Our Team
Sudhir Rao
Sadhana Rao
Vaidya Nathan
The importance of life-long learning has motivated Sudhir to invest in education and learning focused companies that deliver content addressing high school, higher education and executive learning. He spent over seven years with Chandamama reviving it be a leading children’s magazine published in 14 languages across India. With his interest in children and Indian heritage he became a student of Carnatic vocal music to better understand the pedagogy for teaching Carnatic classical music developed by Dr.Karaikudi Subramanian, a ninth generation Veena player with a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology and Founder of Brahaddhvani, A Centre for Research in Music Education supported by Ford Foundation. He then collaborated with Brhaddhvani to take the pedagogy into schools and co-founded Art links Learning with the mission of building a life-long learning foundation for children in art.
Over the last 12 years as Founder of IndusAge Advisors Ltd., an Enterprise Development Advisory Services organization, he compassionately invests time and capital as a non-executive co-promoter minority shareholder, in catalyzing entities to exceptionally institutionalize and globalize sustainable and meaningful purposes.
IndusAge is currently associated with over 25 companies in India, nurturing early/growth stage enterprises to assisting listed entities in the areas of Strategic direction, Business Research and Revenue management, Performance & Capital Management and Stakeholder Relations as also providing India-entry services. As an active non-executive observer he gets them to focus on enhancing Customer & Organization capital to deliver superior triple bottom line returns to all stakeholders.
The customer needs addressed by these entities include Education, Healthcare , Wealthcare , Food , Enterprise Informatics, Telecom, Retailing, Logistics & Customer Management, Transportation, Renewable Energy & Retirement Communities.
He participates as a Non-Executive Director on several Boards including Aditya Birla Money Ltd., Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd (a leading Supply Chain Solutions company )and is an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of a US$ 350 Million private equity fund managed by Ascent Capital Advisors ( formerly UTI Ventures ).
He is a key sponsor of building Marathoners & Long-distance runners at a village school in rural India that in five years has generated winners at various international marathon events in India.
Past Experience
He was a key participant in the Indian Capital Market, between 1989 and 1999, a period that saw the emergence of structural change and reforms in the Indian Financial Services and Capital Markets. During this period the institutionalization and regulatory structures along with the change-over to an Electronic Trading & Settlement system were made and witnessed the entry of Private Sector Mutual Funds and the opening of markets to Foreign Institutional Investors.
He was Founder Director of Karvy Investor Services Ltd., that was involved in providing Investor Services ,Merchant Banking & Corporate Advisory services. He was also Founder Director, Karvy Securities Ltd. and Karvy Stockbroking Ltd., which are involved in Retail Financial Services and has been India’s leading distributor of retail financial products.
Over the ten year period he was associated, leading a team of 750 people and over 5000 sub-brokers all-India, Karvy participated in over 2500 IPOs. It also pioneered effort on distributing mutual fund products, retail banking products, insurance and fixed income securities.
Personal background
He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI ) and a Chartered Management Accountant ( CIMA ) with a Bachelors Degree in Commerce ( Honours ) from Kolkata University.
He lives in Chennai with his wife Sadhana Rao, a research-based writer and Co-Founder of Art Links Learning and their son, Arnav is an under-graduate in Law at the University of Nottingham.
As a Music educationist, Sadhana Rao endeavors for music and the world of songs to reach children in their schools and communities. She co-founded Art Links Learning, an institution that builds relationships with conservatories to take their pedagogically evolved traditional and classical music content in a structured form to children from the ages 2 ½ onwards.
As a passionate believer in the concept that Music knows no hierarchies, Sadhana through Art Links Learning leads a pool of trained faculty and educationists to take classical music mainstream in diverse school environments.
She works with School administrators with a mission to build artistic and aesthetic intelligence in children, and to narrow the gaps in content and delivery methodologies for right brain education. This she believes will enhance the possibility of generating music ensembles in every school and community.
She has embarked on a project to spawn Music & Arts Learning Circles & Communities for different genres and interest groups using online social technology.
A Masters in Social Work from Delhi University she honed her research, consulting and execution skills at the Administrative Staff College of India. Living in Chennai she continues to be a student and researcher of Western Classical and Hindustani music.
As a professional, Vaidya Nathan has played a wide variety of roles spanning academic, entrepreneurial, corporate, and leadership areas.
Vaidya Nathan has more than 25 years of work experience in diverse areas such as project management, pre-sales, technical consulting, innovation consulting, organization building, and senior leadership.
At present, he is the Founder and CEO of Classle Knowledge Pvt. Ltd., a Social Enterprise with the goal to increase the academic and professional quality of Students. Through its innovative no-cost service, Classle directly solves the problem of education and learning quality, employability and employment faced by students, especially in Tier-2, Tier-3 geographies and institutions.
Vaidya Nathan is a member of Accreditation Evaluation Committee for Distance Education Programmes (MBA/MCA) of National Board of Accreditation.
Prior to this venture, he was the Global Innovation Leader at Cognizant Technology Solutions where he had played many global roles like Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Learning Officer, Chief Architect, eBusiness delivery Director, Project Officer, etc.
Vaidya Nathan is an alumnus of PSG College of Technology, IIT-Madras, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Indiana University with an Under-Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Post-Graduate and Advanced degrees in Computer Science.
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