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Ken Silverman (Moderator)
President Interactive Teamworks
Chairman East Globe Group, LLC
Interactive Teamworks, is the privately held
consulting firm focused on electronic media and entertainment. Mr.
Silverman is an internationally prominent media strategist and
entrepreneur with more than 30 years’ front rank industry experience
in the US and a decade in India. Since 2002 he has represented the
animation and VFX studios of The Tata Group, India’s largest
company, and he now also represents the state of Maharashtra, India,
to help develop a world-class film studio and theme park at Bombay’s
famed Film City complex. He is additionally producing a major
international motion picture to be shot in India and the UK. His
past professional affiliations include Ameritech, BET, Columbia
Pictures, Dow Jones, General Electric, Harvard, Liberty Media, The
Tribune Company, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Kristen Dornig
Co-Creative Director, CEO, Prana Studios
Prana Studios, founded in 2003, is considered the
premier digital production and animation studio in India. It is
backed by a prestigious group of investors including Mukesh Ambani
(Reliance), Naren Gupta (Nexus Capital), Anand Mahindra (Mahindra &
Mahindra), and Ram Shriram (Sherpalo). It is currently producing
"The Tinkerbell Movie" for The Walt Disney Studios, "Unstable
Fables" for The Weinstein Co., “KKHH” with Karan Johar/Dharma
Productions, and recently completed the feature short "The Chubb-Chubbs
Save Xmas" for Sony Pictures Animation. At Prana, Ms. Dornig led the
set-up of the Company's 3D animation studio in India, creative and
strategic development, penetration of its products/services in
domestic and international markets, and all production related
matters.
Ken Naz
President Eros Entertainment [US]
As President of Eros International's US
subsidiary, Ken Naz guides all of the company's North American
operations. Now beginning its fourth decade, Eros is the world's
largest provider of Indian motion pictures. The company now boasts a
remarkable 70% share of the international market for Bollywood films
and has a library of over 1500 Indian motion pictures. Eros has
distributed some of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters of all time
including India 's Oscar submissions "Devdas" (2004) and "Paheli"
(2005). Among other pioneering efforts, the company launched the
first pay-per-view service for Indian films, "B On Demand," which
enables audiences across the globe to access Bollywood content via
broadband connections.
Arnold Peter, Esq.
Partner Raskin, Peter, Simon, & Rubin, LLP
Publisher Global Convergence: India
Arnold Peter, Esq. represents major US and
international clients in the entertainment industry in litigation
and transactional matters in the fields of television and cable, new
media, location based entertainment, hospitality, real estate and
franchising. These include the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences, BBC America, Black Entertainment Television, Cendant
Corporation, ICM, the National Association of Television Program
Executives, USC, and others. He began his career in the
entertainment industry as Director of Labor Relations for Universal
Studios and was later promoted to Vice President of Legal and
Business Affairs for Universal. He is a graduate of Loyola Law
School and a Member of the California Bar.
Sanjay Pothen
CEO Pliq, LLC
Sanjay Pothen is is CEO of Pliq, a leading mobile
marketing and content company. Pliq is a subsidiary of Meteor
International, a preeminent US company that places branded products
into motion pictures and television programming. With the mission of
driving the growth of Pliq, he oversees all business (e.g., sales,
business development, marketing, finance) and operational (IT,
content production) activities for the company. Pothen joined Pliq
at its inception and has been instrumental to the launch of the
company. Pothen previously worked in management consulting, most
recently for BusinessEdge Solutions (BES), he was a co-founder of
the Strategy Practice at BES, and was at Ernst & Young Consulting
and Arthur D. Little.
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