The Man and the Visionary
The year 1986 saw the inception of Sri Chaitanya Girls Junior College in Poranki, Vijayawada. A noble thought that transformed the lives of lakhs of students over the next few years. The vision was to equip the students of the telugu speaking state academically to make a mark in the coveted professional institutions – IIT, AFMC, NIT, AIIMS etc. The last 23 yrs. witnessed the growth of Sri Chaitanya as the single largest educational institution in Asia at the Intermediate level.

Landmark Decisions – a humane touch
Some of his landmark decisions that add a human touch to the professional sphere are – to extend scholarships to students from economically weaker sections, and the decision in 2009, to extend free education to 100 children of farmers who committed suicide on account of bleak financial circumstances take a leaf out of any charity book.

Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai, or Doctor Madam garu as she is fondly called, studied Medicine from the Guntur Medical College, Andhra Pradesh. She was espoused to support Dr. B. S. Rao garu in equal measure in his Medical practice and subsequent shift to the field of education.

Nurturing Integrated Academic Programmes
Her sharp insight into the educational needs of students after high school, and her exceptional intellectual propensity aided her to design the integrated academic programme, LEO, that paved the way for countless students to secure top ranks in EAMCET and make it to prestigious Engineering and Medical colleges of the state.

The backbone of Sri Chaitanya
Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai garu continues to be the inspiration behind the phenomenal growth and expansion of Sri Chaitanya Group. Leading by example she has always aspired for excellence in the professional sphere. She believes in taking challenges head on and has held the mantle of designing multifaceted academic programmes to simplify a student’s efforts to crack the entrance examinations and secure a seat in professional colleges in both the Engineering and the Medical streams.

Academics and Work Experience
Mrs. Sushma who had done her schooling from Atkinson – Vijayawada, stepped out of Sri Chaitanya Junior College and spent the next few years studying B. Tech. – from the prestigious B I T S – Pilani. She went abroad to the US to pursue her Master’s in Information Systems.

A fighter to the core, blessed with the spirit to think differently and think ahead of her times, Ms. Sushma started her professional career in 1998 as a Software Developer – with American Electric Power, Tulsa Ok – United States of America. She served as an Administrator with three M N Cs based in the US. After gaining rich professional and work experience with Williams Communications and in the Software Division of First Health, Phoenix Arizona – United States of America, Ms. Sushma quickly blended with the Sri Chaitanya system as Chief of the Academic Planning in 2007.

Achievements
Mrs. Sushma is the chief architect of ICON. She also scripted the unparalleled success story of Sri Chaitanya in IIT-JEE and EAMCET in 2008 and 2009. She continues to design various academic programmes at the micro-level for students of Intermediate, in order to make the lives of even average students better and professional.

Academics and Work Experience
The younger sibling now holds the academic reins of Techno Schools. She completed her schooling from Atkinson, Vijayawada and moved to the USA , after pre-university studies, in order to pursue higher education. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science in 2006, majoring in Management and Marketing, while studying Computer Science as Minor.

Ms. Seema Boppana gained her initial work experience as Administrative Director of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions. In 2008, she translated the dream of Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools into reality. Inheriting the legacy of academics from the Chairpersons, she designed a path-breaking curriculum for the students at the primary, middle and high school levels in collusion with the academic experts from the IITs and the NITs.

Achievements
Ms. Seema gave shape to ‘techno curriculum’ that has a unique frame work which would evolve an analytical mind in the child. The hall mark of the path-breaking curriculum was the concept of ‘self-learning through practical interactive sessions’ in the class-room. The advantage a student would gain from the new method of learning was to comprehend, discern and apply a concept – all at the same time.

Academics and Work Experience
Mr. Sridhar completed his Bachelor’s in Engineering from Wayne State University and Master’s from Northern State University, USA. He has been into the Financial Industry and as IT Manager for more than a decade. He was Acquisition and Merger in-charge with Cavalry. He played a key role in developing the $10 million company to a
$ billion company. He is the ‘brain‘ behind the Software Consultancy, Uni-Global Technologies in the USA.

He is primarily responsible for the application of IT in Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions. Diffusion and sharing of the more important academic and administrative information, including reports are now possible at the click of the mouse. All information pertaining to Sri Chaitanya is now centralized.

Previous Work Experience
Mr. Sricharan comes from a Commercial Real Estate background. He has worked for Lubert Adler Real Estate Private Equity in Singapore where he was part of the team responsible for investing in South East Asia. Before that he was in Vornada Realty Trust’s (NYSE: VNO) Acquisitions and Capital Markets group in New York where he focused on acquiring Retail Properties, such as Malls and Shopping Centres across the country. At Vornado he was responsible for closing over $700 million of transactions.