Leadership

Nitish is the Joint Managing Director of our company. He holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Mumbai. He founded our Company in 1999 and has been associated in the promotion of our Company for the last 18 years.

Manish CEO at Nazara Games has over 21 years of industry experience, most of it dedicated to the digital industry. Manish has worked with global MNCs such as Microsoft, Unilever and Indian MNCs like Reliance, rediff.com and UTV. Manish joined Nazara in 2015 as Group CEO and prior to that Manish has led various gaming companies like Zapak and Reliance Games.

Rakesh is the Chief Financial Officer of our Company. He has been associated with our Company since May 10, 2010. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Bombay and he is a qualified Cost Accountant from Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Savio is an experienced telecommunication expert with proven track record in achieving sustainable growth of revenue and profit across product lines. As CEO of Nazara Digital, Savio Saldanha is responsible for planning and execution of its global business.

Vamsi is a results-driven dynamic professional having 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, and engineering development of Mobile Platforms and Services. Vamsi has knack of converting business ideas into feasible, cost effective technology solutions.

Akshat is an experienced Serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the start-up space. His traditional experience has been in the management consulting industry with Ernst & Young. He is currently invested into eSports and Gaming.

Bigith is a spearhead of Instasportz Entertainment. A visionary with a natural flair for business, Bigith Nambiar comes with over a decade of experience in sports entertainment & technology. His forte is business development and he is known for his acumen of growth hacking.

Rahul is a serial entrepreneur and has done his B.Tech from IIT-Madras where he founded his first tech startup at IIT Madras Incubation Cell. He takes care of strategy, technology and scaling up at Instasportz. Being an investor, traveller and entrepreneur, he brings innovative thinking and smooth execution on-board.

MS (Computer Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University

Anupam is a passionate tech entrepreneur with in-depth expertise in mobile apps and games. At Paper Boat Apps, Anupam not only looks after the general management and operations of the company but also leads the engineering team.

M.B.A. (Finance), Nottingham University Business School

Anshu is a passionate gamer and tech-savvy mother, Anshu has a deep knowledge of apps & games for young kids. Along with great design skills and immense knowledge of the kids digital space, she brings in the experience of being a mother and hence she understands the difference between games that simply entertain and those that actually teach and help kids develop.

Porush  combined his two passions – sports and entrepreneurship – to produce one of the biggest sports content platforms in the world. As the founder and CEO of sportskeeda.com, he has donned many hats – right from content management and coding to product strategy and web marketing.

Abhinay is a chemical engineer and an MBA from XLRI with around 10 years of experience in business- building teams and managing P&L. Prior to starting up Bakbuck, Abhinay was Business head for Nestaway/Housejoy in Mumbai and has worked with Standard Chartered Bank/ BPCL as well.

Deepan and Ramprasad  have been working on games since their college days. They launched HashCube, a social gaming company, in January 2008, which specializes in making puzzle games in different platform likes Andriod, iOS and Facebook and web.

With over 10 years and more than 100 events across six continents Merlin is a veteran of the Esports industry. During that time he worked in PR, project and partnership management for ESL, the world’s leading esports company, where his responsibility was building the industries best player hospitality infrastructure.

Devavrat started his career as a technology entrepreneur and founded Crimzoncode, a digital entertainment company that allows users to play mobile games (trivia) to win real money.Its flagship mobile game “TopQuiz” was scaled almost organically to 3 million+ users and was rated the No. 2 Trivia Game in India by Google.

“Pratik has more than 15 years of experience building software technology products. Working at the intersection of mobile, sports, gaming and technology, Pratik has founded 3 startups over the past 8 years. Currently building next-generation online gambling platforms for the emerging markets.”