Neville Taraporewalla
Managing Partner, Americas & Board Member
Neville is the Managing Partner, Americas & Board Member at mediaforgrowth based in San Francisco Bay Area. Until recently, Neville was the President & Board Director of BCCL Worldwide Inc (The Times Group, North America) and Founding Partner of Mercurius Media Capital (MMC) the first US independent media fund back by US media organizations.
Neville has 30+ years of senior executive experience in multinational companies leading multidisciplinary and cross border international teams. At the intersection of business and technology building go to market product strategy, high performance sales teams, business processes and ethical culture within an organization has been an important focus for Neville to deliver success to an organization. With a penchant for taking data driven decisions his recent curiosity to learn about Artificial Intelligence and its impact to business strategy has kept him transfixed as it becomes all pervasive. A early adopter of the consumer internet & digital landscape, Neville has a proven track record of building and running online businesses for traditional media publishers & online media companies in the United States and Emerging Markets of India & South Asia.
Prior to his last role at The Times Group, North America, Neville has held leadership positions as General Manager at Microsoft Corporation, India; Country Manager & Director, Yahoo! India; CEO, Publicitas Digital, COO of Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd & General Manager-Times Interactive at The Times of India Group.
