Sailendra Bhaskar, 45, is Vice President, Aban Informatics Ltd, a Chennai, India based company specializing in 'Technology-enhanced learning and teaching' for Secondary and Tertiary schooling.

He and his team at Aban have been working in this domain for over 4 years and have so far clocked over 80 man years of work in setting up India's first e-learning solution focused on enhancing the teaching and learning experience.

Mr. Bhaskar is a passionate advocate of the use of technology in teaching and learning and firmly believes that in a world where the numbers of teachers are dwindling while the numbers of learners are increasing, the world and developing countries in particular, will have to embrace technology to improve the quality of curriculum delivery.

Mr. Bhaskar's interest in the use of technology in education was kindled when he was commissioned by the State Planning Commission of the Indian State of Kerala to study the school system of the State and suggest ways to minimise the differences between performance of rural and urban students (also known as the 'urban-rural student performance divide').

Mr. Bhaskar has been in the field of Information Technology for over 15 years and has designed and developed IT solutions for major corporations in various parts of the world.

He has traveled and worked in every continent.

He is a Sir Dorabji Tata Fellow from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, from where he has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Biotechnology.