Vinod Viswanathan Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

BIG Education provides higher education services across the globe in order to empower students from diverse backgrounds to achieve their academic and career goals. The group facilitates the learners with globally accredited and acclaimed qualifications that are truly affordable, achievable and flexible. Learners across the global campuses in Australia, France and the UAE undertake higher education and skilling courses in business, management and technology.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tata ClassEdge constantly innovates in pedagogy, technology and content aimed at enhancing learning experiences for CBSE, ICSE and various State Board schools in the K12 education landscape in India. Since its inception in 2011 as an independent entity, Tata ClassEdge touches more than 1,700 private schools and 200+ government schools, covering over 125,000 teachers and 1,700,000 students across India, who have already adopted the Tata ClassEdge way of teaching

Bengaluru Area, India

Time Professional Learning, a division of Bennett Coleman & Co LtdBusiness development – Executive MBA / PGDM / Certificate courses from reputed Indian and International UniversitiesLearner acquisition for Executive Education courses – Distance / Online / Hybrid learning coursesThe Second Wind (TSW) is an initiative by Times Professional Learning for working professionalsExecutive Education - Open enrolment courses, Custom MDPs (Management Development Programmes), Other Custom Learning Interventions and Technology based learning solutions - Portfolio of Learning and Development Solutions to Corporate clients

Bengaluru Area, India

Portfolio of assessment solutions to leading corporate entities, educational institutions and government organizations

Bengaluru Area, India

Institutional Sales / B2I - Business Development - Certification courses to Universities & CollegesFinishing Schools - Assess, Hire, Train, Deploy model in IT & Sales for fresh graduatesManipal International University, Malaysia - Open & Distance Learning, ODL initiative - Partner Expansion for Middle East and Africa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Executive Education - Open & Distance Learning, ODL initiative - Partner Expansion for Middle East and AfricaManipal International University - Business development – Executive MBA / PGDM / Certificate coursesGo to Market plan, partner acquisition for MIU, Malaysia for GCC, Middle East and North AfricaStudent acquisition for distance / online / hybrid learning courses – enrolment, renewals, upsellManipal GlobalNXT University – Business development – DBA, MBA, PGDBA, MSc ITM & Certificate coursesLearner acquisition for fully online courses through channel partners for Middle East and North AfricaManipal Executive Education - Enterprise Learning - Business Development and Key Account ManagementCorporate learning – MDPs and Executive development coursesAdmissions for Executive education – learner acquisition through corporate nominationsStudent Admission & Outreach, MarketingManipal University, Dubai campusAchieving admissions targets for Manipal University Dubai for the various coursesStrategic and tactical marketing plans across UAE/GCC, Middle East, India & Africa geographies.Successful delivery of marketing plans and Brand activation campaigns with measurable results.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Student Admission & Outreach, MarketingManipal University, Dubai campusAchieving admissions targets for Manipal University Dubai for the various coursesStrategic and tactical marketing plans across UAE/GCC, Middle East, India & Africa geographies.Successful delivery of marketing plans and Brand activation campaigns with measurable results.Manipal Executive Education - Enterprise Learning - Business Development and Key Account ManagementCorporate learning – MDPs and Executive development coursesAdmissions for Executive education – learner acquisition through corporate nominations

Bengaluru Area, India

P&L Head for the Learning Centre business (Test prep & Tutoring)Responsible for the Profitability of Learning centers that work on a B2C model, B2B channels with face to face or blended learningP&L responsibility, Marketing and Branding, Operations Management, Business Development & Academic DeliveryLearning centres - partner owned & operated + owned and operated by the company directlyA suite of products were offered through the learning centres including, but not limited to English language assessment, Communication skills assessment, Assessment and Tutoring for Science, Mathematics as well as high stake examsCarried the P&L responsibility for the Growth Schools vertical of Pearson wherein the focus was on student acquisition, streamlining of school operations and better learner outcomesPearson is World’s leading learning company, with 35,000 employees across 70 countries worldwide. From pre-school to high school, early learning to professional certification, its curriculum materials, multimedia learning tools and testing programmes help to educate more than 100 million people worldwide. Pearson products are present in over 50,000 schools of the 100,000 schools in the US. In the UK, 10,000 schools out of the total 20,000 primary schools use Pearson products

Bengaluru Area, India

Test Prep & Tutoring - Channel Partner Management and Business Development Product suite included Assessment and Tutoring for Science, Mathematics as well as high stake exams like CAT, GRE, GMAT, IIT JEE, NEET, CLAT, CPT. Preparation for various English language assessments was offered as a service to both individual learners as well as group of learners within Universities and collegesPerformed the role of a Regional Head for the Test-prep and Tutoring business for Career Launcher for Southern India - Built Brand CL as the most trusted brand in South India through various on-ground brand activation programs - Built Profit centers from scratch, created and nurtured an excellent team, developed an efficient and effective second-line of leadership, set benchmarks - Appointed, Trained and Inducted Business partners across the territories handled - Consistently clocked high percentage revenue growth for all the regions in spite of challenging market conditions and gained significant market share in Bangalore, Chennai and Kerala markets - Setup Kerala operations that went on to become the fastest center to hit INR 10 million revenuePerformed the role of a Business Anchor for South pertaining to the Private Vocational Training business - Handled the complete Recruitment Cycle - Sourcing, Assessment, Recruitment, Training and Induction of prospective employees for the Client - Established embedded associations with decision makers in colleges and universities of higher educationCareer Launcher India Limited (CL), now known as CL Educate Ltd is Asia’s leading education service provider with presence in over 170 locations across India, Middle East and the United States. CL provides test-prep education to enable school and college students gain admission to professional courses. It is also actively involved in the field of mainstream education, mainly through its growing network of play schools and secondary schools

Hyderabad Area, India

Test Prep & Tutoring - Business Development and Channel partner management for CAT, GRE, GMAT, IIT JEE, NEETKRAs included Profit Centre Management and Channel Expansion for Educational Services. I was instrumental in the design and implementation of end-User / customer based promotion activities, Event based promotion / Stalls / Seminars / Workshops etc. Was also responsible for Advertising & Sales Promotion – Budgeting and Planning. Additionally handled franchisee development activities.

Cochin Area, India

Retail Assets sales through Channel partners - Drive Business through the Sales Channels - Drive Channel Sales – Expansion and Development of Alternate channels - Cross Sell Insurance products - Design / Implement BTL Promotion activities - Road Shows / Market Penetration Drives - Worksite Campaigns / Promotion & Visibility drives

Chennai Area, India

Channel partner managementI worked with Godrej-GE appliances that was a joint venture between Godrej & Boyce and GE(General Electric)Dealer Development Activities / Marketing of Service products / AMCsChannel partner developmentMonitoring & Evaluation of Service FranchiseesProfitability Analysis / Estimation of Service quality for the CRM centers handledInstrumental in setting up the Smart Care CRM center – Madurai / CoimbatoreSet up the Service network / Organized the New Product launch for Southern TN

Mba, Marketing / Finance, Ranked 8Th Overall For The Course

Activities and Societies: Revived Kalaikom, the Arts Club / Member of BisMARC, the Marketing ClubSpecialized in Marketing and Finance

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Scored A Distinction For The Overall Course

Activities and Societies: ISTE Member and Co-ordinatorGovt Aided College, MACE

Pre Degree, Science And Maths, Scored A Distinction For The Overall Course

Pre-Degree - PCM

High School, Science And Maths, Ranked 17Th In The State For Class 10

State Board, studied till Class 10