A Career Educationist been a Teacher and later the Principal of the prestigious Bishop Cottons Girls High School, Bangalore. In her tenure, she brought modernization to the school infrastructure as well tech-enabled the administration and schooling. She has to her credit to have successfully invited and conducted a School Event with the exuberant former President Dr Abdul Kalam. Dr Stella successfully ran an US Education franchisee Fast Track for kids. She is an active member with several Educational Committees. She consults Schools on performance management and experiential learning. Dr Stella holds a Doctorate in Geography with several research paper published.
Founder & Head, SPARK Academy SHERLEY PAUL
SHERLEY PAUL
Founder & Head, SPARK Academy
A passionate educator with over two decades of teaching experience. Sherley founded SPARK Academy as the first franchisee in Pune for Abacus, way back in 2002. An alumna from the prestigious Stella Maris College, she runs her academy with a team of well trained Instructors and is herself an Abacus Grand Master. She is a B.Ed and also holds an MBA degree. A keen sportswoman, Sherley has captained the Tamilnadu State Hockey Team. An active Rotarian, she has contributed immensely to the needy.
And with all this, she has found time to paint and do Himalayan treks.
Educationist, MA, M.Ed (Gold Medalist), Ph.D (Edu) Dr ANUPAMA GUPTA
She is the Director of Education at Global Sainik Academy a renowned institution in Karnataka. She has 27 years of experience as an educationist. Being an army wife, she has taught in Army Public Schools in various cities. For the past 5 years she has volunteered to be part of the Bangalore based NGO e-Vidyaloka to online tutor the Naxalite affected village school at Chengarbasa in Giridih district in Jharkhand State. She is a passionate teacher and gets a lot of satisfaction by bringing positive changes in the lives of children. Not surprisingly, Dr Anupama is the recipient of many awards & recognitions.
Mentor & Advisor NAVIN KRIPALANI
NAVIN KRIPALANI
Mentor & Advisor
Mr. Navin Kripalani is a Mentor and Advisor for young companies looking for exponential growth. Private Bike share, Interiors, Medical Imaging are some of the companies, he is involved with. His guidance is towards organizational set-up, Funding and Marketing. He specializes in managing cultural changes, critical appraisal of business, getting processes into your DNS, assessing & profiling human resource needs and strategic business initiatives. He was the President of TiE, Pune Chapter during 2010-11. He is one of the Founders, and a Governing Council Member, of Innovations Pune, a part of the Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. Group. He was also Managing Director of Kilobytes India Ltd., a company manufacturing and exporting 1 Million 5.25” Floppy Discs every month.
Mentor & Advisor MAJOR PRINCE PAUL
MAJOR PRINCE PAUL
Mentor & Advisor
An achievers career-profile spanning 25+ years. A Masters in HR and a certified systems-thinking expert from Haines Centre USA, Prince is the pioneer of Edutech/Fintech company ‘NIMka’, operating in over 20 franchisees/ locations. NIMka offers courses to children in Practical Maths & Financial Education. As a HR Leader, he worked with MaFoi Consultants, then India’s largest HR Company, as its National Manager growing its outsourced base from a mere dozen to 25,000+ members. He started his career as an Army Major, an alumna of NDA, spending a decade in J&K as a Combat Mission Commander, wounded with frostbite, honored with the Special Services Medal. Also an award-winning Rotary Club President, he is a budding author, book buff, a tea addict and a traveler at heart.
Prof of Mathematics M.Sc (Maths), M.Phil, BEd SHERYNE JOHN
SHERYNE JOHN
Prof of Mathematics M.Sc (Maths), M.Phil, BEd
Sheryne is passionate about teaching Mathematics and makes use of different methods to make the subject easier and interesting to the students. She enables the students to have a genuine comprehension of Mathematics as a logical basis for scientific thinking. She has helped in designing the Mathematical concepts that are brought alive with 2D, 3D graphs using coding.
Her career began as a teacher in St Christopher’s College, Chennai. Sheryne holds a Masters in Mathematics, completed her MPhil degree and is currently pursuing her PhD in Mathematics. She has presented several papers and participated in National & International Conferences.