Our Team

Varsha comes with a strong background in the field of Educational Counselling & Business Development. Throughout her career of 13 years+ she has been associated with many leading colleges and institutes as a counsellor like ISB&M, Pune, helping students to fulfil their dreams through. Her passion in counselling & familiarity with the education sector has made her a stellar in the field. For last 10 years she is associated with Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism.

Sagar Gokhale brings a wealth of knowhow from India's print and television news industry and various strata of communication studies including Broadcast Journalism, Development Communication and Media Criticism.

Sagar’s career as a journalism professional is spread across 15 years in various forms of media including print, radio and TV. In this multitude of media, he has also amassed experience in various roles, including that of a sub-editor, news reader, news anchor and senior producer. In his time as a journalist, Sagar represented the who’s who of the Indian journalism industry including the ETV network, Sakaal, Saam TV and NDTV IndiaCan.

Sagar is a UGC-NET qualified educator with a well-versed grasp of journalism and guides Seamedu students to fulfil their aspirations.

Amey has spent his life in trenches, reporting on hard news with an enduring resilience and unwavering dedication to broadcast journalism, production and reporting.

Amey claims a glittering 15-year career in television journalism and a star cast of media houses as previous employers. This luminary list includes national and international organizations such as ETV Marathi, Saam Marathi, Al Jazeera International, Russia Today and The New York Times. Amey has been in the thick of the action, covering several major stories such as the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, and the floods in Mumbai on 26th July 2005.

He has also put in time as a consultant with International Center for Journalists, a Washington-based NGO working for quality journalism education across the globe, out of their Delhi satellite office for three years. He is a graduate of Mumbai University and Ruia College.

Vini has completed her BA in VFX and Animation from Mahatma Gandhi University, and Advance Diploma in 3D Animation from School of Media Design. She has earlier worked with Anibrain Digital Technologies as 3D Faculty.

Our honourable chairman, Saurabh Gadgil, is a sixth-generation businessman, and also chairs the celebrated jewellery conglomerate P. N. Gadgil Jewellers Pvt. Ltd.

After joining the family enterprise, Saurabh soon realised that his company’s business model needed a revamp. He used all the knowledge he had accumulated from his executive MBA at Harvard Business School, and undertook a complete redesign of the brand’s strategy. He introduced corporate culture and invested heavily in technology, real estate and trained manpower. Not content to sit on his dynasty and everything that came with it, his ambition was to build on the work of his forebears and take the company to the next level. Born, brought up and educated in Pune, he has taken a family-run establishment and turned it into a professionally-run corporate entity with global reach.

His profound knowledge, experience and acumen make him the ideal spearhead for Seamedu.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Seamedu, Shiva Gupta has close to 30 years of global experience as a business and technology leader.

Shiva has worked with established corporations across diverse sectors in USA, Europe and India. An Electronics Engineer from Institute of Technology (IT ‐ BHU), Varanasi, Shiva started his career with Tata Consultancy Services in India, before moving to the United States to join Covansys. Post that, he spent over eight years at Cognizant and was part of their global leadership team, after which he found his true calling – education (specifically in the fields of media and entertainment). Shiva now manages Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism and Toolbox Studio headquartered in Pune, India.

His thorough erudition, intellect and managerial pedigree are ideal tools to help him execute his prominent role in the management of the institution.

Ajay Thomas has worked up the ranks of major corporations and organizations through his 17 years of business experience. He brings his expertise in the fields of business development, client servicing and operations to the table, helping Seamedu grow from strength to strength.

Ajay has spent a predominant part of his career as an important cog in leading education and training organizations and has donned hats in roles ranging from a trainer to a founder and manager of these organizations.

At Seamedu, he spearheads the critical verticals of branding, market analysis, strategic alliances, tie-ups with global educational organisations and placements. Ajay brings all that deep-seated industry-honed skill and contemporary thinking to the fore as part of Seamedu’s managerial framework.