Venkat ‘Puru’ Purushotham, Chairman

Rochester (USA) based entrepreneur, management consultant & investor, Puru brings over 25 years in various leadership positions at Kodak & Nexpress Solutions - a Kodak-Hiedelberg JV. Under Puru’s leadership, Kodak made an entry into the digital print systems market in the early 90s with the very successful launches of the Nexpress color digital print system and the Digimaster black & white laser print systems used extensively for short-run book printing. Puru is also credited with bringing to the industry the thermal CTP technology that went on to revolutionize the print industry in a major way.

As much as he is passionate about digital print and media personalization, Puru is an ardent believer in the power of new media. Puru is also co-founder and Chairman at Mosonex – a Silicon Valley based start-up offering innovative Mobile-to-TV ‘personal broadcasting’ technology.

Puru is an alumnus of the London School of Printing and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and was recently voted amongst the ’50 most influential Asian Americans in America’.

Harish Chinai, Managing Director

Harish brings over 25 years experience as a senior sales, marketing and international business leader in USA with Lubrizol & Volk Optical before returning to India in 2008. At Lubrizol, Harish helped businesses expand their global presence in USA, Europe, South America and Asia.

At Jyoshan, Harish is overall responsible for the sales, strategic alliances and general administration functions and has led Jyoshan’s consumer digital media initiatives including the rollout of MeraClick portal and licensing agreements with Mattel for - YoUno personalized Uno playing cards. Harish also drives Jyoshan’s strategic relationship with Vakils Printing for joint market development initiatives.

Dhananjay Balodi, Director – Media Services

Marketing consultant and entrepreneur with a diverse portfolio of cross-functional and business leadership experience across media production, publishing, technology, graphic arts and industrial automation industries.

At Jyoshan, DJ heads the Enterprise Media Services business and also leads strategic initiatives with Kodak and HCL Infosystems for development of the Managed Media Services business.

Prior to joining Jyoshan, DJ was Managing Partner at ComartOne - a joint venture he co-founded with a large, Indian pre-press tradeshop where he helped the business make a successful transition into a global premedia services provider for the packaging and publishing markets. Previously, DJ worked in the b2b e-Commerce and Internet businesses at Satyam Webexchange and Sify (subsidiaries of Satyam Computers – amongst India’s Top 5 IT services companies) where he handled product development, product management & marketing roles. DJ has also had a stint in magazine publishing as Executive Editor with a large B2B publishing house where he successfully launched an international magazine brand in the Indian market.

Lalit Bhagat, V.P. – Media Services & Publishing

Operations management professional and e-publishing consultant, Lalit brings many years of experience with large-scale global outsourcing services in the book publishing, new media, financial publishing and premedia domains.

Lalit has led several process migration initiatives including one of the largest publishing outsourcing projects in the financial publishing space while at TechBooks – a leading Publishing BPO company.

Prior to joining Jyoshan, Lalit was COO at Q2A Media where he held P&L, process quality and product development responsibilities. Lalit was earlier COO at Eon Premedia – a Delhi-based content transformation services company where he set-up and managed offshore delivery teams for mobile applications, packaging and publishing verticals. Lalit brings strong experience in implementing ISO and Six Sigma and other quality initiatives while at Techbooks, Eon and Q2A.

At Jyoshan, Lalit drives operations and capability build-up across our media services offerings including mobile applications, content transformation and brand production services.

Prashant Shanbhag, V.P. – Consumer Digital Media

With experience across both B2C and B2B marketing, Prashant bring years of hands-on marketing experience with large-scale as well as start-up ventures. Prashant holds post-graduate business qualifications from IIM-K specializing in marketing and has worked in the new-age technology space for over 12 years.

Prior to joining Jyoshan, Prashant founded a start-up involved in mobile applications development for the telecom industry.

At Jyoshan, Prashant is responsible for sales, marketing alliances and P&L of the consumer digital media business.