Advisors

Soul and mind ...

BASANT TALREJA
Basant Talreja is the chairman of Gemini Studios and Innovations Pvt. Ltd. and Digital Academy. Gemini provides a state of the art studio and one stop shop for all needs of the filmmaker, and Digital Academy which is India's first film school which offers courses in all aspects of filmmaking including animation under one roof. Before starting Gemini, Talreja was in import and export of garments for 30 years and was based in US. An ardent lover of films, he prides himself on an almost photographic memory of Indian films made. His interest in Indian classical music has seen him organizing concerts of artistes like Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Gana Saraswati Kishori Amonkar, Ustad Zakir Hussain and Jagjit Singh.

MICHAEL J. COOK
Michael J. Cook is a VP of Technology at Comcast. He is responsible for future product innovation, vision and leading the development of future products and services. His current focus is on converged services and personal electronics devices with a primary focus on content portability. Michael has over 20 years of technical and executive level experience. He is an expert in several programming languages including: Ruby/Rails, PHP, Java, C, C++ and is currently architecting and developing applications for small screen devices using embedded linux. He has also designed numerous communications applications using SIP, H.323, MGCP, & XMPP. He has about 20 patents either awarded or pending, spanning telecom and video technologies.

SHERAN MEHRA
Sheran Mehra has more than 10 years of experience in Marketing and Advertising. She has held key positions in major banks and major advertising companies including International brands like Ogilvy and Mather, HSBC and Barclays. She is currently the head of Marketing at a major Bank in India. Sheran holds a Post Graduate Degree in Marketing from Institute of Management Education and a Bachelors of Commerce from Barkatullah University , Bhopal.

ACHALESH AMAR
Achalesh Amar has a wealth of knowledge and experience in IT, Management and Education. He has more than 15 years of experience in education and has been an instructor at top institutes like Kaplan. He has over 10 years of experience in IT with specialization in QA. Achalesh holds a Masters in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India.