Tarun Katial was born on 7 January 1975. He studied
Master of Management (MBA) from
University of Mumbai. He started his career as a media trainee at
Saatchi & Saatchi, and later became a media executive at Enterprise Nexus Lowe and Ogilvy & Mather, senior vice-president of
Star Plus. He worked as a business head and executive vice-president of
Sony Entertainment Television. He was head of channels at
Star Network before joining the
Sony Pictures as business head and executive vice-president in 2004. In 2006, He founded
Big FM, a private radio station, where he worked as a COO and CEO for over 12 years. He worked as a CEO of
Reliance Broadcast Network till 2016, then joined
ZEE5 in November and became its CEO in May 2018. He resigned his position from ZEE5 in November 2020. ==Works==