Education evangelist Sonam Wangchuk is the high-profile and much acclaimed Leh (Ladakh)-based co-founder of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL, estb. 1988), a non-profit which runs the SECMOL Alternative School (estb. 1994). This offbeat school offers children from poor households, school drop-outs, failed class X students and those looking for a gap […]
Following a split in the Delhi-based Delhi Public School (DPS) Society — one of India’s most successful K-12 chains comprising 11 owned and 240 franchised primary-secondary schools which are routinely ranked among the Top 10 in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings — Dr. Salman Khurshid, former Union minister of external affairs in the Congress-led […]
Parminder Gill is co-founder and head (business) of Bangalore-based Edusports Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009), a pioneer sports education company which delivers extensively researched fitness and sports programmes to 500,000-plus students in 800 K-12 schools across 250 cities countrywide, through a task force of 800 certified physical education instructors.
Apart from offering structured physical activity curriculums formulated […]
Amreesh Andrew Chandra is the Delhi-based group president of GEMS Education (India), a wholly owned subsidiary of the parent company based in Dubai, which is arguably the world’s largest provider of K-12 private education with 250 schools in 16 countries.
Newspeg. GEMS Education staged a two-day Festival of Education in partnership with the Rajasthan government in Jaipur […]
An alum of IIT-Kharagpur with an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad, Arghya Banerjee is founder of the co-ed Levelfield School (estb.2010), a K-12 institution affiliated with the UK-based Cambridge Assessment International Education (formerly Cambridge International Examinations) board. Sited in Suri, the administrative headquarters of West Bengal’s Birbhum district, the school admitted its first batch of 65 students in […]
Meghna Ghai Puri is president of the Mumbai-based Whistling Woods International (WWI, estb. 2006), a film, communication and media arts education institution. Sited within Mumbai’s state-promoted Dada Saheb Phalke Chitranagari (aka Film City), the sprawling 150,000 sq. ft Whistling Woods campus offers study programmes in film production and direction, animation, music, acting, fashion, […]
An alumna of the University of Rochester, New York and former dean at IIM-Ahmedabad, distinguished educationist Dr. Indira J. Parikh is founder-chairperson of the Puducherry-based Auronya College (AC), a liberal arts and science institute launched at a mega event staged at the ITC Grand Chola in Chennai on April 22.
Monica Malhotra Kandhari is managing director of the Delhi-based education conglomerate, MBD Group (MBDG, estb.1956), arguably the largest publishing house in India with a print run of 5 million books per day — mainly education textbooks for schools in most state languages. A graduate of Delhi’s Jesus & Mary College, Kandhari is the elder daughter […]
Nirmala Kamath is founder-director of Bangalore’s Chie Media Pvt. Ltd, an education technology start-up (estb.2011, headcount: 25) offering curated education content specially designed for primary school children. Its flagship online portal iKidsworld.com offers Airtel digital TV interactive content for math, science and English through learning tools such as digital games, quizzes, videos and puzzles.
Coimbatore-based Latha Sundaram is promoter and managing trustee of the Aram Foundation Charitable Trust (AFCT, estb.2012), which provides soft skills training, counselling, guidance and academic support to 24,170 underprivileged students of 83 schools managed by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC). AFCT also conducts awareness and self-defence training programmes for school girls and women to […]
Pradeep Singh is the Bangalore-based founder-CEO of Pengala Learning Pvt. Ltd (aka Vidyanext, estb.2010), an ed-tech company with 25 centres across the city offering class IV-XI students of all examination boards, supplementary learning services. Through its software app which can be downloaded on any Android device, Vidyanext tutors — whose services are available at the […]
Gaurav Surana is founder-director of the Kolkata-based Tutors Circle Education Pvt. Ltd (TCE, estb.2011), a company providing education consultancy services including test preparation and application assistance to students aspiring to study abroad.
Currently, TCE’s team of five alumni of top-ranked universities (London, IIT-Kharagpur, IIM-Bangalore) provide counseling to students to facilitate their admission into undergrad, postgraduate and […]
Among the numerous Indian diaspora success stories, the incumbency since 2011 of Bangalore-born Dr. Sunil Kumar as dean and George Pratt Shultz professor of operations management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (estb.1898), is a story less told. Although not as well-known as the Harvard and Wharton B-schools, Chicago Booth isn’t just […]
Sudhanshu Fadnis is the founder-director of Delhi-based KSR Sportseed (KSRS) Pvt. Ltd, a company he promoted in 2012 to offer sports education, training and assessment to schools. A mechanical engineering graduate of MS University, Vadodara and the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Fadnis acquired plenty of work experience in blue-chip engineering corporates Larsen & […]
US-based billionaire and finance whiz Michael Milken, one of the most famous names in American education and healthcare philanthropy towards which he has donated over $1 billion (Rs.6,000 crore), co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation and chairman of the Milken Institute, among America™s top think tanks, recently completed a whirlwind ten-day tour of India (February […]
SSSA NASSER (12), RAM MANNATH (12) and Aishwarya Vinod (13) ” joint champions of the 2013 India National Science Competition organised by the Union government, CII and IT-chip manufacturing behemoth Intel Corp to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) education ” have returned to Bangalore enriched by their experience of an all-expenses paid trip […]
AN ALUMNUS OF IIT-Madras and Stanford University, Prof. Anant Agarwal is the celebrated professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and chief executive of edX, the path-breaking massive open online courses (Moocs) provider which offers the exciting prospect of the world™s best classroom lectures and coursework becoming […]
Chetan Mahajan IS the president of HCL Learning Ltd (HCLL, estb. 2010), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Noida-based HCL Infosystems Ltd (estb. 1976; annual revenue: Rs.8,297 crore), the well-known IT behemoth. HCL Learning offers ICT (information and communications technology)-enabled mapped curriculums and supplementary development services for K-12 schools, as well as training and education solutions to higher […]
Sudhir Reddy is managing director of the Hyderabad-based Jay Robotix Pvt. Ltd, a company engaged in manufacturing customised robots for the defence services and Indian industry.
Newspeg. Jay Robotix is all set to launch Robox, an experiential STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning package mapped with the curriculums of major exam boards, to enable learning of […]
The Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC) results declared this year marked a major milestone for Manjushree Patil, founder-director of the Aatman Academy, Thane, (estb.2011), a first-of-its-kind specialised institution for children with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. The school’s first batch of seven students, who wrote the class X SSC exam of […]
Chennai-based Gita Wolf is the founder-editor of Tara Books Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1994), which began as a children’s book publishing house but has gradually expanded its range of 15 titles per year to cover adults. Wolf’s interest in experimenting with book forms and innovations has given Tara Books a unique identity as a pioneer of handmade books, […]
Chandigarh-based Jaiprakash Singh Hasrajani is the co-founder and CEO of Taaleem Academy Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009), the holding company of Taaleem India, a skills development enterprise providing learning management system (LMS) packages to education institutions and corporates, and the Taaleem College of International Studies (TCIS), Chandigarh which offers business management study — including MBA — programmes.
Gorsi Parekh is the chairperson and managing director of the Gandhinagar (Gujarat)-based Arraycom (India) Ltd. Arraycom is a well-known name in the telecom integrated broadcast systems and seismology industries in Gujarat and beyond.
A family and child welfare postgrad of the reputed Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Parekh intended to build a career in social […]
Ashwin Ajila is the promoter and managing director of the Bangalore-based iNurture Education Solut-ions Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2005), a company which specialises in developing and delivering industry-specific educational content designed to improve the employability and productivity of youth streaming out of the country’s colleges and universities. iNurture, which has a headcount of 250 — most comprise […]
In addition to being a board member of the Delhi-based Berlias-owned multi-crore business conglomerate Apeejay Stya & Svran Group, Aditya Berlia (28) is pro-chancellor of the recently established Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon, and joint secretary of the Apeejay Education Society which manages 13 primary-secondary schools and 16 professional education institutions with an aggregate enrolment of 32,000 students. […]
An alum of IIT-Kharagpur and the prestigious Harvard Business School, Bikram Dasgupta is the founder and executive chairman of the Kolkata-based Globsyn Group (estb. 1997). Currently the group runs the Globsyn Business School, Globsyn Finishing School (for engineers and corporates), Globsyn Blue (offering economics, finance and manag-ement degree programmes in collaboration with the London School of Economics) […]
An accomplished serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in education, Madhumati Narayanan is the founder-chief executive of Mpower Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, an m-learning (mobile technology to aid learning) education services company started in 2011, and formally launched in February this year. The mission of this Chennai-based start-up is to offer trainer-led video coaching to make […]
Ravi Shankar is CEO and chairman of Bangalore-based BrainSTARS (Brains for Science and Technology Aided Reforms in Society) Services Pvt. Ltd (estb.2004), an education solutions company offering well-researched, innovative and activity-based maths and science learning programmes for class III-XII students. With a current headcount of 25 — comprising researchers, educationists, artists, technocrats, and psychologists — BrainSTARS […]
Manoj Chandra and Ankur Dinesh Garg are co-founders of an online children’s merchandise store (www. allschoolstuff.com) owned by the Gurgaon-based Fame Eduserve Pvt. Ltd. A business management graduate of the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Chandra who is CEO of the company, acquired valuable business management experience with Bata India, AFL Ltd, […]
Dr. Geeta Menon is dean of the undergraduate college at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business (NYU Stern, estb. 1900). Ranked among the Top 10 B-schools worldwide for research productivity by the University of Texas at Dallas (Research Contribution 2007-11 in All A-level journals), Stern is globally renowned and ranked #19 by […]
Abdul G. Sait (30) is the founder-chief executive of Basket Option Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2005). This Bangalore-based financial services company recently launched the Stockmarket Institute of India (SMI) to teach financial literacy to students, professionals, and housewives through the company’s one-day workshops and part-time six-month and one-year programmes.
Newspeg. On April 14 SMI launched its one-year e-cap […]
Pune-based Ajay Dasgupta, an admirer of the gurukul tradition of story-telling, has gone a step beyond admiration to found the Kahani project (estb. 2012). Also accessible online (www.thekahaniproject.com), the project is an archive of audio-recordings of 100-plus stories/poems in English, Hindi, Bengali and Marathi contributed by 50 volunteers. The narratives are digitally recorded by the volunteers, uploaded […]
Certified in the year 2000 as the world’s youngest CEO at age 14 by the media, with an entry in the Limca Book of Records in 2007, Bangalore-based Suhas Gopinath (27) has transformed Globals Inc, the company he promoted in 2000, into a respected information technology (IT) consulting and development company, with a footprint in 11 countries […]
An alumnus of NIT, Surathkal (Karnataka), Bangalore-based Krishna Kumar is the chief executive of Simplilearn.com, an education startup which he has swiftly transformed into one of the fastest growing online training and certification companies in Asia (revenue: Rs.5.5 crore in 2012). After quitting a highly paid job with Infosys Technologies in 2000, Kumar promoted a software development […]
Dr K. Satya Prasad is president of the Jana Vignana Vedika (JVV), a non-profit, cadre-based people’s science organisation headquartered in Hyderabad. A mycology and plant pathology expert, he is also professor of botany at Osmania University with over two decades of teaching experience. JVV, which has centres in all 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh, is affiliated […]
Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, associate professor of contemporary literature, drama, film studies and popular culture in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), is a passionate proponent of the English language, literature and classics. A former visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (Canada), she has authored […]
Dr Manjunath Sadashiva is co-founder and director of the Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA, estb. 2009), a Bangalore-based NGO which provides civic education programmes to schools and communities to sensitise and empower children and youth to develop into proactive citizens and nation builders.
Newspeg. As part of a school profiling exercise between January-March this year, 25 […]
An education postgrad and PhD of Calcutta University, Dr Bijli Mallik is director of the Institute of Psychological and Educational Research (IPER), a Kolkata-based voluntary organisation established for the promotion of education by Dr Arun Ghosh in 1971. A respected educationist and author, Ghosh founded IPER with the intention of combining the sciences of education […]
An alumnus of Harvard and Stanford universities, Daniel Berdichevky is the founder chief executive of DemiDec Resources, a corporate which provides study materials for the United States Academic Decathlon (an annual high school academic competition), and has been hosting the annual World Scholar’s Cup since 2007. Berdichevky and his team were in Delhi last December to […]
Dr Scott Churchill is the founding professor and chair of the psychology faculty at the University of Dallas, USA. A fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal The Humanistic Psychologist (estb. 1975), Dr Churchill is currently engaged in the study of leadership in corporate and other organisations.
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