Key People

Senthil Kumar, Co-Founder

Widely acknowledged as one of the country's foremost experts in audio and video technologies, Senthil has some truly outstanding achievements to his credit. He set up Media Artists Film and Video Postproduction Centre in Chennai shortly after he graduated from college. Media Artists rapidly grew to become the country's best sound recording studio for film and video programmes. In 1992, he set up Real Image, along with two colleagues, to bring Avid digital nonlinear editing systems to India. He has also supervised computer graphics and special effects for a number of video programmes. As a consultant to several Indian companies for audio and video, Senthil's expertise has had a far-reaching influence on the industry at large. In addition, as an expression of his intense interest in software applications for the film, video, audio and entertainment industries worldwide, Senthil promotes a company called South Beach Software. He is based in Chennai.

Jayendra Panchapakesan, Co-Founder

Jayendra is our Director, Marketing, and is based in Chennai. While his presence is strongly felt at Real Image, he is also known all over India as an extremely successful producer of advertising commercials. In partnership with PC Sreeram, a well known Indian cinematographer, the JS Films division has produced award-winning commercials for Rasna, Vimal, MRF, Regal Liquid Blue, BPL, HMT Watches and many other national brands. Today, JS Films has made over 300 commercials! Jayendra's knowledge of the Indian market has very sound foundations - he worked as a senior copywriter in several leading advertising agencies in Chennai and Mumbai for almost a decade before turning consultant and filmmaker.

Raja Enok, Chief Marketing Officer

Raja oversees the development and implementation of the company’s comprehensive marketing plan. His area of focus is Digital Cinema and Broadcast Technology. Raja has worked in diverse domains from consumer products to media technology, in roles that covered brand management, marketing and distribution management. In 1991 he joined Media Artists, a leading film and video post-production facility and managed operations. During this tenure, he became well versed with the technology and practices of the film, video and audio industry. In 1994, he took over as head of Skyline Communications, a Media Services Firm and was responsible for channel marketing and commercial airtime sales. He has been with Real Image since 1998, is a key player in Real Image’s digital cinema foray and has extensive domain and technology knowledge.

Arvind Ranganathan, Head - Strategy & Business Implementation

Arvind joined Real Image in 2005 to head strategy and business implementation across divisions and is based in Chennai. Prior to joining RIMT, he headed the Business Strategy team of Shasun Chemicals & Drugs Limited, a mid-sized Pharmaceutical company focused on providing Contract Research & Manufacturing services to multinational clients. A Chemical Engineer and a Post Graduate in Management, Arvind moved to the Investment Banking domain after spending the early years in manufacturing and marketing with the industrial sector. A chance introduction to equity research and capital markets was the key influencer to a career change. Since then, Arvind has been involved in most facets of the financial markets, from Equity Research to Investment Banking & Corporate Finance, which included an association with KPMG Corporate Finance in India and the Middle East. Arvind's experience includes significant business advisory roles apart from transactional roles. The ability to quickly grasp the key business drivers across industry sectors and driving the management imperatives and actions required to deliver on strategic goals are his forte.

Rajesh Ramachandran, President & Chief Technology Officer – Qube Cinema

Rajesh heads the dynamic group of software professionals of the Real Image Software Division, Chennai. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras. Rajesh comes to Real Image from InstallShield, Chicago where he was architecting software installation technologies and tools. He also led the development teams of two of InstallShield's leading products. Prior to that, Rajesh worked at Sapura, Kuala Lumpur where he was involved in creating a rapid application development tool for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Rajesh is also a member of the faculty at DevelopMentor, a component software think tank based in Los Angeles where he trained software professionals on component software topics. Currently Rajesh and his team are developing innovative products for the mass entertainment industries.

Sudha Panchapakesan, Head - Human Resources

Sudha heads Human Resources at Real Image, a responsibility she took on in 2002, prior to which she worked as Manager with JS Films. Before moving to India, Sudha lived in Canada where she began her career as an Office Manager at Arrow TV and Video. She went on to work as an Income Tax assessor with Revenue Canada and as a personal assistant to the commanding officer at CFCC with the Department of National Defense. Sudha has done her Certification in HR Management prior to taking on her new role as Head of Human Resources. She is based in Chennai.

M. S. Rajagopalan, Vice President - QCN

Rajagopalan, or 'Raja' for short, is a B.Tech from IIT Madras and PGDM from IIM Bangalore. He joined Real Image in July 2005 as Vice President for QCN - digitally networked and distributed advertising solutions, heading the businesses in the West and South. Commencing his professional career in 1983 with Sundaram-Clayton, Raja subsequently moved into advertising and worked with leading advertising agencies like Ogilvy & Mather, Mudra/DDBN and R.K.Swamy/BBDO in various capacities. Raja has worked on brand and business strategies of clients across FMCGs, Services and in the Technology space. He served for a year as the Chief Executive of Usha Martin Telekom's paging operations. Over the last six years, he was associated with Brand-comm, a Bangalore based brand-consulting start-up as one of its founder members heading its brand consulting and advertising business.

Actively involved in teaching and training at several levels, Raja is a regular guest faculty at TAPMI and BIM, teaching courses in Consumer Behaviour and Brand Management. He has taught a full core course to PGP students at IIMB in the area of Managerial Communication. He has travelled across the country, speaks four Indian languages fluently and never tires of meeting and 'connecting' with people.

James Abraham, National Head - Technical services

James joined Real Image in January 2000; he is now the National Head in charge of Training and Technical Services and is based in Chennai.

After completing a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A (Marketing & Advertising), he worked as a Design Engineer (CAD/CAM) in Michigan, USA providing design solutions to fortune 100 companies like IBM, Compaq and Xerox. While he was in the United States, he also completed a Masters degree in Engineering Management. After three years, he returned to India to work as Senior Manager -Operations in charge of Production and Marketing in the MC Group of Companies, Calicut, having varied interests such as a newspaper, printing and publishing, advertising and footwear manufacture. Later he was instrumental in starting one of the first computer based animation studios in Cochin providing services to the advertising and architectural industries. Two years later, on a visit to Muscat, he decided to utilise his engineering background and worked as Marketing Manager in OHI Petroleum & Energy Services LLC. After a 3-year stint he returned to India again to work in a field close to his heart - the digital world. James has gained a lot of experience working in various countries with people of different cultures as well as in a variety of industries and he brings this expertise to Real Image.

P Murali Krishnan, Head - Legal and Company Secretary

P Murali Krishnan, our Company Secretary, based in Chennai, heads the Legal Department of the Company. He ensures the implementation of systems and procedures for compliance with statutory enactments. A Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi, he holds graduate degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Madras and the University of Bangalore, respectively. Before joining Real Image, he worked as Company Secretary with Parry's, Parry's Confectionary, Deccan Cements and S&S Power Switchgear. He was also a member of the Expert Committee of the Madras Chamber of Commerce on Corporate Laws during 1994/95 and 1995/96.

KL Naveen, General Manager - Technology Marketing

Naveen joined Real Image in December 1998 and has moved swiftly from a trainee, to a marketing executive, to a product manager. He later went on to handle responsibilities as National Sales Manager, for Avid and Digidesign products, and now acts as General Manager - Tech Marketing. Based in Hyderabad, Naveen has handled some of our major clients like Mantra - Ramoji Film City, Padmalaya, Maa TV, Star TV, India TV, Suresh Productions and Prasad Studios Naveen has had prior work experience with organizations such RC Studios, Excel Videos, Eenadu Television and ITC in Chennai, and Sterling Holiday Resorts Valley View, Kodai. He speaks Hindi, English, Telugu, and Tamil fluently.

Ashish Mathur, Head - Western Region, QCN

Ashish Mathur, has been working with Real Image for the last 3 years. He heads the Western Region marketing for QCN. A Post Graduate in Mass Communications, Ashish has been in Media sales for the last 16 years. Prior to joining Real Image, Ashish was with Dimples Cine Advertising, handling key accounts like P&G, Videocon, and Sahara One Television.

B.M.A.Prabhu, Country Head - Digital Cinema Mastering Services

A graduate in English Literature, Prabhu has been with Real image since 1996, servicing the film video domain for more than a decade. He started of his career here supporting the AVID systems and operated from Mumbai between early 1996 till end of 1997. Prabhu has handled most of the product line that Real image has been dealing with, from AVID to DTS and now the Qube line of products. He has instrumental in testing the Qube range of products from day one and has been coordinating with the in house software development team to get the products on air. He is currently heading the mastering operations across Real Image. Prabhu also handles key broadcast clients within Chennai like Sun Television network and Jaya television network.

Prior to Real Image, Prabhu has worked with Sterling Computers and Ashok Leyland Information Technology.

V. Vaidyanathan, General Manager – Finance & Accounts

A Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in the field of finance and accounts, Vaidyanathan joined Real Image in the year 2004 and has completely changed the working environment in the finance and accounting functions of the Company with his professionalism and rich experience in his core function. Prior to joining Real Image, he was with I.P. Rings Limited, an Amalgamation Group Company, for more than 5 years. Prior to IP Rings he had a stint with Venkat Associates, a leading Chartered Accounting Firm in Chennai and conducted audits for many a corporate including Reliance Industries, CEAT, Asian Paints to name a few.