People

Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director

B.Tech (IIT Madras), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Sridhar worked with Tata IBM for three years before he joined Eklavya Education Foundation. He was part of the team that was responsible in setting up Eklavya School and he was instrumental in the conceptualization, implementation and running of the Eklavya Institute of Teacher Education. Currently he is spearheading the efforts at Educational Initiatives looking mainly at the test development process, teacher training and curriculum services.

Venkat Krishnan N, Director

BSc, Grad ICWA (Bombay Univ), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad)
After his PGDM from IIM-A, Venkat worked with The Times of India Group, where he had stints in the Modernisation, Business, Corporate and Brand Management functions. He then joined the core team that set up SONY Entertainment Television in India, before co-founding Eklavya Education Foundation. Under the foundation, Venkat set up Eklavya School in Ahmedabad and ran it for 4 years. He then set up www.GiveIndia.org, India’s first philanthropy exchange, that currently channels over Rs 15 crores p.a. (US$4million) from over 50,000 individual donors and 100 corporations to over 150 NGOs all over India.

Sudhir Ghodke, Director

BE (Mech), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Sudhir Ghodke was a part of the team that started Eklavya Education Foundation. He worked for a year with Tata Engineering in Jamshedpur and Kolkata as a Sales Engineer before his PGDM and with ITW-Signode, Hyderabad as Key Customers’ Manager, handling the top 20 customers of the company after completing his PGDM. As a part of the core team of Eklavya, he focused on curriculum development, architectural design and facilities planning, parenting workshops and writing articles. At EI, he is focusing on setting up the network of people who will interact with schools all over India. He says, “EI has the potential to make a significant difference in the domain of primary school education and opens opportunity to like-minded people to join in this exciting and eventful effort.”

Vyjayanthi Sankar, Vice President - Large Scale Assessment

M.Sc, B.Ed, (PG. Dip in Bioinformatics)
Vyjayanthi, an M.Sc. from the University of Madras, has the eclectic experiences of straddling fields related to school, college, computer education, research and content development over the last 18 years. In her previous assignment she served as the DGM for the technical division of Lakhotia Computers for Gujarat, Rajasthan, Malaysia and Middle East, handling curriculum, testing, faculty training and network administration. She has many research papers in ‘Life Sciences’ and ‘School Education’ to her credit. She is VP of Large Scale Assessment division in EI and is based in Hyderabad.

Suchismita Srinivas, Vice President - Digital Adaptive Learning

B.Ed. from Delhi University and a Diploma in Child Guidance
Suchismita, a Graduate in Maths, a B.Ed. from Delhi University and a Diploma Holder in Child Guidance from IGNOU, is passionate about Maths. She has taught Maths to 9 to 15-year olds in various schools, for over 14 years, with the mission of helping children develop a long term interest in the subject. At EI, she is working on Digital Adaptive Learning content development and is based in Mumbai.

Vishnuteerth Agnihotri, Vice President - Test Development

B.Tech (IIT Madras)
Vishnu, a B.Tech from IIT Madras, has 14 years of experience in Consulting, Business Development, Project Management, and Performance Improvement. He was a Sr. Program Manager with i2 Technologies, a leading global provider of software solutions. At EI, he is mainly handling the Test Development department and is based in Bangalore

Urmila Thaker, Vice President - Training

M.A (English), M.Ed
Urmila, an MA in English and an M.Ed, has worked as: the Academic Co-Ordinator for Amrit Jyoti School, the Principal of Hiramani and SGVP Schools in Ahmedabad, an Education Officer at Aga Khan Education Service Education Consultant to a group of schools of Prantij Kelavni Mandal, Prantij. With over 35 years of experience including 20 years of teaching and in other capacities in schools, Urmila is easily the most experienced person in the organization. At EI, as VP - Training, she coordinates the training activities and is also the key faculty for many of EI’s training programmes.

Sandeep Saha, Vice President – Marketing & Alliances

B.Tech (IT-BHU), PGDM (IIM Calcutta)
Sandeep has joined EI after a 18 year stint in the corporate world, where he worked for Microsoft and Oracle among others, in diverse roles of marketing, sales, alliances & channels, project management and IT consulting. At EI, he is concentrating on strengthening and building the brand value of EI products through customer and market feedback and research, user group activities, broadening of awareness of EI’s work and strategic tie-ups. Sandeep feels the spread of quality education to school children is an imperative for the true growth of any society and EI would continue to play a pivotal role in that pursuit.