The Global Digital Profiles Speaker Content Market: Focus on Asia-Pacific New Delhi, India, November 14 and 15, 2018 #digicontent2018 WIPO CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT MARKET Speaker Profiles Opening Ceremony Shri Suresh Prabhu Francis Gurry Mr. Suresh Prabhu is the current Minister of Commerce Francis Gurry is an Australian lawyer who has served and Industry and Civil Aviation in the Government of India. as Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since October 1, 2008. He is also a member of the upper house of parliament in Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Prabhu rose from He holds law degrees from the University of Melbourne, a being a practicing Chartered Accountant to hold many Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is an honorary coveted and challenging positions as huge as the Union professor of, and holds honorary doctorates from, universi- Cabinet Minister. ties in a wide range of countries. He has also served as the Union Minister for Railways, He is the author of a number of publications, one of which Minister for Power, Minister for Chemical and Fertilizers, has become a standard legal text in the UK and is pub- Minister for Environment and Forest and Minister for Industry. lished by Oxford University Press as Gurry on Breach of Confidence. Mr. Gurry speaks English and French. 2 WIPO CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT MARKET Ramesh Abhishek Naresh Prasad Ramesh Abhishek is the current Secretary in the Department Naresh Prasad has had extensive management and ad- of Industrial Policy and Promotion under the Ministry of ministrative experience at senior levels both with the United Commerce. He has worked in the Supreme Court of India Nations in WIPO and at state and national levels in India. as a key Member of the e-Committee that is entrusted with Since 2009, Mr. Prasad has served as Executive Director and the task of bringing e-Governance in Judiciary. Chief of Staff to the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and then Assistant Director Mr. Abhishek has also been at the helm of key Government General. He also served with the United Nations Industrial initiatives such as Make in India, Start-up India, Ease of Development Organization (UNIDO) for three years during Doing Business and Industrial Corridors in the country and the 1990s. has held distinguished positions in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry As a member of the Indian civil service, Mr. Prasad has close of Law and Justice. Extremely dexterous and devoted, Mr. to 36 years’ experience with the Government of India in Abhishek has created a niche for himself in every position various assignments including with the United Nations. He he has held. served for 15 years in the field of Industry and Commerce and was India’s focal point for intellectual property issues. Mr. Prasad holds a double Master’s degree in Arts and Economics and was educated at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi University. 3 WIPO CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT MARKET – SPEAKER PROFILES Asia’s Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Digital Content Market Moderator Speaker Supriya Shrinate Sangeet Paul Choudary Supriya Shrinate has postgraduate studies, specializing Sangeet Paul Choudary is the best-selling author of the in history of the world. She has 10 years’ experience as a books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale. His work journalist, breaking some of the biggest stories and cov- on platforms has been selected by the Harvard Business ering global events. Formerly with The India Today Group Review as one of the top 10 management ideas for 2017. He and NDTV, Ms Shrinate is currently with The Times of India has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Group, where she is Senior Editor and Prime Time Anchor, Global Leader and is appointed as a working chair on the ET Now, The Economic Times Channel. As anchor of the WEF’s global council for platforms and systems. channel’s flagship shows, she interviews the biggest names in business, including policy-makers and corporates. Her Mr. Choudary speaks regularly at leading world events in- interests include reading, writing and travelling. cluding the WEF events, the World50 Summit, Mobile World Congress, the United Nations, and the G20 Summit 2014 events. He is ranked among the top 30 emerging thinkers globally by Thinkers50. He leads thinking on platform strat- egy at organizations including the MIT Media Labs and INSEAD Business School. 4 WIPO CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT MARKET – SPEAKER PROFILES Music – New channels and new models Moderator Panelists Patchari Raksawong Sheila Majid Ms. Patchari Raksawong Kinsperger has been a radio Sheila Majid is from Malaysia and has been well-known in and television news presenter for Japan’s NHK World, the the regional music scene for the last thirty years with her Bangkok Post’s news program, and several radio shows trademark contemporary pop music tastefully blended with in her native Thailand for the last 10 years. She also hosts a jazz and R&B flavor. edutainment and travel programs on Thai television. With the 1985 release of her debut album, Dimensi Baru She is a lecturer at various leading universities in Bangkok (translation: New Dimension), Ms. Majid brought a new di- covering courses such as Speech Communication and mension to the local music industry, building a phenomenal Cultural Diversity. following manifested by sold-out concerts in various cities. Despite her many roles, Ms. Raksawong is a hands-on With Emosi (translation: Emotion), released a year later, Ms. mother of two. Majid broke into the Indonesian market. She went on to win the prestigious BASF Award for Best Female Artist in R&B category in 1987, never before by a non-Indonesian. Ms. Majid next spread her wings to Japan where she per- formed at the Tokyo Music Festival in 1989. With two well- received albums and singles respectively she remains the first and only Malaysian artist to succeed in the Japanese market. Other international appearances include London’s West End Royalty Theatre, a meet-the-fans session at the world’s big- gest music store, Tower Records at Piccadilly Circus, London, Ronnie Scotts’, London, the jazz mecca of the music world, and The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Casino, Los Angeles. Her many awards include ‘Best Pop Album’ at the Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) 2000, Malaysia’s equivalent of the Grammy, for her sixth album, Ku Mohon (translation: I Pray). In 2010, Ms. Majid was invited by Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS to perform with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) in conjunction with her 25th Anniversary in the music industry. The Album Sheila Majid Live with MPO was awarded AIM Best Album of the Year in 2011. 5 WIPO CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT MARKET – SPEAKER PROFILES He is also a founding member of Mr. Mehra is a TAS (Tata Administrative Brahma, India’s premier metal band Services) officer and has done stints making him the only artist and music with various Tata Group of Companies. executive in the region. He worked there from May 1997 to July 2000. One of the stints was the Product Manager for Tata Motors for two years from 1998 to 2000, where he was re- sponsible for Brand Management (Advertising, Media Buying, PR) for Tata Indica, Tata Estate and Product Planning for Tata Indigo. Mr. Mehra brings with him a wealth of Devraj Sanyal experience to handle the ever-develop- ing digital platforms. His deep under- Devraj Sanyal has been running the standing of various aspects and facets Universal Music Group (UMG) busi- of digital media will spearhead growth nesses for India and South Asia since momentum at Saregama. 2011. In the past seven years he has groomed it into one of the most suc- Vikram Mehra cessful music business models in the region. UMG is now a 360-degree fes- Vikram Mehra joined Saregama India tival business, music business includ- Limited Mumbai office as Managing ing the label, live and artist promo- Director on October 2014. Mr. Mehra tions, merchandising and a creator of holds a B.Tech Degree in Computer platforms for music and brands. It is Science & Technology from IIT Roorkee also the leading label for Indie and non- and also is an MBA from IIM Lucknow. film music, carving a niche amongst Bollywood-driven labels. Prior to joining Saregama, he held the position of Chief Commercial Officer at Mr. Sanyal also runs the publishing Tata Sky Ltd from April 2004. During his business for the region and is regarded long tenure of 10 years, he was respon- as the top A&R man, now compounded sible for multiple roles which included by his role as a judge on network TV’s Subscription Revenue Management, largest all English reality show called Churn Management, Brand Marketing, Mandar Thakur “The Stage” for the fourth season. New Product Development, Customer Analytics, Interactive Service Mandar Thakur is the Chief Operating He was the co-founder of Sunburn, Asia’s Operations, Consumer Research Officer of Times Music, one of India’s no. 1 EDM festival and is now deeply in- and PR. leading record labels and music pub- tegrated in the music intellectual proper- lishers (and a division of India’s largest ty business and is currently the Director Mr. Mehra had also worked with Star media conglomerate – The Times of and Chief Executive Officer of India’s TV as Vice President for four years India group). largest multi-genre music and camp- from 2000-2004. He was part of the ing festival “Enchanted Valley Carnival.” Digital Platforms Group, to spearhead Mr.