10 Facts About Namit Malhotra

Namit Malhotra was born on 2 April 1976 and is an Indian film and television producer and a business executive.

Namit Malhotra is the founder and non-executive director of Indian visual and special effects company Prime Focus Limited, the world's largest independent integrated media services company, and the chief executive officer of its British-Indian subsidiary DNEG which specializes in visual effects, animation and stereo conversion.

Namit Malhotra grew up in Mumbai, India and went to Jasudben M L School, Khar.

In 1995, Namit Malhotra enrolled in a computer graphics school, where he saw how whole movies could be created on computers.

Namit Malhotra later recruited three of his teachers at the school as co-founders and started Video Workshop, an editing studio in his father's garage.

In 1997, Namit Malhotra merged Video Workshop's business with Naresh Namit Malhotra's Video Works, a film production equipment rental business to create Prime Focus.

In 2006, Namit Malhotra listed Prime Focus on the Indian stock exchange and he became the first managing director and chief executive officer of the newly-listed company.

In October 2011, Namit Malhotra relinquished his role as managing director of Prime Focus Limited to Ramki Sankaranarayanan.

In July 2014, Namit Malhotra merged Prime Focus World with Double Negative, a London-based visual effects studio, which at the time was behind the VFX of Inception, winner of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2011, and again earlier that year with Interstellar.

Namit Malhotra remained Chairman and CEO of DNEG following the transaction.