Achille Forler
Three decades of experience in the content creation and content communication industries. First in graphic arts and cultural management (organization of art exhibitions, concerts, etc.); then as a public servant (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in charge of creative industries (learnt to formulate and execute policies of public interest and understand how to translate discernible currents of change in media industries and media technologies into public policies); finally, since 1995, as an entrepreneur, I established the business of music publishing in a passive, if not hostile, environment thereby helping to strengthen the rights of creators.

Adam Mirabella
Adam Mirabella is the Global Director of Ovi Music Services for Nokia. He manages music retail sales and operations worldwide for the company whose music services consist of 'Comes With Music' - the unlimited music download service available in thirty one markets - and Nokia's A La Carte digital music stores which are live in thirty six markets around the world. Adam is also a member of Nokia's global music management team.

Adarsh Gupta
Adarsh Gupta is the COO of Times Music, a division of the Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL).
Times Music is a major player in creating and supplying Premium Devotional and World Music in India and across the World and available across Physical and Digital formats.This is Adarsh's second stint with the label. He earlier one held the position of Deputy General Manager and was responsible for entire Sales, Marketing and Business Development function for India and World Markets.

Ajay Vidyasagar
Ajay is the Chief Operating Officer for Sun TV Network one of India's Biggest Television Network's. Ajay has over Twenty years of successful General Management, Brand management & Content creation experience.
Ajay runs the twenty Channel Sun TV Network, one of India's biggest broadcasters and oversees its entire function and management.
Ajay was Part of the core team that started STAR TV in India, managing content creation and Consumer Marketing for the Indian Sub Continent.
Ajay is a post graduate in management, has an affinity for technology, entertainment (Mobile, Internet & TV) and rural Indian markets and is a big believer in brand 'India'.

Anil Wanvari

Anil Wanvari is the founder of indiantelevision.com, a leading Indian media group, which is positioned right in the centre of action in the Indian TV and broadcast industry. It is involved in online news - through indiantelevision.com, tellychakkar.com, radioandmusic.com and animationxpress.com - TV industry social networking (tellydost.com), dance industry social networking (dancismylife.com), research and consulting, online marketing, conferences (The India Digital Networks Forum. The News Television Summit, Nokia Music Connects) and events (The Indian Telly Awards, The News Television Awards, The New Talent Awards), TV production (for channels such as Sony, Star, Colors). Wanvari has been a speaker at many conferences internationally. Wanvari has been the host of The International Emmy Awards for the past six years and also the Canadian Banff Awards. He also represents MipTV and Mipcom in India as its sales agent.

Apurv Nagpal
An alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and MBA from IIM - Ahmedabad, Apurv has national & international exposure of over 17 years across different categories. His assignments include global and operational roles with some of the world's leading organisations - P&G, British American Tobacco and Reckitt Benckiser across developed and emerging markets like India, South Asia, Russia & Europe.
After almost 11 years abroad, Apurv was homeward bound as Director, Marketing at SAB Miller - India, working in the Beer industry. He is now following his passion for movies and has entered the entertainment industry as the MD & CEO at Saregama India Ltd

Arvind Krishnan

Arvind Krishnan joined Bacardi India Pvt Ltd in 2008 and currently heads the marketing function as 'General Manager'. With honed skills in product management, retail management and brand strategy, he helps drive vision, direction, & platforms for future growth across the company's core product portfolio. He places immense importance to teamwork & values and continuously motivates his team towards achieving excellence. Prior to joining Bacardi, he was Sr. Vice President at Luxor Writing Instruments, where he championed the development of the organization with his novel approaches.
Arvind Krishnan received his management degree from International Management Institute.

Ashutosh Phatak
Ashutosh Phatak, musician, composer & producer has been a part of the music scene for the last 15years. He started his career composing jingles with more than 4000 commercials and 10 feature films to his repertoire.
Being an ardent supporter of live music led to the collaborative venture that is Blue Frog, a one of a kind platform to the many performing musicians. The ad jingles continue to keep Ashutosh busy, but it has never stopped him from being a performer from the nave college band Orphean Revival to his first psychedelic rock album 'Sigh of an Angel'. He keeps growing as a musician and artist.

Atul Churamani

Atul started his career in 1987 as International Music Manager for CBS Records (India) and in 1988 was part of the start up Magnasound team. During his 10 year tenure there, the company played a primary role in developing the Indian Pop Music market which included artists like Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, the Colonial Cousins, Shweta Shetty, Shubha Mudgal and Shaan. In 1998, Atul joined Virgin Records India and was there until 2002 as Director of A&R and Marketing. He then joined Saregama, and set up their publishing and new media divisions as well as global digital distribution. Recently he has been focused on developing collaborative projects between artistes of different countries and establishing Saregama's presence in concerts.

Boney Kapoor

Boney Kapoor is one of the most high profile Bollywood producers with a lot of hits to his credit. Big on ideas, bigger on execution - that's Boney Kapoor - movie mogul par excellence. Starting in 1980, Boney has relished the unconventional - be it the story, the making, the casting or the breaks given to new directors and actors. B.S.K. Network and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is the professional corporate avatar of Boney Kapoor and Sridevi Kapoor's film and television entertainment business. Boney Kapoor envisages a major role to be played by the company in the global film market, which foresees a steep rise in film revenues.

Brandon Bakshi

Brandon Bakshi is the Executive Director, Europe & Asia, for Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), the U.S. performing rights organization. In his role Bakshi is responsible for BMI's outreach with songwriters, composers and music publishers in Europe, Asia, and Jamaica. At BMI he was responsible for the signing of such European & Jamaican songwriters/composers Paul Oakenfold, Amy Winehouse (PRS), Daft Punk, KT Tunstall, Amanda Ghost (PRS), Vybz Kartel, Mavado, as well as A.R. Rahman (PRS). Born in Texas and raised in Europe, Brandon received a BA degree in from International American University and an MBA from Webster University.

Colleen Ironside

Colleen Ironside was the Senior Vice President at Live Nation's Hong Kong office. She has been involved in some of the region's biggest tours in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. She has worked on tours including Sir Elton John,Coldplay, Il Divo, Maroon 5, Roger Waters, Gwen Stefani and Kylie Minogue, and coordinated Hong Kong's 'Live Earth' concert. Ironside has a long and rich history within the Asian and Australian music industry, including a number of years as the Managing Director of Frontier Touring in Australia.

Dina Dattani

"Dina Dattani, Independent Consultant, specialist in Media & Entertainment Law, UK qualified and was a Partner in UK legal film till 2008, now based in Mumbai and working with independent film makers making world cinema films for global audiencies both from India and from overseas as well as representing music artists, writers, lyricists, record and publishing labels, directors, composers and others. She has assisted UK Film Council on the India/UK Co-Production Treaty and works with the US State Government on Intellectual Rights Protection programs.

She has consulted for Warner Bros, currently consults as Business & Legal Head for Fox Star Studios, Mumbai."

Eva Buschkrei

Eva Buschkrei has been at the forefront of new technologies and Internet markets for the past 15 years. At Vodafone, she is responsible for the Value Added Service and Data business; developing and marketing the various services and also new 3G products; and managing large scale projects. Her customer-specific market approach has produced significant revenue results. Prior to this she headed up the mobile and online VAS portfolio for Vodafone Germany.

Ganesh Jain
Founder & Promoter of the company. More than 25 years of rich experience in acquisition and exploitation of all kinds of copyrights in respect of films and music. Chief Controller of the group for more than two decades.
Well Known & Well Respected in Bollywood Industry for 30 years Known in Industry to keep his committed words ever.
Pro-active Board member and office bearer in various institutions related to Films & Music industry such as PPL, IPRS, IMI and Indian Film Exporters Association.

Gowree Gokhale
Ms. Gowree Gokhale heads the IP, technology, media and entertainment law practice of the multi-skilled, research-based international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com). Her specializations also include litigation and dispute resolution, franchising, pharma and life sciences laws, commercial laws, HR laws.
Ms. Gokhale has led several IP, technology and HR litigations. She is involved in patent oppositions and devising patent litigation strategies for clients. She has assisted international media and productions houses and pharmaceutical companies in structuring of their India operations, including IP structuring, and advice on regulatory issues. She has spearheaded several M & A transactions in the media and entertainment space. She specializes in structuring of cross border outsourcing and franchising arrangements and has negotiated several transactions both for Indian and MNC clients.
Ms. Gokhale is a Solicitor and a registered Patent & Trade Mark attorney and has been practicing for the last 14 years. She is a visiting faculty at Institute of Intellectual Property Law Studies at Mumbai. She has authored research reports and articles on variety of subjects and has presented at various national and international seminars and conferences on IP, pharmaceutical, media and technology laws. She is a regular speaker at Nasscom TLF seminars on technology contracts, CII on enforcement of IP in India.

Harish Dayani
After 15 years with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. and 10 years heading HMV Saregama, Mr. Harish Dayani moved to Moser Baer India Ltd. in April 06 when it planned to foray in the entertainment space.
Mr.Dayani spearheaded this business and entered the market in Jan-07 and Moser Baer became the largest Home Entertainment Company in the first few months of launch.
Moser Baer Entertainment was also nominated as one of the Top 10 marketers of India in 2008 by India Times Premier business magazine Business Today and in 2009 as one of the TOP 8 Business Innovators of India.

Himanshu Chakrawarti
Mr. Chakrawarti joined Trent Limited on 1st November 2000. He is currently the COO of Landmark, the largest and most favorite book & music retailer in India with large stores in most major cities.
Prior to this he was the Marketing Head of Trent and handled all aspects related to brand/image building, brand strategy, market research and loyalty program.
Prior to joining Westside he had more than 9 years of experience in sales and marketing of FMCG.
He graduated from I.I.T. Kanpur and followed it up with a PGDM from I.I.M. Bangalore.

Ian Carroll

Carroll joined Turner as a regional counsel in 1998, before being promoted to Vice President of Business Affairs in 1999 and he is now the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. (TBS).
He oversees Turner's foray in new business areas as well as identifies new opportunities to reach a wider Asian audience. He is responsible for managing distribution of CNN Worldwide, Cartoon Network, Pogo, Boomerang and TCM, as well as the networks' interactive news and entertainment content.
Carroll also oversees the company's legal, content sales, marketing, business development and strategic planning across the Asia Pacific region.

Jasmeet Gandhi
Jasmeet Gandhi has been with Nokia for the last two years. He is in charge of services marketing and devices PM. His main responsibility is to roll out Nokia's global service platforms in India on the services front and manage the operations for all the devices that get launched in India. Before this he was at rediff.com for 14 years where he was head of product marketing. His main forte is managing digital consumer services. He graduated from Jamnalal Bajaj in 1994 in Marketing.

Jasper Donat
A veteran of the media & entertainment industry, Jasper Donat co-founded BRANDED with Michael Denmark in 2001. Jasper began his career in media & advertising in 1987 at Chris Ingram Associates now Mediaedge: CIA before joining Eurosport in 1992. He moved to Asia in 1995 to work for STAR TV's ESPN Star Sports (then Prime Sports) and transferred to VP Sales & Marketing Channel [V] in 1997. Branded has been fortunate to have worked with leading entertainment brands and advertisers and has also been instrumental in the creation, management and promotion of a number of industry focused platforms such as, Mediaworks, Charged Magazine and Music Matters - the Asia Pacific Music Forum.

Jishnu Dasgupta
Jishnu plays the bass guitar with Swarathma, one of India's most exciting folk-rock acts. With 2 albums and 5 international tours, they are the sound of today's India: rooted in tradition, yet unafraid to blend the best of the world. The band stands for several causes they believe in, from taking on domestic violence to fighting climate change.
In his earlier avatar, Jishnu was a sales manager at ITC, a post-MBA dream job that meant traveling through India's villages, understanding how rural India lives. As an electrical-turned-software engineer he spent some time in Chicago too. He firmly believes Saturn's rings are made of lost airline luggage.

Jonathan Adelman
After stints in artist management and as a talent buyer at Cellar Door / SFX, Jonathan Adelman joined Little Big Man Booking (later acquired by Paradigm Talent Agency) as an agent in 2002. In the past eight years, Jonathan has been active in introducing Jason Mraz and The Fray to the Southeast Asian marketplace, working with local promoters and record companies, as well as various sponsors and multi-national corporations, to build these artists' brands and popularity in the region. His client roster also includes Scissor Sisters, Lily Allen, Sondre Lerche, Sia, Liz Phair, Brooke Fraser, Fischerspooner and Chief.

Khushbu Sundar
Actor, producer, script writer, politician, Khusbu Sundar is an icon who made her debut as a child artiste in Bollywood. Her first film was the classic 'The Burning Train', but it was Sunil Dutt's 'Dard Ka Rishta' that shot her to fame. She has acted in more than 150 films in all regional Indian languages.
She has, under her belt, 4 Tamil Nadu State awards for Best Actor, a special film award from the state of Kerala and the title of 'Kalaimamani' from the Tamil Nadu State Government. She is the President of the Tamil Nadu Television Producers Council.
A temple has been built in her name in Trichy and she also has idlis and sarees named after her.
Khushbu lives in Chennai with her family since 24 years.

Kiran Anandampillai

Mr. Anandampillai carries the overall responsibility of defining and delivering products such as Music, Infotainment, Sports and Contests. He has over 15 years of experience in software and telecommunication industries. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from BMSCE, Bangalore in Telecommunication.

Kumar Taurani

Mr. Kumar S. Taurani, a leading media industry veteran, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Tips Industries Limited. He started his career along with his brother Ramesh S Taurani in the early 1980s with a repertoire of regional and devotional music titles, venturing into popular Hindi film music at a later stage.
Apart from acquiring many hit films, TIPS has also produced music albums of stalwarts and introduced new artists in the music world.
Having witnessed phenomenal success in the music venture, Tips decided to foray into film production in 1995.
Mr. Kumar Taurani is currently the Chairman of the IMI and PPL

Liam Donnelly
Liam started working in the music business by joining industry trade bible Billboard Magazine in 1980, based in London. He later joined PRS for Music in the Overseas Distribution Department processing foreign royalty payments for its writer and publisher members, subsequently managing the department. Liam has worked primarily within the international side of PRS for Music for the last 25 years with responsibility for affiliated societies within the Americas and the Asia-Pacific regions, as well as direct responsibility for various British Commonwealth countries. Liam represents the organisation on the CISAC Asia-Pacific Committee and is a current board member for the Jamaican and St Lucian collecting societies in the Caribbean.

Lloyd Mathias
President & Chief Marketing Officer
Tata Teleservices Limited

Lloyd Mathias is President & Chief Marketing Officer of Tata Teleservices. He heads Marketing, Product Management, Business Development & Alliances', Devices; Supply Chain, Logistics; and Valued Added Services.
Prior to this, Lloyd was the Senior Director, Sales, Distribution & operations head of Motorola's South West Asia region and held responsibility for its handset business & was part of its India country council.
Before joining Motorola in August 2005, Lloyd was Executive Vice-President of Marketing at PepsiCo South Asia.
Lloyd served two terms as Chairman of Mobile Asia. He is also the Co-chair of the CDMA development groups' Device Strategy Council. In 2007 he was named among the world's top 15 marketers, by Inter national list magazine.

Lynn De Souza

An MBA with 25 years in the profession, Lynn cut her media planning teeth at O&M, before moving on to run the media function at Grey (then Trikaya), and joined the Lintas Group to set up and run Initiative Media in 1995.
In 2008, she was promoted to Chairman and CEO of Lintas Media Group, and is also the Chairman of Aaren Initiative, Indias second largest out-of-home agency, and a Director of Karishma Initiative.
This year she is also the Honorary Secretary, India Chapter of the International Advertising Association. An active blogger, her articles and columns in the business press are well known for being fearless and forthright.

Mandar Thakur
Mandar Thakur is a Digital Music and Media Consultant and has been at the forefront of the evolving music business, in diverse roles over the past 19 years and till recently was part of the Senior management team at Soundbuzz, which was Asia / India's largest Online and Mobile music distribution company and directly held responsibility for the India market. Motorola acquired Soundbuzz in 1998.
Prior to that Mandar was part of the start up-team and management at NewsCorp's Channel [V], and at the early stages of his career was involved in the concert promotion business in the region.

Markand Adhikari
Mr. Markand Adhikari, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, SAB Group

Mr. Markand Adhikari started out as an adman in the eighties in association with his brother, Mr. Gautam Adhikari. He pioneered the trend of offering sponsorship-based programmes on Doordarshan and went on to shoulder the strategic responsibility for Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network. SABTNL was the first production house to be listed, in the year 1995. With the advent of satellite television, Zee TV, the first Hindi satellite channel invited Sri Adhikari Brothers to produce content for them. They went on to produce 'Commander' for Zee, which was an instant success, followed by 'Silsila' and 'Teri Bhi Chup, Meri Bhi Chup'. While Adhikari Brothers were charting their success story, across channels, Mr. Markand Adhikari monitored the strategic marketing of each production with programmes which were leaders across channels.

Marty Diamond
Marty Diamond is the head of the Paradigm Talent Agency's East Coast Music Division. He was previously President of Little Big Man Booking, a boutique music agency that was acquired by Paradigm in 2006.

Diamond founded the Little Big Man in 1994 after stints at Arista Records, Bill Graham Management and Manhattan music venue The Ritz. He oversaw Little Big Man's growth from a two-person operation to the leading small agency in North America, with a roster including Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, David Gray and Blue Man Group. Under Diamond's leadership, Little Big Man won the Pollstar Award for Small/Boutique Booking Agency 10 out of 11 consecutive years, 1996-2000 and 2002-2006.

Neeraj Roy
Neeraj Roy is the Managing Director & CEO of Hungama Mobile. Under his leadership, Hungama Mobile today is South Asia's largest digital and mobile entertainment company. The company is the largest aggregator, developer and publisher of Indian Entertainment content, owning the digital distribution rights of close to 75% of all Indian entertainment content, including the largest Bollywood library. The Hungama Mobile network distributes entertainment content in 42 countries across the world, through 147 operators and partners. Neeraj is also the Chairman of the Asia Board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF). In 2009, he was recognized at the ME Awards for his 'Outstanding Contribution to Mobile Entertainment', voted amongst the 'Top Ten mobiThinkers of 2009' and '50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment' globally.

Owen Roncon
Oranjuice Entertainment Partner.

Music matters to me a lot!!
A graduate of St. Xaviers College, I have spent the last 15 years in the event space. At Fountainhead, I gained my production, sponsor marketing and creative skills. We founded Oranjuice in 2003, with a keen eye on being players in the Music arena. We have spent our years doing varied forms of Music from world-class electronic gigs, to musicals and big ticket concerts. I have had the pleasure of working with 50cent, INXS, Buddy Guy, Allan Parson, Paul van Dyk and many more.
We have established festivals such as the Johnny Walker One Tree Music festival, and look at showcasing a few more this year.

Prashant Bahadur

Prashant Bahadur is Vice President and General Manager of The Orchard. In overseeing global distribution, marketing and label relations, Prashant is responsible for the implementation and supervision of the company's global business strategy. He joined The Orchard in 2004 as Director of Retail Marketing. Prashant began his career with PepsiCo in sales and marketing, and later moved to EMI where he worked across the sales, marketing and new media areas. He holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and has a Masters of Arts from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Prashant Panday
Executive Director & CEO, Radio Mirchi (E.N.I.L.)

Prashant is an Engineering graduate in Electronics, and has done his PGDM from IIM Bangalore. Prashant is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Radio Mirchi. Over the last 10 years he has played a significant role in making Mirchi the #1 radio brand in the country. In 2008, Mirchi was rated the #1 media brand - ahead of The Times of India and Star Plus - in the IMRB- Pitch survey.

Prashant is the Chairman of the FICCI Radio committee, a member of the MRUC Governing Board, and a member of the FICCI Entertainment Committee.

Prem Kamath
Prem Kamath heads Channel [v] and has overseen its transformation from a music channel to youth entertainment channel. Post its re-launch ten months ago, the channel has surged ahead and is today a leader in the youth entertainment genre. At STAR, he has also served as the Head of Marketing for the network.
Prior to STAR Prem worked for nine years in advertising, most of which were spent at Leo Burnett where he worked on brands like Thums Up, Bajaj Auto, Reliance Communication and Kellogg's.
Prem holds a degree in Engineering and is an alumnus of MICA in Ahmedabad

Rajat Kakar
Rajat Kakar started his career in 1987 with the Market leader in its category Asian Paints. Since then had stints with leading players such as Procter & Gamble (1991 - 1996) and then with Sony Music (1996 - 2002). At Sony Music he was part of the start-up team which redefined norms in the Indian Music Market.
Currently with Universal Music India Pvt Ltd as Managing Director of it's India operations, Rajat Kakar is transforming the Company to embrace the challenges of the emerging environment in areas such as Digital, Artist Management, & Merchandising so as to make Universal Music India Pvt Ltd a complete 360 degree Entertainment Company.

Rajesh Dhupad

Rajesh Dhupad is joint secretary and one of the founder members of the South India Music Companies Association (SIMCA). The association strives for the overall development of the music industry and its labels with the experience of its senior board members.
With more than 25 years' experience in music, Rajesh has pioneered changes in the southern Indian music, almost completely revamping non-film music. He launched Symphony Recording in 1988. He has been involved in Retailing, Distribution, Manufacturing, A&R, Production etc, and has to his credit more than 400 successful audio-video albums, as executive producer. He has the distinction of identifying new talent, having launched more than 50 artists-Composers, Lyricists, Singers and performers under the Symphony label. He is also a highly successful Singer, Composer and writer in his own right, under the pen name of SRIHARI.

Raju Singh
It is said that 'music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music' and it is perhaps this understanding that marks the difference between a good musician and a musical maestro. Connect the music that gave us teary eyes for the protagonist of the Bollywood hit Chandni Bar to the spine-chilling Hindi songs of Raaz 2 - The Mystery Continues; the infectious melodies for over 300 Indian TV serials and around 30 ad-jingles; the scintillating background scores for over 35 main-stream Hindi films- he continues to create the finest and the freshest aural treats for audiences across the world.

Rakesh Nigam
Mr. Rakesh Nigam joined Saregama India Ltd (HMV) in 1999 to take over Copyrights as Revenue Stream and made Copyrights a Profit Centre. The revenues from Copyrights of Saregama grew from Rs 60 lacs in 1999 to Rs 4 Crores in 2003.
He is at presently the CEO of The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd (IPRS). He joined the Society in 2004, and the performing rights income has grown from Rs 9 crores to around Rs 42 crores in the current year. He is very closely involved with the Copyright Movement in India & abroad.
Mr. Rakesh Nigam is a Member of various prestigious institutions & committees in India and abroad.

Ralph Simon
Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Over the last decade he has been a global trailblazer and innovator, growing the global mobile music & entertainment & content industry, and playing a central role in its growth and presence in India &world-wide. He has been dubbed the 'father of the ring tone - he and his team created the first ring tones in the USA, UK, Europe, Africa and Australia in 1998. He evangelizes mobile operators, media & film companies, TV networks, brands, ad agency groups and platform providers on how to create and grow innovation & mobile revenues/content on mobile phones & is CEO of Mobilium International London.

Ranjan Kapur
RANJAN Kapur is the Country Manager of Wpp India, the world's largest communication group. He was, earlier to this, Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and is largely credited with making it the country's most talked about agency as well as it's largest. Ranjan is on the boards of several companies including Abbott, Pidilite and MIRC Electronics. He is also an angel investor with some startups that focus on the digital and mobile space. Ranjan paints, sketches and sculpts in his spare time and is well known for his Sculptoons ( characters created from M seal). He is well travelled having spent several years with Ogilvy in NY, Singapore and the Far East.

Sabbas Joseph
Director, Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Wiz Sabbas Joseph, one of the founder directors of Wizcraft International Entertainment has been actively involved with media from the beginning of his career. As director of Wizcraft International Entertainment, Wiz Sabbas Joseph has spearheaded and managed several events for the company. These include the 50 yrs of Indian Independence celebrations, The Michael Jackson concert, The Indian Millennium celebrations, the first Afro Asian games, Independence Day celebrations in Kargil, 30 years of Mauritian Independence, India visits of Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, Concerts of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle amongst several others. Wizcraft is the promoter and producer of the International Indian Film Academy and the IIFA Awards.

Sanjay Uppal

Mr. Sanjay Uppal is President and Chief Operating Officer of OnMobile Global Limited. Sanjay's previous assignment was with Citrix Systems Inc., where he was Vice-President Application Networking. He was also associated with Caymas Technologies as President and CEO and with Hewlett - Packard in the US.
Sanjay brings to OnMobile, 18 years of hands-on experience in engineering leadership and general management of technology companies, including entrepreneurial experience with startups. His engineering and product experience in telecom and infrastructure products will play a key role in helping OnMobile to scale, expand globally, and operate efficiently while maintaining its past product innovation track record and momentum.

Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein is the cofounder and chairman of Sire Records, the label that put punk and New Wave, Madonna, the Ramones and The Pretenders on the map. Sire has been a goldmine for cutting-edge music, from popular trailblazers like Talking Heads, the Cure and the Smiths to deserving cult favorites like the Flamin' Groovies, the Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Replacements. From Britain he lassoed the Cult, Aztec Camera, Echo and the Bunnymen and Modern English and from Australia he signed on punk-rockers like the Saints, the Rezillos and Radio Birdman.
From 1976-1995, Stein struck a distribution deal with Warner Bros. In 2003, Sire again became part of the Warner Bros. label portfolio and, under Stein's leadership, is releasing the work of such contemporary cutting-edge acts as the Von Bondies and the Veronicas.

Siddhartha Roy
Siddhartha Roy is the Chief Operating Officer for the Consumer Business & Allied Services at Hungama. Under his guidance, Hungama will set up a one of its kind consumer venture in digital entertainment. He has previously also been responsible for spearheading the Hungama Mobile business.
Siddhartha is also the co-founder of BigAdda, India's largest youth network, a part of the Reliance ADA Group. During his tenure Bigadda gained a vast user base of 2.4 million. Prior to Bigadda.com, he has also worked with MTV Networks and Star TV, India. He has over 10 years of experience in new media communications.

Simon Long
Simon has been a music lawyer for 25+ years. In 2000 he set up Collins Long.
Simon's client list exposes his affinity for Indian music - from AR RAHMAN to upcoming playback singer Sonu Kakkar. He's worked on the deals that bridge Hollywood and Bollywood - from Slumdog Millionaire to Singh is Kinng ! He's worked with most of the BritAsian scene too, from Rishi Rich to RDB to Raghav to Rashid Ali.
His current mission in life is to bring Indian music to the Business of the West and the Business of the West to the Music of India.
simonlong@collinslong.com
www.collinslong.com

Sovan Lal Saha
Sovan Lal Saha, a Chartered Accountant from Calcutta, joined his family music business HINDUSTHAN MUSICAL PRODUCTS LTD. in June 1970. He set up THE INDIAN RECORD MFG. CO. LTD. in August 1976 & has been associated with these Companies since. He continues to be the principal Director of both the Companies. Apart from running his business, he has been active on issues relating to the Music Industry.
He was invited to visit the U.S.A as an International Visitor in 1989 and interacted with the Entertainment Industry there on issues of Copyright.

T. Suresh
Suresh moved in to the music industry from the consumer goods business in the mid-90's and has headed various functions - A&R, Sales, Marketing before going on to head various labels. He is a firm believer in the growth potential of the business driven by new distribution opportunties and growing consumer demand for content. He is currently active in accelarating the availability of EMI's vast catalog on available and emerging platforms as well as driving content development in a range of non-film genres - young bands, devotional music, classical music, fusion works, regional music.

Tarun Katial

At the helm of Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd., and with impressive stints at Star TV and Sony Entertainment Television, Tarun Katial is one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. In early 2006 Tarun set out to launch 92.7 BIG FM, India's largest FM network of 45 Stations and successfully achieved leadership position in a very short period of time. Moving quickly from being a radio company to a holistic multi-media entity with an integrated and diversified portfolio, Tarun has led it to set up business verticals which include, BIG Street - in the business of out of home media, BIG Live - the experiential marketing wing of the Company covering activations, events, intellectual properties and rural marketing and BIG Digital - an initiative in the digital space offering mobile and online solutions.

Umer A. Sheikh
Profession - Entertainment / Audio Visual / Broadcast TV / Musical Label Management / Archiving and Database

Umer has over 19 years of experience in the media industry, within the greater region.
With initial specialization, as music marketing and A & R person, with EMI Pakistan limited, the country's largest and oldest musical label. An Association that dates back to 1993. Has been instrumental in dshaping the current and new direction for EMI Pakistan, by making it the country's first "White Label" in conjunction with the Telecom Sector.
Has been at the forefront of Pakistan's initiative to make the country compliant to WIPO / WTO / Trips doctrines, working as advisor to the Government of Pakistan as the fledgling Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan - IPO -, goes about its efforts to shape the media industry.
Is also the prime instigator of the Performing Rights Organization of Pakistan - COMP - and bana instrumental in major anit - piracy operations within the region, in conjunction with the IFPI's regional offices.

V. G. Jairam

"Jairam started his career with Fountainhead Promotions & Events Pvt. Ltd. Then came Oranjuice Entertainment, a young company with a serious bite. Oranjuice is committed to the singular cause of promoting & producing music concerts & music based events.
Some of the Oranjuice experiences include: 50 Cent, Akon, INXS, Kool & The Gang, Buddy Guy, Uriah Heep, Walter Trout, Spyrogyra, Herbie Hancock, Wyane Shorter, Al Jearrau, Jose Feliciano, Alan Parsons Project, Paul Van Dyk, Sasha, Earth Wind & Fire, Joe Bonamassa, Jean Luc Ponty, Robert Cray Band, Abba The Musical, The West End Production of Ray Charles, Spirit of Broadway, The Rat Pack, The Johnnie Walker One Tree Music Festival & Smirnoff Experience, Rock On For Humanity Concert."

Vijay Lazarus
Earlier as Chairman & Managing Director of Universal Music India Ltd, Mr Lazarus worked with leading Indian & International Artists & Film Producers creating great Albums, unique events & award wining Films.
Mr Lazarus is leading the entire Indian Music Industry into the new Digital Era by collectively licensing & marketing over 3 million songs of all the 150 Music Companies in India for the Digital Business of Mobile & Internet, the Broadcasting Business of Radio & TV and for the Business of Public Performance. He initiated and continues to lead the Industry's crusade against Piracy through the IMI-Anti-Piracy. He is a Key Advisor on Copyright to The Government of India, to The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and The Confederation of Indian Industries.

Vijay Nair
Vijay founded Only Much Louder (OML), the first artist management company for indie bands in India in 2002. Through its Syndicate brand, OML manages and books India's leading artists. In 2010, OML launched Motherswear Entertainment, a company currently developing some of India's most exciting music festival properties. OML Digital, OML's technology business, builds applications for entertainers across a variety of platforms and is developing an internet-based direct-to-fan platform covering diverse genres of music called nh7.in.

Vijay won the prestigious British Council International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2009 making him the first Indian to achieve this feat.

Vikas Varma
Vikas Varma is an experienced senior level creative & business executive. A creative strategist and channel manager with expertise in creating, launching and producing innovative television, enduring characters and advertising and radio content, with the ability to positively position, differentiate and brand channels, on- air marketing, multi-platform cross marketing and programming content. Before joining Viacom 18 Vikas was Head - 9X- GEC, Executive Vice President - Radio City, Chief Operating Officer - UTV, M.D - Touche Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Vineet Singh Hukmani
Vineet has built a reputation in 'UNLOCKING value' of businesses to upscale revenue manifold. Prior to Radio one, Vineet held key positions in BPL Sanyo, Grey Advertising, Worldspace, Saatchi & Saatchi, Mudra DDB and Cheil Samsung where he was COO India SW Asia.
Joining 94.3 Radio One in 2007 as CEO and now Managing Director, he has grown business yield exponentially by introducing an 'ideas driven solutions approach' and by decentralising local city decision-making. It is during this time that Radio One has taken huge strides to bring alive the stance of a 'music specialist'.
He continues to work closely with the musician community through Radio one's ONE MUSIC ONE INDIA initiative pioneered by him

Vipul Pradhan
Vipul Pradhan has been with involved with the Indian Music Industry as the CEO for the Licensing division which licenses the usage of Music on TV, Radio, and Mobile since 2001. During the last 8 years it has grown at an average rate of 70% from a revenue base of Rs 20 million to Rs1.5 billion in 2009.
He started his career as a successful launcher of an innovative medium for rural marketing: Video-on-wheels. He was actively involved in the launch of Jain Satellite television and subsequently worked with the Times of India Group as the Brand Manager for The Economic Times. He also worked for 3 years with Star TV heading its Satellite Radio division and also as the Marketing head for all Star channels in India. In 2000 he started an internet company and made it one of the leading free ISPs.

Viraj Sawant
A music enthusiast, Viraj Sawant, has consulted for the Canadian Music Week, to bring the Indian Music Industry together at Toronto and for the Swedish Institute, to develop a platform which helps in exchange of artist and industry specifics amongst Sweden and India.
With over 4 years of experience, he has not only churned out effective marketing strategies for film Production Company, but also been the co-founder of anECHO, a music promotions company.
Currently manages the marketing at Vu Technologies, a luxury television brand, where his expertise in marketing are supported by the brand's innovative technologies to come up with display and entertainment solutions for the end consumer.