He is a media professional with over sixteen years of experience in the fields of sales, services, brand management, media services and running a print media set up. He is a Communication Post-graduate from MICA & an Engineering Graduate from BITS, Pilani. He started his career in 1993. In the past 16 years, he has worked for 3 years for Thermax Ltd. as Senior Sales Engineer, for 6 years for Jagran Prakashan Ltd. as GM-brand development, for two & a half years for GroupM as head of investments for all group agencies in North & East India. Since September 2006, he has been working with JPL as Project Head and Editor of its compact sized bilingual daily newspaper, I next. I next is currently published from 12 cities located in 4 states of North India and is the no.1 compact daily in the country.