MUMBAI, INDIA – August 11, 2025: Sportz Interactive (SI), a global leader in fan engagement solutions for sports organisations, has bolstered its leadership team to accelerate its expanding footprint in key global markets, including the UK and Europe, and to power its strategic shift towards a GenAI-first future.
The enhanced leadership structure brings together seasoned leaders across Product, Technology, Delivery, Human Resources, and core business functions, complementing an experienced senior management team that continues to lead Sportz Interactive’s growing industry verticals and global sales. This combined expertise positions the company to drive innovation, scale operations, and deliver market-leading solutions to clients worldwide.
At the heart of the new structure is a unified triad of Product, Technology, and Delivery:
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Sanket Sawkar, Chief Product & Innovation Officer (CPIO): A 23-year SI veteran, Sanket will define the company’s product vision and innovation strategy, creating solutions tailored to evolving client and market needs.
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Monojit Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer (CTO): With experience from JP Morgan, Amazon, and Razorpay, Monojit will lead the development of scalable, secure engineering platforms to power SI’s ambitious product roadmap.
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Ravi Ranjan, Chief Delivery Officer (CDO): An Agile delivery expert from Capgemini and Thoughtworks, Ravi will ensure timely, high-quality project delivery across the organisation.
Strengthening the company’s focus on people, Himanshu Kapadia has also been roped in as SI’s first Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), bringing experience from Disney, HDFC, and DBS. He will drive a people-first culture to enable high performance and sustained growth.
“This is a pivotal moment for Sportz Interactive,” said Siddharth Raman, Sportz Interactive’s CEO. “By bolstering our leadership across business functions, we are reinforcing our strong industry and sales expertise with new capabilities that will help us lead with digital foresight, build for a GenAI-first world, and foster a culture of high performance. Our growing presence in global markets such as the UK and Europe, backed by our strong experience of working with marquee sports organisations in India, gives us the momentum to scale our vision and deliver transformative impact for our partners.”
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ABOUT THE SPORTZ GROUP:
With the vision of empowering sports organisations to maximise fan affinity and commercialisation, the Sportz Group has more than two decades’ worth of operational domain expertise. With more than 700 ‘players’ on its team, the company works with customers across 40 sports worldwide. With headquarters in Mumbai and Singapore, Sportz Interactive proudly partners with world-renowned sporting entities and brands including the IOC, BCCI, Formula 1, UEFA, Google, NBA, ECN, and Dream11.
Through the years, the Sportz Group has gained an immense reputation for its state-of-the-art offerings backed by live data feeds, a full-service FanXP platform that powers websites and mobile applications, fantasy games, social media innovations, content initiatives and most recently, the launch of its fanalytics offerings.