New Delhi: Almost seven months after the exit of JawaharSircar, public broadcaster PrasarBharati has found it new CEO in former principal architect of Infosys Technologies Shashi Shekhar Vempati.
Vempanti takes over the top job after serving in the board of Prasar Bharati as a part-time member for some time. His tenure will be for five years from the date of assumption of office.
His appointment as CEO was made on the recommendation of a three-member committee headed by vice-president Hamid Ansari, Press Council of India chairman Justice CK Prasad and the secretary of the Information and Broadcasting ministry who is also the President’s nominee.
“Vempati, An IIT Bombay alumnus, has over two decades of experience as a technocrat with specialization in areas of corporate management, technology consulting and digital media. He currently holds two patents ‘Real Time Business Event Monitoring, Tracking and Execution Architecture’ and ‘System and method for monitoring and management of inventory of products and assets in real time’ under his name,” a statement issued by the I&B ministry said.
With the appointment of Vempati, the government broke away from the tradition of appointing former bureaucrats to the position.
A source familiar with the issue said there was a conscious decision to allow a technocrat with relevant industry experience to run PrasarBharati, which has AIR and Doordarshan as its arms.
