Sandeep Mallareddy

Global EdTech Lead

Lead global EdTech programming and summit operations for GSV Ventures and the ASU+GSV Summit, the largest gathering in education with 7,000 leaders each year.

• Ran the 2025 ASU+GSV and Emeritus India Summit end to end: the largest in three years, profitable at double digit margins, NPS of 70
• Own all global EdTech programming for the 2026 Summit, including the GSV Cup startup competition
• Co-run the GSV 150, the annual list of the strongest private education companies worldwide
• Built internal AI tools and automations that cut repetitive work across the team

Co-Founder and COO (2021–2025), Board Member (2025–Present)

Co-founded a company that teaches spoken English on basic smartphones in low income markets. Grew it from nothing to a profitable business across 8 countries.

• Built two businesses from scratch: a D2C product at $500K ARR and a B2B SaaS product at $250K ARR
• Grew D2C revenue from zero to $500K ARR in two years, holding CAC under $35, with half of new users from referrals
• Pivoted to B2B, sold to schools directly, and reached $250K ARR in two years
• Hired and trained more than 300 people across sales, customer success, and operations
• Raised $2M from venture funds, impact investors, and angels
• Won a $100K Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center

VP, Tutor Operations and Founding Team

Early employee at an online tutoring startup. Ran customer success and tutor operations, and owned parts of pricing, product, and learning design.

• Built the customer success function and grew it from zero to 5,000 families
• Raised new hire sales efficiency 48% with tech enabled training
• Hired and trained more than 1,200 tutors a quarter across four subjects
• Cut tutor pay costs 33%, over $100K saved in one quarter, by testing pricing and staffing
• Piloted a new Coding category and improved the in-house virtual classroom and gamification
• Lifted NPS above 50 and brought quarterly churn under 5%

Director, Academics

Ran academics for six schools in the largest chain of low cost private primary schools in the world, working closely with state governments and a global research team.

• Managed a team of 20 across six schools
• Opened two new schools from scratch; for the Chittoor launch, hired 16 teachers and enrolled 200 students in year one
• Hired 300 teachers across 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh in three weeks
• Ran "Teacher Observation and Feedback" workshops for 600 government education officers

Team Lead, Education Research and Innovation

Ran an internal research and innovation unit. Wrote the Schools of the Future framework for the Dubai Museum of the Future and shaped four new business ideas.

Manager, Value Creation

Ran large assessments and impact studies reaching 20,000 students, and set up the first impact evaluation of India's public private partnership schools.

Consultant, Impact and Program Manager

Built the Kaizen monitoring system and ran a controlled study on English learning across 30 Pune city schools, which fed into policy affecting 16,000 students.

Analyst

Built 10 product lines and an automated school rating tool for the Affordable Private Schools program, along with the framework to analyze the sector.

Fellow

Taught 2nd and 3rd grade in a low income school. Raised math scores from 28% to 68% and reading by 1.5 grade levels. Won the Design for Change contest.

Co-Founder and Product Engineer

Co-founded a small web development firm. Led a team of four building software for the West African Examinations Council and an Italian media company.

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

Taught undergraduate biology labs and ran molecular genetics research on telomere position effect in Aspergillus nidulans. The work was published in Microbiology in 2010.