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120 Media Collective bolsters senior team

The company has appointed Shilpa Ambre as Chief Financial Officer and Vishal Nongbet as Senior VP &Business Head of Sooperfly

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120 Media Collective bolsters senior team

120 Media Collective bolsters senior team

The company has appointed Shilpa Ambre as Chief Financial Officer and Vishal Nongbet as Senior VP &Business Head of Sooperfly

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | May 27, 2015

Shilpa Ambre and Vishal Nongbet Shilpa Ambre and Vishal Nongbet

The 120 Media Collective, a digitally-inclined company that creates and distributes content for audiences and brands across multiple platforms, announced yesterday two senior appointments, Shilpa Ambre, as Chief Financial Officer and Vishal Nongbet as Senior Vice-president & Business Head of their recently launched brand, Sooperfly, a joint venture with UK's Diagonal View, dedicated to the empowerment of Asia's digital video ecosystem. Both Ambre and Nongbet will be based in Mumbai and will report to Roopak Saluja, Founder & CEO, The 120 Media Collective.

While Ambre will be responsible for all Finance, Legal Affairs and Investor Relations of The 120 Media Collective and its sub-brands – Jack in the Box Worldwide, Sniper, Bang Bang Films and Sooperfly, Nongbet will be entrusted with building the Sooperfly team and business and running day to day operations including content, distribution and monetization across APAC.

A reputed corporate finance professional, Ambre comes from Komli Media, bringing in multi industry experience of 17 years in Digital Media, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES), Auditing and Financial Services. Her expertise lies in fund raising and IPO listing and mergers & acquisitions, etc. She has also worked with Hexaware Technologies for close to seven years. Her professional knowledge extends across the US, UK and Southeast Asian compliance, accounting and tax regulations.

Nongbet, with diverse experience across the media industry of more than 15 years, has held several leadership positions at The Times of India Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Webaroo and Kodak India in the past. Prior to joining Sooperfly, he was heading the India business for InMobi.

Roopak Saluja Roopak Saluja

“The company has undergone a metamorphosis of sorts over the past three years, from being a combined entity of a production company and a social media agency to one that is pushing the boundaries and blurring the lines between communications, entertainment and technology. As we embark on an ambitious growth plan over the next 36 months, bolstering our leadership team with top talent is essential. Keeping the company adequately funded and observing the highest standards of compliance and governance will be key and having someone of Shilpa's experience and capability overseeing things is of paramount importance,” said Saluja.

Commenting on Nongbet's appointment, Saluja said, “Our goal with Sooperfly is clearly to capitalize on all that we've built up over the past eight plus years – chief among which are our ability to create compelling content and our credibility with brands – to give ourselves a competitive advantage in the digital video space. Only someone of Vishal's breadth and depth of media experience, which arms him with a profound understanding of mobile and content monetization, can make a success of this.”

Ambresaid, “I am very excited to join the strong and accomplished team at The 120 Media Collective and I'm looking forward to leveraging my experience to support the rapidly growing business operations of the Company and its stakeholders.”

“While the last two decades have been all about the democratisation of content, there has never been a better time than now for advertisers to engage their audiences via owned rather than paid or earned media. Sooperfly will be looking at harnessing the immense talent in the space, building content brands direct to audiences, and finding that sweet spot between content creators and advertisers,” said Nongbet.

Additionally, Chahna Rupani, Senior Producer, Bang Bang Films, has been promoted to Executive Producer, Sniper, and will primarily be responsible for driving revenues and growth and also ensuring excellence and efficiencies for both commercials and content production. Besides, Sanket Kunde has been appointed Group Head of Production.

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