Two people, since 2019
About
AspenPrep is two people: Vineet, who teaches every session himself, and Sarika, who runs everything around the teaching.

Vineet
Founder & Instructor
Vineet's approach is easy to say and hard to do: explain a concept until it genuinely lands, test it with questions that are actually difficult, show a student the mistakes they keep making until they can catch them on their own, and get them reading a real textbook on the hard topics. He doesn't let a student give up on a concept before the understanding is real. The question of why a book doesn't slide down the wall of a spinning drum once took fifteen minutes and three different explanations before it clicked — and that student took a real interest in physics afterwards, and is now studying Computer Science at U of T.
The students who do best build a habit — they start seeing the pattern in their own errors, they practise between sessions, and they bring in the questions they couldn't crack. One student joined in Grade 9 in the low 70s; two years of that steady work later he was in the mid-90s, with every university program back on the table. Former students are now at Waterloo, Queen's, McMaster, Western, and elsewhere.
Vineet holds a B.Tech in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Ivey Business School, and early in his career placed in the top 0.5% nationally on the Union Public Service Commission's Indian Engineering Services Examination. Outside the classroom he works in advanced analytics, and the same habit — finding the real signal in the noise — is what he brings to working out where a student is actually stuck. He's also building AI-assisted tools to give students more consistent feedback between sessions.

Sarika
Founder, Director & Parent Liaison
Sarika runs everything around the teaching. She's the person families reach for scheduling, rescheduling, make-up classes, and any question about fees, and she looks after billing so the practice runs properly for everyone. Parents deal directly with the two people responsible for their child's learning — Vineet, who teaches, and Sarika, who makes sure the rest works. There's no front desk in between.
Her background is in procurement and, more recently, real estate — both built on keeping commitments straight and reading what people actually need. That shows up in scheduling that works around a family's real life, and in rescheduling that happens without fuss when life gets in the way.
How a session works
Students come twice a week for an hour at a time, in a group of no more than 6 mixed across grades and courses, each working on their own material. A session opens with a check-in on the last test and what class is covering now, then moves to the fundamental underneath the trouble, practice at the right level, and the hard problems worked through together — so Vineet sees exactly where a student gets stuck while it's happening, not a week later on a test.
Between sessions, students can message Vineet when they're stuck on homework or prepping for a test, and he'll send back a hint — or the full solution, when that's what it takes to get past the block. Students can also send him their school assignments and tests for feedback, and he sends back practice questions to work by hand and hand in.
Where
Tutoring is in person, in small groups, at Vineet's home in Glen Abbey, Oakville, Ontario — not a commercial learning centre. Students who live further away can join remotely, and anyone can on a day when the drive or the weather is a problem.