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Saikat Mondal
Dilip Suthar
Bhavna Padmanabhan
Anand Ramachandran
Mourvi Sharma
Mario Royston
Mohan Doss
Rajesh Balaji
Joshua Jebadurai
P. Deepak Aravind
Prashanth Krishnan
Jainaressh
Shravan Srinivasan
Christopher Franklin J.
Nidhi Bavishi
Saikat Mondal
Ramanjot Kohli
Jayraj Bharat Patel
Abhir Das
Rashmi Ranjan Mishra
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan
Saikat Mondal
Vinay Charaniya
Ajish G Habib
Mukesh Dev
Gokul Elayidath
Deepak V
Thomas George
Rashmi Ranjan Mishra
Kislay Shashwat
Saikat Mondal
Harshit Kumar
Jatin Narang
Abhir Das
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan
Tom Thomas
Sudhir Kamath
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan
Arvind Neelakantan
Abhinandan Ghosh
Saikat Mondal
Aman Biswas
Digbijoy Acharjee
Shravan Srinivasan - Partnerships Manager
Shravan has spent about 11 years at Google across various roles in advertising and partnerships. He now work as a Partnerships Manager at Google Play helping games and apps developers leverage the play ecosystem to its fullest potential.
Lumikai
Nidhi Bavishi - Investment Analyst
Nidhi comes with a background in business strategy with Aon Consulting and prior stints in buy-side/investment advisory as an investment analyst. She has crafted market entry research for investing in the gaming industry, devised equity strategies focusing on the interactive media industry - a part of the broader $3M portfolio allocation from her university's endowment, and been involved in fundraising strategies for the $600M portfolio of Bono and Bobby Shriver’s RED project. Nidhi has a MSc in Finance from Washington University, St. Louis with a specialization in corporate finance and investments. When she is not building financial models or advising on investment strategy, she is an avid painter with her own digital art shop. She grew up playing PC games and Nintendo Wii. She caught the Facebook social gaming bug and got hooked onto Farmville and Cityville, until Runescape captured her imagination.
Lakshya Digital
Dilip Suthar - Art Director
Total 15+ years of experience in Game Art, worked on games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Callisto Protocol, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Marvel's Spider-Man, and many more. Presently working as an Art Director and heading the Hardsurface team at Lakshya Digital.
Kalaari Capital
Jayraj Bharat Patel - Investment Associate
Jayraj is a part of the Investment Team at Kalaari Capital, an early stage venture capital fund based out of Bangalore. He looks at opportunities in Gaming, Web 3.0, AI & FinTech.
Bigfatphoenix Interactive
Anand Ramachandran - Founder and CEO
Anand Ramachandran is a games industry veteran with over 15 years of experience building games that have reached millions of players worldwide. He has previously led creative teams at Zynga, Hike, and BYJU’S, before leaving the corporate life to work towards a vision of building a world-class games company out of Chennai. His current studio, Bigfatphoenix Interactive, works to harness the power of games and play to build impactful learning experiences that can change lives.
Nazara Technologies
Saikat Mondal-Vice President - Strategy and M&A
Saikat has been leading the M&A and Strategy vertical at Nazara and has over 5 years of experience in Mobile F2P gaming industry with Glu - EA Mobile and Garena across various verticals including product strategy, business strategy and corporate development. When he is not meeting people and discussing the limitless potential gaming industry has today, he is probably busy dominating the virtual battlefield in CODM or eager for his life refresh in Project Makeover, all while keeping one eye on his 6 months old baby girl, who undoubtedly already has a higher kill-to-death ratio than him.
Bigfatphoenix Interactive
Bhavna Padmanabhan - Head of Product
Bhavna has been working in the Games industry for over 11 years, as both a Game Designer and Product Owner. She has worked on casual games such as Castleville, Farmville 2 and Draw Something, as well as the Disney Byju's Early Learn App. She enjoys working on products that are at the intersection of education and play.
Bigfatphoenix Interactive
Mourvi Sharma - Co-founder
Experienced play designer and educator with 15+ years creating playful products for children. Worked with Sesame Street, Disney, and IBM Research on diverse projects, including Disney's first learning games, Sesame Street for rural Indian audiences, and AI-powered games for vocabulary learning.
Weloadin Studio
Mario Royston - Co-Founder and Managing Director
Weloadin Studio is a hypercasual game studio based in Chennai, co-founded and managed by Mario Royston, a seasoned professional with over 8 years of experience in the mobile games industry in premium and hypercasual space. The company has achieved remarkable success with over 100 million downloads of its hit games, including Dessert DIY and Rubberband Cutting ASMR. Weloadin Studio is recognized for its excellence in game development, winning multiple awards such as the best hypercasual game awards at IGDC 2021 and GEM Awards 2022. With a team of skilled developers and designers, Weloadin Studio is dedicated to creating high-quality and engaging games that delight players worldwide. "
HP India
Jainaressh - Program Manager - ARVR
Jainaressh currently working as VR Program manager at HP India. He is also an advisor to the Media & Entertainment Sector Skill council and a project consultant in ARVR. He comes with nearly 15 of experience in Interactive Media & ARVR industry. He has worked across Games Development, Edutainment, Serious Games, and other interactive application development across multiple markets.He started his career as an avid gamer who turned to become a game designer and started to work his ways in the game industry. In total, he has around 10 years of experience in designing games on mobile, pc, and console. He has journeyed from a Game designer, Producer and Consultant for various Indian, UK and US based game studios. He actioned Unity Technologies plan for education in India and has been a pivotal influence in building the ecosystem in ARVR too.He has also been an educator for 7 years and has mentored and explored a variety of students and research project in fields like BCI, ARVR, Computer vision, etc. He is constantly experimenting and fostering many people to adapt “education through gaming/play” approach as a life goal to make learning active.
Pixcell Play
Rajesh Balaji - CEO
Fourteen years’ experience in managing interactive software business with Core expertise in product design, managing development & monetizing the products. Pixcell Play has been credited for Publishing 32 plus titles, including Cart kings, Don2, Top Gun, Kite fight, Dare to fly - across platform, market and technologies. Manages a diversified and creative team that has extensive experience in external and internal production, and development methodologies while exhibiting strong organizational, analytical and project management skills. He is also well versed with development experience in current generation gaming platforms and has explored a wide range of game engines like Torque, unity 3D, and Vicious Cycle"
ChennaiGames Studio
Mohan Doss - CEO
As a gaming enthusiast and entrepreneur, I have a passion for creating games that engage and excite players while delivering tangible value. With my extensive 20 years experience in game development and technology leadership, I have the skills and expertise to bring cutting-edge games to life. As a creator of MR RACER game with more than 13 million downloads, and as the studio's leader, I motivated and inspired my team to achieve extraordinary results, building games that were innovative, fun, and highly addictive!
Highbrow Interactive
Prashanth Krishnan - Creative Director
Prashanth Krishnan is a Game Designer and the Creative Director of Highbrow Interactive - a gaming studio from Chennai. With a degree in Computer Science from Anna University, Prashanth cofounded Highbrow Interactive in 2013 and has been instrumental in building one of India’s most beloved gaming companies reaching over 60 million users around the world. In addition to games, Prashanth has extensively worked in the field of Virtual Reality, being one of the earliest adopters, and having crafted and delivered more than a dozen training simulation products across industries to various MNCs.
Hero Vired
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan - Senior Consultant
Ajay Kumar is a Subject Matter Expert for gaming and immersive technology, he has graduated from Oxford Brookes University. He was working in Singapore and Dubai on various games and emerging technology for established brands. He has gained a wealth of experience working across 2D /3D animation, video designing, games and various other services. Not only that, he has created a unique curriculum for UG / PG degree programs on the latest technologies for various universities pan India to educate and bring the technology closer to young learners in the industry and also to identify the right talents.
Creative Monkey Games & Technologies
P. Deepak Aravind - Co-Founder & CEO
Deepak Aravind is a Computer Science Engineer turned Technology Entrepreneur passionate about innovation and gaming. During college, he won many awards for the Text to Sign Language 3D Animator software developed for hearing-impaired people. Also, when working with Robert Bosch in 2011, he proposed making a virtual reality forest safari mobile game to demonstrate the use case of a Gyroscope sensor at CES when the world was trying to explore making mobile games for accelerometer sensors. He co-founded Creative Monkey Games in 2015 with his wife, Kavitha and started as a two-member team, now a 35-member Company. Creative Monkey Games is a key player in the Mobile Cricket genre, and Cricket Gangsta is their latest cricket game.
HammerPlay
Joshua Jebadurai - Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder
Joshua started his journey as a Game Designer at Gameloft, later moved to engineering and porting. After a few years at Gameloft, he moved to XMG Studios during the early days of Mobile Gaming, where he worked on titles like Cow Vs. Aliens ranking AppStore’s Top 10 and Marine Sharpshooter. After a year, he worked for an Indie studio, Swappz Interactive, which enabled him to work on popular titles such as Smurfs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In 2014, Joshua joined forces with Vijay and the team at Hammerplay Studios. He finally found his calling by building teams and state of the art technical pipelines, working with emerging platforms and technologies. After a few years of External Development of Games, Hammerplay began working on original games, with a growing portfolio of 20+ games under its belt. Joshua loves to constantly push technology boundaries in Multiplayer, Web and Mobile Games and is currently the CTO at Hammerplay where he is heading the entire Development team.
Winzo
Ramanjot Kohli - Corporate Development & Strategy
At WinZO, Ramanjot is working on Corporate Development and Strategic partnership initiatives. WinZO is actively investing in early to growth stage companies in the gaming and interactive entertainment space. Ramanjot has over 6 years of experience in corporate strategy, investing and deal making
Nazara Technologies
Rashmi Ranjan Mishra - Business Head - Publishing
Gaming, Mobile and Digital Media professional with more than 16+ years of experience in App Marketing & Monetization, In-game Consumer Activation, Digital Marketing, Strategic Alliances & Brand Partnerships. Previously associated with Companies like; Cellent Tech, Start Corp, Times Internet. He is currently spearheading Ad Monetization and Revenue Operations for Nazara Group – Publishing division for the last 7 years.
IndiGG
Abhir Das - Senior Manager - Influencers, Content & Social Media
As a filmmaker & content specialist with 6+ years of experience, Abhir is working at IndiGG to strategize & create consumable content, e-sports & events that will help onboard the 500M+ gamers who reside in India.
Nextwave Multimedia
Christopher Franklin J - CEO
20 years in the Game Industry with experience across E-sports, game design & studio leadership
- Headed the Game Design vertical at multiple studios such as GSN, Ludia, Glu & EA over the last 10 years
- Game Design lead on $500M+ games franchisees such as Bingo Bash (GSN) & Jurassic World (Ludia)
Keywords Studios
Thomas George - Project Manager
I have been part of the gaming industry since 2006 and have 11+ years in QA. Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner. Have managed QA for a large number of games and apps on different platforms. Avid gamer and regularly play MMOs and Fifa.
Kalaari Capital
Harshit Kumar - Investment Associate
Harshit is a part of the Investment Team at Kalaari Capital, an early stage venture capital fund based out of Bangalore. He looks at opportunities in the Gaming, ESports and Interactive Entertainment space.
Lumikai
Kislay Shashwat - VP of Investments
Kislay has 10+ years experience as an investor, operator and operator and M&A tech
banker in the Indian startup ecosystem.
Prior to Lumikai, he was part of Xiaomi’s Global Investments Arm, leading their Consumer Internet Investments in India and Deep Tech Strategic Initiatives in Europe. Kislay started his career as an Investment Banker with JP Morgan amassing over $1Bn of transaction experience covering public markets and later focused on private placement for high growth tech companies with DC Advisory. He is a BITS Pilani alumni and was recognized as 40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India by AIWMI and IAAIF. Kislay has been a passionate gamer through his college days and loves multiplayer online battle arena games such as DOTA 2. He can still lose track of time playing with his favourite heroes such as Juggernaut and Mirana. As the VP of Investments at Lumikai, Kislay has lead investments across gaming and interactive media. Kislay actively works closely with portfolio founders to help them scale in their early-stage journeys.
Google Play Games
Vinay Charaniya - Partnerships Manager
Vinay has 13 yrs of experience working in media, FMCG and the Mobile Gaming industry. Over the last 4.5 yrs at Google, he has partnered with gaming developers growing their games. Among these include some of the biggest global studios such as Miniclip, EA, King, Roblox and top Indian studios like PlaySimple Games and Gameberry Labs. His expertise lies in UX, IAP-Ads monetization and using analytics to drive growth.
Nazara Technologies
Saikat Mondal-Vice President - Strategy and M&A
Saikat has been leading the M&A and Strategy vertical at Nazara and has over 5 years of experience in Mobile F2P gaming industry with Glu - EA Mobile and Garena across various verticals including product strategy, business strategy and corporate development. When he is not meeting people and discussing the limitless potential gaming industry has today, he is probably busy dominating the virtual battlefield in CODM or eager for his life refresh in Project Makeover, all while keeping one eye on his 6 months old baby girl, who undoubtedly already has a higher kill-to-death ratio than him.
Banzan Studios
Mukesh Dev - Founder & CEO
4x Founder, 20+ years overall experience. Presently building a Character driven TRANSMEDIA with a Gaming First approach and along with the Banzan team, creator of BaBlah, a first of its kind Virtual Actor, who had been entertaining global mobile audiences through a One-of-a-Kind Facts based Daily Comic Strips & a bouquet of Casual & Hyper Casual games, available on multiple platforms.
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Tuttifrutti
Ajish G Habib - CEO
Ajish G Habib, A first genre serial entrepreneur with over 20 years expertise in game production and running game studios. As CEO of Tuttifrutti he was instrumental in forging its seamless strategic alliances. He was the creative Director of our pilot IP Darkarta which grabbed over 10 international awards, 5 national awards & 5 state awards. He holds an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, and Computer Science Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University College of Engineering.
Ether Games
Gokul Elayidath - CEO
Gokul Elayidath, CEO of the Ether Games, mobile gaming company from Kerala has an 12+ years of experience in the gaming industry. This level of experience has given them a comprehensive understanding of the different types of gamers, from mid-core to core, and hyper-casual gamers.
Furthermore ,Gokul has a track record when it comes to launching games, having launched more than 35 games to date. With approximately 2+ million downloads, it is clear that the CEO has been creating games that appeal to a wide audience and generate significant interest Currently, his focus is on web3 and how it can be leveraged to create new and innovative gaming experiences for players.
KSUM
Tom Thomas - COO
Currently part of the leadership team at Kerala Startup Mission. The broad areas of our operations range from setting up of fab labs for advanced prototyping to early stage startup funding to market access programs and investments into startups and VCs through Fund of Funds. Before he was part of ADIF and was involved in filing and overseeing one of the landmark cases against Google's abuse of dominance in In-App-Payments. They were able to secure a favourable verdict from the Competition Commission of India and as a representative voice of India's digital startups and also got to interact with the concerned Parliamentary Committee regarding the need for establishing ex-ante regulations for protecting Indian startups from predatory practices of big-techs.
MPL
Jatin Narang - AVP, Product Management
Product Management Leader with background in building user-facing mobile and SaaS products. I love working at the intersection of technology and user behavior. At Playsimple Games, I was building growth and cross-promotion products for the portfolio of games. Kayzen, I worked on building ML models to generate insights from the bid stream user data; I also managed Kayzen's programmatic supply.
OpenPlay Technologies
Deepak V - CEO
Currently CEO, OpenPlay Technologies, A Nazara group company in the real money gaming space
An IIM Calcutta Alumnus with a track record of leading and growing companies across EV, gaming, auto, retail, oil & gas and others
As the Co-founder & CEO of Etrio, he grew the company from a pioneer in Electric Vehicle retrofitting to a leader in 3W electric vehicles
Fortune 40under40 2021 recipient for driving cargo electrification in the country
15+ years of experience in delivering strategic transformations across customer lifecycle, product, profitability, operations, & sales
Worked in blue-chip companies including Tata Motors and Axis Bank in channel sales and infrastructure financing space respectively
Nazara Technologies
Rashmi Ranjan Mishra - Business Head - Publishing
Gaming, Mobile and Digital Media professional with more than 16+ years of experience in App Marketing & Monetization, In-game Consumer Activation, Digital Marketing, Strategic Alliances & Brand Partnerships. Previously associated with Companies like; Cellent Tech, Start Corp, Times Internet. He is currently spearheading Ad Monetization and Revenue Operations for Nazara Group – Publishing division for the last 7 years.
IndiGG
Abhir Das - Senior Manager - Influencers, Content & Social Media
As a filmmaker & content specialist with 6+ years of experience, Abhir is working at IndiGG to strategize & create consumable content, e-sports & events that will help onboard the 500M+ gamers who reside in India.
Hero Vired
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan - Senior Consultant
Ajay Kumar is a Subject Matter Expert for gaming and immersive technology, he has graduated from Oxford Brookes University. He was working in Singapore and Dubai on various games and emerging technology for established brands. He has gained a wealth of experience working across 2D /3D animation, video designing, games and various other services. Not only that, he has created a unique curriculum for UG / PG degree programs on the latest technologies for various universities pan India to educate and bring the technology closer to young learners in the industry and also to identify the right talents.
Epic Games
Arvind Neelakantan -Evangelist - India/SEA
Arvind Neelakantan, Head of Tech (India/ASEAN) for Epic Games specializes in games and in empowering film/animation studios in using real-time tech. Prior to Epic, he was the Head of Technology (Indian Subcontinent) for Unity Technologies where he drove innovation strategy and provided technology leadership
Lakshya Digital
Abhinandan Ghosh - Art Director
I am Abhinandan Kumar Ghosh, BE in Computer Science and Engineering. I have 19+ years of experience in 3d games and animations. Currently working at Lakshya Digital, (Keywords Studios) as an Art Director. I have worked on several prestigious AAA game titles like Tekken7, Shadow of War, Call of Duty, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Metal Gear Solid 5, Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Forespoken etc.
IndiGG
Aman Biswas - Gaming & Marketing
As an early adopter & appreciator of web3 technology along with 10 years of gaming industry experience, Aman is working at IndiGG to grow the web3 gaming scene in India via verticals such as esports tournaments, influencer marketing, events, content and more.
Diosc Gaming
Digbijoy Acharjee - CEO
I have started my entrepreneurial journey when I was in Silchar Polytechnic. After building affordable product in the field of smart home appliances, our journey stopped because of covid web. That time, I have thought of entering into entertainment business and thus started DIOSC Gaming, the 1st Game dev and publishing company of Northeast, India with my friend Biprajyoti. We provide the best available hyper realistic gaming experience for the mobile user.
Nazara Technologies
Saikat Mondal-Vice President - Strategy and M&A
Saikat has been leading the M&A and Strategy vertical at Nazara and has over 5 years of experience in Mobile F2P gaming industry with Glu - EA Mobile and Garena across various verticals including product strategy, business strategy and corporate development. When he is not meeting people and discussing the limitless potential gaming industry has today, he is probably busy dominating the virtual battlefield in CODM or eager for his life refresh in Project Makeover, all while keeping one eye on his 6 months old baby girl, who undoubtedly already has a higher kill-to-death ratio than him.
Nazara Technologies
Sudhir Kamath - COO
Chief Operating Officer at Nazara, and serves as a Board Member at Datawrkz, Sportskeeda, Kiddopia and WCC3. Previously he had co-founded 9stacks in the real money gaming space. He's an avid board gamer, is rated among the top 50 Indian scrabble players, and has been the President of the Scrabble Association of India. Prior to gaming, he worked at McKinsey & Co. and in the oil & gas industry. He is a Computer Engineer from DU and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Hero Vired
Ajay Kumar Srinivasan - Senior Consultant
Ajay Kumar is a Subject Matter Expert for gaming and immersive technology, he has graduated from Oxford Brookes University. He was working in Singapore and Dubai on various games and emerging technology for established brands. He has gained a wealth of experience working across 2D /3D animation, video designing, games and various other services. Not only that, he has created a unique curriculum for UG / PG degree programs on the latest technologies for various universities pan India to educate and bring the technology closer to young learners in the industry and also to identify the right talents.
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