and DisneyUTV

Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO of Indiagames and Managing Director, Digital of Disney UTV, is moving on from the company. His last working day is June 30, 2013. Sameer Ganapathy, who was earlier handling distribution for the media business of Disney UTV, will now take on the business function for the digital arm of Disney UTV.

The digital team of Disney UTV combines all mobile, video, audio, broadband, ITV, games and virtual world’s initiatives and has a combined audience reach of over 300 million in India. All digital content across all brands, namely, Disney, Marvel, UTV, Indiagames, Bindassincluding original content for web and mobile and games will be developed and managed by this team. 

Ronnie Screwvala, MD, Disney UTV, said, “Vishal has been a great founder and CEO for Indiagames. As we consolidate the digital, mobile and web play for Disney UTV in India, we plan to build on our creative prowess and transform the digital business to be a direct to consumer, yet working closely with all our partners, telecom operators, OEMs and others. This is similar to our approach in our other verticals of movies, broadcasting and consumer products. Sameer Ganapathy brings an astute business sense and high resourcefulness to this position, which is key to meet the ever growing trajectory of the digital business in India.”

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