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