Leadership Team
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.
Trivikraman Thampy
Co-Founder & CEO
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.
Bhavin Pandya
Co-Founder & CEO
Rahul Tewari
Chief Financial Officer
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
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
Saroj Panigrahi
Senior Vice President - My11Circle
Avin Sharma
Vice President - U Games
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
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
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
Tridib Mukherjee
Vice President of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
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
Rajat Bansal
Chief Technology Officer
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
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
Rajat Bansal
Chief Technology Officer
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
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
Avin Sharma
Vice President - U Games
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
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