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 Shailesh Prabhu
Founder/Director, Yellow Monkey Studios Pvt. Ltd.
With a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Shailesh has a vision to make great and innovative games on his own IP for the global market. His responsibilities include handling the management of the company, the people and the project, along with making game design and production. He aims to bring the game industry to India. His previous experience in the gaming sector include setting up the entire game development team, design and production of many international high profile games such as Rounders Poker which was also nominated for an International Mobile Gaming Award.
 Bhavya Parekh
Co Founder and Business Developer, Energy Gaming
Having a 3 year old hi-end technology Online and LAN gaming studio in Mumbai, Bhavya takes keen interest in ingenious proposals and promotion of gaming as a part of entertainment sector. He is responsible for the Business Development and Strategic Alliance in Energy Gaming. As official event partners to AMD, in the Gaming history of Mumbai, he was the first to introduce a Mobile Gaming Café. He also heads the gaming café owners and gamers syndicate so as to coordinate the emerging issues and solutions to make gaming more profitable industry.
Anand Gurnani
Co Founder, CEO & Managing Editor, AnimationXpress.com
AnimationXpress network is the hub of the Indian animation ecosystem and informs and connects the entire value chain through its range of media, online, marketing, events and research products and services. Anand’s responsibilities involve building brand, team management and business development.
 Vivek Kalyan
Founder and CEO, Tigerbells Animation (P) Ltd.
Tigerbells is an animation studio and production company producing flash/2D and 3D animation content primarily for the European and North American production houses from its studios in India. Vivek is responsible to drive the business and be face of the company, build strong relationships globally within the industry, revenue generation and bringing the global thought into the Indian market and produce globally acceptable content. He is also the co-founder of Foundercontact India Ltd., an online marketplace for entrepreneurs, CEO's and business owners only (www.foundercontact.com).
Narasimha Suresh
CEO, Telibrahma Convergent Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Telibrahma, the company founded in 2004 focusses around creating an alternative media using users mobile. It belives in the fact that Indian consumers wants to have rich media experience @ zero cost. The company is one of the poineering companies to have brought Bluetooth based interactive communiations in India.
 Amit Vedprakash Anand
Founder-CEO, ettaminA Studios Pvt. Ltd.
ettaminA Studios is country's first cross platform content development studio. It creates a platform for independent writers and creators to collaborate with leading international talents and studios and develop their ideas into successful new media products. The Mundoo Hunt, a concept developed at ettaminA Studios has been nominated by the Animation Magazine as the top 12 childrens show to watch out for. He has also developed program for the creative industry for the physically challenged.
 Rama Krishna
Founder & CEO, IACG Animation Pvt. Ltd & 4D Animations Pvt. Ltd.
He started his career at the age of 19yrs as a designer and groomed himself as a visualizer under a renowned organization (Pent media Graphics). Later he took over the operations of his company in Hyderabad.
He made his own identity as an academician by initiating a standardized education that provides a degree in multimedia for the first time in India from a reputed university JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University). With his 8yrs of experience in production he with his team spent most of their time on research to generate creative & quality outputs rather than quantity to differentiate them self to be unique in this creative competitive world. He is passionate to work as a VFX supervisor for films and as well is a hardcore programmer for simulations.
 Alok Kejriwal
Founder and CEO, Games 2 Win
Alok is a serial entrepreneur and founded Contests2win (c2w) in 1998. c2w was the world's first customized brands promotions website and has retained its leadership position since then. Alok and c2w have gone on to create 3 new businesses - Mobile2win in China and India, Media2win and Games2win and have raised venture capital from global companies such as ICICI, Softbank, Siemens, Clearstone Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. Innovation, Passion and Integrity are the pillars of the group and the values that it represents. The group has experienced its first exit with the Mobile2win China business being acquired by Walt Disney in September 2006. Alok is a hands-on player, well entrenched in the media and brand space, and calls himself a pavement pounder - meeting clients and partners as often as he can. Alok's USP is in assembling star teams and going to the market with new age businesses. Outside of work, Alok meditates and is passionate about building his Indian Contemporary Art Collection.
 Paul Bennun
Strategy of Somethin' Else
Paul Bennun is a game designer, entertainment producer and broadcaster. He is co-owner and Director of Strategy of Somethin' Else, a leading cross-platform production company in the UK. Somethin' Else is the largest radio independent, TV entertainment indie and a major interactive content producer, in which it has been active for almost a decade. Paul leads the Company's interactive department and future product / business strategy. He holds internationally recognised awards in games, radio, mobile technology and interactive broadcasting such as Bafta Awards, Sony Radio Academy Awards and the GSM Association Awards. He co-authored the British Government's recent report on the future of digital music, and is an artistic collaborator with the likes of: several Artangel artists, writer John Berger, Theatre de Complicite and Rotozaza. Paul also presents science, technology and usability programmes for the BBC.
 Beatrice Pembroke
Project Manager, Creative Economy, British Council, UK
The inaugural Young Interactive Entrepreneur award aims to champion and celebrate the importance of creative entrepreneurs working in the field of the interactive entertainment and media. It seeks to showcase international business innovation in the field of interactive entertainment and media using the UK as the nexus for cultural, creative and commercial exchange.
Entrepreneurs between 25 and 35 years working in any of the following sectors:
- Interactive design, marketing
- Interactive entertainment developers for the internet, digital TV, radio & mobile
- Leisure (software publishing and / or development)
- Experimental media
We recognise that a finalist may be active as an interactive artist (game designer, multimedia designer, etc.), but his/her work as an artist should be secondary to their focus as an entrepreneur in the promotion of the interactive industry in their country. Artistic talent will not be factored into the judging procedure – finalists will be judged solely on the merit of their entrepreneurial abilities in the industry.
India Finalist
- A selection committee creates a shortlist of contenders from the applications received.
- An established UK interactive entrepreneur conducts an interactive session with the shortlisted contenders.
- A panel of high profile judges selects a finalist to travel to the UK to represent India and compete for the international award through an interview process.
- The India finalist gets an opportunity to travel to London, and a second city to meet leaders and innovators in the UK interactive sector.
- The programme will be tailored to the finalists’ interests, and include both a group itinerary for the finalists to get a shared overview of the best of the UK interactive scene and specific meetings to introduce finalists to UK contacts of particular interest to them for commercial or collaborative purposes.
- Take part in either a showcase opportunity to promote work from their country which they feel has potential for the UK and wider international market.
- In addition, work selected for the showcase will also be featured on the Creative Economy webpage for visitors to vote for their favourite.
- Participate in the IYIE (International Young Interactive Entrepreneur of the Year) award where the jury will select the overall international winner of the award.
- The winner will receive a YCE bowl designed by acclaimed glass designers Gillies Jones Glass (www.gilliesjonesglass.co.uk)
- In addition to the award title, the winner receives a financial prize (£7,500) to be spent on a collaborative project with the British Council that builds the relationship between the winning country and the UK.
- Attend the British Interactive Media Awards.
British Interactive Media Awards (November)
BIMA is the industry association representing the interactive media and digital content sector. It supports individuals and organisations which deliver high quality, creative and innovative, interactive media solutions. It strives to stimulate commercial growth, and acts as an industry liaison with academia and government through the provision of knowledge, encouragement and economy; BIMA is a united voice for its members and strives to develop an internationally competitive new media industry in Britain. The BIMA Awards celebrate creative excellence and best practice in interactive design.
For any queries, please contact:
“YIE”
Jily Joseph
British Council
Mittal Tower, C Wing, 2nd Floor
Nariman Point
Mumbai 400 021
Tel: +91 22 2279 0114
Or email it to yce.india@in.britishcouncil.org
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