Star India appoints Nitin Bawankule as head of ad sales

Star India appoints Nitin Bawankule as head of ad sales

Currently Bawankule is associated with Google as country director-India

Nitin Bawankule

MUMBAI: Google country director – India Nitin Bawankule will be joining Star India as head of ad sales from October. Bawankule has around 25 years of experience combining digital, IT, telecom and consumer electronic space.

A source has confirmed the appointment of Bawankule in Star India to Indiantelevision.com. Prior to his role as country director - India, he was the industry director leading the E-commerce (online retail) and online classifieds (local, real estate, jobs and matrimonial), technology, education and government verticals at Google India.

Earlier, he has been the director in Dell for Asia Pacific Japan region managing software and peripherals portfolio. His earlier roles include regional sales manager at Motorola and sales manager at Whirlpool and Godrej-GE Appliances.

He has done Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Bangalore and has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Electronics from VNIT Nagpur.