Kalpana Kutty

Kalpana Kutty has been a producer of advertising commercials, film and digital content, and event production over the past 20 years. Based in India, she has been Executive Producer for Genesis Film production for nearly a decade, where she oversaw one of the most successful Indian production companies working with Global marketers at home and abroad. Subsequently, The K Film Kompanie, founded by her, produced for The Asian Games campaign vignettes shot in India, LG, Unilever, and Marico to name a few. Kalpana executed projects for Apple, GM, and Nestle, and others for Gobsmack!, a production company with offices in Mumbai and LA for five years, producing a full-length feature film, “Eden,” directed by Shyam Madiraju. Her latest jobs have been line producing the India segment of “My Next Guest needs no Introduction” by David Letterman for Netflix. She has been an SME with APR for 2 years now, having worked with APR’s roster of global clients. She also designs the curriculum and is a mentor for Production design at PKSBE (Prahlad Kakar School of Business and Entrepreneurship).

Kalpana also has extensive event and experiential experience, having produced Keyline shows for Lakme Fashion week and eventually event directed Fashion weeks for 3 seasons for FDCI in New Delhi. She was also an India producer for World Class – a premium global marketing event hosted yearly by Diageo. She has also managed production on Imagine, for Automation Anywhere, a global frontrunner of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for the last 2 years.

Born and raised, and educated in the United States, Kalpana is comfortable in both cultures and has chosen to make Mumbai her home for the past 20 years. She is also a trained chef, having trained in Paris and Mumbai.