Kiran Mani appointed as OpenAI Asia Pacific managing director.

Key facts

• Kiran Mani stepped down as CEO of Digital at JioStar and will join OpenAI as managing director for Asia Pacific.
• He is expected to assume the newly created role in June and will report to OpenAI’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon.
• Mani will relocate from India to Singapore for the position.
• He joined Viacom18 in 2023 as CEO for digital ventures and after the 2024 merger of Viacom18 with Disney-owned Star India he oversaw digital operations at the formed entity JioStar.
• At JioStar he played a role in the development and integration of JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar into the single streaming platform JioHotstar launched in February 2025.
• Earlier he served as managing director for Android and Google Play in Asia Pacific at Google and has held roles at Microsoft and IBM.