Meet Our Team

Dr. Yogesh K Bhatt

Dr. Yogesh K Bhatt is the EVP and Business Head of StackRoute. He is responsible for driving NIIT’s IT business, with focus on Enterprises in India, as well as through deep skilling programs in new tech areas for individuals. Yogesh is an accomplished leader and a veteran in the space of corporate education and training. He has worked extensively in creating and delivering business solutions to transform talent across levels using an innovative mix of learning, development and assessment interventions.  Yogesh has many education and training product launches to his credit across IT, Data Science and Management Categories in both B2B and B2C.  He has 22 years of experience in Training, Education, Research & Consulting.

Prior to StackRoute, he was associated with Manipal Global Education as Vice-President, Education and Training, Manipal ProLearn and with Infosys as the Head of Education of Research. Under his leadership, Manipal ProLearn won the award “Best Corporate Training Program” in India Education Awards - 2019, Golden Peacock National Training Award – 2018, Outstanding Partner Award for Innovative Solution in IBM – 2016. He won the Great Manager Award in 2016 presented by People Business and Times of India in the category of “Individual Credibility”. 

Amit Kumar

Amit is the Key Accounts Head for IT Solutions unit of India Enterprise Business. He is responsible for the enterprise sales for the StackRoute offerings. Amit brings with him a diverse career experience of over 12 years spanning across strategy consulting, entrepreneurship, sales and business development. In his previous assignment, Amit was with upGrad Education as the Director and Head of Enterprise Sales. At upGrad, Amit played a significant role in building enterprise business from scratch where he headed enterprise sales for upGrad’s upskilling products and solutions pan India. Amit leveraged his strong industry connections and past enterprise sales experience to win key strategic accounts and he also drove strategic partnerships with leading industry and government bodies to drive overall reach and visibility of the business.Prior to upGrad, Amit has worked with leading Fintech companies like PayU and Paytm and a big four consulting firm – EY, where he held key business development and strategy consulting roles. Amit holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from NIT Jaipur.

Itish Arora

Itish leads the sales initiatives for StackRoute in North India and is also the delivery head for the ITeS vertical for NIIT. He is responsible for driving StackRoute business, which focuses on IT organizations that are looking at developing their new and existing talent. As a sales leader, he partners with the delivery teams at StackRoute and helps deliver customized IT solutions to the organizations. Itish brings with him a diverse experience of over 2 decades  across industries in service delivery, learning & development, sales, customer experience, change management and PMO at GE, HCL Technologies and Genpact. In his previous role in NIIT, he was the service delivery and P&L leader for the NIIT Institute of Process Excellence (JV between Genpact & NIIT)In his previous assignments, Itish has led large accounts in service delivery and led Learning & Development for global High Tech businesses for over 20 key accounts across locations in India. He has been the Change Management lead for High Tech COE at Genpact where he was certified to identify change opportunities, study and create value, sell the value and gather commitment from the stakeholders to accept and adopt the change. Itish is an MBA from University of Wolverhampton, UK and a Post Graduate in International Business management from Westford Business School. 

Jason Joseph

Jason Joseph heads Key Accounts at StackRoute. Jason is responsible for driving StackRoute’s B2B businesses which focus on providing IT Learning Solutions and Talent Development to IT Companies, Product Engineering Companies and GIC enterprises in India. He brings with him over 2 decades of leadership experience in B2B / B2C Sales and Business Development. He is an MBA graduate and in his previous roles, Jason has been instrumental in building and scaling businesses ground up to new heights. Jason has worked previously with Manipal Global Education Services and prior to that was part of the BFSI industry and has held sales and business development leadership roles with global banks such as HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank in multiple geographies.

Prateek Chatterjee

Prateek is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications & Marketing at NIIT Limited, a global leader in skills & talent development. He is responsible for Corporate Marketing at StackRoute and spearheads the communications strategy for NIIT, through focused stakeholder engagement.

An MBA with over 20 years of experience in Corporate Communications & Marketing across diverse industries like IT, Education, Real Estate & Hospitality – Prateek is a senior communications leader with expertise in Reputation Management, Corporate Marketing &  PR, Social Media outreach, Brand Ambassador Communication & Brand management. During his earlier stint at real estate major- Ansal Properties, Prateek was instrumental in transforming the 40-year old brand identity of the organisation into a vibrant and younger avataar– Ansal API. Prateek is a regular speaker on emerging trends in Communications, at forums like IIMC (Indian Institute of Mass Communications), StratComm, Exchange4Media, ITS Management College & Marcus Evans.

Virendra Rao

Virendra Rao (Viren) is the Key Account Head for StackRoute. He is responsible for driving StackRoute’ s customer engagement & fulfillment with a focus on providing deep skilling for large enterprises to help them through their Digital Transformation journey. Viren brings with him over 2 decades of experience across diverse industries including education management, IT solutions and HR consulting having extensive exposure to a gamut of areas including business strategy & development, product management including design & GTM, branding, alliance management and service delivery. 

In his previous assignment, Viren was with Eruditus Executive Education, Times Professional Learning, Simplilearn, Manipal Global Education & Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. Viren has experience in setting up new businesses and scaling them up into sustainable & profitable operations in the Ed-Tech space with major focus in IT Services, BPM, Product & Engineering Services and Healthcare domain.

Ramanujam Thirumalai

Ram heads Learning Solutions and Product Engineering at StackRoute. Ram has been part of StackRoute from inception and has over 30 years of IT industry experience. Ram is responsible for design and delivery outcome driven learning solutions to produce deep-skill full stack & tech professionals.

Prior to leading delivery at StackRoute, Ram led the global services and solutions for NIIT GIS Ltd. Ram spent over seven years at NIIT Technologies Inc., USA where he led product co-development for multiple products, large scale e-commerce services and cloud migration engagements. As Practice Head of Mobile Solutions at NIIT Technologies Ltd (India), Ram developed pervasive computing solutions for customers across Singapore, UK, Japan, USA and India.

Sachin Grover

Sachin Grover is the Head of Learning Solutions (Bootcamp and Deep Skilling programs) and Delivery at StackRoute - with 25 years of diverse experience, he has demonstrated a proven track record of driving business growth, technological innovation, and client success in Individual Learning and Corporate Learning.

As a strategic learning technology leader in the EdTech, he has spearheaded various transformative initiatives at NIIT and for his customers by architecting cutting-edge platforms incorporating proven learning sciences and methodologies. His forte lies in conceptualizing innovative solutions, including a cloud-based platform that revolutionised retail learning experiences and build futuristic point-of-views for skilling.

He excels in leveraging emerging technologies in the areas of application/ data/ platform engineering, and modern architectural patterns to deliver scalable, secure, and engaging learning solutions. He has led business transformation through strategic alliances, aligning learning strategies with outcomes, and cultivating a culture of technological excellence and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.

Ravi Sharma

Ravi Sharma heads the solutioning & delivery of learning solutions at StackRoute. As Strategic Solutions Architect, Ravi has over 22 years of experience in leading technology functional excellence, business transformation, spearheading multi-technology verticals and leading business strategy for technology transformation initiatives. Ravi is proficient in providing Full Stack Development Solutions, IT Infrastructure Management and Cloud Deployment, Project Management, Agile team and People Management. He is experienced in architecting, developing and providing large scale end-to-end solutions for clients in India, USA, UK, Canada, China, Singapore, UAE, Thailand & Bangladesh.

Dr. Vishnupriya Raghavan

Dr. Vishnupriya Raghavan is Vice President, Client Advisory & Transformation at StackRoute.  Dr. Vishnupriya is a corporate education, research, and consulting professional with a distinguished career in developing enterprises to support business-aligned talent capabilities. With over 22 years of rich experience, she has successfully led both B2B and B2C initiatives across various areas of IT and Management. Her expertise in research is evidenced by over 15 "A" journal publications in areas such as AI, Blockchain, User Experience, E-commerce, and Industry 4.0.

She has an extensive solutions portfolio to her credit that includes Architect Competence Development Programs, Project, Program and Delivery Excellence, Product Management, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Cybersecurity. She has a proven track record in establishing thought leadership and creating value for stakeholders through innovative solutions and strategic excellence. Prior to joining StackRoute, she held leadership roles at Manipal Global Education Services and the Institute of Product Leadership.

Gaurav Baidyasen

A seasoned analytics consultant and an experienced engagement manager with 12+ years of experience in data science & ML and category management across EdTech and retail domains. Managed the business P&L for data science, ML and technology products. Deployed AIML solutions for multiple organizations such as Wipro Technologies, Harman Connected Services, Manipal Global and Edureka. Conceptualise and leverage the data visualization tools to monitor, analyse and improve the category performance through machine learning programs. Analytics Fitness : Customer Segmentation, Retail Analytics, Promotion and Demand Planning, Supervised and Unsupervised learning, NLP models, Deep Learning
Tools: Base SAS certified, Hadoop certified, Python

My experience with companies of all sizes provides a unique and varied perspective that allows me to collaborate with business leaders and uncover details and solutions that might be otherwise overlooked. I work with clients on initiatives involving global delivery teams that are aimed at significant productivity and financial improvement.