About Us

CLAP (Centre for Learning and Advanced Practice)

Centre for Learning and Advanced Practice (CLAP) is the one of the leading employability quotient development company which is having a legacy of over 200000 Training hours across various industry verticals and academic institutions. People who founded this organization are reputed academicians, international trainers, corporate professionals and successful business professionals.

CLAP is quite successful in introducing scientific methods that identify the career potential in students and orient them to the right career path. This unique methodology supported with an in-house patented (registered) tool Career Potential Assessment Test has benefited more than 1,00,000 students and professionals. CLAP's expertise of training management professionals and entrepreneurs has resulted in creation of programme which enhances the Entrepreneurial Intelligence of Teenagers and young professionals. The unique IMEE model programme has helped more than 3000 students and our Young CEO Lab at School is flying high in collaboration with multiple schools. National Entrepreneurship Network has awarded CLAP as the Start-Up of the decade. CLAP is the only ‘world record’ title holder in career mapping, evaluated and accredited by India Book of Records.

CLAP has its centres across India and UAE.

Board Members

Mr Ali Alsuwaidi is the Senior Executive Director, FMS of Imdaad Group UAE and Vice Chairman of the Global FM association. In his previous profile, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the famous Global Village. He is one of the influential leaders of the facilities management and asset management industry in the Middle East. He has an MBA (American University of Sharjah)graduate and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Toledo, Ohio-USA). He is a Mini MBA certificate holder of leadership from INSEAD and a graduate of the Dubai Government leadership program in coordination with The Wharton School of Business, USA. Ali Holds an international diploma in health, safety and environment management from the British Safety council

Mr.Ali AlSuwaidi

Founder and Director at CLAP, CEO at Next Best solutions, MBA,PGDT&D (SHRI,SMU ,Singapore), 20000 Hours of training expertise , Accredited world bank trainer, Former Dean – Dayananda Sagar Institutions Bangalore, Certified hypnotherapist, World record holder in career mapping

Mr.G S Sreekiran


Advisory Board

Dr.Gopakumar Pillai is the Vice President Property Management at DIFC with 25 years of experience span in Real Estate, Facilities Management, Energy Management and Property Management. Mr. Pillai holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University India a with a Master degree from Edinburg Napier University, UK. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Energy as well. Mr. Pillai is a certified Energy Measurement and Verification Professional.

Dr.Gopakumar Pillai

Industrialist, Strategic consultant, angelinvestor and philanthropist

Mr.Shreekant Pattar

Deputy Dir. Mumbai University, india’s no.1 best selling business author, Author Of Chanakya series (Corporate Chanakya), Advisor to Indian Military, TEDx and Josh Talks speaker, corporate trainer, director at Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies.

Dr.Radhakrishna Pillai

Had his education at IIT, Kharagpur (1969-74) and obtained a Ph D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Founder of 108 Emergency medical services in India, Former CEO of CoOptions Technologies, former chief mentor at Emergent Institute and CEO at Namma Bengaluru Foundation, Bangalore, He currently mentors many individuals and organisations and challenges them to take on large social causes using innovation, technology and spirit of entrepreneurship. His fields of interest are: education, healthcare and financial inclusion.

Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi

Former Professor HR & Ob Area, IIM –Bangalore, Author of many international books, Director at Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, recipient of the Heizer Award of the Academy of Management for Outstanding Research in the field of new enterprise development as well as of research fellowships from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute (SICI), He is a member of the editorial board of a few journals and the Editor of South Asian Journal of Management (SAJM).

Dr.Mathew J Manimala

Board Members

Founder and Director at CLAP, CEO at Next Best solutions, MBA,PGDT&D (SHRI,SMU ,Singapore), 20000 Hours of training expertise , Accredited world bank trainer, Former Dean – Dayananda Sagar Institutions Bangalore, Certified hypnotherapist, World record holder in career mapping

Mr G S Sreekiran Co-founder and Director CLAP

Co-founder at CLAP, COO next best solution, MBA (Bangalore University), LLB,LLM, Serial Entrepreneur, Launched first web portal for online career counselling, 15 years of entrepreneurial experience, Expertise in more than 5000 hours of counselling and mentoring, area of expertise includes- career counseling, education talks, mentoring.

Mr Jithin Sali Co-founder and Director CLAP

founder and director at CLAP, MBA (university of mysore), Woman of the year awardee (2016 and 2018), Represented SAARC at UN funded BoP challenge, Top Outstanding Young Person of the world – JCI USAwardee, regular ‘entreprenuerial achievement motivation’ speaker.

Ms Swati Bondia CO-founder and Director CLAP

Industrialist, Strategic consultant, angelinvestor and philanthropist

Mr.Shreekant Pattar Industrialist, Strategic consultant, angelinvestor and philanthropist

Co-Founder at Clarity Authentication Systems, CEO and Founder - Cheque1 Ventures, Started Career as a Hardware design engineer and turned as a project manager for R&D projects, Co-founded a medical device company ,Vios Medical Inc.,EGMP (IIM Bangalore), M.Tech (BITS Pilani)

Mr Anand Chandrakurup Additional Director - CSL Co-Founder Clarity Autehntication

Chief Digital and Information Officer at Signify, Global Digital/Information Technology leader, Seasoned public speaker, recognized as a luminary in his field of Leadership and Technology, Recipient of many industry honors and awards including CIO Power List Hall of Fame, PowerProfile by LinkedIn, CIO 100 Hall of Fame, etc., Advisor/mentor to Governments on Digital, IT, Start-up and Innovation policies.

Mr Tony Thomas Additional Director - CSL Chief Digital Officer Signify Former CIO – Nissan Global


Advisory Board

Deputy Dir. Mumbai University, india’s no.1 best selling business author, Author Of Chanakya series (Corporate Chanakya), Advisor to Indian Military, TEDx and Josh Talks speaker, corporate trainer, director at Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies.

Dr.Radhakrishna Pillai

Had his education at IIT, Kharagpur (1969-74) and obtained a Ph D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Founder of 108 Emergency medical services in India, Former CEO of CoOptions Technologies, former chief mentor at Emergent Institute and CEO at Namma Bengaluru Foundation, Bangalore, He currently mentors many individuals and organisations and challenges them to take on large social causes using innovation, technology and spirit of entrepreneurship. His fields of interest are: education, healthcare and financial inclusion.

Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi

Former Professor HR & Ob Area, IIM –Bangalore, Author of many international books, Director at Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, recipient of the Heizer Award of the Academy of Management for Outstanding Research in the field of new enterprise development as well as of research fellowships from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute (SICI), He is a member of the editorial board of a few journals and the Editor of South Asian Journal of Management (SAJM).

Dr.Mathew J Manimala