Tarun Bhalla
Founder, CEO
Tarun is a quintessential maker who strongly believes "Making is better than consuming". It's this belief that...
Tarun is a quintessential maker who strongly believes "Making is better than consuming". It's this belief that led him to start Avishkaar in India when no-one had heard the term of "Making" in the country. He has single-handedly created a market for Robotics, Tinkering and Making Products in India. However, what keeps him most excited is his status as an engaged Father of two beautiful girls, a thoughtful Maker, a Vipassana Meditator and an avid traveler.
Before Avishkaar, Tarun worked at Real Networks, Expedia in Seattle, US and Wipro Technologies, Aplion Networks in India. Tarun has a BS in Computer Science from University of Delhi and Masters from University of Washington, Seattle.
Pooja Goyal
Co-founder, COO
A serial entrepreneur who has built companies and led cross-functional teams across the globe, now heads opera...
A serial entrepreneur who has built companies and led cross-functional teams across the globe, now heads operations, marketing, and sales at Avishkaar. Her last venture, Intellitots Learning - an early year’s education company, was acquired by KLAY. Prior to that, she led the Acrobat Product marketing team at Adobe in the USA and later managed the Adobe Print and Scan business in India. An engineer from IIT Delhi, with an MBA from INSEAD, France, Pooja has worked in the USA, Europe, and India, and successfully paired her work experience at companies like Adobe Systems and Palm with her drive to change the education system. She is an angel investor and advisor to many startups and entrepreneurs. Pooja is a voracious reader, an avid traveler, and currently learning to play the piano.
Rajeev Gaba
Co-founder, CTO
Rajeev is the Product & Tech guy at Avishkaar. He is envisioning and making Robotics products for Avishkaar. T...
Rajeev is the Product & Tech guy at Avishkaar. He is envisioning and making Robotics products for Avishkaar. The Avishkaar Maker Studio, Tweak, Avishkaar Apps, the new Mechanical set of Avishkaar Robotics Design system - all of them came out of his team of Industrial Designers, Hardware, Firmware and Software Engineers. He is also the co-author of various patents in this domain along with Tarun.
He has worked for more than 20 years leading the development centers for Belkin and Agnity Technologies in India. He also architected the architecture for the WeMo (a leading Home Automation product out of Belkin's staple). Rajeev has a Masters in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani and a BTech in Electronics and Communication from Punjab Technical University.
Yogita Bhalla
Web & Design
Yogita is building the deep intelligence about our customers and their wants here at Avishkaar. The beautiful ...
Yogita is building the deep intelligence about our customers and their wants here at Avishkaar. The beautiful and deeply functional website, the online curriculum arm, the UI and UX of various apps, the eye catching videos, the packaging and the manual designs are all created from her team of Web Designers, Videographers and Graphic Designers. She does all of this incredibly well because she trained at the best of these places - she was a Computer Scientist at Adobe in India, a Test Engineer at Microsoft in Seattle and a UI Designer at Cadence Design Systems in India before she launched her own startup - Simplylearnt that boasts of 2 million users.
Yogita has a Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, US and a BS in Computer Science from University of Delhi.
Anand Ingle
Channel
Anand is building Avishkaar's presence across India, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa. A thoughtful mix...
Anand is building Avishkaar's presence across India, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa. A thoughtful mix of support matrix including well-rounded Training Programs (both products and Sales), Sales Structures, Business Models are coming from Anand's team of Channel, Training and Sales Experts. Intel chose him as the top Solutions Consultant and accredited him with the same when they first came to India. He single-handedly led the initiative to set up 1000 smart classrooms, more than 100 Language Labs, 100 plus Robotics and Tinkering Labs across India and abroad. Anand has close to 23 years of Sales Experience and an MBA in Marketing and a BE in Electronics and Instrumentation.
Pooja Kumar
Lead, Institutional Sales
Best described as a “Sales Superstar”, she’s presently heading the Sales & Program Coordination Team - D...
Best described as a “Sales Superstar”, she’s presently heading the Sales & Program Coordination Team - Delhi/NCR region at Avishkaar. Having amassed experience of over 14 years, she’s previously worked for stalwart organizations like Reliance Energy Pvt Ltd., Educomp and Step by Step School. Apart from being a Business Manager extraordinaire, she has also previously worked as a Teacher and a Public Relations Officer, showcasing her vaunted versatility. Giving weight to her moniker of ‘Sales Superstar”, she closed a sale of almost Rs 1.5 Cr in an academic year. A Delhi University alumni, she holds a B.Sc (H) Electronics and a Masters in Computer Applications.
Sakshi Khera
Talent Development & Acquisition
Sakshi is tasked to create an environment at Avishkaar that unshackles creativity by promoting self-expression...
Sakshi is tasked to create an environment at Avishkaar that unshackles creativity by promoting self-expression and dismantling hierarchies. Sakshi cares about each and every person here at Avishkaar because she herself recruited each one of them. She takes it personally that everyone not only finds a job but a career or more importantly a mission here at Avishkaar. So, whether it's Saturday morning breakfasts, sports days, annual offsite, Sakshi does everything to ensure that Avishkaar recruits and retains the best and brightest India has to offer.
She has worked with some of the best names in the industry - Citigroup Global Services Limited, Hindustan Times, Religare, Sharp etc and she holds a Masters in HR from Bharati Vidyapeeth, but, also a BA in Psychology from Jesus & Mary College, University of Delhi.