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CHETAN DESAI – Studio Head & Chief Creative Officer
Chetan has a background in post production and has worked as Visual Effects Supervisor on various international and domestic film productions. He has won or been nominated for several film and television awards including the Seagate Award, Screen Award and Indian International Film Academy Award. As Creative Head of MEL Studio, Chetan supervised a number of international projects including “Jack Frost”, “Neopets”, “Golden Eye – Rogue Agent” and “Tommy and Oscar”. Most recently he has taken up the challenge of building MELs own IP and content business. He is currently directing the theatrical feature “Ramayana The Epic”.

JAI NATARAJAN – Group Executive VP - Business Development and Marketing
Jai Natarajan has broad experience in art, technology and production. Most recently, he has supervised overseas projects at Maya, including game cinematics for “Neopets” and “Disney Princesses”. He started his career as an FX Technical Director at ILM in California where he worked on films like "The Phantom Menace", "The Perfect Storm", and "Flubber". He was previously a founder/CTO of Prana Studios. Jai holds degrees from BITS, Pilani, and UCLA. He is a frequent speaker, panelist and columnist and is a committee member of The Animation Society of India.

MEGHNA DIXIT - Group Head – HR and Organisation Development
Meghna Dixit Likhi has a background in setting up HR Processes and building teams within broadcast and new media environments. Prior to joining MEL as Associate Vice President-Human Resources, Meghna has worked in Nimbus Communications Limited as Head-HR and has contributed in planning, recruiting and shaping the team for their sports channel Neo Sports and Neo Sports Plus and ‘Show Time', the Home Video venture. Her experience covers overall direction and control of Human Resources functional areas such as Recruitment & Selection, Strategic HR Management, Culture Building and Setting up HR policies and processes for Employee Relations and Performance Management. She was also appointed by Personiva Inc. to work towards setting up the people and people related process for their Indian Operations.
A school/college topper, AIR artiste, winner of various debates, creative writing and public presentation contest, and a self-confessed cinephile, Meghna has an MBA in Human Resource Management from International School of Business & Media, Pune.

MUKUND ARGIKAR – Chief Financial Officer
Mukund Argikar is a Chartered Accountant and a law graduate with more than 25 years experience in various industries including entertainment industry. He has worked as head of accounts/finance/legal/taxation departments for more than 20 years. His experience spreads over: raising finance from various financial institutions/commercial banks, handling both direct as well as indirect tax matters, dealing with company law matters, liaising with various Govt. agencies and other corporate legal matters.

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