Rajesh Kamat elevated as COO of Viacom 18
Rajesh Kamat elevated as COO of Viacom 18
Sapna Nair | afaqs! | Mumbai, January 18, 2010
Rajesh Kamat has been elevated as the chief operating officer of Viacom 18. He was earlier chief executive officer for Colors and will continue in that role. The position of COO is a newly created one.
Viacom 18 channels comprise of Colors, MTV, VH1 and Nick. It is the joint venture between Viacom and Network18 and Colors was the first general entertainment channel launched under its umbrella.
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Prior to Colors, Kamat has worked with production house Endemol and STAR India. A graduate from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Kamat was hired by Coca Cola on campus as a management trainee in the marketing function. He spent three years there and later moved to Asiacontent and MTV’s joint venture MTV On-Line, as head, marketing.
His next destination was STAR India where he worked in the media buying and planning off-air, strategising and acquisitions functions. He later moved to Endemol as managing director and had a crucial role to play in setting up the company's India operations.
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