Kartikeya Sharma

Kartikeya Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur who heads several independent business ventures. He is the managing director of ITV Network, an Indian media company which runs India News, NewsX and The Sunday Guardian. He is the managing director of Piccadilly Group, a hospitality and industrial venture, which runs the Hyatt branded Hyatt Regency hotels in Gurgaon and Ludhiana, and the Hilton branded Hilton Hotel in Delhi. He is the co-owner, though his company ProSportify, of the Pro Wrestling League and the Indian Arena Polo League. In 2019 he introduced an Artificial Intelligence voice assistant to the NewsX studios; the NewsX AI is claimed as the world’s first integrated voice assistant to be used in a newsroom; and Sharma has been referred to as a "pioneer of innovative technologies in the media industry".