UFO Moviez India Limited, an Indian digital cinema distribution network and an in-cinema advertising platform, announced the appointment of Rajiv Batra and Swati Mohan to its Board of Directors, with effect from June 15, 2022.
Rajiv Batra, aged 66 years, is Economics Honors graduate and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He brings an experience of nearly four decades in Finance and Accounting across India and the United States of America.
Batra was employed for 15 years in Modi Xerox, which eventually became Xerox Inc., a pioneering highly successful joint venture in India, one of the first founding employees of the Finance Function. Batra was hired as CFO of Digital Equipment Ltd in 1993 in Bangalore, India, again a listed and actively traded security, a subsidiary of US $ 8 Billion listed Corporation. He led the combined operations of the merged entity as the CFO, completing the integration of the Operating and Financial processes in less than a year. He joined the Xerox entity in India in New Delhi in 1999 as the Chief Financial Officer of this benchmark business and subsequently moved to Xerox Inc. based at Stamford Connecticut USA – as Head for Controls across Developing Markets- Moving within 18 months as CFO for the Developing markets. The territories comprised Distributor Operations in the Middle East and Subs in most parts of Europe -Turkey, Russia, Israel as well as India and South Africa.
Batra joined Cummins in India, Pune as CFO in 2004. In addition to Finance, he was entrusted the Corporate Strategy Leadership for over 5 Years at a time when this function was extremely active in planning and building the revenue for Cummins in India from a little over Rs 800 Cr in 2004 to over Rs 15000 Cr in 2020. He was a nominee director on all Cummins India subsidiary Boards including the Joint venture with Tata Motors. He was with PI Industries in 2020 -2021, as their Financial Mentor at the Group Level.
Swati Mohan, aged 43 years, is English Literature Honors graduate. Over the past two decades, Swati has played a key role in growing global Media & Tech businesses like Netflix, National Geographic & Fox in India.
Swati was most recently Chief Business Officer of Pet Care Leader & Sequoia funded Heads up for Tails where she led their digital transformation. Before that, she was the head of marketing at the global streaming giant Netflix and was part of the core leadership team in the first few years of operation of Netflix in India driving ~100% YOY subscriber growth and revenue market share leadership. Prior to Netflix, Mohan was at National Geographic and Fox Networks Group for 6.5yrs; where she, as Country Head (as the only woman TV Network Head at the time), led the network to become the #1 Factual and Lifestyle network in the country. She has an illustrious experience in the industry, with a wide spectrum of industry defining driven work across companies including Group M and Endemol.
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