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Prof. M M Pant – Founder & Mentor
Prof.
Pant has been promoting the ideation, development and delivery of educational products,
processes and services for the next generation learning in the post Internet post
WTO world. In keeping with the needs of the emerging Knowledge Economy, he is exploring
the attributes of quality Knowledge products and the means of enhancing the productivity
of Knowledge workers through right education.
With the above in mind and a mission to create and implement new business opportunities in the area of knowledge products and services, Prof. Pant promoted Planet EDU as a new age education corporate, with the mission to ‘deliver innovative educational services globally’ and a vision to ‘be the leading company in the space for Educational Services created in the Post-WTO, Post-Internet continually flattening world.
A Ph.D. in Computational Physics and with a professional degree in Law, Prof. Pant has been a practitioner in the fields of Law, IT enabled education and IT implementation. Prof. Pant is a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor IGNOU. He has been on the faculty of IIT, Kanpur, NIT, Allahabad and Visiting Professor in University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has been a visiting scientist to research centers in Italy, England. Germany, and Sweden and has delivered invited talks in recent years at International fora at Botswana, Durban, and Paris, Singapore. Melbourne, Mauritius etc. He has about a hundred papers published in reputed International Journals and presented in Conferences.
Prof. Pant has been associated with many educational organizations as member of committees or working groups, such as the NCTE, NCERT, CBSE, NIOS, NUEPA, CEC, UGC, AICTE, AIMA and several Universities. He has been closely linked with the IIT system, having got his Ph.D from IIT, Roorkee, a faculty member at IIT, Kanpur and a member of the Board of Governors, IIT, Delhi.
Drawing upon his experience in world class International Institutions and having taught in various modes of face-to-face, distance learning and technology enhanced training with over 40 years of experience, Prof. Pant is now exploring the nature of Institutions which will be successors to the IITs, the IIMs which were designed as premier exclusive organizations and the later Open Universities, to meet the challenges of an inclusive education of high quality. He is also exploring the change in nature of the traditional lecture in the class-room to a collaborative conversation between the teacher and learner(s) using multiple modes including blogging, wikis, podcasting and social networking tools, an experience which is being called classroom 2.0 based on the web 2.0 technologies.
His personal commitment is to improve education, including teacher training building on his experimentation with Mastery learning through Keller Plan while at IIT, Kanpur and mass based e-learning at IGNOU to create a blended learning model for life-span education.
Sanjay Malaviya – Chief Executive Officer
Sanjay Malaviya, the Chief Executive of Planet EDU, comes with over 22 years of
hands-on experience in the services industry, with specialization in the MICE (Meetings,
Incentive, Conferences & Exhibitions), IT and Educational services businesses.
With specialized skills in Computer based systems analysis, Project design, Testing and Implementation, he is the architect of Planet EDUs proprietary products, “ExtraLearn- learning facilitation system”, “ExtraBack - educational back office solution”, which has serviced over 650,000 learners in the last 6 years with an average support to over 150,000 learners annually.
As the Chief Executive of Planet EDU, Sanjay provides leadership, management and operations expertise to the overall functioning of the company with excellent man management skills and specialization in international networking. He also takes responsibilities of the strategic international business development for Planet EDU and has successfully taken the company from the start to managing businesses worth about 12.5 million GBP annually.
D C Pant – Advisor, Examination Services
Mr.
D C Pant has been in the ‘businesses of Education’ for the past 50 years. Commencing
his innings as a Lecturer in Post Graduate College followed by an overseas assignment
as Education Officer in Tanzania, landed in University administration of a State
University, a Central University and an Open University as Controller of Examinations,
Finance Officer, Registrar, Advisor and finally Pro Vice Chancellor (two terms).
He has held membership of Professional and Academic bodies of a number of Educational Institutions – some of which are continuing still at National as well as International level. He was responsible for innovative approaches in Management and administration of Universities besides introducing ‘Computer Culture’ in the conduct of examination and assessment of over a million learners per year.
Mr. Pant is well conversant with English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Kiswahili and has been to London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Oman, Kuwait, and Lagos on official assignments besides touring Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania extensively.
Payal Mathur – Head International Qualifications and English language
Payal Mathur, is a professional with a blend of Academics and Management, primarily
an English Language Teaching professional with a post graduate qualification in
Teaching of English. Mrs. Mathur has been associated with the University of Cambridge
– ESOL Examinations, UK, as Team Leader, Examiner and Assessor in the areas of General
English, English for Academic Purposes, Business English. English for Specific Purposes
and English Teaching qualifications.
She has served IDP: IELTS Australia, as the Examiner Support Coordinator (ESC) for Africa, Middle East, South Asia and Europe for the IELTS Test, which is a very coveted academic role in the fraternity.
Payal Mathur has been in a senior management position at Planet EDU and part of the Strategic Group of the company. At Planet EDU she has been the Coordinator – India and Nepal of Learner Recruitment services for over 100 universities and institutions, a project that was managed for IDP Education.
Currently, as the Head of International Qualifications and English Language Solutions, at Planet EDU, she is responsible for the business for India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The role covers academic management, supervision and assessment of English language proficiency courses, Professional Development Programmes for teachers and trainers, Employability Skills, Soft Skills and higher education qualifications in the area of Business Management.
She works as an Internal Verifier and Master Trainer for Scottish Qualifications Authority, Scotland's national accrediting and awarding body, a ‘Team Leader’ for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations and is the South East Asia Head for Qualifications and Assessments International, UK's private, international awarding and assessment body.
With her vast experience in academics and management and her understanding of the fast changing teaching- learning space, she is committed to providing a blend of solutions for learners, teachers, trainers and schools.
Suniel Nautiyal, Sr. Manager (Operations & Examinations Services)
Mr. Suniel Nautiyal, is a hands-on person with over 18 years of Operations Experience.
A calm personality with clear focus on what needs to be done to deliver a particular
activity is a simple way to describe him. The attitude matches well to that of a
operation’s person and that is ‘speak less…. concentrate on delivering as per a
plan and process’
During his career he has been associated with the management and operations of very large international Conferences (with over 10,000 delegates) and Exhibitions (spread across 5,000 sq. mtrs.)
For the last about 10 years he has been involved with heading the Operations and Examination management division for the management of International Examinations such as IELTS, Cambridge English, Law School Admissions Test, Australian Pharmacy Examinations and others.
With a team of about 100 people working in his operations department, Suniel manages and supervises the operations of the company at over 40 locations, in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. He is a member of the core the Core Group Member of Planet EDU.
Suniel is currently managing and developing operating frameworks for localization activities for the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer.
Dinesh Rana, Sr. Manager (IT Enabled Services)
Dinesh has his basic education in Science, with various Diplomas in Software and
IT systems. With over 15 years of experience in the field of Software development,
IT infrastructure management and development of some breakthrough projects in IT,
Dinesh acts as the IT backbone of Planet EDU.
Dinesh has been the development controller of the Planet EDU proprietary software’s that include; ExtraBack – the educational back office solution, which has a range of different modules including HR management, Examinations management, Learner Management etc.
Dinesh also manages the in-house IT infrastructure of the company (which is of a fairly high quality), and includes Rack servers, SAN storage of upto 12 Terabytes and NAS storage of 8 Terabytes, Dual processor dedicated SQL servers, SMS servers, Mail servers, Exchange servers with DLP functionality at high level all in a centralized and secure Network Management Centres.
The systems developed by Dinesh and his teams have currently managed over 600,000 candidates for examination purposes and over 200 learners for different courses. The system is used by over 1,200 of Planet EDU’s network of Enrolment centres, Learning centres and Partner institutions, including the IELTS test management at Hong Kong.
The newest project that is in its final stages is a customised LMS for the delivery of UWIC management courses under the FDL mode (Flexible Distributed Learning)
Dinesh manages a small but a very efficient and dedicated team of about 15 performance driven programmes and another set of 6 members to look after the IT infrastructure areas.
Dinesh is part of the Core group of Planet EDU.
Manish Mohta, Sr. Manager (Finance and Company Affairs)
Manish,
is a dedicated finance person, who has had his formal qualification in Accounts.
With over 15 years of experience in the field of accounting, auditing and working
through the process of registrar of companies, taxation authorities and other statutory
bodies.
Manish began his career with working for a reputed Chartered Accountants, which gave Manish the much required foundation of Accounts, book-keeping, auditing and managing statutory requirements.
At Planet EDU, with a team of over 10 members, Manish manages the Day-to day accounts of the organisation and it’s branches (12) and 4 international location offices (Nepal, Bangladesh, UAE and UK).
In addition to the above, Manish also manages the company finances in close coordination with the company’s internal auditors and also looks after the overall financial management of the company, it’s investments and responsible for all statutory filing of books.
Manish also closely liaises and supervises other areas related to company affairs such as Administration, Legal issues, Registrar of companies etc.
Manish Mohta is a part of the Core Group of Planet EDU.