The People
VEPL is an education technology start up based in Chennai, India. We are a team of experienced teachers, subject experts, instruction designers, authors, software technology developers, and business builders, all of whom are united in their passion to deliver the best learning experiences to anyone, any time, anywhere.
Management team
Anand Kannan, Managing Director
Anand has a B.Tech degree from IIT, Madras, India, MSc(Engg) degree from IISc, Bangalore, India and PhD from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
He has worked with Nokia as part of its Research Center in Irving, Texas for several years as Research Engineer and then as Manager, New Business Development. He also did a short stint at Arraycomm, Inc in San Jose California during its start up days. During his tenure in Nokia he was involved in several projects in Wireless LAN research, GSM and CDMA radio technology, entry-level mobile application development and business model development for low-income markets.
Anand's interests lie in economics, entrepreneurship, management, cognition, computing, communication technology, system development, digital signal processing, algorithm and architecture development.
Yogish Lavanis, Director, and Co-founder
Yogish has a B.Tech degree from IT-BHU, Varanasi, India and MSc(Engg) degree from IISc, Bangalore, India.
He has worked in companies such as Tata-Elxsi and C-DoT as Research Engineer, with a particularly long stint at Motorola in protocol engineering, architecture and design for GSM, UMTS, WAP technologies in senior technical and project management roles. At Motorola, he received the Chairman of the Board's challenge award. He has guided and mentored several technical teams towards challenging goals.
His interests are in mobile and cellular communication technologies, system engineering and mobile applications for productive and positive usage in the Indian Market.
Yogish is also deeply interested in the visual arts - photography, painting, architecture and sculpture.