Started working at a very early age and became the youngest CTO at the age of 21, he won Business world Young Entrepreneur Award this year & Entrepreneur of the year 2013 by TiE. He is honored with the “100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders Citation” by World Digital Marketing Congress this year. Shabir has had a successful track record in various technology and business positions at a CXO level for few years before he became an entrepreneur. He has sold few ventures in the past and his current ventures that he has founded and co-founded are ZengaTV, one of the leading OTT services, OneDigital Entertainment, a Digital content company, OneAxcess.com, a unique self-serve, multi-platform distribution and monetization video ecosystem with over few thousands of content owners, creators and brand advertisers on board, InnovCrowd Pte Ltd which owns two Crowd funding platforms - DesiredWings and Catapooolt focusing on reward based and equity crowd funding respectively, Rastey, a Cab Service, Wyze Bots, a chat bot company, Leap 10, a start-up incubation lab, WoVoyage, a women only travel company & PSiamgone.com, an after death service. Etc. He has further investments in renewable power and few other industries. He is a successful entrepreneur and a professional with an excellent track record in technology innovation especially in the digital media and convergence technology.
With a keen eye for identifying creative talent, Gurpreet Singh comes with a cumulative experience of more than one and a half decade in the digital entertainment space. Very early on in life, Gurpreet discovered that his success depends on his ability to create and ‘make things happen’. In 2002 at the ripe age of just 17, he launched a flagship mobile Services Company called Funtooz, one of India’s first SMS and mobile content platform. It earned him the coup of being the youngest entrepreneur hailing from Punjab. With a motto of turning ambition into action, Gurpreet co-founded One Digital Entertainment. At present stars like Badshah, Raftaar and digital sensation Prajakta Koli aka Mostly Sane amongst several others, fondly credit him for contributing to the success of their career trajectory. Over time he has encouraged several renowned celebrities to take to the digital platform and has played an integral part in building their strong digital presence Under his watchful leadership, the networks web original ‘SOS - Survivors of Suicide’ (A documentary show about suicide survivors sharing their victory stories) was awarded the Best Web Series on a social cause by the IWM Digital awards this year. Gurpreet has played a key role in steering the Indian digital entertainment space for the last 16 years. From spear heading the entire mobile business and online content syndication for Viacom 18 Networks, setting up the content business for du (UAE) to heading the content production at Hungama and Disney, , Gurpreet has empowered sturdy synergetic relations with content aggregators, creators and digital platforms alike.