Netflix Names Kapil Suri as Director of Business Development – India
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Netflix has appointed media distribution and partnerships veteran Kapil Suri as Director of Business Development – India, to lead strategic alliances, distribution bundling, and subscription growth across the country.
Suri brings more than 25 years of extensive experience across television broadcasting, digital streaming platforms, content licensing, and telco integrations. He joins Netflix from Amazon, where he served as Principal – Mobile Business Development, steering OTT alliances and telecom distribution partnerships across the Indian ecosystem.
Prior to his tenure at Amazon, Suri spent nine years at IndiaCast Media Distribution (a Viacom18 and TV18 joint venture) as Associate Vice President – DTH & Telecom Partnership, managing multi-year subscription revenues exceeding $130 million across 57 television channels and digital apps. Earlier in his career, he served as Associate Director – Pay TV Distribution at The Walt Disney Company India for over eight years, playing a key role in the network’s launch and reach expansion. He also held pay TV distribution roles at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
In his new Mumbai-based role at Netflix, Suri will report to Laurent Uguen, Vice President of APAC Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. His mandate focuses on forging high-impact distribution alliances across telecom operators, DTH platforms, fintech firms, banking institutions, and e-commerce networks to accelerate Netflix’s subscriber footprint across urban and regional Indian markets.
