--- description: The advertising platform fired its CEO, founder and chairman Gurbaksh Chahal Saturday night, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and domestic violence charges for assaulting his girlfriend. Bill Lonergan, the company’s COO, will replace Chahal title: RadiumOne CEO Fired After Assault Settlement image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb69e4c037d0ab8ee/69868cc0169ab02dd7279079/85011930.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Technology & Media](/tag/technology-media/) ## Technology & Media Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # RadiumOne CEO Fired After Pleading Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 27, 2014 8:57 PM CUT  RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh ChahalTodd Williamson—WireImage/Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 27, 2014 8:57 PM CUT Advertising platform RadiumOne fired its CEO, founder and chairman Gurbaksh Chahal Saturday night, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and domestic violence charges for assaulting his girlfriend. RadiumOne’s board voted to replace Chahal with Bill Lonergan, the company’s COO, according to a [statement](http://www.radiumone.com/press/radiumone-terminates-gurbaksh-chahal.html "undefined") released Sunday. Chahal faced 45 felony charges for allegedly hitting and kicking his girlfriend 117 times over a 30-minute period. However, the felony charges were dropped after a video that allegedly showed the incident was deemed inadmissible as evidence by the judge because it was illegally taken from his apartment. Chahal [paid](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23/gurbaksh-chahal-domestic-violence%5Fn%5F5201334.html "undefined") a $500 fine and received three years of probation after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charges. The now-former CEO defended himself in a [blog post](http://www.chahal.com/can-you-handle-the-truth "undefined") Sunday, saying that he merely had a “normal argument” with his girlfriend after he discovered she was having “unprotected sex for money with other people.” Chahal denied injuring his girlfriend in the argument. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/78572/radiumone-ceo-fired/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/78572/radiumone-ceo-fired/"},"headline":"RadiumOne CEO Fired After Pleading Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges","datePublished":"2014-04-27T20:57:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:31:30.343Z","description":"The advertising platform fired its CEO, founder and chairman Gurbaksh Chahal Saturday night, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and domestic violence charges for assaulting his girlfriend. Bill Lonergan, the company’s COO, will replace Chahal","url":"https://time.com/78572/radiumone-ceo-fired/","keywords":["Technology & Media","Advertising"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb69e4c037d0ab8ee/69868cc0169ab02dd7279079/85011930.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb69e4c037d0ab8ee/69868cc0169ab02dd7279079/85011930.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fox Searchlight 2009 Oscar Party - Inside","caption":"Fox Searchlight 2009 Oscar Party - Inside","creditText":"Todd Williamson—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/technology-media/","name":"Technology & Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/78572/radiumone-ceo-fired/","name":"RadiumOne CEO Fired After Pleading Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges"}}]}] ```