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The operator behind live esports & gaming events in India | Head of Operations, The Esports Club (TEC) | Event Ops, Sponsorship Activation, Brand Partnerships

About

I'm calmest exactly when a live show is falling apart around me. That's the job. As Head of Operations at The Esports Club (TEC), Basik Marketing's esports and gaming vertical, I run end-to-end live events and brand activations in gaming and esports, from the first budget line to the final dismantle. On paper that shows up as two roles below, TEC for the tournaments I deliver and Basik for the operational backbone underneath them, but it's one seat, one team, one budget running both. In practice, that's owning event inventory across warehouses, running the full vendor lifecycle end to end (sourcing, negotiation, payments), and leading the ops team through setup, dry runs, live execution and dismantle. I hold the budget and P&L on every campaign, including the live calls when something has to move mid-event without slipping the date. Venue bookings, government permissions, police NOCs and compliance are mine too. Some of what that's built: TEC Convergence, India's first international Valorant tournament (10M+ stream views, 40K peak concurrent viewers), plus TEZ Free Fire MAX India Cup, APAC Predator League at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, and the Booyah Awards. Recognised company-wide two years running: "Operations Guru" (2024) and "Mr. It Will Be Done" (2025), alongside the team's WOW Awards Asia Gold and EEMAX Global wins. If you're building something in gaming, live events or sponsorship, brand-side, agency-side or otherwise, I'm always up for the conversation.

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Bengaluru

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Work experience

Head of Operations at The Esports Club (TEC), Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Run tournament operations end to end for TEC's esports slate (Free Fire MAX with Garena, and Predator League with Acer/Intel), from format and logistics through live broadcast support. Delivered TEZ Free Fire MAX India Cup 2025 (Lucknow), with a ₹1 Cr prize pool and 2,000+ attendees, and TEZ Free Fire MAX India Cup 2026 Spring (Gandhinagar). Delivered APAC Predator League 2026 (Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi) and the Booyah Awards Season 2 (Noida, June 2026), a full live awards show with main-stage and broadcast production. Also ran Free Fire MAX Asia Invitational, Amazon Gaming Fest, Acer Gaming Weekender, Acer Day and the Predator x Intel VCT viewing party across this period. Own player/talent logistics and on-site coordination at every tournament stop.

Head of Operations at Basik Marketing Private Limited, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Own operations across Basik's full portfolio (event inventory, vendor network and ops team), spanning TEC, TEC Spartans, Gossip.gg and Maverik. Hold budget and live P&L across all client campaigns. Coordinate across all four sub-brands so campaigns share inventory, vendors and crew instead of each one running its own stack from scratch. Recognised as "Mr. It Will Be Done" at Basik's 6th-anniversary company awards (2025).

Operations Manager at The Esports Club (TEC), Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Ran on-ground tournament operations across TEC's 2024 esports calendar.

Head of Logistics and Operations at Basik Marketing Private Limited, Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Across four multi-city 2024 activations for Dell, Lenovo, Intel, AMD, Microsoft and Asus, ran logistics and inventory end to end: TEC Arena @ Comic Con (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi; ~152K combined footfall), Dell Alienware Multi-City (4K registrations, 2K leads), Microsoft Copilot Campus tour (5 colleges, 3,000+ demos) and Intel AI PC Retail (4 stores). Contributed to the company's WOW Awards Asia 2024 (Gold in Sports Event Property of the Year, plus 3 Silver, 1 Bronze) and EEMAX Global 2024 (3 Silver, 1 Bronze) wins. Recognised as "Operations Guru" at Basik's 5th-anniversary company awards (2024).

Project Intern at The Esports Club (TEC), Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 3 mos, Inventory Lead for TEC Convergence 2023, India's first international Valorant tournament (Riot Games, Lenovo, Intel): 10M+ stream views, 200M impressions, 40K peak concurrent viewers, #2 nationwide Twitter trend.

Business Development Intern at KoSkill, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Generated qualified leads for KoSkill across multiple platforms and built out the campus ambassador network that helped drive them, my first real exposure to business development in a competitive ed-tech market.

Social Immersion Program at Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), Jun 2021 - Jul 2021 · 2 mos, Took part in a COVID-era social immersion program, connecting with people from different backgrounds and communities. An early lesson in working through unfamiliar, uncertain situations with limited resources.

Content Designer and Manager - Music Addict-O at Instagram, Oct 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Built and ran an Instagram page for music and entertainment video edits, growing it to 24,000+ followers through consistent content and audience engagement.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting and Finance, JAGSoM - Jagdish Sheth School of Management

Pre University, Business/Commerce, General, St Francis De Sales PU College