Sony CEO Dasgupta quits

Kunal Dasgupta, CEO, Multi Screen Media, has resigned from the company, which operates the Hindi general entertainment channel Sony.

Speaking to Business Standard, Dasgupta, who joined Sony Entertainment Television (now Multi Screen Media) in 1995, said he was “leaving for personal reasons. The 14-year vanvaas is over and I have other plans chalked out already. I have done whatever there was to be done at Sony.”

According to a release issued by the company, chairman of the Multi Screen Media board, Man Jit Singh, has been appointed the interim CEO.

Dasgupta was among the first employees of Sony TV, a joint venture between the Japanese company Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and a bunch of Indian promoters with a stake of about 32 per cent.

 

In 2007, Dasgupta was given a two-year extension as CEO till June 2009.