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Malcolm Kalwachwala

Melbourne

Summary

Dynamic leader with over 10 years of experience in building mass-adoption EDTECH services, including a successful exit. At Mockmaster.ai, I enhanced user engagement, achieving an average of 2 hours spent per student daily. Proven skills in team building and strategic planning, driving a combined reach of over 1 million satisfied customers.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director

Mockmaster.ai
06.2023 - Current

Mockmaster.ai is a cutting edge fully AI enabled English proficiency test portal https://mockmaster.ai, which currently has more than 600K registered users and more than 100K daily active users.


Increased average daily time spent/student on the website to 2 hours using our in-house student-progress tracker and innovative industry-first streak notifications on the student dashboard

Director

ApplyKart Pty Ltd
11.2021 - Current

ApplyKart is a job-search cum short-form-educational content app with 300000+ registered users


As COO, I manage an offshore team of 10+ members [based in India and USA] to get the app built in record time and managed to get 300000+ registered users worldwide in less than 4 years

Director

A ONE AUSTRALIA EDUCATION GROUP
01.2020 - Current

Consistently ranked as one of Australia's top-rated PTE, IELTS, and NAATI CCL coaching institutes with three schools in Melbourne under my direct supervision and also enrolling thousands of students online each year worldwide to our courses [100K+ enrolments in the last 5 years]

Managing a team of 20+ tutors and ensuring that under these tutors, all our enrolled students pass their language proficiency tests in their 1st attempt

Built our own cutting edge fully AI enabled English proficiency test portal https://mockmaster.ai, which currently has more than 600K registered users and more than 100K daily active users. Average daily time spent/student on our portal is 2 hours.

Our aim is to provide best customer service and satisfaction, having garnered close to 2000 5 star Google review on our 3 Google business listings.

Have gathered an enviable Tik Tok following of 50000+ followers worldwide [ranked 3rd in Australia for all PTE, IELTS, and NAATI CCL institutes] - https://www.tiktok.com/@pte_ielts_naati?lang=en

Running a YouTube channel with 36.5K followers - https://www.youtube.com/@aoneaustralia


Also built a job-search cum short-form-educational content app called ApplyKart with 300000+ registered users


Reached an annual company revenue of 1 Million AUD in under 3 years of operations

Partner

Aussizz Migration and Education Consultants
07.2016 - 12.2019

Started with a 2 member team [including myself] and offered PTE tutoring services to international students and migrants

Achieved a monthly revenue of 50K and became a market leader in Melbourne

By 2019, Dec, achieved monthly enrolments of 300 students and managed 3 branches


Managed to gain 1000+ 5 star Google reviews within 3 years showing exemplary customer service skills

Director

Malgudi Rasoi Pty Ltd
06.2012 - 06.2017

In my role as Director at Malgudi Rasoi Pvt. Ltd., I ran the day-to-day operations of the Restaurant as well as looked after its overall marketing and finance activities. I relentlessly tried to provide the most authentic South-Indian food experience to all our customers. My restaurant Malgudi Rasoi was frequently featured in the best 30 restaurants in Ahmedabad [Top 3 South-Indian Restaurants in Ahmedabad] on various food and dining portals, including Zomato/Urbanspoon and Burp.
I also ran my own Catering Unit, which offered specialized food services mainly to corporate clients.

This entrepreneurial journey has been an extremely enriching experience, teaching many life-lessons, throwing new challenges everyday, and teaching how to overcome them.

Assistant Manager

State Bank of India, SBI
05.2011 - 12.2011
  • Cleared the test for the position of Probationary Officer at the State Bank of India in 2010 [was among the chosen few among 9,00,000 applicants in 2010]

    In my brief tenure at State Bank of India - Kalol Branch (As Assistant Branch Manager), I was in charge of:

    Managing disbursal of agricultural, gold and other loans;
    Mobilizing SMS banking initiative (Pilot Project);
    Generating investment leads through cross marketing;

Education

Bachelor - Computer Engineering

Nirma University of Science And Technology
Ahmedabad, Gujarati, India
05-2009

Skills

  • Building stellar teams
  • Building mass-adoption EDTECH services/companies from scratch [combined reach of 1 million happy customers
  • Excellent planning and execution skills matching any founder's/partner's vision
  • 10 years of managing 4 million dollar ARR business in India and Australia
  • 1 successful exit

Accomplishments

  • Cleared the PTE Academic Test in 2016 scoring a perfect 90 in each section [Speaking 90/90, Writing 90/90, Reading 90/90, Listening 90/90] and also an overall score of 90/90


  • Cleared the test for the position of Probationary Officer at the State Bank of India in 2010 [was among the chosen few among 9,00,000 applicants in 2010]
  • Had the distinction of having won the highest number of extra-curricular/co-curricular awards by any student in all Academic branches for the years 2005-2009 [More than 250 awards and certificates won]
  • Cleared LEVEL 1 of CFA [American] in 2010
  • Recipient of The Kanaiyalal Motilal Scholarship for the Best Outgoing Student for All Round Performance [2004 - Class XII - out of 200 students - the most prestigious school-level recognition]

Certification

  • PTE - Academic English test - Overall and 90 EACH scorer [Perfect score - a perfect 100 percentile score - best in the world]
  • CFA [American] Level 1 cleared in 2010
  • IELTS - "Train the Trainer" Program 2017
  • PTE Academic - Training Course for Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) 2017
  • NSE's [National Stock Exchange of India] Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM) - Derivatives Module


Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Director

Mockmaster.ai
06.2023 - Current

Director

ApplyKart Pty Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Director

A ONE AUSTRALIA EDUCATION GROUP
01.2020 - Current

Partner

Aussizz Migration and Education Consultants
07.2016 - 12.2019

Director

Malgudi Rasoi Pty Ltd
06.2012 - 06.2017

Assistant Manager

State Bank of India, SBI
05.2011 - 12.2011

Bachelor - Computer Engineering

Nirma University of Science And Technology
Malcolm Kalwachwala