NEW DELHI: Republic TV has elevated Bhaskar Das to the role of chief strategy officer, from his role as group president, channel founder MD and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami confirmed to Indiantelevision.com in an exclusive fireside chat moderated by its founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari. 

The elevation is a part of Goswami’s bigger plans to give the reigns of major company roles in the sales and distribution space to his team, so he can focus more on his editorial responsibilities. 

Additionally, group CFO S Sundaram has been handed over the additional responsibilities as the new group president. He has played a key role in sorting the financial dealings for the group during the recent buyout of shares by Goswami. 

A few weeks earlier, Repbulic had also announced the elevation of Hersh Bhandari and Priya Mukherjee to COOs. 

Bhandari who was earlier serving as EVP (revenue) was handed over the responsibility to manage Republic Bharat as COO and Mukherjee, who was serving as president, distribution and international revenue was made COO--distribution, international revenue and OTT.

Goswami mentioned, “I have faith in my people. I think they'll do a great job and I think it was the right time for them to fly solo on their own so I can go back to what I wanted to do, after all. I didn't start Republic to sit into account and do sales. I think I'll be very free now and fantastic.”