Mani Bansal (Ex- Amazon) and Maneesh Agrawal (Ex-Adobe) join the BYJU’S tech team
Bengaluru, March 2, 2022: BYJU’S, the world’s leading edtech company, has announced the appointment of Mani Bansal and Maneesh Agrawal to lead key technology functions in an effort towards strengthening its tech vertical and further drive innovative and impactful learning experiences.
While Mani will take on the role of Vice-President, Engineering, Maneesh joins as Vice-President, Reliability, Security & Cloud Engineering. Both leaders will work on a group level towards catalyzing critical technologies to augment BYJU’S tech prowess and define the future of learning.
As a tech-driven global leader in education, BYJU’S has been investing in the powerful synergy of technology and innovation by scaling its robust tech team. With these new appointments, BYJU’S will further enhance its world-class learning products, solutions, and experiences to help millions of students fall in love with learning.
Commenting on the appointments, Anil Goel, President – Technology, BYJU’S, said, “BYJU’S has a strong technology-driven culture, which is the first step towards innovation. And, it takes a team of highly-skilled and talented tech visionaries to build on current capabilities and find new opportunities. At BYJU’S, we are enriching our technology vertical by leveraging the vast pool of skilled technology talent in India and abroad, further enabling us to push boundaries, create value, and build more impactful learning programs for students. I am thrilled to have Mani and Maneesh join us on this journey, helping us strengthen our innovation backbone and redefine learning for the next generation.”
Mani Bansal will lead the Content Engineering platform across the group, along with working closely with the BYJU’S Lab team to build AI/ML capabilities to set the benchmark for the future of personalised learning. A tech leader with more than two decades of rich experience, Mani has been leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver world-class products for millions of customers globally. With a rich career spanning 20+ years, the Hyderabad-based tech leader is an Amazon veteran, having donned multiple global technology leadership roles in Amazon Prime and Amazon Logistics.
Mani Bansal, VP Engineering, BYJU’S said, “I am thrilled to be joining the BYJU’S family and embark upon an exciting new journey of bringing tech-driven learning to students everywhere. As someone who grew up in a small town, I recognise the immense power of education and look forward to further building BYJU’S into a tech-first organization.”
Maneesh Agrawal, with over 22+ years of experience, championed strategic thinking across design, implementation and operational excellence. He will play a pivotal role in driving the company’s Reliability Engineering, Security & Cloud Engineering. Formerly with Adobe, Olacabs, InMobi, Yahoo and Indiamart where he delivered strategic vision across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS & Cloud efficiency. With Data Security at core of BYJU’S, Maneesh’s appointment will further accelerate the company’s investment in this area.
Maneesh Agrawal, VP Engineering, BYJU’S commented, “Education has the potential to transform the world, and I am excited to be a part of BYJU’S endeavor to make it accessible, personalized, and engaging for all. I look forward to capacity building and creating innovative learning environments for students around the world.”
About BYJU’S:
BYJU’S is the world’s leading edtech company and the creator of India’s most loved school learning app which offers highly adaptive, engaging and effective learning programs for students in LKG, UKG, classes 1 -12 (K-12) and competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CAT and IAS.
BYJU’S launched its flagship product, BYJU’S – The Learning App, for classes 4-12 in 2015. Today, the app has over 115 million registered students and 7.5 million annual paid subscriptions. With an average time of 71 minutes being spent by a student on the app every day from 1700+ cities, the app is creating a whole new way of learning through visual lessons. The Disney BYJU’S Early Learn App was launched in June 2019, a special offering from BYJU’S for students in classes 1-3 featuring Disney’s timeliness characters. In early 2019, BYJU’S acquired Osmo, a Palo Alto based maker of educational games to transform the whole offline to online learning experience. Since then, BYJU’S has expanded its family with strong partners like EPiC, Tynker, White Hat Jr, Aakash, Great Learning, Gradeup etc strengthening its portfolio of offerings and its reach globally.
Over the years, BYJU’S has built and expanded its portfolio of products and services as well as the formats that it offers like self-learning, 1:1, 1:20, phygital etc across the globe. Taking the vision of creating active learners around the world and expanding globally, BYJU’S also launched BYJU’S Future School recently. Powered by 12,000 qualified women teachers, this is available in the USA, UK, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico and will progressively expand to more geographies in the near future. Furthermore, BYJU’S Learning App featuring Disney was launched in the USA in July 2021, to help children ages 4–8 explore, practice, and understand math, language and reading concepts through interactive learning journeys combined with Disney’s world-class storytelling.
Delivering a world-class learning experience, programs from BYJU’S are making learning contextual and visual. The apps have been designed to adapt to the unique learning style of every student, as per the pace, size and style of learning. BYJU’S is paving the way for new-age, geography-agnostic learning tools that sit at the cross section of mobile, interactive content and personalised learning methodologies. BYJU’S is also the official sponsor of the Indian Cricket Team.
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