Our Team
Meet the Team
Deepak Bandekar
Founder & CEO
Presently, the Executive Director of the House of RNSB, the BBE Group CEO and Founder, Mr. Deepak Anant Bandekar is an award winning path-breaker with diverse interests in Business development in the fields of Mining, Exports, Hospitality, Education, Aviation & Real Estate. He also has a keen vision for Business plan & sales strategy and generating new developments in Hospitality and Real Estate. Armed with a Master’s of Science Degree (M.S) in International Management from the University of Reading, UK and a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, Mr. Deepak Bandekar has keen interests in the Film and Television as well as Media and Entertainment industry through his dynamic globally compliant entity – BIG BANNER ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA LLP
Chandan Bandekar
Partner & Business Coordination Head
She is a Graduate in Petrochemical Engineering from the University of Pune and has been a prolific Woman entrepreneur with a keen sense of business development. She has been actively involved in various creative fields including art and painting and has been instrumental in offering practical and creative inputs to the team at BBE, motivating and encouraging them to deliver high performance results.
Umesh Sinha
Business Head
Mr. Sinha is a Post Graduate with a Law Degree and also holds a Diploma in Systems Management. With an expertise spanning 40 years, he has worked with major houses like Chowgule & Co, The Bandekar Group (a leading Mining Company) and the CMM Group (a Pharmaceutical group having multinational brand tie-ups, such as Old Spice, Beisdorf and Wallace USA, to name a few. His work experience has spread over Legal, Company- law, Logistics, Finance, Administration and he has also handled matters right up to the Supreme Court. He was responsible for setting up the total logistics chain for “Old Spice ” brand. As a part of the Finance portfolio he has set up mutual fund portfolios and has dealt with top Fund-Managers. Mr. Sinha brings his expertise to our firm in matters pertaining to logistics, legal and financial planning.
Jojo D’Souza
Creative Head (IMDB) (AHS-USA)
Writing. Direction. Technical Support. Brand Expansion. Sound Design. Editing (FCPX), DaVinci Resolve, ProTools. Jojo, is a story-teller at heart. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Management) degree, and has expertise in Creative Writing and Design. He is an ex-software developer with global software competence, a musician, composer, poet and certified Media Trainer as well. He has been involved in the film industry about films for over 10 years, in India and abroad. He has directed Ad’s, Corporate, Music and Feature films. He has worked with ESG / Goa Government for the development of Film making in the state and has been honoured by the AHS-USA for Film-making and Training. His passion is to bring stories to life visually. He has excellent skills in Mac and Windows software for design, Film and sound and is an internationally certified Post Production Expert.
Rajkumari D'Souza
Administration/ DTP /Post Production
Overall in-charge of daily operations, and armed with a Master’s Degree in Economics (Hons), a Diploma in Programming and Software and over 15 years of Design, Print and Production implementation and management, her core strengths are Pre and Post Production Management, Operations and Coordination. Besides Administration and Operations, she also has excellent skills in Designing (CorelDraw & PhotoShop), Editing (FCPX & Adobe Premiere Pro) and Basic VFX and Animation (CineOn-3d, AfterEffects)
She currently holds Additional Charge as Editor and handles Post Production workflows, hands-on, with Software like FCPX and DaVince Resolve.
Sushma Parab
DTP Wing Manager
Sushma has over 20 years of strong design and DTP skills in CorelDraw, PhotoShop, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. She independently designs and implements projects undertaken by our Design and DTP Wing in consultation with the Administration or Creative Head.
Zaid A. W. Amin
Animator / Post Production Executive
Zaid, is an avid film enthusiast with special skills in Animation and post production. He is involved in various aspects of post production as well as on-set production and has certifications in film making, animation and post-production. He is also a keen game designer and VFX specialist.
Pradeep Govekar
Financial and Tax Consultant
Mr. Govekar is a certified Chartered Accountant and Tax Consultant and has been working for over 25 years in the field of Accounting, Finance and Taxation. He has solid industry experience, having worked for various corporate houses in senior management positions. At BBE he handles financial planning and management and provides us with consultancy on all our projects for the past few years, adding method and organisation including transparency in all our dealings.
Sana Shaikh
Accounts Assistant
Sana is our in-house Accounts Assistant. She handles all Finance related Data entry of the firm. Her core strengths are Tally and Microsoft Office and she is instrumental in liaising with our Finance team and accounts department, bankers and Government agencies. She also handles project and in-house accounting and statutory compliances like GST, TDS, Income Tax, etc., liaising between our Admin, Accounts and Production Teams.