Mr. Goel is a 1986 B Tech graduate from the IIT Delhi and is a first generation entrepreneur. FIITJEE is the only truly national brand, spread across India and the Middle-East, having 67 centres across 39 cities, its distance education wing catering to students in every nook & corner of the country. Over the last 2 decades, 1 out of every 3 IITians – is a FIITJEEian. Fiitjee students get a major share of ranks in various competitive exams & bag major share of Global Olympiad gold medals. Today Fiitjee is recognised as the most powerful brand in serious education.

Mr. Goel is a serial innovator around educational excellence, societal challenges, emotional maturity and wholesome development of children. His innovations have transformed educational landscape in Test Prep in the country, with several of them becoming Industry leading standards today. Mr. Goel’s focus on holistic development has led to innovation of school Integrated Programs with 83 Associate Schools globally, 6 FIITJEE Schools and 9 FIITJEE Junior Colleges. He inspired engineering graduates, especially IITians to join Fiitjee’s workforce and drive his vision of Education through Innovation & Excellence.

Mr Goel is driving innovation in education through investment & mentoring of EdTech companies. One of the investee company Edfora (empowering every child with personalised, outcome oriented, quality academic development - something good for the nation) is probably the only profitable EdTech company in the world.

Imran is a General Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com). Gaja is India’s leading mid-market growth capital firm. Gaja’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders in sectors such as Education, Consumer, Financial Services and Healthcare.

Imran has 19 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr. Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies.

At Gaja, Imran leads investments in the Education and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja’s investments in Kangaroo Kids (Pre-K and K-12), SportzVillage (Sports management), EuroKids (Pre-K and K12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education), Indus World Schools (K12), Educomp (Education- diversified) and Millennium Schools (K12). Imran has post graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.

Krishna Kumar re-imagines education for working professionals. He strongly feels that technology can be used to make learning more accessible and to personalize learner experience for students. An entrepreneur at heart, Krishna believes in continual improvement and the need to stay focused on achieving goals. This remains the guiding philosophy at Simplilearn. Krishna focuses on accelerating growth and guiding an end-to-end strategy to advance Simplilearn's position in high-growth markets.

Before Simplilearn, Krishna was the Co-founder and COO at TechUnified – a software product company which he exited successfully in 2007 after selling it to a publicly held company. Krishna earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from NIT, Surathkal, India. A fitness enthusiast, Krishna enjoys long runs outdoors and is passionate about teaching.

Prachi heads the foundation’s India education portfolio which focuses on school education, college entrance and career readiness.

Prachi is on the board of several for-profit education companies and advisory committees to state governments and education departments. She is passionate about the area of data driven education and has spearheaded the foundation’s work in multiple ways, including: investing and managing a portfolio of innovative companies and creating role model states on student outcomes.

Before joining the foundation, Prachi worked at Boston Consulting Group in Gurgaon, India and in the telecommunications sector at Qualcomm and Motorola. Prachi has over 15 years of diverse set of operational and leadership experience in India and US, and education in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, and from University of Southern California, Los Angeles and MBA from the University of Chicago.

With a strong education in Biotechnology and a Masters in Business Laws, Parinita, saw Learning Delight as a natural next step for her career. Joining forces with Harshal and Vandan as the marketing force for the team, Parinita was able to quickly help bring life to the vision for the company, the small team of three started not only implanting solutions across rural schools in Gujarat but also managing services for them. Coming from a tier 3 city herself, Parinita felt a strong connect with some of the challenges many schools from the rural areas face, and was able to tackle them not only from an operational perspective but also build strong relationships with most of the schools that Learning Delight worked with in a short span of time.

Aditya Malik is a senior partner in Lumis Partners. He focuses on operations in the education and human capital services domains. He also serves as Talentedge’s Chief Executive Officer from June 2015.

Prior to Lumis, Aditya was with BA Continuum, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America where he was a part of the senior management team heading functions like Quality and Change Delivery, Migrations and HR. He has also worked with organizations like GE Capital and American Express in various leadership roles across operations, delivery and quality.

Aditya is a certified Master Black Belt and also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Pune University.

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy is a Partner with Unitus Seed Fund. He brings both entrepreneurial and investing perspectives with extensive experience in impact investing and BoP start-ups. Srikrishna joined Unitus Seed Fund in 2012 to setup and lead India operations for the fund. With 23 investments to date, Unitus Seed Fund is the leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses in India.

Mayank Kumar is the Founder and CEO of UpGrad (www.upgrad.com), India’s first full-fledged online education company. Mayank co-founded UpGrad together with serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie Screwvala and secured $16m of capital to grow the venture into India’s most meaningful education business.

Before founding UpGrad, Mayank was Vice President Education at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media and education conglomerate, where he oversaw Bertelsmann’s education strategy and its multi-million dollar investments in India. In this capacity, Mayank further served as Board Member of iNurture (www.inurture.com), India’s No. 1 provider of industry-specific academic programs.

Prior to joining Bertelsmann, Mayank was a Senior Principal at The Parthenon Group, where he advised global clients in the education sector across all geographies including China, Southeast Asia,
India and South America and participated in deals worth $1.5bn flowing into the education sector.

Before joining The Parthenon Group, Mayank worked at the Tata Strategic Management Group, advising Tata’s strategic direction. Mayank holds a BTech from IIT Delhi and a MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB).

Ragini Bajaj Chaudhary is the CEO of the India arm of Atlanta headquartered impact investment firm Gray Matters Capital. With more than 16 years of experience in microfinance, impact investment and development finance, Ragini is leading the team in India to improve the access and quality of affordable private school (APS) education through pre-school, K12 curriculum, 21st century skills and non-academic infrastructure building solutions.

Ragini is on the Board of Gray Matters Capital’s investees - Indian School Finance Company and Address Health.

Prior to joining Gray Matters Capital, Ragini provided strategic and operational direction to the Poorest State Inclusive Growth (PSIG) Programme, a financial inclusion project of the Department of International Development, UK which focused on 12 million low income households in 4 states across India.

Ragini also served as the Chief Investment Officer heading operations at Mi India Capital Consultants (Dia Vikas Capital) and as a Project Co-ordinator at CARE India managing a portfolio of diverse activities ranging from capacity building, setting up micro-enterprises and co-ordinating livelihood restoration projects. For seven years, she worked in the capacity of Director – Training at EDA Rural Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Ragini is a management graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and has qualified as a Management Accountant from Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA), UK.

Brajesh is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Varthana. He firmly believes that the bottom up approach is the only way to address the issues of education in the country and hence it is critical to empower the school owners with the best resources available – access to credit, access to solution providers, access to a global network and access to ideas. His dream is to have Varthana play a pivotal role in the transformation of affordable education in the country.

Brajesh has around two decades of experience in retail banking and financial services, having worked with one of the largest banks in the country – ICICI Bank. Before co-founding Varthana, he was a member of the founding team at another school finance company, ISFC. Outside of work, Brajesh is into long distance running, reading, music and traveling.

Anurag is a Partner at Aavishkaar, one of the pioneering and leading Impact focussed Investment fund in India.  He has been part of founding team of the group company Intellecap and last served as its CEO. In over a decade of his association with Intellecap, Anurag set up and built the Company's Investment Banking Practice with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. Anurag has played a key role in incubating I3N (Intellecap Impact Investment Network), India’s first impact focused angel network which has now been hived off as a separate company called TRIBE. He was also one of the key architects of creating the current structure of the Aavishkaar Intellecap Group and led the efforts of the Group in the incubation and acquisition of the 3 NBFCs (IntelleCash, IntelleGrow and Arohan) within the Group.

In addition to serving on the Board of Intellecap, Anurag has in the past served as an independent Director on the Board of A Little World and Zero Mass Foundation. He represents the Promoter interest on the board of Group Companies Arohan, IntelleGrow and IntelleCash and Aavishkaar Portfolio Company Butterfly Fields. Before joining the Aavishkaar Intellecap Group, Anurag worked with the Cash Management Services Division of ICICI Bank.

Lopa Gandhi has over 15 years of experience in the field of education. She is the Founder of Ugam Education Foundation (June 2015) and Education Indeed Consultants. She has a Masters degree and has experience in teaching adolescents, curriculum design and development, HR management and coaching of NGO and government school teachers  and Head Masters.

She was a teacher, Principal Coach and Head of HR at the Akanksha Foundation. She has been involved as a Master Coach and a senior design team member with the Kaivalya Education Foundation in Mumbai. She led Muktangan as a Project Director. She has worked with many NGOs and is a trustee at Antarang Foundation and a managing committee member at Aarohi.

Ishan Gupta is the Managing Director, Udacity, India his role in Udacity as the Managing Director for India is to build a strong team, launch more India-focused courses and take the Indian business to new heights.

Ishan was until end of 2016, the Vice President(Business) at Paytm (India's largest mobile commerce company, valued at $6Bn). Before that, he was running EduKart in India, which he had founded in 2011. The company went on to become the largest education marketplace of India. The team at EduKart was acqui-hired by Paytm in early 2016.

Ishan has earlier worked at Facebook as a growth manager for India, founded an education company and established a corporate development division for a telco services company. He did his engineering from University of Delhi and MBA from Stanford University, California, USA. Besides that, Ishan has published a book on entrepreneurship titled “Make the Move- Demystifying Entrepreneurship” and has spoken on topics of entrepreneurship and ed-tech at various prestigious venues in India and outside.

Gaurav is a Principal at Kaizen Private Equity. Kaizen Private Equity is Asia’s first education focussed Private Equity firm.

He has over 9 years of private equity experience and leads investments in India. He also leads the fund’s research efforts that serve to define the fund’s investment theses, and drives the development of Kaizen’s thought-leadership reports for the Education sector. He has closely been involved with Kaizen’s investments in Altus, K12 Techno, WizIQ, EduPristine and Impartus  He is a silver medallist from NMIMS University, Mumbai, from where he received his MBA.

Amit Mahensaria, Co-Founder & CEO of Impartus Innovations, India is an IIT Delhi and IIM Lucknow alumnus and has been associated with the education sector for more than 10 years, earlier as a venture capital investor as now as an entrepreneur.

Through Impartus, Amit is bringing videos into mainstream learning; and thereby creating an impact for students and teachers alike. Impartus is a video platform for creation and online distribution of classroom videos and is a clear market leader in its space in India and has also expanded to Asia Pacific.

Before co-founding Impartus, Amit worked as an Investment Manager at IDFC Private Equity and has led numerous education, infrastructure and technology projects in India and abroad. He is passionate about technology innovations and Impartus is his 2nd entrepreneurial venture in the ed-tech domain.

Piyush is a graduate from IIT Kanpur and Stanford University. After completing a master’s program at Stanford University, Piyush returned to India to set-up Aurus Network with the vision of enabling a million teachers connect with a billion students using technology. Piyush and the team developed a cutting edge technology which enabled various education & training institutes to deliver HD quality live classroom sessions at extremely low internet speeds (as low as 100 Kbps). This led to setting up of 100s of remote classrooms across the country where students could come and attend the live classes being delivered from top cities. Later, the team launched SuperProfs (stands for “Super Professors”) to make the classes of the best professors/teachers for various competitive exams available to students online itself, so that the students could attend the classes from their home. Today, more than 15 lakh students use SuperProfs every month and study from India’s Best Professors!

Piyush has been awarded the prestigious MIT Review Innovators Under 35 award (India) and is a co-author of 8 international publications, including 2 journal papers and 1 best student paper award winner at ACM Multimedia (Germany), along with being a co-author of 1 US patent.

Raman Talwar  is a well decorated, top-rank holder and a multi-award winning Masters in Chemical Engineering with Honours in Research (MEng. Hons.) from the University of Manchester (UK).  On the back of some ground breaking research work in a specialist domain, he has received prestigious accolades from the university and several nominations from industry during his time in England. 

Whilst taking on challenging assignments ably testifying his impressive technical and transferable skill-set, he has the experience of working for some of the world’s most respected FTSE-100 companies in the FMCG, Engineering Consultative and Process Design industries. His core interests lie in the development and application of process simulation and optimization models to solve real world problems. He also takes a keen interest in the field of computer-aided design and development of process safety solutions applicable across a range of industries including oil & gas, pharmaceutical and chemicals.

Ali Asgar Kagzi is the Co-founder and Director of Genext Students, India's 1st AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered home education ecosystem. This one-of-its-kind platform brings quality home tutors along with proprietary content (online & offline) to the doorstep of needy parents/students using technology as a key driver. In his present role, Ali oversees the strategy, operations, marketing and technology aspects of the company.

Ali completed the major part of his schooling in his home town of Udaipur, Rajasthan. This was followed by a graduation in Telecommunication Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. However, it was his post-graduation in Management & Strategy from the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) that played a major role in shaping his personality and helping him develop a larger perspective about life.

Mohan Lakhamraju is the founder and CEO of Great Learning, an e-learning platform for working professionals to upgrade their competencies and succeed in the digital economy. He cofounded Great Learning with a vision to make it a lifelong learning partner for India’s young professionals. Great Learning has already delivered over 1,500,000 hours of learning to thousands of professionals from across India and conducts its hybrid programs across 6 cities in India presently.

Mohan also serves as the Vice Chairman and CEO of Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s leading business schools, where he spearheads its growth and innovation. Over the past 6 years, he set up and developed its second campus in Gurgaon.

In prior life, he was Managing Director, India for Tiger Global where he focused on investments in India and other Emerging Markets. He also spent close to 10 years in Silicon Valley, first as an entrepreneur helping build a SAAS (software as a service) company called Stratify (now a division of HP) and then as a Venture Capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

Mr. Lakhamraju received a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay where he was the recipient of the Hughes Best Scholar Award, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a recipient of the Regents Fellowship and an MBA from Stanford Business School where he was the recipient of the David Packard Fellowship.

He is very passionate about high quality education and its ability to transform one's life, having experienced it firsthand and has made it his mission to enable others in India have similar transformational opportunities.

Neeraj Sharma is a Chartered accountant and Cost accountant with 22 years of rich experience across industries. Under his leadership the company has witnessed all around growth over last 5 years. Before ISFC he has served as Senior Vice President & Head Treasury of Fullerton India, he has also worked with AIG Consumer Finance, Ballarpur Industries, Fibcom India (Tellabs JV), Bridgestone India and ACC Limited in various capacities.

Ms. Vandana is the Chief Program Officer of National Skill Development Corporation. She is responsible for managing NSDC's funding strategy and portfolio. She also leads NSDC's technical engagements related to research, analytics, occupational standards and learning content. Vandana has over 25 years of professional experience in banking, development finance institutions and applied research. Prior to joining NSDC, Vandana was associated with World Bank as Senior Institutional Development Specialist, Water Department Global Practice. She has done her MBA from IIM Calcutta and is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

Pranjal Kumar is currently the Principal at Bertelsmann India Investments and Corporate Centre. He leads portfolio management for our investee companies, as well as steers investments in the education sector. In his Corporate Center role, he supports Bertelsmann’s divisions in evaluating the investing landscape and helping them execute growth / expansion plans.

Pranjal has a professional career of around 14 years, where he has spearheaded several strategic and operations related assignments across telecom, media, retail, consumer goods and real estate. His domain expertise lies in shaping growth strategy and its operationalization (market assessment & entry, supply market analysis, go-to-market and functional strategy, strategic due diligence / post-merger integration) and in driving large-scale operational excellence programs (efficiency improvement programs, organization structure & re-design).

He started his career with an Indian Oil major, and after his management diploma worked with multiple top-tier management consulting firms i.e. A.T Kearney, Accenture, KPMG and Tata Strategic Management Group.

Pranjal holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM Bangalore) and a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).

Rohit Agarwal is the former General Manager of Education at Amazon. His last company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. Prior to Amazon, Rohit has been a founder and senior executive at several startups that have been acquired by the likes of IBM and Cisco.

Rohit Manglik a Tech Genius and the Founder of EduGorilla Community, which is one of the most sought-after education platforms, is creating an impact on 1 million students every month. Today, the website has over 2,00,000 plus subscribers, 56,000 plus coaching centers listed across 53 cities, 70,000 study materials, 7,621 articles, 6,200 plus questions and 50 plus partners.

A pass out of NIT Surathkal, Rohit has experience of working in several Fortune 500 companies like Oracle, Morgan Stanley etc. He has worn multiple hats of varied profiles such as social media marketer, technical expert, content writer, business developer and many more.