Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Global · Remote

• As a Professor of Practice at Emeritus, I serve as a Subject Matter Expert Advisor for executive education programs, collaborating with renowned institutions like Wharton and Imperial Business School. My role involves advising and designing learning experiences tailored to CXO-level leaders, ensuring the learning outcomes are real-world relevant and impactful.

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · India · Hybrid

• Inspire the Masters Union Student Body to build Product Leadership Careers via Master Classes, Credit Courses, and Industry Exposure.

Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Global

• Portfolio Advisory for Tech/AI-enabled Impact in Education, Skilling, and Livelihoods. Incubating outcome financing innovation with digital efficiencies with the board and CXO team with a specific focus on skills and livelihoods for women.

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr

• Bhanu provides strategic direction and leads the Growth Strategy of Worldreader's digital reading products & service offerings, build-up of organizational capacity and growth of
• impact & business development across Global South (APAC, Africa and LATAM Geographies).
• Worldreader is a global nonprofit that believes everyone can be a reader. Worldreader provides children, students, and their families free access to its vast digital library via e-readers and mobile phones. Since 2010, over 20 million people across 79 countries have read on Worldreader platforms. More at www.worldreader.org

Dec 2015 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Bhanu provides strategic direction & leadership for the Global Product Portfolio of Digital Reading Apps & Services. He also leads the buildup of Worldreader’s mission in India and APAC region
• Worldreader is a global nonprofit that believes everyone can be a reader. Worldreader provides children, students, and their families free access to its vast digital library via e-readers and mobile phones. Since 2010, over 15 million people across 50 countries have read on Worldreader platforms. More at www.worldreader.org

May 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Bhanu provides guidance to the Worldreader's senior management on strategies of developing partner ecosystem in emerging markets.
• Worldreader is a non-profit HQed in USA and operates across many countries. Worldreader is on a mission to bring digital books to every child and her family. Using e-readers, mobile phones and other digital technology, Worldreader reaches readers in 27 countries, providing them with over 6,000 book titles in 23 languages working with many publishers to acquire and digitize the best, most relevant content for our readers; 70% of Worldreader library comes from African and Indian publishers. Since 2010, over 200,000 people per month have read over 1.7 million books and data shows this work has had significant impact. One year of the Worldreader program is equivalent to about two years of regular schooling. And for girls, one year with Worldreader is like five years of regular schooling.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Global · Remote

• Inspiring and nurturing Product Leadership Career Fellows from across the global Network Capital community via four-weekend intense fellowships and 1:1 Coaching.
• Like 'Netflix' for Careers, Network Capital is a Career intelligence and advancement platform trusted by 100,000+ millennials globally.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Bhanu advises Leaders & Teams in Yara International's Digital Farming Division on strategy, roadmap, ecosystem development for a range of AgriTech Solutions spanning Digital, Hardware & IoT domains. https://www.yara.com/crop-nutrition/digital-farming/

Aug 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

• Unreasonable gives entrepreneurs tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges an unfair advantage by providing them with a global community of life-long support — As an Unreasonable Mentor, I get the incredible opportunity to help scale the efforts of these history-defining ventures.
• I am looking forward to engaging with Unreasonable portfolio ventures globally across industries and aligned to Sustainable Development Goals. These ventures are part of the various Unreasonable Accelerators supported by Barclays, Accenture, Pearson, Fossil Foundation, Shell, etc..

Jun 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Bhanu provides strategic input to various social investments and global impact initiatives of the Worldwide Education Group at Microsoft. Bhanu’s key contribution areas include Social Investment Portfolio Management, Educator Audience Engagement and Microsoft’s Product Portfolio in TechEd, ICT4Ed & mLearning.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs · Finland

• Funzi is a Finnish corporation that produces a mobile learning and information service with an initial focus on emerging markets. Funzi's services develop new skills and empower co-creation and collaboration between mobile users and experts.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos · Global · Hybrid

• Strategic advisory for global enterprises, impact organizations, impact investors, and start-ups, shaping outcomes for investments totaling US$200+ Million in tech/digital/AI products since 2014.
• Collaborate with Boards and CXO teams to enhance human potential through shared value creation and human-centered design.
• Support founders and leadership teams in transforming businesses aligned with Sustainable Development Goals.
• Support emerging leaders with leadership life-design advisory & coaching.
• Support higher & executive education organizations with real-world learning experience design advisory for program design and delivery.

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Bhanu provides guidance to the company's board and senior management on strategies of developing development partners network and deploying CSR funds to mobile based developmental projects (m4d) in the areas of Education, Learning, Health and Economic Activation in emerging markets and underdeveloped economies across the world.
• BetterWorld Wireless, Inc. is a U.S.-based, mainstream mobile services company dedicated to positive world change. Launching Spring 2014 for nonprofits, volunteers, and all you good people doing good things in the world.

Aug 2013 – Apr 2014 · 8 mos · India

• Bhanu provides strategic guidance to the company's board and senior management on Product Management, Ecosystem Development and Organisation Development. Key contribution in guiding the Idea to Product journey, Market Expansion and Organisation Shaping to materialise investments.
• Flinto is an Early Child Development/Learning GSF funded Startup getting into its growth stage. Flinto Box is a theme-based monthly activity box for 3-7 years old, which comes with games and activities designed by early child development experts. Product design and development is aimed at enhancing the multiple intelligence faculties of children.
• Flinto is the Business Today's "Coolest Startup" for 2014 and CII's "Best Education Startup" in 2014.

Oct 2009 – Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Global Product, Portfolio & Partnerships championship for Nokia Life - the worlds largest learning and knowledge access platform for Mobile Only users in areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Infotainment. Nokia Life has already impacted over 100+ million people in India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, etc.. (21 in all)
• Global Portfolio & Product Management of mLearning, mEducation, mAgri, mHealth & Societal Knowledge services via Mobile Phones.
• Provide direction to Nokia Life services portfolio of Learning & Knowledge Information Services. Spearhead Research, Design, Development, Partnerships and Deployment of Nokia Life services.
• Provide strategic SME guidance to Nokia’s Corporate Social Investments in Education, Learning & Knowledge Society areas and oversees few CSR/Sustainability Projects.

Mar 2006 – Oct 2009 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Lead the Global Knowledge Management & Innovations Program. Set up the knowledge/innovation leadership & management program ground up internally and then grew it to Advisory & Strategic Consulting business line. Cost Centre and P&L Management, Program & Project Management, People Management, Vendor Management. Contribute to CSR programs.

May 2004 – Feb 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Advisory & strategic consulting for global multinationals on Enterprise Knowledge Management, Learning/Training & Development. Design and implement Human Performance Solutions comprising technology, services and administrative support required to create and maintain the enterprise capability. Key Account & People Management. Contribute to CSR programs.

Mar 2001 – May 2004 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Manage eLearning product development lifecycles & eLearning Services deployment & Corporate Development Programs. Cost Centre and P&L Management, Program & Project Management, People Management, Vendor Management. Contribute to CSR programs.

Aug 2000 – Jan 2001 · 5 mos

• Built the Team, Business, Company from zero to operations state. Cost Centre and P&L Management, Program & Project Management, People Management, Vendor Management.

Jul 1996 – Jul 2000 · 4 yrs

• Oversee business and technical operations of a network of IT education & training centres. Cost Centre and P&L Management, Program & Project Management, People Management, Vendor Management.