 "Deepak Mehrotra, MD and CEO, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL)")
Deepak Mehrotra, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aakash Educational Services (AESL), is on a mission to revamp operations at the firm amid a crisis in the edtech industry and Aakash investor Byju’s going through an insolvency process.
Mehrotra, who is a travel geek, has put a trip to Antarctica on hold, because he wants to focus all his energy on the organisation.
He has come up with a strategy ‘Aakash 2.0’ which includes scaling up company operations, bringing efficiency and setting up hybrid learning centres.
“When I joined (Aakash), my biggest role was
