MUMBAI: ETC Music vice president operations, Ashutosh has taken additional charge of the channel as its business head with effective from 3 December.

This move comes in the wake of erstwhile ETC Music business head Yogesh Radhakrishnan, moving to Dubai to look after the growing interest of Zee Networks in the overseas markets.

With a Master in Business Administration from Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, Ashutosh majored in marketing with additional papers in finance and human resource management.

He began his career as a summer intern at Cadbury Schweppes Beverages Pvt. Ltd. In 1996 he joined Zee Group as executive assistant to managing director and CEO of Zee Network.

In 1997 he took over as manager- business development and was later given the responsibility of Internet services as senior manager.

In 1999 Ashutosh moved over as group channel manager- Econnect India Ltd., which a 100 per cent subsidiary company of Zee Telefilms Limited. Later he served with Zee Telefilms Ltd. as vice president southern channels and then in the capacity of vice president  retail sales.

Since 2003, Ashutosh is deputed to ETC Networks for facilitating its effective integration into Zee Telefilms.