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  • upGrad names Srikanth Iyengar as CEO – workforce development for North America & Europe

    upGrad names Srikanth Iyengar as CEO – workforce development for North America & Europe

    Mumbai: Edtech major upGrad announced the appointment of Srikanth Iyengar as the CEO of workforce development, effective September 2022.

    Srikanth has over two decades of work experience spanning North America and Europe. In his previous profiles, he led large multinational businesses across diverse industries like tech services and learning/talent upskilling, consistently driving revenue growth and profitability across a portfolio of 2000 global clients across North America, Europe, and APAC regions. In addition, he is a passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and has championed various initiatives around technology-led business transformation, IT solutions, FMCG, and skills & training development for driving strong brand recognition and financial growth at large.

    In his current role, Srikanth will build and scale a B2B proposition that upskills experienced technology professionals. With this offering, upGrad is well placed to address a significant and growing technology skills gap in the global marketplace by delivering a world-class proposition. It will also be responsible for leveraging the company’s unparalleled breadth of technology curriculums, significantly large alumni community, and proven expertise in delivering tangible learning outcomes. Srikanth’s efforts will be instrumental in setting up a robust ‘diversity and inclusion’ (DnI) framework to allow businesses to build a future-ready and productive workforce.

    upGrad co-founder & MD Mayank Kumar said, “We continue to strengthen our focus on the global enterprise segment in pursuit of predictable, profitable, and sustainable growth. With Srikanth joining our leadership team, we look forward to leveraging his sharp business acumen and multi-cultural intellect to further sharpen our client focus, strengthen our operational excellence and global presence, and also enhance sales leadership for continued growth.”

    “The results of the conference board 2022 global CEO survey show that a shortage of skills, especially technology skills, is one of the biggest short and medium-term challenges facing global corporations today,” added Srikanth Iyengar.

    “We are confident that upGrad’s workforce development proposition will help our clients address this problem in a scalable and holistic manner. The workforce development approach is critical for businesses to follow as it would not just upskill but also build employees’ resilience to empower organisations and corporates with the tools needed to adapt to the future job markets. Over the last few months, I have developed much respect for upGrad founders and the leadership team as a result of their strategic clarity and relentless, disciplined approach to growth and market leadership. I am really excited to be joining such a high-performing team and to help build a truly special organisation going forward,” he concluded.

    With a strong focus on the US, Europe, and select western markets, Srikanth will continue to work from London, United Kingdom. In the most recent development, the global edtech player has closed its sixth key acquisition of CY2022 to further strengthen its enterprise (B2B) business portfolio in India and beyond.

  • Pepper Content partners with Skillshare to grow the creator economy

    Pepper Content partners with Skillshare to grow the creator economy

    Mumbai: The SaaS marketplace Pepper Content has announced its partnership with Skillshare, an online learning creative community.

    The vision behind this association is to empower creators. Together these two platforms aims to help creators upgrade their skill sets and deliver engaging in-depth content.

    With the total size of the creator economy estimated to be a little over $100 billion, this partnership will further build credibility for the content ecosystem.

    As a content marketplace, Pepper Content skillfully connects organisations with its large database of content creators. To enable this profusely, the partnership will empower content creators with better skills to deliver on-ground impact for brands. Through an AI-enabled platform, Pepper Content helps create unique and custom made content for each organisation. Further to this, their ultimate aim is to empower the passion economy that offers alternative ways of making money, innovative paths towards professional fulfilment, and unprecedented career opportunities.

    Under this partnership, Skillshare will provide a special discount coupon code on their annual subscription and scholarship to 10 Pepper Content creators every month. The winners of the scholarship each month will be announced on Pepper Content’s social media. Creators can also explore thousands of hands-on creative classes giving them an opportunity to build on their existing writing skills in an institualised framework from the comforts of their home.

    Working on a new way to get content done, Pepper Content is building for the world from India and also looking at entering the US market by end of the year. Currently, about four to five per cent of the company’s revenues come from outside India and the company is looking to expand the creator network and demand-side globally.

    On this association Pepper Contenr lead community, events and partnership Pawan Rochwani said, “We are extremely excited to work with a brand like Skillshare that truly understands the power of content. At Pepper Content, our larger mission is to build a virtual content team for any company globally. Creators and brands are at the core of our business and content, our superpower.  Therefore, we aim to enable the ambitions of our creators to articulate their creativity and help brands communicate their story to the audience.”

    Speaking of this partnership Skillshare India market head Aayur Kaul commented, “The creator economy has seen tremendous growth in the past year and is expected to boom in the coming years. Skillshare, is at the forefront of empowering creators by providing access to learning resources to help them inspire and explore their creative instincts. Our partnership with Pepper Content, is  definitely a step taken in the right direction with a mission to enable the next generation of content creators in India.”

  • Cuemath bolsters leadership team with key appointments

    Cuemath bolsters leadership team with key appointments

    Mumbai: Cuemath, the global math tutoring platform, has announced several new senior appointments as it continues the reorganisation of its leadership team. The company onboarded Samir Kulshresth as CFO, Nisha Popli as CHRO, Janardan Singh as chief of sales, and Anushray Gupta as chief product and technology officer ahead of its next growth phase.

    Samir and Nisha have joined Cuemath already, with Janardan and Anushray’s appointments effective from January 2022. All the new hires will report to Vivek Sunder, who was newly appointed as CEO in October.

    “As we prepare for our next wave of growth, these leadership changes will strengthen governance in Cuemath 3.0 and support our goal of a presence in 50 countries and becoming a global math leader,” stated Cuemath founder and chairman Manan Khurma. “With Vivek at the helm, supported by this senior leadership talent, we are poised to scale greater heights.”

    Samir, a chartered accountant, has over 19 years of financial management experience across the e-commerce, healthcare, telecom & IT/ITES industries. He has held previous roles at Practo, Fortis Healthcare, Genpact, and Indus Towers.

    Janardan has over 20 years of business leadership experience with expertise in scaling up in the ed-tech industry. His last assignment was with ClassKlap as its founder and COO.

    Nisha has over 19 years of experience in directing human resources programs for leading businesses, including the Big Four accountancy firms and leading global professional services firms globally. Prior to Cuemath, she was heading HR for Moglix India, a B2B e-commerce start-up. She has also worked as the head of people office for the small format business of Future Group India, global HR head with The Smart Cube, and other HR roles with KPMG, Grant Thornton, and Ernst & Young.

    Anushray is rejoining Cuemath having originally built the company’s engineering and product team as CTO. He then moved to Udaan as product lead for their grocery vertical where he was key in increasing market share.

    “The new array of dedicated leaders makes me more confident and committed to entering this new chapter of Cuemath’s growth and integrating our diverse knowledge and expertise in realising the company’s vision,” said Vivek Sunder, welcoming new appointees on board.   

  • Complaints against 789 ads upheld in Jan-March period: ASCI

    MUMBAI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) processed 1,064 complaints against advertisements in the January-March quarter. Of these, 200 ads were withdrawn by advertisers on receiving intimation from the industry body. Of the remaining 862 that required further investigation, the self-regulatory body’s independent Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 789 advertisements.

     

    Education remains on top of the category of violations leaderboard with 337 cases, followed by healthcare with 250 cases, as per the latest complaints report released by ASCI for Q1 2021. A large number of complaints were also processed from the online gaming, food and beverages, and electronics & durables categories this quarter.

     

    The maximum number of complaints processed- 337 –from the education sector- were related to misleading claims where students were promised 100 per cent placements or of the advertiser claiming to be India’s top-ranked college/ institute.

     

    Expectedly, in healthcare, the majority of the 250 complaints against ads were mostly about fake claims of COVID cures or prevention.

     

    To make the online gaming space safer, the industry body had introduced guidelines for the e-gaming segment for Real Money Winnings last December. Subsequently, ASCI received 61 complaints mostly related to cricket gaming and rummy, including those against established brands.

     

    There were 47 complaints processed against food and beverage ads, many of them against claims around milk, milk products, bread, green tea, fish oil, as well as edible oils like sunflower.

     

    In the electronics, durable, and construction category, ASCI processed 32 complaints against ads across a range of brands, from air-conditioners to paints. The automotive category received 14 complaints, many of them related to two-wheelers as well as e-rickshaw advertisements.

     

    Complaints against 73 advertisements were not upheld as they were found to be adhering to the ASCI code.

     

    Consumer vigilance around gaming has increased after the release of related guidelines, noted ASCI secretary-general, Manisha Kapoor.

    “ASCI is working on more initiatives to ensure that advertising remains honest and decent and that consumers’ confidence in advertising is sustained. We also aim to raise consumer awareness to motivate them to report misleading claims. This would help safeguard their interests and encourage ethical advertising that benefits not just consumers but also honest advertisers”, Kapoor added.

  • Ajay Dev Singh joins MyCaptain as VP – marketing & customer acquisition

    Ajay Dev Singh joins MyCaptain as VP – marketing & customer acquisition

    NEW DELHI: India-based online learning platform MyCaptain has onboarded Ajay Dev Singh as vice president of marketing and customer acquisition.

    Prior to MyCaptain, Singh was also the head of marketing and digital strategy at Basic First learning where he spearheaded a revenue of Rs 250 crores in 18 months, and then with Reliance as the vice president of media and entertainment. His hiring comes with the appointment of VPs in other departments as well.

    MyCaptain co-founder & chief executive officer Mohammed Zeeshan said, “They join MyCaptain at an exciting time as we continue to drive our strategy forward and build deeper relationships with our customers to fulfil our purpose of helping them decide the career of their choice. The addition of these VP’s complements our team’s skills and experiences, and we are confident they will provide valuable perspectives as we continue to execute our strategy. We look forward to their contributions and are excited they chose MyCaptain.”

    An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi, and Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Singh has held leadership roles at Reliance ADA Group, Percept and SVG Media (now Dentsu Aegis Network).