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Vishal Gondal - Founder & CEO |
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While most kids were grappling with the realities of growing up, Vishal took a head start and started his first company – FACT, soon after finish school at the ripe young age of 16.
In 1999, he founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles making Indiagames one of the leading mobile game companies globally. Today he is recognized as being instrumental in starting and growing the Gaming Industry in India.
He was part of The Nokia Advisory Council for Games and actively advices Nokia on wireless and gaming technologies and is a much sought after speaker at gaming and wireless technology conferences. Indiagames under Vishal’s leadership was featured amongst Red Herring Asia’s Top 100 companies in 2005.
Amongst his other achievements and industry recognitions include being featured among the top 40 Indian entrepreneurs by Business Today magazine in 2001; an E&Y Indian Entrepreneur of the year award nomination in 2004 and most recently being listed among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space by the UK based Mobile Entertainment Magazine. This list featured the likes of Steve Jobs of Apple. Vishal also features among the 20 Fab Indians to watch out for in 2006 by The Week magazin
Vishal is a Board Member of NASSCOM Board of Animation and Gaming Standards (BAGS) a joint effort of NASSCOM and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Vishal is a member of the FICCI Media & Entertainment Committee, representing the Gaming Industry. Vishal is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Mobile VAS Task Force and a charter member of TIE, a global not-for-profit organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship. He is also the Steering Committee Member of IGDA Casual Games SIG
Check out Vishal Gondals Blog - www.godinchief.com
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Samir Bangara – Chief Operating Officer |
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Samir is the Chief Operating Officer of Indiagames and has been associated with the company in different roles as advisor and investor for about ten years.
Prior to this, Samir worked at Ernst & Young India’s M&A advisory division where he led the firm’s wireless and BPO initiatives as Vice President. Samir successfully advised several cross border and domestic transactions in the technology space significantly contributing to Ernst & Young’s leadership position as the top technology M&A advisory firm in the country.
Earlier, Samir was part of ILFS Investment Managers (IIML) where he worked for two years and was part of the team investing in media and technology. He was also instrumental in the seed stage financing of Indiagames by IIML in 1999.
Samir is an MBA in Finance and has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce
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With a decade and a half work experience firmly to his credit, Cyril Ferry has contributed over 9 years in the VAS industry - right from its inception.
Today, Cyril heads the India Mobile Business at Indiagames as Executive Vice-President (Mobile). He has played a pivotal role in leveraging the business potentials of the ever growing mobile market for Indiagames. He has a Masters degree in Commerce and Business Administration in his kitty.
He also enjoys travelling, is an avid foodie and a movie buff.
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| Deepak Ail - Associate Vice President |
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Deepak Ail has been a part of the Gaming industry ever since its inception in India. As part of the 5 member founding team of Indiagames, Deepak has been wearing multiple hats as a Project manager, Studio Head, Executive Producer and in his current role as Associate Vice President - for the India Publishing business. As an Executive Producer, Deepak provided his leadership to the international development studios for over a decade, managing the production teams and the international Sales and Marketing teams where he supervise partner programs, marketing,
communications and branding. In his current role he is responsible for Sales, Managing Indiagames new initiative as Managed service provider and to drive the synergies of the various internal studios at IG to contribute to tap the business potentials of the ever growing gaming market in India.
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| Mahendra Patel
- Finance Controller |
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Mahendra Patel has been a core member of the Indiagames management team for the last nine of his eighteen years of professional experience. He has predominantly led the finance function within the Company and has been its Financial Controller since 2007. Apart from his operational role, Mahendra has worked on several strategic engagements like the exit of the early stage investors to Tom Online – China, a primary fund raise from Cisco Systems and Adobe Inc and subsequently the exit of Tom Online with the induction of UTV Software Communications as a shareholder. Mahendra also participates as a member of the senior management team providing inputs on various commercial and business related issues on a regular basis.
Prior to joining Indiagames, Mahendra worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, SBI Mutual Fund and BOI Mutual Fund in various capacities. Mahendra is a Bachelor of Commerce and graduated from the Mumbai University in 1991.
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| Reena George - GM - HR & Admin |
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Reena George began her career in the IT industry and joined Indiagames in 2004. With her rich experience in various facets of Human Resource Management in the IT sector, Reena provided leadership expertise in all aspects of HR Operations with the key target of scaling up resources and implementing progressive internal policies and processes for the Gaming Sector. She adds value to the Business by creatively & strategically integrating HR processes with Core Business process and focuses on building a work culture which is achievement oriented with high performance teams.
At Indiagames, Reena is responsible for managing and controlling the entire gamut of HR and HR Strategic Initiatives as Head – HR for 300+ employees and create a culture of change for the organization through continuous capability improvements.
Reena is armed with a Masters degree in Commerce and Masters Degree in Human Resource Management.
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| Sachin Janghel - Technology Director |
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Sachin Janghel has been a part of the indiagames management team for more than seven years and has played a very important role in games development. He has been instrumental in making the Games on Demand service a huge success.
Armed with the latest technology, Sachin Janghel now heads the Online Services with Games on Demand and the upcoming DTH games service. |
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| Hrishi Oberoi - Director, IG Studios |
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Hrishi has been in the gaming industry and with Indiagames for over eight years now during which time he has designed, programmed, produced and executive produced over 65 games for the mobile phone, PC, handheld and console gaming platforms. During his career in the industry he has built the game development studios from scratch, helped establish international best practices and processes within game development teams and shaped teams to be self reliant in building international quality games. Hrishi is also an active part of nurturing the game development community in India, be it organizing NASSCOM's first Game Development Seminar or promoting "Game Development in India" at various conferences and educational institutes in India.
Currently as Director of IG Studios, Hrishi oversees the studios responsible for developing all of IG's games and is also currently in charge of Indiagames' International Publishing on mobile and PC. Hrishi is a Bachelor in Electronics from RAIT, Navi Mumbai and completed his M.Sc. from George Washington University, where he specialized in Computer Graphics and Animation.
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| Srinivasan V - Head 3D Development |
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Srinivasan has 7+ years experience working in the gaming domain and currently heads the 3d development team at Indiagames. Srini has produced major titles on mobile to his credit which include BioShock, Bruce Lee, Godzilla, Cricket T20 Fever and many more. His team is the creator of the cross platform 3d technology called "ICE 3D" which wes instrumental in all the 3d games developed by the studio.
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| Tejraj Parab - GM Marketing, Games on Demand |
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Mr. Tejraj Parab is the General Manager Business Development for Indiagames’ PC subscription business – Games on Demand and has been involved with the service since its launch. He has been instrumental in growing the service to become the largest and only successful PC gaming subscription service in India.
Mr. Tejraj has a Masters in Business Administration followed by varied experience and expertise earned across different Industries such as Media, Banking and Online Gaming. His experience in these industries has come handy in development of marketing, product development and sales strategies for the PC games business. |
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