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  • Delhi-based Gopal will lead all sales and marketing activities at Businessworld nationally

    BW inducts Rakesh Gopal as Director, Sales & Marketing

    By a correspondent

     

    In a bid to expand its operations, Businessworld has appointed Rakesh Gopal as Director, Sales and Marketing. Delhi-based Gopal will lead all sales and marketing activities at Businessworld nationally.

     

    Gopal joins in from DNA, where he was Vice-President, Sales. He has over two decades of experience in media sales. He has worked at Mail Today as Head -Impact for Delhi, East and South India. He was Senior Vice President at Mogae Media. He has also worked with The Pioneer and Hindustan Times.

     

    Commenting on Gopal’s appointment, Annurag Batra, Chairman, Businessworld said, “Rakesh is a seasoned media professional. His rich experience in leading sales teams, especially for print publications, will be of immense value to our various expansion programmes.”

     

  • Rakesh Gopal, who was with the India Today group, last with Mail Today, as Head – Impact for Delhi, East and South India for 3½ yrs, has joined Mogae Media as senior vice-president.

    Rakesh Gopal joins Mogae Media from India Today group

    By A Correspondent

     

    Rakesh Gopal, who was with the India Today group, last with Mail Today, as Head – Impact for Delhi, East and South India for three-and-a-half years, has joined Mogae Media as the national No. 2 for Monetisation. He will be Senior Vice-President, based at the company’s Delhi NCR headquarters.

     

    A graduate in commerce from Delhi University, with an MBA degree as well, Mr Gopal has more than 20 years of experience in media sales. His earlier stints were with The Pioneer and the Hindustan Times – where he was Manager Key Accounts (media marketing), as also with DNA where he was GM Marketing and was actively involved in DNA’s launch, one of the biggest in Indian print media.

     

    Welcoming Mr Gopal to Mogae, Ms Tanya Goyal, Executive Director, Mogae Group said, “Rakesh is a matured professional with very good client outreach. He will be one of the leaders for Mogae in monetizing mobile as a medium.”

     

    “I have spent two decades in media sales, largely in print. I see mobile as the new game-changer in the media business … which is why I am here to evangelize a new catalyst of change,” said Mr Gopal.

     

    Mogae Media is the new venture of veteran adman Mr Sandeep Goyal, focused on mobile monetization. Mogae has an exclusive tie-up with Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator. In recent weeks, Mogae has attracted Messrs Pavan Chandra (from Vivaki), AtishiPradhan (from Contract), TusharDhingra (from BIG Cinemas), and Rahul Kishore (from Zenith Optimedia) to its fold.