Anil Wanvari
Anil Wanvari (born 1963) is an Indian media entrepreneur who is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of the Indiantelevision.com group, which he set up in 1999. He is one of India's most prominent journalists-cum-specialists covering the Indian advertising, marketing, cable TV, satellite TV, terrestrial television and OTT ecosystems.
Wanvari has also been instrumental in creating properties such as [Indian Telly Awards[3]] and The NT Awards. He is also a member of the New York-based International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
As India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka representative of Reed Midem's Mipcom, MipTV, MipCancun, Midem, MipChina and MIPIM markets he advises clients on how to expand internationally.
Anil Wanvari is the third of four sons of Moolchand Thakurdas Wanvari (born 1932), an Indian businessman who migrated to India during the partition, and Neelam Wanvari (1938-2009), a home maker. He did his Masters in Cytogenetics and plant breeding from Bombay University's Ramnarain Ruia College in 1987, after attaining his B.Sc in Botany from Mumbai's Jai Hind college and getting the highest marks in his class in 1983-84.
Following his masters, he did a diploma in journalism and mass communications from Mumbai's Xavier Institute of Communications in 1988.
He then went on to work for publications such as the Western India Automobile Association's (WIAA's) Motoring magazine and followed it with a six year stint at then India's number one business news fortnightly - BusinessWorld magazine, where he rose from sub-editor to Assistant Editor in just five years. He wrote on everything from entrepreneurship to technology to banking and finance to stock markets to media, advertising, marketing and brands to management practices in the corporate world. After a successful six year stint at BusinessWorld, he went on to pen columns on the world of internet, telecommunications, and technology and media, advertising and marketing for Indian financial daily FinancialExpress. He also wrote a column on the media business for Business Standard for a couple of years.
Simultaneously, given his incisive knowledge of the media business, he was appointed India correspondent for Hong Kong-based Asian Advertising & Marketing magazine and the FT Media group's publications Television Business International, Cable Business International, Cable & Satellite Europe and Cable & Satellite Asia. He covered the rapidly exploding advertising, marketing, media, cable, satellite and satellite TV industries for these publications extremely effectively and efficiently for around five years.
He also wrote on the Indian management and corporate behaviour for World's Executive Digest, Philippines.
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