Arun Jagannathan
Founder, CrackVerbal
Over the past decade Arun has worn multiple hats as tutor, entrepreneur and a technology manager. He has taught and mentored over 4000 students, teaching topics ranging from hard-skills such as software engineering to soft-skills such as time-management. His main focus however has been test preparation – teaching at major test prep companies in India such as IMS, Career Launcher, Kaplan, and Princeton Review.
Arun brings to the table valuable insights into the value of an MBA, much of this knowledge accrued over the years from a ring-side view of students making a transition from pre-MBA applicants to post MBA graduates climbing the corporate ladder. He also brings with him a plethora of information specific to individual programs given his extensive network among the b- school community, including admissions committee members at top B schools across the globe.He has a 780 on the GMAT.
Aruna Prabhakaran
Co-founder, CrackVerbal
Aruna has a decade of entrepreneurial experience in India and in the US. As a student at at The Wharton Business School with the Class of 2009, she was awarded the Edward B. Shils/Leonard L. Zeidman Fellowships in Entrepreneurship from the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program for the year 2007-08 . She is a perfectionist and coaches applicants on how best to navigate the complex application process. She helps chisel an applicant’s profile, carve out an optimal application strategy,provides exhaustive essay review and helps applicants hone their interview skills for B schools of their choice.She scored a 760 on GMAT.
Shreekala K
Managing Director
“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” – This simple mantra made Shreekala quit a high-paying cushy job with the world’s largest IT company after a decade in the corporate world and follow her calling in life – to enhance the lives of growing professionals by facilitating opportunities for top quality education. As the head of Sales and Operations at CrackVerbal, she draws upon her strong organizational skills, in-depth knowledge of the GMAT and an uncanny ability to evaluate individual student needs.
Shashank Verma
On Our Panel of Experts for MBA Applications
Shashank Verma is an impact entrepreneur & the director of a renewable-energy start-up company that he co-founded in India. He is an MBA Graduate from Oxford University, Said Business School. He has more than 10 years of corporate experience and has worked in top IT companies like TCS, Nortel Networks and HCL technologies.
He specializes in working with MBA applicants on getting their application strategy right for their target B-schools. He has worked with a number of applicants and advised them for their application to B-schools of MIT, LBS, INSEAD, Michigan, & Cambridge.
Shashank also earned his B.Tech (with honors) in Computer Engineering from NIT, Kurukshetra. He scored a high-ranking 760 on his GMAT (99 percentile).
Pradyot Anand
Our GMAT Sentence Correction Expert
Pradyot Anand has over 8 years of professional experience spanning management consulting, corporate strategy, and technology. He has worked on operational improvement, business-IT alignment, and strategy development projects across industries and geographies.
At CrackVerbal, Pradyot specializes in teaching Sentence Correction for the GMAT. His classes focus on helping students develop a practical GMAT SC question solving technique through a variety of hand-picked GMAT-standard questions.
Pradyot completed his post graduation in management from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad where he graduated in the top 10% of his class. He scored 760 (99th percentile) on the GMAT, with a raw score of 42 on verbal, 50 on quantitative ability, and 5.5 on AWA.
He also holds an undergraduate degree in Information Science Engineering. His other interests include travel, books, and board games.