Ikigai Ken Foundation has been founded by 2 Alumni of Sri Satya Sai Institutions (Murali Mullapudi – 15 years & Krishna Rao J – 8 years) in March 2020. They have just completed the registration and are in the process of further setting up the groundwork for next steps. Some things in the process are pending due to Covid-19 & they are looking to complete the same once lockdown is over.
Idea behind Ikigai Ken Foundation:
Murali Mullapudi has been working over the past 12 years in the field of Education and has a good exposure in the setting up and running of K12 Schools in India. He has been Heading HR in many of the Companies he worked and in the last 3 Companies he has also been Head of Business Development. He sees a huge potential in providing quality Education at affordable rates in the Tier 2 & 3 towns of India. He is well networked, good knowledge of the Education market and also aware of the best practices in this sector. With guidance from IIM & IIT colleagues of his in the ventures where he worked before the whole idea of setting up a solution for Tier 2& 3 towns came up.
Krishna Rao Jaligama (Co-Founder) – Krishna Rao is a Specialist in Digital Branding & marketing. He runs a Firm by name Dot Matters in Hyderabad which majorly caters to branding, Advertising & marketing. He did is his Master from Birmingham University in Visual Arts and is an expert in his own way. He has created over a 100 Branding stories so far and puts a lot of love and passion into each of the creations he is behind. He has even come up with a coffee table book to explain the logic behind the logos that he has built so far. Krishna also helps branding & marketing for a lot of schools and has good knowledge of the campaigns that make these schools successful.
Murali says:
We have backing of Leaders in the Education arena and believe this is the beginning of a great journey. Iken’s focus areas will be K12 Education, Healthcare Education and Skilling. We aim to include various teachings & ideas of our Beloved Bhagwan including value based education in our schools as part of the integrated curriculum which we wish to implement.