Kaustubh Khade

Kaustubh Khade is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Spark Studio, an extracurricular education startup based in Bengaluru, India. Before launching his current entrepreneurial venture, he served as the Assistant Vice President of Product at BYJU'S and earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIT Delhi. In 2022, his consumer technology platform, Spark Studio, was acquired by the Indian edtech unicorn LEAD. Outside of his corporate technology career, Khade is a former professional athlete who won two silver medals and one bronze medal for India at the Asian Kayaking Championships. The two-time TEDx speaker also completed a 3,000-kilometer solo kayaking expedition along the western coastline of India from Kutch to Kanyakumari. His professional background combines high-level athletic endurance with executive product management focus within the education technology and consumer software sectors.