Trustees

TVG Krishnamurthy Founder Trustee	Mr. T V G Krishnamurthy (TVG) is deeply committed to the cause of education, especially among the underserved communities.  Tejasvita has been his brainchild and he is the guiding force at Tejasvita.   TVG is an engineer from IIT Madras and holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He has over 40 years of experience in India and South East Asia, most of these years at the Board level both with MNCs and large domestic companies. He presently mentors entrepreneurs in India, promoting early stage companies with global ambitions especially in the technology space. TVG acts mostly as a ‘Non-executive Chairman’, helping companies to strategise and to deliver unique customer advantages and competitive internal competencies.
Gayathri Tirthapura Co-founder Trustee	Gayathri’s core interests lie in finding appropriate environments and methods to engage children in joyful learning. Her deep passion for education and her commitment to contribute back to her own people has been the driving force in her involvement with Tejasvita.   After spending a decade in the corporate sector building hi-technology products and managing teams, she made a career shift to education in 2005. She has worked with many educational organisations both in India and US, teaching children and building organisational/program capacities. She was the Founder Director of Parent Musings which ran a highly impactful children and parents’ experience centre called Kutoohala in Bangalore. She holds a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, USA and a Master of Education degree from Harvard University, USA.
Gautam Balijepalli Co-founder Trustee	Gautam has a deep interest in children’s education. Gautam is an Entrepreneur and currently is the CEO of Kouzina Food Tech Pvt. Ltd. Previously he was a Partner at Ojas Ventures, an early stage VC fund in Bangalore backed by NS Raghavan of Infosys. He has more than 20 years of experience in venture investing, business development and software development. Gautam has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an MBA from London Business School.

Operations Team

The operations team includes members of program development, training, curriculum design, teaching and assessments teams for both the preschool and training programs. They come from diverse backgrounds with corporate and teaching experience and deeply desire to make a difference in lives of children. Following are the members of the operations team.

• Gayathri Tirthapura
• Bindu Ajay
• Lakshmi Bhat
• Gayathri Devulapalli
• Anitha Kaushik
• Prathibha Jagatabhi
• Manasa Das
• Rajashree Krishnaswamy
• Allimalar Ramachandran
• Sandhya Somashekaraiah
• Shipra Agarwal
• Vidya Kapse
• Brundha Manjunath
• Deepa Bhat
• Sharmila Rao