Our Team
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Vishy Thiagarajan
Director
An engineer from BITS, Pilani, Vishy has more than fifteen years of experience in Mobile, Internet and Telecommunications technologies. He is currently the VP, Device Software at Veveo India (P) Ltd, and prior to that, he was with Motorola, and Winphoria Networks. Vishy strongly believes that educating a child is the best way to create responsible individuals who would further create a better world, and the opportunity to use technology to provide quality education at eVidyaloka is a step towards that dream.
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Venkat Sriraman
Director
An engineering graduate from BITS Pilani (Class of '95), Venkat has held various engineering positions in the field of Software Product and IT Application Development in companies like Aditi, Citigroup, Honeywell, Microsoft and Dell. Venkat is a passionate technologist who is excited about applying technology to solve chronic social challenges of India, and eVidyaloka is a dream to be realized in that direction, in the form of a social enterprise. For him, the move from a corporate job to the development sector is a conscious profession change and Venkat believes in applying the professional competencies gained towards the execution of a larger social initiative.
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V. Ramkumar
Director
A management consultant by profession, Ram is presently a Senior Partner at Cedar, a global management consulting firm, and had earlier worked with PwC. He is a postgraduate in Management from BITS Pilani and has completed his executive education programs at INSEAD and Harvard. With firm conviction that education is the panacea for sustained growth of a society, Ram brings his experience of formulating and implementing strategy for global clients, in the institutional building of eVidyaloka, and promulgating the philosophy of rural education.
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Gopal Balasubramanian
President/CEO
A seasoned IT professional & a thought leader ,known for Innovation & analytical acumen, with 27+ years of experience across Pre-Sales ,Consulting ,Transition, Transformation & Delivery Management of CIS (Cloud, Infrastrcuture and Secuirty) Services. Most recently he served as the Global practice Head of CIS business at Cognizant where he played a critical role in incubating this business from 2004 to its current scale & stature - recognized as a Global leader in the industry . True believer in technology led transformation of rural education space and community participation at scale, for every child to get quality education. Gopal graduated from BITS,Pilani with degrees in the B.E(Hons) EEE & MSc(Hons) Mathematics streams. Gopal is based out of Chennai, India and is an avid reader and also a connoisseur of South Indian classical music.
CONNECTING PASSIONATE VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE QUALITY EDUCATION PRIMARILY FOR RURAL CHILDREN
● Working with Government,local communities and other partners
● Leveraging technology to empower learning ecosystem
TO CREATE A KNOWLEDGEABLE & EMPOWERED INDIA THROUGH QUALITY EDUCATION.
- Selflessness : Nothing is 'MINE'
- Integrity : Non-negotiable
- Passion : Giving time to educate
- Execution : Committed to make things happen