This just in. Surya Mantha is the new CEO of Web18, TV18 group’s newly carved internet business company. Mantha will join the group in early October, sources said. He had recently quit as VP Interactive Services at Sify Ltd. He is spending his notice period there.
Mantha will have an interesting stint at Web18. The company had recently acquired three internet properties – Cricketnext.com, CompareIndia.com and web development company Urban Eye. Web18 also owns IBNLive.com, the web portal of CNN-IBN, besides other portals like Moneycontrol.com, Poweryourtrade.com, Commoditiescontrol.com and so on.
Before joining Sify last year, Mantha had spent several years at RealNetworks in Seattle, in marketing and management roles including GM of Broadband Solutions, GM of Evangelism and GM Solutions and Business Operations for the Real Broadcast Network (RBN).
Prior to Real, Mantha was a Principal at PRTM, a leading management-consulting firm for technology-based businesses in the US. Mantha started his career in the corporate research group of Xerox Corporation. Mantha earned his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Kanpur (1985 batch). He is also a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, Salt LakeCity, and an MBA from the Simon School at the University of Rochester, NY.
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