Full Name Namit Malhotra | Name Namit Malhotra | |
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Born 2 April 1976 (age 47) ( 1976-04-02 ) Occupation Founder, Executive Chairman and Global CEO of Prime Focus Residence Los Angeles, California, United States Alma mater H.R. College of Commerce and Economics | ||
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Namit Malhotra (born 2 April 1976) is the Founder, Executive Chairman and Global CEO of Prime Focus Limited, world’s largest independent integrated media services company.
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- Early life
- Career
- References
Ficci honors namit malhotra for outstanding contribution to the m e industry baf ficci frames 2015
Early life
Namit is the eldest son of Bollywood film producer Naresh Malhotra and grandson of cinematographer M.N. Malhotra. He grew up in Mumbai, India and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai.
Career
In 1995, he enrolled in a computer graphics school, where he along with three of his teachers from the school started Video Workshop, an editing studio in his father’s garage.
In 1997, Malhotra merged Video Workshop’s business with his father Naresh Malhotra’s Video Works, a film production equipment rental business to create Prime Focus.
And then after listing Prime Focus on the Indian stock exchanges through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), Namit became the first Managing Director and CEO of the newly listed company in 2006.
Later in 2008, Malhotra promoted Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) which was founded in Bangalore by Ramki Sankaranarayanan and Ganesh Sankaran.
Using Prime Focus world's proprietary View-D technology, Namit Malhotra set a milestone by converting Clash of the Titans to 3D in 8 weeks. He was then approached for projects such as Star Wars: Episode I, II & III, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 & 2, Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Wrath of the Titans, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Shrek 2.
In October 2011, Malhotra resigned from his role as Managing Director of Prime Focus Limited. In 2012, he secured Standard Chartered Private Equity to invest in Prime Focus and diluted his stake in Prime Focus World to bring on-board Aid Capital Partners and Macquarie Capital Group in 2013.
In June 2014, Malhotra announced the merger of visual effects house Double Negative with Prime Focus World. In the following month, July 2014, Reliance Group announced a transaction to merge the film and media services business of Reliance MediaWorks with Prime Focus.
Malhotra returned to the board of Prime Focus Limited as Executive Chairman and Global CEO in June 2014.
In March 2015, FICCI honored Namit Malhotra with award for outstanding contribution to Indian AVGC (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comics) sector.