Vishal Gondal Biography 
Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur, angel investor and the founder and CEO of Indiagames, a global computer games developer and publisher in India. Earlier he has served as the Managing Director, DisneyUTV Digital, The Walt Disney Company India Pvt. Ltd. Rediff called him "India's king of Gaming". He was featured among the top 40 Indian entrepreneurs by Business Today in 2001.
Vishal was born in Mumbai on July 14, 1976. He got his first PC at the age of 13. He mastered his computer skills at a younger age and very soon got a project from a bank to make their complete mailing list of 6000 customers. He got the first income of Indian rupees 60,000 for this banking project. At the age of 16, he started a computer training institute in his dad's garage. He stepped into the world of games when he was 13. He was interested in learning videogames and its software development. Commerce was his graduation subject at college. He was a national level Volley ball player.
He got interested in developing a computer game based on Kargil war of 1999. It became successful and this game became popular too. He was featured as a game developer in many television programs. Gondal started his first company FACT in Chembur, when he was only 16. In 1999, he founded Indiagames, along with four others to develop video games that work on various platforms of Internet, PC, broad band, mobile phones, PDAs, handheld gaming devices and consoles. It became one of the leading gaming developer and publisher in India. In 2009, Indiagames had over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai and many foreign countries. In 2011, Indiagames was acquired by Disney for around $100m and the following year restructured its digital assets under a new division, DisneyUTV Digital. They appointed Vishal as its Managing Director.
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Updated: March 07, 2014
