5 Successful Ventures by Indians in the U.S
4. Anil Dharni
The co-founder of Funzio, Anil Dharni had laid foundation for this venture with an objective to entertain its customers. He is a B.E in aeronautical engineering and an M.B.A from the MIT Sloan School of management. Funzio which is into creating games for Social and Mobile platforms have struck a deal of $210 million with GREE for its acquisition. He was also the co-founder of mobile gaming company storm8. He guided the business operations at Storm8 which included marketing, customer support, business development, legal, and human resources. Prior to Storm8 Anil was the vice president of products and UED at hi5 networks, Inc where he worked with creating roadmaps for products, product initiatives and other platforms. Currently Anil is the senior vice president of studio operations at GREE international. In May 2012 GREE completely acquired all the assets of Funzio but Anil continues to make valuable contributions.