CollegeDekho bolsters leadership team with appointment of Tarun Aggarwal
Author(s): City Air NewsTarun Aggarwal_ Chief Business Officer_ CollegeDekho. Education technology startup CollegeDekho has announced the appointment of Tarun Aggarwal as the Chief Business Officer (CBO). In his new role, Tarun will be responsible...
Education technology startup CollegeDekho has announced the appointment
of Tarun Aggarwal as the Chief Business Officer (CBO). In his new role, Tarun
will be responsible for leading new initiatives for CollegeDekho and
spearhead the next phase of growth and expansion. With over two decades of
experience, Tarun has worked with established names in India Inc. such as
Infoedge, HT Media, Tech Mahindra and HCL, where he has worked across sales,
business development and operations.
A business strategy expert, Tarun completed his engineering from the
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and has an MBA from the
prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. Prior to joining
CollegeDekho, Tarun was Partner and Business Head at RoundGlass, where he piloted
a Digital Marketing Service specifically aimed at the needs of the development
sector and conceptualized a unique offering to help social organizations
with Corporate Giving (including CSR funds) and employee engagement base.
Ruchir Arora, Co-Founder and CEO, CollegeDekho said “We are happy
to have Tarun onboard. He is an accomplished industry leader with deep
strategy, operations and business development expertise. In addition, he has
witnessed the fast growth and transformation of the internet space over the
last decade. Now that the education technology (EdTech) sector is also
undergoing similar rapid changes and massive digital transformation,
CollegeDekho has got Tarun at the right time to lend his expertise. As
CollegeDekho’s services grow and expand, we will greatly benefit from his
experience in the space.”
Commenting on his new role Tarun Aggarwal said “I am excited to join the talented and
passionate team at CollegeDekho during this important period of growth and
progress. I look forward to guide the company as it works to realize it’s
objective to institutionalize students’ counselling in India. He further added, “CollegeDekho is
here to make information on courses & careers easily available so that
students can make informed decisions. We believe this value-added service
should be readily available irrespective of a student’s background or geography
and it should help them achieve their ideal career through counselling.”