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Updated: Disney Restructuring After UTV Buy; Vishal Gondal To Head Digital

Update: The Walt Disney Company, India, has officially confirmed the restructuring of the company's digital business. The new division - DisneyUTV Digital, will combine the businesses and talent from Disney, UTV and Indiagames. All content and brands from Disney, Marvel, UTV, bindass, as well as original content and games, will now be developed and managed by DisneyUTV Digital. Vishal Gondal and Samir Bangara, will both serve as Managing Directors, taking charge of the division. As per the company, DisneyUTV Digital team will manage all mobile, video, audio, broadband, ITV, games and virtual world’s initiatives. MediaNama had exclusively reported the company's restructuring plans, in June. The structuring within the digital division will be as follows: - Cyril Ferry - Executive Director – Mobile - Sameer Pitalwalla – Director - Video and Celebrity - Lavina Tauro – Director - Audio and Music - Deepak Ail - Director – Mobile - Hrishi Oberoi – Director - Games Publishing - Saishree Ashwin – Manager - Virtual Worlds - Tejraj Parab - Business Head - Games on Demand - Dushyant Saraswat – Director - Broadband & 4G initiatives - Sachin Janghel – Director - ITV - Aji Joseph – Director - Ad Sales 7th June 2012: Post the amalgamation of UTV and Disney, the UTV portfolio of digital businesses - Gaming, Audio and Mobile - is set to be a majority part of Disney India's Digital portfolio: the operations of UTV Interactive, UTV's gaming businesses including Indiagames and Disney Interactive are being combined under the Disney…

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