AditiAvasthi, 33, more popularly known as ‘Chief Embiber’ is the founder and CEO of Indiavidual learning – a Mumbai-based ed-tech start-up.

embibe’s evolution and growth stems from Aditi’s passion for education and her desire to guide aspirants of massively competitive complex exams (MCCE) to fulfill their dreams. The journey that led her to setting up embibe has been an enriching one. She feels that the biggest challenge in mass education today is the tendency to underperform or drop out because students are often unable to realise their true potential.

An engineer herself, Aditi also has an MBA from the prestigious Booth School of Business in Chicago. She garnered experience in diverse fields such as marketing, product innovation and mobile commerce before setting off on the path of entreprenurship. She has headed top projects with globally-renowned companies such as Siemens, TCS and Barclays. While scaling the corporate ladder quickly, Aditi secretly continued to cherish her dream of creating something revolutionary for the education sector in India. In 2012, she decided to pack her bags and come back to India and do what she truly believed in, culminating in the founding of embibe.

Aditi was recently featured in Fortune India’s “40 under 40”, March 2015, mentioned amongst the most influential young people in the country who are causing a true disruption through technology and innovation. This is a reflection of her success story and the significant contributions she will continue to make in the Indian education space.

Adam Davies, Chairman is a London Business School Sloan Fellow (2009, Strategy and Leadership), and has been advising companies and institutions for over 20 years.

He was the founder and CEO of the leading Higher Education strategy film, QS Consulting, during which time he led several multi-faceted projects for some of the world’s leading universities. QS Consulting (now fully owned by the QS media and intelligence group) focussed on delivering performance improvement to an international client base of HE Institutions.

Adil is a seasoned professional with diverse educational industry experience ranging from core content creation, product development to business unit management.

He has worked with global leaders in the online education space and brings a new prospective towards problem solving & innovative solutioning along with creativity on the Table PC. His deep content knowledge with product development skills gives an edge in solution designing.

Adil has spearheaded multiple Government projects from the phase of tendering to final execution for wide array of requirements from various Government bodies. His understanding of the school education market helps him the right strategic planning and solution pitching for the schools.

His holistic experience in - sales, marketing, business development, P&L management etc. along with digital product and services understanding, helps him in pitching innovative solutions to B2B and Government clients which makes him a well-rounded business leader.

Amit is the managing promoter of a services focused educational institute called Vedatya. Since establishing its new campus in the NCR, he is now helping drive the business development initiative and shaping the next phase of institute’s growth that includes understanding the application of artificial intelligence and human psychology towards human learning.

Before moving back to India in 2006, he complemented his electronics engineering background with a business focused work experience in US. As a chip designer in Intel’s first 64-bit microprocessor team in California, Amit was part of a team that established Intel’s next generation microprocessor architecture as an industry standard. He also had roles in marketing, business development and as an apprentice to a CEO of a mid-cap company during his career in the US.

Amit holds a Bachelor degree from Arizona State University and a Masters degree from University of Southern California, both in Electronics Engineering. He also holds an MBA from The Wharton School in Philadelphia.

Mr. Amol Arora (B.E. (Delhi College of Engineering), MBA (University of California, Irvine, USA), P.G. Researcher in Education Leadership & Management at University of Nottingham, UK) is the Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of SHEMROCK & SHEMFORD Group of Schools. He is a visionary person with a multi-dimensional personality.

Mr. Amol Arora is the prime force behind building the SHEMROCK brand on the strength of its franchise model and also in transferring the same stress-free and fun-filled learning environment to SHEMFORD Futuristic Schools. As a tribute to his contribution to the education fraternity in India, Mr. Amol Arora has been honoured for “Outstanding Contribution to the Indian Education System” by the Independent Schools Federation of India in 2006. He also received “Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006” Award by the Lt. Governor of Delhi. He is a regular speaker at various Educational Leadership Conclaves, Conferences and Seminars in the country, including VCCircle, TiE, ICSI, Eduvision, DIDAC, World Education Summit (WES), One Globe, India Learning Expo etc.

Anand Sudarshan is an education sector advisor. In addition to his role as Advisor, TVS Capital Funds, he is the Founder & Director of Sylvant Advisors Private Limited. Sylvant focuses on providing a range of advisory services to institutions, enterprises & investors, with a strong focus on the education sector.  Anand is also an independent director at Manipal Global Education Services Private Limited (MaGE). Till June 2012, he was Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of MaGE, with whom he has had a distinguished career since May 2006.

Anand also actively supports Government of India in policy formulation, and is a member of select Committees & Task Forces of the Planning Commission of India as well as the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India's Education ministry). He is a founding member of EDGE (an education sector forum and think-tank) and the Vice-Chairman of EDGE's Vision Group. He is also a member of CII's (Confederation of Indian Industry) and FICCI's (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry) national committees on Education.

Prior to his stint at MaGE, Anand was President, Adea International (a wholly owned subsidiary of Adea Solutions, Inc, Dallas TX), responsible for all global businesses of the IT Services & Solutions company. Anand was also the one of the co-founders of the Microland Group and also served in several senior capacities in The Computer Point.
Anand has a Bachelor of Engineering degree (B.S Degree) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, and a PGDM (M.B.A Degree) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. 

Ashutosh in his current role as Executive Director is responsible for development of new revenue channels for JIVEM Education, technology adaptation, efficiency enhancement of various departments, pedagogy innovations and people enabling. Ashutosh is independently heading the e-learning team of EntrancePrime.com and is responsible for the growth and visibility of the Test Prep portal.

Ashutosh having a deep understanding of the K-12 ecosystem played a key role in creating and implementing profitable models in school management and support services.

Being a technology student and an entrance exam aspirant himself, Ashutosh felt a need to utilize technology to bring precision to entrance exam preparation. Therefore, he developed the multi-faceted test prep portal, www.entranceprime.com, which helps students practice every chapter in a real test environment and get detailed and meaningful analysis and suggestions to improve their score, accuracy and time management skills.

Ashutosh holds a Global MBA in Global logistics and Supply Chain Management from S P Jain School of Global Management, Singapore & Dubai. He has also studied at Schulich School of Business - York University, Toronto, Canada. He has pursued his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from University of Rajasthan.

Prior to joining JIVEM Education, Ashutosh worked with Larsen & Toubro Infotech for close to three years.

Ashutosh brings with him diverse global exposure in terms of education and work and complements it with an Indian cultural upbringing in a Marwari business family.

Ashu, as he is better known, is an award-winning multi-instrumental music composer and producer, who has released over 15 contemporary music albums in the past two decades. He is one of the most sought-after composers in advertising and films, having composed music for over 3,000 television commercials and the soundtracks for 10 feature films.

He recently composed the music for the acclaimed documentary, Fire in the Blood, released in the US in 2012, and nominated in the World Cinema category at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival 2013.

Besides being a popular live musician and a regular on the festival circuit, Ashu is also one of the co-founders of India's premier live music venue chain, Blue Frog.

Atul is a quintessential banker with over two decades experience in the global banking business. As a Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious IIT-Kanpur, Atul’s first stint in the corporate world however was in Tata Motors (then known as Telco) in 1985.  After a two year stint in Telco as graduate trainee engineer, he went to IIM, Calcutta for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management majoring in Finance and Marketing.  Atul’s career in banking started in 1989 when he joined Citibank in Chennai, where he was part of the team which launched the bank’s credit card business in India. After 8 fruitful years, with his last two years in Mumbai in Custodial Services as Assistant Vice President in Citibank, Atul took up his first foreign assignment when he joined HSBC’s Regional Card Centre in Dubai in 1997. Before he left HSBC in 2006, he had implemented a complete suite of systems for early fraud detection, credit and behavioural scorecards and initiating new Card systems for the British bank covering 8 countries in the Middle East and Africa.  In 2006 he joined Dubai First - the first NBFC in the country, as one of its founding team member.

In 2008 Atul joined UK-based Barclays as Chief Operating Officer in Kenya where he spent the next four years.  During his stint in Kenya, Atul won the ‘Male Diversity Champion’ award picked from among 1500 nominees from the bank’s global pool. Amongst all his achievements, he considers this as the most important one and in his own words the ‘Oscar among corporate awards’. The award recognised by the bank’s female employees as the champion male colleague who strived to bring gender diversity at workplace for the bank globally. During his stint in Barclays he also bagged an award for the best COO in Africa and also helped his bank bag the Best IT Bank given by Business Journal Africa, which also featured him on the cover of the magazine’s July 2011 issue.

After spending nearly a decade and half outside India, Atul found his ‘home calling’ when the opportunity to work of NSDC came up in March of 2013.  “Having been exposed to international standards in education and training, it was only a natural progression for me to bring home my learning to such a crucial sector like skilling,” he says. His heart is in quality and standards of what NSDC does. Operational leadership he says to him is about managing people who are in operations and his focus will be on elevating processes to new heights.

Atul now lives in Gurgaon and married with two children. His wife, Jaya, is a qualified Media Planner who worked in JWT but preferred to be a homemaker once the kids came along. He unwinds by meditation and watching TV during the weekends.

Dilip Dusija is Partner- Corporate Finance , Leader - Private Equity Services with BDO India. He has worked for more than 14years as a seasoned Investment banking professional having experience in deal making as well as transaction support with specialization in Private Equity Services. He has also worked with professional organizations like Axis Bank, Ernst & Young, RSM & Co (now PWC) and KPMG.
Also, he has end to end experience from origination till completion of a transaction, even covering transaction support activities such as due diligence and structuring.

He plays an active role in networking with Private Equity Funds and Promoters of mid-market growth oriented companies.

He is also a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Dimple leads investments in Financial Inclusion focused on India and Southeast Asia for Omidyar Network India Advisors. She invests in for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that work to extend access to high-quality, affordable financial services to those living at the base of pyramid.

Dimple joined Omidyar Network in 2012, bringing 21 years of in-depth knowledge in financial services, including more than 11 years in private equity in India. Most recently, she served as managing director at Everstone Investment Advisors, a leading private equity and real estate investment firm. Previously, Dimple worked at AIG Global Investment Corporation, where she was responsible for identifying investment opportunities, monitoring investments, and providing overall portfolio management support. She also worked at various investment banks, including: Lazard India, HSBC, and Société Générale, where she was involved with capital market and advisory transactions.

Dimple earned both her law degree and bachelor’s in commerce from Mumbai University. She is a fellow member (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India.

Gene Eidelman co-founded Mosaica Education in 1997, and currently serves as its President. Gene is responsible for strategic planning with an emphasis on financial performance, business development and quality assurance. Gene has over 30 years of experience in finance, budgeting, marketing, human resources and organizational effectiveness in both public and private companies. Prior to co-founding Mosaica, he co-founded Prodigy Consulting in 1988, an organization that developed and operated a chain of community and corporate-sponsored childcare centers. Gene defected from the former Soviet Union as a teenager in 1976. Soon after arriving to Los Angeles, he became an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California where he simultaneously started a real estate development business. In 1995, Prodigy Consulting merged with the publicly-held Children’s Discovery Centers and in 1997 was acquired by Knowledge Universe. While at Children’s Discovery Centers, Gene was President of the Prodigy Division, overseeing 69 corporate child care centers in 23 states.

In 1999, Gene was selected as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young People of the World” by Junior Chamber International. In 2009, Gene together with Dr. Dawn Eidelman, were awarded the “James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award” by the Education Industry Association for their unwavering commitment to innovation in education. Gene is a former Treasurer and Trustee of the Georgia Charter School Association. He is a board member of the Michigan-based Coalition for Educational Choice and Co-Chair of the Geneva-based World Education Entrepreneur Society (WEES). He is additionally President of the Board of Trustees of Aurora Education Trust in England and founder/settler of Sunshine Education Trust in India-non-profit trusts committed to improving education.

Girish is the Founder & CEO of EduBridge. He comes from a strong operational background having worked in one of the world’s largest FMCG companies - Procter & Gamble. He then moved on to an investment bank in Mumbai where he worked with global financial investors to bring investments into the Indian market. He is a strong believer in marrying his business interests with the needs of the society. This belief coupled with the invaluable combination of financial as well as operations experience led Girish to start EduBridge in 2009. An IIM Bangalore graduate, he is extremely passionate about developing businesses which would take the country forward along with the country’s poor. He is a sports fanatic and claims that he would have been a part of the Indian cricket team had it not been for his IIM education.

Gayathri is the CEO of LabourNet. She has built LabourNet into a respected social enterprise, by anchoring on values of growth, transparency social protection and inclusion. LabourNet has won numerous awards in the last few years for its model and contribution to society. She has been extensively involved in policy issues & community mobilizations relating to Livelihoods, Social Security and the informal economy. Gayathri has a Doctorate in development studies with more than 17 years’ experience in both national and international organizations.

Gayathri has held several advisory posts in the Government – Member Aadhar (UIDA), Member, BOCCW, Government of Harayana. Currently, she is a member of National CII skill committee & South Region CII skill committee; She is also a Chairwoman, Indian Women Network (IWN) Southern Regional Council Karnataka.

Before joining LabourNet, she has held senior positions at International Labour Organization and other multilateral organisations for eight years such us UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, NORAD etc.

She has more than 30 publications in the areas of labour and employment and gender issues to her credit.

Jayanta has over 25 years of industry experience with the last 15 years in the private equity business in India. He has in-depth experience of full cycle investing and fund raising in private equity. Prior to joining the private equity industry Jayanta was an entrepreneur. He has also been an investment banker and has worked in the industrial sector.

Previously, Jayanta was President – Private Equity at ICICI Venture. Prior to that, he was the India head of private equity at Lehman Brothers. Jayanta has led investments across sectors and is on the boards of multiple portfolio companies.

Jayanta has a post graduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University.

Mr. Kaushik Bellani is the Managing Director of McGraw Hill Education India Pvt. Ltd., a digital learning company with a global footprint and a 100 year old legacy.

Mr. Bellani has been in IT industry for more than two decades. He has worked with technology leaders Cisco, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Wipro and has spent the last 3 years in the Start up Eco-System - scaling a IT Services company - Saviance Technology and Setting up the India footprint of iYogi - a Tech-Support via the cloud B2C and B2B company offering subscription based services. He has worked extensively in the Business Development, Sales & Marketing functions in large multi-channel, multi-product and services companies. He has a proven ability to create, sustain, grow and drive businesses from scratch to sustainable levels. He has owned and driven P&Ls, created new business segments and developed channels.

Mohan Lakhamraju is the Vice Chairman of Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s leading business schools, where he spearheads its growth strategy and new initiatives. He was instrumental in setting up and developing the Delhi NCR campus of Great Lakes as well as its online and blended learning programs. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of Mangalayatan University, a fully accredited private state university in UP.

Earlier, he served as Managing Director, India at Tiger Global, a leading global investment firm 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 company called Stratify 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.

Mohan feels very passionately about high quality education and its ability to transform one's life, having experienced it firsthand. He has made it his mission to enable other students in India have similar transformational opportunities through high quality education.

Mukul Singhal joined SAIF in 2010 and is currently Principal. Prior to joining SAIF, he worked at Canaan Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. Mukul is a TiE Charter Member and actively participates in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem. His primary area of focus is early stage investments. Mukul is B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Mr Prasad Gadkari has 18 years of experience across private equity, principal investments, mezzanine capital, project finance and corporate advisory. He currently serves on the boards of education & healthcare enterprise Manipal, healthcare benefits administrator Medi Assist, infrastructure services company GVR, student living provider MIS, container logistics major Seaways and water solutions provider Doshion. He has delivered seven profitable exits at IDFC utilizing varied strategies across IPO, secondary, buy-back and swaps.

Prior to IDFC Alternatives, Mr Gadkari was with GE, responsible for company’s strategic and financial investments in India, Middle East and North Africa in infrastructure related industries.

Before GE, he worked with IDFC Ltd, where he led financing and fund raising for project finance deals. Mr Gadkari also acted as an advisor to Government departments such as NHAI, Port Trusts and Railways on devising appropriate privatization policies and handled several sell-side mandates for the Government.

He started his career at Larsen and Toubro with their project advisory group. Mr Gadkari holds an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai, and is a CFA Charter holder.

Raj Grover is a proficient CEO turned entrepreneur with extensive experience across global organizations viz. Nestle, Wrigley’s, HMV and Rupert Murdoch Group. In his illustrious career, he has led multifold growth across India and International markets, built global brands, incubated business, spearheaded financial turnarounds, technology and product innovation.

Early 2000, Raj realized the growing aspirations of young parents and in alliance with a leading brand co-modeled the concept of affordable-up-market, ‘Boutique International Schools’. Few years later, Raj took another leap of faith, this time in the Low Cost Affordable Schools, demonstrating a whole new opportunity to build high quality, low cost, sustainable schools.

Both these initiatives, applauded as game changers have created a whole new category and being recognized as the most sought after, scalable models inspiring many entrepreneurs and established brands in the education sector.

Raj is of the firm belief that, solution to all global issues; economic and social, present and future depends on a responsible and effective schooling system. He is committed to creating a scalable and sustainable model around this. The one, that ‘Breaks the Mold’ and ‘Re-Invent’s’ to prepare students deal with the uncertain challenges, complexities and opportunities of the 2050 era.

Raj Shastri has 8 years of experience in private equity and has been involved in 10 investments and 2 exits. Prior to Kaizen, he was with Helix Investments and Guggenheim Partners, where he was involved in control transactions in Education and Consumer sectors. He has also spent around 5 years in institutional equities with leading research houses like Motilal Oswal. He received his Bachelor of Engineering from Jadavpur University and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Ram has over 14 years of experience in technology - hardware systems, embedded software. He has worked in multiple technology companies - as an Engineer as well as an Investor. His last stint as a Venture Capitalist in California helped him gain a perspective into how real-life challenges can be addressed using technology. A strong believer in the power of personal learning, he took on the challenge of helping millions of Indian kids discover and learn more.

Ram has an MBA from University of California Los Angeles, an MS from Iowa State University and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Professor Ravi Agarwal is a Professor of Finance and Accounting and Vice Dean (Academic Affairs), Jindal Global Business School. Professor Agarwal holds a Bachelor’s and master's Degree in Finance and Accounts from St. John's College, Agra. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an Associate of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He has more than 20 years’ experience of teaching, training, research and consulting in his areas of specialization.

He has been actively involved in designing and conducting executive training programmes on financial risk management, corporate finance, strategic cost management, financial modeling, and financial accounting. He has trained senior and middle level executives from Indian Army, Indian Oil Corporation, NTPC, Food Corporation of India, HUDCO, public sector banks, UTI Asset Management, Defense organizations, ministries and number of private sector organizations. He has a number of research papers to his credit. His areas of interest are corporate finance, managerial accounting, and corporate valuation. Presently he is working on a book on case studies in finance.

Mr. Ryan Pinto is CEO of the Ryan International Group of Institutions. One of India's youngest social entrepreneurs in the K-12 education sector, he has grown the Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI) in India and overseas, to over 125 institutions, educating more than 250,000 students. Mr. Pinto hopes to transform "traditional" schools into dynamic, interactive learning environments that benefit not only students, teachers and direct stakeholders, but also their communities, cities and country. He strongly advocates the use of technological tools to educate each and every child of India. Mr. Pinto was instrumental in the inception of the Ryan Group's international curriculum schools, the Ryan Global Schools, and in establishing the group's highly successful overseas schools in the United Arab Emirates.

Amongst numerous other awards, Mr. Pinto was recognized most recently as one of Asia’s Emerging Business Leaders by WCRC & Ernst & Young held in London, UK. He studied at Warwick University and Aston University, and received a master's degree in business and entrepreneurship from Cass Business School, London.

Sameer is an innovative Entrepreneur with 16 years of work experience. Always applying new ideas at work, he has a very successful performance record in Sales and has managed large sales teams. After working with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance as Managing Partner and Jayaswals Neco Ltd. as Regional Manager - Sales, he started his entrepreneurial journey in 2008 as a cofounder and CEO of Anannya eLearning Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2008-2010). As a result of his efforts, more than 1.5 lac Insurance agents were trained on Anannya's IRDA approved eLearning portal.

Sameer is responsible for Marketing, Sales and Strategy at Rank Junction. He is B.Sc. & MBA from Nagpur University. He is an active member of TiE Nagpur.

Career Launcher was founded by Satya, and he has led its dramatic growth from a one-man startup to one of Asia's most global education corporates. Satya is a renowned speaker in Indian academic circles, has personally trained thousands of students, teachers and corporate executives, and is the moving force behind several pioneering initiatives in the Asian education markets.

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.

Professor Suku Bhaskaran, PhD Monash University (Australia), has served in senior academic positions in top-tier international institutions including Victoria University (Australia), The Melbourne University (Australia) and The Pennsylvania State University (USA). He commenced his sojourn in India in 2010 as a Visiting Professor (Strategic Management) at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. In late 2011 he joined GD Goenka World Institute-Lancaster University.

Suku has an international research, teaching, training and consultancy profile: lead-managed more than 40 major research, training and consultancy projects in countries such as Australia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia; published more than 100 articles in top-tier scholarly and professional journals; received awards, honors and citations for research excellence and academic leadership; serves on the Editorial Board of several international scholarly journals; addresses various industry and academic fora in several countries as an Invited Speaker; served as Consultant to the Australian Government’s “Excellence in Research for Australia” initiative; served as Intreader (Reviewer of International Standing) for the Australian Research Council (Australia’s peak R&D Agency).

Toby Linden is a British national who joined the World Bank's South Asia Human Development Unit as a Lead Education Specialist in January 2011, and moved to Delhi in July 2011. Before joining the India team, he was on secondment from the Bank to serve as Director of the Roma Education Fund, an international NGO working to improve the educational outcomes Roma (Gypsies), the poorest minority in Europe.

Other positions in his 14 years with the World Bank include working in the Country Office in Bosnia and as part of the analytical and research unit of the Education Network. His publications in the education sector include the World Bank's first book on lifelong learning and papers in secondary and higher education.

Vinay Sharma heads the Digital business for S Chand group, which is one of the leading publishing cum education Services Company.  As part of his portfolio, he manages digital content business for schools & engineering colleges, preschool operations and new initiatives including tablets, labs, assessments etc. This includes managing the P & L of current businesses and looking for organic and inorganic growth opportunities in high growth sectors.

Vinay is an accomplished professional and digital evangelist with over 18 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, new product launches and P & L management across education, technology and consumer sectors. He was profiled in Business Outlook issue of Social Entrepreneurs.

He has a rich and diverse experience in education sector having led various education initiatives including skill development, test prep and digital solutions/ services for schools. Prior to S Chand Group, he had been with HCL, and was also part of the founding team for Indiacan Education Pvt Ltd (A Pearson Educomp JV). He also had an entrepreneurial stint as a Partner in Elements Academia Ltd, a skills building company.

In addition, he has significant experience in technology and consumer sectors having worked with Airtel, Comsat max( A Lockheed martin JV with max India) and Blow Plast  Ltd.

He is an MBA from IIM Calcutta with an engineering background.

Vineet graduated from IIT Delhi in 1991 in Mechanical Engineering and is a first generation entrepreneur. In an entrepreneurial career spanning 25 years, Vineet has built several companies. He is currently the cofounder and Managing Director of Jamboree Education, India’s largest test prep company for exams such as GMAT, GRE and SAT. Jamboree operates 31 centres in 17 cities of India, Middle East, Singapore and Nepal.

Vineet is also a Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University. Vineet has been involved with the Ashoka effort since 2007 when a few friends came together with the idea of setting up a high quality University in India. Ashoka University is a philanthropic initiative founded by eminent business leaders and scholars and offers a liberal education at par with the best in the world. Ashoka has been one of the most exciting initiatives in higher education in India today and The Economic Times has termed it as “India’s answer to the Ivy league”. Vineet has played a key execution role at Ashoka and also serves as its Pro Vice Chancellor.

Vineet is also the Education Co-Chair at PHD Chamber of Commerce.

“Nothing is more creative... or destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose”.  Mr. Rajasekhar Babu Yarlagadda is that brilliant visionary, whose path of progress is self-architected.

Mr. Rajasekar Babu is a true business personality with dynamism. He is one of the key visionaries behind various successful educational ventures like Oakridge, Vikas and Oi Play Schools and the key inceptor of People Combine Group.

Being the Managing Director of the company, Mr Babu has worked hard to provide the People Combine Group altogether a new identity in the business world. He has an insatiable desire to strive for excellence with a steadfastness to achieve.  

Holding a graduate degree in civil engineering and a Post Graduate in management from ISB ( Indian School of Business, Hyderabad ) , Mr. Babu manages the Business Expansion, Fund Raising, Finance and Budgeting, Brand Management, Mergers and Acquisitions of the company.

He is highly creative, design focused and an excellent organiser.

Relation building is his forte and he is an opt solution finder. He has raised the turnover of the company manifold with a relentless quest for accomplishment.

Mr. Rajasekhar has also been recognised for his exemplary contribution towards the organisation. Not only that, he has also been awarded with Business Wizard of Andhra Pradesh by a leading News magazine- India Today Group.

On the life front, Mr. Rajasekhar is considered the most amiable and energetic soul to be with by his family and friends. He is also an avid book lover and loves to explore new places of the world.