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Media distribution veteran Anuj Gandhi has become the founder of Plug and Play Entertainment, a privately incorporated company.
Gandhi joins the company in July 2022 with his co-founder Rohit Jain.
In 2021, Gandhi was the Group CEO of IndiaCast Media Distribution, which is the content monetization arm of TV18 and Viacom18.
In July 2019, Gandhi took on an additional role at Reliance Jio as Head of Partnerships (Media)-Cable business. He was also involved in acquiring content for Jio video apps. Reliance Industries is the parent company of Network18 which owns a majority stake in TV18 and Viacom18.
Before IndiaCast, Gandhi was the CEO of India’s leading cable TV distribution company DEN Networks for almost 2 years and 7 months. He set up DEN as its Founder and CEO.
In 2002, Gandhi established MSM Discovery, which was the second-largest media aggregation business in India at that time. He served as President of MSM Discovery, which was a TV distribution JV between Sony Pictures Networks India (formerly Multi Screen Media) and Discovery Communications India, for over five years.
Gandhi has done MBA in Marketing/Marketing Management from the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.
