Vikram Sakhuja

Director at Jagran Prakashan

Mr. Vikram Sakhuja (59 years) is an engineer from IIT Delhi and MBA from IIM Calcutta. Mr. Sakhuja has been a Director of the Company since April 15, 2016.

Mr. Sakhuja joined Procter & Gamble in 1988 and held positions in Marketing Research and Media over a period of 8 years. He then joined Coca-Cola where in over 5 years he went on to manage the brand marketing portfolio. Mr. Sakhuja spent a year with the Star TV Network (Newscorp) setting up their marketing department as the Executive VP Marketing for India. From 2002 onwards he was with GroupM. He began his association as the Managing Director of MindShare Fulcrum, went on to become the Managing Director of MindShare South Asia and then he was the CEO of GroupM South Asia for 7 years. Thereafter, he took up global role of world-wide CEO for Maxus for two years, following which he was GroupM’s Global Strategic Development Officer, with a remit of driving data and technology deeper into the Media practice. Since 2016, he has partnered with Mr. Sam Balsara and is the Group CEO of Madison Media and OOH. Mr. Sakhuja has served on several industry body boards/ committees including ASCI, ABC, RSCI, BARC, AAAI committees with ISA, INS and IBF, and is currently Head of IRS Tech Comm, MRUC Board member, ABC Board member, BARC Disciplinary committee member, CO-chair of IBF-AAAI subcommittee on payments and Ad Club ManCom member. He has consistently been voted one of the top most influential persons in Indian Media by the Economic Times.


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Jagran Prakashan

Jagran Prakashan Limited is a media and communications company with interests in print, digital, radio, out-of-home (OOH) and activation. The Company is engaged in the business of printing and publication of newspapers and periodicals, business of radio broadcast and all other related activities through its radio channels operating under brand name Radio City 91.1 frequency modulation (FM) in India. It is also engaged in the business of providing event management services and outdoor activities. The Company publishes approximately 12 print titles in over five different languages spread across 15 states with over 100 editions. The Company's print media brands include Dainik Jagran, inext, mid-day, Nai Dunia, mid-day Gujarati, Inquilab, Sakhi, Punjabi Jagran and Jagran Josh. The Company's digital media brands include Jagran New Media, Jagran.com, Jagranjosh.com, Jagran Post, Jagran Junction and Jeetle. The Company's social initiative brand include Jagran Pehel.


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Headquarters

Kanpur, India

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5,001-10,000

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