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Andrew Heffernan, CFO. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Mr Heffernan was an Audit Manager with Grant Thornton from 1991 - 1996, mainly handling media clients. From 1996-2001 Mr Heffernan was a self-employed consultant retained by a number of Film and Television Production clients. In 2001 Mr Heffernan went back to Grant Thornton with the specific brief of building its media and entertainment practice in its chosen fields of Film, Television and Computer Games with responsibilities spanning corporate finance, consultancy and audit. Mr Heffernan regularly speaks at media finance seminars and recently co-published a survey entitled "What do we tell the shareholders?" relating to media accounting policies. |
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Ajay Mavinkurve, Group Financial Controller, a Chartered Accountant with over 17 years of financial consulting experience, as Director Sunbeam Corporate Services Pvt. Ltd. Have advised and associated with diversified Corporate, having wide experience in project management, IPOs, fund raising , corporate structuring & advisory, M&A and private equity deals, and assisted in Eros Group structuring & AIM listing, oversees the treasury, finance and accounting portfolio of the group since 4 years, and part of the key management team. |
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Kamal Jain, 39 years, is our Group Chief Financial Officer-India. He is a chartered accountant with 17 years of professional experience in varied industries such as media and entertainment, cement, chemical, shipping and SAP consulting. He is proficient in business and financial strategies, business process re-engineering, US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley implementations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other funds raising activities. Prior to joining us, he was working with DNA, an Essel and Bhaskar group joint venture. He has earlier worked with Percept Group and the Swiss multinational Ciba Specialty. He joined our Company on May 4, 2010, with effect from May 3, 2010. |
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Jamie Kirkwood, 37 years, is Head of IR and Special Projects. Mr Kirkwood began his career 14 years ago at Credit Suisse First Boston in London and New York in Telecoms corporate finance. He then joined Morgan Stanley in equity capital markets working on equity related transactions. This included the landmark transactions of Telia IPO privatisation US$8.3 BN, and the IPO spin off of Orange from France Telecom US$5.8BN. He has worked on over ten IPO's and 15 secondary and secondary related transactions. He then moved to Lehman Brothers and became a principle in the establishment of their UK private client services business. In 2004 then re-joined Credit Suisse where he was a principle in the private banking division focussed on ultra high net individual and family offices. Mr Kirkwood then set up a consultancy in LA in 2006 which focussed on capital raising for media and film businesses. He joined Eros International in 2009. Mr Kirkwood has a degree in International business and economics from the European Business School, London. |
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Ken Naz, President of Americas, Ken has over 30 years experience in film distribution & exhibition business. His family came to Canada early 1970's and operated a Indian film distribution as well as exhibition business. Ken did his business Education at a Toronto University and joined Cineplex Odeon Cinemas in business development. He then joined a company "A Theater Near You" as head of operations. Ken joined Eros in 1996 and was instrumental in setting up the US operations office to service USA, Canada & other parts of North & South America. |
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Rishika Lulla, is a Senior VP Digital New Media. She attained a diploma from the UCLA (University of Los Angeles) school of film production and has done several internships at prestigious firms including Citi, Grant Thornton and ABN Amro. She hold a BA in South Asian Studies and Management from London Universities School of Oriental and African Studies. |
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Ram Mirchandani, 43 years, is our Chief Creative Officer. He has approximately 21 years of experience in the Media & Entertainment industry. Prior to joining Eros International, he was Chief Creative Officer of UTV Rampage Motion Pictures (UMP plc) where he has been involved in the production and co-production of Hindi films including Rang De Basanti, Fashion, Metro, Chance Pe Dance, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Wednesday, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Telugu film Athidi and Tamil films Kanamoochi Yenada and Poi Solo Poram as well as their Hollywood productions. Prior to that, he has been a Business Head at a Joint Venture of Modi Entertainment and BVTI (a Walt Disney company) and several positions within the Modi Group including development, co-production and production of television shows for Doordarshan, Zee TV, Sony, Star TV & Walt Disney and Hallmark. He joined Eros International in 2009 and has a degree in Science from Mumbai University. |
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Nandu Ahuja, 48 years, is our Senior Vice President (India Theatrical). He graduated with a bachelors' degree in Commerce from Mumbai University. He has a total work experience of approximately 29 years and also manages his family business in Entertainment since last 35 years. He has distributed over close to 100 films for Mumbai circuit including films for Percept Picture Company & Sahara One. Joined M/s. Adlabs Films Ltd in October 2006 as India Distribution Head and have distributed close to 15 films in a period of 1 year and set up Delhi, UP, Punjab & Mumbai Distribution offices for Adlabs. Subsequent to that joined M/s. Balaji Motion Pictures Ltd in November 2007 as C.O.O and have looked into the Production Co-Production & Project Development of films. Mr. Ahuja is a committee member of I.M.P.D.A. (Indian Motion Pictures Distributors Association) Mumbai. He joined Eros International in 2009. Mr. Ahuja has a good knowledge of ratio for selling films for all India territory including home video, audio rights satellite & overseas. |
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Kumar Ahuja, 31 years, is our Senior Vice President (Business Development). He has approximately 11 years of work experience in Media & Entertainment industry. He looks after strategic alliances & Syndication deals in various markets like Middle East, Europe, India, Far East, Russia & CIS and represents us in all International film festivals and also manages our digital initiatives in the above markets. Apart from this he has been a Head of New Media for past 11 years. He joined Eros International in 1999 and has completed his college from MMK university in Mumbai. |
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Pranab Kapadia, 38. President of Marketing & Distribution. Pranab gained extensive experience of managing the Operations, Programming & Film Distribution Division of Zee Network in Europe and later as Business Head of Adlabs Films (UK) Ltd, has give him a tremendous insight into developing technical solutions with minimum costs in order to keep entry barriers low for the price sensitive Asian customer. Having managed the content too for all Zee Network channels, he commands a strong hold over the entertainment needs of Asians internationally. Pranab has a Master of Management Studies from Bombay University (India) majoring in Finance with 13 years experience in Operations, Programming and Distribution areas of entertainment software creation, broadcast and reach to end consumer. |
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Rajesh Bahl, is our Chief Digital officer. He completed his bachelor’s degree in commerce from Mumbai University, followed by a post-graduate diploma in business administration in marketing from Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, and has 13 years of work experience. Prior to joining us, he has worked with Star India Limited, Universal Music & Sony Music Entertainment Limited. He joined our Company on March 3, 2010. |
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Manu Kaushish, is our Senior Vice President of New Media in the US and has been resposible for driving Eros's technology and business to enable new media strategies. Over the past few years, Manu has strategically leveraged Eros's rich library of Bollywood content to create new revenue sources from global distribution over Internet, Mobile, IPTV, Cable SVOD & VOD, Devices/STBs and other on demand channels. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Finance from Michigan State University and has 11 years experience in the field of Media and Entertainment. Prior to joining us, he founded a digital audio content distribution business that distributed content from India onto platforms such as Apple iTunes and Real Rhapsody. |
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