He cuts an impressive figure. One of the few to have seen the potential in the sports business and made money out of it. Meet Harish Thawani, the promoter of Nimbus Communications and the co-chairman and managing director of Singapore-based World Sport Nimbus (WSN). Filled with oodles of derring-do, the tonsured Thawani did a Palace coup when he managed to acquire the rights to the cricket World Cup under the noses of larger multinationals and then resold it to Sony Entertainment Television for a humungous figure apart from limited matches rights to state owned pubcaster DD.
Currently, his firm is in the thick of finding sponsors, partners and advertisers for the cricket matches that are being aired on DD National. An economics graduate from Mumbai University, Thawani is a mean chess player having outplayed some of the nation‘s top players.
Oozing confidence and in a pretty usual combative mood, Thawani took time off to speak to indiantelevision.com‘s Ashwin Kotian on his company, cricket and the World Cup.
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