SAURABH GADGIL
CHAIRMAN
Saurabh Gadgil transformed a 175 year old family run gold ornaments business to a professionally run PNG corporate entity spanning activities in Maharashtra and USA.
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Saurabh Gadgil applies his profesional knowledge and skills that he acquired through his MBA from Symbiosis in his capacity as Chairman of Seamedu.
Shiva P. Gupta
MD & CEO
Shiva Gupta has over 24 years of global experience of providing business and technology leadership. He has worked with established corporations across diverse sectors in USA,
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Europe and India. An Electronics Engineer from Institute of Technology (IT - BHU), Varanasi; Shiva started his career with Tata Consultancy Services in India, before moving on to USA to join Covansys. Post that, he spent over eight years at Cognizant and was part of their global leadership team when he found his true calling in Education and Media & Entertainment. Shiva is now managing Seamless Education Academy and Toolbox Animations Studios, SVG Worldwide enterprises headquartered in Pune, India.
Dharmendra Chavan
Director, Broadcast Media
Dharmendra, a B.E in Electronics, has a Masters Degree in Mass Communication, a Diploma in Animation and Special Effects as well as a Diploma in Journalism along
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with 17 years of rich experience in the industry in fields as varied as Film Direction, Editing, doing Special Effects and Animation for Film. He is also a technical consultant for installing studios and non-linear set-ups. He has directed and edited more than 300 films from different streams such as advertising, education, entertainment and documentaries.
Harold Raichur
Director, Animation & Arts
Harold is a Visualizer and Creative, with a knack for Storytelling. His interests vary from Philosophy to History, Football to Animation, Books to Comics, and Teaching to Trekking.
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He brings a practical & hands on approach to everything he does. A self learnt, student of Animation, and Filmmaking in particular. He loves to write & direct original content like Short Films, Game content, Short Stories, Comics & and anything to do with the visual media.
Dilip Achtani
Head, Sound Engineering
Dilip, a professional sound engineer has worked on Hindi and Marathi movies including Dev D, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Uladhal and many more. Has worked for a live sound
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and a post production company in the past. Technically sound and having a lot of experience on softwares like Protools and Nuendo.
Sameer Talwalkar
Head of Academics, Broadcast Media
Sameer is a Director and Executive Producer. He is a graduate of the Sydney Film School. Having been involved in over 26 productions in both Australia and India in various
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roles ranging from Director to Line producer to VFX Supervisor, Sameer has a first hand experience in both Hollywood and Indian style productions. Today he adds immense value to Digital Film Making section of Broadcast Media in the capacity of Head of Academics.
Makarand Malawe
Head of Academics, Broadcast Media
Makarand Malawe has a very rich experience of more than 20 years in the field of Reporting/Writing and News He has worked with large media organizations
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like Zee24 Taas News channel, ETV Marathi, Cable News Network called Pune Varta, Kirloskar and Stree, Akashwani, etc. He spearheads the Broadcast Journalism section of Broadcast Media, mentoring and guiding the team and students from all aspects.
Akhlaque Shaikh
Technical Head, Animation & Arts
Akhlaque is -Bachelor in Computer Engineering wouldn't have come to be in this position if he hadn't accompanied a friend, sadly for his friend who didn't join
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what Aks did-ANIAMATION! Since then he has progressed from being the first motion builder trainer to studios, to a maya expert and later a technical head.In-between all this he was able to co-found Id Animation & Arts. At the present Aks is busy un ravelling the future course of SeamEdu-nextgen training pipeline, namely HOUDINI, Mo-Cap & Game Technology. He is largely self learnt and has a passion for animation and 8 years to back it all. He has technical expertise over major 3D, 2D and Compositing programs & all things technical. He has been involved in short filmmaking and commercials, as Technical Director. He maintains a blog, likes photography & going to the Gym.
Ajay Thomas
Head - Business Development
Ajay has an experience of around 14 years across various organizations including 2 years of entrepreneurial experience mainly involved into Business Development,
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Client Servicing and Operations. He has spent most of his career so far in premier education and training organizations in roles ranging from trainer to establishing and managing them. In Seamedu, he spearheads the process of branding, market analysis, setting up of startegic alliances, tie ups with global educational organizations and placements.
Nusrat Khailfe
Manger HR & Student Relations
Nusrat a thorough professional with 7+ years of experience in the field of Human Resources working with large organizations, has brought in the very essential touch of the HR
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to help the team as well as students groom to be the industry demanding professionals and more than anything being holistic human beings.
Rohit Gupta
Founder, CEO and programming fanatic
(Rolocule Games)
Prior to Rolocule, Rohit was a part of "THE SIMS 3" engineering team at Electronic Arts (EA) headquarters in Redwood City, California. He has also held positions
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at Infosys Technologies, where he was also awarded Best Software Engineer award in 2006. He seems to be obsessed with computer games, superman and tea, and intends to spend rest of his life entertaining people. He is not evil but turns to Lex Luthor for good business tips.
Rohit holds Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York and BE in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (University of Pune).
Rajat Jain
Management Postgraduate from IIM Ahmedabad
B Tech from IIT, Delhi
Rajat has worked in the consumer, media, entertainment and telecom spaces in India, both at young stage companies and MNCs. His key areas of expertise are understanding consumers across various spaces, building and working with teams and growing businesses that revolve around brands. He is currently on the Board (with Executive/Board/Management responsibility) of Companies e g Mobile2Win, West Wing Studio, Virtuoso Consulting, etc. as well on the Board in Advisory Roles of few companies e g Whistling Woods, MyIndiEye Mobile Travel etc).
Rajat has extensive experience in media & entertainment field - was Global SVP/MD of Walt Disney India and successfully launched the leading kids TV network as well as laid the foundation of building the "Disney" brand in India; prior to that, he built out Sony MAX, the leading cricket and movies TV network, etc. He also has passion for Education and is connected with ISB, Whistling Woods, etc. He is a Management Postgraduate from IIM, Ahmedabad and a B Tech from IIT, Delhi.
Prof. Samar Nakhate
Filmmaker, an alumnus, Ex-Dean (Television Division) and lecturer at - FTII
Was awarded the Fullbright Scholarship (1985-86) for Advanced training in Video Programming & Production, Boston university, USA.
He has deep interest in the visual arts and the philosophy of science & cultures. He is passionately involved in nurturing and creating new young professionals for film, television and theatre. He has designed syllabus and academic content for various film and television courses including Direction, Production, Scriptwriting and Film Appreciation for FTII, Pune as well as Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, kolkata. He is also a member of the Selection Committee, Pune International Film Festival.
Closely associated with contemporary theatre. He has been a founder-member of the Pune based theatre-group 'Theatre Academy' and has directed several one-act as well as Full-length plays.
Rohit Gupta
Founder, CEO and programming fanatic (Rolocule Games)
Prior to Rolocule, Rohit was a part of "THE SIMS 3" engineering team at Electronic Arts (EA) headquarters in Redwood City, California. He has also held positions
at Infosys Technologies, where he was also awarded Best Software Engineer award in 2006. He seems to be obsessed with computer games, superman and tea, and intends to spend rest of his life entertaining people. He is not evil but turns to Lex Luthor for good business tips.
Rohit holds Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York and BE in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (University of Pune).
Dr. Vishwas Mehendale
A renowned media personality with more than 40 years of experience in Media Communications & first Marathi News reader on Doordarshan. During his career he has held various responsible positions such as -Director of Cultural Affairs, Maharashtra Govt., HOD of Communication Department- University of Poona, Founder director of Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication. He is also well known stage artist and author of 18 books.