Emeritus Hires Manipal ProLearn’s Chief Product Officer Mohan Kannegal

Emeritus Institute of Management, which offers management and digital programs to train middle management professionals, today bolstered the team with the appointment of Mohan Kannegal as a Senior Director for Business Development.

Based in Mumbai, his key responsibilities will include scaling revenues and expanding the portfolio of Data Science and Digital courses.

Mohan joins Emeritus from Manipal ProLearn, where he was the Chief Product Officer with P&L and Business Development responsibilities. Manipal ProLearn, which he launched in 2015 as an intrapreneur at Manipal Global Education, helps people acquire digital skills by offering courses in Digital Marketing, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud, Android, and Robotics.

Mohan comes with experience both as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur. In his early career, he has worked with one of the largest companies in India's private sector Larsen & Toubro Limited and with Citibank in a global role based out of London, UK.

Prior to Manipal ProLearn, he was the co-founder at MeritTrac (www.merittrac.com), India's largest online assessment company. He headed Product, Solutions and Delivery, creating large scale edtech products that delivered 5 million+ online assessments each year for over 400 customers including Accenture, Cognizant, ICICI Bank, universities and governments. MeritTrac was acquired by Manipal Global Education in 2011.

Mohan Kannegal said, “I am excited by Emeritus’s vision of making Ivy League education accessible to all. Emeritus’s founders have built an amazing model - partnering with Ivy League Schools, using a digital platform to provide anytime access to the best teachers in the world, yet ensuring course completion by paying individual attention to each learner. My goal is to scale this model and take it to newer geographies. I am a digital optimist. My purpose at Emeritus is to enable professionals to embrace the opportunities that digital provides.”

Ashwin Damera, Executive Director, Emeritus Institute of Management said, “We are delighted to have Mohan on board, as his varied experience in the edtech sector will contribute to the company’s plans on expanding the business and taking it to the next level. His contribution to better program management, increased industry partnership and expansion in various regions which are untouched will be a game changer in ensuring sustained growth.”