Award Nomination

DQ Entertainment PLC ("DQE")

DQE's Chairman and Chief Executive Tapaas Chakravarti

nominated at Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Award's 2009

DQE, the animation, gaming and live action entertainment production and distribution company, is pleased to announce that following over 310 nominations Tapaas Chakravarti, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of DQ Entertainment International Ltd., was selected as one of the 16 finalists at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year 2009 Awards held on 16th February 2010 at Taj Landsend.

This year's ceremony was the eleventh annual event since the Awards launch in 1999. The Awards have become a measure of entrepreneurial success around the world and are underscored by a rigorous selection process, comprising of financial and qualitative analysis of all nominees, independently conducted and selected by an independent panel of judges.

Since inception, over 75 outstanding Indian entrepreneurs have been recognised for their leadership in building successful global businesses. Past recipients of the Entrepreneur of The Year Award in India have included Kumar Mangalam Birla (Aditya Birla Group), Sunil Bharti Mittal (Bharti Enterprises), Ratan Naval Tata (Tata Group), N. R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys), Brijmohan Lall Munjal (Hero Group) and Mukesh D. Ambani (Reliance).

This year's jury was chaired by M. Damodaran, former Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Other jury members included the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry's Director General, Amit Mitra; HSBC India Group Manager & Country Head, Naina Lal Kidwai; Accel Partners' Managing Partner, Neeraj Bhardwaj; The Oberoi Group's Chairman & Chief Executive, P R S Oberoi, and Ashok Leyland Managing Director, R Seshasayee.

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About Tapaas Chakravarti 

Tapaas Chakravarti has over two decades of International Corporate Management experience and has grown DQ Entertainment Group to become India's largest animation company, currently employing over 2788 individuals. Tapaas believes in creating businesses in which both team work and individual excellence are celebrated, and is a rigourous promoter of ethical business practices. Tapaas is a Member of several national and international charitable organisations that work with orphans, AIDS effected children and education for the deprived. He is also an active member on the Board of the Indo-British Partnership and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. He has been recently elected as a member of EMMY - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Los Angles, USA. As Executive Producer in co-production with Porchlight Entertainment, USA Tapaas was awarded the 'Day Time Emmy' for 'Tutenstein', a TV series on Discovery Kids. 

DQE is a leading animation, gaming and entertainment production and global distribution group engaged in production, co-production and original IP development with a workforce of 2788 permanent employees and a global client - partner base of over 90 producers, distributors, broadcasters and licensors including Walt Disney Television Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studios Inc., Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics, American Greetings, NBC-Universal, BBC Group, M6/ France TV/ TF-1 Broadcasting groups from France, ZDF Germany and many more world-wide.

DQE has produced/co-produced and distributed iconic brands such as Iron Man - the first 3D animated TV series, Twisted Whiskers, Mikido, Casper, Pinky & Perky, second season of Large Family, third season of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and is now producing properties like Little Prince and Little Nicolas. DQE has a library of over 350 hours of international programs for distribution.

DQE is also developing and producing 'The Jungle Book' as a 52 x 11 minute episode animated series and a 60 minute TV feature, Toomai-The Elephant Boy, which is a live action TV series, as well as Indian IPs which are on production like Mysteries of Feluda, and Omkar.

DQE's production facilities are based in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata and it has international sales representatives in Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo.