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.
Atul Sharma
Chief Financial Officer
Atul is the Chief Financial Officer of Tata ClassEdge. He has been working with Tata ClassEdge since 2014 and with the Tata Group since 1998. Atul has over three decades of varied experience handling all facets of finance including financial control & reporting, business planning, financial analysis, compliance, project management of special projects such as setting up and managing of Shared Services Centres. He has consistently demonstrated the ability to streamline business operations within start-ups and multi-billion-dollar global organizations that drive growth and increase efficiency and bottom-line. He has held senior finance positions (VP Finance/Financial Controller/CFO) in various Tata Group companies such as Tata Teleservices, Tata Communications, Tata Communications Payment Solutions, etc. Atul has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI.
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 Officer - Product Design & Development
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 Commercial Officer
Sanjay joined the Tata ClassEdge team in 2010. He was extensively involved in setting up the service delivery and assurance process for the Operations function at Tata ClassEdge.
Prior to this, he was Vice President, HR at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. He has handled key roles related to Industry Academic Partnership Programs, Leadership and Talent Engagement Practices, HR Business Partner for Middle East, and Master Trainer for Sales Training for Agency and Alternate Distribution Channel. He was with the organization since its founding days.
Overall, Sanjay has 21 years of experience varied functions from Training, HR, Operations and Sales.
He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration, is a certified Malcom Baldrige Assessor and has completed a certification with Cambridge-SMG Training.