In this issue of Insights Success- The Most Innovative E- Learning Company to Watch in 2022, we bring forth ImaginXP, a leading virtual university platform which offers a wide range of unique future skills degree courses in UX Design, Fintech, Blockchain, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Science, and much more.

1. January 2022
ImaginXP
Imparting Quality Education by Upskilling Students and Professionals with Future Skills
The Most
INNOVATIVE
E-Learning
Company
to Watch
in 2022
Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar
Director General
Nitesh Rohatgi
Chief Operating Officer
Abhayjeet Singh
Chief Academic Officer

4. Editor's Note
THE PIONEERS OF E-LEARNING
EXCELLENCE
n today's age, technology has taken the centre
Istage, while opening doors for endless possibilities.
Every business takes place in the online arena by
surpassing physical boundaries. Moreover, many
companies intend to train their employees and
inculcate in them essential skills, which would help
them to improve their performance and deliver better
results. Additionally, due to the ongoing coronavirus
pandemic, schools and colleges are closed indefinitely,
which necessitates the use of online learning. This will
help people in carrying out seamless classroom sessions
from the comfort their homes. With excellent e-
learning facilities, educational institutions can conduct
exams, take practical sessions, and conduct group
activities from any place and any time, with ease.
Thanks to the innovative e-learning companies, things
have become easier for companies and educational
institutions. These companies provide their clients with
numerous benefits. It saves a lot of time in creating,
updating, managing, and delivering training programs.
They provide automated and customized online
courses as per the needs of an organization.
These prominent players in the e-learning industry
provide complete control to the users in terms of
course creation, administration, and communication
between the trainers and the learners. They provide
the scope to easily access any course, take tests easily,
and evaluate and deliver the results in no time. With
just a few clicks of the mouse, users can access different
courses, multimedia content, calendars, archives,
evaluations, and much more.
The renowned e-learning companies provide their
clients with the free hand to create and custom-
develop their own content, with their own corporate
image and brand. This, in turn, allows the clients to
create their own brand identity through these e-
learning programs.
One of the most fascinating features provided by these
excellent e-learning companies is that they provide the
option of mobile learning. Users can utilize mobile-first
content efficiently, without any hassles from any time
and any place.
These leaders of the e-learning space are transforming
the way learning and education is perceived. They are
simplifying school and workplace learning, while
providing the learners with the opportunity to
complete the tasks in time.
Hence, in this issue of CIO Look India, we bring forth
ImaginXP, a leading virtual university platform, which
offers a wide range of unique future skills degree
courses in UX Design, Fintech, Blockchain,
Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, Big Data, Data Science, and much more. So,
without any further ado, read now to know more about
this company that is providing tremendous
opportunities to its clients to learn and grow, while
innovating and excelling in its endeavours. Happy
reading!

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The Most
INNOVATIVE
E-Learning
Company
to Watch
in 2022

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Imparting Quality Education by Skilling Students
and Professionals with Future Skills
E
veryone knows there is too
much gap between resources
pool and the employability of
these resources in the current
industrial scenario. Even with the
resources present in the market
currently, their placement is uneven,
due to which the income gap also
resonates indifferently. There is a
massive demand for people with the
right skillset or multiple skillsets for
a particular job opportunity. To fulfil
that, the gap between the industry
and academia needs to be bridged
immediately.
ImaginXP which is a leading
organization for future skills
programs in higher education has
taken initiative to mitigate the
challenges arising out of these gaps.
It is working intending to enhance
the digitalisation in the country. The
company was established by
Shashank Shwet - Founder and
CEO, Shishir Kumar – Director
General and Nitesh Rohatgi- Chief
Operating Officer with a vision to
reduce the un-employability rate in
India.
ImaginXP’s genesis took place in the
year 2013. Before that the founders
had a sister-concern company called
Fortune Cookie UX Design that was
working into digital consultancy and
taking up digital transformation
projects. In 2008, when Fortune
Cookie was started, UX Design or
Customer Experience Design was at
its nascent stage. The requirement
for digital projects has increased
tremendously in India since then.
The need to ensure that the
workforce is trained skilfully led to
the idea of conceptualising
ImaginXP.
How it All Began….
Many requirements for formal
training were coming from working
professionals. Initially, ImaginXP
launched a course called as UX
Jumpstarter in the physical
classroom mode at its headquarters
in Pune.
The response received was
excellent. And gradually, the course
became so popular and came under
Top Five UX programs in India being
delivered across 16 physical centres
across India.
In 2017, when the honourable Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi, gave a
vision of digital India worth a five
trillion-dollar economy, much digital
transformation in India paved its
path for the future growth.
Bridging the Gaps
The universities have been teaching
the traditional curriculum, the gap
between industry requirements and
students’ skillset has not been
getting bridged. ImaginXP curated
the first-degree program in digital
design space i.e. User Experience
Design.
ImaginXP team designed curriculum
for Bachelor of Design in User
Experience, Master of Design in
User Experience, and a PG Diploma
program in User Experience in
consultation with industry and
academia. They signed a MOU with
four universities to kick start the
initiative. ImaginXP became a
complete academic/knowledge
partner as part of the university
collaboration.
Our aim is to become
the unique
organisation and the
most sought-after
organisation in higher
education, future-skill
degree and for-credit
certification program
Learning Redefined
“
“

11. We always wanted
to become a bridge
between the
industry and
academia. So, we
have been doing
that, and we have
been successful
ImaginXP’s advantage is Industry
led curriculum, access to industry
experts, experienced faculty,
industry participated delivery, and
differentiated experiential
pedagogy. As a part of the program,
ImaginXP provides complete
academic delivery with expert IN-
HOUSE faculty, 1250+ corporate
Subject Matter Experts, live
projects, paid-internship
opportunities, and placement as
well. This is the value proposition
that ImaginXP brings to the
universities and the owners, who
are visionaries & looking forward to
such programs in future skills..
“It can facilitate many placement
opportunities and hiring
opportunities for the students, and
they may definitely tie up with
ImaginXP,” conveys Shishir Kumar. In
2018, the company had four
university partnerships. In 2019, it
had 11 university partnerships, and
in 2020, it had 21 partnerships.
Currently, the company is having
partnerships with over 30
universities in India.
In 2020, ImaginXP has launched its
E-Learning Platform, which is named
as My Coach. The platform was
made live on 17th November 2020,
and a pilot “Design Thinking &
Innovation” program was executed
successfully for five existing
University partners.
The new education policy by Indian
Government, which came in last
year’s pandemic, has opened many
doors for the company. As per UGC,
60% of the program can be taught
offline, and 40% can be conducted in
an online mechanism.
Till date, ImaginXP has trained
11,500 students, and this program
was made as the compulsory
program for two credits by the
partnered universities. ImaginXP
envisioned and wanted to make My
Coach platform a one-stop solution
for all university students
“
“

12. whether they are going through
their programs or some other
programs. They have mapped the
entire life cycle of the students.
They have provided a coding
platform within My Coach platform
for B Tech CS students. Currently,
ImaginXP has a pool of 1250
corporates’ subject matter experts.
These experts come from different
Design, Business, and Technology
backgrounds, have empanelled with
ImaginXP, and have also signed
MOU with the company.
Dynamics of Blended Learning
At present, ImaginXP has 90% pre-
placement offers for the under-
graduate programs and 78% pre-
placement offers for the PG
programs. All the features of live-
project, internship, placement-
assistance, and the entire student
life cycle is mapped on My Coach
platform. That is how the company
is offering blended learning and
completely online learning as well.
This has also helped ImaginXP
penetrate the untapped students at
their university partners by
providing them FOR CREDIT
certification programs.
Nitesh Rohatgi, the COO of
ImaginXP expressed, how the
company helped students to learn
flexibly. He said, “The flexibility of
our specialisation programs on My
Coach is that we integrate the
specialisation programs with the
curriculum structure. So, we set the
subject, and if the university is okay,
nd rd
we will start it for 2 or 3 year with
equal distribution of subjects
respective to the semesters- So, the
learning goes continuous, and the
extra load does not come on the
students. This enhances the
employability of students. ”
Everything is enabled on the My
Coach platform. The flexibility of
online learning has helped the
company to bring corporate trainers
from across the globe to teach these
subjects. ImaginXP ensures that for
the specialisation programs 100% of

13. the delivery happens through
corporate coaches only in fully
online mode.
ImaginXP is a one-stop solution,
whether a student wants to pursue
an under-graduate degree program,
post-graduate degree program, or
want to go through some short-term
certification programs in Design ,
Technology & Business streams
Forging an Educational Pathway
With the success that ImaginXP has
shown in the last three years, many
premium institutes have
collaborated for conducting
executive programs. The company
has currently tied up with BIMTECH
(Birla Institute of Management
Technology), for two master
certification programs, one is
Strategic Management in Digitalised
Ecosystem, and the other in
Disruptive Entrepreneurship. With
MIT (Shillong) for Executive MBA, &
with IIT Roorkee for Advance
Program in Supply Chain
Management in Digitalised
Economy.
Currently, the company has almost
350+ corporate recruiters
associated with it. Slowly and
gradually, it has developed an
ecosystem in last five years and now
these recruiters are more than
happy with their association with
ImaginXP by getting skilled fresh &
experienced talent pool who are
readily deployable.
The team of ImaginXP stated how
the company had reached its
benchmarks. “We always wanted to
become a bridge between the
industry and academia. So, we have
been doing that, and we have been
successful. We want to keep
ensuring that we keep the value,
trust, and quality for the students,
for the university stakeholders, and
for our industry partners,” said
Nitesh Rohatgi
At core, it is an academic
organisation in the higher education
space, which aims to curate the
new-age programs and deliver them.
Re-Imagining the Future
Education and the right skillset are
the keys to success. “We firmly
believe that we have the power to
grow into introducing new programs
and courses in the right future skills
demanded by industry in the higher
education segment,” states
Abhayjeet Singh – Chief Academic
Officer. The goal is to ensure that
the team at ImaginXP can
contribute to India’s trillion-dollar
digital economy by producing skilled
staffing, who pass out of colleges
and universities, ensuring that their
degrees are worth and that students
are job-ready.
Its plan includes connecting with
corporates world-wide through
corporate coaches and mentors
from the industry who work first on
curriculum, then provide master
classes, special sessions and live
projects and recruit the students.
This ensures that student is ready
for the rapid changes in the industry.
ImaginXP has been approached by
recruitment heads of various
reputed corporates to nurture and
provide fresh talent pools coming
out from Universities so that they
become ready to deploy within
minimum timeframe. One of the
biggest costs that companies would
want to avoid is that of hire-train-
deploy. Today companies are looking
for first-day-deployable resources.
They don't want to spend on training
and reduce the cost of campus
hiring. To solve this, ImaginXP has
recently launched “Turbo
Placements Program” for final year
students who will be evaluated and
trained in mapped job skills which
are required by these recruiters.
The qualifying students’ will get
direct access to grab these job
opportunities with packages
extending up to INR 12 lacs.
When we asked the team of
ImaginXP where they see the
company in the future, they said,
“We foresee ImaginXP in next five
years to be partnered with over 50
universities having very well
infrastructure across PAN India and
running around 25-35 unique
degree programs, which caters the
ambition of digital India growth.
Then make ROI for students as
seamless as possible with such
industry led degree programs.”
“We aim to become the unique
organisation and the most sought-
after organisation in higher
education, future-skill degree and
for-credit certification program.
Ensuring the practice-based
learning, economically affordable
degree programs for the students,
along with ROI of the student,” they
concluded.

14. Col. Shishir Kumar
I am Professor Colonel. I did my mechanical engineering in 1973 from RIT Jamshedpur, then my
masters from IIT Delhi, and MBA from Delhi University. I joined Tata’s Group for two years; then, I
joined the Indian army on the board of electronics and mechanical engineers. There I served for 30
years.
During my tenure in the Board of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, I was the Dean of MCME.
I was the Dean of the Staff College in Wellington. I was the director of EME School, Vadodara. As the
Chief Instructor, I have got many instructional placements in India and abroad. I have taken many
courses there, and I am a respected soldier. I received the Chief of Army Staff recommendation card
twice. I have given the battalion the command of a sting operation, which was declared first.
After taking premature retirement while I was the Dean of MCME, Secunderabad (India), I joined
DIT University Dehradun as a Director Academic administration and served there for 13 years.
In 2013, my son Shashank Shwet, who was working in the USA, came to India, and we started
Fortune Cookie UX Solutions. One fine day Shashank came to me and said, “I got a large number of

15. projects to the tune of 100 crores, but there are no user experience designers available in India who
will be doing this project.”
I suggested him to start with a short term course in Experience Design.
We carried on with these courses and to our surprise in the first month, we got 300 registrations,
even though the fee was Rs.70,000.
That gave me a boost to expand further in this direction. Also, I had the idea of UGC and AICTE rules
and regulations because I got many things done in previous assignments in my time. I accumulated
the curricula with the help of the industrial people. We invited academic people, who were known to
me, and together we curated industry-led curricula, which was effective and result-driven. In the
first year itself, we signed the MOU with four universities. We taught Bachelor of Design UX,
Master of Design UX, and BBA FinTech.
Next year, we diversified in the area of future skills, now we have got over 30 universities partnered
with us. We have got more than 2000 students studying in our full time on campus programs. We
are successfully running - two years’ master courses, three years’ & four years’ undergraduate
courses, We have specialised degree programs in Design (B Des in UX, Game Design), Business
(BBA in Fintech, Blockchain, Digital Marketing), Management (MBA in Disruptive
Entrepreneurship), and Technology (B Tecg CS in AIML, Data Science, RPA) etc. We found that these
are the areas where people will be getting the job with relatively excellent salary packages.
Word of Advice
The future generation of entrepreneurs must believe in one thing - Exploring and Experimenting!
We have also started like this. Because if you start digging, there is every chance that you may
succeed. You may fail also. My word of advice to the ones who fail is what has been told by Winston
Churchill, “Never, never, never give up.”
Failure is the pillar of success. And the way I define success is—success is when you keep doing the
same thing till you get the outcome or the output you have thought about.
In between, you will be struggling. There will be a resource crunch everywhere. These are the
problem with the start-ups. You have to learn the techniques to tackle these problems. And we have
got an excellent organization. Seven to eight people are supporting us. They are looking after the
entire operation. We have got over 75 faculty members from IIT, NIT, and we are again hiring 30
people as instructors.
Design is not a teaching; it is a training. The difference between
teaching and training is that training is all practice-based
learning pedagogy
“ “

16. I am a recognized growth oriented & mission driven professional with solid
strategic business acumen, practical execution abilities, & recently I have
been awarded the Global Choice Award in 2021 organized by Xel Research
as Chief Operating Officer Of The Year & Indian Achiever Award in 2020. I
am working as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at ImaginXP, a Virtual
University Platform for Future Skills.
As a young visionary and progressive professional, with over 18 years of
experience in Sales & Marketing, Product Development, Business Operations, Technology,
Program Management to build ecosystems. I have led numerous initiatives, became a catalyst for
ImaginXP in creating world-class digital products & Edtech services coupled with right kind of
skill based education program.
To “Make India Future Ready & create social impact” is my mission as COO of ImaginXP I believe
and it’s my heartfelt endeavour to upskill Indian students from all demographics & socio-
economic background – by providing a legit platform and mentorship to learn. ImaginXP recently
scaled up its digital platform MyCoach to offer for-credit courses with universities, directly
helping students engage and learn. In the years ahead, I aim to establish ImaginXP as a leading
Higher Ed-tech organization in India to offer a world-class curriculum, degree programs, including
credit certification courses.
Words of Inspiration
I truly believe in the quote by Benjamin Franklin “An investment in knowledge pays the best
interest.” Today’s students needs to understand that there is stiff competition to secure entry
level jobs and continuous learning to keep building up the professional career. It is very important
to choose right career path to pursue the dreams. Never hesitate in up skilling & putting in time,
effort to be always on a learning curve.
I am an educationist by heart and have been into academic enrichment,
industry-academia connects, entrepreneurship development, student
professional development, new-aged skills into education, management
development program and placements for the past 18 years. Student
development and introducing new-aged skills have been my core areas. I
have been into motivating students and parents, guiding them in future skills
and professions.
The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging situation at both personal and
professional levels. But I must mention that being an EdTech company, quick decisions, and
implementation of online learning with a stupendous tech team, academic support team, and
future-ready faculty, we were able to take our programs online.
Not only this, but technology has also helped us stay connected with all our employees and
students, ensuring that people can manage work from home and are keeping fine in troubled
times. Faculty counselled students at personal levels to keep their morale high. Our clients and
universities got much support through ImaginXP’s robust online learning platform - My Coach.
Abhayjeet Singh
Nitesh Rohatgi