About

Heading up the 75-strong legal team at media and entertainment company Star India, Deepak Jacob fulfils an important position at one of India’s most prominent broadcasters. The career path to this senior position began in 1995, when Jacob was a junior counsel at litigation legal firm Amit Chadha & Associates. Jacob rose to a senior associate position before moving into the in-house field, completing spells at prominent companies eBay and Reliance Communications. Jacob then transitioned to an executive vice president and general counsel position at Star, before being promoted to president and general counsel in 2011. As part of a broad portfolio of responsibilities, Jacob deals with legal, regulatory, compliance and government cooperation functions within Star. Jacob’s diversity of career experience has proven crucial to successfully handling this range of topics. For example, a background in litigation has had extensive benefits in terms of locating, assessing and then mitigating risk to the company effectively. Alongside this, his experience in the upper management of large businesses means that he is well acquainted with what it takes to truly fuse legal and business work. Jacob has recently put a high-degree of work into self-regulation, rather than waiting for government oversight on regulatory matters he has encouraged Star to create a robust self-censorship model to make Star’s activities as efficient as possible.