Jayadev Gopalakrishnan
Entrepreneur - education and wireless.

Serial entrepreneur with two decades of experience in the education and mobile sectors. Built and sold two pioneering education companies.

I currently live in Bangalore with my wife, our daughter and son, and a growing family of rescued dogs, cats and birds.

Thanks for dropping by.

Official bio.

Jayadev Gopalakrishnan is a serial entrepreneur with two decades of experience in the education space covering test prep, higher education and skilling in both online and offline formats. He has built and exited two education businesses - one of India's earliest organized brick-and-mortar retail chains (Tandem, acquired by Manipal K12/Pearson) and a pioneering on-demand mobile tutoring company (HashLearn, acquired by Byju's).

​Jayadev was CEO & Co-founder of HashLearn, a Google Launchpad Accelerator company that built India's first on-demand tutoring service on mobile phones leveraging the vast supply of tutors in the country. He was formerly President – Retail Education at Pearson Education Services after the acquisition of Tandem, managing a network of hundred retail and institutional centres with the retail business registering a four-fold growth in two years. At Tandem, Jayadev was Managing Director responsible for forty centres offering a wide variety of test-prep, technology and skills-related courses. 

Jayadev started his entrepreneurial journey by founding Tinfo, a software development outfit, in 1999 during college which morphed into Tinfo Mobile, India's earliest mobile game and apps development studio where he was CEO and co-founder. Tinfo Mobile's products won leading industry awards including the Reliance-NASSCOM award for 'All-Minder', an app for the visually-impaired, the Abby Gold award in Digital Innovation for the Scorpio mobile advergame, the Reliance award for 'TeachMe-Hindi', one of the earliest m-learning apps and the 'Best Game' award for Truck Tycoon in the strategy genre at the E3 USA , the world's largest game expo held annually in Los Angeles. 

Jayadev was among the first entrepreneurs from Kerala to be featured in CNBC’s long-running Young Turks programme.

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CNBC Interview.

HASHLEARN:
Business Standard, Nov 26, 2012:

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TINFO MOBILE:
The Hindu Business Line: 
All the world's a . . . mobile stage
Think Digit: 
Lrn frm whr u r

TANDEM:
The Hindu Business Line: 
Tandem network under Pearson fold though TutorVista
The Economic Times: 
Manipal K-12 to expand post Tandem acquisition