I have experience of handling projects and have participated in all aspects of interior designing.

I have also been a visiting faculty of interior designing at JD Institute of Fashion Designing, affiliated to Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India.

WORK EXPERIENCE

I started my career as an Interior Designer at Kothari & Associates, New Delhi in April 1995 where I designed farm houses and residential bungalows.

I joined Genesis, New Delhi, as an interior designer in January 1996 and was given prestigious assignments of designing the famous Leelavati hospital in Mumbai and the Taj hotel in Madurai.

I was the main promoter of Swati & Associates, an interior designing firm in Ahmedabad and designed the interiors of many residential apartments including the Shubh Apartments of the Bhoomi Group.

The reputed JD Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi invited me to be a visitng faculty to teach interior designing to its B.Sc (Interior Designing) students in 2006.

At present I am the managing director of Isha Creative Vision Private Limited – a New Delhi based multi media production house with interior designing as one of its branched out activities. Our major clients include iLEcBDesigns, New Delhi.

I work on Auto Cad as well as 3DS Max and my special area of interest is furniture designing.

PRESENT POSITION

• Managing Director, Isha Creative Vision P Ltd, New Delhi

LANGUAGES KNOWN

• English, Hindi (Mother tongue)

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Three Years Diploma in Interior Designing with first division from Women’s International Polytechnic, New Delhi – 1991-94

With sixteen years of expertise in editorial content management – writing, editing and research and thirteen years’ experience in leading TV and print reporting teams, Deepak is well recognized in media. Prior to shifting his base to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he was an assistant editor with national news weekly magazine Sahara Time and also Chief of its National Bureau. Earlier, he set up and headed ETV’s  Gujarat news bureau in mid-nineties.

Deepak has hands on experience of content management across mediums – Print, Television and News Portals. He also received a letter of appreciation from BBC television’s production team for contributing as a consultant to their global documentary on Asbestosis. His latest documentary, The Wizard of Needles, on India’s first and only blind acupuncturist has been highly commended by various media including the BBC.

Deepak has also written scripts for television news as well as Radio broadcast; his write ups were also aired in All India Radio’s national news capsule “spotlight”.

Deepak’s views on various socio-political issues are often carried by international press. His reports have been referred to by prestigious institutions such as the National Planning Commission of India and the National Commission for Women etc. He  is a prolific writer and his articles are published in several leading newspapers and magazines in India and abroad including Bistandsaktuelt (Norway), Agence France Presse (AFP), The Times of India, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Onlooker, Free Press Journal,  Rashtriya Sahara, Eenadu, Newstime, Sahara Samay and Sahara Time. He was also invited to write on former Prime Minister of India, VP Singh, in a Coffee-table monograph on Prime Ministers of India, Prime Ministers of India: Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, released in April 2010. Other contributors to the book include eminent historian Prof. Bipin Chandra, Noble laureate VS Naipaul, prominent journalist Vir Sanghvi, The book is published by ‘Bismillah: The Beginning Foundation’ set up in the memory of the late Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan.

In 2009, one of Pranav’s documentaries ‘Buddha in Bodh-Gaya 2007′ has got an entry into the prestigious IDFA, Amsterdam and the International Documentary Festival in Italy.

Among his notable works have been a cookery series “Royal Cuisines of India’ for ZEE TV and a long running breakfast show on the National Network called ‘GOOD MORNING METRO’.

Pranav is basically a Cinematographer and has over 2000 films to his credit including films shot on 35mm film format, 16mm film format, Digi-Beta, Beta cam SP and new generation Digital formats. A large number of his films which he has filmed himself have won major awards and recognitions all over the world for camerawork.

His movie production company, Pranav Motion Pictures, (that offers strategic support to ICV), has produced films for different governments, satellite channels, as well as over 50 Films for UN agencies including UNICEF.

Apart from knowing important equipment suppliers, Pranav brings in his vast contacts of right technicians and international standard Cinematographers and Editors who even work on celluloid formats. His associate Mukul Varma is the pioneer of live television in India and is available to help us on certain ventures.

Pranav has been honoured on a number of occasions for his contribution to films and documentaries. He was also invited by the Malaysian government as a guest TV crew to promote tourism.

A “Content and Content Delivery Specialist” as he likes to be labeled, he is a master at Designing for Print and Web. He also heads the Design team for ICV, apart from being a part of the editorial team.

When he is not working, he can be found on his computer, either watching a movie or experimenting with new technology (often both). He is married and has a precious daughter, who at 6, dreams of designing books and writing stories, like her dad.

Since early 2000 Athar has been working as Marketing and Information Technology Consultant. He is also Co-Founder and President of a not-for–profit organization, eHealth-Care Foundation, that was conferred the ‘National Award’ by the Government of India for Year 2004 for Exemplary Implementation for eGovernance Initiatives (Silver Icon) under ‘Innovative Operations and Best Practices’ – Professional Category. His eHealth-Care project was also one of the finalists in the “Stockholm Challenge Award 2003/2004″.

Athar is a management graduate with specialization in IT from FORE School of Management. He also holds diploma in Marketing from Brussels Business School, Belgium. He has completed Certificate in Computer Application, Diploma in RDBMS (Oracle and D2K) and Certificate in Computing from Indira Gandhi National Open University, India. He is a consultant to L N Mishra College of Business Management, Muzaffarpur and visiting faculty to the NRAI School of Mass Communication and Management, New Delhi. He is also technical consultant to National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC), New Delhi, Consultant to ONGC Petro-additions Limited (OPaL), New Delhi and advisor to Bihar Institute of Economic Studies (BIES), Patna. He is also Director: eHCF School of Medical Informatics, imparting medical informatics course to physicians, surgeons and Para-medicals.

He gives Annual Lecture to students of School of Business, George Washington University (GWU), USA.

Prior to joining ICV, Vishal was with the Sahara India Group  and headed its web editions. He was also closely involved in conceptualization, design and execution of Sahara Group’s English weekly project and headed Sahara Time, a broadsheet weekly in English. He is also Consulting Editor with Geopolitics, a monthly magazine brought out from New Delhi.

Vishal holds rich experience of over 16 years across facets of journalism. He possesses the ability to formulate, strategically plan and put together editorial products like magazines, newspapers and web editions.

Skilled at reporting, writing, editing and re-writing news stories and features, he has a wide experience of undertaking content-driven initiatives and handling diverse tasks involved in the overall management of a media product.

Ajit’s association with several social organizations in India is of immense value to ICV. He is also honorary president of The Oceanic Group, a non profit society dedicated to social welfare and cultural ethos. He is also a guest faculty on Event Management at New Delhi based Pioneer Media School and NRAI School of Mass Communication.