Sushanto Roy

Sushanto holds bachelor degree in commerce from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. He started his career in the year 2000 as a part of the core team of Mr. Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker and Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar.

In this team his prime responsibility was towards Sahara’s media business. He took over as the chief Executive Officer of media and entertainment division of the Sahara India Pariwar in the year 2003. Under his leadership, Sahara Samay was conferred with the Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award for its network newsroom technology. In late 2003 he took over as Head-Infrastructure and Housing Division of Sahara India Pariwar.

Under the leadership of Mr. Sushanto Roy, the company won Brick and Mortar Award-2004 sponsored by A and D Magazine for quality and creativity in the field of architecture, environment protection, quality construction and timely execution. The company SICCL was also ranked No. 1 in the construction, real estate sector by,Business World Magazine.He has had 9 years of experience in real estate sector.

SAHARA INDIA PARIWARSahara India Pariwar is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Lucknow, India with business interests in finance, infrastructure & housing, media & entertainment, consumer merchandise retail venture, manufacturing and information technology.

Sahara India Real Estate Company and the Sahara Housing Investment Corporation, subsidiaries of the conglomerate, buy and develop land for residential housing projects across India

Sahara owns several professional sports teams in India in a variety of sports. In badminton, it owns the Awadhe Warriors of Lucknow, one of six teams in the Indian Badminton League.

The group owns a national Hindi News Channel Samay and 36 city specific regional news channels Sahara Samay. It also owns Sahara One- A General entertainment channel, Filmy- A Hindi movie channel, and Firangi- An entertainment channel.

Sahara owns a controlling stakes in New York City's Plaza Hotel and London's Grosvenor House Hotel.