Vishal Gondal

Founder and CEO, Indiagames Ltd (Mumbai)

While most kids were grappling with the realities of growing up, Vishal took a head start and started his first company – FACT, soon after finishing school at the ripe young age of 16.

In 1999, he founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles.  Indiagames is an award winning multi-platform games company, developing games for wireless, console and online gaming platforms, and works with top game publishers, handset manufacturers, Hollywood studios and mobile operators across the globe.

Vishal is recognized as being instrumental in starting and growing the Gaming Industry in India.

Vishal was part of The Nokia Advisory Council for Games and actively advises Nokia on wireless and gaming technologies and is a much sought after speaker at gaming and wireless technology conferences. Indiagames under Vishal’s leadership was featured amongst Red Herring Asia’s Top 100 companies in 2005.   

Amongst his other achievements and industry recognitions include being featured among the top 40 Indian entrepreneurs by Business Today magazine in 2001; an E&Y Indian Entrepreneur of the year award nomination in 2004 and most recently being listed among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space by the UK based Mobile Entertainment Magazine. This list featured the likes of Steve Jobs of Apple. Vishal also features among the 20 Fab Indians to watch out for in 2006 by The Week magazine.