Educational Initiatives appoints ex-Hush Co-Founder Umesh Joshi as its Chief Product &Technology Officer, An IITian and a serial entrepreneur, Umesh Joshi will power product innovation and will play a pivotal role in EI’s growth plans

National, September 23, 2020 (GNI): Educational Initiatives (EI), India’s leading edtech company, today announced the appointment of Umesh Joshi as its Chief Product & Technology Officer.

As part of the senior management team of Educational Initiatives, Umesh will be responsible for delivering high quality products that support EI’s business goals, which involves product management, product development, product delivery and product impact chain. An alumni of IIT-Kanpur, Umesh has in-depth knowledge and expertise in cloud- based solution and data security.

Prior to joining Educational Initiatives, Umesh was the Chief Technology Officer at Hush.  He co-founded Hush and VoyageUp. Before venturing into the start-up business, Umesh’s experience of more than 20 years spanned diverse roles in product development, product management and software development in organisations like VMware, Yahoo, McAfee, Talisma Corporation, Aditi Technologies and Mahindra British Telecom.

Speaking on Umesh’s appointment, Srini Raghavan, Co-founder and CEO, Educational Initiatives said, ‘’I am pleased to welcome Umesh as part of our senior management team. EI has access to over 20 years of proprietary learning data, and this combined with EI’s pedagogical strength is unparalleled in the industry. Umesh’s deep technology expertise and hands-on approach will be pivotal for the company, and play a critical part in EI’s future growth based on product and tech innovation.’’

Commenting on his new role, Umesh Joshi said, “Student enrolment in the K12 industry in India is expected to grow at over 65% in the next ten years. EI has, for two decades, focused on building learning solutions with proven impact. I believe that this is the key differentiator and will provide the real impetus to the lives of these children while propelling EI’s growth. I am eagerly looking forward to be part of this tremendous journey.”

As a leader in the K-12 education space, EI leverages cutting-edge research along with tech-based solutions to revolutionize the way children learn. Umesh’s hiring will further help EI fulfil its vision of creating a world where children everywhere learn with understanding, stated in the press release.

About Educational Initiatives (EI) is an edtech company that leverages the twin levers of cutting-edge research and technology-based solutions approach to revolutionise how children engaged in the K-12 education space learn. Our vision is to create a world in which children everywhere learn with understanding. Our goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society, irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following.

We achieve this goal by building products that focus on diagnostic assessment and personalised learning. Our platforms cull relevant and customised intelligence from over five billion data points to deliver content in the form of questions, activities, games and videos to assess students‘ learning levels and provide explanations, feedback and learning inputs for all stakeholders. This data treasure has been built over two decades and is one-of-its-kind in the education industry.

We believe in a scientific approach to conceptualising, designing and building our products. This stems from a dream to discover SCIENCE OF LEARNING that can systematically be made available to teachers. EI’s mission is to build this ‘Science of Learning’ which provides a repository of data and techniques that can be used by teachers to help children learn better – a big improvement over today’s situation where teachers struggle alone to help students learn. EI’s work on assessment and learning has already helped create banks of misconceptions, common student errors and the like and these are being shared as usable insights.ends