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Entertainment and music company Pen Music has announced the appointment of Siddharth Chopra as a chief operating officer (COO). He will be leading all the revenue and business growth, according to his LinkedIn post.
The network owns TV channels BFLIX+ Movies, iLove Music and MTunes+ (to be relaunched soon).
Chopra comes with over 16 years of experience and has led teams across the spectrum of established brands and newer products in his career.
In his new role, Chopra will not only lead top-line growth but will also be responsible for scaling up business operations across functions and forming synergies to work towards organisational objectives.
Siddharth joins from Goldmines Telefilms where he was responsible for scaling up revenue from scratch to scale.
Prior to that, he was with the Times TV Network as vice president and national revenue head for the English entertainment channels Cluster. He has also worked with Turner Intl. India – HBO and the Times of India.
