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People behind it

Hema Srinivas
Hema Srinivas, an IIMC alumnus has worked with several Indian and Multinational corporates before successfully setting up an HR services firm. She was an early Dotcom entrepreneur as well, having set up India's first group buying portal www.buyasone.com which would be the precursor to the groupon models.

She brings in extensive management experience and a vast network of contacts that can convert this dream into a reality. Education and healthcare are current areas of interest for this intrepid entrepreneur.
Gopal Kidao
Gopal Kidao has an MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Duke University and is a well-known name in the quizzing circles having won several notable quizzes like the Landmark Quiz, the IIT-Madras Open quiz, the Hindu Businessline Ad Club as well as appearing on TV on BBC's Mastermind-India. He is also the one of the founders of the Quiz Foundation of India (QFI), Chennai chapter. He has conducted several quiz related events in the past for a variety of occasions like the CEAT Open quiz, the Odyssey Open quiz and the Kurukshetra Open quiz and is an avid developer of school level activities in this area. He is also a partner in Quizician, an organization known to conduct superlative quizzes.

Wizards

These are the people who helped us think, guided, mentored, did not laugh when we ideated.

Sushila Ravindranath
Sushila Ravindranath started her career as a journalist with Business India and was with them till the year 2000 when she was Chief of Bureau - South. She went on to set up Hansazone an entertainment portal promoted by R K Swamy BBDO, and then took over as Editor of the New Indian Express Sunday paper. She is currently consulting editor with Financial Express.
Baradwaj Rangan
Baradwaj Rangan is a National Award-winning film critic, currently Deputy Editor at The Hindu. His writings on cinema, music, art, books, travel and humour have been published in various national magazines.His latest book, Conversations with Mani Ratnam has been a runaway success.
Padma Chandrasekaran

Padma Chandrasekaran has worked in senior and executive level positions for the last 25 years in India and abroad.
Padma's private sector experience (1984-2003) followed a standard gradient of developer, manager, executive officer and entrepreneur in the IT sector in India, US and the UK. She was a founding member of Sify Ltd and part of the team that took it public on Nasdaq in 1999. She subsequently founded, ran and then successfully sold a web services software technology company.
Between 2003 and 2011, she worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she held responsibilities for strategy development, program management and impact evaluation in various areas of public health research and services. She continues to consult for international health tech and research organizations.
Since mid-2012, Padma has pursued opportunities in angel investing. Her current angel investment interests include biotech, health and clean energy.
Padma holds a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Presidency College, Calcutta; an MBA (PGP 1984) from IIM Ahmedabad and a Master's degree in Telecommunications from the University of San Francisco, California. She has authored several highly cited peer reviewed papers in premier, high impact journals such as The Lancet and the BMJ group of journals.

People behind it

Hema Srinivas

Gopal Kidao

Wizards

Sushila Ravindranath

Baradwaj Rangan

Padma Chandrasekaran