Uday Shankar re-elected president of IBF for second term

NEW DELHI: Star India chief executive officer Uday Shankar has been re-elected president of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for the second term.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd MD and CEO Punit Goenka was elected treasurer. Times Television Network MD and CEO Sunil Lulla, who had been treasurer until now, was elected as the vice-president in the 12th Annual General Meeting.

The only change in the Board is that Madhavan of Asianet has been co-opted in place of G Krishnan, who had quit TV Today recently.

Earlier in the day, during the 12th Annual General Meeting, the following were elected as members of the Board of Directors for 2011-12:

1. Uday Shankar
2. Sunil Lulla

3. Punit Goenka
4. Network 18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla
5. Eenadu TV director I Venkat
6. Dish TV MD Jawahar Goel
7. MM TV director Jayant M. Mathew
8. NDTV executive vice chairman KVL Narayan Rao
9. Multi Screen Media CEO Man Jit Singh

10. Star CJ Network CEO Paritosh Joshi
11. India TV chairman Rajat Sharma
12. Siddharth Jain, Vice President & General Manager (Distribution & Business Operations), Turner International India & South Asia

In the subsequent Board meeting, the Board co-opted the following Directors to the IBF Board:

1. Asianet Communications MD K Madhavan
2. Sri Adhikari Bros. vice chairman & MD Markand Adhikari
3. Colors CEO Raj Nayak

It was decided that the following members would be special invitees in the IBF Board of Directors meetings:

1. Turner General Entertainment Network VP and GM Monica Tata

2. ESPN Star Sports MD Manu Sawhney