Santosh Pillai, CEO and Founder

Dr. Santosh Pillai founded Aurona to fulfil the market demand for a new generation of interactive entertainment products and grew the company into a leading developer of video games and entertainment services. He has two decades of experience in steering the growth of companies of various sizes. Santosh was previously Vice President, Commercial Development, at Recreate Solutions, a London-based interactive television software services provider. Prior to that, Santosh was Director of Business Development at HomeChoice, UK's pioneering broadband TV and video-on-demand service (now part of Tiscali, TIS.MIL), where he was instrumental in raising finance and in structuring deals with Hollywood studios. Previously, he held various management roles in British American Tobacco. He holds a PhD in computer simulation from Manchester University and an MBA from London Business School where he was a recipient of the Lord Inchcape prize for his work on structuring business transactions in Asia.