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Investor | Advisor | Team Owner
Jan 2022
MAJOR LEAGUE CRICKET (MLC) is the first professional Twenty20 cricket league in the worlds largest sports market.
MLC, which is exclusively sanctioned by USA Cricket, represents the most ambitious and transformational venture ever undertaken in the American cricket landscape. Focused on staging world class Twenty20 cricket for American cricket fans, MLC will feature top players from around the globe and provide a stage for domestic cricketers to showcase their talents to a global audience.
Major League Cricket will feature teams in major cities across the country, deploying the highest quality international talent playing alongside the best domestic players in the United States.
The founders of Major League Cricket have been deeply involved with cricket in the US, particularly with the establishment of the US as a major broadcast market for cricket. MLC is co-founded by the founders of Willow TV, the largest cricket broadcaster in North America and the principals of The Times of India Group, India’s largest media conglomerate. MLC is also backed by a prominent and diverse group of investors from across the United States, along with the Knight Riders Group, owners of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR).
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2022
Investor | Advisor | Team Owner
Jan 2022
MAJOR LEAGUE CRICKET (MLC) is the first professional Twenty20 cricket league in the worlds largest sports market.
MLC, which is exclusively sanctioned by USA Cricket, represents the most ambitious and transformational venture ever undertaken in the American cricket landscape. Focused on staging world class Twenty20 cricket for American cricket fans, MLC will feature top players from around the globe and provide a stage for domestic cricketers to showcase their talents to a global audience.
Major League Cricket will feature teams in major cities across the country, deploying the highest quality international talent playing alongside the best domestic players in the United States.
The founders of Major League Cricket have been deeply involved with cricket in the US, particularly with the establishment of the US as a major broadcast market for cricket. MLC is co-founded by the founders of Willow TV, the largest cricket broadcaster in North America and the principals of The Times of India Group, India’s largest media conglomerate. MLC is also backed by a prominent and diverse group of investors from across the United States, along with the Knight Riders Group, owners of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR).
2013
Partner, Engineering Director
Dec 2013
The next generation of Skype from Microsoft gives you better ways to chat, call, and plan fun things to do with the people in your life every day.
Microsoft acquired Skype in May 2011 to be included in their broader portfolio. The acquisition increased the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination extended Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.
For more information about the Skype acquisition visit: https://news.microsoft.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-to-acquire-skype/#2FLqrbtyDvWpVXco.97
2011
Principal, Development Manager, Windows Services
Dec 2011
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
2005
Board Exec | Founder Member
Feb 2005
Indus Creations is a Media/Performance arts group based out of Seattle, USA, founded in 2005. It comprises a bunch of tech expats from India, primarily software engineers and technology leaders who work for companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google,Facebook etc. who passionately devote their time for performance arts and doing their bit to help out folks back home in India. Through its various theatre shows and film productions Indus has helped raise over $300,000(~2 crore Indian rupees) for various charity organizations focusing on welfare initiatives in India.
The team has produced more than 10 major theatre shows and numerous short films, some of which have been screened in film festivals around the world. “Navam” won the best film at the Bay Area Film Association short film competition and “Odam” won numerous International Film Festival awards. Few of the noted theatre and film productions of Indus Creations include Aranmanai Siruvayalil(2006), Kadavul Vandhirundhar(2007), Ragasiya Snehidiyae (2008) , London Express(2009), Iru Lives Oru Story(2010), Chakravyugam(2011), Ulle Veliye(2012), Ninaithale Nadakum(2014), Chidambara Ragasiyam(2015), Chevva Dhosham(2017), Odam(2018), Narivettai(2018) & Navam(2018).
Indus Creations is proud to venture into it’s first Kollywood production “VellaiPookal” partnering with Tentkotta.
