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IN10 Media Network expands senior leadership with top media executives

IN10 Media today announced the strengthening of its leadership team and confirmed the hiring of four senior media executives. The appointments are across top leadership in brands and on the network position.

Kavita Sagar, Mansi Darbar, Sourjya Mohanty and Mona Merchant
Kavita Sagar, Mansi Darbar, Sourjya Mohanty and Mona Merchant
  • Kavita Sagar, will serve as Senior Vice President - Revenue for IN10 Media. With over 19 Plus years of experience in advertising sales across genres and different markets, she has a proven track record across media giants like Start TV Network and NDTV.

  • Mansi Darbar, will serve as Vice President - Corporate Strategy and Development for IN10 Media. A media and entertainment veteran with 10 years plus of experience Ms. Darbar was also part of the core founding team of ALT Balaji where she led the Content Business Operations vertical. She was also a founding team member of ‘Applause Entertainment’, India’s first Content & IP Creation Studio by the Aditya Birla Group.

  • Sourjya Mohanty, will serve as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for EPIC On. A 15 year veteran, Mr. Mohanty last served as the Head of Business Development at Zee5. Previously he has led advertising and monetisation teams for Idea Cellular & BIG FM.

  • Mona Merchant, will serve as Head - Television for Juggernaut Productions. She has worked as a Content Creator for over 12 years with top production houses like BBC WST; Synergy Communications, BAG Films; Plus Channel, Ketan Mehta’s Maya Entertainment; Applause Entertainment on various fiction and nonfiction shows. Ms. Merchant’s has also been running the largest private archive on Indian cinema memorabilia for the last 11 years and has been doing successful exhibitions and events on cinema and has been running an image bank to several publishers, broadcasters in India and abroad.

Commenting on the announcement, Aditya Pittie, Managing Director, IN10 Media Network said, “At IN10, we are very bullish about the entertainment and media sector, and are confident that content, complemented with technology, will be at the heart of the disruption in the coming years. With this restructuring and team building, we are laying the foundation for this media of the future, and are confident that the new additions to the IN10 family will fuel our rapid expansion plans, foster long-term growth while also expanding the portfolio of our individual brands. I welcome everyone to the IN10 Media Network, and I am confident that they will chart a remarkable journey for themselves and the business.”

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