Salil Kapoor is Dish TV COO

India's No. 1 direct-to-home company and part of the biggest media conglomerate, Zee group, has announced the appointment of Mr. Salil Kapoor as its COO.  Mr. Kapoor brings along with him a vast and valuable experience of over 17 years spanning Information Technology, Consumer Durable and Engineering Industries in leading organizations across the country.

Prior to joining Dish TV, Mr. Kapoor was associated with Samsung Electronics Limited as the National Sales Head and was responsible for Consumer Electronics Revenue and Sales operations through 50 branches. He was also leading the senior level multi disciplinary teams and was a key contributor to strategic management decisions in sales / marketing / channel policy related and non related areas such as manpower, investments, information systems etc. He also has to his kitty a credit of building a successful track record of leading highly result oriented and motivated multidisciplinary teams in rapidly growing companies.

An alumnus of Delhi University - MBA, FMS, and of Bangalore University - BE Mechanical, Mr. Kapoor started his career in 1990 and continued to grow with his association with corporate giants such as LG Electronics, Microsoft India, Fedders Lloyd, Blue Star Limited etc. His rich experience in consumer marketing and operations management helps him understand consumers' psychology better and more proficiently.
In his career span, Mr. Kapoor has also worked on special initiatives such as e-commerce, dealing with advertising, media buying and direct marketing agencies and implementation of Sports marketing activities etc and reached a new level of success.

Announcing Mr. Kapoor's appointment, Mr. Jawahar Goel, Managing Director, dishtv said, "We are pleased to have Salil with us. We definitely look forward to blending Salil's expertise with Dishtv's to take the business to new heights."

About dishtv India
Essel Group - the parent company of the Zee Network - has launched this product - dishtv. It aims to be an Entertainment Provider and harbinger of the new age media in India. In a short span it has on its platform 185 National and International channels with registered 3 million subscribers, which is growing. dishtv offers the flexibility in content and channel packages so that the subscribers can choose and customize their own channel bouquets giving them complete power and independence. dishtv has a vast distribution network of about 575 distributors and 38,000 dealers that spans around 4500 towns across the country. Direct-to-home (DTH) television services deliver television channels directly to consumer's homes via satellite without any need of a local cable service provider. Dishtv, India's first DTH service provider, entertains the viewers with 165 television and 20 audio channels offering a superior picture and sound quality.

With channels for the sports enthusiast, from daily dose of soaps to news, from a bevy of cartoons to infotainment, from a plethora of music channels to movie channels - its all happening on dishtv. With the complete Zee bouquet of channels, the One Alliance bouquet, and the Star bouquet, it offers the complete range of channels to its subscribers. dishtv also offers to its subscriber's exclusive international channels such as Boomerang, TCM, and MGM.  Highly aware of prompt service orientation, dishtv has 24* 7 call centre with 1000 seats in 11 different languages at 7 different locations to take care of subscriber requirements any point of time and to ensure timely solution to problems and queries. Dishtv uses world-class technology and equipments manufactured by best suppliers in the world. The STB (Set Top Box) are sourced from a Korean manufactures. Nevertheless, dishtv STB come with a One-Year-Warranty that takes care of any technical fault free of cost for 12 months from the date of purchase