Senthil Chengalvarayan Bio

President & Editorial Director of TV18 Business Media. Senthil Chengalvarayan, 44 years, is the President & Editorial Director of TV18 Business Media. In his new role, Senthil heads a host of verticals which form part of the Business Media ecosystem (Business/Tech/Personal Finance magazines, financial portals, business wires, extensions of CNBC TV18 & CNBC AWAAZ, mobile etc). Prior to this role, he led a team of professional journalists that has made CNBC TV18 the most successful business media network in the country. He has been a business journalist for over two decades. After spending his initial years in the profession with various Business Dailies he joined Television Eighteen in 1994 just as the company was pioneering the entry of private companies into Television News. He's seen the industry grow then from uncertain beginnings to the phenomenon that it is today. A Graduate in Economics from Madras University, he has done his Masters in Journalism from the Times Research Foundation.