Education Innovation Conference 2019

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Dr. Khatri holds a medical degree from University College of Medical Sciences,
Delhi and MBA from University of Birmingham, U.K. He joined Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) in 1988.

He has rich experience of working with the Central Government, State
Government and elected local bodies. He has served in the Government of
India as the Director, Ministry of Mines during 1999-03. He served as State
Project Director, Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana Mission during 2003-06. He has
been closely associated with the implementation of projects supported by
International agencies such as USAID (Use of ICT in Education), UNICEF (Swasth
Plus).

During his tenure as the Commissioner for Industrial Development and
Director of Industries and Commerce (May-2006 to May-2011), he played a
pivotal role in organizing the Global Investors Meet-2010 in which
around 7000 International and Domestic Industrialists participated. The State
Government signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) for 389 projects
with an investment of Rs. 3.92 lakh crores [US $87 billion].

He has worked as the Secretary to Government, Infrastructure Development
Department and Managing Director, Karnataka State Industrial &
Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited [KSIIDC]. He was responsible
for implementation of infrastructure projects including projects on Public
Private Partnership [PPP] basis.

Dr. Khatri has also worked in the Education sector as the Principal Secretary,
to the Government of Karnataka wherein he made several services available
online.

At present he is working as Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue Department,
Government of Karnataka. He has recently initiated Drone Based Land Survey
of Rural & Urban Lands. He is keen on application of Geo-Spatial Technologies
in improving the Governance and Delivery of Services to the Public.
Articles and case studies written by him have been published by India Institute
of Public Administration & National Institute of Rural Development.

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Prof N R Shetty is the Chancellor at the Central University of Karnataka. He is a former Vice Chancellor of the Bangalore University and Former Member Secretary at Indira Gandhi National Center of Arts. He has served Karnataka Regional Engineering College ( now NIT) from 1960 to 1963.

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A purpose driven leader who works towards accomplishing organisation goals, by aligning, scaling and sustaining initiatives and programs that translate into accomplishing the final outcomes. At NASSCOM, over a period of 5 years he has scaled SME vertical to newer heights taking it global locations, strategized regional member outreach to become the strongest value add to the organization, and transformed non-performing assets into performing trends for IT BPM industry ecosystem, initiated disruptive initiatives to strengthen NASSCOM’s Skilling and reskilling goals.

With over 30 years of experience of working with IBM as a Geo Expansion Leader, and HP/Compaq/Digital as a transformation leader, he has the acumen of building and nurturing teams that hold up the vision of the organisations.

He is a member of the IT High power committee of GOVT of Kerala and in the board of ICT skills academy Karnataka and the NAIN (New age incubation network) board member of the Govt of Karnataka. He is also in the advisory board in numerous consulting firms in the areas of leadership and D&I.

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Dr.K S Badarinarayan is presently working as Principal of M S Engineering College, Bangalore. Dr. K S Badarinarayan was conferred with most prestigious “Eminent Engineer” Award in view of his achievement in the field of Education during the 31st National Convention of Production Engineers ” conducted by the Institution of Engineers on the theme “India Emerging as a Manufacturing Hub of the World by 2020 – Prospects and Pathwayson 6-7 May 2016.

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Dr Manohar has extensive experience of over three decades in industry, government, b-schools, research and consulting organizations, industry bodies and international development agencies.

Senior Director at International School of Business & Research, Advisor & Executive Coach at Nitte School of Management & Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, a visiting faculty to European Universities, Chairman of Board of Studies at Management & Technical Institutions, Director & Founder of Business Entities, Dr Manohar has contributed to Leadership Development, Strategic Development Initiatives, Governance, Affiliations & Accreditations, Partnerships, Research & Consulting.

Highly networked in business and professional bodies, National Executive Board Member of Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS); Chaired Karnataka Chapter of Institute of Management Consultants of India, now serving on the national Executive Board; Former Secretary/CEO of Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry, now serving on Management Boards and Governing Councils of organizations, ASSOCHAM (Co-Chairman, National Council on Higher Education), Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (Vice Chairman, Education & Skill Development Council), Bangalore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Management Committee); Indo French Chamber of Commerce (Governing Council); Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce (Regional Board of Management); Member of CII, NIPM, NHRD, QCFI, AMDISA and others.

Co-Founder of Parentof.Com, Chief Mentor of StartUp Forum Bangalore. NonExecutive Chairman of Consortium of Data Science in Education. Consulted for World Bank/UNDP Projects, designed and implemented capacity building projects in Asia, Africa & Europe. Widely traveled on scholastic missions and trade delegations, Dr Manohar has a passion for visioning, institution building and talent development.

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Prof Dhirendra Deshpande is the Vice Chancellor at ISBM University, Raipur. He has a professional experience of more than four decades in the filed of Higher Education- Research, Teaching and Administration.

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Sanjay is the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in the Police Computer Wing of the Government of Karnataka. He is a well-recognized Cyber Security expert in the country and has delivered dozens of lectures on all well established forums and institutions in the country from IITs, IIMs, to FICCI, CII, eGov India, Express Technology Sabha and the like. He is an experienced police officer, a technology evangelist and a professional public speaker on cyber security topics.

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Karthik is a passionate entrepreneur and a Tedx speaker and he will be speaking about  different techniques of teaching. He believes that the orthodox methodology still hold good but a little tweaks will make the profession much more colorful and educative. Technology implementation on the enhancement of brain knowledge. 

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Senthil is a passionate teacher at heart, and designs board games with a vision to inspire learning. He is a graduate from College of engineering Guindy, and the recipient of prestigious Young India Fellowship. He is also certified by Harvard Business school in HBx-CORe. He is a published researcher, and has worked with several disruptive startups before he started MADIEE. 

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Manju Balasubramanyam is a post graduate teacher and principal of Delhi Public School. She holds a professional experience of over 25 years in teaching. She is also the city coordinator for CBSE Evaluation and Assessment since 2012. She has also been the Mentor for British Council GTA programme-2012, 13 and 14.

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Srinivasa Rao K is the Vice President – Business Development at Campus Students Communities. The sole objective of the enterprise is to cater the finest housing experience for students and developing organized living spaces & great amenities.

He is MBA from Andhra University and has 16 years of experience in sales and Marketing in service industry.

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Dr K N Subramanya is presently working as Principal, R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru. Served the Institution in various capacities including Lecturer, Sr. Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Director (Administration), Professor & Head of the Department of IEM and Vice Principal. Worked as Lecturer in the Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Management, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering-Bengaluru for a period of 4½ years.

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Vipul Redey is the Head – School Enablement at Khan Academy. An alumnus of Stanford University, he helps schools make the most of Khan Academy’s online learning resources in their classrooms.

He has also worked for Cisco, managing a large part of their multi dollar IT training and professional certifications portfolio. As a CXO at Global Discovery Schools and Director of Academics at Pearson Schools India, he has designed the daily classroom experience of thousands of students nationally. He is a multifaceted personality.

He is an educator, writer, lover, fighter, saint, sinner, an ice-cream-holic and a “wannabe engine driver” – as his Twitter bio says. He is also a TED-Ed Innovative Educator and a TEDx Colombo speaker.

Transforming the classroom learning experience and the education system from a race to resource is his IKIGAI.

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Shruthi Lakshmi works at the intersection of design, technology, and learning science to envision and create compelling learning experiences across different channels: physical and digital. After a Master’s in Education from Harvard University and a brief stint at the World Bank in Washington D.C, she returned to India with a passion for designing and developing 21st Century learning environments that will maximize student potential and set the stage for growth. As an Architect, she is constantly striving to push the boundaries of education by integrating design and innovation in every aspect of teaching and learning. She recently founded the design and educational consulting firm Third-i Learning. Third-i designs and develops engaging and empowering content, learning environments, curriculum and e-learning experiences for PreK-12, higher education, and adult learning.

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Intercell is the brain child of Arunabh Varma, a sales, digital & marketing expert and a seasoned professional. He has been associated with luxury automotive brands like Audi, Harley Davidson and BMW in the past. A versatile work experience of 15 years in Telecom, IT, Real Estate and Automobiles. Now an Entrepreneur.

As a marketing enthusiast and master’s degree holder in advertising and marketing management, Arunabh Varma has 15 years of successful results in luxury and premium marketing planning and executing brand strategy activities in customer-focused market. His entire work experience is enriched with product promotional projects carried out in teams where mostly he has worked in the leading position. This includes, but not limited to, launching various types of new successful brand initiatives.

Moreover, Arunabh has advanced analytical skills which can be proven by his ability to handle large and varied amounts of data, extracting business insights and customer buying habits, interpreting and analysing marketing research information as well as using the analyses and formulating business strategies and suggestions.

Throughout his professional career, he has demonstrated a keen ability to effectively influence internal and external stakeholders across the business with his exemplary communication skills. Also, has effectively managed budget and respective performance, product sales and consumer reactions.

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Dr. Hari Krishna Maram is the Vice Chancellor at Universal Digital University-USA, Digital Brand Ambassador- Vision Digital India, Chairman and Founder CEO, Imperial Group Trust and Imperial College, Bangalore. A highly motivated, experienced creative communicator with proven ability to “Achieve beyond Expectation”. He is specialized in concept development, market research, marketing, brand positioning, sales, sales training, educational consulting, university/AICTE/UGC guidelines, Institutional building, international marketing. He had been the Digital Brand Ambassador, Vision Digital India. He is also the Chairman and Founder- CEO of Imperial College. He has been a visiting professor at ICRI Group and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal. He has done his B. Pharmacy from Gulbarga University, PGDIBO in International Business and EEDC in Management from Indian School of Business. He has his articles published on Data Science and Scenario of Indian Higher Education.

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Sathish V. is presently the Regional Director at The National Institute of Open Schooling, Regional Centre,Bengaluru. He has been in the field of education since two decades. He has also been an Academic Officer (Paramedical Sciences) involved in Development in
curriculum and course material for paramedical courses of NIOS. Sathish specialized in working with children with disabilities and preparation of course
curriculum and Learning materials for Vocational Courses.

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Rahul was born in Delhi. He received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and his PhD in Bio-Medical Engineering in USA in 1975. He worked as a research scientist in hospitals and then in medical industry. He was granted over 75 patents on various medical technologies and has authored over 90 manuscripts and 24 book chapters.

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Natahsa is the India head for XSEED Education.  Neetasha joined XSEED following a successful stint at Cafe Coffee Day, where she consolidated the business and delivered higher profitability. Earlier for Royal Sundaram insurance, she built their agency business from scratch. An IIM Calcutta alumna, Neetasha has over two decades of rich experience across diverse industries spanning FMCG (Cadbury & Coke), BFSI (Tata AIG), and retail operations.

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Karan Bhola is a higher education, leadership development and institution building professional. He is currently the Director of Graduate (YIF) Outreach and Admissions at Ashoka University. He has previously worked on several initiatives in higher education, including a project to establish India’s first university for the transportation sector, as well as projects in ed-tech. He was the founding President of the Ashoka University Alumni Association.

Karan is an alumnus of Harvard University (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), Ashoka University (where he was a Young India Fellow), and Loyola College (where he received an undergraduate degree in Economics).

Karan bears a lifelong commitment towards contributing to higher education transformation in India and is fascinated by the power of collaboration.

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Chief Learning Officer at iNurture Education Solutions, Dr Shradha Kanwar MPhil, Ph.D. is an academic professional with over 23 years’ experience in learning innovation leadership, interdisciplinary knowledge building, future-work integration, strategic performance and 21st century metacompetence development.

Dr Kanwar’s core areas of research and work is around futuristic education strategies including, development of hybrid research-based inventive learning solutions, establishment and direction of performance and talent enhancement systems, design and set-up Learning Centres of Excellence for future work environments, and process-centric, information-driven and action oriented academic excellence programs. Currently, her focus is into institutionalizing futuristic and innovative concept called ‘Learning Studio’ at iNurture, a pioneering organization in the higher education space, in India.

She drives the strategic vision for the company’s unique academic positioning and business model innovation along with instituting strategies and processes for continuous improvement in academic excellence and student learning experiences. She has done her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Child Psychology, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Master of Arts in English, M.Phil. and Ph.D. She has also done certifications in the following areas: Teaching certificate from University of Cambridge, Leadership in 21st Century Organizations from University of Copenhagen and Measuring Learning Effectiveness from Commonwealth Education Trust.

Dr Kanwar is the author of numerous research publications, and has presented papers at international conferences and seminars. As a research scholar, she is focussed on changing paradigm of education in the techno-cognitive era, ranging from teacher development to technological interventions in pedagogy, and finally to the emerging spheres of Learning Science.

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Puneeth is an innovation addict with diverse skills in Technology, Business, Design Thinking, obsessed with adding value.

With more than 12 years of experience with a Global Innovation Powerhouse and a global Geographic footprint, he enjoys working with diverse people to solve worthy challenges.

At Bosch, I help create Innovation Strategy for new areas of Innovations for Bosch.

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Vinay, Founder of PiRuby.com, is a passionate entrepreneur who leverages technology to make an impact on the society. Vinay comes with 20+ years of Product & Technology experience in India and US. Vinay has worked for companies like Microsoft & Texas Instruments in the US. Vinay is an IIT Bombay alumni and was Top 30 in Indian National Math Olympiad. Vinay has been featured in Brainfeed Magazine and is an invited speaker in distinguished conferences.

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Varadarajan is Head of Technology for NTTF, where he is driving EdTech digital transformation for this 60year old premier Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution. Prior to NTTF, Varadarajan headed Cognizant pre-onboarding training, for fresh graduate hires. Varadarajan instituted Cognizant’s Hi-Pot talent identification and nurturing program.

As an EdTech expert, he also runs Chennai EdTech Club and Bengaluru EdTech Club, which are peer learning communities for EdTech enthusiasts and progressive educators. Varadarajan mentors early stage EdTech startups, driving from his own failed startup experience. As a BITS Pilani alum, Varadu believes in holistic transformation of every human being through our temples of learning.

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Natasha Joshi leads the education Systems Strengthening vertical at Tata Trusts, and oversees projects in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Tripura. She holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and has worked in the policy implementation space with UNICEF for a number of years, and more recently at NITI Aayog. Her views on different topics in education have been carried by periodicals like India Development Review, The Ken and Swarajya Magazine.

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One among “100 Most Impactful Healthcare Leaders (Global Listing)

In her own words, she builds scalable digital solutions to assist people in their quest to be the happier, healthier and start achieving more. Speaker on TEDx, Television, global events and Radio on managing stress effectively, personal well-being and mental health care.

Currently the CEO of nSmiles, her goal through nSmiles is to help enhance mental health & wellbeing of students, employees and home makers to feel happier and perform to one’s best potential. 

Also founder of Sahayog trhough she helps under privileged children impacting 6000+ kids since last 6 years. Helped more than 1200 people from lower stratum to get jobs.

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M. V. Kalidas has over 33 years of experience leading Senior Management teams spanning IT Products and Services in organizations like Wipro, HCL, Microsoft, and E-Dictate. Currently heading Sales & Marketing at Inpods, an Edu Tech startup. He has helped over 30 Higher Education institutions and Universities implement technology to deliver Outcome-Based Education (OBE). In his previous role in HCL and Wipro he has led business growth and transformation initiatives involving Customer Acquisition, Cost Improvements, M&A Transition and People Process across product lines and geographies. Experience in scaling a start-up U.S. Healthcare, E-Dictate, from scratch to 600+ by successfully implementing Home Based Employee model.
Kalidas is a 1985 graduate from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar. He is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma. On the weekends he mentors MBA students at Indira School of Business Studies. 

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Dr Shivananda C S is the principal at Global Indian International School- a pioneering K12 CBSE School. He has been a Principal for the last 13 years with CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE schools in Indiaand holds amazing track record of fuelling exponential growth of schools he has worked for.

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Managing Director for boutique economic consulting firm EPG, specialising in economic analysis, strategic communications and market entry assistance with India, with offices in London, Bangalore and East Africa.

He was additionally, until August 2017, UK Director for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the premier and largest industry body in India. He is also the co-founder of a tech start-up in the CSR space. Previously he worked in Economic Consulting at FTI Consulting and Deloitte in London and Abu Dhabi, with a focus on public policy and arbitration. He was Chairman for a not-for-profit membership organisation with several thousand members for three years.

He studied Economics at Warwick University, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence, and LMU University of Munich. His dissertation won a prize at an international economics conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published academic research on behavioural economics and social impact and is a regular commentator on public policy and India across print, TV and online media, featured on BBC News, CBC, CNBC, CNN, NDTV, South China Morning Post and Huffington Post.

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Ritika has over 10 years of experience in various sectors and responsibilities, including IT change management, implementation of personalized e-learning tools and managing sales, human resources and operations. She has a passion for improving the quality of learning and education and making learning more meaningful and joyful for everyone, including children, teachers as well as parents.

She has authored “Let’s talk about my feelings” – a rhyming book for children (reading level 7+ yrs) that is a one-of-its-kind on building emotional vocabulary. It is a collection of 12 short stories, each urging the child to express their emotions around difficult topics, such as bullying, gender stereotypes, friendship dynamics, chores and even abuse. 

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A Software Engineer with over 27 years of industry experience. Currently heading India Operations as Director for Augver Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd, which is the India Subsidiary of EON Reality Singapore. Specializes in Operations & Resource Management, Project & People Management. Was managing Banking customers in Africa for more than 7 years. Currently managing AUGVER following passion to bring in change in the way education segment is being operated and focused on making children/students use mobiles for learning than playing games.

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Murali heads the education vertical at LeadSquared. In the last 5 years he has worked with Byju’s, Vedantu, Amity University, ITM Group of Institutions, BML Munjal and many more to implement a successful admission acceleration plan and now he is focussed on making LeadSquared the #1 choice for admission and marketing teams.

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Neeraj Lal has more than 17 Years experience in Healthcare Management. He has studied Masters of Hospital Administration( MHA) from TISS Mumbai. Specialist in Healthcare Operations Excellence, P & L, Business Development, Strategy & Quality. Approved as a Surveyor for ISQua’s International Accreditation Programme ( IAP). Have held senior positions in Indian Hospitals for a number of years. Certified Internal auditor for NABH, NABL and ISO 9001. Guest faculty with many Indian Universities and Business schools for teaching programs in Hospital Administration & healthcare quality.

He is the member of Regional Gujarat Chapter of Academy of Hospital Administration & QCI New Delhi, Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) Ahmedabad, Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA) Noida and Asian Society for Quality in Healthcare.

He was the validation panel member for Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions(CBAHI) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with Dr Lena Low, Executive Director Corporate & Surveyor Workforce, The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards too.

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Vinay Kumar Apparaju is the Director at NMIMS Bengaluru.  He has more than 14 years of experience in various positions at  Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. His publications have appeared in The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, The South Asian Journal of Management and Vikalpa.

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Vinod have been a Gold Medalist in his B.Tech ( Chem. Engg.) from IIT Madras and a Gold Medalist in his MBA from SSSIHL.

He is a serial entrepreneur involved in founding/ co-founding various organizations like Sai Krushna Charitable Trust, SpouseUp and 3H Catalyst. He has also had the opportunity to train and consult for some of the world’s most reputed organizations like Hitachi Ltd, Mitsubishi Ltd, Frost & Sullivan, McKinsey, Unilever and Mordor Intelligence to name a few. he is a passionate trainer and coach and believe in the power of effective upskilling for greater employability.

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Rohan Mahimkar is the Co-CEO of Prodigy Education, where the mission is to help every student in the world to love learning. Prodigy strives to transform education by making education content more engaging, effective, and accessible. In addition to overseeing the marketing and sales of high-quality educational products, Rohan invests a great deal of time into the organization’s extraordinary culture, which was a critical component in Prodigy being named the fastest-growing software company in Canada.

Rohan is driven by the belief that every child deserves access to high-quality educational content, thereby setting them up for successful futures with educated voices, a strong growth mindset, and the capability to be part of a generation of innovators who have discovered their unlimited potential and are using it to make our world a better place.

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Simran’s pre-school journey began from a mother’s heart. First step was to pursue Diploma in Early childcare education to understand this pedagogy in-depth. Obtaining the gold medal was a cue to move further in the world of kindergarten. Journey with ever evolving Little Millennium team has been very exciting for her. At LM, she believes that every child learns best with play way method and multiple-intelligence. Curriculum is now designed to encourage overall development of a child. Her Etiquette Learning & Public Speaking curriculum has recently won her Best Practices Award 2019. Simran’s carefully prepared environment is designed to complement the activities and encourage the teachers towards holistic development. Keeping this in mind, she fosters program like cross learning, teacher development training, employee engagement etc. She firmly believes – that a nurtured teacher can have trickle effect on the children she educates! Teachers regularly inspire, whether they are aware of it or not. But sometime they struggle under the weight of doubt and anxiety! She has chosen to empower her teachers with two things – First, we believe in you, and second, you are the best. Her career spans from early beginnings with Education, Client Servicing to Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development for APAC and US markets. In last 20 years of her career – she has gained many skills that fall outside the traditional genre of Pedagogy. Her goals have always centred on using skills to improve the lives of those who she works with, as well as create value for her internal & external customers. She has often been told, “You don’t seem to fit the stereotype Education specialist person”. She actually takes that as a compliment, because it meant -she is meeting a personal goal to provide a linkage between people and business!

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Natarajan Krishnamurthy (Nats), Director is an engineer by qualification and has over 27 plus years of experience that straddles Manufacturing. BPO and IT industries. He held several Executive Leadership roles in leading organizations such as TI Group, HCL, Accenture, Wipro and cognizant.
He has a proven track record of setting up and running business units that span across markets as well as extensive Marketing and Distribution Networks. He combines a deep knowledge of business process Re-engineering, financial Deal structuring, Operations and technology that provides Voice Snap with a clear edge in our markets and a firm foundation for our Technology Innovations.
Nats look after Operations, Business Development, HR, and Administration in voice snap.

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Dr Gitanjali Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and a Consultant in the Centre for Addiction Medicine at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. After completing her MPhil and PhD in Clinical Psychology from NIMHANS, she did her Post-Doctoral fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis, US. With over fifteen years of clinical experience, her expertise lies in addressing personality related difficulties, addictions, particularly cannabis use among the youth, and social media. She also has expertise in the area of personality disorders. Recently, she established PEDRA (Personality and Emotions Division of Research and Applications) in the psychology department of NIMHANS. She is also a qualified Dialectical Behaviour Therapist though which she works on training people to be mindful, be effective in interpersonal situations, handle distressing circumstances and regulate their moods.

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Dr S Rangarajan have worked for the last 45 years in successive leadership roles in India and in the US. For most of this period, he has worked on a variety of space applications, and the development of innovations that seek to provide better quality and affordable solutions for rural and remote regions of the world.

He was instrumental in creating a satellite-enabled tablet for direct content delivery to students and just in time coaching for teachers in Africa. He pioneered the first satellite‐based tele-medicine project in India.

He was with ISRO, holding important executive positions like Director INSAT, Director MCF –Hassan etc.

At 3H Catalyst, he is keenly associated with enhancing the quality and reach of higher education across rural India. He sees technology as providing a key dimension to the issue of affordable and good quality education.

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