Aviv Screwvala
About
Aviv Screwvala is from London, United Kingdom. Aviv works in the following industries: "Telecommunications", "Internet", and "Entertainment". Aviv is currently Head of Content Acquisition at Amazon, located in London, United Kingdom. In Aviv's previous role as a Content Acquisition Team Lead (EST/ VOD and SVOD) at Amazon, Aviv worked in London, United Kingdom until Feb 2018. Prior to joining Amazon, Aviv was a Graduate (MBA) Intern - Production at Paramount Pictures and held the position of Graduate (MBA) Intern - Production at Hollywood, California. Prior to that, Aviv was a Associate Producer - Content Production/ Acquisition at UTV Motion Pictures (Disney UTV), based in Mumbai Area, India from Jan 2008 to Jan 2012. Aviv started working as Senior Team Lead at AT&T U-verse in Greater Chicago Area in Jan 2005.
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Aviv Screwvala's current jobs
Aviv Screwvala's past jobs
- Negotiate every content licensing agreement across all tiers of content providers/ studios worldwide - Drive content analytics, strategy and implementation responsible for the dramatic increase of Amazon's film and television selection offering across the US and EU territories - Influence internal/ external partners to increase content publishing throughput and support cutting edge functionality - Sole business development owner for Prime Video's international expansion - Launch team member for Prime Video India
- Built the case for the adoption of a technology based production asset management system and presented to the President of Production. Analytics used to benchmark against internal solutions, vendor products and peer studio adopted tools. Go ahead consensus accomplished. - Presented the class winning pitch on a new digital distribution business model to the COO and CFO of the company as part of a 6 member MBA team - Introduced a new metric to track against home video distribution sales as part of a self driven study aimed to drive increased revenue to the Home Video Distribution team - Fun Project: Oversight of the restoration of the 1946 Wurlitzer Jukebox from the TV Series "Cheers" for the SVP of Archives
- Produced 5 full-length feature films. Directly responsible for concept inception, development, pre-production, production and post production through the film’s marketing campaigns and theatrical release for the following films: 1) "Arjun - Warrior Prince", nominated for the Cristal Award at the 2013 Annecy Awards 2) "Harishchandrachi Factory", selected by the 2010 Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film category 3) "No One Killed Jessica", nominated for 4 Filmfare Awards, 2012 4) "Aage Se Right" 5) "Peter Gaya Kaam Se" - Negotiated industry first tiered, multiple film package deals with existing/ new studio vendors resulting in cost savings of 60% to levels unprecedented in the Indian film industry - Initiated a company wide campaign to establish a UTV's social media marketing division resulting in customized digital promotional content combined with campaigns for each film release
- Rose quickly through the ranks to lead a team of specialized project managers based across North America to drive MS Project plan driven deliverables on ordering and CRM systems for U-verse, AT&T's $15+ billion next generation digital platform, through its first seven critical release cycles - Interfaced with partners ranging from business clients, fellow Project Managers, software developers, architects and testers, across multiple leadership levels, located in the US, Israel and India to deliver results of near zero downtime for our deployments, the holy grail of technical project management and a company wide first