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Aanya Aggarwal:

Aanya’s foray into the world of media began at the age 14. She rose up the ranks to lead the production team of a local entertainment network working on the longest running lifestyle show on Sony Entertainment Television (Middle East). Supporting her work experience with education, Aanya took on TV and film production at SAE Dubai. After completing her Masters in International Business, and with a treasure of hands-on experience behind her, Aanya founded Chocolate Entertainment, making her the region’s youngest entrepreneur.

Being a part of the region’s fast growing media industry, Aanya understands publicity, events and media marketing from multiple points of view. In her previous role as Production Head, she has been highly trained to seek the finest events and stories, and knows best what catches the editor’s eye and what demands a feature. She knows how to craft effective and creative pitches that work. Under Aanya’s able leadership, her company manages Bollywood’s leading talent, premier events and this is just the first year of operation.

Aanya topped her Film School and one of her films was nominated at the Thailand Film Festival. She has been officially declared as the youngest entrepreneur of the region, Middle East’s youngest entrepreneur under 21 years old, has been honored by Forbes Middle East in the 2014 list of “Top Indian Leaders in the Arab World” for her stellar work in the field of media and entertainment. Her recent achievements also include being featured in Xponent Media’s coffee table collection of “Gen Next Indians”; and in Ahlan! Masala’s “Hot 20 Under 30”. Filmfare Middle East – Salt n Peppa magazine has featured their cover story on Aanya.

Recently, Aanya has also been featured in Zee Cinema’s youngest entrepreneur of the Middle East, in Ahlan! Masala! 15 minutes with Young Entrepreneur and in ‘My Dubai My City’ as a part of their 12 local success stories, The Gulf Times Abu Dhabi ‘Youngest Entrepreneur of the Middle East’. In the year 2015, Aanya Aggarwal has been nominated as the ‘Most Stylish Woman’ 2015 for Masala Awards amongst the top successful men and women in UAE and to top the recent achievement is Ahlan! Hot 100 2016 amongst top International and local celebrities. Aanya also recently featured under "Indian Super 100- Women Achievers' MEA, a coffee table book which has been inspired by the words of Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Honorable Minister for External Affairs, Government of India.

Bringing to the table, the right connections, the perfect pitches, passion, tenacity and an eagle eye for detail, the young Managing Director has led Chocolate Entertainment to becoming the most talked about entertainment companies in this region, orchestrating more than 20 events in less than a year. The best, she says Aanya, is yet to come!