Neeraj Roy,

Founder & CEO,

Hungama Digital Media

Neeraj Roy is the Founder & CEO of Hungama Digital Media, India’s leading digital entertainment company.

He has been at the forefront of the Internet revolution in India and has played a pivotal role in shaping the
country’s digital entertainment landscape. Neeraj founded Hungama in 1999, at a time when the Internet
ecosystem in India was still taking shape and has since led the organization to become one of the largest
distributors and aggregators of digital entertainment content in South Asia. Since its inception, Hungama has
touched over a billion lives and today, its services are available to users in more than 190 countries.

Under Neeraj’s direction, Hungama has diversified its services allowing the company to interact with the
consumers in more ways than one. Available on multiple platforms, its key offerings include Hungama Music
– one of the most popular music streaming services in India, Hungama Play – Hungama’s video streaming
service, Artist Aloud – a platform for independent artistes, Hungama Games – a publisher, distributor and
marketer of mobile games and Hungama Digital Services – a JV with JWT and one of India’s leading digital
marketing agencies.

The rapid rise of the Internet ecosystem in India and the growth seen by the company under Neeraj’s
leadership got several venture capital firms, domestic and international investors to invest in the company.
This includes ICICI Venture – one of the largest VC players in India in 1990s, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala – an Indian
billionaire investor cited as one of the richest Indians, Intel Capital – the venture capital arm of Intel
Corporation, Bessemer Venture Partners – one of the most reputed VC firms in the world and Xiaomi – the
Chinese technology giant and now the largest smartphone brand in India.

Neeraj also steered the organization towards original content creation. Available in both long-form and
short-form, Hungama’s original content benefits from the company’s vast distribution network reaching a
wide audience worldwide.

Neeraj was voted amongst the ‘Top Ten mobiThinkers’ and ‘50 Most Influential People in Mobile
Entertainment’ globally. Neeraj was also awarded the Sun Microsystems – Economic Times Young Leader
Award. He is an active speaker at various international forums such as Mobile World Congress, CTIA and
World Handset Forum etc. and on several domestic and international committees advising on the global
mobile and digital entertainment economy. In the past, he has served as the Chairman of the Mobile
Entertainment Forum – Asia (MEF) and the President of International Advertising Association – India
Chapter.

A strong advocate of environmental issues, Neeraj actively supports foundations working to dissuade the use
of plastics and building a greener Earth.