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  • Skillbox brings in Roydon Bangera as division head-West & head of brand partnerships

    Skillbox brings in Roydon Bangera as division head-West & head of brand partnerships

    Mumbai: Art community and ticketing platform Skillbox has brought Roydon Bangera on board as division head – West and head of brand partnerships.

    In his role at Skillbox, Bangera will be bringing his over 13 years of experience in the entertainment industry to grow the platform’s revenue in the west region. Additionally, at a national level, his role will focus on branded experiences, branded partnerships and scaling the platform’s ticketing footprint beyond music into comedy, sports and theatre, said the statement.

    “SkillBox is constantly evolving its product line and offerings. Roydon will help drive the next phase of growth and expansion for the company, further streamlining and strengthening the core areas of the business, as SkillBox continues on building a holistic platform for artists, going forward,” stated Skillbox CEO and co-founder Anmol Kukreja.

    Bangera is a seasoned music industry executive with experience in live music, P&L management for creative industries, A&R, marketing and business development. Prior to SkillBox, he has been associated with companies like Sony Music India, Madness JAMS, Indigo Live to name a few. He has also long been associated with the indie music industry as an independent artist manager, promoter and entrepreneur.

    “I am truly excited about this new journey with Skillbox and I look forward to making Skillbox an end-to-end solution for brands when it comes to live entertainment, not only music but all forms of art & entertainment,” said Roydon Bangera on his new assignment.

  • Ficci entertainment division head Siddhartha Dasgupta quits

    MUMBAI: At a time when the Indian entertainment industry is booming, the revolving door is not restricted to just media companies. It has started spinning at apex chambers of commerce too.
    Take, for example, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) that had taken a lead to propel the entertainment and media sector in the forefront in the country. Its joint director and head of entertainment division, Siddhartha Dasgupta, has left to join a digital movie distribution company, UFO Moviez, the digital cinema network launched by Valuable Media Pvt Ltd late 2005.
    Sources in Ficci confirmed that Dasgupta has quit, but refrained from handing out other details like a likely replacement for him. At the moment, a high-level delegation of the apex chamber of commerce, including its secretary-general, Dr Amit Mitra, is on a business tour of China where rampant video and audio piracy has rattled some of the visiting businesspersons.

    Apart from Dasgupta, two other senior functionaries of Ficci in recent times left to join the Reliance group, promoted by Mukesh Ambani. A possible casualty in the animation division of Ficci has been averted, according to the sources.

    Meanwhile, UFO Moviez aims to be at the forefront of the convergence of entertainment and technology. Its goal: create the world’s largest integrated digital cinema network capable of digitally delivering and exhibiting motion pictures and alternative content. Dasgupta’s experience at Ficci would help the top management of the company.

    UFO Moviez is aiming to set up 500 digital movie halls by middle of 2006 at an investment of Rs 800 million and then scale it up progressively to 2,000 cinema halls across the country at a total investment of Rs 3 billion.

    UFO Moviez is the digital cinema network launched by Valuable Media Pvt LTD, where the lead investor is the Delhi-headquartered Apollo International Ltd.

    At the launch of the network, Apollo group’s head OS Kanwar had said, “Earlier businesses were driving technological applications, now technological applications are driving business models. UFO Moviez digital cinema is a prime example of how Indian technology whiz kids have adopted technology to deliver the best of content even to the remotest Indian towns.”