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90+ My Tuition App onboards Rishabh Pant as brand ambassador
Mumbai: Ed-tech startup 90+ My Tuition App on Friday announced that it has brought Indian wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant on board as its national brand ambassador. In continuance of his association with the company, Pant has launched the CBSE syllabus all over India.
According to a statement, this association will build a strong brand resonance and top-of-the-mind recall for the start-up among its potential customers – students and parents. “The partnership comes at an opportune time when the start-up is in a business expansion mode across key cities in India,” it added.
“Rishabh Pant is the rising star of cricket and personifies grit, determination, and hard work, qualities that we would like to inculcate in all the students using our app,” said 90+ My Tuition App co-founder and CEO Smijay Gokuldasan. “As cricket unites India, our CBSE syllabus launched by Rishabh will provide a unifying experience to the students on our app.”
“I wish I had an app like 90+ My Tuition App during my school days. It would have made studying math and science so much more fun. With the launch of the CBSE syllabus, the learning curve of the students on the app will be further enriched,” said Pant.
90+ My Tuition App provides digital tuition to 8th-12th standard students of CBSE and state education boards. Recently, the start-up secured $ five million investment in a series A round for market expansion, brand building, and new product development.
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UltraTech Cement appoints Jayant Dua as managing director
Dua will succeed K. C. Jhanwar after his term ends in December 2026
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement, the flagship cement arm of the Aditya Birla Group, has elevated Jayant Dua as managing director, effective 1 April, 2026.
The company’s board also approved his appointment as additional director, managing director and key managerial personnel, effective 1 January, 2027, following the completion of the current managing director K C Jhanwar’s term on 31 December, 2026, according to a regulatory filing.
Dua will serve as managing director for a four-year term from 1 January, 2027 to 31 December, 2030.
A veteran executive with more than 37 years of professional experience, Dua joined the Aditya Birla Group’s cement business in 1996 and spent nearly a decade in various functional and leadership roles.
Over the past two decades, he has held several profit-and-loss and chief executive responsibilities across multiple group businesses, including insulators, insurance, Century Cement and the chlor-alkali segment. In 2023, he was elevated to lead the group’s renewables and textiles businesses.
Within the group, Dua has received several internal honours, including the chairman’s individual award for exceptional contribution in 2002, the outstanding leader award in 2009 and the leader of leaders recognition in 2022.
He holds an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from International Management Institute and has completed the advanced management programme at Harvard Business School.
