Meet the Management Team of MeritTrac

MeritTrac’s leadership team comprises experienced professionals from diverse fields who are passionate about steering the company to greater heights by leveraging innovation.

Sujatha Kumaraswamy

Chief Executive Officer

A seasoned and successful leader with 21 years of experience in incubating and running new businesses and functions in the Education, Assessment, IT Services, BPO and Financial Services Industries. Experience in managing global, large-scale teams in Service Strategy, Service Design, New Business Incubation, Business Operations and Transformation, Operational Excellence, Margin Optimization, Customer Experience, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.

Previously Sujatha was leading New Business, Corporate Strategy and Operations as Vice President, Manipal Global Education Services, the EdTech arm of Manipal Group.

Sujatha leads multiple strategic imperatives across the group around Revenue Growth and Go-To-Market strategies, Product and Platform transformation, Sales Effectiveness, Cost Optimization and others.

She has also designed and drives a mandate of Business Excellence across units encompassing process and measurement system design, continual improvement, risk management and compliance and customer experience management.

With her passion and drive for diversity and inclusion initiatives, Sujatha, for the first timelaunched“Manipal Beyond Gender”, the Diversity Program focused on career growth and well-being of women at Manipal Global.

Prior to her current role, she worked with Cognizant for over nine years, across Infrastructure Services, Application Management, Digital Services, and Consulting business units and led many organization-wide initiatives in delivery excellence and margin optimization. She has also worked with General Electric, Wipro Technologies and Tech Mahindra.

Sujatha worked closely with the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to develop the ISO 20000 standard group and also publicize and increase awareness of the same across the industry.

She holds an MBA in Finance and Corporate Strategy from IIM, Bangalore and is a Cost Accountant. She is also a certified Master Black Belt and a graduate of GE’s prestigious Financial Management Program.

Dr.V Natarajan

Prof. Emeritus - MeritTrac

Dr. V Natarajan is a pioneer in developing learning theories for the Indian education sector. He draws upon 40 years of experience in educational testing to build innovative education assessment and research tools for effective decision making. Natarajan adds extensive value to MeritTrac education services through his commitment to enable new opportunities for learners. He has considerable experience in legally defending assessment structures of exam bodies at Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as a leading education assessment partner with Rajasthan University between 1976 and 1985, providing extensive support in developing question banks.

Saritha Vijayanagar

Head – Pre-Sales, Solutioning, Content & Strategic Accounts

Head of our Pre-Sales, Solutioning, Content & Strategic Accounts, Saritha Vijayanagar is an established leader in the field of Marketing and HR with twenty-five years of working experience in various roles in leading organisations across industries. Since April 2007, she is working with Manipal Group. In her stint in Manipal Hospitals, she held various leadership roles like Cluster Head – HR, Head -Operations for the flagship hospital, Unit Head of one of its multi-speciality hospitals,Business Head for retail business in clinics before holding the position of the CEO at Manipal Fertility. ABP News’ Women Leadership Award in Health Care and selected as one of the 100 Most Impactful Healthcare Leaders are some of the awards and recognition for her leadership roles.

Saritha holds a Masters degree in Management Studies with specialization in Marketing from Bombay University and a Postgraduate Diploma in HRD from NIHRD. During her career, she held positions in Business Development, Operations and HR in various industry verticals such as Healthcare, Education, IT and Manufacturing; that includes successful stints with conglomerates like NIIT Ltd., Jindal Steels, Belhos Infotech, Middle East College of IT and Conzerv Systems, to name a few.

Daljeet Singh

Head - Government Business

Daljeet Singh took over the reins of MeritTrac’s Government Business in 2008. For more than a decade now, he spearheaded the company’s vision and strategy for government related business development. His varied experience spans educational and financial services sectors. Prior to joining MeritTrac, Singh was a Regional Sales Manager at Standard Chartered Bank and Senior Branch Manager at Accor Services. He holds an Accelerated General Management Program certificate from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Abhishek Ajmera

Head - Certifications

Abhiskek Ajmera brings over 15 years of experience in business development, sales strategy and product operations. An important part of his role is leveraging data for informed decision-making. As a business transformation expert, Ajmera has helped leading companies such as MagicBricks.com, Aspiring Minds and Mingle Box Communications scale up their business environment and identify opportunities to boost market share. He holds an Executive Program Diploma in Business Management from IIM, Calcutta.

Manjunath KP

Head - Education Business

A seasoned delivery leader in the education assessment space, Manjunath heads the front-end delivery of large scale examinations for corporates, educational institutes and public sector organizations. His expertise includes capability selling, solution design, strategy, planning and execution, as well as budgets and profitability. Manjunath has played a significant role in transforming MeritTrac from the traditional pen and paper mode into a completely computer based delivery partner. Prior to this role, Manjunath headed Operations and Projects at MeritTrac for more than 17 years. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) degree from Great Lakes Institute of Management.

Prashanth Anantharaman

Head - International Business

Prashanth Anantharaman been a part of MeritTrac for nearly a decade. He led the Consulting & Presales functions and was the key solution liaison for our business teams. In his current role, Anantharaman leads our international expansion initiative across Education, Certification and Corporate businesses, and is responsible for proactively creating opportunities in new business & technology areas.
Prior to MeritTrac, he worked across market sectors – Telecom, Electronics, Defence and IT software products.
Anantharaman pursued his Engineering in Telecommunications and holds a PG in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Rohit Goswami

Head - Products

Rohit Goswami heads the Products and Innovation division at MeritTrac and is responsible for developing bespoke learning solutions for enterprise growth. Prior to joining MeritTrac, Goswami was a Senior Product Manager and Category Head at Manipal Prolearn for more than five years. A TEDx speaker, he employs the "Assessment, Strategy and Execution" approach to every project he undertakes. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Brand Management, Marketing and Sales from MICA.

Sudhanva Kimmane

Deputy GM – Operations & Delivery

Sudhanva Kimmane has been with MeritTrac since 2012 and currently heads delivery of Digital Evaluation Services (On Screen marking), IT initiatives, and Back Office Operations including result finalization and publishing. He has over 16 years of industry experience in operational management, complex project implementation, quality improvements and cost matrix optimization. A gold medalist in Engineering, Sudhanva has also completed his Master’s degree in business administration from SDM-IMD, Mysore.

Arun Vatsa

Head – Enterprise Products

Arun Vatsa is a seasoned Product Leader with deep expertise in Enterprise Products & Platforms. He has a proven track record of ideating, executing, and scaling innovative software product lines in growth-stage organizations. At Manipal Global, Arun is strengthening the Product function to consolidate the current product offerings and to tap into new EdTech product play opportunities in India as well as global markets.

He has been in Product leadership roles over the past decades with prior stints in Zycus, Jifflenow, and Intuit; and has also tried his hand at entrepreneurship founding a start-up in mobile learning space. He did his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and is an Electronics & Communications engineer from VTU.

Arun provides Product leadership for all product lines and tech platforms for MaGE and MeritTrac.

Dr. Bijan Roy

Group Head – Testing and Assessments

Dr Bijan Roy is an astute professional with 3 decades’ of experience in Academic Management, Operations Management, Logistics Management, Software Development and mentoring management students. Dr. Roy is currently working as a Group Head – Testing and Assessments. For the last 5 years he was providing strategic direction towards intellectual capacity building in line with MeritTrac’s larger business objectives.

He provides effective leadership and guidance to the entire testing and assessment team for MeritTrac by formulating operating strategy, coaching and mentoring of people, innovating efficient processes with the effective use of technology. He spearheads the function with sourcing of appropriate expertise, development of quality content and on-time flawless delivery for all drives conducted by MeritTrac across different line of businesses. He enjoys nurturing talent spread across wide range of domains – e.g. Engineering, Management, Banking, Medical, Paramedical, Vocational, IT and Humanities.

Prior to his stint with MeritTrac, he spent close to one-and-half decade in university set-up and was leading functions of examinations and other back-end operations for two largest distance learning education service providers of the country – ICFAI and SMU-DE. During this period, he did rigorous experiments with bringing technology into the sphere of examination conduct. He had the distinction of managing greater scale and shorter turn-around time without compromising on quality objectives of assessment.

He started his professional journey as an Electrical Engineer and spent almost a decade in the industry. In that spell, he was initially responsible for project design and planning with Larsen & Toubro and later for project execution and plant automation in SAIL.

He did his graduation in Electrical Engineering from IIEST, Shibpur followed by his post-graduation and PhD in Finance from ICFAI.