WHO WE ARE

FitKids is a great place to work irrespective of what role you fit in. At the heart of our success is our ability to deliver creative and scientifically driven programmes for a brighter and healthier India. Towards this end, we continuously encourage practices that create a knowledge-driven work environment and provide equal opportunities to all in the FitKids family. We pursue initiatives that drive a high performance work ethic.

DEV ROY

Founder

Dev Roy holds a B.E from R.V. College, Bangalore, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Dev transitioned into investment banking as a debt instruments trader with Bank of America and later became Barclays Capital's youngest Managing Director in their London office. Dev has always been a progressive risk taker. In 2009 he became an entrepreneur and incubated Nephrolife, India's third largest renal care provider. The success of Nephrolife attracted Davita, the world's largest renal care provider, into acquiring a significant stake in the company in January 2012. Dev started FitKids in 2010 to address the various learning challenges in the Indian education system and change the educational landscape.

PREETI SUNDERAJAN

CEO, Gait

Preeti Sunderajan is an accomplished dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose performing career spans over 30 years. She has performed in over 500 shows across India, USA, UK and Australia. In addition to being a classically trained Bharatanatyam dancer, Preeti is trained in Yoga, Contemporary dance, Chau, Folk Theatre and Kalaripayattu. She, as Creative Head, led in conceptualizing the very celebrated Bangalore Habba. During this time she worked with 1500 artists covering roles in PR, artist management, production and trained corporates like ING Vysya, IIM B students, and ITC Infotech in soft skill development. Her love for children and the arts encouraged her to start her own organisation called - SHIRI which was instrumental in developing a first of its kind dance in education module- Body Talk. As an able entrepreneur, she ran her company for 6 years successfully with schools across Bangalore.

Dhruv Nagarkatti

CEO, LeapStart

Dhruv holds an Msc in Financial Mathematics from King's College London, following which he worked in the Group Strategy and Investment Banking division of HSBC, London for over five years. Dhruv has always been passionate about tennis and sports, which prompted him to exit HSBC in 2010 and pursue a career in professional tennis coaching. During this time, he coached tennis at the David Lloyd Tennis Academy in the UK as well with some of India's top tennis talents. He later completed his Masters in Sports Administration from AISTS in Switzerland, worked briefly with the International Tennis Federation in Valencia, Spain before returning to India. Prior to joining as CEO of LeapStart, Dhruv was the Head of Operations at Bengaluru Football Club during their I-League title winning season. Dhruv strongly believes in the power of sports and in the need for good quality physical education is passionate about tackling this head-on!

RAJAT TOSHNIWAL

CEO, DiscoverEd

Rajat Toshniwal heads the DiscoverEd program at Fitkids. A B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay, Rajat left his position at a major oil drilling multinational to pursue his dream of improving K12 education. Starting off as a curriculum writer at iDiscoveri, he went on to eventually head the science team at XSEED, enabling his team map XSEED's proprietary content to 5 different national and state level board curricula in India. Thereafter, he founded AnB Education and through it introduced ideas like adaptive learning and tablet-based learning to the Indian education market for the first time.

Rajat firmly believes in designing solutions that enable change from within, instead of those that force change externally in the existing (school) system; this makes change not just positive and powerful, but also gradual, practical and sustainable.

TESTIMONIALS

"We have been having the LeapStart sports training program in our school since 2012. We began with classes 1 to class 3. Seeing its worth, we increased one class every year. Now we have for classes prep to 5 all sections.

The training given by the LeapStart team is appreciated by the parents and students. Unlike the usual PT periods in the school, every student of each class is given personal attention while the training is going on. A proper evaluation of each student and instructor is being carried out periodically by the coordinator. The parents are given the progress and feedback about their children. Instead of making the children directly play, skills and physical training for each game is systematically taught. I hope and am certain that if the same group of students are continued to be trained by the LeapStart team, they will become very professional sports persons and will bring laurels to the school, family and country.

The team of trainers we have been getting so far are thoroughly professional and well trained. They are punctual, always in uniform, neat and tidy, speak politely, disciplined and follow the rules of the school. "

Mr. Kuriakose, Principal,
St Thomas, Delhi
TESTIMONIALS

"The LeapStart classes were made integral part of the curriculum at Johnson Grammar School, ICSE for Grades LKG to 10. This being the fifth consecutive year of LeapStart at our school bears testimony to its popularity among the student community. The children have taken a liking to the classes and never want to skip them. The wide range of activities keep the children engrossed. LeapStart has moulded exercises into activities beautifully."

D. Saraswathi, Principal,
Johnson Grammar, Hyderabad