Sudhir Agarwal,is the Managing Director of DB Corp Ltd. He has been on the Board of Company since inception. He has approximately 30 years of experience in the printing & publishing of newspaper business and has been part of the organization for same number of years. He is responsible for our long term vision and monitoring our Company's performance and devising the overall business plans. His dynamic leadership & with clear future vision, the company has progressed to become largest read newspaper of the country, with multiple states with PAN India presence, in 3 languages. Under his aggressive leadership qualities, the company is considered as one of the fastest growing media groups by analyst and investors community, which has spread from 1 state in 1997 to 12 states in 2019, from 4 editions to 61 Editions. Under his leadership, adapting the innovative door to door contact launch process, company has achieved status of no.1 from day 1 across it's launch markets. India Today Magazine has adjudged our company in top 50 most influential business houses in 2003, followed by in 2006 and 2007.

Girish Agarwal is the Promoter Director of D B Corp Ltd (DBCL) and has been on the Board since October 1995. He has approximately 28 years of experience in the publishing business and has been with the organization for same number of years. He provides inputs on strategic aspects of sales and marketing functions at DBCL. He is also an active member of Indian Newspaper Society (INS). He holds the distinction of being the youngest chairman of INS for Madhya Pradesh region. He has also been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year, for the year 2006 in the Media & Entertainment category by Ernst & Young. Further, he has also award recipient for "Outstanding Entrepreneur" in APEA (Asia Pacific Entrepreneur awards).
Under the guidance of Mr. Agarwal, Dainik Bhaskar Group initiated various innovative marketing strategies and successfully launched campaigns like Zidd Karo Duniya Badlo, Dainik Bhaskar Bihar’ Doosra and several other 360 degree initiatives which were lauded at the industry’s highest platforms like the Abbys, ICMA and The Economic Times Shark Awards. Mr Agarwal tailored and led the campaign “Print Media is Growing” with other print stalwarts. He aggressively evangelized the power of the print medium through presentations and roadshows across the country.

Mr. Piyush Pandey (64 years) is the Non-Executive Independent Director of our Company. He has been on the Board of our Company since November 28, 2007. He has over 36 years of experience in advertising – all with Ogilvy and Mather, India. He is the only Indian to have won three Grand Prizes at the London International Advertising Awards. He was awarded the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2016 in recognition of his distinguished service in the field of advertising and communication – the first Indian to be awarded in this field. He published his first book ‘Pandeymonium’ in 2015. He was also awarded the Lion of St. Mark at the International Festival of Creativity at Cannes 2018.

Mr. Harish Bijoor has been on the Board of the Company since November 2007. He started his career with Hindustan Lever Limited (formerly known as Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd.). Currently, he is a brand-thinker and practitioner operating out of Bengaluru, India. He runs a unique boutique-consulting outfit branded ‘Harish Bijoor Consults Inc.’ Harish has spent his career across the aggressive realms of FMCG, Telecom and Consumer Durables. He has also served at Zip Telecom Ltd. and Tata Coffee Limited in varied roles in the senior management. He is an active member of different coffee forums including the Coffee Board of India. Besides, he was an active member of the sub-committee on plantations of the Planning Commission.

Mr. Ashwani Singhal has been on the Board of the Company since November 2007. He has over 33 years of experience in non-ferrous metallurgical industry. He is currently handling the global sourcing of raw materials for his business of manufacturing Aluminium Deox and Ferro Aluminium for the steel industry. He is the founder-director of ‘The Metal Recycling Association of India’ and has served as the District Chairperson - Sight First Co-ordinator of ‘The International Association of Lions Clubs District 323 A3’ Mumbai, India, 2015-16.

Anupriya Acharya, CEO, Publicis Media India is an eminent media professional with 27 years of experience in media agencies across India and Singapore. Prior to this, she has also held positions of Group CEO of Zenith Optimedia, CEO - Aegis Media Singapore, Leader - Team Unilever South Asia at Mindshare and President - The Media Edge India. She is a Jury member n key media industry awards in India and APAC and speaks frequently at key industry events. She has been felicitated by Forbes India as ‘W-Power’ Trailblazer 2018 and received ‘Beti’ FICCI FLO Gr8 Awards 2018 for Media & Advertising. She was also featured amongst Top 10 on Impact’s list of ‘50 Most Influential Women’ 2018. A Post Graduate in Chemistry from IIT - Roorkee, her interests are adventure trips, photography and interior designing.

Mr. Santosh Desai, is the Managing Director and CEO of Future Brands Limited. Before this, he was the President of McCann-Erickson, one of India's premier advertising agencies. He spent 21 years in Advertising and was strategically involved in building key brands for a range of local and multinational clients. He has been a guest lecturer at various national and international universities and has addressed the global management boards of several multinationals including Microsoft, Philips, Hershey's, Unilever, Coke and Reckitt Benckiser.

His principal area of interest lies in studying the relationship between culture and brands. An academic at heart, he writes regularly on contemporary Indian society and on subjects related to Marketing. Recently he published his book on India titled "Mother Pious Lady".

Ms. Paulomi Dhawan, has been a

• Brand builder
• Media Marketing Communications Advisor
• Social Impact Strategist

With 40 years of media, marketing and brand communications experience, she has played an integral role in shaping the brand equity of many leading Indian brands. (be it FMCG, durable, services, media, person, NGO).

She has been a Strategic Advisor to CMD / CEO / Board members on perception image management, media investments, marketing, brand communications. She has been recognised for her deep understanding of the efficiency and efficacy of various media platforms and her strategic vision in the area of management of media investments.

Paulomi believes in giving - she is an advisor to NGOs like SHED India. She was the President of Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Queen's Necklace (2017-18), where she initiated socially impactful projects - "Adopt a Village". Her focus was to bring transformation from the grass root level.

Paulomi is Independent Director on Boards of Mukta Arts, Whistling Woods, Indian Society of Advertisers and NGOs like SHED and Make-A-Wish Foundation India.