Company: Confidential pre-IPO digital entertainment platform
Board base: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Sector: Online skill gaming and interactive entertainment
Appointment: Independent Director, Non-Executive
Intended committees: Risk & Player Protection Committee Chair; member, Audit Committee
Time commitment: 30–38 days annually through the pre-IPO period
Application deadline: 22 September 2026
Expected appointment: November 2026
Company context
The company operates mobile skill-based games with paid and free formats, tournament play, wallets, promotional credits and creator-led acquisition. Its economics depend on active players, contest liquidity, platform fees, marketing efficiency and payment success. The business faces material state-by-state legal variation, tax uncertainty, fraud, player-harm concerns and intense public scrutiny.
Market hint: A scaled multi-game app, cricket-led user acquisition, wallet-based contests and a planned shift toward broader entertainment may resemble several prominent Indian platforms. No title, celebrity, investor or player count is identified.
Board mandate
The director will make player protection and regulatory resilience part of product and capital decisions. The seat requires someone able to distinguish a defensible skill product from mechanics that create unacceptable legal, financial or behavioural harm.
Strategic priorities
- Maintain a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction product and legal perimeter covering game format, paid entry, taxation, advertising, age, payments and prohibited locations.
- Establish player-protection standards for age assurance, self-exclusion, deposit and loss limits, cooling-off, time and spend alerts, credit prohibition and vulnerable-player escalation.
- Govern game integrity through randomisation where used, contest matching, bots, collusion, multi-accounting, insider access, geolocation, anti-cheat analytics and prize settlement.
- Review wallet, deposits, promotional credits, withdrawals, unclaimed balances, taxes, payment reversals and reconciliation as customer-fund obligations.
- Align influencer, affiliate, celebrity and performance-marketing claims with actual chance, skill, risk, eligibility and responsible-play disclosure.
- Require Board approval for dark-pattern, urgency, reward-loop and reactivation mechanics capable of exploiting behavioural vulnerability.
- Govern fraud and financial crime involving stolen instruments, mule accounts, bonus abuse, identity manipulation, chargebacks and coordinated rings.
- Stress-test runway and enterprise value under adverse court, state, tax, payment-partner, advertising and app-store scenarios.
- Challenge offer-document KPIs, cohort economics, active-player definitions, promotional accounting, tax provisions and contingent liabilities.
- Protect integrity leaders, customer grievance and whistle-blower channels from growth pressure.
Decisions expected at Board level
- Whether a paid format should exit a jurisdiction before final adjudication.
- Whether a high-spending player requires restriction despite significant revenue contribution.
- Whether a growth mechanic is legitimate engagement or an unacceptable behavioural exploit.
- Whether tax or legal uncertainty requires a provision, cash reserve or strategy change.
- Whether IPO timing remains responsible under a changing regulatory perimeter.
Candidate profile
Essential: Former digital consumer, gaming, payments, regulated-fintech, telecom or platform CEO/CRO/legal leader, regulator or Board director; product-conduct judgement, technology/fraud literacy and experience navigating regulatory uncertainty.
Preferred: responsible gaming, behavioural design, payments and wallets, cyber, public policy, tax-contingency oversight, IPO governance.
Eligibility and conflicts
Active IICA Databank inclusion and test/exemption verification are mandatory. Candidates must disclose relationships with gaming operators, affiliates, celebrities, payment companies, app stores, sports bodies, public-policy organisations, litigation parties, auditors and investors.
First-year outcomes
- One Board-approved player-protection standard across products and jurisdictions.
- Verified wallet, contest and prize integrity with timely reconciliation.
- Product and marketing gates incorporating behavioural-harm evidence.
- Scenario-based liquidity and regulatory response plans.
- IPO disclosures that reconcile growth with legal, tax and player-risk reality.