Krishna Devi

Director–Investor

DIN: 11116972

Some people invest in causes. Others invest in ideas. And then there are those rare few who invest in a truth they have lived—and never forgotten.

At 85, our Director–Investor brings something no boardroom can manufacture: the memory of what it means to grow up without a father's hand, the intimate knowledge of a family pieced together by the quiet generosity of strangers.

When her husband was just seven years old, his father passed away. His grandparents, too, had once faced that same unthinkable loss — three young children, aged three to seven, left without parents, cradled and raised by the quiet generosity of a Bania family in the small town of Chanchora, Madhya Pradesh. Ordinary people who chose responsibility over indifference to do an extraordinary thing.

She listened to these stories first-hand for a lifetime, understanding them not as statistics, but in her bones. And when she discovered IoK Education and its mission to prevent children facing the same shadows her family once walked through, she didn't hesitate. She invested her entire life savings.

When she encountered IoK Education, she did not see just a mission; she recognized a mirror of her family’s past and a possibility for countless others. In a decision that reflects both courage and clarity, she invested her entire life’s savings—not as a transaction, but as a testimony.

Her presence on this team is not just an honor — it is a reminder of why this work matters, told through the quiet dignity of a life fully lived in its service.It is personal. It is urgent. It is lived.

She represents a bridge between past pain and future possibility—proof that while abandonment may shape a childhood, it is compassion and opportunity that define a life.

She is not just a Director–Investor; she is the living memory of why IoK Education exists.

At 86, she chose to invest not surplus wealth, but her entire life’s savings—driven by a story that began long before balance sheets and boardrooms. She is a widow who has seen orphanhood not as a statistic, but as a lived reality.

Those experiences did not fade with time; they deepened into conviction.

Today, her decision to stand behind IoK Education is rooted in a lifetime of witnessing what happens when children are left without support—and what becomes possible when even one family chooses to care. Her investment is not financial alone; it is a quiet, resolute commitment to ensure that fewer lives are shaped by abandonment, and more by opportunity.

At IoK, we don't just build programs; we honor a legacy of care that began more than a century ago.

Nalini Sandeep Rathod

Director–Investor

DIN: 11116971

Ajay Saxena

Co-Founder and CEO