Former national and Asian Games singles tennis champion Gaurav Natekar, and winner of 12 Grand Slam doubles titles Mahesh Bhupathi, are co-promoters of the Mumbai-based Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis Academies Pvt. Ltd (MBTA, estb. 2006), a company that offers world-class tennis coaching programmes to school students.
While Bhupathi is still busy participating in tennis tournaments around the world and […]
Chennai-based aficionados of the ancient sport of darts — a game in which darts are thrown at a circular bristle board fixed to a wall — Venu Pillai, an interior designer, and S. Saravanaraj, an architect, are pioneers in introducing the game as a competitive sport in Tamil Nadu. In 2011, they formed the Tamil Nadu […]
Dr Namrata Bagaria is the Mumbai-based founder and managing director of PHealth Solutions Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2012), a newly-promoted holistic living and wellness consulting company that draws upon best practices in medicine, nutrition, physiotherapy, Ayurveda, naturopathy, public health, psychology and spiritualism.
Newspeg. For the past year, the company has been working with 30 municipal and 12 night […]
Mark Parkinson, the high-profile director of The Shri Ram School, Delhi (TSRS, estb. 1988), routinely ranked among the country’s top three day schools (No. 1 in 2011, No. 2 in 2010) in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings, has called it a day at TSRS after a five-year inning. And since September, he has taken fresh […]
Dr Garth Saloner, dean of the globally renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB, estb. 1925) is one of the rare academics who has stepped out of his ivory tower to spend time with start-up ventures and enterprises.
Newspeg. Saloner was in India in early November to launch the online Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Programme. During […]
Saurabh N. Saklani is a co-founder and director of Delhi-based Inme Learning Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009), a company focused on providing adventure-based experiential learning programmes to children in classes IV-XI. Inme’s experiential leadership and life skills development programmes are conducted in owned/leased outdoor campuses sited in Uroli, Tons, and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), Coorg (Karnataka), and Yercaud (Tamil […]
Sunil Vishnu, Karthik Kumar and TM Karthik (TMK) are co-founders of Chennai-based Sideways Training (ST, estb. 2011), a division of Evam Corporate Training Pvt. Ltd, a soft skills training company that uses creative performing arts pedagogies based on theatre, dance, music and games. ST is a new venture of Evam Corporate which also owns Evam […]
A law and social work alumnus of Calcutta University, with advanced diplomas in child rights and public service management from Sweden, Prof. Joydev Mazumdar is executive director of the Vidyasagar School of Social Work (a unit of the Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change founded by the late Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan in 1973), affiliated with Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. […]
Katherine Rose and Eliza Hilton are founder directors of the Delhi-based Flow India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2010), an education company that runs unique experiential learning programmes — Kids Museum Club, I Love Indian Art and Inspiring Delhi, and its School Museum Programme launched earlier this year specifically for K-12 students — to connect science and the humanities with the […]
Pradip Chopra is chairman and managing director of the Kolkata-based PS Group of companies (founded in 1980 by him and Surendra Dugar), and chairman of the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development (iLEAD). PS Group is a major player in eastern India’s real estate sector having completed more than 120 projects in the past quarter-century. […]
Dr Sridhar G is the managing director of Bangalore-based Ace Creative Learning Pvt. Ltd. (ACL, estb. 2008), a company offering test preparatory — including online and pre-university — services to 7,500 class VII-XII students across the city. During the past four years, ACL has established learning centres in Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur, apart from Mysore, Tumkur, […]
Alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Venkatesh Varadachari and A Thillai Rajan are the co-founders of Money Wizards, a recently promoted (2011) financial literacy company that provides money management and finance education to school children, working adults, senior citizens, housewives and corporate employees. The main objective of the company is to simplify and demystify financial concepts […]
Aubrey and Lorraine Aloysius are the promoters of Lorraine Music Academy (LMA, estb. 2005) and the Lamp Trust (estb. 2010), Gurgaon, established to promote the learning of western, Indian, vocal, choral and instrumental (piano, keyboard, guitar, violin, drums, sitar, tabla and harmonium) music.
Newspeg. In collaboration with the Gurgaon-based iCongo (Indian Confederation of NGOs, estb. 2004), the Lamp […]
“If India is to become a globally respected nation, it has to be through the power of education and this can happen only if we nurture high-quality leaders,” says Anil Sachdev, founder and CEO of the Gurgaon-based School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL, estb.2009) — a unique business school focusing on leadership training. Sachdev has undertaken a […]
Shweta Sastri is executive director of the Bangalore-based K-12 co-educational day/boarding Canadian International School (CIS, estb.1996), ranked among India’s Top 20 and Karnataka’s Top 5 international schools in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012. With an aggregate enrolment of 480 students (70 percent are children of expatriates), CIS was the garden city’s first education institution to […]
Mohammed Asif Iqbal is vice president of Welfare Society for the Blind (WSB), Majerhat, Kolkata. An alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and the Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune, Iqbal lost his vision at age 16. But the disability has driven him to do all he can to make common cause with, […]
Although he is neither a mathematics graduate nor a teacher, TN Mahesh, a business development officer of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), is adept at creating ‘magic square’ puzzles that have engaged the attention of school students and math lovers in Chennai. According to Mahesh, a magic square is an arrangement of numerals set […]
A professional librarian with a Ph D in the subject awarded by Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Dr Rishi Tiwari has been managing the 35,000-volume library of the Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida (Bimtech, estb. 1988), since 2004. Simultaneously, with the encouragement of Bimtech, he promotes libraries and library culture in budget schools in the slums […]
A senior member of the Rome-based Congregation of the Mission of Vincent de Paul (estb. 1625), Dr. Jose Aikara, CM, is the newly-elected chairman of the Delhi-based Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) — India’s second largest school-leaving examinations (classes X and XII) certification board. Currently, CISCE has 1,910 of the country’s top-ranked primary-secondary schools […]
Ashish Bhardwaj is regional director (South Asia) of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a US-based non-profit organisation of leading business management schools around the world that administers GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) — the premier standardised test used by over 1,500 B-schools worldwide for admission into their business and management programmes. Conducted simultaneously in […]
Rajeev Pathak (42) is the founder chief executive of Bangalore-based eDreams Edusoft Pvt. Ltd (estb.2010), a company which promises to infuse joy and fun into school curriculums through its innovative Funtoot solution. Developed around artificial intelligence with the intent of improving teaching effectiveness and learning outcomes, Funtoot is a first-of-its-kind digital tutor which is both intelligent […]
Founder chief executive of Attano Media & Education Pvt. Ltd — a Mumbai-based company that creates digital content products for primary and supplementary education — Soumya Banerjee was among the first to discern that in an era where tablets, smartphones and general integration of electronics have become part of everyday life, books need to go digital […]
Ananthapadmanabhan G is the India country head of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organisation (estb.1961) which investigates and exposes human rights abuses in more than 150 countries and territories around the world, and educates and mobilises public opinion to help transform society and create a safer, more just world.
Newspeg. Last month Amnesy International inaugurated its India […]
Former textile tycoon Gautam and quizmaster wife Ami Goradia promoted Hayagriva Software Pvt. Ltd in 2001, to provide a combination of qualitative content and robust technology for school students. In the initial years, Hayagriva developed specialised tools to help teachers and students create their own question-answer banks to raise general knowledge levels for the purpose of self-assessment.
Marilen Daum is the Delhi-based regional director of library and information services (South Asia) at the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. A postgraduate of the Hamburg University of Library Sciences, Daum began her career as a librarian at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, and has since acquired 25 […]
Rao Kabool and grandson Madan Mohan Singh are staunch believers in the empowerment potential of education, especially of girl children in their native state of Rajasthan. While the elder Singh served in the Indian Army pre-independence and fought in the Indonesia, Burma, Bhutan, Singapore and Cambodia theatres during World War II, the grandson is a successful travel and […]
Sangeeta and Ashutosh Khurana are co-founders of the Delhi-based Mind Edutainment Pvt. Ltd (MEPL, estb.2007) which offers in-school programmes for developing high order thinking skills (HOTS) of K-VIII students. During the past six years since it was founded, MEPL has firmly established its credentials. In 2010, it was acknowledged as one of the country’s top 15 innovative and […]
An alumnus of Kolkata’s St. Xavier’s College and Calcutta University, Nilanjan Dey has emerged as a new force in preschool and primary-secondary education in Kolkata. Three years ago under licence from the SIP Academy Chennai, he promoted SIP Academy, Kolkata as an independent maths learning centre, teaching the subject under the ancient Chinese abacus system. More recently, […]
Chennai-based couple MS Bala and B Amudhavalli are joint promoters of Baala Gurukulam Pvt. Ltd (BG, estb.2009), an education company offering a range of educational and allied services including preschool education, whole-brain development programmes and after-school activities for children. Currently, BG runs four centres of Roots to Wings — a chain of preschools promoted and […]
Determined to give children who have dropped out of school a second chance, in 2008 Kolkata-based Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, a senior Ashoka Fellow and promoter-director of Bandhan Microfinance (estb. 2001), promoted ten free schools in South 24-Parganas in rural West Bengal for underprivileged children. Since then, the number of Bandhan remedial schools has grown to […]
An alumnus of Mayo College, Ajmer with a business administration degree from Denver University, USA, Mumbai-based entrepreneur Chirag Shah and Sudhir Menon, a friend and alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, are co-founders of BEE Interactive Systems Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2010), a company specialising in digital education.
Newspeg. The company’s flagship product, Gototest, a unique online software platform that […]
Amit Sinha is the founder of Jamghat (estb. 2003), a Delhi-based NGO which works to rehabilitate children eking out precarious lives on the streets of Delhi. Currently, Jamghat (‘a gathering’) runs two shelter homes — Aman (for boys) and Aanchal (for girls) — and a daycare centre Angan where 75 street children are provided shelter, […]
Pune-based Milind Shintre (41) is a well-known screenplay writer and film director who has directed and acted in several commercially successful stage plays including Clean Bowled, Poonha Sanshaykallol, Dosh Chandanyacha and Sangeet Nava Bakara. The latter, described as the world’s longest mute play, won a Zee Award for Shintre as writer-director. However, Shintre’s less known passion and […]
Renya Kikuchi and Masao Ishihara are the chairman and president of the Yokohama (Japan)-based Learning Systems Co Ltd (LSC, annual revenue: Rs.20 crore) which designs and markets customised STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) learning software, robotics kits and IT equipment. In 2010, it registered a subsidiary, LS Creative Learning Pvt. Ltd (LSCL) in Chennai.
An engineering postgraduate and business management graduate of Allahabad University and IASE (Institute of Advanced Studies in Education), Rajasthan, Joy Ghosh is vice president of the Delhi-based Edaxis Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Prior to signing up with Edaxis in 2009, he was the Delhi-based deputy general manager of Everonn Systems (India) Ltd (2007-2009).
Mike Clark is managing director of Educational Cultural Exchanges (International) Ltd (ECE), a London-based company which offers educational travel programmes to children and youth worldwide. A business management graduate of Manchester University, Clark promoted Hospitality Line Ltd in 1990 after a 20-year corporate career in marketing and sales. In 2003, he acquired ECE and merged […]
Viral Parekh is the Mumbai-based program director (quality control) and general manager of India operations of the US-based American Institute of Enrichment LLC (AIE, estb.1997), which over the past 15 years has been providing a range of advisory services to over 900 schools in the southern and eastern states of USA.
A highly respected teacher and researcher, A. Thillai Rajan, associate professor of finance, department of management studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, believes in constantly changing the departments business management curriculum to connect it with industry. A senior Fulbright fellow at the Centre for Business and Govern-ment at Harvard University (January-June 2010) […]
Sabari Raja is business development manager (India) of the education technology business of Dallas (USA)-based Texas Instruments Inc (TI) — one of the worlds largest semiconductor manufacturers. An electronics engineering graduate of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Raja pressed on to acquire a Masters from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the Cox School of Business, […]
Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginias Darden School of Business (DSB) — ranked among the worlds Top 5 B-schools by The Economist (see p.62) — was on his seventh visit to India recently (September), to connect with alumni, prospective students, business, government and academic leaders. In India, DSB boasts a vibrant alumni […]
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