MUMBAI: He’s been at Jio Platforms Ltd (JPL) for the past three months and Gurpreet Phull has kept his joining the MDA group company low-key. Today, however, he came out and announced  on Linkedin that he is “on a new journey. This time for the larger impact, to the new revolution” as head - content & alliances, JioTV Os, Jio App Store, Jio Homes and Jio Devices.

He has been on the content distribution and alliances side for the past decade. Beginning May 2015 till February 2019 at Bharti Airtel as  lead- content alliances and acquisition strategy- DTH and mobile TV app, he was one of the founding members of Airtel Xtream. Moving on he joined Dish TV from February 2019 to November 2021 as head product marketing and content marketing strategy. He heeded the call from OTTPlay CEO & founder Avinash Mudaliar to head partnerships and growth at HT Digital Streams and he stayed there for three years until the JPL offer came his way.

However, the B.Tech and IIM-C post graduate, began his working life as a software engineer at BirlaSoft and then worked in Raymond for almost four years, first, as a senior management trainee for a year and a half ,and then straightaway in the CEO’s office as his executive assistant. He also had a nine-month spell  at Myntra which gave him exposure to the ecommerce world.