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Prime Focus Limited (PFL), the world’s largest independent integrated media services powerhouse, employs over 8,000 professionals in 16 cities across 4 continents and 7 Time zones. We provide end-to-end creative services (stereo 3D conversion and animation), technology products & services (Media ERP Suite and Cloud-enabled media services), production services (equipment rental) and post-production services (Digital Intermediate and picture post) to the Media and Entertainment industry.

In 2014 Prime Focus merged with Academy Award® winning company DNEG, one of the world’s foremost providers of visual effects (VFX); and Reliance Media Works merged their global film and media services business with Prime Focus Limited. DNEG has won six Academy Awards® for its VFX work in recent years – for TENET (2020), First Man (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Ex Machina (2015), Interstellar (2014) and Inception (2010).

Prime Focus is behind groundbreaking technologies such as View-DTM (stereoscopic 2D to 3D conversion), CLEAR™ (Hybrid Cloud technology enabled Media ERP Suite) and Primetime Emmy® award-winning DAX Digital Dailies®. Leveraging our Global Digital Pipeline and pioneering WorldSourcing delivery model, we partner with content creators at every stage of the process, ensuring creative enablement, workflow efficiencies and cost optimization.

Listed on the BSE and NSE of India and recognized on the ‘Fortune India 500’ list, Prime Focus has operations in Abu Dhabi, Bangalore, Cape Town, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Johannesburg, Kolkata, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Chennai, Montreal, New York, Toronto and Vancouver.

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Awards & Recognition

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2020

DNEG Won its SIXTH Oscar for ‘TENET’

We are thrilled to announce that TENET has won the Academy Award for ‘Best Visual Effects’! Congratulations to Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott Fisher and David Lee, and to the incredible DNEG teams whose work helped bring Christopher Nolan’s vision to the screen.

Subhadeep Mitraa won the ‘Engineer of the Decade’

Subhadeep Mitraa from Jam8 won the ‘Engineer of the Decade’ at the Mirchi Music Awards – Bangla 2020

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Prime Focus Limited Company Overview

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Naresh Malhotra

Chairman Emeritus and Whole-time Director

A veteran in the Indian M&E industry, best known for producing the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Shahenshah, Naresh realized early the potential boom in the Indian television industry. He set up India’s first digital audio studio in 90s and also started providing equipment rental services to TV and ad film makers. Naresh was Chairman of the Board from 1997 to June 2014.

Namit Malhotra

Founder, Non - Executive Director – Prime Focus

As the founder of Prime Focus, Namit has been responsible for the strategy, growth and success of Prime Focus from its modest beginnings in Mumbai in 1997 to its current position as the world’s largest independent and integrated media services powerhouse. Namit’s perpetual optimism and entrepreneurial spirit is written throughout the Prime Focus identity. Actively seeking out projects that will expand the strengths of the company, and challenge its team to push themselves to the next level, Namit is devoted to nurturing talent and ambition, and to delivering his clients world-class creative and technical services, and intelligent financial solutions. Namit is the poster boy of Indian entrepreneurship in Hollywood.

Samu Devarajan

Independent Director

An industry veteran, Mr. Samu Devarajan brings wealth of management experience having previously held the position of Managing Director of CISCO Systems India. As CEO and MD, he helped TATA Elxsi from loss making organization to one of the most successful companies of the TATA Group. Dev is currently the Chairman of Board of Directors at ADC India Communications Limited, Independent Director at Neilsoft Limited and founder and President of Transmation Consulting, his own strategy consulting firm.

Dr. Hemalatha Thiagarajan

Independent and Non-Executive Director

Dr. Hemalatha Thiagarajan is an accomplished academician with over 35 years of experience. She has taught at both Loyola College and Meenakshi College for Women in Chennai, was the principal of Regional Engineering College (REC) Trichy and Director of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. She holds a Master of Science (M Sc.)and Master of Philosophy (M Phil.) degree in mathematics and doctorate (Ph. D) in operational research. She has guided multiple doctoral theses and travelled to the UK, South Korea, Thailand and Canada as part of academic delegations and presented papers at international conferences. She was a member of the core training group preparing students for International Mathematics Olympiad as well as a member of the Paper Setting and Evaluation Team for Regional Math Olympiad for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (South India).

Pooja Sood

Independent and Non- Executive Director

Pooja Sood is a Chartered Accountant from ICAEW. She has overall 27 years of extensive experience in the fields of Limited Company Accounts, Partnership & Rental Accounts, Sole Trader Accounts, Management Accounts, Audit & Assurance, Small Charity Accounts, IFRS, Corporate & Personal tax returns, VAT return. She also has extensive knowledge of FRS102, FRS105, UK GAAP.

Bharat Dighe

Independent and Non- Executive Director

Bharat Dighe is a Chartered Accountant and he has more than 23 years of experience in Private Equity investments and M&A Consulting in India. More than 18 years’ experience in direct investing roles with global private equity fund houses investing in Indian unlisted companies, both as minority / majority shareholding. He has also been in senior management positions in global investment houses, handling all aspects of the investment process.

Ramakrishnana Sankaranarayanan

Director (Also, Founder and Global CEO, Prime Focus Technologies)

In his role as director, Ramki spearheads the group’s operational planning that reflect the longer-term objectives and priorities established by the board. Ramki has 24 years of IT industry experience. Prior to starting PFT in 2007, he was CEO of Subex Technologies and before that, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Product R&D Services at Tata Elxsi. Ramki is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India.

Nishant Fadia

Chief Financial Officer

Nishant Fadia is the Chief Financial Officer for Prime Focus Limited and the face of Prime Focus for the financial community. He has been with Prime Focus since 2000, and was the company’s first CFO, taking the company public in 2006. In 2014 he took up the role of Group Chief Operating Officer, to identify new expansion opportunities and drive overall operational efficiencies for the quickly expanding Prime Focus group, before returning to the position of CFO of the parent company, Prime Focus Limited. His role includes crafting the strategy and direction of the group to enhance value for all stakeholders.

Vikas Rathee

Chief Financial Officer, DNEG

Vikas has over 17 years in Corporate Finance, TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) Investment Banking, Capital Markets and M&A across US, Europe and Asia. Before this, Vikas was Head - Corporate Finance and M&A at Suzlon Energy, Principal - TMT Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Executive Director - TMT Investment Banking at ABN AMRO. Vikas is a CFA, an MBA in Finance from the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and an Engineering graduate from Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi University.

Namit Malhotra

Founder, Non - Executive Director – Prime Focus

Merzin Tavaria

Chief Creative Director and Co-founder, Prime Focus

In a career spanning over two decades Merzin has led and inspired global teams on multiple projects, and mentored the careers and lives of countless artists, professionals and producers. Merzin leads the creative services function and his many responsibilities span business development, customer relations, creative strategy, delivery planning, talent management, technology acquisition and financial oversight. As Chief Creative Director he oversees planning and delivery of shows for content markets including Hollywood and Bollywood. As Co-founder, Merzin champions creative collaboration, technology leverage and talent optimization through a sustainable global digital pipeline, one of our biggest trump cards in the industry. Merzin’s ability to manipulate technology platforms and passion to build new services have been the backbone of our expansion strategy.

Huzefa Lokhandwala

Co-founder and Creative Director (Advertising), Prime Focus

Huzefa has worked with just about every advertising agency and advertising film maker in India. He has edited 3 feature films including the cult classic Delhi Belly that won him the Screen and Filmfare Awards for best editing in 2012. Other major credits include 7 Abby Awards, an entry in the D & AD Book of Awards and an Asia Image Apollo Award. Huzefa has been part of acclaimed projects at the Green Oscars, London International Awards, Cannes, Spikes Asia, New York and Berlin Film Festivals. Huzefa has conceived and directed VFX, packaging and title sequences for a number of feature films. As guest lecturer at the prestigious Film & Television Training Institute of India, Huzefa conducts workshops for aspiring editors and finishing artists.

Prakash Kurup

Co-founder and Creative Director (Advertising), Prime Focus

Prakash is one of the most popular editors today in advertising. A comic illustrator at heart with a number of published illustrated books to his credit, Prakash worked as a 2D animation instructor prior to co-founding Prime Focus. He heads the creative function for our Advertising division in India and also directs broadcast packaging and design. Projects he has worked on have won numerous awards such as Cannes Lions, Ad Fest Asia Pacific, Promax and Adclub. Some of his personal achievements include 3 Abbies, Smoke Artist Of The Year and the Golden Cursor Animation Award (Best Animation-Live Action combo).

Ramakrishnana Sankaranarayanan

Founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies (Also, Managing Director, Prime Focus)

In his role as managing director, Ramki spearheads the group’s operational planning that reflect the longer-term objectives and priorities established by the board.

Ramki has 18 years of IT industry experience. Prior to starting PFT in 2007, he was CEO of Subex Technologies and before that, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Product R&D Services at Tata Elxsi. Ramki is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India.

Ganesh Sankaran

Co-founder , Prime Focus Technologies

Ganesh Sankaran is the co-founder of PFT. He is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani, India and has 23 years in product development and engineering management. Prior to Prime Focus, Ganesh was Director of Engineering at Sanmina-SCI. He has also served Wipro, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and Essar Steel.

Sr.No	Committees	Members
1.	Audit Committee	Chairman	Mr. Samu Devarajan
1.	Audit Committee	Members	Ms. Pooja Sood Ms. Hemalatha Thiagarajan Mr. Naresh Malhotra Mr. Bharat Dighe
2.	Nomination and Remuneration Committee	Chairman	Mr. Samu Devarajan
2.	Nomination and Remuneration Committee	Members	Ms. Pooja Sood Mr. Namit Malhotra Mr. Bharat Dighe
3.	Stakeholders Relationship Committee	Chairman	Mr. Samu Devarajan
3.	Stakeholders Relationship Committee	Members	Ms. Pooja Sood Mr. Naresh Malhotra Mr. Bharat Dighe
4.	Corporate Social Responsibility Committee	Chairman	Mr. Naresh Malhotra
4.	Corporate Social Responsibility Committee	Members	Mr. Samu Devarajan Mr. Namit Malhotra
5.	ESOP Compensation Committee	Chairman	Mr. Samu Devarajan
5.	ESOP Compensation Committee	Members	Ms. Pooja Sood Mr. Namit Malhotra Mr. Bharat Dighe
6.	Risk Management Committee	Chairman	Mr. Naresh Malhotra
6.	Risk Management Committee	Members	Mr. Samu Devarajan Mr. Namit Malhotra