UTV’s Manish Agarwal joins Reliance Entertainment (digital) as COO

Reliance Entertainment has appointed Manish Agarwal as chief operating officer (digital). He will report to Rohit Sharma, chief executive officer, Reliance Entertainment.

Agarwal joins Reliance from UTV New Media, where he was the chief executive officer. In his new role, he will be responsible for operations across BigFlix, Bigadda.com, Zapak Digital Entertainment and Jump Games.

He has over 14 years of experience across the technology, FMCG and internet domains.

Agarwal was the marketing director at Microsoft India's Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) division before joining UTV.He has worked with Rediff.com as vice-president-marketing, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), Infosys Technologies and Reliance Power.

Agarwal holds a post-graduate degree in management from IIM Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor's degree in technology from NIT, Warangal.