Managing director and CEO of Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Punit Goenka
Goenka in 2016
Born
India
Education
B.Com, University of Mumbai
Occupation
Chief executive & Managing Director of Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Organization
Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL)
Spouse
Shreyasi
Children
Vivardhan
Parents
Subhash Chandra[1] (father)
Sushila Devi (mother)
Relatives
Amit Goenka (Brother)
Punit Goenka is the managing director and chief executive officer of Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Goenka is the elder son of Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra.[2] Goenka grew up and studied in several towns and cities—Hisar in Haryana; Delhi; Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh and Mumbai—before moving to Institut Le Rosey, a boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland.[3] He was elected as the President of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) in the September, 2016 for a period of one year.[4] He holds a bachelor's degree, B.Com from University of Mumbai 1995.
Training initially within the Essel Group, Goenka's first assignment, in 1993, was selling amusement park packages for Essel World to schools in Virar, Mumbai. He was assistant to the head of Essel Packaging, the floor supervisor of a factory, and executive assistant to his father for six months. He then joined Zee Music Company. He was put in charge of organizing funding for Agrani—a programme to launch the group's own satellite. He helped launch Dish TV, working with his uncle, Jawahar Goel, for a year in Delhi. He then moved back to Mumbai and ran Zee Sports. In 2005, he was appointed business head of Zee TV where he ran the content for the entire network. In 2008, he took over as CEO from Pradeep Guha.
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Goenka is married to Shreyasi, an art patron and co-director of the Saat Saath Arts Foundation and they have two sons and a daughter.[6][7]
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^"Punit Goenka reappointed as MD and CEO for ZEEL". Business Insider. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
^"Punit Goenka: The mark of Z". Live Mint. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
^"Indian Broadcasting Foundation elects Punit Goenka as president". Economic Times. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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^"Punit Goenka: The mark of Z". Live Mint. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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