Salil Bhargava
Chief Executive Officer

As the CEO of Jump, Salil Bhargava has led the company’s emergence as a cutting-edge, sophisticated brand in the gaming space. He is currently driving Jump’s rapid expansion into the international gaming market and its association with eminent technology leaders, IP and content owners, leading publishers, and industry stalwarts.

Salil’s association with Jump began in 2004, when he joined the company as the Chief Marketing Officer, leading all international business development, strategy, and marketing initiatives. Under Salil’s able management, Jump acquired a stellar set of partners and its revenues saw a fivefold increase within less than a year of his joining.

Before joining Jump, Salil led product development and strategic alliances at Rediff.com, India’s largest Internet and new media company. He successfully drove projects involving setting up Rediff’s broadband radio service and rolling out new products with a focus on the Mobile entertainment market.

Prior to moving back to India, Salil worked with NBC Internet, then one of the world’s largest internet companies based in San Francisco. At NBCi he managed some of its largest partners including online retailers like Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Bigstep and entertainment giants like Hollywood Stock Exchange. In addition to working with NBCi’s Strategic Relations Group, Salil was also a key member of its international product team and worked on setting up portals in parts of Asia, France, and Italy. He has also worked on business development and strategy at Parlo.com, a New York-based, Goldman Sachs Group funded online language learning portal, and the Landeszentralbank in Heidelberg, Germany.

Salil holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, where he received the Eli Broad Graduate Scholarship for two years in a row.

Ninad Chhaya
Executive Vice President
Operations and Production

Ninad joined Jump in August 2004 as the Executive Producer. His portfolio includes planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling production across development modules. He also contributes actively in key decisions regarding business development and corporate strategy of the company.

Ninad has been in the interactive media space for over ten years now and has more than eight years of experience in the field of gaming. Before joining Jump, Ninad co-founded Indiagames Limited, where he led the Wireless gaming department as the Head of Delivery, ensuring timely execution and delivery of Mobile gaming content across platforms and devices. Ninad handled almost every aspect of organization structuring at Indiagames—team building, implementing processes and systems, creating concepts, and producing content for games across platforms, business development, establishing presence in international markets, and overseeing development.

As the head of Indiagames’ Creative and Quality Assurance team, Ninad was also responsible for producing innovative and engaging cross-platform gaming concepts, some of which have won prestigious international awards. He also produced in-house titles as well as games outsourced or based on licenses acquired from companies like Disney, Sony, and Marvel Comics.

Ninad also has the credit of launching W.I.T.S., an interactive design agency, where he was primarily involved in business promotion, business consulting, and project management, besides being responsible for the creation and visualization of intellectual property for the company.