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Anand Gopakumar

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Co-Founder and CEO at The Apprentice Project - TAP
📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Anand Gopakumar is the Co-founder and CEO of The Apprentice Project (TAP), a non-profit Ed-Tech initiative dedicated to empowering underserved children in India. A former Teach for India Fellow, he focuses on equipping students with 21st-century skills. He is a graduate of Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering and his work has gained significant recognition.

Anand is driven by a deep personal mission to enable Indias education system to become a space for self-discovery and holistic development for every child, irrespective of their background. He believes in leveraging technology as a scalable medium to bridge the opportunity gap for children from low-income families and create lasting social impact.

His organization, The Apprentice Project, was a Grand Prize Winner of the Harvard Presidents Innovation Challenge, highlighting the global recognition of his work.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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21st-Century Skills
His entire professional focus is on building critical thinking, digital literacy, creativity, and social-emotional skills for India's underserved children through The Apprentice Project.
Ed-Tech for Impact
He champions the use of technology, like AI-powered WhatsApp bots, to deliver scalable, choice-based, and holistic education to children from low-income families.
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Career

Work history

7-2016
Co-Founder and CEO
The Apprentice Project - TAP
12-2019
CEO and Director Development & Communications
Mentor Me India
10-2021 - 8-2022
Incubatee
The/Nudge Institute
9-2020 - 7-2021
Harvard President's Innovation Challenge-Grand Prize Winner
Harvard Innovation Labs
1-2019 - 5-2020
Incubatee
NSRCEL
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Education
7-2008 - 5-2012
B-Tech
Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram
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