City of residence: Yanbu Al Sinayah
Country of residence: Saudi Arabia
Nationality: Indian
Date of Birth: 09/01/1970
Name: Mohammed Ashar Khan
E-mail id: ashar9170@gmail.com, ashar9170@yahoo.com
Personal: Married man with wife and an 8 year old son
Phone: +966 50 936 4210/ +966 50 936 8510/ +966 50 970 9702
Overview
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Bachelor of Arts (Honors)- Economics
 Profession selected from the General Skilled Migration - GSM
program – Program Director (television or radio)
 Experience as TV/radio news Program Producer, video journalist
(11 years), and as Media Manager &University Lecturer Integrated Marketing Communication and other management
subjects (last 4 years)
 Currently working as Media Manager & Lecturer at Yanbu
Industrial College, Saudi Arabia
 Worked as Producer & Anchor – Programs & News at ESPN Star
Sports (www.espnstar.com)
 Worked as Main Press Centre Manager at the Delhi 2010
Commonwealth Games
 Gave Life Skills training to paid staff and volunteers at the 2010
Commonwealth Games in New Delhi
 Pursuing PhD in Integrated Marketing Communication strategies at
universities in Saudi Arabia from Bansathali University, Rajasthan,
India
 Teaching Integrated Marketing Communication to MBA students program run jointly by the University of Indianapolis
(http://www.uindy.gr/) and Yanbu Industrial College
 Have exemplary command of English
Education
Master of Business Administration
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
(www.amu.ac.in)
1995
UP, India
Bachelor of Arts (Honors)- Economics
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
1992
UP, India
(www.amu.ac.in)
Professional courses in Active
Learning Methodology, Academic
Curriculum Design, and Effective
Assessment Methodology
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of
2013
Christchurch, New
Zealand
Technology (www.cpit.ac.nz)
Certificate course in Basic Camera,
Lighting, and Video Editing Skills
Universal Institute of Film
Professional Experience
Media Manager and Lecturer
Yanbu Industrial College
2004
Noida, India
November 2010 – present
Saudi Arabia
(www.yic.edu.sa)
Responsibilities
 As Media Manager I am responsible for promotion of the five
colleges under the umbrella of the Royal Commission of Jubail and
Yanbu (http://www.rcjy.gov.sa). To promote the five engineering &
management colleges, I use different mass media tools including
video, print, and the Internet. I publish the Campus Times, a bisemester newspaper of the sector; produce short films for
promotion of the colleges; produce a monthly video news bulletin
on the achievements and events of the sector, as well as produce
other video programs like Interview of the Month, and Applied
Research at RC Colleges. I also liaise with local industry to
promote the College and represent the sector at international
exhibitions and conferences of higher education
 As Lecturer at Yanbu Industrial College (www.yic.edu.sa)- part of
Royal Commission Colleges & Institutes in Yanbu, I am teaching
Integrated Marketing Communication to students of the MBA
program run jointly by the University of Indianapolis
(http://www.uindy.gr/) and Yanbu Industrial College. I have also
taught Marketing Management, Organizational Behavior,
Organization Theory, Human Resource Management, Industrial
Supervision, and General Management courses to bachelor and
associate degree students at Yanbu Industrial College
Main Press Center Manager
2010 Commonwealth Games
(d2010.thecgf.com)
February 2010 - October 2010
New Delhi, India
Responsibilities
 Overall international press management at the Main Press Centre
and Venue Media Centers through the provision of required
information related to the different sports (schedules, results, etc.)
as well as catering to work related requirements
 Overseeing coordination between Press Operations and other
functional areas of the Commonwealth Games Organizing
Committee
 Planning and running press operations at the test events being
held prior to the main games
 Training junior team members on press operations, Life and Soft
Skills (Personality Development, Time Management and Business
Communication workshops)
Producer
May 2007 to January 2010
ESPN Star Sports
New Delhi, India
(www.espnstar.com)
Responsibilities
 Produced & presented a half-hour weekly news magazine show,
India Cricket Weekly on Star Cricket channel. The program was a
wrap-up of the week’s national cricket news, and interviews and
analysis
 Generated content from India for Sports Center, a half-hour daily
show produced at our head office in Singapore. I liaised with the
three bureaus in Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata and assigned
stories to our correspondents there. The stories were sent to my
bureau in New Delhi and I then uplinked the content to Singapore
 Produced Cricket Headers, a two-minute round-up of current
cricket news on Star Cricket, thrice daily
 Produced two weekly magazine shows: Star Mail (request show)
and Timed Out (cricket news & satire, on the lines of Pardon the
Interruption on ESPN, USA)
Assistant Producer
TEN Sports
(www.tensports.com)
Responsibilities:
November 2005 – April 2007
Dubai, UAE
 Produced highlights of different cricket, tennis, hockey and soccer
matches broadcast on TEN
 Produced sponsored programs India’s Young Guns and Modern
Masters.
India’s Young Guns showed profiles of upcoming Indian cricketers.
Modern Masters featured centuries scored in crisis situations by
current international cricket stars
Freelance Reporter
July 2003 – October 2005
ESPN Star Sports
Dubai, UAE
(www.espnstar.com)
Responsibilities
 Covered important sports events held in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu
Dhabi (UAE)
 Decided on, planned and researched items, video shooting,
scripting and editing reports on sport events like Dubai Open
Tennis, ICC Intercontinental Cup, Sheikh Rashid International
Volleyball, LG Super racing weekend, Dubai Open Chess and
International Cricket Council meetings & press conferences
 Covered Dubai summer camps of European soccer clubs like
Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Celtic and
Rangers
 Conducted one-on-one interviews with visiting prominent sports
personalities like Roger Federer, Justine Hennin, Sania Mirza, Sir
Alex Ferguson, Oliver Kahn, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Imran Khan,
Inzamam-ul-Haq, Ehsan Mani, Darrell Hair, Bob Woolmer, Koneru
Humpy, Narain Karthikeyan, and many more
 Up-linked interviews and reports on breaking news – like important
decisions taken at the ICC meetings, performances of stars like
Sania Mirza at Dubai Open 2005 and interviews of winners at such
events
Editor and Presenter
January 2000 – October 2005
Radio Station Hum FM 106.2
Sharjah, UAE
(www.humfm.com)
Responsibilities
 Compiled and presented news bulletins and live updates of major
World News and international sport events;
 Planned lead stories for news bulletins by closely keeping track of
political and sport events around the world;
 Gave live commentary of sport events like the Cricket World Cup
(2003), FIFA World Cup (2002), Asian Games (2002), Olympic
Games (2000), Formula 1 Grand Prix and other International
Cricket and Tennis Tournaments;
 Held live interviews of cricket legends like Imran Khan, Syed
Kirmani and Haroon Rasheed
Reporter and Anchor
Television International
June 1994 to November 1999
New Delhi, India
Co-curricular activities
 Active participation in debates, group discussions and other literary
activities
 Represented Aligarh Muslim University in Roorkee National Youth
Festivals
 Won the President's prize for being adjudged theDebater of the
Year in 1991
 Won several Best Participant prizes at different Literary & Cultural
events at school and college levels
 Held the post of Literary Secretary of the Non-Residential
Student's Club – NRSC at the Aligarh Muslim University