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.
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 […]
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