Our Leadership Team

Rohit is the Chief Human Resources Officer at LEAD. He works closely with the leadership team and builds a stronger, happier, and more driven workforce at LEAD.

He comes with over 25 years of HR expertise. In his last role, he was the CHRO at Paytm where he led the strategic HR agenda for the company. Prior to Paytm, Rohit was with Accenture where he was responsible for  Accenture’s talent strategy and HR service delivery & operations across all businesses in India.

Rohit has previously also worked with Microsoft, where he served as Head of Human Resources for Microsoft India. Prior to this, he spent 11 years at GE in various HR leadership roles across multiple businesses like Energy, Capital, Engineering, Corporate and Aviation both in India and the United States. He has also worked with Eicher Tractors, Cadence Design Systems, and Bausch & Lomb.

Anupam Gurani is the Chief Business and Marketing Officer at LEAD, India’s largest School Edtech company.

In addition to leading overall Marketing strategy and implementation, Anupam is responsible for driving customer success and revenue generation at LEAD, with a focus on continually delivering results for all school stakeholders.

An accomplished Sales, Marketing and Strategy professional with over 18 years of experience, Anupam has previously led teams in leading multinational organizations such as Disney+ Hotstar, Vodafone, Google and Reckitt, across India and Southeast Asia. His work experience spans a diverse set of functions, including Marketing, Digital Marketing, P&L management, Brand building, Sales, Key Account Management and Channel marketing.

Anupam is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and Delhi College of Engineering. He grew up in Gurgaon, and currently lives in Mumbai with his family. He is a voracious reader, a fitness enthusiast and loves cooking.

Harsh drives the day-to-day development process of all our applications, ensuring that LEAD is equipped with adept technological capabilities and that all our resources are used efficiently, profitably, and securely by all our stakeholders. Under his leadership, evaluation and implementation of new systems and infrastructure are never amiss. He works closely with the senior leadership to develop the company’s strategy to offer our solutions to every corner of the country.

Highly skilled in building scalable and high performance internet architecture, Harsh started off as a Software Developer at Lutron Electronics, USA, Harsh has held senior positions in technology teams across industries. He worked as Head of Technology at Edutech company MeritNation.com. Harsh has a Masters in Human-Computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Ajay drives the design and development of products at LEAD for all users, i.e, teachers, students, parents, principals, academic coordinators and school owners. He ensures that the users have a seamless and delightful experience, while delivering the best education possible to the students.

Ajay comes with 16 years of experience in product management, entrepreneurship, data science and consulting. In his last role, he was the CEO and Founder of Boxx.ai, which was later acquired by Netcore. Prior to that, Ajay has worked in McKinsey, RedPill (later acquired by IBM) and Crayon. Ajay is an alumnus of IIT Bombay.

Gaurav Sharma is Chief Academic Excellence Officer at LEAD, India’s largest School Edtech company and the first unicorn in the segment.

Gaurav is responsible for the execution of LEAD’s integrated system and methodology across its partner schools, pan-India. His team is passionate about bringing academic excellence to our schools, teachers and students.

Before LEAD, Gaurav was the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Customer Officer at Furlenco. He was a part of the Furlenco growth story and scaled up operations and built best in class customer experience over 4 years. Prior to Furlenco, Gaurav was a Business Consultant with Accenture and also worked at HP in the global CXO’s office.

Gaurav is a gold medalist from IIM Kozhikode and an alumnus of IIT Bombay. He was an integral part of a National Award winning film on RD Burman and has written two coffee table books on the maestro. He takes leadership sessions around RD, his music and management and is a speaker at many forums.

Srinivasan Thimmarayan (Srini) is Chief Capability Officer, LEAD.  Srini leads all capability building and Learning & Development initiatives across LEAD’s Central and Functional L&D teams, in addition to his responsibilities as CEO of the Managed by LEAD business.

Srini has been instrumental in setting up the core team at LEAD and in scaling the company’s work to over 9000 schools.

Srini has over 10 years’ experience in the K-12 segment.  This includes not just the setting up of 100+ CBSE schools across India, but also operationalizing these institutions and growing them into the most preferred schools. Srini has deep expertise in improving admissions, school branding, student learning, teacher performance, school financial health, school-parent relationship and in driving growth of all school stakeholders.

Srini personifies excellence, commitment and discipline. Transforming education in India is not just his passion but the core of his decisions.

Deepak Hariharan is the new Head of Expansion at LEAD, India’s largest School EdTech company and the first unicorn in the segment.

As the Head of Expansion at LEAD, Deepak will further the organization’s vision to make excellent education accessible and affordable for every child, by transforming affordable private schools across India. He will play a pivotal role in driving forward the vision of LEAD – “to provide propulsive learning opportunities to over 26 million children by 2026.”

Prior to joining LEAD in mid-2022, Deepak has been a Business Leader, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Public Speaker and Mentor in his 15+ year experience:

• Driven growth and scaleup for unicorns such as Zomato and Tata 1mg (2018-2022)

• Founder and CEO of MentorYes, a student mentorship platform – his first venture into edtech (2015-17)

• Business consultant with Feedback Infra (2008-2016)

• TEDx speaker

• Advisor & mentor to several youth / entrepreneurship platforms – including the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Ashoka University.

An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and NIT Calicut, Deepak grew up in Bangalore, and currently lives in Delhi with his family. He is an avid reader and dabbles with writing & painting when he can.