Sandeep Mallareddy
entrepreneur | zero => one | startup operator
Summary
Seasoned startup operator and 3X founder with 15 years in education, technology, learning, and policy. Expertise spans talent acquisition, fundraising, operations, finance, sales, and marketing across non-profits, startups, and unicorns globally.
Experience
The Queen’s English Ltd
Co-Founder / COO
April 2021 – Present
Leading an EdTech SaaS startup empowering the next billion to learn spoken English. Oversee all facets of the business, including growth, culture, sales, marketing, finance, fundraising, product development, learning design, and operations.
- Built India’s first budget-friendly spoken English program, using ubiquitous tech innovating language learning
- Zero to $500K yearly revenue in 2 years, with lowest customer acquisition costs
- Pivoted to schools (B2B) , hit $250K ARR in 2 years; impacting > 75000 students
- Secured > $ 2M funding from leading VCs , impact and angel investors
- Helped 125,000+ students across 8 countries learn English in the last 4 years
Lido
VP - Tutor Operations / Various roles
June 2019 – Apr 2021
As a founding team member, led Lido’s early growth by driving key initiatives across customer success, product, learning strategy, sales, and tutor operations.
- Recruited, trained, and onboarded 1,200+ tutors across four product lines.
- Reduced tutor wage costs by 33% ($100K+) in one quarter via strategic A/B testing of pricing and staffing models.
- Scaled the student success vertical from 0 to 5,000 customers.
- Boosted sales performance by 48% through targeted training and development for incoming cohorts.
New Globe
Director, Academics
May 2017 – Jun 2019
New Globe (previously Bridge International Academies) is the world’s largest and fastest-growing chain of primary and pre-primary schools with currently more than 500 academies and 120,000 pupils in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia and Uganda.Led a team of 20 to deliver high-quality learning across 6 academies in India, launching 2 new academies, and driving government/external partner engagements.
- Facilitated a workshop at WISE Global Summit 2017 on “Improving Lesson Design Through Data-Driven Feedback”
- Presented at CIES 2019 in San Francisco on ‘Using e-readers and interactive read alouds to promote participatory learning and literacy in sub-Saharan Africa’
Various Organisations
Multiple Roles
Jan 2009 – Apr 2017
- Co-Founder/Product Owner (cheesecake.io) - May 2016 - Apr 2017
- Team Lead - Office of Education Research (GEMS Education) - Oct 2015 - May 2016
- Manager - Value Creation (Gray Matters India) - Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
- Impact / Program Manager (Thermax Social Initiatives Foundation) - May 2013 - Aug 2014
- Analyst (Gray Matters Capital Foundation) - Jun 2012 - May 2013
- Fellow (Teach For India) - May 2010 - Apr 2012
- Co-Founder (Nivector Tech) - Jan 2009 - Jul 2010
Education
University of Kentucky
M.S.(Biology)
GPA – 4/4
JNTU
B.Tech (Biotechnology)
81% (Ranked 3rd across university)
Fellowships
Acumen
Fellow
Mar 2014 | India
Emergent Ventures
Grantee
Apr 2021