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Ali Hussein
Ali Hussein is the Chief Executive Officer at Immerso. Immerso is the metaverse & AI business backend by the Eros Investment’s Group. At its core, Immerso is creating a transmedia entertainment ecosystem with native IP-led content with gaming, generative AI & blockchain as the enablers of scale and growth. In addition, Immerso is also developing large language models with one of the biggest repositories of licensed training data for generative AI with use cases across industry sectors. Innovations in 3D assets, video and cloud infrastructure for generative AI, Virtual and mixed reality is one of the core objectives of this vision.
Prior to this Ali was CEO of Eros Now starting in 2018, South Asia’s premier OTT platform, to lead the brand’s vision of becoming consumers’ first
choice for digital entertainment. He led the platform to a growth of 200Mllion consumers with distribution across 150 countries worldwide. The surge in paid subscribers, technology innovations, and global distribution is a testament to what the team has achieved in the last few years.
Ali has been a senior executive in the Technology, Media and Telecoms businesses for over two decades. Board Advisor to Discovery Networks and various other start-ups in the media technology vertical. He has also worked with Google/YouTube, where he ran the charter for Content and Product partnerships in South Asia, Joint Venture between Network 18 and Viacom (Viacom 18), where he led the digital media business across all consumer media brands, and Hungama where he managed the portfolio of distribution and content acquisition globally. Ali’s expertise lies in leveraging his deep understanding of the consumer and technology to build scaled enterprises. He is an active contributor and thought leader on global forums and platforms across on deep technology and entertainment.