Ken Silverman

Ken Silverman leads North American initiatives for Sannam S4 Consulting, the preeminent India market-entry specialist. The company, with 130 employees, and offices across India, has served more than 200 leading international corporations, universities, and non-profits including Unilever, MIT, TJ Maxx, Rolls Royce, AOL India, Airbnb, Ohio State University, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sannam S4 services in India span legal and regulatory matters, finance and accounting, HR, market research, business validation, strategic planning, partner due diligence, marketing, social media, delegation management, cultural awareness training, and more.

Ken is a veteran business and media strategist, executive, and entrepreneur, including almost two decades' experience in and with India. For 8 years he represented US entertainment industry initiatives for the visual computing arm of the $100 billion p/yr. Tata Group, India’s oldest and largest industrial conglomerate. On behalf of Tata and other Indian media clients he secured, negotiated, and/or oversaw India-based assignments for the Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks, Liberty Media/Starz, MGM, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and others. His added clients and affiliations have included Annapurna Studios (India), Columbia Pictures, DirecTV, Dow Jones, Film City (India), General Electric, the Government of Maharashtra, Harvard University, Meredith Publishing, Tribune Company, UCLA, Warner Bros., and others. He additionally wrote the start-up business plan for Black Entertainment Television (BET), which was subsequently acquired by Viacom, Inc., for $3.1 billion.

He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the South Asian Studies Association (SASA), and Chairman of the Board of the non-profit Caritas Telecommunications. Ken also produced and moderated two of India’s earliest and largest international media and technology conferences, in 2000 and 2001, which featured industry CEOs and leaders from six continents. He has written often for the India Journal, and is additionally a frequent speaker about India at universities, film festivals, and conferences globally. Most recently he addressed the 2015 Wharton India Economic Forum.