Swati Shetty

Swati Shetty is an international executive with a unique breadth of experience across business and creative, through multiple facets of the entertainment industry. She began her entertainment career at StarTV (Fox) in India, followed by Disney where she started as an executive on Disney Channels, then headed content distribution for Disney-ABC, and eventually led the studio team towards local productions. She moved on from Disney as President of Balaji Motion Pictures where she led charge at the studio through a successful slate of films starting with Dirty Picture, the first ever female-driven film that had extraordinary success at the box office. Swati then produced Umrika ,through her own banner Samosa Stories. The film went on to win India's first Sundance award (2015) in addition to multiple other honors and awards. More recently, she moved to Los Angeles in 2016 as Netflix's first employee from India to lead Originals and Acquisitions. She had much success during her time at Netflix, having worked on shows like Sacred Games, and films including Love Per Square Foot, Lust Stories, and Rajma Chawal among many others. In May 2019, she joined Imagine Entertainment to lead their global expansion effort, which along with international content also focuses on global stories with intersecting worlds and characters.