Niranjan Kaushik

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India27 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years in content creation.
Directed multiple successful films and series.
Led creative departments across various countries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Film and Media professional with extensive experience in content strategy and creative direction.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Film DirectionContent StrategyCreative DirectionCreative StrategyAdvertising

Other Skills

Content CreationProject Set-upTeam BuildingContent ProductionPre-productionScriptingWorkshopsBrand StrategyCreative AgenciesBranding & IdentityPositioning (Marketing)Web Content OptimizationVertical MarketingCreative ServicesMarketing Communications

About

Film director, screenwriter, producer, content curator and advertising creative director. With over 25 years in the business of content creation.

Experience

27 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Fingerprint films

2 roles

Chief Content Officer

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Niranjan oversees the three business verticals of FPF - long form cinema and OTT content, branded content and advertising. He has recently finished his Marathi feature as Producer, which is slated for an April 2025 release. Currently he is mounting his own feature in Hindi, a love story set in Delhi, Jaipur and Mathura.

Content CreationProject Set-upTeam BuildingFilm DirectionContent Strategy

Head of Content

Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 · 10 mos

Niranjan actively directed advertising and fiction for FPF. He also headed the Scripted Originals vertical for the company, a 15-year-old production company based out of Mumbai with offices in Delhi, Malaysia and Kenya. Niranjan’s role here is to curate and develop a robust number of projects in the Indian fiction space. Currently, a couple of projects are already in the final stages of pre production.

Content CreationProject Set-upFilm Direction

Zee5

2 roles

Head, Series

Nov 2022 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Vice President

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Niranjan’s role at Zee5 involved curating, creating, short-listing, green-lighting and seeing through the entire production process of episodic shows and films for the OTT industry. He launched Murshid for Zee5, a KK Menon starrer and also conducted the very successful IKIGAI Workshop for the entire Zee Network India in Dec 2023.

Content CreationProject Set-upTeam BuildingFilm DirectionContent Strategy

3brothers & fils

Creative Head

Jan 2022 – Oct 2022 · 9 mos

3BF is a content house based in Mumbai since 1953. Here, Niranjan heads the overall content and creative business vertical which deals with content generation for brands (long and short form). 3BF under the creative leadership of Niranjan will soon foray into the production of long form fiction content as well.

Content CreationCreative DirectionCreative Strategy

Hotstar

Director

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos

Optimystix entertainment india pvt ltd.

2 roles

Head of Content, Originals

Jul 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Head of Content

Jul 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Niranjan's role at Optimystix is to create a robust creative department that constantly creates content for the web (digital OTT platforms) as well as for cinema. Within a year-plus of joining, five shows of his and three films are in the pre-production / production stage already.

Content CreationCreative DirectionFilm Direction

Netflix

Digital Content Strategist

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Netflix asia / san francisco

Content Strategist

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos

As Content Strategist, his key task revolved largely around developing a brand strategy and positioning platform. for brand Netflix in India and South East Asia with respect to brand image and content character.

Skyninja

Founder & CCO

Jan 2015 – Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bombay

Brand StrategyContent StrategyCreative Strategy

Sky ninja india

Founder

Jan 2015 – Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos

SkyNinja was a unique set up that combines the skills of an advertising agency and a production company. Niranjan conceptualised and directed several adverting campaigns and films under this banner for prestigious clients like Hindustan Unilever Limited, Lee Cooper, MRF Tyres, Raymond and Airtel, to name just a few.

Ogilvy africa

2 roles

Regional ECD

Promoted

Mar 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Creative DirectionContent CreationAdvertising

Regional Creative Director

Jan 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

As the regional head of the creative departments for Ogilvy across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, Niranjan was the creative leader for several successful Pan African brands like Vodacom, Airtel, Yu Mobile and OMO, to name just a few. He set up entire creative departments for all the offices which went on to win several new businesses and awards for the agency.

Acid brand communications

Chief Creative Officer

Jan 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Creative DirectionTeam BuildingCreative Strategy

Mccann erickson

Executive Creative Director

May 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Mccann erickson india

Executive Creative Director

May 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Creatively led prestigious brands for McCann's Mumbai and Delhi offices.

Contract india

Executive Creative Director

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs

Creatively led several prestigious brands for Contract's Mumbai and Delhi offices. Brands worked on: HSBC, Disney, Asian Paints and VIP to name just a few.