Advisory Board


Mr. Stefaan Van Hooydonk is a senior industry leader – have had long stints with global majors like Philips,Nokia & Agfa. He set up a corporate university for Nokia in Greater China. In this role he was responsible for global e-learning strategy for Nokia’s employees, partners as well as end users – setting up structures & processes to reach out to over 200 million users. He was also the driving force behind company’s goal of introducing mobile learning and edu-gaming to users around the world. In Philips Mr. Stefaan took over the responsibility as Chief Learning Officer of Lighting division, globally. He introduced the notion of “speed to knowledge” resulting in a big focus in Philips on Digital Learning, knowledge transparency and informal learning. He is currently associated as Chief Learning Officer with Flipkart, India’s largest on line retailer. Mr. Stefaan is setting up Flipkart university as a vehicle for people and organizations to accelerate their (un) learning in 21st century.

Mr. Marc Dunham is a senior business leader with a rich global experience in the areas of Sales, Project Management, Product Management, Marketing and Business Development. He has been associated at senior management levels with global majors – Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, Telefonica UK, Nortel. In his last assignment at ALU, he led the Alcatel-Lucent University business for the Americas. Previous to that role Mr. Dunham led Customer Operations for Wireline and Wireless Convergence Services business for the North American market, providing network planning, design, integration, optimization and convergence services to Tier 1 & Tier 2 carriers, cable operators, government & enterprise customers. Mr. Dunham spent 14 years in Europe in a variety of management roles with Alcatel, Telefonica and Siemens.
Mr. Dunham is currently with Methode Electronics in Texas as a Vice President and General Manager of the Data Solutions Group, a diversified portfolio of products supporting the telecommunications, data communications and data center industries with versatile data center infrastructure; structured cabling, UPS and managed services.

Mr. Ruediger Kortmann is a senior business leader with a broad wealth of global experience with leadership in multinational corporations, ranging from software engineering, customer project management, product line management to corporate learning in the telecommunication industry. He has been holding senior leadership positions in the last 25 years in all of these fields, most of them with a global responsibility. Mr. Kortmann did spearhead several global transformations including the one with Alcatel Lucent university, with the result that the entity became one of the front ranking corporate universities in telecommunication space globally.
Mr. Kortmann currently is engaged with Nokia education as its Chief Operating Officer and spearheading another major global transformation.

Manjula Sridhar is the founder of ArgByte Technologies an online platform for cyber security for Individuals. She has an extensive background in technology industry. In her previous roles, she was a Senior Director with Arcot a payment security company (acquired by CA Technologies). Before Arcot she was the founder and CTO of Aujas Network.
She spent large part of early career with Lucent Technologies and worked in wireless network domain. She is a fellow at ispirt a think tank for Indian Entrepreneurship and a mentor at IIMB’s incubation center NSRCell as well as Microsoft Ventures.
She also runs a bootcamp for early entrepreneurs at ikenstartup.org

Malvieka Joshi has 27+ years of experience and for the last 17 years it has been in the Telecom domain. Prior to joining Ciena she worked as Assistant Vice President with Fibcom India Limited which was a joint venture of Tellabs. She has also worked with OSRAM India a multinational FMCG Company. She has been wearing both the legal and HR hats in the previous organizations and has handled mergers and acquisitions well. Her exposure in FMCG, Banking and electronics domain have given her the necessary experience to handle all kinds of talent and workforce.
She is a FCS from the Institute of Company Secretaries and has done a certificate course from Cornell University in General Management with HR. She is also Director Memberships and Secretary of Internal coach Federation, Delhi NCR Chapter. She is a certified coach and has many awards to her credit including the superwoman achiever award, 2016.
Leadership Team

Antarpreet Singh
Co-FounderAntarpreet is a techno business strategist with more than three decades of experience in technology space and has handled several CXO level positions at India as well as Asia Pacific levels with large global companies.

Gurmail Singh
Co-FounderA successful entrepreneur and technocrat with more than 20 years of global IT experience, Gurmail is an expert in the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise solutions.

Preeti Singh
CEOPreeti has over 24 years rich experience with global giants and super brands - Airtel, MTS, Reliance, Max, PVR wherein she held various strategic leadership roles. Her achievements have been recognized nationally and she was awarded the ‘Leading Woman in Customer Service Relations’ by iiGlobal Leadership Awards. She is also independent director with 3 international companies.

Gaurav Gagneja
Digital Marketing HeadDigital Marketing Head
Gaurav is a seasoned digital marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in managing and executing marketing campaigns across verticals for some of the biggest brands across the globe.

Harpreet Bali
HR HeadHarpreet has more than 15 years of extensive experience in Human Resource Management, Manpower Planning, Recruitment, Employee Relations, Performance Appraisal and Formulation of Strategies & Policies. An out-of-the-box thinker, she steers initiatives towards achievement of organizational goal and vision as the key driver of the HR function.

Sunil Lathar
Head of EngineeringSunil brings with him over 18 years of rich experience. He heads the engineering team and is a master of logic and technology. His core competencies asides from being a hands-on techie, are management and client coordination. He has delivered multiple projects in multiple technologies, successfully, for global clients.

Rahul Mahajan
Technical Delivery HeadRahul has over 9 years of experience in delivering high quality IT solutions to global clients, with credible experience in strategic planning and project management.

Parveen Kumar
Creative HeadParveen Kumar has over 12 years of experience in creation and execution of design concepts for marketing communication. He is a leader and often collaborates with writers, editors, marketing specialists and vendors to nurture ideas into designs that drive conversions.
Sales & Digital Marketing

Varsha Kotru
Varsha Kotru is a Digital Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience in promoting B2B/B2C products using web-based technologies.She specializes in Project Management , SEO, PPC Advertisement, Client Servicing & Handling, Online Reputation Management , Web Market Research Analysis, Social Media Optimization, Traffic Analytic and Metrics, Web site usability analysis, Competitive Analysis and Affiliate Marketing

Nikhil Sharma
Nikhil Sharma has more than 9 years of global work experience in IT, which includes last 4 years in Digital Marketing. He also has strong program management experience and has worked on large and complex IT services projects with global customers.
FOOTER

Paras Shori
Paras is a well-focused professional with 4 years of experience in IT domain with strong expertise in Sales, Marketing, Operations and Project Management. Coming from the technical background he is familiar with Web Development, Mobile Development activities as he has worked for many clients in delivering the development projects globally.