GOVINDRAJ ETHIRAJ
Editor-in-Chief
Govindraj Ethiraj has over 17 years of experience in Business News and current affairs. Prior to his current appointment, he was Editor (New Media) at Business Standard. He has also headed the Mumbai News Center of CNBC-TV18 from 2000 - 2005, where he was primarily responsible for broadening the content horizon of the channel - from stock markets to economy, finance and corporate news. He has previously also worked with Economic Times, Business World and Business India. In 2006, he was nominated to the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative, a joint initiative by the Aspen Institute, Colorado and the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute

PRANJAL SHARMA
Executive Editor
In his 16-year long career as an economic journalist, Pranjal Sharma has been involved with various aspects of the media. He has previously worked with English newspapers, magazines, and news channels and has presented, produced and directed business news shows in English and Hindi. Pranjal has a Bachelors degree in economics from Delhi University and a Post Graduate diploma in media from the Times Centre for Media Studies, Delhi. He has also taken a mid-career course in media from the University of Westminster, London and has been a recipient of the News Television Award 2007 for Best Business Show and Best Business News Anchor in Hindi.

MINI MENON
Senior Editor & Head of News Features
Mini Menon has hosted and produced flagship news programs on TVi (Business India), STAR TV, CNBC TV18 and Times Now. Over the last 10 years, she has presented and reported extensively on both business and political news and has a strong sense of the visual medium. She has been honored with the Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence and the Zee Astitva Award for Journalism. Mini is a graduate in History from St Stephens College, Delhi University and has received professional training of broadcast news in India & U.K

GEORGE CHERIAN
Banking Editor
George Cherian has closely tracked the Banking & Financial Services sector for more than 11 years. He began his career in 1996 with Business Standard in Kolkata as a Banking Correspondent and subsequently moved to Mumbai where he did a short stint with The Financial Express before moving on to The Economic Times (ET) in 1999. As Asst Corporate Editor at ET, in addition to covering the banking space, he was also responsible for coverage of the corporate news. In 2004, he moved to the corporate sector and after spending a little over three years with HSBC and Deutsche Bank has now returned to journalism.

HINDOL SENGUPTA
Editor, Lifestyle
Hindol has written for the AP, Reuters, IANS, BBC World Service and the Newsweek magazine. He moved to UTVi from Network18 where he anchored primetime news, anchored and produced special features and led fashion and luxury coverage. He wrote the first book on the Indian fashion industry, Indian Fashion (Pearson Plc, 2005). His new book Ramp Up on the business of Indian fashion is due in spring 2009. Hindol has studied journalism at Delhi University and mass communication at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia.

VIKRAM OZA
Editor- Interactive Features
Vikram Oza has been a part of the media space for over a decade - straddling radio, TV and print. Apart from stints as correspondent and producer with lifestyle programmes such as Amul India Show on Star Plus, Body and Soul on Star One and Diabolical on Zee Trendz, Vikram has assisted in the production of Asia Today on BBC World in London. He has also written and directed documentary films on a wide range of themes for the United Nations, BBC, HelpAge India and various state governments.

RAHUL ARORA
Assistant Stocks Editor
A student of economics from Denison University in Ohio, Rahul worked with Citigroup’s Primerica Financial Services in Chicago as a Financial Planner. On moving back to India he worked as a Research Analyst with PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance on projects spanning Mergers & Acquisitions, Non Performing Loan Valuations and Advisory Services. Post PwC, Rahul worked with UBS Investment Banking in Mumbai. At UBS he was on the team that successfully completed the ADR listing of ICICI Bank and was actively involved on projects that spanned Fund raising via ECBs and FCCBs for various clients. Before joining UTVi, Rahul worked with CNBC-TV18 as the Anchor for prime time shows, in addition to actively tracking sectors such as Real Estate, FMCG, Textiles & Retail.

TINA TANDON
Assistant Editor - Logo
Tina Tandon has been covering advertising and marketing trends for more than 7 years. Her programming and reporting experience includes working as a Correspondent in Brand Equity and Corporate Dossier (The Economic Times), and as a retail, real estate, advertising and marketing reporter for CNBC-TV18's news bulletins. She has also anchored a host of special features across topics like Sports and Infrastructure and has also extensively covered International Advertising Festivals like the Cannes Lions and Ad Asia. Before her current assignment, she was the Producer of an award winning feature show Storyboard. At UTVi, she has conceptualized the ad and marketing show LOGO. Apart from anchoring LOGO, she will also present the prime time evening news bulletins.

SURABHI UPADHYAY
Principal Correspondent
Surabhi Upadhyay has been associated with the print and broadcast medium for six years. A gold medallist in Mass Communication from Delhi University she began her career with the Times of India, New Delhi as a city reporter in 2002, and then moved on to CNBC TV 18 in 2004. After covering economic policy in Delhi for over a year in CNBC, she moved to Mumbai and covered corporate news - of the textile, retail and real estate sectors. Surabhi also anchored live market shows and bulletins on CNBC - a role she continued with, at her next assignment at Times Now. Prior to her current assignment Surabhi was co-anchoring Times Now's prime time 9'oclock show THE NEWSHOUR along with Arnab Goswami.

SHRUTI RUPAREL PANDIT
Sr Research Analyst
Shruti has done an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff with a specialisation in International Finance & Strategy. After a short stint with Seagram Asia Pacific in Singapore she moved back to India with Ernst & Young. Her time as a senior consultant with Ernst & Young was spent helping media companies map the strategic environment they function in, identifying potential partnerships or acquisitions. Shruti loves the thrill of the financial markets and has done a BSE certification course on Futures & Options. Apart from tracking the ups & downs of the stock market, she spends time playing chess or reading.

TANEIA BHARDWAJ
Senior Correspondent
Taneia has been tracking the consumer space for the last four years – both as a journalist and research analyst. A literature major from Delhi University, Taneia did a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Xavier’s Institute of Communications. She began her career in journalism with CNBC-TV18, reporting on the retail and FMCG space. She was also involved with feature programming. In 2007 she joined Ormax Consulting, a boutique qualitative research firm, where too she focused on the retail and FMCG sectors.

ELAN DUTTA
Sr Producer, Desk
Elan Dutta has been associated with news- both business and current affairs -for the last 6 years. A student of St Xavier’s College, she went onto host and produce shows in Headlines Today and Times Now before joining UTVi. Her last assignment included hosting the flagship Reuters World Report on Times Now, the highest rated international news show on Indian TV. In her free time, Elan likes to travel and write.

RADHIKA BAJAJ
Producer
Radhika Bajaj has over 5 years of experience in print and television journalism with leading media houses in the country including TvToday Network, where she has spent a large part of her career so far. With domain expertise in entertainment, films and lifestyle, Radhika has produced, hosted and managed many leading entertainment based shows for Headlines Today & Aaj Tak and been the face of lifestyle reporting for Headlines Today. She has also been a general news anchor for the network. Radhika has a degree in Journalism from Lady Shriram College in New Delhi.