Sundar Kondur has joined The Hindu Group as Chief Revenue Officer. With over two decades of experience in media and advertising sales and deep expertise across national, regional, and multi-platform media operations
He announced this move via a linkedin post.
Prior to this, Sundar Kondur was Director – Times Experiences at Bennett Coleman & Co. (The Times of India) for 10 months, managing operations across Mumbai. He also served as Director – South & East at the same group from October 2023, and as Senior Vice President and Regional Head – South from January 2017, leading advertising sales across the region, creating new IPs, and winning multiple awards for sales performance.
Earlier, Kondur was Vice President – Advertising Sales at Kasturi & Sons, from May 2015 to November 2016, where he headed national sales for The Hindu, recruited over 500 significant new advertisers, and helped move the company from loss to profit.
Between March 2007 and April 2015, Kondur was Vice President & Response Head at Bennett Coleman & Co. (Times Group), leading Vijay Karnataka, Bangalore Mirror, and Times of India (Kannada) advertising sales, implementing knowledge-based solution selling, managing P&L, and speaking at INMA Conference on language newspaper success.
From August 2003 to February 2007, Kondur worked at Mid-Day as Regional Manager – South & Publisher, and later as Publisher and General Manager, launching the Bangalore edition and overseeing business development and sales operations, increasing ad revenue by 30% year-on-year.
