Investor and Mentor

Vinay Sharma

S. Chand Group

Company Type: Corporate

Preferred Industries: Digital Media E-Commerce Education Health & Welness Marketing Services Technology

Brief Profile: Vinay is an accomplished business leader, and a digital evangelist with over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, new product launches, and P & L management across education, technology and consumer sectors. Vinay heads the digital business for one of the leading education services company. As part of his portfolio, he manages digital content business for schools, preschool operations and leads group investments in new Ed-tech companies. Prior to S Chand Group, he had been with HCL, and was also part of the founding team for Indiacan Education (A Pearson Educomp JV). He also had an entrepreneurial stint as a partner in Elements Academia Ltd, a skills building company. He was profiled in Business Outlook issue of Social Entrepreneurs. In addition, he has significant experience in technology and consumer sectors having launched new products and built channels in Airtel, Comsat Max (A Lockheed martin JV with max India) and Blow Plast. Ltd. He did his PGDM from IIM Calcutta post engineering.