IIM Grads & eLearning Start-Ups

This Economic Times article (actually, more the headline than the article itself) got me to share something I have known for a while now. Coincidentally or not, but a lot of graduates from the IIM's (The Indian Institute of Management's, also among India's best known B-Schools) have been setting up e-Learning and custom content development start-ups. And some of them are now captains of very successful enterprises. This article mentions just one but there several examples.

Some examples:

• Subrat Mohanty and Viswamitra Hariharan (Batchmates from IIM-Ahmedabad). Subrat quit Tata Interactive and joined up with Hariharan to set up Hurix.
• Brainvisa CEO Supam Maheshwari is ex IIM-Ahmedabad and CTO Vikas Kumar is ex IIM-Lucknow (Brainvisa co-founder Anand Lunia, currently at Hurix, is also IIM alumni )
• Tata Interactive Systems' CEO Sanjaya Sharma is also ex IIM-Ahmedabad.
• Educomp Solutions Ltd., which just went through an IPO, is headed by Shantanu Prakash, also ex IIM-Ahmedabad.
• NIIT's President for their Knowledge Solutions Business, Ashish Basu is ex IIM-Bangalore.
• Ashutosh Garg, Head Operations, of Zeus Learning is ex IIM-Bangalore
• Vivek Agarwal, CEO of Liqvid is ex IIM-Calcutta