Mohan Lakhamraju

Founder & CEO, Great Learning

Mohan Lakhamraju is the Founder and CEO of Great Learning, a leading global online learning platform for professional learning and upskilling. Great Learning has delivered over 400 million hours of learning to over 12 million professionals from 170 countries through its transformational programs focused on digital economy competencies. It offers these programs directly as well as in collaboration with top global universities. Mohan founded and bootstrapped Great Learning to one of the leading companies in its space.

Mohan also serves as the Chairman of Great Lakes Institute of Management. Over the past 15 years, he developed into one of India’s top private business schools with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon. Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director, India at Tiger Global, a leading global investment firm. He also spent a decade in Silicon Valley, first as an entrepreneur helping build Stratify (a SAAS company, now part of HP) and then in venture capital at DFJ. Mr. Lakhamraju received a B.Tech in Computer science from IIT Bombay, an MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford. In 2023, his entrepreneurial contributions were recognized by IIT Bombay which awarded him their Distinguished Alumni Award.

He is very passionate about high quality education and its ability to transform lives, having experienced it firsthand and seeks to enable everyone to have transformational learning experiences.