“I had the pleasure of engaging with Atul for four years, through an extremely patient and thoughtful sales journey and a truly customer-focused client relationship. Atul is a leading expert in the field of media and metadata as a service and truly understood the points of competitive differentiation for media business today. I really enjoyed our interactions and Atul always took the time to understand our pain points and ambitions. ”
About
Founder, Vitrina AI, a Silicon Valley venture connecting the worldwide entertainment…
Experience
Patents
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Method and system for customer management
Issued
A method and system for customer management is disclosed. The method and system enhance a television service provider's ability to sell television channels and channel packages to users. The system and method disclosed herein enables a user to receive recommendations for one or more television channels and/or channel packages based on one or more television viewing activities of the user, social media activity of the user, and social media activity of other users.
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"A Method and System for Sale Management" (of Operator's TV Channel Packs)
Issued
A method and system for Cable/ Satellite Operator's TV Packages sale management. This method and system enhances the service provider's ability to sell channels and packs to the users, by delivering personalised recommendations.
Projects
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Worldwide Integration of 9 Media Metadata Companies
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As part of a consolidation effort in the Video, Music, Sports metadata business, nine companies were acquired and merged under the Gracenote brand in 2015. These companies included TMS (US Video), Gracenote (Music & Video), Whats-ON-India (India & Middle East Video), HWW (Australia Video), Infostrada (Sports data), EPGS (Video EU), SportsDirect (Sports data), Baseline (Hollywood, Video).
In 2016, as Chief Content Officer of Gracenote, I initiated the 'Global Content Transformation'…As part of a consolidation effort in the Video, Music, Sports metadata business, nine companies were acquired and merged under the Gracenote brand in 2015. These companies included TMS (US Video), Gracenote (Music & Video), Whats-ON-India (India & Middle East Video), HWW (Australia Video), Infostrada (Sports data), EPGS (Video EU), SportsDirect (Sports data), Baseline (Hollywood, Video).
In 2016, as Chief Content Officer of Gracenote, I initiated the 'Global Content Transformation' initiative with a fantastic team of domain experts. The goals of this initiative :
1. Achieve worldwide scale for Global Metadata production
2. Integrate processes, standards, systems of the 9 companies and gain efficiencies
3. Transform Gracenote's backend to be Digital/ Streaming compliant
4. Retain key talent (70+ Subject Matter Experts) within the 1000+ team
5. Gain new clientele + retain clients of the 9 companies
By mid-2018, the goals of this initiative had been met along with these additional achievements :-
A. Cost reduction; higher productivity
B. Blueprint for new offices
C. Massive team expansion (new markets as well as new verticals into existing markets)
D. Automation in critical areas including data ingestion
E. Unification of standards, processes and systems
F. Critical metrics to quantify Coverage, Quality, Productivity and Throughput
In 2018, this integration & transformation initiative received the "Arthur Nielsen Award" which was dedicated to the high achieving 'Content-Org' inside Gracenote. The initiative concluded in mid-2018 having met all the critical goals and more. Most importantly, it had been an immensely challenging and fulfilling experience to everyone associated with the exercise.
Honors & Awards
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Arthur Award (NIELSEN CHAIRMAN’S AWARD)
The Nielsen Company
Received the prestigious Arthur Award (CHAIRMANS AWARD) from the Nielsen Global CEO for Integration-Transformation at Gracenote, a Nielsen Company.
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CNBC 'Top 10 Young Turks of 2010'
CNBC-TV18
http://yourstory.com/2010/12/winners-of-cnbc-tv18-young-turks-top-10-of-2010/
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‘Top 5 Hottest Start-ups to watch in 2010'
FORBES (India)
http://forbesindia.com/article/special/5-hot-startups-to-watch-in-2010/8302/1
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Best Strategy Paper Award in Montreal
WAM Worldwide Audience Measurement 2005
"Penta-Gration! A new technique to measure TV sponsorships" won the best paper award at the Worldwide Audience Measurement (WAM) conference in Montreal.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tam-india-wins-award-in-montreal/articleshow/1149599.cms -
Best Paper Award in ESOMAR Shanghai
ESOMAR
At the fourth ESOMAR Asia Pacific Conference in Shanghai, TAM-India's paper on Product Placement was selected as the best paper amongst the 22 papers presented from across the region.
http://www.indiantelevision.org.in/headlines/y2k4/mar/mar296.htm
Organizations
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NorCal FTC Robotics (F.I.R.S.T Tech Challenge)
Team Mentor & Coach
- PresentTeam Coach and Mentor at NorCal FTC to promote Tech and specifically Robotics. Mentoring a team of talented High Schoolers gifted in STEM, Programming and Robotics.
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