SHARAD DEVARAJAN
CEO & Publisher
VIRGIN COMICS & ANIMATION
Mr. Devarajan is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of the recently formed Virgin Comics LLC and Virgin Animation Pvt. Ltd (www.VirginComics.com), a set of companies he co-founded with Sir Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, acclaimed author Deepak Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur.
In addition, Mr. Devarajan remains the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Gotham
Entertainment Group, South Asia's leading comic book publisher (www.GothamComics.com).
Mr. Devarajan was instrumental in securing and maintaining licensing arrangements with
DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Worldwide
Publishing. Through Gotham Entertainment Group, Mr. Devarajan has established a leading
South Asian publishing Company that caters to youth oriented magazines. In 2004, Mr.
Devarajan worked with Marvel Comics to reinvent the Spider-Man character as an Indian
boy growing up in Mumbai. Unlike traditional translations of western comic magazines,
the new series, "Spider-Man: India" was heralded as the industry's first
"trans-creation" (www.spidermanIndia.com).
Previous experience includes MTV Networks, Elektra Entertainment Group, Ford Modeling Agency and DC Comics; For his accomplishments, Mr. Devarajan was featured as CNNfn's 'Maverick in The Morning' and profiled in The New York Post, Businessweek, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and NPR's Fresh Air. He holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University.