Meet the founding director
Ramya Rohini
Ramya Rohini is the Founding Director of Virchus Early Years. She is a second-generation Educationist. Both her parents are Doctorates in History. Her dad was the Regional Director of Collegiate Education, while her mom founded 4 preschools. Both her parents believed in serving the society and community at large. Her father's vision for her was to establish a school.
Ramya is a Management graduate with 13 plus years of experience in HR and Recruitment. She was heading the HR & Recruitment functions in various corporations like Scope International (a subsidiary of Standard Chartered bank), Intelenet Global services (then the JV of HDFC bank & Barclays bank, UK), WNS global services, etc.
Given the long work hours and incessant travel, she has struggled to raise her child - in those days when the concept of daycare was unheard of. A genuine need to provide a solution, and heartfelt empathy to the plight of working parents - planted the seed of inspiration in her, to walk towards the noble path charted by her father.
Her story
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In 2009 she quit her corporate career and volunteered with schools, researched about Early Years' Education, and in 2012, founded a playschool and daycare, Redwood Vriksh (School for little gods).
In 2023, Virchus Early Years was established under her leadership with her friends and mentors, Kishan Ananthram, Co-Founder & Chairman, IonIdea and Brindala Ananthram, Co-Founder & COO, IonIdea. The vision is to create a generation of “Proud Indians" who are rooted in India's ancient wisdom but are Global citizens.
She is a strong advocate of blending the best of Western pedagogical theories with the Indian Knowledge system - and adding large dollops of the Magic of Nature into the everyday classroom schedule. She is an avid reader of modern theories of Education, History, Psychology, and Spirituality. She is a practitioner of yoga, and meditation and believes that real success is possible only within an ethical construct.