Indiantelevision.com Team

(12 April 2008 6:30 pm)

MUMBAI: The NaiDunia Group has announced the appointment of Arpan Chatterjee as its sales chief and marketing officer.

Chatterjee, who has had a distinguished sales and marketing career spanning over 12 years, worked with media companies in the print, new technology and internet space with the last one at CyberMedia's Online Tech Job Portal as associate VP, marketing, sales and customer support.

Welcoming Chatterjee onboard, NaiDunia group CEO and director Vinay Chhajlani said, "Arpan's well-rounded experience in print and internet space, his enthusiasm and vast customer contacts made him an ideal choice for this position as both NaiDunia and Webdunia execute an aggressive growth strategy."

Commenting on his new assignment, Chatterjee said, "The NaiDunia assignment for me this is a homecoming. The online and print properties have recoded manifold growth in the last few years. My new role allows me to leverage my experience to actively contribute to the growth plans of NaiDunia's integrated media offerings."

Webdunia, India's largest multi-lingual portal, Webdunia is present in 9 languages and offers email service in 11 languages. The traffic and users, both, at the portal have been growing at 6-8 per cent month with over 80 million page views per month.

In Chatterjee's first term with the NaiDunia group, he spent over 3 years driving sales at Webdunia between 2000 and 2004. He will be headquartered in Mumbai.