Shailendra Singh

Shailendra Singh has been a successful personality in advertising, business, sports and film and media industry. After kick-starting 23 successful startups in his career, entertainment maverick turned-social entrepreneur, Singh wants to revolutionise entertainment and sports by 2020 through disruptive creative content. 

Now represented by Boss India Entertainment LLP, Singh brings with him 32 years of game-changing entertainment, media and communications legacy. While at the helm of Percept Ltd as joint managing director, Singh was responsible for launching Percept Picture Company, while creating and selling over 2,400 campaigns, he also planned media solutions for over 320 brands valued at $2.4 billion.

In his 3 decades building some of the biggest businesses in India he has been creating a name for himself and making an impact in multiple industries. As Jt MD of Percept, Shailendra Singh has produced over 72 full-length feature films. He has been ranked as 12th most powerful man in Bollywood. 

Shailendra Singh was awarded 16 national awards including Best Film & Best Director for Kanchivaram; curates, writes and directs the third most viewed short film channel in India – Long Story Short Films. Beyond films, he may be best known as The Inceptor of Sunburn – Asia’s largest dance music festival – and Guestlist4Good, which broke records for live events and charity. 

He is Asia’s largest music promoter and the only Indian ever to be ranked in the 50 Most Powerful People in EDM (inthemix). 

Shailendra Singh helped Sequoia India become the country’s biggest venture capital firm and also led its expansion into Southeast Asia six years ago. 

He’s cultivated unicorns including Indian payment platform Pine Labs, Indonesian e-commerce marketplace Tokopedia and Gojek, a ride-hailing app in Southeast Asia that competes with the likes of Uber and Grab.

His vision can be found in a recent interview conducted by Dinis Guarda. 

“Everything divides. Only love unites”. “The walls of Bollywood are thick and high. I want to use my 25 years of experience in the industry to launch a mirror to Bollywood. A parallel Indian cinema universe where I can help young people to climb those walls”. “In my professional career, I have always had something really clear. I am really drawn to make my customer happy and understand them. I might not know them all by their names but they are always at the centre of what I do. Always. The ultimate joy is to do something in business and see how that can improve people’s lives one way or another”.