Hinduja Group names Ashok Mansukhani as MD & CEO of media businesses

MUMBAI: Ashok Mansukhani, whole-time director of Hinduja Ventures, the holding company of the Hinduja Group’s media companies, will take-over the role of MD and CEO of Hinduja Media Group.

He will replace Tony D’Silva, who, after being with the group for over four and half years, is leaving the company to pursue other interests.

D’Silva had joined the Hinduja Group in August 2012 as President – Hinduja Ventures Limited and strategised on the Group’s media business. He went on to head it as the MD and CEO of IndusInd Media Communications and Grant Investrade. His contract has ended today.

The company said that D’Silva, in the span of nearly 5 years, had managed to overhaul the Hinduja Group’s media businesses in a very challenging and changing environment and put it on a strong platform for future growth.


“Under his leadership, the Media Business of the Group, conceived and launched the unique Headend – in – the – Sky (HITS) platform, designed to boost the digitisation of local cable operators and MSOs in the country. He and his team established the concept of prepaid model in the cable industry, contrary to the prevailing high credit extension norms that always stresses the business architecture,” the company said.