Devendra Gupta - Presenter & Executive Producer

Founder and CEO of the first ever Australian initiative of its kind in the world – the Australia India Film Fund, and one of the most successful Indian migrant stories in Australia, Devendra Gupta is an IT Engineer, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist based in Sydney.

Born in India and a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Dev moved to Australia in 1992. As an Australian, he has had phenomenal success in his Australian IT business (Paradigm.One) with offices around the world, including Sydney.

Paradigm.One has developed and operates a number of industry-wide IT systems that are used by all telecom companies in Australia. Its clients include Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, AAPT and Ericsson, amongst a number of other Australian and international Telcos.

Devendra is also heavily involved in charity work between India and Australia as president of Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of Australia. This charity runs about 54,000 one-teacher schools in rural and tribal parts of India, and educates about 1.5 million children. From Australia it sponsors more than 800 schools educating more than 25,000 children.

Devendra announced the Australia India Film Fund with Anupam Sharma, which is now funding millions of dollars worth of Australian films for global audiences.