Mr. Beas Dev Ralhan
Chief Executive Officer, Next Education Pvt. Ltd.

Beas Dev Ralhan is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Hyderabad-based Next Education Pvt Ltd., a digital education technology company that provides ICT (information and communication technology) solutions (TeachNext, NextERP) to over 6,000 schools in which over 6 million students use one or more of its products (LearnNext, NextLab, Next Learning Centres, etc).

An alumnus of IIT-Bombay and London Business School, he started his career with a security and Internet gateway solution start-up. Later, he joined other entrepreneurs and worked on various India-focused eCommerce ventures such as Internet cash card (lookforgreen.com), and developed his own idea, a peer-to-peer betting site (betaday.com). After that he was involved with PartyGaming as developer, and later as Head of Research – Technology. During his career as a technology consultant in the USA, Beas has worked at places such as Neiman Marcus, JC Penney, Target, FoodLion and Polo Ralph Lauren.