MUMBAI: Sahara One has a new business head in senior TV executive Arpit Agarwal.

Agarwal was earlier head of strategic management advisory group (media & entertainment) in the Sahara Group chairman Subroto Roy?s office.

According to a source close to the development, Agarwal?s appointment was finalised over this weekend on 27 April.

Agarwal will report to Sahara media & entertainment head Sandeep Wadhwa.

Agrawal has over 18 years of experience in the media industry in India and the Asia Pacific region, according to his linkedin.com profile. He spent over seven years with NDTV in its creative team before moving into Singapore to work for two of the largest factual entertainment firms there Bang Singapore and VHQ TV. He returned to India as Miditech business head for a year and followed it up with a stint as head operations at Balaji Telefilms. Prior to joining Sahara in December 2011, he was head ? operations at Fremantle India.

Agarwal could not be reached before filing the report.

MUMBAI: Sahara India has appointed Arpit Agarwal as head of its Strategic Management Advisory Group (Media & Entertainment).

Sources in the company confirmed the development.

Prior to Sahara, he was head ? operations at Fremantle India Television Productions since November 2009.

Agrawal comes with over 16 years of experience in media industry in India and Asia Pacific region. He has spent over seven years in NDTV in its creative team. Later, he moved to production business. He also worked in Singapore for four years, working for Bang Singapore and VHQ TV.

In 2008, he joined Miditech as business head and later moved to Balaji Telefilms and head of operations.

Agrawal was not reachable till the filing of this report.