Founded in 2005 Gameshastra Inc has operations in US and India. Gameshastra Inc is a games outsourcing service provider. Their Hyderabad based game development centre provides game art, animation and quality assurance (QA) services for console, PC and online gaming platforms.

Management:

Narayan K, Country Manager

Narayanan K manages was appointed as head of India Operations by Gameshastra Inc in July 2007. He started his career in Indian software services. Prior to Gameshastra, Narayan K was associated with the growth of two organizations in their formative years – Hexaware Technologies Limited (in India) and Emirates Airlines (in Dubai). Narayanan possesses extensive experience in creating Centers of Excellence and has been Head of Travel and Transportation and Application Management practices in Hexaware. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University and Diploma in Computer Management from University of Bombay.
Sunderrajan, Head game Art

Prior to joining Gameshastra, Sunderarajan was an advisor to Red Octane technologies and also the founding President of Pentameter Graphics, a leading animation studio based in Chennai.

Website: www.gameshastra.com

Contact Address:
Gameshastra Solutions Pvt Ltd,
8-2-120/77/4B, Road No.2,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
INDIA -500 034
Tel: +91 40 6666 1188
Fax: +91 40 66668976

Email: sales@gameshastra.com

Company Profile:

Indiagames Ltd is a mobile, online games and a leading global mobile games publisher company in India. The Company is engaged in publishing and developing games across various platforms including Online and Mobile. Indiagames’ products are developed and published across all major technology platforms and are distributed through partnerships with mobile operators in over 75 countries.

Management

Vishal Gondal – Founder & CEO

Founded in 1999, Vishal is the CEO of Indiagames.com. He’s been on the advisory council for Nokia Games he oversees wireless and mobile technologies. Fact was Vishal’s first company which he had founded at the age of 16, when he was just out of school.

Samir Bangara – Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining Indiagames Samir was a Vice President at Ernst & Young India’s M&A advisory team. Samir has also been a part of ILFS Investment Managers (IIML) where he worked for two years and was part of the team investing in media and technology. Samir is an MBA in Finance and has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce.

Investor:

Indiagames has raised … funds twice and now UTV is the prime investor having 51% stake, round about by investing 128 crores or $28 million in all. It got its initial round of funding by Infinity ventures. Key investors include UTV, Adobe Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc.

Contact Information:

Website: www.indiagames.com

Indiagames Ltd.

423, Sai Commercial Annexe
BKS Devshi Marg; Deonar
Mumbai 400 088, India.

Tel: 91-22-25571128
Fax: 91-22-25571131

Email: servicedesk@indiagames.com

Additional Information:

Indiagames has over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, London, Los Angeles & Beijing. Internationally the company publishes mobile titles via its IG FUN brand.

Company Overview:

Jump Games is a leading publisher spearheading the evolution of game design and development across Web and Mobile platforms. Jump has partnered with content owners, publishers, Mobile operators, handset manufacturers and technology providers  for its gaming initiatives.

Management:

Salil Bhargava, Chief Executive Officer

Salil’s association with Jump began in 2004, as a Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining Jump; Salil led product development and strategic alliances at Rediff.com. Prior to moving back to India, Salil worked with NBC Internet, US. Salil holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University.

Ninad Chhaya,Executive Vice President—Operations and Production

Ninad joined Jump in August 2004 as the Executive Producer. Before joining Jump, Ninad co-founded Indiagames Limited, where he led the Wireless gaming department as the Head of Delivery. Ninad was also the founder of W.I.T.S., an interactive design agency, where he was primarily involved in business promotion, business consulting, and project management, besides being responsible for the creation and visualization of intellectual property for the company.

Website/s: www.jumpgames.com , www.jumpgames.co.in

Corporate Address

Hanmer & Partners Communications Pvt. Ltd.
3rd Floor, Rehem Mansion I
42, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road
Colaba, Mumbai 400 001, INDIA
Tel: +91-22-6752 4669
Mob: +91 9820 964 932

JUMP GAMES PVT. LTD.

City: Mumbai

‘B’ Wing, Fortune 2000, C-3, G Block,
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (E)
Mumbai – 400 051, INDIA.

City: Pune

Pride Purple Coronet,
2nd Floor, Sr.No 287,
Hissa No 2, Vibhag No 39/563
Baner Road, Pune – 411045

Key Competition: games2win, www.zapak.com

Additional Information:

Jump Games is more than 140+ people team put up in Mumbai and internationally in Stockholm.

Company Overview:

Games2win is an online games company. It is in the business of Web-based Casual Games, Downloadable Online Games and Massive Multiplayer Online Games.

Management

Name: Mr. Alok Kejriwal, CEO

After launching Contests2win.com (an Internet brands promotions website), Mobile2win (a wireless VAS offering) in India and China and Media2win (a full service interactive agency), Alok formed Games2win.com in 2006.

He has done his schooling from Campion School, Mumbai, and his Masters from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Name: Cyrus Oshidar, Creative Director

An alumnus of the London School of Economics, Oshidar gave up a life of a banker to be a creative at Saatchi & Saatchi, London. He came back to India and worked at O&M and Ambience for six-and-a-half years. He was also former Creative Director of MTV India and Nickelodeon.

Name: Mahesh Khambadkone, Technology Founder

Mahesh has over 10 years experience in the computer gaming and multimedia space, having been involved in building gaming infrastructure and developing a AAA game title, as well as games on other platforms. He was formerly at Lisle Technology Partners and Dhruva Interactive.

Website: www.games2win.com

Corporate Address:

Games2win India Pvt. Ltd.

42, Film Center, 4th Floor,

68, Tardeo, Mumbai – 400034.

India.

City: Mumbai

Investors: Clearstone and SVB Financial Group.

Key Competition: www.zapak.com, indiagames.com

Additional Notes: Games2win is a subsidiary of Contest2win.com

 

Company Overview

Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited (Zapak) is a full-service software gaming entertainment company . This full-service Gaming Entertainment Company is a part of the Reliance ADA Group. Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd intends a complete roll out of its services in 3 phases. The first phase of the portfolio would witness the launch of Zapak.com – India’s largest gaming portal. The second phase would see the roll out of Zapak Zones – exclusive gaming cafe’s across the country and in the third phase Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. would introduce Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) – the rage in online gaming worldwide. Zapak would invest over $100 million over the next 3 years in this venture.

Management

Rohit Sharma, Chief Operating Officer

Rohit started his career as a managing partner with Acumen exports (exporter of leather goods). He took a study break in 1997 and did his masters from Lancaster University, UK. He returned to India and joined Cyber Media India Limited. Rohit has worked in Indiatimes for six years. He was also the National Sales Head for Advertising Sales and Events.

Arun Mehra, Chief Marketing Officer

An Entertainment media Industry veteran with 13 years experience in the industry. After starting his career with O&M Arun moved to MTV where he played a vital role in building Brand MTV and leveraged its equity for consumer & trade initiatives. He was the man behind the well known MTV – Youth Marketing Forum. View his linkedin PROFILE

Sudipto Majumdar, Chief Technology Officer

A computer engineer from IIT Mumbai and finance major from IIM Bangalore, Sudipto started his career as an entrepreneur and set up a software development company called Futuresoft Technologies. He was the hand behind unique Election ID card system adopted by the Election Commission of India for making all election ID cards.

Websites: www.zapak.com

Key Competition: www.games.indiatimes.com , www.games2win.com, www.indiagames.com 

Corporate Address:

Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited,
Level 4, Infiniti, New Link Road,
Andheri (West), Mumbai 400 053. India.
City: Mumbai