My Experience

Two decades across education, startups, and product leadership

Work Experience

Chief Academic Officer

Orchids — The International School

Present

Bangalore, India

Leading academics across a chain of 120+ private schools across India. Responsible for curriculum, academic operations, quality standards, and educator development at scale.

  • Overseeing academic strategy and execution across 120+ schools
  • Driving curriculum innovation and learning outcome improvements
  • Managing large-scale educator training and development programs

Chief Platform Officer

Techademy

Prior

India

Led product strategy for an end-to-end Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for IT companies in India. The platform offered rich content, proctored assessments, mentoring, labs, community, gamification, and job postings.

  • Owned the product roadmap for a full-suite LXP serving enterprise IT clients
  • Integrated rich content, assessments with proctoring, mentoring, and labs
  • Drove gamification and community features to improve learner engagement

Academic Operations & Business Leadership

K12 Techno Services

Prior

India

Held multiple leadership roles at the company that manages Orchids — The International School. Spanned academic operations, new business development (B2B and B2C), and branding and growth for the organisation.

  • Managed academic operations across a growing network of schools
  • Built new B2B and B2C business lines from the ground up
  • Led branding and growth initiatives for the Orchids network

Founder

Book Lovers Program for Schools / MsMoochie Books

Earlier

India

Founded and ran a multi-faceted venture around reading and children's education. Delivered reading programs and storytelling sessions in schools, ran workshops for teachers, managed a children's publishing house, created reading apps, built IB curriculum content, ran a library and a performance space, and consulted with schools and publishing organisations.

  • Founded MsMoochie Books — a children's publishing house
  • Created kids reading apps and IB curriculum content
  • Ran a library, a performance space, and teacher workshops
  • Consulted with schools and publishing organisations across India

Skills & Expertise

Education & Academics

Curriculum DesignAcademic OperationsEdTechLXP PlatformsIB CurriculumTeacher Training

Product & Business

Product StrategyB2B & B2CStartup BuildingBusiness DevelopmentBrand & Growth

Creative

Children's PublishingStorytellingContent CreationWritingApp Development