Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Board Member Primary Organization 
CourseHorse
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Nihal Parthasarathi is the CEO of CourseHorse, the leading marketplace that helps people discover and enroll in trusted local classes, which he co-founded with Katie Kapler in 2010. Named one of Forbes' “Top 100 Promising Companies in America” in 2014, CourseHorse works with more than 1,500 class providers in New York City, Los Angeles, and
Chicago, offering 70,000 classes to 200,000 members. Responsible for the company’s fundraising, business development, and school-relationship management, he is based in its headquarters in downtown Manhattan.
A self-proclaimed “bootstrapper at heart,” Nihal has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch, Crain’s New York Business, and The Next Web. Prior to CourseHorse, he served as an education-technology consultant for Capgemini, one of the world's largest professional-services companies with 180,000 employees in over 40 countries, where he whet his appetite for disruptive innovation. During his two-year tenure, he collaborated with C-suite executives at a major test-prep provider to redefine digital strategy, redesign the website, and replace legacy technology with a learning-management system. Upon realizing his potential to revolutionize online education, Nihal left his consultancy position to launch CourseHorse, where he proudly has served in every role at his company, including sales, marketing, product development, and customer service.
Nihal holds a B.S. in finance and marketing from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He lives in Manhattan and spends his time playing games of all kinds, visiting the latest specialty-cocktail speakeasy, and sitting silently in meditation.
