Tapaas Chakravarti

Tapaas Chakravarti with over 25 years of International Corporate Management and Sales experience has helped to shape the success story of his creation, DQ Entertainment group. Tapaas is a science graduate with Post Graduate Qualification in Business Management backed with over 25 years of experience spanning across industries both national and multinational. Tapaas believes in individual excellence to be integrated into a well-knit teamwork and unstinted support to ethical business practices. This has led to the creation of a large workforce in DQE, cohesively knit together with very high quality business, operational and creative leaders driving the exceptional growth of the company. DQ Entertainment has grown as integrated Children's Entertainment Group to produce and Distribute globally high end 3D animated TV Series, TV Features, Theatrical Features, Gaming, VFX and Hybrid production with animation & Live action Content. DQE's own intellectual properties like Jungle Book, Peter Pan have been sold over 169 countries for broadcasting, home video while Licensing, Merchandizing, Music, print Publishing Games, over the top Broadcasting and many other source of monetization in North America and Europe have established these as winning brands. Under his able leadership DQ Entertainment became the first Indian Company to win an EMMY Award and has 16 EMMY nominations to its credit while it also received the prestigious "International studio of the year" award at the 16th ceremony of Cartoons on the Bay, Italy 2012. He is a part of several national and international charitable organizations, which includes extensive work for orphans, AIDS effected children and education for the deprived eg. AGAPE, India, Figli Del Mondo, Italy. He is also an active member on the Board of the Indo-British Partnership and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Tapaas was awarded Entrepreneur of the year award by HMA in 2005 and the prestigious 'Movers and Shakers' award in 2009 for pioneering contribution in the entertainment industry at the 6th Annual 24 FPS Animation Awards 2009.He has been recently elected as a member of EMMY - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Los Angles, USA. In the year 2009 he has been nominated for the 'Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the year 2009 India Awards'.