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Times Internet strengthens its leadership team
Dipti Tandon is business head for BaaziNow while Nidhi Agarwal is head of Corporate Initiatives and Planning, TimesPoints.
In a bid to strengthen its leadership team, Times Internet announced the appointment of Dipti Tandon as business head for BaaziNow, a live video game show platform and Nidhi Agarwal as head of Corporate Initiatives and Planning. Times Internet, as a company, has over 39 businesses across news, entertainment, utilities, classifieds etc.
Gautam Sinha
Dipti Tandon
Nidhi AgarwalGautam Sinha, CEO of Times Internet, says, “Dipti (Tandon) has been leading the BaaziNow initiative right from the time of its conceptualisation. She has been the driving force in making BrainBaazi and BingoBaazi popular and technologically advanced live video game show platforms in India.”
Tandon has been with Times Internet for over thirteen years and has taken up multiple roles across various businesses of the company. She was the product head at MagicBricks and TechGig. Prior to Times Internet, Tandon was a founding member of JeevanSaathi, one of India’s digital matrimonial platforms.
Sinha adds, “Nidhi (Agarwal) brings with her a sharp strategic mind and a keen entrepreneurial spirit. She will be an asset to all our businesses in identifying new avenues of growth and creating innovative, technology-enabled solutions. To begin with, she will start her entrepreneurial journey within TIL with TimesPoints.”
Prior to joining Times Internet, Agarwal was founder and CEO of Kaaryah, a women’s apparel brand on the cusp of technology, data, and design. She has also worked in the corporate strategy teams at Honeywell International and Bain & Co., with experience across diverse industries including aerospace and defence, telecom, FMCG, and education.
Sinha further states, “Both Dipti (Tandon) and Nidhi (Agarwal) are proven leaders and entrepreneurs who have started and scaled up digital businesses successfully. They will be pivotal in driving Times Internet’s vision of shaping and defining how internet-based services get consumed and delivered in India.”