Kartikeya Sharma


Kartikeya Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur who heads several independent business ventures. He is the managing director of ITV Network, an Indian media company which runs India News, NewsX and The Sunday Guardian. He is the managing director of Piccadilly Group, a hospitality and industrial venture, which runs the Hyatt branded Hyatt Regency hotels in Gurgaon and Ludhiana, and the Hilton branded Hilton Hotel in Delhi. He is the co-owner, though his company ProSportify, of the Pro Wrestling League and the Indian Arena Polo League. In 2019 he introduced an Artificial Intelligence voice assistant to the NewsX studios; the NewsX AI is claimed as the world’s first integrated voice assistant to be used in a newsroom; and Sharma has been referred to as a "pioneer of innovative technologies in the media industry".

Personal life and education

Sharma was born on 14 May 1981.. He graduated from Oxford University in business management with honours and completed a master's degree at King's College London. Sharma married Aishwarya Sharma in 2011 she is the daughter of Indian National Congress politician Kuldeep Sharma, former speaker of Haryana States Assembly.

Career

Following his graduation from King's College,, in 2007, Sharma launched ITV Media. He also launched a network of regional TV channels through India News; as of 2015 India News operated five regional channels broadcasting across Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar and Jharkhand.
Later on, Sharma acquired, through ITV Media, English language news channel NewsX. He entered the print media with the acquisition of The Sunday Guardian, an English language Sunday newspaper, and Aaj Samaj, a Hindi language daily newspaper. He has also been involved with News Wire Services, an Indian TV news wire service.
In 2015, Sharma set up Pro Sportify with Ashish Chadha, CEO of the Sporty Solutionz, a company that runs the Pro Wrestling League.

Awards

Kartikeya Sharma won the award for the Best CEO of the Year at the 2016 eNBA Awards.