Team - games24x7

Team

Leadership Team

Creating hyper-personalized experiences for our players needs world-class teams, and creating world-class teams needs great leaders. 

Trivikraman Thampy

Co-Founder & CEO

"Every time I learn something about a player that allows us to deliver a better experience to them — that is a success." Fondly called Vikram, co-founded Games24x7 with Bhavin. Based out of Miami, Vikram guides the company through numerous successful product releases, marketing campaigns and rounds of funding. His analytical skills and strategic decisions continue to be the key to the company's growth. Vikram holds a PhD in Economics from NYU and has a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Trivikraman Thampy

Co-Founder & CEO
Fondly called Vikram, co-founded Games24x7 with Bhavin. Based out of Miami, Vikram guides the company through numerous successful product releases, marketing campaigns and rounds of funding. His analytical skills and strategic decisions continue to be the key to the company's growth. Vikram holds a PhD in Economics from NYU and has a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Bhavin Pandya

Co-Founder & CEO

"Ideas don't succeed; products don't succeed — teams succeed." Bhavin co-founded Games24x7 in 2006. He has spearheaded the company's operations and game development in its hyper-growth phase. Based out of Mumbai, Bhavin plays a pivotal role in defining the strategy, building awesome teams, and ensuring that the right culture is laid out and preserved. Bhavin holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He dropped out of a fully-funded Economics PhD program at NYU to start Games24x7.

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Bhavin Pandya

Co-Founder & CEO
Bhavin co-founded Games24x7 in 2006. He has spearheaded the company's operations and game development in its hyper-growth phase. Based out of Mumbai, Bhavin plays a pivotal role in defining the strategy, building awesome teams, and ensuring that the right culture is laid out and preserved. Bhavin holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He dropped out of a fully-funded Economics PhD program at NYU to start Games24x7.

Rahul Tewari

Chief Financial Officer

Rahul comes with over two decades of varied leadership experience across strategic finance, corporate development and investment banking in the technology sector. At Games24x7, he is responsible for leading the corporate development initiatives including acquisitions, partnerships and investments. Rahul has worked in bulge bracket investment banks such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in New York and led technology sector coverage at ICICI Securities. He is an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and has an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Vikrant Goyal

Chief Human Resource Officer

Vikrant has two decades of experience across functions of Human Resources through companies and industries. He is specialised as a leader for organisation transformation, facilitator, coach, interventionist, and trainer. Vikrant is passionate about behavioural sciences and organisation behaviour. He is an avid reader and writer.

Tridib Mukherjee

Vice President of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Tridib is a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Arizona State University, where he specialised in AI-driven data centre optimisation and body sensor networks. At Games24x7, Tridib is responsible for applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to automate business decision making and enhance user experiences in our offerings. Tridib has co-authored a book from Cambridge University Press, multiple book chapters, and published 60+ research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has 10+ granted US patents in addition to 30+ US patent applications.

Arnov Kumar

Director, Risk Management

Arnov has around 10+ years of experience in analytics, with expertise in conceptualizing, developing and implementing machine learning and optimization solutions for leading businesses across the globe. He currently leads the Risk Management division at Games24x7 focussing on identification of fraud players and irresponsible gameplay related risk. In his prior role, he was leading the data science and collections team at OLA Financial Services responsible for developing models and strategy to increase efficiency in collections operations. Arnov completed his bachelors and masters from IIT Kharagpur in the field of Mathematics and Computing.

Rajat Bansal

Chief Technology Officer

Rajat is a seasoned product-tech leader with over two-decades of experience in building large-scale products and platforms at organizations like Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon and Hike with strong focus on customer satisfaction, innovation and creating business value. He comes with a rich experience in building products and organizations from the ground up and expanding them globally to international markets. Rajat in the past has worked as CTO of Hike where he led Hike Messenger to a journey of 100M+ users solving unique India specific challenges like number of languages, network/data cost and varied spectrum of devices.

Saroj Panigrahi

Senior Vice President - My11Circle

Saroj has been associated with Games24x7 since 2007 and has an unparalleled grasp of a gamer’s psyche, which helps him identify the player’s needs and design customised technological solutions around it. He plays a pivotal role in building highly scalable, robust and innovative solutions for our gaming platform. He started his career as a lead engineer in Accenture. Saroj is a BTech from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is an avid gamer and enjoys playing real cash games.

Avin Sharma

Vice President - U Games

Avin brings over 15 years of experience in the gaming industry. He strongly believes that providing newer gameplay experiences through product innovation is plays an important role in attracting players and sustaining their engagement. A passionate gamer and a perfectionist by nature, Avin holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business.

Avik Kanungo

Associate Vice President - Brand and Marketing Strategy

Avik has been leading the brand marketing efforts at Games24x7 since 2014. He has very rich experience in marketing strategy and planning for driving high business growth. He plays a key role in shaping brand communications and effective media planning. Brining creative and innovative solutions in solving marketing problems is one of the key strengths of Avik. Avik is a BTech from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and an MBA graduate from IIM Calcutta. He enjoys listening to music and playing real money games.

Sameer Chugh

Sameer Chugh

Chief Legal Officer

Sameer, with over 26 years of experience, leads the company’s legal, compliance and secretarial function.

He holds a degree in Law from Symbiosis Law College, Pune. He has also  completed the Masters in Marketing Management from SIMS, Pune followed by MSc in Telecom Business from UCL, London, UK.

Sameer has worked with leading Indian law Firms including Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas & Kochhar & Co. He has worked as the India General Counsel with companies such as NCR Corporation, BT Group, Essar Group and Cummins. He was the Director – Legal & Regulatory for Bharti Airtel before taking over as the  Group General Counsel of Bharti Group.

Gaurav Verma

Vice President, RummyCircle

Gaurav Verma is an accomplished marketing professional with over 12 years of experience and has worked in various marketing and growth roles for brands like Mahindra and Jiosaavn. He holds an MBA in Marketing from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. Currently, Gaurav serves as VP RummyCircle, where he oversees product and marketing strategy, and is responsible for driving user acquisition and retention for the business.

Gaurav strongly believes in applying behavioural science principles to his work to provide a better user experience. By understanding users’ psychology and behaviour, he creates products and marketing strategies that resonate with them and improve engagement. In his free time, Gaurav enjoys playing football and is an avid gamer.

Neha Singhvi

Associate Vice President - Public Affairs, Communications and CSR

Neha heads Public Affairs for Games24x7, Communications and CSR. She has more than 18 years of experience across reputation management & brand communication having assisted and advised companies across diverse sectors on multi-stakeholder programmes. Adept in managing issues, Neha has championed data driven programmes and policy advocacy campaigns leading to change. Neha understands the India market well and believes that a strong vision combined with stimulating and truthful narrative can establish the right connection with stakeholders.

Prior to joining Games24x7, she headed operations and worked in leadership roles across some of the well-known communications firms in the country. An alumna of University of Delhi, Neha is an avid reader of business and political biographies

Deepak Saini

Vice President - Product Delight

Deepak is a strategic thinker, a gifted leader and a meticulous product person with a strong entrepreneurial drive & experience in delivering differentiated products across various segments like search, social, productivity, mobile, e-tailing & e-commerce. He is a mobile product specialist with over 15 years of experience in creating and deploying products across geographies. With a successful track record of building ML based Analytics platforms, Deepak has an expertise in building Product & Design ecosystems across corporate and start-ups. His specialities include Mobile Products, Product Design Leadership, Product Management, User Experience Design, and Big-Data Analytics

Trivikraman Thampy

Co-Founder & CEO

“Every time I learn something about a player that allows us to deliver a better experience to them — that is a success.”
Fondly called Vikram, co-founded Games24x7 with Bhavin. Based out of Miami, Vikram guides the company through numerous successful product releases, marketing campaigns and rounds of funding. His analytical skills and strategic decisions continue to be the key to the company’s growth. Vikram holds a PhD in Economics from NYU and has a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Bhavin Pandya

Co-Founder & CEO

“Ideas don’t succeed; products don’t succeed — teams succeed.”
Bhavin co-founded Games24x7 in 2006. He has spearheaded the company’s operations and game development in its hyper-growth phase. Based out of Mumbai, Bhavin plays a pivotal role in defining the strategy, building awesome teams, and ensuring that the right culture is laid out and preserved. Bhavin holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He dropped out of a fully-funded Economics PhD program at NYU to start Games24x7.

Rahul Tewari

Chief Financial Officer

Rahul comes with over two decades of varied leadership experience across strategic finance, corporate development and investment banking in the technology sector. At Games24x7, he is responsible for leading the corporate development initiatives including acquisitions, partnerships and investments. Rahul has worked in bulge bracket investment banks such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in New York and led technology sector coverage at ICICI Securities. He is an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and has an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT, Delhi.
Sameer Chugh

Sameer Chugh

Chief Legal Officer

Sameer, with over 26 years of experience, leads the company’s legal, compliance and secretarial function.

He holds a degree in Law from Symbiosis Law College, Pune. He has also  completed the Masters in Marketing Management from SIMS, Pune followed by MSc in Telecom Business from UCL, London, UK.

Sameer has worked with leading Indian law Firms including Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas & Kochhar & Co. He has worked as the India General Counsel with companies such as NCR Corporation, BT Group, Essar Group and Cummins. He was the Director – Legal & Regulatory for Bharti Airtel before taking over as the  Group General Counsel of Bharti Group.

Saroj Panigrahi

Senior Vice President - My11Circle

Saroj has been associated with Games24x7 since 2007 and has an unparalleled grasp of a gamer’s psyche, which helps him identify the player’s needs and design customised technological solutions around it. He plays a pivotal role in building highly scalable, robust and innovative solutions for our gaming platform. He started his career as a lead engineer in Accenture. Saroj is a BTech from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is an avid gamer and enjoys playing real cash games.

Tridib Mukherjee

Vice President of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Tridib is a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Arizona State University, where he specialised in AI-driven data centre optimisation and body sensor networks. At Games24x7, Tridib is responsible for applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to automate business decision making and enhance user experiences in our offerings. Tridib has co-authored a book from Cambridge University Press, multiple book chapters, and published 60+ research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has 10+ granted US patents in addition to 30+ US patent applications.

Neha Singhvi

Associate Vice President - Public Affairs, Communications and CSR

Neha works as Director, Public Affairs for Games24x7. She has more than 18 years of experience across reputation management & brand communication having assisted and advised companies across diverse sectors on multi-stakeholder programmes. Adept in managing issues, Neha has championed data driven programmes and policy advocacy campaigns leading to change. Neha understands the India market well and believes that a strong vision combined with stimulating and truthful narrative can establish the right connection with stakeholders.

Prior to joining Games24x7, she headed operations and worked in leadership roles across some of the well-known communications firms in the country. An alumna of University of Delhi, Neha is an avid reader of business and political biographies

Avik Kanungo

Associate Vice Presiden - Brand and Marketing Strategy

Avik has been leading the brand marketing efforts at Games24x7 since 2014. He has very rich experience in marketing strategy and planning for driving high business growth. He plays a key role in shaping brand communications and effective media planning. Brining creative and innovative solutions in solving marketing problems is one of the key strengths of Avik. Avik is a BTech from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and an MBA graduate from IIM Calcutta. He enjoys listening to music and playing real money games.

Rajat Bansal

Chief Technology Officer

Rajat is a seasoned product-tech leader with over two-decades of experience in building large-scale products and platforms at organizations like Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon and Hike with strong focus on customer satisfaction, innovation and creating business value. He comes with a rich experience in building products and organizations from the ground up and expanding them globally to international markets. Rajat in the past has worked as CTO of Hike where he led Hike Messenger to a journey of 100M+ users solving unique India specific challenges like number of languages, network/data cost and varied spectrum of devices.

Vikrant Goyal

Chief Human Resource Officer

Vikrant has two decades of experience across functions of Human Resources through companies and industries. He is specialised as a leader for organisation transformation, facilitator, coach, interventionist, and trainer. Vikrant is passionate about behavioural sciences and organisation behaviour. He is an avid reader and writer.

Gaurav Verma

Vice President, RummyCircle

Gaurav Verma is an accomplished marketing professional with over 12 years of experience and has worked in various marketing and growth roles for brands like Mahindra and Jiosaavn. He holds an MBA in Marketing from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. Currently, Gaurav serves as VP, RummyCircle, where he oversees product and marketing strategy, and is responsible for driving user acquisition and retention for the business.

Gaurav strongly believes in applying behavioural science principles to his work to provide a better user experience. By understanding users’ psychology and behaviour, he creates products and marketing strategies that resonate with them and improve engagement. In his free time, Gaurav enjoys playing football and is an avid gamer.

Avin Sharma

Vice President - U Games

Avin brings over 15 years of experience in the gaming industry. He strongly believes that providing newer gameplay experiences through product innovation is plays an important role in attracting players and sustaining their engagement. A passionate gamer and a perfectionist by nature, Avin holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business.

Arnov Kumar

Director, Risk Management

Arnov has around 10+ years of experience in analytics, with expertise in conceptualizing, developing and implementing machine learning and optimization solutions for leading businesses across the globe. He currently leads the Risk Management division at Games24x7 focussing on identification of fraud players and irresponsible gameplay related risk. In his prior role, he was leading the data science and collections team at OLA Financial Services responsible for developing models and strategy to increase efficiency in collections operations. Arnov completed his bachelors and masters from IIT Kharagpur in the field of Mathematics and Computing.

Deepak Saini

Vice President - Product Delight

Deepak is a strategic thinker, a gifted leader and a meticulous product person with a strong entrepreneurial drive & experience in delivering differentiated products across various segments like search, social, productivity, mobile, e-tailing & e-commerce. He is a mobile product specialist with over 15 years of experience in creating and deploying products across geographies. With a successful track record of building ML based Analytics platforms, Deepak has an expertise in building Product & Design ecosystems across corporate and start-ups. His specialities include Mobile Products, Product Design Leadership, Product Management, User Experience Design, and Big-Data Analytics

Rahul Tewari

Chief Financial Officer

Rahul comes with over two decades of varied leadership experience across strategic finance, corporate development and investment banking in the technology sector. At Games24x7, he is responsible for leading the corporate development initiatives including acquisitions, partnerships and investments. Rahul has worked in bulge bracket investment banks such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in New York and led technology sector coverage at ICICI Securities. He is an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and has an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Rajat Bansal

Chief Technology Officer

Rajat is a seasoned product-tech leader with over two-decades of experience in building large-scale products and platforms at organizations like Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon and Hike with strong focus on customer satisfaction, innovation and creating business value. He comes with a rich experience in building products and organizations from the ground up and expanding them globally to international markets. Rajat in the past has worked as CTO of Hike where he led Hike Messenger to a journey of 100M+ users solving unique India specific challenges like number of languages, network/data cost and varied spectrum of devices.
Sameer Chugh

Sameer Chugh

Chief Legal Officer

Sameer, with over 26 years of experience, leads the company’s legal, compliance and secretarial function.

He holds a degree in Law from Symbiosis Law College, Pune. He has also  completed the Masters in Marketing Management from SIMS, Pune followed by MSc in Telecom Business from UCL, London, UK.

Sameer has worked with leading Indian law Firms including Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas & Kochhar & Co. He has worked as the India General Counsel with companies such as NCR Corporation, BT Group, Essar Group and Cummins. He was the Director – Legal & Regulatory for Bharti Airtel before taking over as the  Group General Counsel of Bharti Group.

Vikrant Goyal

Chief Human Resource Officer

Vikrant has two decades of experience across functions of Human Resources through companies and industries. He is specialised as a leader for organisation transformation, facilitator, coach, interventionist, and trainer. Vikrant is passionate about behavioural sciences and organisation behaviour. He is an avid reader and writer.

Saroj Panigrahi

Senior Vice President - My11Circle

Saroj has been associated with Games24x7 since 2007 and has an unparalleled grasp of a gamer’s psyche, which helps him identify the player’s needs and design customised technological solutions around it. He plays a pivotal role in building highly scalable, robust and innovative solutions for our gaming platform. He started his career as a lead engineer in Accenture. Saroj is a BTech from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is an avid gamer and enjoys playing real cash games.

Gaurav Verma

Vice President, RummyCircle

Gaurav Verma is an accomplished marketing professional with over 12 years of experience and has worked in various marketing and growth roles for brands like Mahindra and Jiosaavn. He holds an MBA in Marketing from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. Currently, Gaurav serves as VP, RummyCircle, where he oversees product and marketing strategy, and is responsible for driving user acquisition and retention for the business.

Gaurav strongly believes in applying behavioural science principles to his work to provide a better user experience. By understanding users’ psychology and behaviour, he creates products and marketing strategies that resonate with them and improve engagement. In his free time, Gaurav enjoys playing football and is an avid gamer.

Tridib Mukherjee

Vice President of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Tridib is a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Arizona State University, where he specialised in AI-driven data centre optimisation and body sensor networks. At Games24x7, Tridib is responsible for applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to automate business decision making and enhance user experiences in our offerings. Tridib has co-authored a book from Cambridge University Press, multiple book chapters, and published 60+ research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has 10+ granted US patents in addition to 30+ US patent applications.

Avin Sharma

Vice President - U Games

Avin brings over 15 years of experience in the gaming industry. He strongly believes that providing newer gameplay experiences through product innovation is plays an important role in attracting players and sustaining their engagement. A passionate gamer and a perfectionist by nature, Avin holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business.

Neha Singhvi

Associate Vice President - Public Affairs, Communications and CSR

Neha works as Director, Public Affairs for Games24x7. She has more than 18 years of experience across reputation management & brand communication having assisted and advised companies across diverse sectors on multi-stakeholder programmes. Adept in managing issues, Neha has championed data driven programmes and policy advocacy campaigns leading to change. Neha understands the India market well and believes that a strong vision combined with stimulating and truthful narrative can establish the right connection with stakeholders.

Prior to joining Games24x7, she headed operations and worked in leadership roles across some of the well-known communications firms in the country. An alumna of University of Delhi, Neha is an avid reader of business and political biographies

Arnov Kumar

Director, Risk Management

Arnov has around 10+ years of experience in analytics, with expertise in conceptualizing, developing and implementing machine learning and optimization solutions for leading businesses across the globe. He currently leads the Risk Management division at Games24x7 focussing on identification of fraud players and irresponsible gameplay related risk. In his prior role, he was leading the data science and collections team at OLA Financial Services responsible for developing models and strategy to increase efficiency in collections operations. Arnov completed his bachelors and masters from IIT Kharagpur in the field of Mathematics and Computing.

Avik Kanungo

Associate Vice Presiden - Brand and Marketing Strategy

Avik has been leading the brand marketing efforts at Games24x7 since 2014. He has very rich experience in marketing strategy and planning for driving high business growth. He plays a key role in shaping brand communications and effective media planning. Brining creative and innovative solutions in solving marketing problems is one of the key strengths of Avik. Avik is a BTech from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and an MBA graduate from IIM Calcutta. He enjoys listening to music and playing real money games.

Deepak Saini

Vice President - Product Delight

Deepak is a strategic thinker, a gifted leader and a meticulous product person with a strong entrepreneurial drive & experience in delivering differentiated products across various segments like search, social, productivity, mobile, e-tailing & e-commerce. He is a mobile product specialist with over 15 years of experience in creating and deploying products across geographies. With a successful track record of building ML based Analytics platforms, Deepak has an expertise in building Product & Design ecosystems across corporate and start-ups. His specialities include Mobile Products, Product Design Leadership, Product Management, User Experience Design, and Big-Data Analytics