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Executive
Team
The founding
team has combined experience in education and technology
of 20 years.
Praveen
Tyagi, CEO and co-Founder, also runs academic content
and operations. Praveen brings a passion for innovative
content creation and delivery along with a deep understanding
of delivery technologies. He is a hustler for cost cutting.
Before Pragmatum Praveen worked as a software analyst
in the Intel MIPS division in Oracle (Redwood City)
and then worked for various departments (IT, Consulting,
Sales, Marketing and advertising) in the wireless startup
Brience Inc (San Francisco). Praveen received his Masters
in computer Science from University of Alabama and his
Bachelors of Engineering from IIT Roorkee.
Gaurav
Mittal, CMO and co-Founder, runs the sales, marketing
and business development. Gaurav flair for marketing
has helped create a unique personal marketing approach
for customer acquisition. Gaurav also brings operational
experience in the supplemental education space from
his days at Career Launcher. Before that he played key
marketing roles at Zensar and JWT. Gaurav received his
MBA from IIM Lucknow and his Bachelors in Engineering
from IIT Roorkee.
Advisors/Early
Investors
The founding
team is closely advised by Manmohan Jain, founding employee
and ex VP Marketing for NIIT, Ashok, senior executive
of and co-founder of Sigma Corporation (acquired by
Goldman Sachs at $225 M) and Harish Abbott, executives
of Amazon.com and recently co-founder and President
of Ugenie.com.
Manmohan
Jain Advisor
MJ is one of the
pioneers of non formal IT education in India, having
worked NIIT for 19 years since its beginning in 1981.
MJ launched the worlds first online education website
for NIIT www.netvarsity.com
He completed B.Tech from IIT-Delhi in 1981.
Harish
Abbott - Advisor
Harish founded
www.ugenie.com
in 2006. He has earlier worked with Amazon Inc. and
He completed his
MBA from GSB Stanford in 2006 and B.Tech from IIT-Roorkee
in 1997.
Punit
Modhgil Advisor
Punit is Director
Marketing at Microsoft Corp. in New Delhi. He has
worked with Allied Worldwide, Talisma Corp. and Siebel
Systems in the past. Punit brings over 18 years of Sales
and Marketing experience with him.
Ashok
Mittal - Advisor
Ashok is senior
executive of and co-founder of Sigma Corporation (acquired
by Goldman Sachs at $225 M)
Rahul Mittal Advisor
and Investor
Rahul is Sr. Manager
with a leading US corporation. He completed B.Tech (CS)
from IIT-Kanpur in 1985 |
