Bhavneet Singh
Bhav (Bhavneet) Singh is Founder and CEO of Sandbox & Co., a digital learning company with 13 market leading properties including CoolMathGames, Hopster, Kidomi, Code Kingdoms, TinyBop, Poptropica and Teachervision among them, reaching more than 55million users each month. In the last 6 years, Sandbox has harnessed technology, distribution, and content to create a safe and fun learning ecosystem of complementary digital products and services for parents, kids, and teachers. Prior to Sandbox, Bhav worked as an ‘intrapreneur’ within large media and learning corporates, focusing on developing and scaling high growth divisions.
As President and CEO of Pearson English, Bhav transformed the company into an integrated portfolio across, institutional, corporate, retail and direct to consumer suite of products and services, through organic growth and strategic acquisitions (China, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, and the US). His innovation led to the foundation of a new umbrella brand; ‘Pearson English’, which became one of the fastest growing divisions within Pearson Plc. Prior to Pearson, Bhav spent eight years at Viacom as Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Emerging Markets group, rapidly scaling Viacom brands including MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central among others from entry level into strong market leading positions in key growth territories across India, Russia, Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa as well as building Viacom 18 (Viacom’s market leading presence in India). Bhav has also held senior roles across digital, general management and business development with Manchester United, IMG, and Discovery Communications.
Bhav serves on the advisory board of Antenna Media Group, various Sandbox portfolio companies including Hopster and Tinybop, and is a former non-executive board member of Forthnet Group. Additionally, Bhav is a member of the World Economic Forum, as a Young Global Leader.