Anurag Jain, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Laurus Edutech

Prior to Laurus Edutech until June of 2011, Anurag Jain was leading the Dell Services Delivery unit, a global team of more than 18,000 professionals who deliver over $3billion of leading edge technology solutions to Dell customers around the world. The Services Delivery unit includes Dell’s technology service functions of Infrastructure and Managed Technology Services, Applications, and Business Process Solutions. The organization also included Dell’s Innovation group, which is pioneering technology advancements in areas such as Cloud Computing, Mobility, Virtual Data Services, Technology Delivery and Optimization, and others.

Anurag previously led the Perot Systems (now Dell) Applications, Business Process Solutions, Financial Services and Insurance organizations, where he directed global operations and sales to enhance growth and business results. He also served as managing director of the company’s Asia Pacific region.

Anurag also previously founded 3 highly successful, large-scale, India-based IT services outsourcing businesses. He co-founded and served as head of operations for Brigade Corporation, a customer support company with employees across centers in the U.S., Europe, and India and raised over $150million for the business. He then founded Vision Healthsource, a business focused on providing IT services outsourcing to healthcare providers and payers that was acquired by Perot Systems in 2003. He also co-founded IQ Backoffice a very successful finance and accounting outsourcing company that Ayala backed LIveIt based in Philippines bought in 2011.

Anurag is on the board of the North Texas Food Bank which is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that distributes donated, purchased and prepared foods through a network of 1,184 feeding programs in 13 North Texas counties. *Last year, the NTFB provided access to almost 45 million meals through its efforts.

In addition to his business career, Anurag has been a tireless leader and innovative supporter of skill and vocational development in India. He has been Chairman of the Skill Development Forum for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He also served on the Board of the National Skills Development Corporation until July 2011, a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership in India.

In addition, Anurag serves on the Board of Asia (Chennai) Engineering, a leading commercial, industrial civil engineering firm in India for the past 40+ years and Anurag also serves as member on the board of Worldhaus, an innovative affordable modular and eco friendly home kit providers.

Anurag holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India.

Vardhman Jain, Director

Prior to Laurus Edutech, Vardhman was the managing director for Dell Services BPO operations worldwide, where he was responsible for global delivery of business process services to over 100 clients in healthcare, Insurance, financial services and finance & accounting markets.

At Dell, Vardhman played a key role in infusing scalability into the organization’s operations to facilitate a quick ramp-up. His zeal for automation has led to the development of a completely automated business process systems suite, including Knowledge management, workflow management, operational dashboards and other enabling technologies for Employee Relationship Management and team collaboration amongst others.

His work with Dell helped the organization become a leading provider of Healthcare and Insurance BPO solutions and oversaw its growth from less than 100 employees to over 4500 employees worldwide.

Vardhman is recognized as thought leader and is quite often quoted in leading publications including The Economic Times, Times of India, The Hindu, Dataquest, and Deccan Chronicle amongst a host of other publications.

Vardhman holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and also holds a B.Sc. in Statistics from Loyola College, India. After completing his education, he worked with Dazel Software (A Hewlett Packard Software Company) in Austin, TX, as a quality assurance engineer.

PROF. ROBERT (BOB) KENNEDY, Independent Director

Robert (Bob) Kennedy is Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute (WDI), a non-profit research and educational institute that focuses on business and policy issues in emerging market economies.

He also serves as the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where he teaches corporate strategy and international business courses in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs.

Kennedy is a well-known scholar, speaker, and educator. His research focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in developing countries and has been widely published in leading economics and strategy journals. He has authored more than 100 articles, chapters, notes, case studies, and computer exercises on emerging market issues. From 2002-2008, his teaching materials were used at every one of Business Week’s top 25 U.S. business schools.

Kennedy authored a managerial book on offshoring (The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity) for FT Press which was released in January 2009.

PROF. L.K.MAHESHWARI, Independent Director

Born on July 5, 1945 at Kasganj (Etah) in India, Professor Maheshwari obtained his M.Sc. (Physics) degree from the University of Lucknow (India) in 1965, and M.Sc.(Tech.) Electronics and Ph.D. degrees from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (India) in the years 1967 and 1971 respectively. He has published several research papers in the areas of Semiconductor electronics, Instrumentation, Educational development and University-Industry linkages, etc. both in national and international journals.

Professor Maheshwari has served on the faculty of BITS since 1971 and has held offices of Chief, Instrumentation Centre; Dean, Research & Consultancy , Deputy Director , Director and Vice Chancellor. He is currently Professor - Emeritus & Advisor to Chancellor, BITS, Pilani.

He was invited by the Government of Mauritius for having discussions on establishing a BITS Campus in Mauritius. The ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico also invited him to address the plenary session during the International Conference on ‘School- Industry Partnership Asia- Jalisco 2005’.

He has visited a number of universities/institutions in USA and other countries and participated in establishing educational collaborations with many institutions. Dr. Maheshwari is also the recipient of the year 1995 ‘Scientists of the Year’ award established by the Gian Chand Jain Memorial Foundation, Ambala (India). He is a Fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India), Member of IEEE, USA and WACE, USA..

He has received in 2008 ‘Science Councillor Award – 2007’ from Indian Society of Health, Environment, Education and Research (ISHEER), Jodhpur Centre, India.