Our People

Ramki Sankaranarayanan

Founder, President & CEO

Ramki Sankaranarayanan is CEO of Prime Focus India and President & CEO of Prime Focus Technologies. In his role as CEO of Prime Focus India he is responsible for all operations and business lines throughout India, and as President & CEO – and founding member – of Prime Focus Technologies, he is the leader of the technologies arm, leveraging the digital media services business worldwide.

Ramki brings to Prime Focus with over 17 years of rich experience performing technical, strategy, customer service, marketing, sales & general management roles in the IT industry. Ramki has specific experience in deployment of technology within the Media & Entertainment sector. Prior to Prime Focus, Ramki was the CEO of Subex Technologies, an IT Services player in the Telecom Industry. In the 2 years he spent at Subex, he grew the revenues from USD 12 mil to 26 mil and staff size from 120 to 340. He led the team that built unique IPs for IPTV Service Launch & Operations Support, Automation of the digital content life-cycle management and Digital Signage Content Delivery.

Prior to joining Subex, as General Manager & Head of worldwide sales and marketing in Tata Elxsi for the Product R&D Services division, he helped triple revenues in 3 years developing business worldwide across Japan, Europe, India & North American regions. Ramki also set up the operations of Tata Elxsi in USA and grew it into a Multi-million dollar region and as an Industry Manager – he led the business in the Media Industry in India and established Tata Elxsi as an Innovator & Systems Integrator of content creation tools & systems.

Ramki holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from B.I.T.S Pilani, India and a MBA degree from S. P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India.

 

Ganesh Sankaran

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Ganesh Sankaran heads the R&D, technology development and service delivery operations at PFT.

Ganesh brings in more than 19 years of experience in product development and engineering management. Prior to Prime Focus, Ganesh functioned as the Director of Engineering at Sanmina-SCI, leading hardware and software design teams involved in development of multimedia set-top box and security products. During his stint at Wipro, he was involved in managing large engineering teams for customers such as Bell South and Nortel, both in India and North America. Ganesh spent his initial years in Industrial Automation developing software for steel plants in Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and Essar Steel.

Ganesh holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from B.I.T.S Pilani, India.

 

Gurinder Vir Singh

Chief Information Officer

Gurinder heads IT for the Prime Focus group in India. With more than 26 years of experience, Gurinder has worked extensively on evolving innovative delivery models and governance for IT Services. In his previous role as CIO for Steria, he was instrumental in building and operating IT delivery for Steria at global level.

He has previously held leadership roles in organizations like Wipro, CSC, and TataElxsi.

GV is a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) graduate and has specialized in Electronics & Communication from R. E. C. Kurukshetra, India.

 

Radhika Chinai

Vice President-Media Processing Services

Radhika Chinai is VP – Media Processing services, handling product management, pre-sales and business development for CLEAR led Multiplatform content operation services.

Radhika brings with her more than a decade of experience including a stint as CEO – Content Localization of Words Infocom Pvt. Ltd, which was preceded by an entrepreneurial venture called Media Soft Digital Pvt. Ltd – offering subtitling and close captioning service in the US & UK market.

Radhika holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a specialization in International Political Development from the Oxford University.

 

Sanjeev Nayak

Vice President – Platform Deployment and Support

Sanjeev manages the Platform Deployment and Support activities.

Sanjeev brings over 12 years of experience. Prior to joining Prime Focus Technologies, Sanjeev worked in the computer software industry and comes with a telecom network management background.

In his previous job at MindTree, Sanjeev was involved with various US based customers and worked on divergent technologies such as Network Management Systems, Optical Routers, and Messaging Systems. He also managed a large India Development Center that designed and developed security products and Multimedia set-top boxes for Sanmina-SCI while at MindTree.

He has worked with organizations such as Robert Bosch and Lucent Technologies.

Sanjeev holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology Nitte.

 

Atul Saxena

Vice President – Technology, Americas

Atul Saxena spearheads Technology Operations in North America for Prime Focus Technologies.

Atul brings over 16 years of experience in product development and engineering. In PFT, as GM, Platform Development Atul and team developed CLEARTM Content & Workflow Management Platform from ground up. Starting his career with Wipro in 1996, Atul was an integral part of Wipro-Nortel team, where he worked for Nortel’s Optical and Enterprise products. Prior to PFT, Atul worked in the Optical startup, Infinera where he was involved in developing niche products from concept to deployment in the field of Network Management and Optical Network Planning System for Infinera Corp’s DTN product line.

Atul holds a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering and Telecommunication from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Pune University, India.

 

Shekhar Nambi

Technical Director

Shekhar Nambi is the Technical Director and manages pre-sales, CLEAR solution design and operations of the media center at our London facility in UK.

Shekhar brings with him more than 14 years of experience working with leading Tier 1 Product Development and Software Services companies in the telecom industry in areas of Business Development, Engineering Management, Product development and Managed Services. Prior to joining Prime Focus Technologies, Shekhar was working with Alcatel Lucent and Wipro Technologies.

Shekhar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science.

 

Jyothi Nayak

General Manager – Media Processing Services

With over 14 years in the ITES, BPO and Pharmaceutical Industry in various capacities, Jyothi manages operations for Media Processing Services at Prime Focus Technologies. She comes with an operations background and has extensive hands on experience in Customer Service, Business Development, People Management and Client Relationship Management.

Prior to joining Prime Focus, Jyothi worked for NeilMed Pharmaceuticals as Vice President – Operations. She has also worked with organizations like Sheraton Group, Viteos Technologies and e4e Business Solutions.

In addition to being an ISO Certified Lead Auditor, Jyothi is an MBA in Marketing and Human Relations from the National Institute of Management.

 

Feroz Shaikh

VP and Head – IT

Feroz manages all the IT related activities in India. He caters to both the IT needs of Prime Focus and Prime Focus Technologies.

Prior to Prime Focus, Feroz handled the role of VP – IT for Cinemeta Entertainment (a Sony Entertainment Company), a digital Film Exhibition & Distribution company.

With over 16 years of experience, Feroz has performed several IT leadership roles in companies like Epitome Global Services, Hyatt, Godrej Upstream and Compaq.

Feroz has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Marathwada University and is a PMP certified professional.