Sashi founded FXLabs in 2003 to provide high-end gaming and 3D services to customers.
Sashi Reddi is also founder, chairman & CEO of AppLabs Technologies (www.applabs.com), a $75 MM global IT services company backed by Sequoia Capital. A serial entrepreneur, Sashi started two other companies prior to AppLabs. His first company EZPower Systems was acquired by DocuCorp International (NASDAQ: DOCC), a Safeguard Scientifics company. Following DocuCorp, he founded iCoop to provide group purchasing software to co-operative businesses such as Dunkin Donuts. He began his career consulting on technology and strategy to Fortune 500 companies.
Sashi received his BTech (B.S.) degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, an M.S. in computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Viren Thambidorai, a creative career spanning 20 years in digital technologies that drive innovation in global entertainment today. As Vice President Operations at FXLabs, Viren is responsible for leading the team to help build an innovative technical infrastructure, quality resource management and delivery systems.
Viren has produced information and functionality based products across diverse media – Film, Television, Multimedia, Animation, Web, and Print. His expertise ranges from content management, technology expansion, quality stewardship to new media development. In 2005, Viren was responsible for the establishment of Spirit Media, one of South India’s most successful post-production facilities for visual effects, animation and digital post services. The same year his team won the IFFLA award for ‘A Belly Full of Dreams’, Viren was the Executive Producer. His efforts as cinematographer on the PBS documentary series ‘New Americans’ won an EMMY AWARD nomination in 2003.
In the past, he has been an Ad Filmmaker for top agencies and brands in the country, a Production Designer, Cinematographer, VFX Supervisor and DI Consultant for Indian and International projects. Viren’s technical background combined with a deep understanding of animation and film helps him redefine; establish some of the most imaginative works.
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Sathya is responsible for the overall production design process, resource management, technical and creative quality in the capacity of a Creative Director and Producer at Fxlabs. Interestingly, Sathya started his professional career as a cinematographer with Indian feature films. In 1995, he was the Head of the Visual Effects and Animation division at EFX Prasad, Chennai. At EFX, Sathya expanded his exposure to the entire range of film production techniques from visual effects, film processing, sound design and picture editing. During this time, Sathya and his team created stunning visual effects for over 50 feature films and advertisements. His team also won several "Screen" and "Film fare" awards.
In 1999, Sathya joined "Mantra", the visual effects and animation studio of Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad. The Sandstorm sequence for the feature film "Hey Ram" won him the National Award for best VFX. He also had the privilege to work with Mark Homes of Industrial Light and Magic / Sony Pictures Image works as Visual effects supervisor. Sathya went on to become AVP - Animation Services at DQ Entertainment Ltd to head the 3D Animation and Digital Ink & Paint divisions. Sathya strives to blend imagination and technology to create spectacular storytelling and 3D imagery.
Phani has over 15 years of experience in the animation world.
Prior to this, as VP and CTO, he was involved in the start up of Dataquest (presently DQ Entertainment Ltd). Later he worked as VP and CTO at Danlaw Technologies India Limited, Hyderabad, heading their animation division, AMM Studio.
Apart from being an animator, cartoonist, illustrator and designer, he has the experience of establishing and leading large animation production teams.
His experience includes running his own animation studio in Chennai, India, during which time he had completed a 13X22 min first of its kind cartoon animation serial in Hindi called "Tara ki Duniya" which was later telecast on the National Television Network in India. Apart from this, he worked on several commercials, children’s programs and feature film special effects.
He has been a consultant in the animation space for very large organizations in India.
Phani has a Bachelors in Technology from the Institute of Technology, BHU. He also has a Masters in Design in Visual Communication from the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay with animation, computer graphics and video as his chosen areas of specialization.
Dmitry is a seasoned and highly experienced game developer with over 18 years of industry experience in both high end PC an Console game development. Having lead numerous teams of programmers on simultaneous critical path projects, Dmitry brings a wealth of experience to the development process at FXLabs.
Prior to joining the company, Dmitry was the Research and Development manager for CRYTEK, one of the top game development studios in Germany. Dmitry’s team was directly responsible for the creation of some of the best and most critically acclaimed gaming technology of the past three to five years.
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Imran heads the gaming division of FXLabs. He manages a team of 25 developers, artists and QA engineers and is working on PC and XBOX game development.
Imran has over 8 years of experience in multimedia product development. Prior to FXLabs, Imran worked as a Technical Lead for Wavexpress Inc, a New York, US based company that is involved in turnkey digital multimedia solutions for broadband cable networks. At Wavexpress he was responsible for end-to-end development of software products that are now being used by major Cable Networks of US. Over the past 8 years Imran has worked in the fields of Mpeg Standards (MPEG2/4), Data Compression and Image Processing and with prestigious international companies like Lucent, Sharp Labs and Sarnoff Inc.
Imran has a B-Tech from Osmania University College of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering
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