Amitabh Kumar

Mr Kumar is BE(Hons) in Electronics from BITS Pilani and holds PG diploma in Telecommunications Management from TEMIC Canada. Prior to this assignment at Zee, Mr. Kumar was Director of Operations of VSNL (1995-2001) and also its Acting Chairman and managing Director in 1998-99 where he had a key role in setting up India’s first Internet services nationwide. He has also been on the Board of Governors of Intelsat, and Council member of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO).

Mr Kumar was associated with Dish TV where he was one of the leaders setting up India’s First DTH operations which were launched in Oct 2003. He has been technical advisor to Dish TV. Mr Kumar was also responsible for handling all Operations of Broadcasting of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd Channels comprising of over 50 Channels for Asia and over 100 channels overseas operating across multiple satellites for over 10 years. He is also on the Board of Zee Media Corporation Ltd.

Mr Kumar continues to actively participate in Media industry and Satellite fora.