Gautam Shiknis
Gautam S. Shiknis | |
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 Gautam Shiknis, November,2007 | |
| Born | 25 September 1971 |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and Managing Director, Palador Pictures |
| Website | www.mypalador.com |
Gautam Shiknis is the Founder and MD of Palador Pictures, a company incorporated in 2005 for acquiring award-winning foreign language films called World cinema and distributing them via DVD, TV and Theater in the Indian Subcontinent.
Gautam is an MBA and started his career with Saatchi and Saatchi where he helped launch a number of MNC brands into India, including Head & Shoulders and Hyundai Santro.
In September 2000 founded Theory M, a data analytics company with Bharat V Patel, T.V.Shivkumar and Vinay Pinto. He was the CEO of Theory M but quit to form Goldfish Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and Frequency Entertainment. He also consulted for A Little World Pvt. Ltd. during this period.
Gautam began work in 2005 on a concept called Reeload Film Festival [1] a year round film festival for World Cinema. Later he founded Palador Pictures, to bring the then almost non-prevelant World Cinema and foreign language films into India. The company is promoting them via DVD, Television and Theatrical Releases in the country.
Gautam is also a writer having written Meet Moriarty [2] a collection of short stories in 2004.
He is also a visiting faculty for technology in marketing and direct marketing at the NMIMS University for the past four years along with being on the panel of judges and advisor to Eureka, the annual business plan competition held by The Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for over three years. [3]
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Citations and Footnotes
- ^ "Reeload brings world cinema to Mumbai". 09 May 2006.
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{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Unknown parameter|site=ignored (help) - ^ IIT Mumbai (2007). "IIT Bombay, The Entrepreneurial Cell".
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