Kumar Somil

Director of Engineering

15 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of diverse experience across multiple cities.
  • Strong sales professional with a focus on digital advertising.
  • Expertise in managing high-value client accounts.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned sales leader in the digital advertising and media industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital Advertising SalesSales StrategyBusiness Development StrategyAccount ManagementStartups

Other Skills

Digital MediaSales ProcessesPerformance MetricsSales PerformanceStrategic ThinkingRevenue GenerationBing AdsSales NegotiationAdvertising SalesMedia SalesSales OperationsBusiness Relationship ManagementSkill DevelopmentCompetitive LandscapeDevelopment Strategy

About

I have spent the last 19 years in 8 different cities for different life purposes. Experience earned over years with different people and environments made me a better person than I was yesterday. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Market Research, Management, and Teamwork. Strong sales professional with a PGDM focused in Marketing from LBSIM batch of 2013.

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Buyhatke

Director

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Zepto

Associate Director

Jun 2025Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Affinity global inc.

2 roles

Associate Director

Jan 2024May 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Digital Advertising SalesDigital MediaSales ProcessesSales StrategyPerformance MetricsSales Performance+7

Regional Sales Head

Apr 2022May 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business Relationship ManagementSkill DevelopmentAccount ManagementDigital Advertising SalesCompetitive LandscapeDigital Media+32

Viacom18 media private limited

Manager

Jul 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban district, India

  • Managed South-based advertising accounts for the Digital Venture- VOOT.
  • Maintained agency relationships across Zones and worked closely with Group M, OMD, IA, Havas, and developed agencies like Vserv & Madison.
Business Relationship ManagementSkill DevelopmentAccount ManagementDigital Advertising SalesCompetitive LandscapeDigital Media+29

Qube cinema

Senior Manager

Sep 2019Jun 2020 · 9 mos · Bangalore Urban district, India

  • I was handling all Corporate clients headquartered in Karnataka and was responsible for developing market for 3000 Cinema Screens in India with Qube Network.
  • I was selected in Core Sales strategy team of Qube Digital Cinema Network post growth Plan presentation held at Chennai in Nov’19.
Business Relationship ManagementSkill DevelopmentAccount ManagementCompetitive LandscapeSales ProcessesSales Strategy+25

Zee entertainment enterprises limited

Senior Manager

Jun 2013Aug 2019 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked across 3 Zones (West, North & South) and managed 3 different genres (Music, General entertainment & Regional Movie channel) during my tenure with Zee Netwrok. Over achieved annual target for 6 consecutive years managing highest ever revenue each year on the channel accounted for. Maintained agency relationship across zones and have worked with Group M, Madison , Lintas, OMD, Havas to name a few.
  • As first on-board assignment i was Part of Z Anmol launch team . Got first hand experience of Account management , Rate Negotiation with agencies while handling clients like JLL, Raymond's, Tata Chemicals, Cadbury's, and Pidilite.
  • Second assignment of handling Z talkies in North gave one of the best opportunity to handle complete North Market .I handled Key accounts across categories - FMCG/e-commerce/ Consumer Durables/online gaming/ Handset Manufacturers/Telecom /Lifestyle/Auto with total ad spends of around 100 Cr an year over cluster of channels accountable for. Major clients list include - Reckitt Benckiser, Nestle, GSK, Honda cars, RSPL, Hyundai, Infoedge, Airtel .
  • Number of clients and revenue along with Z Talkies effective rate had got tripled in last 3.5 years.
  • My last assignment was in South to manage cluster of Marathi channels (Z Marathi , Z Talkies , Z Yuva and 24 Taas) gave a chance to sell most profitable cluster of Zee and was handling clients like Amazon, Flipkart, Diageo, Swiggy , Xiaomi among major spenders .
Business Relationship ManagementSkill DevelopmentAccount ManagementDigital Advertising SalesCompetitive LandscapeSales Processes+26

Tutorcatalyst e-education private limited

Co-Founder

Jun 2011May 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • We identified need of an E learning platform for both school goers and competitive exam aspirants. We got some 40 students and 10 teachers on board in span of 1 year . It was one of best learning experience of life to work out product which is going to re-define education industry all together. We worked out various products as per latest trends then and helped students to excel.
Competitive LandscapeInterpersonal SkillsPassionate about WorkStartupsSales NegotiationTeamwork

Zensar technologies

Junior software Engineer

Aug 2010Jun 2011 · 10 mos

Education

LBSIM DELHI

PGDM — MARKETING

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Techno India College Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Information Technology

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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