Three senior executives will exit the Star Group in the next three months.(... who's who and who's new)(Star Group Communications)(Brief Article)

Television Asia, May, 2004

Three senior executives will exit the Star Group in the next three months. They are Mani Rao, senior vice president of marketing and communications, who has resigned after "10 years to pursue a full-time career as a poet and author; Altaff Alimohamed, the Dubai-based Digital Platforms president, who has handed over the Indian Space TV project to the Mumbai-based joint venture, which is 80% owned by the Tata Group; and Star veteran, Toby Hayward, executive vice president of advertising sales, who leaves mid year.

Alimohamed joined Star in 1994. Hayward joined a year later. Neither of the two have formally said what their next moves will be. The departures come as Star continues a long-held Iocalisation strategy, with teams on the ground (particularly in the two...