Manish Verma

Head of Technology - SonyLIV at Sony Pictures Networks India

Manish Verma is Head of Technology , SonyLIV with Sony Pictures India Limited a subsidiary of Sony corporation, where he is responsible for building global OTT platform. 

He has been into consumer internet, media and entertainment industry for more than 20 years, He is a technology and business visionary with executive and hands on experience in building large scale internet platforms and products. In his previous assignment of Global CTO at Zee entertainment , he has led global engineering, development and  technology operations teams to build global digital media and OTT products.

He is known in the industry for building and transforming technology for digital media companies to handle exponential growth. He has successfully run such technology transformation program as the CTO at Network18 Media and Investment Limited and as the Group CTO at Hungama digital media.  

He also held various technology leadership roles with Yahoo, Rediff, Reliance entertainment and Hughes.

He is recipient of prestigious “Big Data India Innovation Day 2013” award besides many other industry recognition and awards.

He is presently based out of Mumbai and likes to play cricket and badminton during his free time.