Rajesh Sawhney
In a short span of 3 years, Reliance BIG Entertainment, under the leadership of Rajesh, has built leading businesses in many entertainment/media verticals. Within 2 years of its inception, BIG 92.7FM has become the No. 1 Radio-station Network in India with a network of 46 stations. In Filmed Entertainment space, BIG Pictures has become the leading Film producer with a slate of 50 Indian movies and BIG Cinemas [Adlabs] is now the No. 1 film exhibitor in India. Rajesh has also driven group’s foray into Hollywood: acquisition of DreamWorks and creation of a number of development silos with leading Hollywood Film production companies.
In the new media space, Rajesh has launched 3 leading online ventures in the last 2 years: Zapak.com [well recognised as the No.1 online games portal in India by a large distance], Bigadda.com [No. 1 Indian social networking site], and Bigflicks.com [No. 1 Movie rental and Broadband Venture].
Previously, Rajesh has worked with The Times of India Group in different leadership roles and launched a number of successful ventures across different media domains: Publishing, Radio & TV, Retailing [Planet M], Internet portal [Indiatimes.com], online classifieds, e-commerce and e-travel. He is widely acknowledged in the industry as the pioneer of Mobile value added services [MVAS]. He launched the first ever third party MVAS services in India on SMS short code 8888.
Rajesh is an alumnus of Harvard Business School [AMP], and has a fellowship from the London School of Economics.