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Prime Focus Limited (PFL), the world’s largest independent integrated media services powerhouse, employs over 8,000 professionals in 16 cities across 4 continents and 7 Time zones. We provide end-to-end creative services (stereo 3D conversion and animation), technology products & services (Media ERP Suite and Cloud-enabled media services), production services (equipment rental) and post-production services (Digital Intermediate and picture post) to the Media and Entertainment industry.
In 2014 Prime Focus merged with Academy Award® winning company DNEG, one of the world’s foremost providers of visual effects (VFX); and Reliance Media Works merged their global film and media services business with Prime Focus Limited. DNEG has won six Academy Awards® for its VFX work in recent years – for TENET (2020), First Man (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Ex Machina (2015), Interstellar (2014) and Inception (2010).
Prime Focus is behind groundbreaking technologies such as View-DTM (stereoscopic 2D to 3D conversion), CLEAR™ (Hybrid Cloud technology enabled Media ERP Suite) and Primetime Emmy® award-winning DAX Digital Dailies®. Leveraging our Global Digital Pipeline and pioneering WorldSourcing delivery model, we partner with content creators at every stage of the process, ensuring creative enablement, workflow efficiencies and cost optimization.
Listed on the BSE and NSE of India and recognized on the ‘Fortune India 500’ list, Prime Focus has operations in Abu Dhabi, Bangalore, Cape Town, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Johannesburg, Kolkata, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Chennai, Montreal, New York, Toronto and Vancouver.
We are thrilled to announce that TENET has won the Academy Award for ‘Best Visual Effects’! Congratulations to Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott Fisher and David Lee, and to the incredible DNEG teams whose work helped bring Christopher Nolan’s vision to the screen.
Subhadeep Mitraa from Jam8 won the ‘Engineer of the Decade’ at the Mirchi Music Awards – Bangla 2020
A veteran in the Indian M&E industry, best known for producing the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Shahenshah, Naresh realized early the potential boom in the Indian television industry. He set up India’s first digital audio studio in 90s and also started providing equipment rental services to TV and ad film makers. Naresh was Chairman of the Board from 1997 to June 2014.
As the founder of Prime Focus, Namit has been responsible for the strategy, growth and success of Prime Focus from its modest beginnings in Mumbai in 1997 to its current position as the world’s largest independent and integrated media services powerhouse. Namit’s perpetual optimism and entrepreneurial spirit is written throughout the Prime Focus identity. Actively seeking out projects that will expand the strengths of the company, and challenge its team to push themselves to the next level, Namit is devoted to nurturing talent and ambition, and to delivering his clients world-class creative and technical services, and intelligent financial solutions. Namit is the poster boy of Indian entrepreneurship in Hollywood.
In his role as director, Ramki spearheads the group’s operational planning that reflect the longer-term objectives and priorities established by the board. Ramki has 24 years of IT industry experience. Prior to starting PFT in 2007, he was CEO of Subex Technologies and before that, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Product R&D Services at Tata Elxsi. Ramki is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India.
Vibhav Niren Parikh is an Executive Director in the India team of Affirma Capital and is based in Mumbai, India. Vibhav is an accomplished entrepreneur, investment banker, and private equity investment professional with 21 years of progressive experience in business leadership, client relationships, transaction origination and execution, and investment management at Affirma Capital, Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE), TPG, AdImpact (one of India’s first digital signage companies), Citigroup, ICICI Securities, and Merrill Lynch. He has extensive experience in the M&A advisory / private equity markets in India. During his 15 years in the private equity industry, Vibhav has consummated five investments totalling USD 190 million, five exits worth USD 315 million and has managed a USD 420 million portfolio of PE investments across Affirma/SCPE and TPG. Vibhav has served on the Board of Directors of key portfolio companies, including Prime Focus Technologies Limited. Vibhav has a BBA with “High Distinction” from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Mr. Parikh is presently also on the Board of Prime Focus Technologies Limited, a Subsidiary Company of the Company.
An industry veteran, Mr. Samu Devarajan brings wealth of management experience having previously held the position of Managing Director of CISCO Systems India. As CEO and MD, he helped TATA Elxsi from loss making organization to one of the most successful companies of the TATA Group. Dev is currently the Chairman of Board of Directors at ADC India Communications Limited, Independent Director at Neilsoft Limited and founder and President of Transmation Consulting, his own strategy consulting firm.
Srinivasan is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant with extensive experience in the fields of Internal, Statutory and Management audits, corporate laws, taxation laws, financial consultancy, and Costing and Management Information services.
Padmanabha Gopal Aiyar has been a practicing Advocate at the Bombay High Court for the past 30 years. He has expert knowledge of Civil Law, Company Law and industrial arbitration matters. He is well respected in judicial circles for his sincerity and integrity.
Dr. Hemalatha Thiagarajan is an accomplished academician with over 35 years of experience. She has taught at both Loyola College and Meenakshi College for Women in Chennai, was the principal of Regional Engineering College (REC) Trichy and Director of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. She holds a Master of Science (M Sc.)and Master of Philosophy (M Phil.) degree in mathematics and doctorate (Ph. D) in operational research. She has guided multiple doctoral theses and travelled to the UK, South Korea, Thailand and Canada as part of academic delegations and presented papers at international conferences. She was a member of the core training group preparing students for International Mathematics Olympiad as well as a member of the Paper Setting and Evaluation Team for Regional Math Olympiad for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (South India).
In his role as director, Ramki spearheads the group’s operational planning that reflect the longer-term objectives and priorities established by the board. Ramki has 24 years of IT industry experience. Prior to starting PFT in 2007, he was CEO of Subex Technologies and before that, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Product R&D Services at Tata Elxsi. Ramki is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India.
Nishant Fadia is the Chief Financial Officer for Prime Focus Limited and the face of Prime Focus for the financial community. He has been with Prime Focus since 2000, and was the company’s first CFO, taking the company public in 2006. In 2014 he took up the role of Group Chief Operating Officer, to identify new expansion opportunities and drive overall operational efficiencies for the quickly expanding Prime Focus group, before returning to the position of CFO of the parent company, Prime Focus Limited. His role includes crafting the strategy and direction of the group to enhance value for all stakeholders.
Vikas has over 17 years in Corporate Finance, TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) Investment Banking, Capital Markets and M&A across US, Europe and Asia. Before this, Vikas was Head - Corporate Finance and M&A at Suzlon Energy, Principal - TMT Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Executive Director - TMT Investment Banking at ABN AMRO. Vikas is a CFA, an MBA in Finance from the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and an Engineering graduate from Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi University.
As the founder of Prime Focus, Namit has been responsible for the strategy, growth and success of Prime Focus from its modest beginnings in Mumbai in 1997 to its current position as the world’s largest independent and integrated media services powerhouse. Namit’s perpetual optimism and entrepreneurial spirit is written throughout the Prime Focus identity. Actively seeking out projects that will expand the strengths of the company, and challenge its team to push themselves to the next level, Namit is devoted to nurturing talent and ambition, and to delivering his clients world-class creative and technical services, and intelligent financial solutions. Namit is the poster boy of Indian entrepreneurship in Hollywood.
In a career spanning over two decades Merzin has led and inspired global teams on multiple projects, and mentored the careers and lives of countless artists, professionals and producers. Merzin leads the creative services function and his many responsibilities span business development, customer relations, creative strategy, delivery planning, talent management, technology acquisition and financial oversight. As Chief Creative Director he oversees planning and delivery of shows for content markets including Hollywood and Bollywood. As Co-founder, Merzin champions creative collaboration, technology leverage and talent optimization through a sustainable global digital pipeline, one of our biggest trump cards in the industry. Merzin’s ability to manipulate technology platforms and passion to build new services have been the backbone of our expansion strategy.
Huzefa has worked with just about every advertising agency and advertising film maker in India. He has edited 3 feature films including the cult classic Delhi Belly that won him the Screen and Filmfare Awards for best editing in 2012. Other major credits include 7 Abby Awards, an entry in the D & AD Book of Awards and an Asia Image Apollo Award. Huzefa has been part of acclaimed projects at the Green Oscars, London International Awards, Cannes, Spikes Asia, New York and Berlin Film Festivals. Huzefa has conceived and directed VFX, packaging and title sequences for a number of feature films. As guest lecturer at the prestigious Film & Television Training Institute of India, Huzefa conducts workshops for aspiring editors and finishing artists.
Prakash is one of the most popular editors today in advertising. A comic illustrator at heart with a number of published illustrated books to his credit, Prakash worked as a 2D animation instructor prior to co-founding Prime Focus. He heads the creative function for our Advertising division in India and also directs broadcast packaging and design. Projects he has worked on have won numerous awards such as Cannes Lions, Ad Fest Asia Pacific, Promax and Adclub. Some of his personal achievements include 3 Abbies, Smoke Artist Of The Year and the Golden Cursor Animation Award (Best Animation-Live Action combo).
In his role as managing director, Ramki spearheads the group’s operational planning that reflect the longer-term objectives and priorities established by the board.
Ramki has 18 years of IT industry experience. Prior to starting PFT in 2007, he was CEO of Subex Technologies and before that, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Product R&D Services at Tata Elxsi. Ramki is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India.
Ganesh Sankaran is the co-founder of PFT. He is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani, India and has 23 years in product development and engineering management. Prior to Prime Focus, Ganesh was Director of Engineering at Sanmina-SCI. He has also served Wipro, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and Essar Steel.
| Sr.No | Committees | Members | |
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| 1. | Audit Committee | Chairman | Mr. Samu Devarajan |
| Members | Mr. K. R. Srinivasan Mr. G.P. Aiyar |
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| 2. | Nomination and Remuneration Committee | Chairman | Mr. Samu Devarajan |
| Members | Mr. K. R. Srinivasan Mr. G.P. Aiyar |
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| 3. | Stakeholders Relationship Committee | Chairman | Mr. Samu Devarajan |
| Members | Mr. K. R. Srinivasan Mr. Naresh Malhotra |
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| 4. | Corporate Social Responsibility Committee | Chairman | Mr. Naresh Malhotra |
| Members | Mr. Samu Devarajan Mr. Mr. Ramakrishnan Sankaranarayanan |
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| 5. | ESOP Compensation Committee | Chairman | Mr. Samu Devarajan |
| Members | Mr. K. R. Srinivasan Mr. Mr. Ramakrishnan Sankaranarayanan |
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| 6. | Risk Management Committee | Chairman | Mr. Naresh Malhotra |
| Members | Mr. Samu Devarajan Mr. Ramakrishnan Sankaranarayanan |
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