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Abhishek Jain is a filmmaker, founder of CineMan Productions Limited and Oho Gujarati. At the age of 26, he got recognized as 'Trendsetter of the year 2012' followed by 'Innovation achievers award for contribution in Films & Advertisement' by the Gujarat Innovation Society- a felicitation initiated by the Government of Gujarat. Abhishek created a benchmark in the Gujarati Film Industry with his path-breaking debut feature film- 'Kevi Rite Jaish', which ran in cinemas for 112 days, his second feature film- 'Bey Yaar', become the widest released Gujarati film and Feature Film- 'Wrong Side Raju' received a National Award for the best feature film in the Gujarati language. Having paved the path into Gujarat's regional film industry, his company CineMan has now got into a 2 film co-production deal with Maddock films for making Hindi feature-length films out of which, 'Hum Do, Humare Do' has run very successfully. After being a trendsetter in making films and advertisements, Abhishek has successfully launched Oho Gujarati, which is Gujarat's first premium content streaming platform, catering to the Gujarati audience globally and will complete a successful one year in May. Abhishek, as an entrepreneur has an innate understanding of the business of films and as a filmmaker, he has distinct creative sensibilities that marry the market and imagination.

Under Abhishek's leadership, Endemol Shine India has grown from producing only non-scripted content to serving content across screens, languages and genres in TV, films, and the digital medium. In addition to striking a fine balance as both business administrator and creative contributor of the firm, Abhishek is known for his penchant for attracting and retaining industry talent and tailoring the management style to accommodate diverse personalities, skill sets and experience levels. Abhishek, who has an MBA in marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, started his career with Star India. He followed this up with leading business roles for Viacom 18 US Inc. in the US and as COO of Endemol Shine India. Abhishek lives in Mumbai.

Part of Indian Television Group Anil Wanvari, is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Indiantelevision.com group. He has spent more than 37 years in the media industry and is considered India's foremost analyst, consultant and catalyst for the media sector. It achieves this through its various B2B and B2C portals: indiantelevision.com (for the cable, satellite, OTT, production, advertising, marketing, media industries), tellychakkar.com (TV show and actor news for TV fans), AnimationXpress.com (for the VFX, comics, gaming, and animation segments) and radionandmusic.com (for the FM radio, digital music and music industry). He is also a well known Television/Digital Producer known for producing The Indian Telly Awards for the last 16 years and oodles of digital content. It engages with industry by organizing thought leadership forums under its various verticals: Video and Broadband Summit, VidNET - The largest OTT summit, RadioConnex Awards, News Television Awards ,BrandVid,The Content Hub, Kids Animation & More and Ann Awards

Arun joined Synamedia in August 2021 to support 'Clarissa', the company's data and analytics initiatives solution. Arun designs data-driven insights while ensuring that technical solutions are expertly adapted to individual customer requirements.
Arun has over 13 years' experience in software development, integration and solution design. He was previously with the Aditya Birla Group, where he was responsible for deploying analytics products across its manufacturing and financial service divisions.
Arun began his career as a software developer at Cognizant and then NDS, working on a range of set-top-box applications. He completed his post-graduate degree specialising in marketing and then moved into an analytics solutioning and delivery role. As an analytics manager in Mu Sigma and then Accenture, he was responsible for the design and implementation of a range of solutions in search engine advertising, sales and predictive maintenance.
Arun holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from The Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli.

Aashish Singh - CEO, Lyca productions. Aashish has recently been appointed as CEO of Lyca productions to make it a leading pan India studio. Prior to joining Lyca Productions he was leading Original Films at Netflix, India. He was earlier the CEO at Balaji motion pictures and VP - Production at Yashraj films where he played an active role in many successful films like Chak De India, Dhoom 2, Dhoom 3, Tiger Zinda Hai, Rab Me Bana Di Jodi, Jab Tak Hain Jaan, Ek Tha Tiger, Band Baaja Baarat, Dream Girl etc. Aashish has more than 25 years of experience in the media and entertainment business. He is a film buff, born in a film family and to his credit has been responsible for shooting feature films in more than thirty-five countries. He also has executive produced the maximum number of Hindi films. He is a B. Com graduate and has been responsible in getting some of the best rebates and incentives for feature films in Hindi language.

Averill Sequeira is currently the Chief Product Officer at Mediacom India, part of the WPP group, the world's largest marketing communications network. With 18+ years of media & communications experience, she has worked across traditional and new age clients in CPG, telecom, auto and banking sectors, addressing areas of transformational growth, return on marketing investment and brand portfolio planning. She is equally at home designing consumer experience journeys and bringing platform-neutral ideas to life, as in quantifying & measuring brand outcomes. The dizzying speed of ad tech & consumer tech and its impact on marketing has happily challenged her branding tenets and she can't wait to be part of what the marketing future looks like. She is a Published author (WARC.COM) and industry speaker (ADTECH, Spikes Asia) on marketing & a recipient of industry awards at Campaign Asia and EMVIES.

Deepak Segal has over three decades’ experience in the film and television industry. Graduating as a Film Editor from the prestigious Film and Television Institute; his repertoire of work includes key positions to drive content strategy across media giants like Fox Television Studio India, Sahara Motion Pictures and Star India. He played a crucial role in turning around Star Plus with KBC, K-Soaps and in launching the premium Star One. Currently, Head of Content at Applause Entertainment, Deepak Segal drives the studio’s vision of building a content hub that aims to tell stories across mediums, catering to millions. Deepak Segal is committed to collaborating and creating multi-lingual, multi-genre and multi- platform series at Applause Entertainment. Believing in the fundamental that there is a dearth of innovative and smart content on OTT platforms, Deepak Segal intends to pave the path of content at Applause Entertainment to a level where it cuts the clutter and hits the mark of excellence. From strategically planning, conceptualising and closely working with the creative and financial minds to commission it, he plays a key role in the development and optimization of the creative content, at Applause. In this role, he ensures that all the narratives and messaging of the content studio are in support of its strategies. Additionally, he is involved in developing and overseeing an integrated content plan that encapsulates actively measuring, managing, optimizing and communicating the performance of the content put out by Applause Entertainment against the business’s operational objectives.

Falguni Shah, Managing Director, EORTV. Falguni brings in a decade of experience working with leading broadcast, video-on-demand, and digital companies. Shah’s expansion of portfolio comes as EORTV continues to expand its commitment to development of the OTT marketplace. Falguni continues to hold her position at the EORTV’s production arm Dreamzz Images Studio as well. Falguni has twelve years of experience in content creation, brand integrations, syndication and marketing. Prior to her experience in the entertainment industry, she has held plump positions in the companies like Standard Chartered Finance Ltd, HDFC Standard Life, Tata Teleservices Ltd and BPL (Loop) Mobile, post which she switched from corporate to the content industry joining Dreamzz Images Studio.
EORTV is a premium video streaming app that offers thousands of hours of premium, exclusive and original content. Users can view Web series, Music videos, LGBTQ originals and short videos. The app focuses on making content which caters to the careworn community in the society.

Gaurav Kanwal brings to the table his rich experience in media and information technology sector across the Asia-Pacific and South Asian markets. In his current role Gaurav is responsible for driving revenue from ZEE’s digital offerings working across advertisers and agency partners.    Prior to ZEE, Gaurav was EVP – Ad Sales of Disney + Hotstar where he set up a new business adding increment revenue and ad products to the platform’s offering to clients. Gaurav has spent over a decade in the tech industry with industry leaders like Adobe & Symantec where he set up the SMB and consumer business respectively for this in the South Asian region.    An  alumnus of Delhi University with post-graduation from IIPM Delhi, Gaurav has worn many hats in the last two decades, including those of sales lead, marketing head, online business lead and strategist. Gaurav has built distribution channels and partnerships from scratch while growing businesses at the same time.

Gaurav is head content, disney+ hotstar & hsm entertainment network. In this role, he oversees all entertainment content for disney+ hotstar, and for hindi entertainment channels of star tv network. Gaurav runs the star content studio which has made 9 out of the top 15 digital and 6 out of the top 10 hindi tv shows in the country. Gaurav joined star news as prime time anchor and senior producer and launched the bengali news channel of the group, star ananda in 2005. He moved on to lead the content strategy of the networks regional entertainment channels in 2008 and expanded the companys reach in two new markets, bengal and maharashtra with star jalsha and star pravah respectively. Within a year of launch, star jalsha became the number one bengali language channel in india. In october 2009, gaurav moved on to hindi entertainment as head of content strategy at star plus, and he was responsible for stars widely popular shows like 'diya aur baati hum' and 'sasural genda phool'.

Gaurav took on the role of general manager of star plus in 2013 and propelled star plus into a strong leadership brand with blockbuster shows like mahabharata and yeh hai mohabbatein. Around 2015-2016, as stars entertainment became available across screens, gaurav took charge as the leader of the content studio and refreshed the storytelling approach for star plus and star bharat. He has strengthened the disney+ hotstar library with world class content that appeals to unique tastes of audiences with hotstar specials like 'special ops' and the emmy nominated 'aarya'.

Gaurav is dedicated to nurturing a pool of talented writers with star writers program one of indias most immersive courses in television writing. Gaurav believes that good stories provide context. It comes from his experience of being a journalist with aaj tak in 2000. As an anchor, he covered the afghan war and the general elections.

Gaurav has a master's in film making and video from mass communications research centre, jamia milia islamia university, delhi.

Gautam brings to the table over 20 years of experience in the content, advertising and entertainment space. His last role in advertising was that of the Chief Strategy Officer for Rediffusion Y&R; after which he founded Culture Chaat Inc., a company targeted at producing culturally insightful content for kids. Culture Chaat’s first animated show Jalebi Street was successfully launched for preschoolers, receiving acclaim and popularity both on television (Nick Jr.) and on YouTube, with over 50 million views since launch. Gautam has also been a regular guest columnist for The Economic Times (Business of Brands section) in 2013-2014 as well as Brand Wagon (Marketing supplement for Financial Express) He began his career with Grey Worldwide, followed by several years at Lowe Lintas in account management and strategic planning. His career path then took him to Lateral Solutions (Netpreneurship) followed by Lowe Dubai , Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt Ltd and then Rediffusion Y&R. Prior to joining Rediffusion-Y&R, Gautam was the creative and business head for Kaleidoscope Entertainment, where he set up the mobile content division, developed original concepts and content for the television and the mobile space. He was also the executive producer on two full-length feature films.   Gautam spent three years with Lowe & Partners-Middle East & North Africa (Dubai) as the Regional Account Director on the Unilever business. At Lowe Dubai, he worked on Fair & Lovely, Lifebuoy, OMO, Rexona & Axe, Lux Progress, Signal and was the strategic planner for the largest juice brand in MENA – Almarai juices. Across his 5 years at Lowe Mumbai he was the strategic planner on the skin and hair franchise for Unilever, planning on brands such as Fair & Lovely and the Clinic franchise. He was also the planning force behind the very successful Balbir Pasha campaign for Population Services International (PSI). At Grey he worked on cross category brands like Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury Schweppes, Tropicana, Diageo, Emirates Airlines, Akai TV, Tata Tetley, Elf Lubricants & The Bombay Store.   Gautam has two Cannes Finalist certificates for Axe for two consecutive years as well as a New York Silver and an EPICA silver. He also won the Campaign gold award for the best integrated marketing campaign for 2005 for Axe for the MENA region and won the Unilever internal gold award for global brand activation of Axe. In addition he is a Silver “Effies” winner for the PSI campaign (Balbir Pasha).   Gautam’s constant source of inspiration is music, movies and spirituality. He is endlessly fascinated by unearthing insights and motivations that drive human behavior.

Govindraj Basatwar is A Techo-Commerical evangelist, who heads the Global Business for PallyCon and AppSealing by INKA Entworks Inc. and Managing Director of INKA India.
Govindraj has a proven track record of creating and executing SaaS business globally. As Cybersecurity is a passion he would love to share the knowledge via blogs and speeches. Prior to INKA Govindraj worked at South Korean trade Embassy to handle bilateral trade between India and S.korea, he helped 50+ Korean companies to an established business in India.

Mr. Hansal Mehta is an Indian film director, writer, actor and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is best known for Shahid (2013) for which he won the National Film Award for Best Direction. He then went on to direct City Lights (2014), Aligarh (2016), Simran (2017), Omerta (2018) and Scam 1992 (2020

An astute Mar-com professional with 25+ years of experience - planning FMCG, Telecom, Broadcast, E-commerce in India & Middle East Markets. Headed Media mandates for Nokia MENA, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Snapdeal, Godrej, Wipro. Headed Marketing for STAR Middle East & Strategy & Research for Star News. Currently with ITC Limited as the Head Media & Brand PR.

Manish heads APAC and MENA sales for ViewLift, a global leader in end-to-end streaming platform and OTT solutions. Manish, an IIM, Kozhikode alumni is a growth leader with expertise in Media, SaaS and Broadcasting. He has extensive experience in helping some of the largest OTT and streaming companies to scale and succeed.

Arun joined Synamedia in August 2021 to support 'Clarissa', the company's data and analytics initiatives solution. Arun designs data-driven insights while ensuring that technical solutions are expertly adapted to individual customer requirements.
Arun has over 13 years' experience in software development, integration and solution design. He was previously with the Aditya Birla Group, where he was responsible for deploying analytics products across its manufacturing and financial service divisions.
Arun began his career as a software developer at Cognizant and then NDS, working on a range of set-top-box applications. He completed his post-graduate degree specialising in marketing and then moved into an analytics solutioning and delivery role. As an analytics manager in Mu Sigma and then Accenture, he was responsible for the design and implementation of a range of solutions in search engine advertising, sales and predictive maintenance.
Arun holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from The Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli.

With over 10 years of experience in the content space, panning over feature films, Ad films, branded content and digital, Mrinalini forte lies in Creative content production. She has developed and executed projects with some of the biggest production houses in India and has been closely involved with setting up shoots in multiple parts of the world in the fiction as well as non-fiction space. at Banijay Asia, she has been a key force in developing scripted as well as non-scripted formats. From pitch to development, she is highly capable of bringing to life just a fleeting thought of an idea. Additionally, she has been a big part of international strategy & partnerships.

With over 15+ years of experience and a Cost & Management Accountant from ICAI plus Master of Commerce and PGDMM Rank Holder from Pune University, meet our Product & Marketing Head - Mr. Niranjan Avasthi.
Niranjan has joined Edelweiss Asset Management Limited in the year 2017. He is responsible for the overall product and marketing strategy of the AMC.
When not occupied with work, his passion lies in de-coding and analyzing Fixed Income, Equity Markets along with Macro-Economic trends that defines the investment environment in the country. A voracious reader, he strongly believes in learning new things each day, every day! He lives by the quote "Good in not enough, excellence is the goal!"
Before joining Edelweiss Asset Management Limited, he was head of Product Communication at ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund for 6 plus years. He's along worked for Reliance Capital Asset Management, ICICI Securities and Share Khan in the managerial roles.

With over 23 years of experience, Puja has witnessed the transformation of the M&E industry first-hand. In fact, it would be safe to say that she is amongst those few industry leaders who have played a part in driving this change. She uses her strong understanding of the media & technology sector and constantly evolving viewing preferences of the audiences to craft engaging and entertaining stories.

Rabindra Narayan, the MD & President of PTC Network, is considered as Father of Punjabi Satellite Television, Narayan is credited with putting Gurbani on the world television map as well as starting the first ever Punjabi satellite channel in the world.

A MULTIFACETED PERSONALITY Rabindra Narayan studied English literature from Delhi University and attained diploma in Journalism and Marketing. Theatre played a significant part in his life; he has been a popular theatre artist since his college days, and shared stage with several renowned stage personalities. As the General Secretary with the Delhi-based Collegiate Drama Society, he made significant contributions to the field of Punjabi theatre. Narayan is also a renowned journalist and held significant positions with Sunday Mail and The Weekly Sun. He was also an avid film and music critic and has directed a significant number of highly specialised documentaries to his credit.

A CREATIVE GENIUS Rabindra Narayan is a man of ideas and has been able to bring them to successful execution with engaging content for entertaining viewers. His dedication, combined with his team spirit, makes him front runner in the field of Punjabi television and media. One of Narayan's greatest achievement is the creation of the first Punjabi multimedia stage show - Aazadi De Taraaney - created for commemorating the 50 years of Indian Independence. In the late 90s, Narayan laid the foundation of ETC Punjabi and then also served as Business Head of ZEE Punjabi and Alpha ETC Punjabi. Today, with Seven flagship channels, namely PTC News, PTC Punjabi, PTC Dhol TV, PTC Punjabi Gold, PTC Simran, PTC Music, and PTC Chak De; PTC Network is undoubtedly the largest Punjabi Television Network across the world. These channels have ushered their way into the lives of millions of viewers across the world with music, entertainment, news, spiritual content and innovative programmes. Thanks to the continued efforts of Rabindra Narayan in bringing the Punjabi community togetherby offering round-the-clock infotainment for people of different ages.PTC Network enjoys 80% market share, both in terms of viewership and revenue. It has more than 350 employees consisting of top-notch talent and four state-of-the-art studios. Constantly evolving and experimenting with technology, Narayan also steered PTC Network in beginning the first company in the world to start a daily Live 360 degree Virtual Reality telecast besides doing VR telecast of all PTC's ground events since 2016.

UNDISPUTED GLOBAL LEADER Under Narayan's able leadership, the PTC Network has become the world's largest Punjabi Television Network. With his vision and dedication, he has expanded PTC Network's base to USA, UK, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and Canada. In November 2019, Narayan launched the world's first Virtual Reality 360-degree Live Telecast Service to enable his global viewers to watch the live telecast of Gurbani from Sri Darbar Sahib through VR Gear. The VR-based technology provides real- life experience of the Sri Darbar Sahib remotely, via smartphones on PTC Play app or Jio TV. PTC Network also owns a Record label, Movie production and distribution company. It also has the distinction of being the only company in the world to produce original one-hour feature film every week!

GARNERING AWARDS AND ACCOLADES Owing to his dedicated efforts and unswerving focus, Mr. Narayan has earned huge respect and recognition through these years. He was honoured with the prestigious 'Delhi State Punjabi Media Award' in the year 2003 by the Delhi Government. Recently, he received the Jewel of Punjab Honour from the ex-Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh. Narayan has also been the beneficiary of many national and international titles like Asia One India's Greatest Leaders 2019-20 for his remarkable efforts in bringing a socio-economic revolution in Punjab by providing employment and exposure to the young, aspiring talent.

"Under the able leadership of Mr. Rabindra Narayan, the PTC Network has become the world's largest and most cherished Punjabi Television Network"

A well-known name in the Indian Media & entertainment Industry, Raj Nayak is a visionary leader, media maverick, growth spinner, trendsetter and motivational powerhouse.
In his illustrious career spanning three decades, he led some of the largest media conglomerates in the country. Raj started his career with Tata Economic Consultancy and worked at various news publications before joining STAR TV as a founding member in 1992. Starting as an Area Sales Manager, he spent 10 years at STAR TV and grew into the role of Executive Vice President; and was also a part of the Managing Committee. He then moved on to launch NDTV Media Pvt Ltd as its Chief Executive, helping redefine how news was consumed in the country. Before setting up House of Cheer Networks Pvt Ltd, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd, where he steered the company to great heights. His latest venture is happyness.me (a division of House of Cheer) that is in the business of setting context to positively influence employee behaviour. Using a modern framework underpinned by neuroscience, the happyness.me platform helps organisations get real time insights into the happiness quotient of their employees and the organisation.
His unique prowess to pioneer new concepts and mentor people, make him one of the most respected professionals in the industry. An advocate of happiness, Raj derives his energy from people across all walks of life and believes in the strength of diversity.
Raj has won many awards and accolades. He was awarded the Media Person of the Year 2016 at the IAA Leadership Awards, by the International Advertising Association India Chapter and in the same year, was also awarded the first "Influencer of the Year Award" by Exchange for Media. In 2018, he received the 'Global Champion Award' at The International Advertising Association at Bucharest. In addition, he has received the Society Achiever of the Year award for his contribution to Media & Branding, the Humanitarian Award by Amity International for his contribution towards social issues and the Giant International Award for his contribution to the Entertainment Industry. He was recently inducted into the International Advertising Agency's IAA HALL OF FAME.
Raj has been an active participant in many industry bodies. He was the President of the Advertising Club and the International Advertising Association India. He has served on the board of Media Research Users Council (MRUC) and The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF).
The Economic Times named him the second most engaging CEO on social media. Apart from driving such an enormous business, this chief is passionate about food, travel & reading. As someone who believes in spreading cheer and winning hearts, his twitter handle @rajcheerfull reflects his overall

Revant is CEO & Co-Founder at Mosaic Wellness, a startup that runs 2 Digital Health platforms manmatters.com for men in Hair Loss , Sexual Health and more and bebodywise.com for Women for Hair Loss, Acne, Ageing and PCOS.

Prior to co-founding Mosaic Wellness, Revant was a Partner @ Kstart, Kalaari Capital' seed program, wherein he invested in multiple B2C businesses. He has also helped to build India's largest food delivery business viz. Rebel Foods as an Entrepreneur in Residence over a period of 5 years where he helped the business by donning multiple roles like CFO , CMO and creating new brands over that period. Revant has also been an Investment Banker for the Consumer & Healthcare sectors in India.

Rucha Pathak, joined Excel Entertainment as a Producer after her 6-year stint as Chief Creative Officer at Fox Star Studios in 2020. She set up a robust film and development pipeline at Fox Star Studios with Neerja, Jolly LLB 2, Phillauri, India’s Most Wanted, Chhapaak and Panga among other films. Her recent films include Lootcase and Dil Bechara which aired on Disney + Hotstar in 2020. Rucha has actively backed innovative scripts and made her mark as a producer at UTV Motion Pictures (later Disney). She has a list of extremely successful and critically acclaimed films to her credit, Barfi, ABCD - Anybody Can dance, Paan Singh Tomar, Chillar Party, No One Killed Jessica, Dev D, Welcome to Sajjanpur among others. Many of these films were a part of the UTV Spotboy brand which she helped build. UTV Spotboy was the forerunner of cutting- edge content and path- breaking cinema in the Indian film industry. Rucha also independently produced Harud (Autumn) which was selected in Competition at the Toronto International Film Festival 2010 and was a winner of the Don Quixote award at Fribourg International Film Festival in 2011. Rucha is currently at Excel Entertainment in Mumbai and doing what gives her most joy – putting together people and ideas to create good cinema. She is currently developing Features and Series.

Samar Khan has over 20 years of experience in the M&E industry and has created content across platforms including films, television and digital, leading to expertise in the art of storytelling and entertainment. At Juggernaut Productions, he is responsible for designing and successfully implementing business strategies, plans and procedures, along with creating enviable content for OTT partners.
After a long stint as a broadcast journalist with leading television networks including NDTV, India Today, Star News, Samar moved into filmmaking exploring writing, direction and production opportunities.
Samar holds a Post Graduate degree in Television Journalism from University of Cardiff in Wales, United Kingdom.

Shibasish Sarkar, India's leading media and entertainment professional, is the Chairman & CEO of the SPAC - International Media Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: IMAQ). With over 28 years of experience across the media and entertainment industry, Shibasish has been involved with more than 500 films in his career as a distributor, producer & studio head. Additionally Shibasish has helmed teams that produced more than 90 TV shows, and over 10 OTT series.

Shibasish was previously the Group CEO of Reliance Entertainment, one of India's leading production houses and a subsidiary of the Reliance Group, before becoming Chairman and CEO of IMAQ.

For this SPAC initiative Shibasish has gained support from the who's who of the Indian entertainment Industry. These include top directors and actors of India's film industry including Rohit Shetty (Director, Producer), Imtiaz Ali (Director, Producer & Writer), Neeraj Pandy (Director, Producer & Writer), Luv Ranjan (Director, Producer & Writer), Mani Ratnam (Director, Producer), Megastar Ajay Devgn (Actor, Director, Producer) and Vidyut Jammwal (Actor, Producer).

Other supporters of the venture include producers and media conglomerates such as Bhushan Kumar of film and music studio T-Series, the Mumbai Movie Studio, Supriya Yarlagadda of Annapurna Studios, B.V.S.N. Prasad's Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra, S. Shashikant's Y Not Studios, Deepa Tracy's Storiculture, Vishwa Prasad of People Media and Syed Taher Ali's Taher Cine Tekniq.

IMAQ, a SPAC listed on the NASDQ, will focus its investment effort broadly across the media, entertainment and related technology markets, with a focus on the India opportunity. India the fastest growing OTT market in the world is being viewed upon seriously by On Demand platforms as a must have proposition for their growth strategy. India is a huge multi- linguistic market with many local languages having addressable audiences over 50mn each. IMAC sees this opportunity to stich together M&A deals in segments such as films, TV & digital content, gaming, over-the-top distribution, online social media, online commerce, events, celebrity and talent management, and app-based applications in areas like sports and leisure.

Sourjya has 18 years of experience in Sales & Distribution in Telecom and Media sector. In this role at EPIC ON, he is responsible for driving the growth agenda, along with focus on innovation in content and platform experience. Keeping digital transformation in mind, at Stream-Sense, his role is to help clients grow and understand end-to-end streaming requirements across audio, video, gaming, and e-books. Before joining the network, Sourjya was Head of Business Development, India, for ZEE5. He has also led regional advertising monetisation teams for companies like VodafoneIdea & Big FM. He has a successful track record forging strategic alliances with Smart TV & telecom partners, along with multiple e-commerce platforms and driving USD 15Mn + revenues Sourjya is an alumnus of ITM, Mumbai and has undergone advanced program from Wharton Business School.

Suresh Triveni is a writer and director, who made his debut in Indian cinema with the Hindi feature filmTumhari Sulu in the year 2017. Acclaimed by critics and appreciated by the masses, the movie went on to gather eight nominations in Filmfare, seven nominations in IIFA (winning Best Film) and won him the award for the Most Promising Director at the Star Screen Awards. Triveni, a marketing post graduate, began his professional career in advertising as a client servicing executive and later moved on to film making to follow his passion. With a career spanning more than 22 years, he is currently a leading ad film maker known best for “Maukamauka’, the 2015 Star World Cup Cricket campaign that took the country by storm. He continues to dabble between advertising and long format. Originally from Palakkad in Kerala, Triveni grew up in Ranchi and completed his education from Chennai and Delhi. An avid music lover as well as a voice-over artist, he also was the playback singer for a song in the feature film‘MardKo Dard NahiHota’. His much awaited next, “JALSA” starring Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah, will release this summer. Jalsa is drama -thriller being produced by Vikram Malhotra , Bhushan Kumar and Triveni. He is currently busy writing his next and curating scripts that he can develop to bring to the screen across all formats.

Tim manages the analyst teams behind Omdia's coverage of channels and programming and advertising. Channels and programming monitors evolving channel revenue streams and TV and video production and distribution. The advertising service tracks revenue from all media types, with a particularly strong focus on the fast-developing online and addressable advertising space.
Tim joined Omdia's predecessor company Screen Digest in 2004, where his areas of focus included TV production, animation, sports rights, and public broadcasting. He also edited more than 100 editions of the monthly Media and Technology Digest (formerly Screen Digest). Before that, Tim worked at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg, France, and in a variety of journalism roles including the Financial Times Group, EMAP (now Ascential), and Television Business International. He holds a Master of Arts (Hons.) degree in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. He speaks fluent French and is based in London.

Vibhu Agarwal, an astute businessman from Lucknow, marked his foray into the then nascent OTT space in the year 2018. A sovereign of steel manufacturing, Vibhu dabbled with the dynamic and evolving digital entertainment industry with conviction and decisions that seemed unconventional to many. The lockdown contributed heavily to the phenomenal growth of OTT viewership worldwide and opened gates of huge opportunities. Vibhu, was among the very few people who not only recognized but also harnessed the true potential of this universal platform. It is no surprise that the platform which has the most unconventional name, ULLU, gained a 220% hike in its subscriber base during these difficult times for the entertainment industry. In less than 3 years, the platform boasts of an array of original content across various genres and is touted to be one of the fastest-growing OTT platforms. Vibhu Agarwal, the Founder & CEO is currently one of the driving forces to reckon with in the industry. Under his superlative leadership, ULLU the brand has now diversified into merchandising, music, telecom. Recently, Vibhu Agarwal even announced his foray into the competitive broadcasting space with a new GEC channel. With his unmatched dedication and businesss acumen, Vibhu Agarwal continues to make strides in the entertainment industry.

Vineet Singh is a Brand, Marketing and Creative maverick with an eye for big and brave ideas. Fresh out of college, he joined Google India as one of their first few employees. In a career spanning 15 + years, he has worked on both brand and agency sides with places like DigitasLbi (EVP), WeWork (Head of Brand and Marketing) and Embassy Group (Group CMO). Currently, he is leading Brand and Creative Strategy at BYJU'S. His mandate includes India and many other countries. His work has been recognised at national and international award shows including One Show, Spikes Asia, Goafest, Kyoorius and many more. Under his leadership, BYJU'S emerged as the 3rd most awarded team at Spikes Asia 2022. His work for BYJU'S has garnered over 350 Mn views on multiple platforms in just 6 months.
He also hosted a podcast called, ON A JOURNEY with eminent sports personalities like Charu Sharma, Rohan Bopanna, Scott Levy and many more.

Zubin Jimmy Dubash is a dynamic leader and believes that passion drives success. This passion has helped him pave his way through a successful career of 2 decades. He has been instrumental in building large scale businesses at the likes of Microsoft, Vodafone, You Broadband, Tata DoCoMo and Mobile App Startups. He is currently COO - ShemarooMe and Digital Businesses at Shemaroo Entertainment and spearheads all Digital businesses of the company. An alumnus of JBIMS, with an Executive MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Zubin also has an active right brain. A marathoner, daily yogi, and swimmer, he also indulges in art, writing poetry, and is an active voice over artist too.