Sukumar Subramanian, a young entrepreneur who dares to dream and have the strength to preserve to see through his dreams comes true.

This Computer Science Engineer from B.I.E.T, Davangere sharpened his skills at Pentafour. His successful career engulfed exposure on various great projects for Rich Animation,USA, Pison Studios,UK, Jadoo works, India before he found his own Company. This early 6 years of grueling experience and exposure to the animation and gaming Industry as a hands on person paved the path for his ambition and Vision.

He is the founder of PixAalaya Studios and the pioneer behind the effort to produce the first ever Product from India to the International market published by Take2 from concept to Final product, the product “STEEL LEAGUE” brought this soft spoken man’s ambitious dream of creating a NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY company to the world.

His Vision Gained greater momentum when he joined hands with the promoters of Sanraa Media Ltd. With this merger with Sanraa, He built the content of Animation, Gaming and New media Technologies in the Company and has been instrumental in building a team with unmatched standards and class and an excellent creative delivery centre in Chennai which has effectively augmented the International customer base. He lead Sanraa from frontline in “The 99”, a project of international acclamation especially, praised by the President Mr. Barak Obama.

Mr. A.Venkatramani, is the Founder Member of Sanraa. Through his vision and leadership he gave Sanraa a new avatar by turning the humble software company into an aggressive New Media Technology Company. His initiatives helps Sanraa to grew – both vertically and horizontally, and encompass almost all the verticals of Media and Entertainment Industry viz., animation, gaming, e-learning, co-production, and distribution. His vision is to shape Sanraa as a 360 Degree Global player in the M&E industry. Sanraa got its new state of the art facility at Perungudi during his tenure on the Board.

He has a rich business management experience over 30 years, specialized in organizational and financial structuring. He served various blue chip MNCs viz., Hindustan Unilever, HCL besides served as Executive Director of Shriram Group- a largest industrial houses in the South India owning one of the largest retail finance companies in India.

Later, he has been at the forefront of the Information Technology sector having developed entrepreneurial businesses in training, software development, telemedicine and anti-virus business development. He enjoys high visibility in the South Indian business community and has built up brand and goodwill from his past successes and his drive to carve out new strategic relationships with businesses

He associates himself with other technology companies specialized in tele-medicine, anti-virus software, e-learning beside other areas.

His vision and knowledge always helps Sanraa at its every step in shaping its business module in present and in future as well.

A young and a dynamic Chartered Accountant from Mumbai, professionalized in corporate finance, taxation and corporate strategy.

After starting her career in Marico India Limited as a trainee she reached as Manager Finance. She worked for a short span in Henkel India Limited, Chennai. The zest for becoming an entrepreneur and basic finance understanding platform got her into Sanra Media Limited as Director Finance and was part of core team in building the Company into an Animation and Gaming Company. The Company has taped the European Capital markets through successful GDR issue under her strategic vision, and the investors have been honoured through two successive bonus issues under her management.

Under her strategic management, Sanraa acquired a couple of foreign entities and successfully floated a subsidiary to enter into “Green Energy Projects”.

Her responsible at Sanraa is not limited to single portfolio “Finance” but spread across overall business and operations management and she is part of core team in building the Company into an Animation and Gaming Company.

Narsimhan, popularly known as “Narsi” is a gold medallist from the College of Arts, Chennai. A born cartoonist with a flair for creativity and humor, and a self thought animator Mr. Narsimhan has the unique distinction of being able to draw with his hands and feet.

After a short stint with Doordarshan Kendra, Chennai he started his career in advertising with R.K. Swamy's, Chennai. After three years he joined Clarion Advertising Limited, Bangalore and later worked at their head office in Bombay. Brighter prospects lured him to work with MAA Bozeel and Hindustan Thompson Associates, where he was the Creative Director. With 15 years of experience in the advertising field, he became a consultant with Chaitra Leo Burnett and various other leading ad agencies. Apart from launching various leading brands in India today he has created campaigns for international accounts like Air India International, Intel, WIPRO Infotech International Division, TTK International, etc. He has designed corporate logos for Bharat Electronics Limited, Weekender, the Wearhouse, WIPRO Dextra, WIPRO Landmark, Fountainhead, Periwal Group, etc. Mr. Narasimhan has won several awards for his excellence in advertising from ad clubs all over India. He has created and published a comic strip "Halo There" in many leading dailies. Along with Mr. R.K. Laxman he has illustrated a book titled "the Executive Whirl". Mr. Narasimhan was also running a comic strip in DQ Week titled "Offline".

He has conducted various workshops on Multimedia Animation and on Creative Presentations both in India and abroad.

A fine art graduate from Chennai Arts College and a pioneer in the CG industry with a tilt towards movies, he was part of the early Prasad Labs. He has contributed to many visual effects in most of the South Indian movies. Notable among them would be Alavandan and Baba, in which he worked as the VFX production manager at TIL studios.

Mr R Siva Shankaran is an entrepreneur and has rich experience in the Web applications and multimedia technologies and has achieved considerable amount of success in short time in software business.

A Chartered Accountant, practicing successfully for over 2 years and an expert in Finance and Taxation. He is also on the Board of a couple of listed entities seating the Board of over 10 public and private companies. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Sanraa and playing a leading role in convergence of Sanraa books from India GAAP into IFRS.

A chartered Accountant cum Company Secretary, having an overall knowledge in Finance, Accounts, Company Law and other Corporate Laws. Playing a vital role in shaping the Sanraa Corporate Governance as one among the top transparent corporate management strengthens by social responsibilities.

Mr. G. Sundaresan, the sitting Chairman of the Company, took the responsibility from AVR with a clear vision to steer Sanraa on the path of AVR with the blend of his unique style of leadership, intellect and vision. He started his career as a journalist and took a plunge in Marketing and Advertising for over 10 years with Calico Mills. With an unquenchable thirst of being an entrepreneur, he started his own construction company and completed prestigious projects for Department of Atomic Energy, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Bharat Petroleum, and various other private and public sectors undertakings.

He is presently the Chairman and Managing Director of a prestigious hospitality company in Mumbai namely The South Indian Concerns Ltd. His clear patterns of success as an entrepreneur have given him a wealth of experience in not only managing companies but also in project financing, turnaround strategies and distress financing.

Mr. Sundaresan has extraordinary interest in Fine Arts and Indian Culture; he is the President of Naadalaya in Mumbai; he has produced two movies, both won National and State Awards. Mr. Sundaresan manages our Mumbai operations.

A business man having 25 years rich experience in multi-face industry viz., non-banking finance; real estate and logistics business having insight knowledge in analysising the viability of new business ventures and having a deep knowledge in the scope of business in around the geographic location of south India.

Currently, Co-Founder and CEO of Sanraa Global Green Energy Limited, Previously worked as Senior corporate finance manager and investment professional for over 13 years; have been associated with transactions involving start-up projects, private companies and listed entities in the Middle East and North Africa region and in India. Chief Executive Officer of Paterson Consulting Group Private Limited, the investment banking arm of the Hinduja-Paterson Group based in a Chennai, India. Senior Corporate Finance Manager at Al Mal Investments, Kuwait - was managing a significant proprietary direct investments portfolio, with co-investments from clients. Investments were made in Greenfield and Brownfield projects, besides acquiring strategic / financial stakes in listed and private companies primarily in Kuwait and Tunisia. Project manager at Gulf Investment Services, Muscat - worked on setting up First Mazoon Fund (Muscat) and First India Fund (Mauritius). Senior / mid level finance positions in manufacturing companies for about 13 years , Vice President (Finance) with the TTG Group, that manufactured wind mills, pollution control equipment and rubber wood furniture – syndicating funds (debt and equity)Cost Accountant with UCAL Components Limited, manufacturing carburetors and fuel pumps. Founder-Director of Hi-Tech Ingrafts Private Limited, a start up company manufacturing industrial flooring materials using polymer composites. Finance Manager with Sterling Dynamics Private Limited that pioneered the manufacture biomass fueled agricultural pumpsets (subsequently acquired by the Kirloskar Group).

Education:

Matriculated from Don Bosco, Egmore (1978); Commerce graduate from Loyola College (1982); Cost Accountant and Company Secretary; CFA Charter holder - member of CFA Institute, USA and CFA Emirates, UAE.

Currently, Governing Council Member for the PGDBA program conducted by the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce.

Kumar Chandrasekaran has been part of Animation and gaming industry for over 12 years now and during this tenure has been a part of various studios like Pentamedia, Ceeyes, Jaddo works, Big Animation, Whistling Woods Intl, and Sanra. He has also been a part of various animation and gaming juries like FICCI Frames etc.

Kumar’s stint as a Senior Faculty in Whistling Woods International helped in training future professionals in the industry. For Kumar, learning is a never-ending process one cannot shy away from. His responsibility at Whistling Woods International was to lead and mentor students in his domain and help understand the creative process while designing the best possible products by applying his experience and personal abilities.

A few highlights have been “Little Krishna” (tv series), “Higgly Town Heroes” for Disney and Wild brain, “Ruiz”(hindi feature film), “The King and I” (Warner Bros Feature Film). Other than this he has worked for many live action films and many Telugu, Tamil feature films, ads and documentary films. He has also contributed his expertise for many successful tests and pilots for studios like Nikelodeon, Dream Works, Sony, Sparks and Disney.

He has in-depth knowledge of variety of 3d and 2d application like Maya, Zbrush, Mudbox, max, shake, Digital fusion and the know how of integration of multi software pipeline to produce swift and high quality output.

Writer, animator and director of the Student Academy Award National Finalist winning, 3D animated film, “Institute for the Digitally Challenged” awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, USA is the first Indian to be nominated in the Best Animated Short category. Completing his masters in digital arts and a product of Pratt University, New York he has been trained by Emmy & Oscar winning faculty and industry artists from Blue Sky Studios, Disney, Warner Bros. and MTV Networks to name but a few, in the fields of 2D & 3D Animation, Character Rigging, Motion Design and Robotics.

He has worked on many high-profile films and commercials in India and New York. His work were screened in India, New York and Los Angeles and are mentioned in Variety Magazine, Animation World Network, VFX Talk, The Hindu, Indian Express (USA), Oscars.org and several others.

He is the Animation Supervisor in Sanraa Media. He has done his B.F.A in Sculpture from the College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai. He has 12 years of experience in the field of 2D and 3D Animation. He has worked in many roles as Art Director, Sculptor, Animator, Animation Supervisor and so on in leading companies like Nest Animation Studios, Millitoon Animation Studio (Millimage France), Pixaalaya Studios and Land Marvel. To his credit, he has worked on a number of animation projects such as Broadcasting series, TV commercials, short films, game projects for companies like France Television, Films Directors, Blue Monkey Studios and so on.

Pramod has broad technology background with proven management and operations skills in technology based organizations, specializing in animation, visual effects & post-production. A highly skilled and experienced Leader with proven abilities in information technology, strategy and infrastructure, information security, procedures and practices, intellectual property protection, trouble shooting and problem solving, as well as project organization, IT/IS operations, technical vision, leadership.

He has done his Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Mysore. He has more than 14 years of proficiency in this field of IT & Infrastructure development. He was associated himself with giant companies like Prana Studios Pvt Ltd., Jaddo Works Pvt Ltd., Moksha Technologies Groups, Ceeyes Software Tech., Pentamedia Graphics and so on.