Joining Karan Shroff, Ex- Partner and CMO of Unacademy, in his new venture- LightFury Games which intends to build ‘high quality’ and ‘cutting edge’ AAA game titles out of India, as Co-Founders are Anurag Banerjee and Tina Balachandran.
Prior to coming onboard as Co-Founder and Group CPTO at LightFury Games, Banerjee was associated with Phenometa as its Founder and Director for two years, starting April 2022. From June 2022, he has also been a Games Development Advisor to Game7 on a contractual basis.
In another contract agreement, he has also served as the Chief Technology Officer of Living Cities from October 2022 to December 2023.
Before that, he served across various roles in Improbable, Rocksteady Studios, Ubisoft, WB Games Montreal, Cisco Systems India, Applied Research International, Jump Games and Nature Soft.
On the other hand, Balachandran had been associated with Unacademy across roles such as SVP- Talent and Culture and VP- HR for close to four years before joining LightFury Games as Co-founder and CPO.
Before joining Unacademy as VP- HR in December 2019, she served as India HR Head and Director at Tencent Games for two years, starting December 2017.
She also worked with LeEco, Huawei Technologies and Accenture in the past.
Commenting on the development, Shroff, Co-Founder and CEO, LightFury Games mentioned, “Delighted to have Anurag Banerjee at the helm of our Tech/Product development and as a Co-founder at LightFury Games. Spending most of his time at leadership roles internationally with Ubisoft, Rocksteady (WB gaming studio) and Improbable, he has led, built and shipped multiple billion dollar game titles through his career. He was also the lead on Assasins Creed, Suicide Squad and Batman:Arkhams Origin series. At Lightfury, we will be building high quality AAA games under his leadership out of India and placing an Indian gaming studio at a global stage.”
To this, he also added, “Excited to have Tina Balachandran as a Co-founder with LightFury Games. Tina has built organisations at scale and has immense experience in the gaming sector as she previously helped scale Tencent with their expansion in India. I have had the privilege to work with Tina at Unacademy and see her drive great initiatives. Under Tina’s leadership, we will bring in great talent and build a great culture at LightFury Games.”
