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Mr.Gautam Doshi is the Group Managing Director and Director of Reliance ADA Group Limited, Reliance Communications Infrastructure Limited and a number of well-known public limited companies. He started out as a part-time lecturer in Accountancy and Auditing at the S.I.E.S. Institute of Management and at the Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics between 1978 and 1991. He then went on to become the Chairman of the Indirect Taxation Committee of the Indian Merchant Chambers for the years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. Mr. Gautam Doshi has also represented India and presented a paper on "Value Added Tax" at the 5th SAFA Conference on Fiscal and Corporate Innovations in SAARC Countries held in Lahore.
Mr. Sujal Shah, is a qualified Chartered accountant and is currently a partner with M/s Dalal & Shah, Chartered Accountants handling the Corporate Consultancy practice of the firm, before which he was a partner with N. M. Raiji & Company for eight years. His main areas of practice are mergers & acquisitions, restructuring of companies, valuation of business / shares, due diligence review, etc.

Mr. Shah was co-opted as a member of the Research Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the year 2005-06. He has also written papers on subjects of Valuations and Restructuring for WIRC and BCAS and is a regular contributor to the Referencer published by the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society. He was appointed Hon. Joint Secretary of the Chamber of Tax Consultants for the year 2006-07.

In the past, he has addressed seminars and conferences on various subjects such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuations, Due Diligence Reviews, Auditing and Assurance Standards etc.

Mr. Shah is an independent professional Director on the Board of Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company Limited, Gitanjali Gems Limited and i-Process Services Private Limited.
Mr. Amit Khanna, is Chairman of Reliance Entertainment and Director of Reliance Blue Magic, a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. He has been involved with media since school having worked in theatre, radio, television, journalism, films and new media. He started his film career as an Executive Producer with Actor–Producer Dev Anand's Nav Ketan in 1971. In 1980, he produced his first feature film Man Pasand after which he wrote and directed critically-acclaimed films Sheeshay Ka Ghar and Shesh. He has also written lyrics for 400 film and non-film songs including many all-time hits as well as writing a dozen film scripts.

One of the first independent producers of TV programming in India, Mr. Khanna, set up Plus Channel in 1990, India's first entertainment conglomerate where he produced 10 feature films, over 3000 hours of original TV programming and over 1000 music albums in various genres and languages.

Mr. Khanna writes extensively on media in various magazines and newspapers including Times of India, Hindustan Times, Economic Times, DNA & Business Standard. He is Chairman - Convergence Committee of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry), a Member – Prime Minister’s Committee on Information, Communication & Entertainment (ICE), Member - CII’s Entertainment & Media Committee. He was also President of the All India Film Producers Council, Film & Television Producers Guild of India for three terms. Besides serving on various international, government and trade organizations and institutions, he has won several national and international awards and regularly speaks at international conferences.
Mr. Darius Jehangir Kakalia, is Partner at Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe (Advocates, Solicitors & Notaries) since 1992 after joining as Articled Clerk and becoming Assistant Solicitor in 1976.
A former lecturer in Law at K.C. Law College and Examiner in Law at University of Bombay, he also had stints as Solicitor of the Bombay High Court, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.
His areas of practice include civil litigation, including arbitration and electricity laws, documentation relating to infrastructure projects, joint ventures and collaborations, issue of global depository receipts for raising finance from foreign investors and documents and due diligence in connection therewith, documentation relating to formation of companies, mergers and amalgamations and power projects as well as other commercial and real estate documentation.
He is also Director on the Board of Birla Global Asset Finance Co. Ltd., American Bureau of Shipping Industrial Verification (India) Pvt. Ltd., Brics Securities Ltd. and Allied Mens Wear Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Pradeep Shah Sevantilal , is practicing Chartered Accountant and Partner at Chandrakant & Sevantilal, Chartered Accountants and is also a practicing Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Co-author of Value Added Tax – Simplified, Explained & Illustrated, he has conceived and designed software for giving all-India information about Sales Tax /VAT Statutes and Rates, called Instavat.
Mr. Sevantilal has co-authored several commentaries on such subjects as Finance Acts since 1991 (Published as part of Handbook to Income Tax Act, 1961 by Taxmann), VDIS 1997, Kar Vivad Samadhan Scheme, Taxation of Demerger 1999, New Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) Payable by Companies and Law Relating to Transfer Pricing.
He has spoken at various workshops and seminars, contributed papers in various courses on Direct Tax Laws and written several articles on Direct & Indirect Taxes in tax magazines.
Mr. Anil Sekhri, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with more than 25 years experience. After a short stint with the Hero Group of Industries in 1981-83 as CFO and Company Secretary of one of their Group Companies at Ludhiana, he set up his own practice Anil Sekhri & Co. He soon began to specialise in issues relating to the Media and Entertainment Industry focusing on accounting, taxation and legal matters and has gradually built a reputation as leading advisor to a wide cross-section of film industry professionals and businesses.
His key clients include film producers such as Vinod Chopra Films, Prakash Jha Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment Private Limited and Raj Kumar Santoshi Cinema Company as well as artistes such as the Deol family, Priyanka Chopra, David Dhawan, Raj Kumar Hirani and many more. He has also been advisor to major Hindi films such as Heyy Babyy, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Munnabhai MBBS, Parineeta, Mujhse Shaadi Karoge, Mission Kashmir, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Ghatak and several others.
   

 
 
 
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