MUMBAI: He left Hotstar as head of ad sales in June 2022 after working there for more than five years. Udit Sharma then joined Sharechat as chief revenue officer for less than two years, and One Impression as chief business officer for around a year.

Now the hardcore sales professional is back with his old colleagues at JioStar as executive vice-president, business head - for premium sports and agency relationships. Announcing his joining the firm on linkedin, Udit said: "’India should not and will not be a one-sports country’ - With this conviction, I am super excited to be joining Ishan Chatterjee, Kiran Mani and Sanjog Gupta to lead with the premium sports business at Jiostar."

The Singapore (Masters in Engineering  in microelectronics from Nanyang Technological University)-educated Udit, completed his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2010.  After his bachelors in engineering, he was placed at ST Microelectronics as an IC design engineer where he worked for four years and even completed his master’s degree. He was then hired by Samsung Electronics as a global strategist in the chairman’s office in Seoul before being promoted to business development manager -Samsung Pay in 2013.

Returning to India (Gurugram), he had a short stint with Zomato as vice-president global business head -cashless, after which he joined Freecharge where stayed for a year and quit as assistant vice-president – head category management & business development to join Hotstar.