A veteran technopreneur, Aditya Singhal is the Director and Executive producer at Charuvi Design Labs (CDL)- One of Asia’s fastest-growing animation studios and design labs based in New Delhi, India. Aditya is a proud recipient of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2014, TIE, and CNBC Young Turk – 2014. Under his avid leadership, CDL is setting new success milestones on the global animation stage with path-breaking content and collaborations.
CDL is an incredibly diverse studio, a boutique animation specialising in making exceptional content for short and full-length feature films, TV | OTT, museums, and other media. CDL designs, animates, directs, and produces digital art-works, including pre-visualization and conceptual artwork, 3D animation, digital media, Television Commercials, application and game designs, interactive physical media installations, augmented reality, and IP creation.
With a special interest in gaming and writing, Aditya oversees operations, helps develop the story and characters focusing on kids and teen animated content, and is actively engaged on the commercial side, business development and cultivation of the studio. Mr. Singhal is responsible for conceptualising and developing plans and strategies to foster collaboration across all business units to drive overall growth for the company. His visionary approach for gaming, VFX and other futuristic technologies has helped the company in positioning Indian mythological content and rich culture on global animation stage.
Shri Hanuman Chalisa by CDL was a massive success and the 3D animated short film made it big on Oscar-qualifying international film festivals including Palm Springs, Anima Mundi, Edinburgh Film Festival etc. CDL’s TV show Legend of hanuman set new success milestones for the Indian animation sector with over 23 million views maintaining a top position and becoming the first animated series in India to ever achieve this distinction.
It is visionary approach and business acumen ship that today CDL is working closely with international film production houses, big corporate houses, billionaire/UHNWI families, public and private sector museums, and a plethora of world-class organisations.
In the midst of it all, Mr. Aditya has been an entrepreneur for nearly a decade. He began his career as a sales executive at Reebok India in 2006 where he managed 40 retail locations within the NCR territory. In 2007, he joined Technopak Advisors as a retail consultant. His role was to come up with strategies for clients based on primary and secondary research and subsequent analytics. He worked as a director for Avensa Chemical Solutions Pvt Ltd for six years. In 2007, he founded It’s My Life Jeans Co. He conceptualised the idea and implemented national and global expansion. His role was multidimensional with management, sales, design and production, all under one hat. The firm won numerous awards and recognized as one the fastest emerging luxury brand.
During 16 years of career, Mr. Singhal has successfully navigated tonnes of challenges across various positions, from B2B business dabbling in textile chemical manufacturing to a D2C one making luxury jeans. He has donned under various hats of general manager, sales head, marketing head, designer, product developer, customer relations, accountant, production manager, human resource head and more.
Mr. Singhal’s long vision is to support India’s prestigious ‘Create in India’ mission in the AVGC sector and make CDL one of the best studios created in India for the world. His experience spans the range of creative and business interests allowing him to flex his igneous and strategic muscles in extremely diverse and varied capacities of building investor relations and shaping the AVGC sector of India.
