Ramesh Balan is a serial entrepreneur, successful business executive, inventor and technologist who has always believed in thinking differently – using unconventional outside-the-box approaches to solve large-scale complex problems in many industries, including Interactive Media, Telecom, Healthcare, and, most importantly, Education. Earlier in his career, Ramesh worked under the “Father of digital art and computer animation” Dr. Charles Csuri (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Csuri) and built an interactive media platform for production of world class animation sequences in mid 1980s for ABC, NBC and CBS. Ramesh also served as the Chief architect and Head of Innovation, AT&T Bell Labs where he headed the development of a platform for global deployment of next generation telecom services. Ramesh's most recent company is Knomadix, which is developing a Bot-assisted Learning Experience Platform to help accelerate human learning.