Management Team
Rajjat A. Barjatya
Managing Director & CEO
Rajjat has had the privilege of being born in a family with a rich lineage of producing
and distributing Indian entertainment content for decades. Rajjat's vision to engage
with a digitally connected global audience through new media platforms led to the
incubation of Rajshri Media, India's leading Web and Mobile studio and the digital
arm of the Rajshri group.
Rajjat is widely credited for the success of Rajshri.com, India's leading broadband
video on demand portal for premium Indian entertainment and special interest content.
Rajshri.com created history by releasing Rajshri's film, Vivah, day and date with
its worldwide theatrical release in November 2006. Rajjat is also the brain behind
Akbar Birbal Remixed, India's first show developed and produced exclusively for
Web and Mobile screens. This is in line with Rajjat's aim to entertain and delight
a global audience by making entertainment and special interest content available
on any digital device, anywhere, anytime.
Rajjat is now all set to take the Rajshri group into new domains in his quest to
make Rajshri a global entertainment brand.
Shashank Sathe
CTO
Shashank has 15+ years of experience in core Information Technology management.
He has been a pioneer in the development of Internet and eBanking applications in
India. He brings to the table a combined knowledge of core eBanking and Finance,
Internet Ad-Servers, Web Application Development and Rich Media-On-Demand Platforms.
Shashank is an established expert on cross-platform technology architecture planning
and deployment. He hosts several corporate workshops and discussion forums on a
number of cutting-edge technology issues.
Shashank holds multiple masters degrees in computer applications, information systems
management, business management, statistics and operations research from Indian
Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), L. N. Welingkar's, Narsee Monjee Institute
of Management Studies and NCC (U.K). He also holds professional degrees in Para-psychology
& Human Psychology and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Advanced Holographic Storage Technologies.
Vishnu Kanth Gokul
VP - Ad Sales
Gokul heads the online ad-sales for Rajshri.com. He has given the ad-sales effort
at Rajshri.com a completely new direction with his infectious enthusiasm, innovative
ideas and his unwavering faith in achieving them. Gokul brings with him an enriching
experience of eleven years in the field of direct sales and online ad sales. Prior
to Rajshri Media he was with Sify, handling the NRI portal, Samachar.com for one
year. Gokul is also responsible for launching and handling the entire south region
for Rediff's P4C activity for four years. Prior to this, he spent seven and a half
years at Maxcom, handling direct sales.
Suparna Sahita
Sr. Manager - Content
Suparna heads Hindi content programming at Rajshri Media. Her Masters degree in
English Literature from Mumbai University, her love for writing and her knowledge
of Indian entertainment, collectively, hold her in good stead. She is also a qualified
Instructional Designer from Symbiosis, Pune.
Prior to Rajshri Media, Suparna has worked with Procentris, which was a KPO and
which gave her an opportunity to work on different websites. She has also worked
with Zenith Global Consultancy, an organisation that manufactured educational CD’s.
She honed her administrative skills at her family business for over 20 years, supplying
pharmaceutical raw materials to Indian pharma giants.
Nilesh Mishra
Chief Editor
Nilesh and his team of editors are responsible for ingesting, editing and transcoding
thousands of hours of video content, which users view on Rajshri.com. In addition,
they also tag, store and catalog Rajshri Media's vast library of video assets for
timely retrieval. All of this is loosely termed Digital Asset Management.
Nilesh is also responsible for timely delivery of content, in pre-defined specifications,
to Rajshri Media's Web and Mobile syndication partners. He has been part of Rajshri
Media's core team from day one. He has grown with the company and with the nascent
online video industry. Nilesh has completed his FCP course from Arena Multimedia,
Mumbai.
