Ravi Kant is an experienced professional in project management and software engineering, currently serving as Chief Project Manager at INDIA TV since June 2017. Prior roles include Senior Project Manager at hau2 and The Indian Express, as well as Technical Project Manager at The Indian Express. Earlier positions include Team Leader at 99labels.com, Senior Software Engineer at iYogi Inc., and Software Engineer roles at NDTV convergence and Ideazz Infotech Pvt Ltd. Educational qualifications include a certification in Product Strategy from the Indian Institute of Management, an MBA in IT from Punjab Technical University, and an MCPD in designing and developing applications using the MS .NET Framework from Microsoft.
INDIA TV (Independent News Service Pvt Ltd)
The rise of India TV as India’s leading news channel within a short span of its existence owes a lot to the vision of its Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma and the dedication and toil of its ever-growing team of bright news TV professionals. Rajat Sharma co-founded India TV with his wife Ritu Dhawan in April, 2004 from a swanky studio in Film City, Noida, then considered one of Asia’s largest news TV studios. In 1997, Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan set up their own production house –Independent News Service (INS), the parent company which owns India TV. In a short period, India TV has created benchmarks in innovation, impact, ratings, time spends, and viewer-support. Indeed, India TV’s newsbreaks have inspired talk shows on rival channels, Bollywood films, BBC documentaries and articles in Time Magazine, even Amul hoardings. In today’s rampant me-too-ism, India TV is, perhaps, the only Hindi news channel that is perceived as “courageous” and “different.” The channel’s No.1 position is no accident. It is the result of Mr. Sharma leading the way on the lonely path of “credibility first.” It is the result of the efforts of a self-made man who kept both his feet firmly to the ground, a journalist for whom the viewer’s interest has been paramount. India TV has state-of-the-art digital connectivity and its Broadcast Centre covers an area of more than 1,28,000 square feet in Sector 85, Noida.