Jio Platforms has onboarded Sidharth Kedia as Senior Vice President & Head – Jio Games. Earlier, he was associated with NODWIN Gaming as Chief Executive Officer from November 2019 to October 2023.
Between May 2017 and November 2019, Kedia was serving as EVP and Head – Strategy, M&A, Data Science and eSports.
Prior to that, he was serving as CEO – Digital (Non News) and Corporate Strategy – Network18 from August 2015 and May 2017.
Earlier, he was working as Co-founder and Partner at Ambit Pragma Ventures from May 2007 and April 2015. In the past, he was associated with Transworks, eFunds Corporation, Venture Infotek, GE Money and Ernst and Young India.
“In 2015, I had joined RIL’s media business. Jio was in it’s final stages of development. In December of 2015, I was called upon by the chairman’s office to run the PMO for Jio ‘friends and family’ launch. Now that I look back, I swell with pride to have been part of such a momentous initiative. Over the last decade, D2C businesses focused on lifestyle, social and entertainment have been the biggest beneficiaries of internet democratizarion by Jio. Infact they exist today because Jio changed the way India accessed data,” Kedia said.
“A decade later, I feel pretty stoked to be called back in the RIL family and be entrusted with the opportunity to scale Jio Games and build a gaming behemoth that India awaits,” he added.