Team Members

Team Members

At IYCWorld, we pride ourselves on having a dedicated and experienced team, with a remarkable retention rate. Most of our employees have been with us for over a decade, reflecting the strong sense of commitment and shared values within our organization. This longevity allows us to consistently deliver high-quality solutions, drawing on deep institutional knowledge and a collaborative spirit that only grows stronger with time. Our team’s stability is a testament to the positive and supportive work environment we cultivate at IYCWorld.

Krishan Tikoo
Co-founder and CEO

Krishan Tikoo 62 hails from Kashmir. Having done his schooling from Kashmir, Krishan graduated from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi in 1975 majoring in Electronics and telecommunication engineering. Krishan has professional career spanning over 45 years with leading joint venture multinational

Ajai Agrawal
Co-founder and Mentor

Ajai Kumar Agrawal is Director at IYCWorld and co-founded the Company in the year 2001. Ajai not only provides astute guidance on the IYCWorld’s corporate planning and management decisions but also plays a key role in defining IYCWorld's growth plans. Ajai started his career with TELCO and held several key

Sandeep Srivastava
Co-founder and Mentor

Wedded to the dream of empowering educational institutions, processes and resources to guarantee overall development of every child, without exception and globally, he remains hyper excited about the unprecedented opportunity of living in a world of 7 billion truly educated people!

Saloni Srivastava
Co-founder and Chief Of Content

A co-founder, she leads the curricular content team and personally writes the science content. A very widely read person, she is a discoverer and loves writing for children. Perhaps the more interesting introduction of her credentials as an educational professional is that she 'liberally educated' her only child - now 17.

Rakesh Mani Tripathi
Co-founder and Mentor

A customer focused, result oriented professional, recognized for taking major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success. Extensive experience in leading operations for Technology and Application Development with diverse

Virendra P. Agarwal
Co-founder and COO

Virendra is the defacto head of operations at our Delhi headquarter, supervising technology, consulting, finance and HR. Starting his career with IYCWorld in the year 2001, he has been involved in the development of all the products and platforms. He has worked on the architecture of the Education ERP from the very

Abhishek Pandey
Co-founder and CTO

He has successfully executed numerous projects in education sector on multiple technologies. He is the principal innovator and driver of quality development processes, management of technology development cycle and product development.

Sanjay Kumar
Sr. Manager, Business Development

He is responsible for the Middle-East operations of IYCWorld. For the past 14 years, he has been facilitating schools, in India and Middle East Asia. Experienced Project Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry for the past 16

Dipti
Sr. Business Analyst

Dipti joined us 13 years ago as a Business Analyst, bringing with her a total of four years of experience, including two years in the school ERP industry. She holds a B.Tech in IT from UP Technical University. In the years since then, she has managed the relationship and technical

Satish Narayan Singh
Sr. Manager, e-Processes

His career started with IYCWorld 18 years ago (and he says there won't be another company in his life) and he literally climbed his way through up the more responsible roles in the consulting function. He is the most knowledgeable team member of the consulting team and literally knows all about the processes in schools.

Amit Kumar
Sr. Manager, Mobile Apps

An amazing learner, Amit started his career at IYCWorld 18 years ago as a multi-media graphic designer. Working in fairly technology intensive company, he steadily completed his Maters in Computer Applications and crept out of the graphic design team to create the mobile app team.

Sudhir Kumar Pandey
Sr. Software Developer

He joined IYCWorld in October 2011 with five years of prior experience in software development. Known for his excellent coding skills, he has implemented numerous payment gateways for Indian and Middle Eastern clients. Sudhir is a dedicated and hardworking professional, recognized for his

Arvind Kumar Pandey
Accounts Manager

He joined IYCWorld in mid-2007 as his first company and has since become a key member of the team. Originally from outside Delhi, Arvind moved to the city during the final year of his graduation. Over the years, he has showcased exceptional dedication, hard work, and commitment, making him an invaluable asset to the organization.

Krishan Tikoo
Co-founder and CEO

Krishan Tikoo 62 hails from Kashmir. Having done his schooling from Kashmir, Krishan graduated from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi in 1975 majoring in Electronics and telecommunication engineering.

Krishan has professional career spanning over 45 years with leading joint venture multinational organizations in diverse fields of consumer electronics, process control instrumentation, Power projects, office automation solutions, and paper industry.

His last assignment was as Director manufacturing and technical operations in manufacturing operations of US based International Paper joint venture in Mumbai India.

Krishan CO-Founded IYCWorld Softinfrastructure Pvt ltd an organization committed to IT led social infrastructure transformation in the domain of education and has been associated with it since Year 2000

IYCWorld provides customized and integrated IT led solutions and learning resources to K-12 educational institutions as an application service provider (software as service) pay for use service.

Krishan is married and has two children.

Ajai Agrawal
Co-founder and Mentor

Ajai Kumar Agrawal is Director at IYCWorld and co-founded the Company in the year 2001. Ajai not only provides astute guidance on the IYCWorld’s corporate planning and management decisions but also plays a key role in defining IYCWorld's growth plans. Ajai started his career with TELCO and held several key management positions in various MNCs in the areas of project management and operations excellence.

An avid reader, he keeps himself abreast with the latest developments in the IT industry. What’s more, his entrepreneurial flair for technology enabled him to contribute towards national growth through initiatives on rural development in India.

Sandeep Srivastava
Co-founder and Mentor

Wedded to the dream of empowering educational institutions, processes and resources to guarantee overall development of every child, without exception and globally, he remains hyper excited about the unprecedented opportunity of living in a world of 7 billion truly educated people!

He is a unique school educational reformist having developed interventions for the entire spectrum of school education issues such as books on education; careers; author of world's first concept-based curricular books of math, science, social sciences; school leadership and teacher trainings; parent workshops; technology.

Educated at the best institution in India and abroad (Jadavpur, IIT D, INSEAD) andhaving worked with best corporates in India and abroad (IMT G, Olivetti, ModiCorp, Citibank), Sandeep is among the pioneering few in the world and the first Indian to pen a book about Internet before the first dotcom burst, 2000, ('Embracing the Net', Financial Times, UK) and subsequently wrote the world's first book on e-governance (Government@Net, 2001, Sage, India) and coined 'innovation as strategy' in the book 'The bright stuff' (Prentice Hall, USA, 2002).

He leads a rather 'unconventional' life and a highly inspiring communicator. He is seeding alternate political movement, including electoral politics, focused exclusively on universal quality education, world-class community health, micro-enterprise and environment. https://sandeepsrivastava.online/

Saloni Srivastava
Co-founder and Chief Of Content

A co-founder, she leads the curricular content team and personally writes the science content. A very widely read person, she is a discoverer and loves writing for children.

Perhaps the more interesting introduction of her credentials as an educational professional is that she 'liberally educated' her only child - now 17. She vehemently denies any semblance with home schooling or home education, she may actually have given the world a new model of education - liberally educating children 'as if they are gifted' and nurturing all their god-gifted intelligences till the age of 18. Incidentally, Shreya, her daughter secured 5 A* and 2 A (89, 87) in IGCSE's ICE exams 2014 as a private student.

She holds Masters in Nutrition and Food Technology from the leading Avinashlingam University, Coimbatore. She had a stint as a trainee journalist with UNI.

Rakesh Mani Tripathi
Co-founder and Mentor

A customer focused, result oriented professional, recognized for taking major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success. Extensive experience in leading operations for Technology and Application Development with diverse range of industries.

Successful in leading cross-functional teams in architectural designs, development and deployment of many products across the globe. He has in-depth experience in multi-tier application design and development, Service-Oriented-Architecture, mobile and Internet based technologies, and methodologies.

Rakesh is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.

Virendra P. Agarwal
Co-founder and COO

Virendra is the defacto head of operations at our Delhi headquarter, supervising technology, consulting, finance. Starting his career with IYCWorld in the year 2001, he has been involved in the development of all the products and platforms. He has worked on the architecture of the Education ERP from the very beginning beginning and personally led the administrative process automation in schools.

He is a commerce graduate and a qualified IT professional from NIIT.

With all modesty, the quartet - Rakesh, Mukul, Abhishek and Virendra - is the best team in the country on educational technologies - academic as well as administrative. Indeed, the four of them have backended, and often frontended too, the design, coding, testing, implementation and continuous improvement in our technology platform.

Abhishek Pandey
Co-founder and CTO

He has successfully executed numerous projects in education sector on multiple technologies. He is the principal innovator and driver of quality development processes, management of technology development cycle and product development.

He has been instrumental in the design and development of one of the most powerful open source compliant Education ERP solutions. He would be among the best technology professionals in the design and development of academic processes for schools.

A graduate of Gorakhpur University (U.P.), he is a qualified IT professional from NIIT & certified Oracle 9I professional from Oracle.

Prior to joining IYCWorld, in 2001, Abhishek had spent more than 2 years in Banking software development and support.

Sanjay Kumar
Sr. Manager (Consulting-software)

He is responsible for the Middle-East operations of IYCWorld. For the past 14 years, he has been facilitating schools, in India and Middle East Asia. Experienced Project Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry for the past 16 years. Skilled in ERP Implementations, Requirements Analysis, Data Analysis, Software Design, Project Demonstration and Client Handling (India & Middle East). Strong project management software professional with a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from Galgotia's.

Prior to joining IYCWorld, in 2010, he had spent more than 2 years in MLM software development and support.

Dipti
Sr. Business Analyst

Dipti joined us 13 years ago as a Business Analyst, bringing with her a total of four years of experience, including two years in the school ERP industry. She holds a B.Tech in IT from UP Technical University.

In the years since then, she has managed the relationship and technical interface with DPS, Noida as her first engagement, and then a progressively expanding portfolio of scope that includes DPS Greater Noida, DPS Rohini, DPS Bopal, DPSI Saket and DPS Dwarka. No less, she had a remarkable stint in the Academic Multimedia teams, including the team of outsourced Content Researchers. She literally anchored the design, draft, editing, and publication-readiness of nearly 100 textbooks for K-12, across subjects.

Inspiringly, and fortuitously, she carved out a new focus, opportunity, and position for herself, as the Lead of Marketing as well as Sales for our School ERP products. Expectedly, she has played a catalytic role in refining, redefining, and reimagining the products, to also galvanise a wholly new product, a game-changer for K-12. Her extensive experience and leadership skills make her a valuable asset to our team, and the school education sector.

Satish Narayan Singh
Sr. Manager, e-Processes

His career started with IYCWorld 18 years ago (and he says there won't be another company in his life) and he literally climbed his way through up the more responsible roles in the consulting function. He is the most knowledgeable team member of the consulting team and literally knows all about the processes in schools.

We never talk about his degrees, literally! Never felt the need. A truly educated person, in head and at heart.

Amit Kumar
Sr. Manager, Mobile Apps

An amazing learner, Amit started his career at IYCWorld 18 years ago as a multi-media graphic designer. Working in fairly technology intensive company, he steadily completed his Maters in Computer Applications and crept out of the graphic design team to create the mobile app team. He spent the first one year learning the ropes of technology with the support of the CTO.

In the past year and a half he build his team up to 9 and creates wonderful mobile applications in education on Android and IOS platforms. Expectedly, his entire team is self taught and he has already given 3 ex-colleagues a great career headstart in mobile apps industry outside of the company.

Sudhir Kumar Pandey
Sr. Software Developer

He joined IYCWorld in October 2011 with five years of prior experience in software development. Known for his excellent coding skills, he has implemented numerous payment gateways for Indian and Middle Eastern clients. Sudhir is a dedicated and hardworking professional, recognized for his problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and innovative approach. His commitment to quality, proactive attitude, and strong technical expertise make him a valuable asset to the team, consistently driving IYCWorld’s technological advancements forward.

Arvind Kumar Pandey
Accounts Manager

He joined IYCWorld in mid-2007 as his first company and has since become a key member of the team. Originally from outside Delhi, Arvind moved to the city during the final year of his graduation. Over the years, he has showcased exceptional dedication, hard work, and commitment, making him an invaluable asset to the organization.

Arvind is known for his meticulous attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and ability to handle complex financial tasks with ease. His proactive approach and problem-solving attitude have consistently contributed to the company's growth. He is a team player who leads by example, always willing to support his colleagues and take on new challenges. Arvind's journey from a fresh graduate to a senior position is a testament to his perseverance, loyalty, and passion for his work.