Aveek Sarkar is a Chairman on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is the Editor
Emeritus and Vice Chairman of the Ananda Bazar Group of Publications and
Chairman, Ananda News Network (ABP TV Group) and Chief Editor, Fortune India.
Mr Sarkar started training as a journalist while he was a student, just out of school.
Once he had finished his graduation from the University of Calcutta he went to
Britain where he was tutored by the legendary Harold Evans, then the Editor of
The Sunday Times.
As the Chief Editor of the Ananda Bazar Group, Mr Sarkar was the moving force
behind the transformation of the group’s publications.
Mr Sarkar is a man of rich and varied interests. Books, food, wine and art are his four
principal loves.
K.N. Shanth Kumar is a Vice Chairman [The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.] on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is Director of
Bengaluru-based, The Printers (Mysore) Pvt Ltd, which publishes Deccan Herald,
Prajavani, Sudha and Mayura newspapers.
Mr Kumar has been involved in the management of the company in various roles
since 1983.
He has served in various capacities in the newspaper industry. He was Chairman of
the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Member of the Executive Committee of the Indian
Newspaper Society for more than 20 years and was also Chairman of the Board of
Press Trust of India.
Mr Kumar has a keen interest in sports and photography. He has covered all
Olympic Games since 1988 as an accredited photographer, besides several other
sporting events.
Mr Hormusji N. Cama is a Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the only private association recognised by the Government of India to certify paid newspaper sales.
He is also the Director of Asia's oldest newspaper, The Bombay Samachar, and the former President of the Indian Newspaper Society (two terms), former Chairman of Media Research Users Council, the body that runs the world’s largest readership survey, former Chairman of the Readership Survey Council of India, former member of the Press Council of India (for nine years), former Chairman of the Commonwealth Press Union (India) and former Chairman of the Press Trust of India.
He continues to be on the Boards of INS and MRUC (as a special invitee).
Mahendra Mohan Gupta or MMG, as he is affectionately known, is a Director on the
Board of Press Trust of India.
Mr Gupta is CMD and Editorial Director of Jagran Prakashan Ltd, one of India’s
leading media and communications group which publishes newspapers like
Dainik Jagran and Midday.
Mr Gupta was a Member of Parliament, having served as a lawmaker in the
Rajya Sabha.
Over the years, he has been on key policy-making councils of the media industry.
He was President of the Indian Language Newspaper Association, President of the
Indian Newspaper Society and also Member of the Film Censor Board. He has also
served as Chairman on the Board of Press Trust of India.
M V Shreyams Kumar is a Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is Managing Director of Mathrubhumi group, which includes the Mathrubhumi newspaper, the books division, 11 periodicals, Mathrubhumi News and Kappa youth channel, Club FM radio and digital platforms. He is also a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and the architect of Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters as well as the Global Vice-president of International Advertising Association. Shreyams Kumar is also on the Board of Directors of News Broadcasters Association besides being an Executive Committee member of Indian Newspaper Society and President of Kerala Television Federation. The son of writer-politician, late Union Minister M P Veerendra Kumar and Usha, Shreyams Kumar served consecutive terms as MLA from Kalpetta.
N. Ravi is the Director of the Board of Press Trust of India, the country’s premier
news agency. A former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, he is currently the Publisher
of The Hindu Group of Newspapers.
He was President of the Editors Guild of India and Chairman of the India Chapter of the International Press Institute.
Mr Ravi has a Master’s degree in economics and a degree in law. He has won several academic awards including a gold medal in constitutional and international law.
He joined The Hindu in 1972 as a reporter and moved up to the post of the
newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, which he held from October 2013 to January 2015
Praveen Someshwar is an Director on the Board of Press Trust of India.
He is MD and CEO of HT Media Ltd.Mr Someshwar is an experienced leader in the Food and Beverages industry, having spent 24 years with Pepsico across geographies.Mr Someshwar is passionate about startups and has worked closely with them. He
has also been on Boards and Advisory Boards at various points of time with some of
the leading groups in Asia.When not working, Mr Someshwar loves running, holidaying across the globe and
spending time with his wife and teenage daughter.
Riyad Mathew is a Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is Director of
the Malayala Manorama media group.
A member of the management, Mr Mathew looks after The Week, a group
publication. Before joining The Week, he was with The Associated Press as a
Correspondent in Washington DC.
Mr Mathew did his Master’s in Journalism from the University of Maryland and
trained with The Washington Post, The Washington Times and Capital News
Service.
Mr Mathew is an Executive Board Member of the International Press Institute,
Vienna. He is a Member of the Council of Management of Audit Bureau of
Circulations (ABC). He has also served as Chairman on the Board of Press Trust of
India.
Mr L. Adimoolam was appointed as the Director on the Board of Press Trust of India in 2022.
He is the Publisher of Dinamalar daily’s Coimbatore Edition and its Business & Technical Head. An engineering graduate of the prestigious Regional
Engineering College, Trichy, Mr Adimoolam has been part of the Senior Management of Dinamalar for the last 37 years, handling both technical and
marketing arenas. He was instrumental in bringing the latest upgrades in printing, pre-press, distribution and web-media. He is also the Secretary of
RL Institute of Nautical Science, Madurai and Managing Director of RL Clean Power Pvt Ltd., the first solar power plant commissioned in Tamil Nadu.
He is the immediate Past President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), and a Special Invitee in Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Management
Council in 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22. He is also a Committee Member in Sri Sathya Sai Trust (Tamil Nadu) and Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications
Trust Tamil Nadu. Since February 2019 he has been the Chairman of Sri Vadapalani Andavar Temple, Chennai, a position appointed by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Vijay Kumar Chopra is the Director of the Board of Press Trust of India. He is
the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Hind Samachar Group of Newspapers. He is
also Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the company since 1984.
A graduate from the DAV College in Jalandhar, Mr Chopra took training in printing
technology in Leipzig, Germany. He also underwent a newspaper management
course at the Thompson Foundation in UK.
Mr Chopra has worked extensively for the underprivileged section of the society and
instituted several funds for them.
Mr Chopra is a Member of the Editors Guild of India, former President of the Indian
Newspaper Society and past Member of the Press Council of India. He has also
served as Chairman on the Board of Press Trust of India.
Vineet Jain is a Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is the Managing
Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (The Times Group).
As the Times Group’s strategist, marketing visionary and editorial architect, Mr Jain
has spearheaded the group’s highly successful forays into internet, radio, television
and outdoor media. He is also responsible for revamping the group’s daily
newspapers into youthful, contemporary and cutting-edge brands.
Mr Jain is the Chancellor of Bennett University – the group’s higher education entity.
He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Rajiv Gandhi Award for
Corporate Excellence 2009, Indian TellyAward 2009 and Media Person of the Year
Award from International Advertising Association (IAA) in 2015.
Viveck Goenka is a Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is Chairman,
Managing Director and Editorial Director of the Indian Express Group.Mr Goenka, a B.Tech, has been on the boards of several newspaper forums,
including the MRUC, the ABC, and is a past president of the Indian Newspaper
Society. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Press Trust of India.Mr Goenka launched the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism
Awards.Mr Goenka is an auto enthusiast and has a varied collection of 4x4s, vintage and
classic cars. He takes an active interest in wildlife conservation and water
management.Mr Goenka owns and manages a premium chain of restaurants, patisseries and bars.
Deepak Nayyar is an Independent Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He
is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Honorary
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
Mr Nayyar served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi and as Chief
Economic Advisor to the Government of India.
Mr Nayyar was Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School
for Social Research, New York. He has also taught at the University of Oxford, the
University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Mr Nayyar has served as a Director on the Boards of State Bank of India, EXIM Bank, Maruti, SAIL, ONGC and ICRA.
Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan is an Independent Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is a well known corporate figure who has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, Executive Director of Tata Sons Ltd and director of several other Tata companies.
An engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, Mr. Gopalakrishnan began his career in 1967 as a computer analyst with Hindustan Lever. He worked in the marketing function before moving to general management.
During his years with Unilever, he was based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as CEO of the Arabia unit. Later, he was managing director of Brooke Bond Lipton India and then vice-chairman with Hindustan Lever.
He has been president of the All India Management Association. Mr. Gopalakrishnan has written 12 books on management, corporate governance and other subjects.
Shivshankar Menon is an Independent Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is a former Indian diplomat, who served as National Security Adviser of India under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He had previously served as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India.Prior to that he was Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and ambassador to China and Israel.
He is currently Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University.
Menon, who speaks Chinese and German, also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies based in New Delhi.
He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2015 and Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen to be one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.
Menon also wrote "Choices: Inside The Making of Indian Foreign Policy" that was first published in 2016.
T. N. Ninan is an Independent Director on the Board of Press Trust of India. He is a former editor and publisher of Business Standard, and chairman of its Board. During a quarter century at the helm of different publications, he has also been editor of the Economic Times and BusinessWorld, and Executive Editor at India Today.
He has been president of the Editors Guild of India, chairman of the Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and board member of the World Editors Forum.He is currently chairman of the Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation, the largest non-profit source of funding for Indian digital media.
He is a recipient of awards including the B.D. Goenka award for excellence in journalism. His book, "The Turn of the Tortoise", was published in 2015 in India and the US, and well received.