Individual Members

Sanjeev Lamba

Sanjeev is an accomplished global executive with a 35-year track record of strategic and business leadership within the media and entertainment industry. He has successfully led cross-functional teams in movie production, distribution and marketing, video games and digital content, home entertainment, consumer products licensing and advertising. Throughout his career he has delivered strong results in senior executive roles while based in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and India and conducted business in over 25 countries around the world. Sanjeev is currently Senior Adviser to Hungama Digital Entertainment, South Asia's leading digital entertainment company. At Hungama he works closely with senior management and team leaders in the areas of global and domestic content licensing, local content creation, marketing and social media, programming and business alliances for Hungama's market-leading video and music OTT platforms. Most recently Sanjeev served as the CEO of Reliance Entertainment from 2009 to 2015, based out of Mumbai, India. While at Reliance he was responsible for managing the development and production of movies in seven Indian languages and their distribution, marketing and sales worldwide across all platforms. Additionally he also managed the production and distribution of home entertainment products in India for Indian language films and major Hollywood Studios including Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks. In addition to being a partner in the DreamWorks Studios, Reliance Entertainment was also responsible for the Indian distribution of all DreamWorks' films as well as the production and distribution of independently produced films through its independent label IMGlobal. Sanjeev has held Asia regional and global roles with The Weinstein Company (formerly Miramax) in New York (2005-2008) and The Walt Disney Company in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Los Angeles (1993-2005) across movies, video games and consumer products licensing. He started his career in India with Ogilvy and Mather in advertising, working on campaigns for leading global and domestic brands and leading Ogilvy's New Delhi operations for a few years. Sanjeev and his wife live in Mumbai and also have a home in Los Angeles.