Leadership Team
Mr. Milind Shahane
Chief Executive Officer
Milind is the Chief Executive Officer of Tata ClassEdge since April 2018. Mr. Shahane has been with the Tata group for 28 years and has held senior leadership roles in various Tata Companies including Voltas and Telcon. Prior to joining Tata ClassEdge, he was working as Sr. VP – Projects, with Tata Industries, a position he has from January 2016. During his tenure with Tata Industries, he was involved in investment decisions in the Manufacturing, Materials, Engineering and Supply Chain space for the Group.
Milind has also served as a Director on the Boards of numerous companies of the Tata Group and was the MD and CEO of Drive India Enterprise Solutions Ltd. (DIESL), from 2012 to 2015, wherein he was instrumental in the turnaround of the company through its most challenging period.
Milind has done his B. Tech in Chemical from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, MS in Chemical Engineering from the Syracuse University, USA, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he was a gold medallist. He is currently based out of Mumbai and is associated with leading management institutes like JBIMS, Welingkar, MET as a visiting faculty for Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Operations and General Management Studies.
B Krishnamohan
Chief Information Officer
Krishnamohan is responsible for Information Technology at Tata ClassEdge. He has 29 years of well-rounded IT industry expertise in bridging the gap between business and technology. Has Domain Expertise in finance, manufacturing. heavy engineering construction and hospital management.
He has a master’s degree in business administration (Systems) from JNTU, Hyderabad. Prior to Tata ClassEdge, Krishnamohan has worked with IT in Tata Projects, JSoft Solutions, JSW Steel Ltd, CGS Inc, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
Anil Mammen
Chief – Learning Design & Social Impact
After completing his master’s and MPhil coursework in English Language & Literature from Madras Christian College, Anil started his career as a journalist in Mumbai. He then had a 5+ year stint in advertising.
Prior to joining Tata ClassEdge, Anil headed instructional design at Tata Interactive Systems where he helped design learning solutions for several international educational projects and corporate training programmes.
Anil serves on the Advisory Council of CLIx (Connected Learning Initiative), a collaborative open education initiative between the Tata Trusts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
He has spoken about learning design at various events such as the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge, a joint initiative with IIM Calcutta, CII’s National Seminar on Quality in Education and at IIT Delhi.
Ajay Aggarwal
Chief Financial Officer
Ajay Aggarwal is a Member of the Institute of Chartered of Accountants of India, 1996 and is also a certified Quality Green Belt. He has expertise in financial reporting and controllership; implementation of corporate financial accounting, establishing and implementing financial process, controls, accounting guidelines for consolidation and financial reporting. Ajay has immense experience in building financial strategies and achievement of the budgets / plans to deliver on targets, preparation of the annual and long-range plans with focus on channel and product profitability analysis.
Maria Chandwani
Chief Human Resources Officer
It is Maria’s fondness for clinical psychology and child development that introduced her to the field of human resources and training. She is a trained clinical psychologist with a management degree in human resources from the University of Mumbai.
Maria’s experience in human resource management ranges from manufacturing corporations such as Ion Exchange (India) to the service industry (Indian hotels), where she was General Manager – Human Resources and a Strategic Business Partner to the Global Sales and Marketing function, with the responsibility of the overall HR and learning service delivery, across borders.
As Head – Human Resources, Training and Administration at Ginger Hotels, her role also evolved as a coach and adviser to the leadership team, with a key responsibility of supporting and training facilities management services to deliver delight at modest hotel operations.
She is married with a 16-year-old daughter, with whom she loves to bake and experiment with fusion food and drink. She enjoys treks, reading, particularly about psychology, and is crazy about crocheting.
Sachin Torne
Chief - B2C
Sachin has a corporate career spanning more than 28 years with leading organizations like Tata Interactive Systems, Crompton Greaves Ltd., and Universal Capsules Ltd. He has 16 years of experience in the e-learning and ed-tech industry and has handled leadership roles in product development, project management, quality management and materials management. Sachin holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Business Administration. Sachin is passionate about education and the use of technology to improve teaching and learning processes. He is also a certified ISO 9000 Assessor, certified Value Engineer and Tata Business Excellence Assessor.
Sanjay Radhakrishnan
Chief Strategy and Business Excellence
Sanjay joined the Tata ClassEdge team in 2010. He currently heads the Strategy, Quality, Service (B2B) and Supply Chain function. Prior to this he was leading the Sales, Marketing and Operations function for Tata ClassEdge for B2B.
He has published a white paper on "Technology Integration into Classroom Teaching". He is also the lead faculty for the Principal Leadership Program and has conducted more than 65 such sessions in the last four years, which have been attended by more than 2500 leading principals across the country. He also was invited by NCERT to make a presentation on this subject.
In January 2020, along with Tata Institute of Social sciences faculty made a paper presentation on ‘Framework for ICT and Education Integration in Indian Secondary Schools’. Sanjay also recently published a paper on 'Six Build Blocks for value creation through CSR initiatives' Digital Intervention for schools.
Prior to this, he was Vice President, HR at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company. He has handled key roles including Industry Academic Partnership Programs, Leadership and Talent Engagement Practices, HR Business Partner for the Middle East, and Master Trainer for Sales Training for Agency and Alternate Distribution Channel. He was with the ICICI PRU since its founding days.
He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration & is a certified assessor for Tata Business Excellence Model & Malcom Baldrige. He has completed certification with Cambridge-SMG Training and Six Sigma.
Overall, Sanjay has 25 years of experience across varied functions such as Training, HR, Operations, Marketing, Sales , Strategy and Quality.
Vinod Viswanathan
Head of Sales & Marketing, B2B
Vinod brings in over two decades of diverse experience having handled business development with organizations like Pearson, Manipal Group and the Times Group. He has extensively worked in the Education sector handling roles in School management, Test-prep, Tutoring, Assessments and Higher Education. He has consistently demonstrated the ability to build businesses from scratch and to streamline business operations. Vinod has worked extensively in setting partner networks both within India and in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
Vinod has a B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Marketing and Finance from Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy