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The Walt Disney Company’s Deepak Jacob is joining Dream Sports Group as group general counsel.
Recently, it was announced that he’s quitting The Walt Disney Company, which took over Star Network as part of a global deal with Rupert Murdoch’s 21stCentury Fox group some time back.
“After a 13-year stint as the President & General Counsel for Star India & Chief Regional Counsel for DTCI at The Walt Disney Company SEA, ME & India, I am moving on to an exciting opportunity with the Dream Sports Group (Dream11 FanCode, etc) as Group General Counsel,” Jacob announced in a Linkedin post hours back today.
“(I am) absolutely thrilled to be working with visionary entrepreneurs Harsh and Bhavit and a superlative CXO team. As an avid sportsman and sports fan, I hope to help them build a profitable and robust sports technology company while enabling the growth of the sporting ecosystem in India,” Jacob added.
An experienced legal executive with a demonstrated history of leadership excellence and expertise in the technology, ecommerce, telecoms, media and broadcast industries, Jacob has strong legal professional skills in litigation, IP law, M & A, corporate and commercial transactions, legal advocacy and regulatory strategy, government relations, and public policy, corporate governance.
Jacob came to Star Network from eBay and was part of former Star/ The Walt Disney Asia chairman Uday Shankar’s leadership team.
After takeover of the Fox/Star networks Disney has been slowly effecting changes in the company structure in Asia. If reports are to be believed, it has also closed down Star’s Hong Kong office and gave an offer to few remaining executives there to move to Singapore office if they wished.
