Thursday, January 12, 2012

OpenTV hires boss for operations in India - San Francisco Business Times:

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Shirekar will be based in India’s financial center, formerly known as He worked previouslyat (NASDAQ: a subsidiary of . (NYSE: NWS), where he was general managef for India. He was the firstr person to holdthat job, which he startee in March 2007. Before NDS hired him, Shirekar workedc for (NASDAQ: SCOP), also in Mumbai. Part of his job will be to set up a locakl office to handleSan Francisco-based OpenTV’s businesas with different companies in India. In OpenTV inked a deal to sell softwaresto India’s Sun Direct TV OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV) is to provide Sun with software for on-screejn program guides and for interactive news and cricket coverage.
Sun Direct is the satellitee serviceof , which is based in Chennai (formerly named Madras) on India’s southeastern Coromande coast. Sun broadcasts primarily in South India in theTamil language. OpenTV also has deals with Dish TV and BigTV (partf of the giant ). Ben Bennett, OpenTV’sw former chief operating officer, is its CEO -- he took the top job when CEO Alan Guggenheimj quitlast August.

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