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Tapaas Chakravarti
Chairman, Managing Director
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Tapaas Chakravarti with over two decades of International Corporate Management experience has helped to shape the success story of his creation, DQ Entertainment group. Tapaas began his career with Sandoz India Limited (now Novartis, a Swiss Multinational) and later joined STP Limited, an infrastructure company. Tapaas has held senior positions in Sales and Projects at Coats of India, (a British multinational). He was Head of Special Projects for Sriram Group where he developed countrywide contract manufacturing activities. Tapaas is a science graduate with Post Graduate Qualification in Business Management backed with over 23 years of experience spanning across industries both national and multinational.
Tapaas believes in individual excellence to be integrated into a well-knit teamwork and unstinted support to ethical business practices. This has lead to the creation of a large workforce in DQE, cohesively knit together with very high quality business, operational and creative leaders driving the exceptional growth of the company.
He is a part of several national and international charitable organizations, which includes extensive work for orphans, AIDS effected children and education for the deprived eg. AGAPE, India, Figli Del Mondo, Italy. He is also an active member on the Board of the Indo-British Partnership and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. He has been recently elected as a member of EMMY – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Los Angles, USA. In the year 2009 he has been nominated for the ‘Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the year 2009 India Awards’. |
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K.Balasubramanian
Director |
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K.Balasubramanian (Bala) has close to 40 years of experience in international banking and finance. After working in India with two of the largest banks for around 10 years, he joined American Express Bank in 1973. He held senior positions in marketing, credit, risk management and general management in several countries across Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Indonesia) and Europe (Italy and the UK) during his 25 years with American Express. His last three assignments with American Express Bank were Country Head for Korea (1988-1991), Country Head- India (1992- 1994) and Chief Credit Officer for Asia, Pacific and Indian Sub Continent (1994 – 1997). He was an Advisor to National Bank of Kuwait, the largest bank in Kuwait, between 1997 and 2001 and subsequently the Managing Director & CEO of ING Vysya Bank (2001- 2002). Bala is currently associated with GMR Group, which is a leader in development and operation of infrastructure assets in airports, roads and energy. He is a graduate in Commerce and has done an advanced Management Program from the Harvard Business School. |
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Rashida Adenwala
Director |
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Rashida Adenwala has distinguished exposure and over two decades of experience in legal, corporate affairs, primary & secondary markets, private equity deals, corporate governance, finance & internal audit. She has been associated with DQ Entertainment since its foundation. She is an integral part of the Company heading the Company Affairs and Investor Relations function. Rashida is a graduate in commerce and law and a qualified Company Secretary by profession.
She is associated with R & A Associates, a Practicing Company Secretaries firm established in 1996. R & A is one of the leading firms advising, guiding and representing many corporate clients in India and across the globe.
She has rich and hands-on experience in all secretarial, legal, corporate affairs, finance, internal audit aspects. She has been a regular speaker at various training programs conducted by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). She was a member of the Secretarial Standards Board constituted by ICSI for the years 2006 and 2008. At present she is the member of Expert Advisory Board of ICSI.
She has participated in the Board Leadership Training of Trainers Workshop in 2008 conducted by International Financial Corporation, Global Corporate Governance Forum, NISM and ICSI. |
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Girish Kulkarni
Director |
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Girish Kulkarni is the Founder and Managing Director of Suyash Advisors, the advisors to Monsoon Capital, an India dedicated alternative asset fund, managing $ 500 million for investment in Indian publicly traded equities, private unlisted companies and real estate. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of TDA Capital India, which manages the India Technology Fund, an early stage venture fund, invested in IT and BPO Services companies.
Girish has a total of 20 years operating and investment experience in different aspects of the Indian capital markets. He started his professional career as a Project Finance Officer with ICICI where he was involved in leading term lending transactions with more than 30 Indian corporations. After that, he was head of Equity Sales, Trading and Research at ICICI Securities, then a joint venture between ICICI and JP Morgan. Girish was responsible for founding and leading a team of 40 professionals that made proprietary investments, raised equity capital for corporate clients and advised institutional investors in their investment decisions. Girish also had shared responsibility for asset allocation across different asset classes (equity and fixed income). He has extensive public markets experience, having been involved in more than 30 IPOs in the Indian capital market and several M&A assignments.
Girish received a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India in 1987 and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India in 1989. He serves on the Board of Directors of Bill Forge, Cbay Systems, Enzen Global Solutions, Sansera Engineering, Servion Global Solutions, and KSK Energy Ventures. |
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Rashmi Chakravarti
Director |
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Rashmi Chakravarti holds bachelors degree in fine arts followed by bachelor’s degree in education for multimedia. She founded DQ School of Visual Arts and has been instrumental as the principal of the school and head of the training division to train and produce over 2000 students since 1999 who are high quality employees of the Company.
For the last 11 years she has dedicated to the development of training programs/ modules of International standards for various forms of animation and acting skills. She has helped the Company to expand its training facilities in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai including public/private partnership in Kolkata with Government of West Bengal, two training units in collaboration with the Government of Madhya Pradesh, one training unit with the Government of Rajasthan. In another initiative under the train the trainers program she has now trained over 70 mentors of International quality who are not only mentoring new students time to time but also helping existing employees to upgrade technical skills. |
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Neelesh Wagle
Alternate Non-Executive Independent Director to Girish Kulkarni |
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Neelesh Wagle Managing Director, Suyash Advisors Neelesh Wagle is a Managing Director of Suyash Advisors, the India advisory team for Monsoon Capital, and is responsible for research on public market investments since 1994. Neelesh has investment experience in Indian capital markets, both on the sell side and buy side in international investment firms. Neelesh re-joined Mr. Girish Kulkarni in 2000 at Suyash's predecessor firm, TDA Capital, where he has been directly responsible for investments in public equities, PIPEs, private companies as well as a sub-advisor to several multi-billion dollar US hedge funds. Prior to TDA, he was a Senior Associate with Bank of America Equity Partners (BAEP-Asia) from 1998-2000. At BAEP-Asia, Neelesh was part of a 2-member team responsible for investing and managing $43 million of Indian investments in a $250 million Asian principal investment portfolio. He was also involved in technology investments in the Asian region. Prior to BAEP-Asia, Neelesh worked as technology and telecommunications analyst at ING Barings in Mumbai and at ICICI Securities between 1994 and 1998 advising foreign institutional clients on investments in Indian equities. Neelesh received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India in 1992 and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta, India in 1994. |
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CA S.Sundar Srinivasa Raghavan
Additional Non-Executive Independent Director |
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CA S.SUNDAR SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN is the founder-partner of the chartered accountant firm S Sonny Associates based in Chennai, started in 1986. A Fellow Chartered Accountant, Sundar has over twenty years of post-qualification professional practice experience to his credit. His key focus area is Statutory Audit and Internal Audit of Government Organizations, Public Sector Undertakings, Private Limited Companies apart from Public Sector and Private Sector Banks. He also has extensive exposure to Systems Audit, Credit Audit, Computer-to-Computer Link and Internet Based transaction Facility Audit. His firm is empanelled with Comptroller & Auditor General of India and RBI, among others. His firm is one of the Central Statutory Auditors of Syndicate Bank.
He was Chairman of Audit Committee of Chennai Central Co-Operative Bank Ltd., Tiruvannamalai District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Vellore District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., and Kancheepuram District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. He has passed the Information Systems Audit- ISA (Indian equivalent to CISA of USA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. |
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