Leadership
Co-Founder
Ravi Kaklasaria
With over 2 decades of exhaustive industry experience, Ravi drives the strategy, growth, and vision of edForce. A strong believer in “Customer Satisfaction”, Ravi works closely with the CXOs and LnD leaders of most of the IT giants and solves the workforce upskilling challenges faced by them. He is passionate about creating world-class learning solutions for the industry and is leveraging technology to drive Learner Engagement and Accelerate Workforce Upskilling through Live Online Training (VILT), Integrated CloudLabs, LSAR delivery, Assessments, Gamification, Enterprise Reports, Notifications, Continuous Feedback, and many more novel features.
Prior to edForce, Ravi founded and headed SpringPeople. In the past, he held key roles at GE, Goldman Sachs, and ITC Infotech.
Ravi is a graduate of IIT Varanasi and did his M.S. from West Virginia University, USA.
Co-Founder
Mrinal Bagaria
Mrinal has over a decade of experience in the Workforce Upskilling and Corporate Training Business. At edForce, with an infallible commitment toward customer success, he ensures excellence, effectiveness, and high quality of every training engagement through well-oiled processes, managed service delivery, and robust systems. Additionally, he is instrumental in driving sales, partnerships, alliances, marketing, operations, and finance of edForce. With expertise in knowledge partner management, he is aggressively growing the capability of the company to service its customers.
Prior to starting edForce, Mrinal was Chief Operating Officer of SpringPeople. He completed his B.Tech from Uttar Pradesh Technical University.
Mrinal has been recognized among India’s 40 Under 40 leaders by both Outlook India and Hindustan Times, recognizing his contribution to enterprise learning, workforce development, and future-ready skills.
Chief Executive Officer
Ramesh Padmanabhan
Ramesh has over 30 years of experience across the enterprise technology, training, learning, and certification ecosystem. At edForce, he leads the company’s strategy and growth, bringing extensive experience in building technology-led learning businesses, enterprise relationships, and technology partnerships.
Prior to joining edForce, Ramesh was Senior Vice President and Business Development Head at NIIT and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of RPS Consulting. Earlier, he held senior leadership roles at Red Hat, including Director – Training & Certification / Global Learning Services for India & South Asia, where he worked closely with enterprises, training partners, and academic institutions.
With his deep understanding of the technology and learning ecosystem, Ramesh is focused on scaling edForce and expanding its impact in workforce transformation.
Advisor
Nikhil Chadha
Nikhil is a coach and a leader passionate about people, transformation and learning with a career across Flipkart, GE, Wipro amongst others. He has played pivotal roles in his career across various functions such as technology and supply chain, with his last corporate role in Learning and Development and Organisational Development. With 20+ years of industry experience in various leadership roles, he has executed award-winning global LnD programs with CXO level engagement across industries such as e-commerce, supply chain, healthcare, BFSI, IT & Telecom, etc.
Additionally, he has many coveted awards under his belt, including HR 40 Under 40, 100 Top Global Training & Development Minds: World HRD Congress and Iconic IDC Insights Award, to name a few.
In his current avatar as CEO/ Founder Mindwize and Co-Founder Bizwize Consulting, he helps organisations grow & transform with people centricity.