Suneel M Mookul – Chief Executive Officer
Suneel started his career in the travel industry in India as a junior executive with a leading national agency. From 1986 to 1998 he ran his own television programme production company, whose major clients included Doordarshan, the Indian national television channel and the Times of India group. Suneel recognized during the latter part of this period that there was an increasing demand for regional language television channels in the Indian sub continent. As a result, in 1998 he launched the world's first Punjabi and Gujarati language digital TV channels called Lashkara and Gurjari respectively (under the RITV banner) over the Indian sub continent. Early in the development, Suneel decided to extend the coverage in order to meet the worldwide demand for regional language entertainment of the Indian sub continent from the non resident expatriates of the region.
In 1999 Suneel launched RTV in the UK as the first bouquet of seven regional language entertainment channels primarily on the BSkyB platform. Further expansion took place in Australia and the United States of America in the following year. A change of mood following the dot com crisis and the 9/11 disaster curtailed the full development potential of this innovative project in 2003. Over the course of the past three years, recognizing a dearth of an informative platform to showcase the travel potential of the Indian sub continent, Suneel has been working on the DTV project and through his production company in India has already produced a substantial portfolio of Indian subcontinent editorial programmes to be utilised by DTV from the date of its launch.
E-mail : suneelm@destination-tv.co.uk
Matt Vidmar – Chief Operating Officer
Matt has been at the forefront of the technical development of the television broadcast industry for over 20 years. He worked for many years with CFC as part of the team that pioneered electronic film post production and who won two Oscars for their technical work in their field. Matt founded Connexion, a broadcast play-out service provider in 1988 and On Air Systems in 1999. His companies have been responsible for introducing the integrated play-out solution which has not only streamlined the support operation but drastically reduced operating costs for the broadcasting industry. His TV centre in central London is now able to deliver a totally integrated broadcast management system for the industry.
E-mail : mattv@destination-tv.co.uk
Khushal Khagram – Chief Financial Officer
Khushal co-founded RTV with Suneel and has held a number of senior management positions with a variety of enterprises based in the UK. Between 1997 and early 2000 he was the senior partner of Kingsley Brackmann, an accountancy management consultancy based in central London. After RTV, Khushal was involved in launching DAN TV in Europe. After the launch of DAN TV he successfully launched a channel called Simply Asian, a shopping channel in the UK specifically catering to the Asian population in their mother tongue."
E-mail : khushalk@destination-tv.co.uk
Kiran Yedery – Travel Products Director
Kiran is an experienced professional in the travel industry and originally founded Prominent Tours and Travels an approved travel agency affiliated to the American Express travel division holding franchisee for Mumbai. More recently he has founded Corral Holidays, which is now a leading tour operator in India handling both inbound and outbound markets.
E-mail : kirany@destination-tv.co.uk
Commander Sam T Samuel – Business Development Director
Sam is an experienced businessman and has close relationships with both the tourism boards and the large travel service providers in the sub continent. He more recently established Kalypso Adventures, the first adventure travel company based in Kerala ( India ).
E-mail : samts@destination-tv.co.uk |
