This soft spoken genius, founded the Universal Concept of Mental Arithmetic System, now popularly called UCMAS in 1993 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was instrumental in making the ancient gadget of abacus into a formal curriculum, and took it globally to over 75 nations. We at SPARK are fortunate to have had the opportunity to personally interact with him several times and benefit from his thinking mind. His endeavor has been to constantly innovate and make it useful for children.

A passionate educator with over two decades of teaching experience. Sherley founded SPARK Academy as the first franchisee in Pune for Abacus, way back in 2002. An alumna from the prestigious Stella Maris College, she runs her academy with a team of well trained Instructors and is herself an Abacus Grand Master. She is a B.Ed and also holds an MBA degree. A keen sportswoman, Sherley has captained the Tamilnadu State Hockey Team. An active Rotarian, she has contributed immensely to the needy.
And with all this, she has found time to paint and do Himalayan treks.

She is the Director of Education at Global Sainik Academy a renowned institution in Karnataka. She has 27 years of experience as an educationist. Being an army wife, she has taught in Army Public Schools in various cities. For the past 5 years she has volunteered to be part of the Bangalore based NGO e-Vidyaloka to online tutor the Naxalite affected village school at Chengarbasa in Giridih district in Jharkhand State. She is a passionate teacher and gets a lot of satisfaction by bringing positive changes in the lives of children. Not surprisingly, Dr Anupama is the recipient of many awards & recognitions.

Snehal Karia, an Engineering Graduate decided early in his life that he will be his own boss. He started an IT company and thereafter forayed into education. He took over the National Franchisee of UCMAS India in 2013 and since then has grown it into a powerhouse of Education, managing around 2000 centres nation-wide.

This ever smiling simple man remains approachable to all franchisees. His favourite quote “It’s OK if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as a whole damn fire.” remains a motivation for all of us.

Nitin has been the Director of UCMAS Pune Region since 2013. His earlier foray into education includes being the Master Franchisee for Cue English in collaboration with Cambridge University. He manages his SOTC Franchisee as well at Mumbai. Apart from his busy professional schedules, Nitin is passionate about Military History, travelled to several World War II historic sites.

We are fortunate to have Nitin as our Friend, Philosopher and Guide at Pune. And yes, despite his high flying hobby (yes, he is a Pilot), he remains much grounded in offering us nuggets of wisdom using his vast management experience.

Rashmi , has been the Director of UCMAS Pune Region since 2013 along with Mr. Nitin Bendre. She has a long work history of managing sales and operations both at Usha International and at SOTC Holiday World. Having been a Unit Franchisee earlier, Rashmi, is pretty hands-on with Abacus teaching, which is a big boon for all of us. We are fortunate to have a Master Franchisee, whom we can reach out to at any stage and discuss. She is always open to suggestions and comes up with practical solutions.

Mr. Navin Kripalani is a Mentor and Advisor for young companies looking for exponential growth. Private Bike share, Interiors, Medical Imaging are some of the companies, he is involved with. His guidance is towards organizational set-up, Funding and Marketing. He specializes in managing cultural changes, critical appraisal of business, getting processes into your DNS, assessing & profiling human resource needs and strategic business initiatives. He was the President of TiE, Pune Chapter during 2010-11. He is one of the Founders, and a Governing Council Member, of Innovations Pune, a part of the Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. Group. He was also Managing Director of Kilobytes India Ltd., a company manufacturing and exporting 1 Million 5.25” Floppy Discs every month.

An achievers career-profile spanning 25+ years. A Masters in HR and a certified systems-thinking expert from Haines Centre USA, Prince is the pioneer of Edutech/Fintech company ‘NIMka’, operating in over 20 franchisees/ locations. NIMka offers courses to children in Practical Maths & Financial Education. As a HR Leader, he worked with MaFoi Consultants, then India’s largest HR Company, as its National Manager growing its outsourced base from a mere dozen to 25,000+ members. He started his career as an Army Major, an alumna of NDA, spending a decade in J&K as a Combat Mission Commander, wounded with frostbite, honored with the Special Services Medal. Also an award-winning Rotary Club President, he is a budding author, book buff, a tea addict and a traveler at heart.

Sheryne is passionate about teaching Mathematics and makes use of different methods to make the subject easier and interesting to the students. She enables the students to have a genuine comprehension of Mathematics as a logical basis for scientific thinking. She has helped in designing the Mathematical concepts that are brought alive with 2D, 3D graphs using coding.

Her career began as a teacher in St Christopher’s College, Chennai. Sheryne holds a Masters in Mathematics, completed her MPhil degree and is currently pursuing her PhD in Mathematics. She has presented several papers and participated in National & International Conferences.

She has been with UCMAS since 2001. Over the years Apexa Ma’am became a course instructor then Dy. Moderator of UCMAS Gujarat, a Moderator of Gujarat, and in 2013 she was promoted as the Chief Moderator of one of the largest UCMAS networks in the world – UCMAS India. Instructors and Franchisees all over India look up to her technical guidance.