Prajodh Rajan

Co-founder & Group CEO

Prajodh conceptualized and started EuroKids International in 2001 and has been the driving force behind its growth from 2 pre-schools in 2001 to 1200 pre-schools currently.

He enjoys an enviable reputation in the industry, for his pioneering efforts in early childhood education in the country, besides creating a fertile ecosystem for education entrepreneurship.

He is a proud recipient of the ‘Special Recognition for Contribution to Franchising’ by Indian Franchise Association, Education Leadership Award 2016.

He has also been named as one of the ‘50 Leaders changing Indian Education’ by a leading Education Magazine.

Rajiv Pillai

Chief Finance Officer

Rajiv has close to two decades of experience in business advisory, corporate finance, planning and investor relations. Prior to joining Lighthouse Learning, he was leading the Corporate Finance & Planning function at Lupin Limited. He managed the business performance reporting and controlling for a diverse set of businesses globally. His experience includes a decade with leading consulting firm Ernst & Young, where he successfully delivered business advisory & consulting across multiple segments like Pharma, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Media, Agro-Chemicals and Retail. Rajiv is a Chartered Accountant and an alumnus of INSEAD. He has extensive experience across Strategy, M&A, performance management, strategic cost management, planning and budgeting, tax management and enterprise risk management.

Rohit Kumar

Chief Human Resources Officer

Rohit is a Human Resource (HR) professional with a diverse set of industry experiences. He has worked in pharmaceuticals, telecom & FMCG and has rich experience across the HR spectrum from end to end HR, business partnership and functional HR roles. His last assignment was with Kellogg India where he was the CHRO responsible for India and South Asia. Rohit has grown up in a family of academicians with his father, mother and sister. His father & mother-in-law are educators and hence he brings with him a passion for education and educators.

Avinash Kumar

Chief Digital Officer

Avinash comes on board with close to 2 decades of experience in managing robust project experience in Information Technology.He has worked with leading IT corporations like Oracle and Infosys and has led the digital strategy for start-ups like Vulcan express and Humaralabs Technology. He is an avid marathon runner, and he profoundly believes in promoting underprivileged children to achieve their full potential.

Rahul Deshpande

CEO EuroSchool , Billabong High & Centre Point Schools

Rahul is the CEO for Lighthouse Learning’s K12 Schools division including EuroSchool and Billabong High Schools, which have over 32,000 students across 16 campuses. For over 4 years now, Rahul has been working to ensure that every student discovers his true potential and finds her North Star. Under his leadership, EuroSchool and Billabong High have developed new curricula across ICSE. CBSE and CAIE; launched new technology platforms that span all of their students, teachers and parents; expanded existing schools and opened new schools. Rahul has studied at IIM Kolkata and Harvard University and is inspired to bring his learning from these institutions to K12 schools.

KVS Seshasai

CEO EuroKids & Kangaroo Kids Pre-School

He is an Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the Education Management and Retail Industries. A strong business development professional skilled in Strategic Planning, Execution, Operations Management, Retail, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Team Building.

Bijou Kurian

Board Member

A familiar face in the Indian retail industry, Bijou is the Chairman of the Retailers Association of India. He has been associated with marquee brands in the fast-moving consumer products, consumer durables and retail industry in India for over 34 years. In addition, he is also a member of the World Retail Congress since its inception. As a part of the advisory board and the Grand Jury for selection of the World Retail Award winners.

Bijou is highly credited for building powerful brands such as Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Tanishq, and creating India’s largest exclusive brand retail chains of over 1,000 stores.

He is the Chief Mentor of the FICCI Retail Committee and is currently on the board of several listed and unlisted companies. He is also on the board of select consumer product companies where he mentors a handful of startups.

Indu Shahani

Board Member

Dr. Indu Shahani is a leading Indian educationist and the President & Chair of ISDI - School of Design and Innovation, ISDI | WPP School of Communication and ISME - School of Management and Entrepreneurship; and is the Founding Dean of ISME.

She has been recognized and awarded worldwide for her contribution to the education sector. With 40 years of experience behind her, she has many laurels in her kitty too. She was a national level lead Member of the University Grants Commission.

Former Mumbai Sherriff, she was the first Indian to be appointed Vice-Chair on the Board of Governors of the International Baccalaureate and has a successful decade long run with IB worldwide. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree by the University of Westminster, London, and has bagged the Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ASSOCHAM.

Ashish Kashyap

Board Member

The Founder and CEO of IndMoney, an AI-based wealth tech and advisory platform. Mr. Ashish Kashyap, a technology entrepreneur, has launched multiple businesses in Online Travel, payments and FinTech space.

He has vast experience in building consumer internet and technology businesses from scratch and scaling them. Ashish previously founded the online travel group ibibo and built properties such as Goibibo and redBus. Ashish also co-founded PayU India (previously known as ibiboPay). Recently Ashish has launched INDmoney, an AI-based SuperMoneyApp targeted at affluent Indians.

Prior to founding the "ibibo Group", Ashish was the ‘Country Head’ of ‘Google India’. His ingeniousness can be fathomed through the range of awards he has won. To name a few, 2017 Naspers Founder Award, LinkedIn Power Profile 2-17, Exhibit 100 Tech Indians, The Economic Times, Promising Entrepreneurs of India (2015) and Top 100 Powerful Digital Mavens of India 2012 & 2013.

Prajodh Rajan

Co-founder & Group CEO

Prajodh conceptualized and started EuroKids International in 2001 and has been the driving force behind its growth from 2 pre-schools in 2001 to 1200 pre-schools currently.

He enjoys an enviable reputation in the industry, for his pioneering efforts in early childhood education in the country, besides creating a fertile ecosystem for education entrepreneurship.

He is a proud recipient of the ‘Special Recognition for Contribution to Franchising’ by Indian Franchise Association, Education Leadership Award 2016.

He has also been named as one of the ‘50 Leaders changing Indian Education’ by a leading Education Magazine.

Simrun Mehta

Board Member

Simrun Mehta joined KKR in 2012 and is a member of the Private Equity team. Previously, Ms. Mehta was a part of KKR’s Credit and Capital Markets teams and worked on originating and executing credit financings as well as business strategy and capital raising initiatives for the platform.

Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Mehta worked with Nomura’s fixed income institutional sales desk and the commodities division of Lehman Brothers. Ms. Mehta holds a B.A. with Honors in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi

Suveer Sinha

Board Member

Suveer joined KKR in 2022 and leads the value creation efforts for KKR India’s private equity portfolio companies cutting across industries, including education, healthcare, personal care and industrials.

Prior to joining KKR, Suveer was a partner with McKinsey & Company and drove several large transformations across industries in his fifteen-year tenure. He also worked with General Electric and drove business excellence as a Six Sigma Black Belt.

He earned an M.B.A degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, where he received a gold medallist distinction.