Our clan is small yet fun to be in. Based in the high-tech city of Gurgaon, India, PlayUp celebrates kinship, sports, creativity and diversity. Our most prized asset are our ‘best-in-class’ professionals, comprising of technocrats and marketing experts from premier institutions across the globe with years of work experience in top-notch companies.
Rajat, an indian-australian, is a distinguished entrepreneurial leader and technologist with extensive hands-on experience across a wide array of senior management roles in Asia Pacific. With a background in aerospace engineering and theoretical physics, he brings immense intellectual rigor to his management style.
Prior to joining PlayUp, Rajat worked as the Chief Online Architect for one of the largest media companies in the Australia & NZ region. Earlier, he was the CTO for a couple of successful technology startups. He also led the Technology & Research for Microsoft (ANZ) as the National Technology Officer and headed Microsoft Research (MSR) in the region.
In Dec 2008, Rajat moved to India to run the Technology and Operations for the Indian subsidiary of PlayUp, and is now playing an instrumental role in building and sustaining the company’s progress as the CEO for Indian Sub-Continent & Middle East Business.
Rohan is an accomplished marketer with rich experience across multiple industries and consumer segments. He has held a number of leadership and senior positions with extensive experience in strategic & commercial brand alignment, product development, and marketing solutions.
Prior to PlayUp, he was a senior consultant with the Shell Oil Company and directed key strategic initiatives across their downstream business in AU/NZ. He has worked with organizations of high repute like GameStop, Hanes, and United Airlines managing projects across the APAC region.
He holds a Master's degree in Marketing from Massey University, NZ. As the CMO for PlayUp, he is responsible for the overall brand management, product marketing, growth strategy and commercialization of the business in the Sub-continent & ME.
Aseem is an Electrical Engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and a MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. He has over 11 years of experience in managing products, and has set up product teams from scratch in multiple early stage businesses.
Aseem joined PlayUp from ibibo, owned by Naspers Group and Tencent, where he was Vice President of Social and Gaming. He was responsible for creating the largest Indian social network and gaming platform, www.ibibo.com. He also created and launched several social, multiplayer, and mobile games.
Aseem set up ibibo's virtual currency system for monetizing games through micro transactions. Earlier, he has worked with Microsoft, where he was part of the Silverlight Mobile team; and with Adobe, where he was the Product Manager for FrameMaker; and was the driver for Adobe's initiative around long tail content monetization. Prior to that, his focus has been in areas of business solutions, business intelligence, and advanced analytics.
At PlayUp, Kangesh is involved in leading the technology team with his unique technology vision, formulating the strategy, roadmap and adopting right set of technology processes for delivering customer-focused technology solutions in the realm of social mobile gaming.
Kangesh has played executive leadership roles with organizations in online services, gaming, and ecommerce space with significant impact. He has had an accomplished career spanning over 15 years at organizations such as Big Fish Games, RealNetworks & Siemens Corporate Research in the US.
He led the technology organization for Big Fish Games, and spearheaded the ecommerce for RealNetworks' digital products such as Rhapsody, RealArcade and Superpass. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from University of South Carolina.
Meet the innovators! The guys behind product conceptualization, design, optimization, and delivery. All our COOL mobile and web products are the brain child of this team. Highly collaborative group that gels with all other teams like tech, testing & marketing teams.
Supercool lot. Bunch of Web experts, wordsmiths & creative geniuses…literally! These innovative masterminds are smart and up-to-date with gaming, mobile & technology market and trends, and have a great sense of design layout, color schemes, typography, user interfaces. All credit to them for creating some real eye-pleasing stuff & innovative features in all our mobile and web products.
The geeks…seriously! Reticent techies come out all guns blazing when it comes to coding. These nerds love counting the lines of codes in their gaming projects. They keep the office floor abuzz with some strange development lingo…really! Kudos to operations guys for rendering seamless game plays to our users.
Guys with a hawk’s eye on each one’s in-out office timings, dress code and general conduct—the HR clan. Most often busy shuffling resumes to get on-board the best available talent in the industry, and that too within the budgetary brackets. Let’s face it…they get paid for that! Next are the most adored chaps of our company-- the salary guys! We love them when our bank accounts are recipients of increased salary figures in the month end.