Kaushik Moulik

Author,Football Philosopher,& Social Entrepreneur

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

About

LinkedIn Bio: Kaushik Moulik is a visionary strategist where media, technology, and football intersect to drive global impact. With a career spanning over two decades, he has been at the forefront of digital transformation, sports innovation, and cross-cultural collaboration. From launching one of India’s first bilingual news portals to pioneering the Advanced Intelligence-powered Sports Intelligence Hub in Munich, Kaushik’s journey reflects relentless innovation and purpose-led leadership. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to renowned global institutions including the Bundesliga, German Football Association (DFB), TCG (The Chatterjee Group), FC Ingolstadt, and the International Football Institute. He plays a pivotal role in integrating AI, neuroscience, and performance analytics into sports ecosystems, while simultaneously promoting youth empowerment and grassroots development. Key milestones include: • Conceptualizing and launching the Sports Intelligence Hub in Germany—blending brain science, smart textiles, and AI to nurture elite athletes • Bringing Bayern Munich to India and organizing Oliver Kahn’s iconic farewell match • Leading India’s largest U-14 football scouting initiative in partnership with Bundesliga and TV9 • Ideating and bringing the DFB Pokal and Women’s Bundesliga to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka—a global first in democratizing sports broadcasting with free, multilingual access and real-time, automated match highlights and reports • Launching digital platforms like BengaliFilms.com and RadioKolkata.in that celebrate regional culture through technology • Founding large-scale initiatives such as the Indian Tiger and Tigress Project to scout future football stars from over 55,000 schools Kaushik is also a champion of sports for peace and social change—initiating tournaments in conflict zones, enabling underprivileged talent to train in Europe, and supporting retired athletes with healthcare and recognition. Widely regarded as a football philosopher and cultural innovator, Kaushik Moulik continues to redefine how India and the world engage with sports, storytelling, and innovation.

Experience

  • Founder at Football Next Foundation
    Nov 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

    Football Next Foundation is formed with an objective to promote, encourage, develop, the game of football for male and female starting from the grass root level and work with clubs, organizations, Government at the national and global level It aims to run establish, maintain, run schools,colleges,centres,camps for training and advancement of football at all levels. The foundation will conduct training camps for development of football,organize workshops,courses for football,for coaches.The Foundation will also support players after their retirement from the game The Foundation has launched the first Internet Radio on Football RadioFootball.in which gives all updates of Football through out the Globe.The Foundation shall Introduce the first QR Code Smart Book on History of Indian Football giving you up to date details since inception of the sport.It is also available in App form in Android Market. The above concepts are first of its kind. Kaushik Moulik, founder of Football Next Foundation was the person to bring an internationally reputed football team Bayern Munich to Kolkata to bid farewell to football legend Oliver Kahn in the city of football lovers certainly added a sparking feather to Mr. Moulik’s winning cap.Under his initiative Rummenigge from Munich came to the city .He also sponsored Bayern Munich 2 including legendary footballers like Gut Muller, Thomas Muller in 2009. It is under his leadership where the All stars match was conducted between East Bengal All Stars and Bayern Munich All Stars in the year 2010. He also initiated a football match at Junglemahal especially at the Maoist prone areas with an objective to curb extremism from the minds of the people. Around 700 teams of local clubs participated. Mr.Moulik was quite instrumental with this effort and was impeccably assisted by CRPF and Bengal Police.He was also the member of governing body Chairman of IFA Shield subcommittee.

  • Managing Director at Searchlight Mediatech Pvt Ltd
    Aug 2016 - Present · 10 yrs

    Scouting for the innovative application of Technology for Global diaspora

  • Founder &CEO at Brand Next
    Aug 2004 - Present · 22 yrs

    Branding , media Strategy ,Marketing & technology application innovation specialist ,Sports Management