Sameer Pitalwalla, Director (Video & Celebrity) for Disney India, has quit Disney India. This was first reported by TechCircle. Speaking to Medianama, Pitalwalla said that Friday (June 28, 2013) will be his last day at Disney, although he will be working with the company as a consultant until Disney finds a replacement for him. Going forward, Pitalwalla plans to launch a startup in the digital video space and is partnering with Venkat P, a partner product manager at YouTube US for this venture. While Pitalwalla declined to disclose any specific information on this venture, he said that this startup will include a significant technology and content part to it. Pitalwalla has also raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a VC firm for this venture but didn't disclose any further details on this investment. Pitalwalla had joined Disney in January 2011 and was responsible for the company's digital video, celebrity, applications and social media initiatives. These include the launch of UTV Stars App, Bindaas Jukebook Facebook App, and freemium apps like UTV, Disney, Comedy and Devotional for Nokia phones among others. DisneyUTV had also inked an exclusive deal with Electronic Arts to distribute EA mobile games in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh regions last November and inked a tie-up with Gameloft to distribute their mobile games in India in September 2012. Prior to this, Pitalwalla was the business head of Times Internet's* digital celebrity division Follo.co.in and digital video division. He was also the business head of the online video division of Times Television Network and was responsible for all mobile, interactive TV and web businesses for…
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