OML beefs up its leadership team

The newly elevated leadership team will take on their new roles with immediate effect, leading OML into its next phase of growth and expansion.

OML today announced the appointment of Gunjan Arya as its Chief Executive Officer, Dhruv Sheth as the Chief Operating Officer and Saurabh Abbi as the Chief Business Officer, New Initiatives and International Business. Ajay Nair will continue in his role as Managing Director of the company, focusing on new opportunities for the company.

In her new role as CEO, Gunjan will take on the overall responsibility of running and leading OML, devising and executing the growth strategy for the company with support from Dhruv Sheth and Saurabh Abbi in their new roles as COO and CBO respectively.

The live events, brand solutions, global creator network teams, and HR will continue reporting to her directly. Arya will continue to be a part of the board of directors at OML, and support Nair in OML’s international expansion.

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As COO, Dhruv will continue to oversee the content division at OML as well as supervise the finance and legal functions. Additionally, Sheth will lead the integrated creator and artist management team, while bringing organizational efficiencies across businesses at OML. The leader has an interesting line-up of content-led shows coming up next year.

Saurabh, in his new role as CBO (New Initiatives and International Business), will be responsible for developing and launching new business verticals as well as international businesses at OML. His tenure with OML has kept him deeply connected with its legacy arm of Artist Management and he will continue to lead international touring for artists. Abbi's expertise in people management and the intricacies of leading businesses has helped him ensure the popularity of OML-represented artists in India and across the globe.

"OML has had its best performing couple of years in FY 18 and FY 19 and is poised to grow at over 30% over last year in FY 2020. These three years have been remarkable for the new businesses OML has built and for the multiple new live, branded and content experiences it has executed. This has been largely due to the excellent leadership of Gunjan, Dhruv, and Saurabh along with a very talented, experienced and resourceful team and it gives me great pleasure to announce their new roles. I am confident in their abilities to take on these expanded roles and lead such a diverse portfolio in today's dynamic environment,” said Ajay Nair, MD, OML.

“OML, as an industry leader, has accomplished massive growth in the past decade. The new leadership team led by Gunjan has a proven success record and I’m sure that they will continue to excel in their new expanded roles at OML to ensure high momentum business growth,” said Rajesh Kamat, MD, Emerald Media, and a board member to OML.

“OML continues to remind us of its outstanding ability to build businesses with its “customer n people first” approach. The new leaders are a testimony to its management depth and maturity. Hats off to Ajay for developing the business with such redundancy and future-proofing.” added Sanjeev Shah, Executive President, Corporate and M&A at Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., one of the investors at OML.