Jayadev Gopalakrishnan | Senior Vice President | Manipal K 12

Jayadev Gopalakrishnan is the Senior Vice President - Retail Education at Manipal K-12 Education focused on business growth and expansion after his family business Tandem, a leading education and training service provider in Kerala, merged with the Manipal K-12 Education group.

Prior to the merger with the Manipal K-12 group, Jayadev was a core member of the family business focusing on bringing in best practices and creating new opportunities and collaborations.

Jayadev was formerly the co-founder and CEO of Tinfo Mobile, a leading mobile developer that has developed a number of mobile gaming applications which has received several industry awards including the Reliance-NASSCOM award, the Abby Gold award, the E3 USA Best Game award and several other accolades. Jayadev was among the few entrepreneurs from Kerala featured in the Young Turks programme of CNBC India.

Jayadev graduated with an MBA from the Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai in 2001 with a specialization in Finance and Marketing. He is an avid reader of business and spiritual books, enjoys listening to music particularly classic rock and experimenting with vegetarian food. He is married to Sanjana and has a daughter.

Jayadev Gopalakrishnan on CNBC