Nitin Bawankule quits Disney Star and set to join Amazon Web Services

Head of Ad Sales for Disney Star in India after a two and  half-year tenure, Nitin Bawankule has left the organisation. In October of this year, Bawankule was hired as the Head of Advertising Sales at Star India. He will join Amazon Web Serives as Director Of Sales in April, 2022. In his new role, he will report straight to the Managing Director, ISV segments and Digital Native Business at Amazon Web Services, Charles Chu.
Bawankule was in charge of Ad Sales for Linear and Digital Video platforms in the sports and entertainment genres. He was in charge of maximising ad income across Sports, Movies, and Entertainment channels in this job. Under his leadership, ad income for Disney+ Hotstar increased manifold..
He worked for Google for nearly eight years before joining Disney Star. He has more than two decades of international sales, business development, and market expansion experience.
Scaling sales organisations, forming strategic collaborations, and assisting in the development of long-term connections with some of the world's most well-known online and consumer companies are all areas of competence for him.
Bawankule, a graduate of IIM Bangalore, has also worked for Motorola, Whirlpool India, and Godrej GE Appliances, among other companie