Biplab Das, an engineering graduate of Jadavpur University and business management postgrad of IIM-Bangalore, and Saurabh Kumar, an engineering alum of Banaras Hindu University and IIM-Bangalore, are co-founders of the Kolkata-based Kishalay Foundation (estb.2013). This is an education NGO that’s making extraordinary efforts to improve the learning outcomes of 3,000 children in 25 government […]
Bart Peterson is the newly appointed chief executive of the Indianapolis (USA)-based Christel House International (CHI, estb.1998), a global non-profit that runs six exemplary free-of-charge K-12 schools for 5,154 poor children in the US, Mexico, South Africa and India.
In India, Christel House provides free English-medium education, nutrition monitored meals, healthcare facilities, college scholarships, career counselling […]
Asna Nafees is principal of the Delhi Public School-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS), Doha (Qatar) — a franchisee of the Delhi-based Delhi Public Schools Society which runs one of India’s most successful K-12 school chains. The CBSE-affiliated DPS-MIS (estb.2001) has 5,700 students mentored by 320 teachers on its muster rolls.
An economics graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland), Michal Borkowski is the promoter-chief executive of Brainly Inc (estb. 2009), a closely-held private limited liability company registered in New York and Kraków, Poland (pop.38 million).
Borkowski was recently in India — “our fastest growing market” — to appraise the Indian public and […]
Education evangelists Sumantra Roy and Rubia Braun are the Bangalore-based co-founders of Learning Yogi Pte. Ltd (estb.2014), a social impact edtech start-up offering a comprehensive digital game designed to teach reading, maths, science, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills to children in the four-seven years age group. Roy is currently the company’s CEO, and […]
Early years education entrepreneur Raj Singhal is the Gurgaon-based co-founder and CEO of Footprints Childcare Pvt. Ltd (FCPL, estb.2013), a day care and preschool chain which owns 70 pre-primaries in 12 cities with an aggregate enrolment of 4,500 children in the 1.5-4.5 years age group, mentored by 500 teachers.
Rodney Briggs is the Vancouver (Canada)-based president of Maple Bear Global Schools Ltd (estb.2005) which runs a chain of franchised preschools promoting Canadian best teaching practices in 20 countries. Maple Bear South Asia (in a joint venture with Modi Edutech Pvt. Ltd) currently supervises 91 franchised preschools and nine K-class V schools […]
Colm O Mahony is the Hong Kong-based CEO of Sodexo Education Asia Pacific, the education division of the Marseilles (France)-based global services provider Sodexo (estb.1966, annual revenue: €20.4 billion or Rs.163,413 crore), which offers healthy meals and facilities management solutions to education institutions in nine countries including India.
Dr. Shreepali Patel is the Cambridge (UK)-based director of Anglia Ruskin University’s StoryLab (SL, estb.2017), an interdisciplinary institute that researches different genres of storytelling and analyses their impact on society. Patel is also co-promoter of Eyeline Films whose first documentary was the Emmy award-winning The English Surgeon (2007).
Neelam Makhijani is the Delhi-based country director and CEO of ChildFund India, a subsidiary of the US (Richmond, Virginia)-based ChildFund International (estb. 1938), a non-profit working in 30 countries in the areas of child nutrition, education and skills development. With its head office in Bangalore and branches in Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar […]
Currently on a prolonged sabbatical in India, Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, distinguished professor of international economics at Middlebury College (MC), USA, is the newly appointed vice chancellor of Krea University (KU), a greenfield liberal arts and science private university assuming shape and form across a 200-acre campus in SriCity, Andhra […]
Bhavesh Thakkar is the Mumbai-based founder and managing director of Phoren Kampus Pvt. Ltd (PKPL, estb.2005) and its subsidiary Ed Infra (2008), which provide a gamut of education consultancy services including school expansion, mergers, acquisitions, turnkey projects, fund-raising, foreign collaboration and associated services to KG-Ph D institutions. The companies’ client list includes […]
Mehran Akhtarkhavari is director of the Hiranandani Upscale School, Chennai (HUS, estb.2011) promoted by Surendra Hiranandani, founder-managing director of the Mumbai-based House of Hiranandani, a big name in real estate development. Sited within a major Hiranandani housing complex on Old Mahabalipuram Road, this is a class I-XII IB school providing the primary, […]
Priyamvada Agarwal is founder-director of Education & You (E&Y, estb.2014), a Kolkata-based education technology company which provides college admission guidance, career planning advice and training for collegiate and university entrance examinations. Since it began operations four years ago, the firm has facilitated admission of 500 students into 14 top-ranked universities abroad, including the London […]
Nigel Viegas is the Barbar (Bahrain)-based executive director of Bahrain Institute of Hospitality and Retail (BIHR) which offers high quality hotel and tourism management and retail study programmes accredited by the Hotel and Tourism Management Institute (HTMI), Switzerland, American Hotel and Lodging Education Institute, USA and Australian Retailers Association.
An alumna of Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak and IMT, Ghaziabad, Anju Dhawan is founder-director of the Delhi-based SMS Consultants (estb.2003), a human resource company placing principals and teachers in schools across the country.
Starting her career as a teacher in the ICL School, Rohtak, she switched tracks to work for a division of the US-based […]
Bangalore-based education evangelist Rajesh Rao is founder-director of Connecting the Dots Pvt. Ltd (CTD, estb.2013), a company providing high-quality, affordable IT-enabled classes VIII-XII science and math education in English and local languages to government, government-aided and private schools. The company also offers teacher training programmes and partners with NGOs and corporates such as Bosch, […]
Raj Adhikary is the Gurgaon (Haryana)-based president and CEO of the Japan Education and Information Center (JEIC), which offers Japanese language learning programmes, hygiene and culture, and skills education to institutions in India. Promoted in 2014 by Adhikary, a former professional pilot, the prime objective of JEIC is to “promote interaction between the people […]
Sub-collector of Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district (pop.2.6 million), Johny Tom Varghese is hell-bent on improving the quality of education dispensed in 559 government schools under his jurisdiction in the socio-economically backward district of Cuddalore.
History. A mathematics and business management alumnus of Madras and Anna universities, Varghese began his career as a research associate in the […]
Col. (Retd) Rajendra P. Nadella (“unfortunately unrelated to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella”) is founder and CEO of the Bangalore-based iScholar Education Services (estb. 2013), an online education company that provides on-demand live tutoring to K-12 students. iScholar’s 50 teachers and subject experts deliver tutorials from state-of-the-art studios in Bangalore to 12,000 students in 35 […]
An electrical engineering graduate of Uttarakhand’s reputed University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Meerut (UP)-based Archit Agarwal (24) is among 55 awardees of this year’s prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award for inventing an On-Board Diagnostic Data Analysis System (OBDAS).
OBDAS is to a car what a black box is to an airplane. […]
An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Ahmedabad and former dean (academics) of the top-ranked National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is founder-vice chancellor of the newly-promoted World University of Design (WUD, estb.2017), Sonipat, Haryana. Established by a special Act of the Haryana state legislative assembly, WUD is the country’s first private design education varsity. […]
Mumbai-based Arpita Mittal is CEO of Helen O’Grady International India (HOGII, estb.2003), the India affiliate of the eponymous Australia-based drama education academy founded in 1979 by Helen O’Grady, a renowned theatre teacher and actress. HOGII offers in-school and after-school theatre, English language and personality development programmes to 50,000 children in over 500 schools through 80 licenced franchisees […]
Singapore-based Jaspal Sidhu is the founder and chief executive of the Singapore International School/Singapore Global School Group (SISG, estb.1996), a chain of 12 K-12 schools spread across Indonesia and Korea. With all SISG schools affiliated with the premier Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE), UK and International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva examination boards, SISG is steadily winning plaudits and […]
Mumbai-based Pratish Nair is managing director and — together with ad guru Prahlad Kakkar — co-founder of the Prahlad Kakkar School of Branding and Entrepreneurship (PKSBE, estb.2016). This new B-school has been promoted in association with Whistling Woods International, the well-known Mumbai-based media and communications institute established by Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai 12 years ago.
Sivakarthikeyan V. is founder-CEO of the Bangalore-based HappyMongo Online Solutions Pvt. Ltd (estb.2016), an ed-tech company providing digital learning solutions including language lab programmes, brain-training simulation games and apps embedded with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, to education institutions.
Among HappyMongo’s flagship products (Mongo is a character starring in its language lab programme) are […]
Mumbai-based Vickaash Agarwal is chairman of Kids Campus Education Pvt. Ltd (KCEPL, estb.2008) which operates 120 owned and franchised Kids Campus preschools in 57 cities and towns including Bangalore, Mumbai, Jammu, Patna, Bhubaneswar, and Kolkata with an aggregate enrolment of 4,000 children. These preschools offer ISO 9001-2008 certified curriculums, cheerful classrooms, well-equipped libraries and sensorial […]
Dr. Rajesh Tandon is president of the Delhi-based PRIA (Participatory Research In Asia, estb.1982), an institution of repute in the field of community-centric research, and co-chair of Unesco’s Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. An alumnus of IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Calcutta, Dr. Tandon was awarded his doctorate by the Case Western Reserve University, […]
Pramod Tripathi is the Indore-based founder and CEO of EnglishBug Educational Resources (EBER, estb. 2005), an education services company offering K-12 students, teachers and working professionals English communication, personality development, linguistics translation and localisation services. Started as a supplementary English language training provider for teachers and students in the Hindi heartland state of Madhya Pradesh, […]
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 […]
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