Murali Valluri

Over a period of nearly 30 years, Murali has built software solutions for the financial industry, first in India where he earned his master’s degree in Geology and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, then in the USA after moving there in 1998. Murali has led distributed teams at several global investment banks and rating agencies in a number of capacities supporting real estate origination, bond trading desks, and bond rating issuance. At Higher Ground Murali heads product development, combining his longstanding passion for education and technology to work with an amazing team of educators, pedagogical experts, and technologists to accelerate Higher Ground’s mission to bring high-quality Montessori education to children everywhere.