Karan Kukreja

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • World Record holder for the first Drive-In Music Festival.
  • Founded GIFLIF Fest, celebrating independent artists across India.
  • Produced content for a YouTube channel with over 3.15L subscribers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment entrepreneur with expertise in event management and content production.

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Skills

Core Skills

Event ManagementEntrepreneurshipEngineering

Other Skills

AutoCADBrand MarketingBrand PartnershipsBudgetingBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness Relationship ManagementBusiness StrategyCommunicationConcept DevelopmentContent ProductionCorporate CommunicationsCorporate EventsDrillingEnergy

About

An IIT graduate and an entrepreneur. Hold World Record recognized by Harvard World Records. Over the years, I have worked towards the curation of festivals and music concerts across India. Have produced content from live events for digital media, GIFLIF Fest YouTube Channel has about 3.15 L subscribers with 50 Mn organic views and growing. Have worked extensively with upcoming artists and provided them with the right platform for introduction to a city via live events. Established and conducted festivals in not only Tier 1 cities but also Tier 2 & 3 cities, exploring the unexplored spaces in these regions that seldom have music or other festivals.

Experience

Giflif fest

2 roles

Founder, Director

Jan 2015Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

  • GIFLIF Fest celebrates Independent Artists, Musicians, Poets, Writers, Film-makers, storytellers, and any other performing artists. World Record Holder for conducting first-ever Drive-In Music Festival, recognized by Harward's World Record. More of our content on youtube.com/c/GIFLIFfest.
  • My major jobs roles are described below:
  • 1. Ideation and Content Designing: I brought together a team of advisors, mentors, and patrons from diverse and accomplished backgrounds for GIFLIF. GIFLIF has conducted over 90 sessions that include music concerts, panel discussions, film-screenings, film-making workshops, plays, poetry recitals by eminent poets, poetry contest and mind reading sessions amongst other activities, with more than 90 artists
  • 2. Networking and Business Development: I successfully established a professional relationship with eminent dignitaries from the field of film and literature, marketing heads at large Indian corporates and Government officials. As a result, GIFLIF partnered with 40 corporates and 4 government organizations that provided us sponsorship in kind or service.
  • I have been able to raised funds for 10 editions of GIFLIF.
  • 3. Marketing: I led engagement with creative agencies, PR firms, media houses, radio channels and web development agency to set the tone of communication for the potential audience. I also budgeted and managed advertisement content for offline and online mediums.
  • GIFLIF could accomplish a total gathering of more than 1,00,000 audiences from 30 cities and has achieved a total reach of approximately 60 million via offline and online mediums in a total budget. GIFLIF videos have had more than 10 million views.
  • 4. Operations: I shortlisted, managed and led a team of 100 people representing 27 partners and vendors. During the events, I planned work-flow processes, managed cross-functional teams and, assigned roles and responsibilities to volunteers.
Media & EntertainmentContent ProductionPublic RelationsMarketingNetworkingEvent Management+1

Founder, Director

Jun 2014Present · 11 yrs 9 mos

Media & EntertainmentEvent ProductionLive EventsFestivalsContent ProductionPublic Relations+3

White walls media

Founder

Sep 2011Present · 14 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • White Walls Media (WWM) is the brain behind one of India's biggest festival brands - GIFLIF Fest. Holds Harvard World Record for conducting World's First Drive-In Music Festival. WWM produces all the content that goes on the GIFLIF Fest YouTube channel (3L subscribers such as Music Concerts, Session Videos, After-movies, Making of Festival. Have worked with clients such as MP Tourism, Madhya Pradesh Auto Show, Madhya Pradesh Start-up Conclave, SBI Cards, Maruti Suzuki, LIC, Dilip Buildcon, Shell Lubricants, OLA, Chaayos, 99acres.com, Naukri.com, Shiksha.com, Indiaproperty.com.
Content ProductionMarketingBusiness DevelopmentNetworkingEntrepreneurshipEvent Management

Ongc

Assistant Executive Engineer - Drilling

Sep 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs · Mumbai

  • Worked in Drilling Rigs in Mumbai High as an Assistant Executive Engineer for a period of 1 year. For the second half of my stint with ONGC, I worked in 11 High office and assisted in Procurement and Commissioning of Rigs.
DrillingProject ManagementProcurementEngineering

Tata motors

Project Trainee

Apr 2008Jun 2008 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked as a Project Trainee, with Tata Motors, Pune.
  • The Project was to design and craft an instrument which would measure the minimum door closing energy of vehicles.
  • Also, did benchmarking wrt vehicles from different brands to measure maximum permissible stress on different parts of the vehicle.
Project ManagementEngineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

B.Tech — Mechanical

Jan 2005Jan 2009

St. Joseph's Co-Ed School, Bhopal

Jan 1990Jan 2002

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