Priya Krishnan

Chief Executive Officer KLAY

Priya Krishnan is the CEO of KLAY which she founded in 2011. Priya grew up in Mumbai. She has an MBA from London Business School after which she started her career in consulting and then worked with a larger IT outsourcer called Mphasis. In her last role she used to head up the European Business for Mphasis. Shehas also worked in various leadership positions with Anderson Consulting and Mphasis across Singapore, New York, London and India.

She moved back to India in second half of 2010 from the UK and started up Klay in July 2011. They now have 100centres across the country and are have 2 predominant models: in-house/Near-house day cares for corporates; community preschools and day cares close to the workplace or home.

She thinks working with adults is over rated, stating that working with young children is an amazing and enriching experience. Since KLAY has a country wide operation, she ends up travelling 6-7 days in a month to the cities they operate in - Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad and Bangalore.