Hemant Jain

President & Business Head - Digital

Mr. Hemant Jain has been associated with Lokmat since 2016. Hemant comes in with over 22 years of hands-on experience in building businesses with P&L responsibility in digital media, mobile entertainment, online publishing & consumer broadband space. He embarked on the digital journey at an early stage of his career (1996) with the launch of indianexpress.com. During the period 1997-2001, he set up digital media divisions for some of the leading advertising agencies in India - TBWA, Euro RSCG & DDB. In 2002 he joined Reliance Webstores as part of the founding team, responsible for brand & consumer marketing, launched 241 broadband cafes across 105 cities in India. Hemant spearheaded the India business for Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. for 6.5 years (2008-2014), responsible for leading Hungama’s growth as a dominant mobile entertainment player by providing strategic direction and leading business operations across content, product, technology, distribution and monetization. Before joining Lokmat, in his role as an entrepreneur, Hemant launched ‘Happitoo’, India’s 1st nightlife planning app and managed his startup for 2 years (2014-2016).