Rohan Mahimker is a Toronto entrepreneur and an engineering graduate. He is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of SMARTeacher along with Alexander Peters. SMARTeacher is the legally registered name for the company that develops Prodigy Math Game and Prodigy English. [1]
Appearance[]
He is of partial Canadian ethnicity. He is 5'9" with dark black hair.
Early Game Development[]
Rohan was in love with the game Pokémon.
"I was addicted to a game called 'Pokemon'; why can't math be as addicting a video styled Pokemon game?"
It gave him the idea to create a math MMORPG styled game called, "Prodigy", which covers the 1-8 grade math curriculum. Early on, they went to 2 schools testing out their program experiencing many trials and errors. He started changing his business into a "freemium" base game when private schools refused to pay for Prodigy. He started writing the game in HTML5 for a wider-range of devices to run Prodigy. This early development stage grossed over 5,000 new students logging in and trying his program.[2][3]