With the entry of Anant Goenka, 27, as head of its digital division, the venerable Indian Express is meeting the new-age head-on
No media business can escape the disruption of the digital wave. Even the Indian Express group is no exception. The man at the vanguard of this change, Anant Goenka, 27, during a conversation with Forbes India at his Express Towers office in Mumbai’s Nariman Point, exudes the energy that he promises to infuse into a ‘serious, venerable’ brand.
“This is a very exciting and challenging phase for me. There is a lot of vigour that youth can add in legacy companies like ours,” says the third generation media honcho. He is confident the digital division, which he heads, is where opportunities lie for exponential growth beyond the group’s traditionally core strength of print.
He calls the media business in India one of the “toughest” businesses in the country, and echoes his father when he says, “I have the most to lose and the most to gain from the success of The Indian Express.”
(This story appears in the 21 March, 2014 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)