Meet Our Faculty

Santosh Kumar

Co-founder & CEO Chennai

A staunch believer in following passions, after over 8 years of working in various IT companies across the globe, he found his. After honing his skills in many known companies like L&T he moved in to conquer the Edtech world. An alumnus of IIT Delhi, he is disrupting technologies to discover its possibilities.

Joshi Kumar

Co-founder & CTO Singapore

A technological geek at heart, Joshi is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore. He knew where his heart lies and pursued his career in the technology industry. Now he has over 10 years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies. He puts his creative best forward when finding solutions to problems and believes that technology is no less than magic if you explore enough.

Dinesh Kumar

Co-founder & CMO san francisco

He has a strong foundation in engineering with a Master’s degree focused in Computer Science from University of Southern California. He is a master of many trades out of which Cloud computing, AWS, Unix, C (Programming Language), and Python (Programming Language) are a few. With over 7 years of experience as a developer and architect, Dinesh sees future technology as a boon if used consciously.

Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal

Co-founder & COO Bangalore

Yeshwanth is an Education Management Professional who has over 20 years of experience in the sector. He is passionate about transforming the way we see education in the country and has many startups that he is dabbling at the moment including Strategum Eduserve Private Limited, India's leading education management company. He is a specialist in strategic planning, systems development brand building.

Aruna Shetty

Head of Schools Mumbai

Ms Aruna Shetty, has joined as the Academic Head of 21K school. She was chosen to lead India's first online learning school, because of her experience as an educator for 17 years in international boards in Mumbai, i.e., International Baccalaureate and Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE).

Her career graph has grown from that of an IB teacher to CIPP Coordinator, to establishing an international (IB-PYP / CAIE) school as an Associate Principal for a reputed institution in Mumbai. The transitioning of a school from its nascent years to flourishing as full-fledged schools have been moments that fill her with pride and humility.

As an educator, she feels extremely grateful to be in a profession where she gets the opportunity to view human growth and learning. She feels there is no gift greater than to literally view light bulbs going off in learners’ eyes/brains and self-esteem grow. Her experiences have helped her see the social, academic, and behavioural transitions from Kindergarten to senior year of High School.

She passionately believes that every child can exceed and that the cooperation between home and school builds trust and self-esteem in students. So, students can use their highest potential to shape their future, consequently, the future of our community and our nation.

She has always believed in an open-door policy. She sincerely welcomes your conversation and feedback during the coming years. She promises that students will always remain the primary focus. She looks forward to celebrating the collective successes at 21K school for the coming years.

Tanuja Amin

American School Principal Mumbai

Tanuja Amin is a hardworking, open-minded, and honest person. She strongly believes in the virtue of punctuality. She considers that procuring knowledge is an ongoing process and takes pride in calling herself a learner.

She has had an extremely enriching journey with over 15 years of experience. She has grown personally and professionally with exposure working in the National (CBSE) and International system (IB and CIPP) of education. She has worked as a teacher, curriculum designer (ICSE and CBSE) and a trainer.

She believes that the education system is undergoing an overhaul and the virtual learning environment will change the landscape of education. Thus she has joined 21KSchool to add another feather to her hat by being associated with India’s first online school.

Social emotional connect with children has been the main reason for her pursuing a career in teaching.Working in collaboration, using the interdisciplinary approach, and promoting interactive learning has been the key to her successful teaching profession.

Apart from teaching, she is pursuing her passion for baking. She loves travelling and trying out local food.