Viacom18 Media has announced that it has appointed Sudhanshu Vats as its Group CEO, reports exchange4media. Sudhanshu Vats will be joining the group in August 2012, and will be reporting to the Viacom18 board. He will be overseeing Viacom18 businesses including Colors, Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, Sonic, Vh1, and Viacom18 Motion Pictures. Currently, Sudhanshu Vats is working as Vice President -Laundry South Asia and Global Radiant (Rin in India) at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL). Prior to handling the Rin brand, Vats managed Skin Cleansing, Launcdry & HHC, India at HUL where he was responsible for Soaps & Detergents business of Hindustan Unilever in India. At HUL he has managed FMCG brands like Surf Excel, Rin, Vim, Wheel, Lifebuoy, Lux & Lipton. He has also worked with Castrol for about 2 years, where he headed the Marketing function. Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc and the Network18 Group, and operates brands like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, Newswire18, moneycontrol.com, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, Homeshop18 and E18 amongst others. It also operates six general entertainment channels - MTV, Nickelodeon, Vh1, COLORS, SONIC, Comedy Central and film business through Viacom18 Motion Pictures. **** Olacabs has announced the appointment of Maneesh Mittal as Vice President– Operations. He will head Operations and will be responsible for building a 'world-class' operations unit that will help in effective allocation of cabs and in intricate coordination between management and technology. Prior to joining Olacabs, Maneesh Mittal served at Flipkart, a leading e-commerce player, as Vice President – Operations. At Flipkart,…
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