Global Discovery Schools very purposefully navigated towards the intelligent intellectual capital,the capital that is passionate about education. Global Discovery Schools advisors are a fairly diverse group, coming from multiple continents, multiple professional and educational backgrounds. They include C-suite executives, lawyers, academicians, and educators that have a blue chip education and distinguished track records in their fields. Yet, they are united by one purpose - To build the best in education schools in India.
ARJUN MALHOTRA
- B.Tech. - IIT Kharagpur
- A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Founded TechSpan; Served as CEO and Chairman of Techspan
- Served as Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors, co-founded the HCL group in 1975 taking it from six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest IT corporations
SANJEEV BIKHCHANDANI
- MBA, IIM Ahmadabad
- 25+ years of global experience
- Founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge India Limited (Naukri.com)
- Founder & Trustee member of Ashoka University, a philanthropic initiative founded by eminent scholars and visionaries to provide a liberal education on par with the best universities around the world
AKHIL SHAHANI
- MBA, Kellogg School of Management
- “Bharat Shiromani” award winner
- Leads Education-focused PE firm, Kaizen
- Runs non profit SAGE Foundation (Education and skills training in rural Maharashtra)
JYOTI PANDE
- M A Economics from Delhi School of Economics
- Columnist & Writer including in areas of Education & Healthcare
- Financial Journalist with The Economic Times, Dow Jones Newswires, providing in-house content for the Wall St Journal and the Asian Wall St Journal
- British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship winnner, London, 1995
SHRIPATI ACHARYA
- B.Tech. (IIT), MS (Stanford), MBA (Harvard)
- Early stage venture capitalist at AngelPrime
- Co-Founder, Snapfish; Head - Cisco’s education business
Anjali Grover
- MBA (IIM A) , Masters from Insead
- 20 Years of buiness strategy & brand development
- Advisor to Singapore owned Statutory Boards on Education
Varun Bhatia
- XLRI (Human Resources) , Xaviers) , Shriram College, Delhi, Organisational Behavior from Havard, Corporate Finance from London Business School
- Member of the Human Resources Policy Institute, Boston University, former co-chair of the American Chamber of Commerce, Human Capital Committee in Singapore, former member of the Asia Pacific Human Resources Management Council, The Conference Board.
- 30 years of HR experience that includes Chief HR Officer at levi strauss & co., Vice President - HR Kraft (APAC region), Gillette, P&G
- Currently Founder Preseident of Growth Outcomes and advisor to business houses on HR Solutions to scalability
- Investor in The Human Resources Fund, a private equity fund focused on human resources-related innovative startups