The Team — the people behind The Lodestar Way · Lodestar

The Team

The people behind The Lodestar Way

We are driven by passionate experts. Because you don't get a second chance to discover a true career path.

Leadership

The Team

Murlidhar S, Founder and CEO

Murlidhar S

Founder and CEO


Murlidhar was the Co-Founder and CEO of MeritTrac, India's largest skills assessment company. He has had successful stints with companies like L&T, Asian Paints and 3M. Murli is a Board member of TiE Bangalore and an advisor to multiple startups.

Arrif Aziz, Co-founder and CBO

Arrif Aziz

Co-founder & CBO


Arrif is a successful business leader with extensive experience of growing and scaling Education, especially K-12 businesses. He has over 25+ years of experience and has worked with companies like HCL Infosystems, Edurite, Pearson India & LXL Ideas (School Cinema). He brings rich experience of both doing the 0-1 journey in startups and also scaling businesses to large scale.

Ramya Pingalay, Knowledge Manager and Product Head

Ramya Pingalay

Knowledge Manager & Product Head


Ramya is a leading Career Guidance Expert with over 10+ years of experience in this field. She has personally guided 1000+ students and is a much sought-after speaker at Schools, Colleges and other Career and Skills related forums. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has worked with leading CA firms and corporates like Hyundai Motors.

Guidance

Advisors

Madan Padaki, Advisor

Madan Padaki

Advisor


Madan is a visionary industry leader who has made deep impact at national scale in the areas of Rural employability & transformation, Entrepreneurship, Youth skills training and empowerment. He has founded multiple impactful companies like MeritTrac, 1Bridge.one, Head Held High Foundation and GAME. He had a very successful stint as President, TiE Bangalore. Madan's latest initiative Jan.AI aims to empower rural youth to embrace and benefit from the AI revolution. Madan is a graduate of NIE Mysore and SP Jain Institute of Management.

Anand Sudarshan, Advisor

Anand Sudarshan

Advisor


A visionary and a leader in the education industry, Anand is the Founder and Director of Sylvant Advisors, which incubates & accelerates cutting-edge Ed-tech companies. Anand was the MD and CEO of Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE). Currently, he is a board member of NIIT & BML Munjal University. He is a graduate of NIT Trichy and IIM Kolkata.