Shantanu Prakash

Mr. Prakash, MBA (IIM- Ahmedabad) is the Chairman and Managing Director of Educomp Solutions Limited.

Shantanu Prakash founded Educomp Solutions Limited in 1994, a few years after acquiring an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Shantanu’s vision has been to transform the teaching-learning process through the use of technology and best practices.

Shantanu is also the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Learning Leadership Foundation (LLF), an organisation dedicated to bringing best practices in education to under-resourced schools. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of Lakshya Digital Pvt. Ltd.- a pioneering game development studio, based out of New Delhi, India.

Shantanu is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), an organisation that connects entrepreneurs. He is a frequent speaker in education and business conferences worldwide.

Gopal Jain

Mr. Jain, Director, B.Tech (IIT Delhi) is the Managing Director of Gaja Capital Partners, a private equity firm.

Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com) has made a strategic investment in Educomp. Earlier, Mr. Jain was the Managing Director, India, View Group, a venture capital firm focused on US-India corridor.

He is also a charter member of TiE - a global body of entrepreneurs of Indian origin.
 

Shonu Chandra

Mr. Chandra, Director, MA in Mass Communications from Mass Communication Research Centre (J.M.I.) holds a Post Graduate Diploma (CYD) from Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands). He is Executive Producer and Director at Waves Communication Pvt. Ltd.

He has directed over a 100 video productions including documentaries, serials, corporate films and advertisements. He has worked for major International Development agencies, such as Plan, UNICEF, WHO, USAID, AUSAID, CEDPA, CARE, CASP, DRF and various Ministries of the Government of India. His project ‘Children Have Something To Say’ for Plan India won the coveted ‘One World Special Achievement Award’ 2003.

He is also a guest Faculty at Brown University (Providence, USA).

Sankalp Srivastava

Mr. Srivastava, Director, B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering) / IIT Roorkee is the founder of Mark & Space.

Mark & Space is engaged in the design, development and the manufacture of micro-processor based telecom, power control and energy management systems. Earlier, Mr. Srivastava led the development of the business management software product suite at Cube Software.

He has been involved in the design & development of India’s indigenous digital telephone exchange at C-DoT.

Jagdish Prakash

Mr. Jagdish Prakash, Director, has a first class M.Com from Agra University. As a whole time director in the company, his responsibilities include procurement, inventory management and logistics. He is also responsible for certain key operational areas of the company.

Mr. Prakash has worked as the Chief Material Manager in the Steel Authority of India. He had been a Marketing & Management Consultant with PSUs and academic institutions. He has wide ranging experience, spanning over about 48 years, in marketing and materials management of industrial products including procurement, inventory and logistics management. He has been a marketing and materials management consultant with several PSU’s and academic institutions.

Mr. Prakash is also a well- known poet who writes both in English and Urdu. He has written many articles on management issues. His poems have been published in newspapers and magazines like "Pioneer," "Continuum" and "Adab Saaz".

Two of his poetry compilations have won awards from the Urdu Academy, New Delhi.