Sasi joins the edtech company after having held senior leadership roles at Ernst & Young, Deloitte and PwC
Edtech Superapp Platform Ken42 has announced the appointment of Sasi Kumar Sundararajan as their Advisor. Sasi will be based out of Ken42’s Bangalore office.
Sasi joins Ken42 with over 23 years of experience in the industry. His extensive experience with PwC, Deloitte and EY as Practice Leader cover Public, Govt. and Private sector consulting in Growth, Restructuring, Investments, Technology and Capacity Building across several sectors in India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Middle-East and GCC.
In recent years Sasi has also been a guide, mentor and advisor to Startups, Incubators, Accelerators, PE Funds and Universities in the areas like Future of Work, Industry 4.0, Big Data, Digital, Disruption, Startups, Mid-markets, Growth, Sharing Economy and Circular Economy.
Talking about Sasi joining the team, Ganesh Raju, Founder and CEO, Ken42 said “Sasi’s extensive experience as a growth enabler for startups and ample knowledge about the startup ecosystem, makes him the ideal fit to lead the Ken42 team towards innovation, efficiency and improvement. It’s a privilege to have him on board and we are ecstatic to have him be a part of Ken42’s journey into cultivating a Superapp Edtech Platform for India’s vast education ecosystem.”
Sasi has completed his Bachelor of Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, went on to study Management from esteemed Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and Masters in Labour Law & Labour Welfare from Symbiosis Law College, Pune. An engineering and management professional by education and a successful career in big 4 consultancy prepared him for entrepreneurship. In 2017, Sasi became the Founder and Director of Fungised Solutions Pvt. Ltd. a start-up that works in the areas of FoodTech, Robotics, Automation and IoT.
On his new role at Ken42, Sasi Kumar Sundararajan said “During the lockdown, the edtech industry has boomed, finally getting the limelight it has been vying for all these years. In these testing times, Ken42 has outshined the market tremendously and is aiming to become the one- stop-shop solution for education and all its stakeholders, which is no mean feat. I am excited to join the Superapp in the making and aid in its growth and success to democratize education across the country.”
Ken 42 is a complete education ecosystem that revolutionizes how administrators manage their institutions, faculty imparts learning, and how students gain academic and real-world knowledge and skills. Designed to support students at every stage of their crucial learning years, from Class
6 through 12 in its offering for schools, and from standard 12 through higher education and placements, Ken 42 is strongly differentiated from other learning management platforms.
Conceptualized by serial entrepreneur Ganesh Raju in October 2019, Ken 42 also enables online classroom and exams, certificate courses from universities around the world, and opportunities for personal growth in the form of interview preparation, public speaking and professional skills.
Backed by Turbostart a bi-yearly program for early-stage startups that aspire to be part of a unified and encouraging startup ecosystem, Ken 42 occupies a unique position as mentors to the startup ecosystem with a focus on ed-tech. It boasts a series of strategic alliances as well as long- standing relationships with premier educational institutions and governmental organizations, enabling it to create a solution that is not just cutting edge with unmatched user experience but closely aligned to educational policy and change.
With its one-of-a-kind integrated platform, Ken 42 is set to disrupt both universities and the K12 edtech industry by ensuring maximum student success, without the need of managing multiple platforms.