Kamalika Sandell is the CEO of Core Education, architecting the new operating system for higher education. She leads an organization reimagining how institutions grow, operate, and sustain mission at scale. Core’s model unites finance, digital, and strategy into a single architecture of performance — transforming higher education from a system under stress into one built for resilience, agility, and prosperity. A former CIO and transformation executive at global enterprises including Cummins, Capital One, and Pepsi, and universities such as American University and NJIT, Kamalika bridges the precision of industry with the purpose of education. She has spent her career designing systems that create clarity from complexity — turning data into foresight, technology into leverage, and leadership into alignment.At Core, Kamalika is building more than a company. She is leading a movement toward institutional prosperity — where mission and margin reinforce each other, and where higher education becomes not a sector in decline, but one poised for reinvention.
Kamalika Sandell is the CEO of Core Education, architecting the new operating system for higher education. She leads an organization reimagining how institutions grow, operate, and sustain mission at scale. Core’s model unites finance, digital, and strategy into a single architecture of performance — transforming higher education from a system under stress into one built for resilience, agility, and prosperity. A former CIO and transformation executive at global enterprises including Cummins, Capital One, and Pepsi, and universities such as American University and NJIT, Kamalika bridges the precision of industry with the purpose of education. She has spent her career designing systems that create clarity from complexity — turning data into foresight, technology into leverage, and leadership into alignment.At Core, Kamalika is building more than a company. She is leading a movement toward institutional prosperity — where mission and margin reinforce each other, and where higher education becomes not a sector in decline, but one poised for reinvention.
