Chancellor of Bennett University

Mr. Vineet Jain is the Managing Director of India’s largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, also known as the Times Group. Mr Jain has transformed the Times Group from the No 1 publishing house into India’s largest, diversified, most respected and multi-faceted media conglomerate. As Bennett, Coleman’s strategist, marketing visionary and editorial architect, he has spearheaded the Group’s highly successful forays into the internet, radio, broadcast television and outdoor media. He is also responsible for revamping the Group’s stable of daily newspapers into youthful, contemporary and cutting-edge brands with market leadership in most parts of India.

Apart from taking the Group’s flagship English daily The Times of India and its business daily The Economic Times to No 1 positions across markets in the country, Mr. Jain has widened the scope and reach of print into the metro news and lifestyle space with brands such as Mumbai Mirror, Bombay Times, Delhi Times etc, apart from forays into regional languages across the country. He has also transformed the flagship events of the company — Filmfare Awards, Femina Miss India, and The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence — into larger-than-life ground and television properties that are the toast of India’s crème de la crème. The newest offering is TOIFA or the Times of India Film Awards, which was first held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2013.His biggest contribution is to drive the Times Group aggressively into new media — internet, radio and television. In a short span of three years, Radio Mirchi and Times Now are No 1 brands in their respective domains. With the launch of ET Now in 2009 — the Times Group’s business channel, Movies Now - the English Movie channel, ZOOM - the Bollywood News channel, and the recent Romedy Now — the broadcast operations of the group have attained critical mass. Mr. Jain is also director on the board of the Press Trust of India Ltd and many of the Times Group companies. Mr. Jain is recipient of the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Award for Corporate Excellence and Indian Telly Award for his contribution to Indian TV Broadcasting Industry in 2009

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