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Faculty Profile Handbook

Capacity Building Programme for NGOs 11th March to 7th May, 2016

Bengaluru

Faculty Profile Handbook Capacity Building Programme for NGOs 11th March to 7th May 2016, Bengaluru

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Index 1. Justice MN Venkatachaliah ..................................................................................................3 2. Ms. Akhila Ramesh ..............................................................................................................4 3. Mr. Aroon Raman, CII ..........................................................................................................5 4. Mrs. Aruna C. Newton ..........................................................................................................6 5. Mr. Ayyappa Masagi ............................................................................................................7 6. Mr. R. Basavaraju ................................................................................................................8 7. Ms. Binu Verma ...................................................................................................................9 8. Dr. G.N.S Reddy ................................................................................................................10 9. Mr. S. Deenadayalan .........................................................................................................12 10. Mr. Devendra Chowdary ....................................................................................................13 11. Mrs. Gayathri Subramaniam, IICA .....................................................................................14 12. Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan, LabourNet Services India Pvt. Ltd ..............................................15 13. Mrs. Girija Kumarbabu, ICCW ............................................................................................16 14. Dr. Kalpana Gopalan IAS ...................................................................................................17 15. Dr. Kalpana Sampath, PhD ................................................................................................18 16. Dr. C. Kumarbabu ..............................................................................................................20 17. Mrs. Latha Suresh, CSIM ...................................................................................................21 18. Ms. Marie Banu, CSIM .......................................................................................................22 19. Mr. Mathew Thomas ..........................................................................................................23 20. Mr. Murali Vullaganti, Rural Shores ....................................................................................24 21. Mr. Murray Culshaw ...........................................................................................................25 22. Mr. Prathaap ......................................................................................................................26 23. Mr. Rajan Narayanan .........................................................................................................27 24. Mr. Rajesh A R ..................................................................................................................28 25. Mr. N.K. Ramakrishna ........................................................................................................29 26. Mr. Ramesh Balasundaram ...............................................................................................30 27. Mr. K. S. Ravi .....................................................................................................................31 28. Mr. C. Sarangapani, CSIM .................................................................................................32 29. Mr. Shanmugham Pandurangan ........................................................................................33 30. Mr. Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy (Krishnan) ...........................................................................35 31. Mr. P N Subramanian ( PNS) .............................................................................................36 32. Dr. H. Sudarshan ...............................................................................................................37 33. Mr. Venkataramanan Sriraman – eVidyaloka .....................................................................38


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1. Justice MN Venkatachaliah Former Chief Justice of India

Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah entered the

general practice of law in the year 1951

at Bangalore after obtaining University

Degree in Science and Law. He was

appointed Judge of the High Court of

Karnataka in the year 1975 and later as

Judge of the Supreme Court in the year

1987. He was appointed Chief Justice of

India in February 1993 and held that

office until his retirement in October 1994.

Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah was

appointed Chairman, National Human Rights Commission in 1996 and held that office till

October 1999. He was nomination Chairman of the National Commission to review the working

of the constitution in March 2000 and the National Commission gave its report to the

Government of India in March 2002. He was conferred “Padma Vibhushan” on 26 th January

2004 by the Government of India.

Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah has been associated with a number of social, cultural, and service

organisations. He is the Founder-President of Sarvodaya International Trust. He is the Founder

Patron of the Society for Religious Harmony and Universal Peace, New Delhi. He was Tagore

Law Professor of the Calcutta University.

He was the Chairman of the committee of the Indian Council for Medical Research to draw up

‘Ethical Guidelines for bio-genetic research involving human subjects’. Justice M.N.

Venkatachaliah is the President of the Public Affairs Centre and President of the Indian Institute

of World Culture. He was formerly Chancellor of the Central University of Hyderabad. He is

currently Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai University.

Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah is the recipient of several doctorates including from Banaras,

Bareily, Pondicherry, Manipal, Rani Chennamma, and Karnataka Law Universities. He has

many other academic distinctions and honors from several Universities and Organisations.


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2. Ms. Akhila Ramesh NIVASA’s founder CEO

Mrs. Akhila Ramesh is trained as an Architect with a Masters in both

Urban Design and Project Management from NUS, Singapore.

NIVASA’s vision is for every villager in India to own his permanent

home. It is an Architectural NGO which is based out of Bangalore

and seeks to provide professional design and construction support

for rural housing and infrastructure in India’s villages as a Design

and help to Build Venture. The organization is run by a small group

of dedicated individuals.

NIVASA is the product of Akhila’s effort in bringing together her

training in Architecture and her passion for equal opportunity. She is

the recipient of Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhini Fellowship

Award 2012. As part of the organisation’s urban focus, NIVASA has been working on bettering

construction labour housing, and the Project Suitcase, a proposal for rehabilitating the urban

homeless, is a winner in the Neighbourhood Implementation Challenge 2015, Bangalore City.

NIVASA’s philosophy is “Improving the quality of lives of people in villages in a holistic manner”.

Five areas of intended Impact in villages (where Impact is the enhancement of human capability

towards self-reliance) are: Housing & Infrastructure, Health, Access to finance, Education & Skill

Development. Our direct focus is on Housing & Infrastructure. The organisation believes that

long term sustainable changes can be made to any society if a few organizations with specialist

skills in these five areas work in a non-competitive, complementary manner to bring about the

change. Their values are shaped on: Purity of Purpose; Integrity of Thought & Action; Patience

& Perseverance in Execution; The Community as the locus of Interest; and Cause is greater

than the Self

The organization works on the premise that architectural intervention in design and materials is

essential for but not affordable by the lower income group in India. NIVASA employs a People-

centered Design approach, involving the house owner in both the decision making process, and

the product. Their outlook is to analyse the climate, vernacular, local materials, needs & usage

patterns of people, to develop cost effective solutions.

NIVASA Interacts with local communities, Collaborates with the Governments, NGOs,

Corporates and Individuals, Engages the Architectural community for volunteerism, Research &

design, to Derive specific, local, & cost effective designs to help Construct houses for the Below

Poverty Line people in rural Karnataka, & later in rest of rural India. They adopt the 3H principle

in any project: Heart to Feel, Head to think, Hands to Work. This is translated into: Observe,

Interpret and Intervene.

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: 9880651015


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3. Mr. Aroon Raman, CII Past Chairman – CII, Karnataka State Council Convener-CII CSR Panel

Mr. Aroon Raman has a post-graduate degree in Economics

from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and an MBA

from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA,

majoring in both Finance and Marketing.

He ran his own electrical insulating materials company called

Raman Boards for many years before divesting it to ABB

Switzerland in 2007. He subsequently promoted Raman

FibreScience, an R&D based manufacturing company

specializing in engineered composites. In 6 years, Raman

FibreScience developed a unique battery separator material

which it successfully took to global markets. In November

2014, Raman FibreScience was acquired by the

Hollingsworth & Vose Company, a world leader in engineered

composites for filtration and energy storage.

Mr. Raman now divides his time between business and his

other personal interests. One of them is literary; he has

contributed features to The Hindu Sunday Magazine, Outlook and Times of India regularly. His

first novel – The Shadow Throne - was published by Pan Macmillan in September 2012, and his

second book, The Treasure of Kafur, an adventure story set in Mughal India, was released in

December 2013. Both have since become national bestsellers. He is now writing his third

thriller.

Apart from writing, he advises and supports a number of non-profit initiatives and NGOs. His

other interests include tennis and trekking.

He has held several senior positions with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and was the

Chairman of CII, Karnataka State Council for 2010-11. He also serves on several corporate

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4. Mrs. Aruna C. Newton Associate Vice President and Head – Global Diversity and Inclusion, Sustainability Reporting and Governance, Infosys

Aruna started her career as a Cost Accountant and worked extensively in the area of sales and marketing, before coming home to learning and development. Over the last 25+ years, she has traversed many fields gaining a rich experience and perspective across organizations, people and functions.

As Associate Vice President, she leads Infosys Diversity and Inclusion and Sustainability Reporting and Governance portfolios. A leader in Executive Council at Infosys Bangalore Development Centre, she is also Founder Mentor of Green Connect, the Infosys environmental sustainability initiative

powered by Infoscions.

She was the President of the Electronics City Industries Association (ELCIA), an industrial estate of over 180 corporations, and she continues to be engaged in security, traffic, transport, infrastructure and social programs for the estate. She now serves as the Chairperson of ELCIA Trust. She works with Bangalore City Police and the Government of Karnataka on projects concerning improvements to traffic and infrastructure and the prevention of crime in the city. In 2009, she was honored with the WILL Women’s Choice Award, a special recognition for Women in Leadership. She was also selected as The Most Happening Woman in Bangalore – 2011, by

the Women’s Guild, a forum for talented women across fields and endeavors.

Her current efforts include working with Civil Defence; Jaago Re and Jaagte Raho, Citizen Police and other projects aimed at growing the involvement of citizens in governance and actions – a key to building a vibrant democracy.

A keen sports enthusiast, Aruna has represented Karnataka in Women’s Hockey for many years including captaining the state team, school, college and university teams in a sports career spanning over 11 years. She is also an amateur athlete (marathon) and motorcyclist. She also

serves on the Board of Studies at Mount Carmel College’s Commerce Department.



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5. Mr. Ayyappa Masagi Founder – Rain water concepts (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Ayyappa Masagi helps poor farmers improve their economic

condition by teaching them to take charge of their water resources.

Through his education programs, and by constructing physical

structures for water management, farmers work to reduce the impact

of droughts and secure sustainable sources of water for their regions.

All people depend on fresh water for their survival, but when water is

plentiful, it is often taken for granted. Pollution and increased

consumption have combined with inefficient practices of management

to make clean water a scarce resource in India, causing conflicts

between farmers—even between states—over the control of rivers and

aquifers.

Masagi resolves such conflicts by putting an effective and comprehensive set of water

management strategies in the hands of farmers. He trains farmers in his programs to measure

and trap rainwater, most of which now passes quickly through their land on its way to the sea.

He guides them on how to budget their water needs, equipping them to make informed

decisions about the crops they want to grow. He demonstrates effective strategies for reclaiming

wells and building water enclosures, helping neighbors work together with local materials to

keep costs low. Through his efforts farmers become self-sufficient, increasing their income and

dramatically reducing their dependence on external sources of water. They also become

advocates for strong water management policies throughout India, joining campaigns founded

by Masagi to make their voices heard.

Ayyappa Masagi grew up in a drought-prone region of Karnataka, watching his hardworking

farmer father lease lands from wealthier farmers, only for them to cancel the lease once the

lands began producing impressive yields. Determined to help, he stayed in the fields for hours,

watching his father’s traditional techniques and trying to understand the science behind them.

He went to university to become a mechanical engineer, and took a lucrative job at a large

industrial firm to support his large family and help educate his siblings. On the side, he

purchased agricultural land in 1994 and began to experiment with methods of sustainable

farming. He saved up to buy a piece of land for his father as well, freeing him to work without

the burden of exploitative leases.

Realizing the consequences of water scarcity in the drought-prone region of northern

Karnataka, Masagi began to investigate and implement techniques for the conservation of

rainwater. In 1998, he began to share his learning with other farmers, and four years later he

retired from the industrial firm to spread his ideas full time.

Mobile: 9448379497

E-mail : [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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6. Mr. R. Basavaraju Executive Director - Grassroots Research & Advocacy Movement (GRAAM)

Mr. Basavaraju R, is a development professional and had diversified

expertise in designing & implementing projects in the Non Profit,

Government and Corporate Social Responsibility sector. He has

expertise is Strategic Planning, Developmental Research, Monitoring,

Program Evaluation and Advocacy. As Head-Projects at V-LEAD (Unit

of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement) he conceptualized and

implemented several developmental projects related to Youth

Development, Child Rights & Education, HIV AIDS, Sanitation &

Hygiene, Women Empowerment and Capacity Development of NGOs.

He spearheaded Nodal NGO project supported by CAPART in four

districts of Karnataka. He played a key role in extending activities of

the organization to Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states in India. His contributions was

predominant in establishing V-LEAD as a credible training institute.

Basavaraju served as a Deputy Director of State Resource Centre on Child Labour, Department

of Labour, Government of Karnataka. He developed the State Action Plan for the elimination of

child labour. State Resource Centre was established to be a nodal agency to facilitate child

labour elimination activities in collaboration with the International Labour Organization. He was

Editor-in-Chief of bi-monthly newsletter on Child Labour ‘Balavani’, established Web Based

Child Labour Tracking System and online Child Labour Complaint Registering Mechanism in the

state.

He joined his mentor Dr. R. Balasubramaniam in establishing Grassroots Research and

Advocacy Movement (GRAAM), a public policy research institute. He served as its Deputy

Director till March 2014 and he is now its Executive Director. Basavaraju has been invited by the

Cornell University’s Employment and Disability Institute, USA as a visiting fellow. He travelled

across the USA to interact with different disability organization involved in implementing shelter

homes, fighting for their rights and lobby groups doing advocacy at the national level.

Besides his responsibility as Executive Director at GRAAM, he is personally in charge of

Corporate Social Responsibility consulting, Rural Livelihood and Disability portfolios and

conducted research studies in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states. He has

provided CSR consultation to renowned companies like Toyota, and Jockey, to name a few, in

developing their CSR strategy and plan with a systematic field study.


Mobile: +91-98867-67873


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7. Ms. Binu Verma Co-Founder and Director of Bal Utsav

Mrs. Binu is currently COO of Bal Utsav, which works towards

moving children out of poverty by nurturing them from childhood to

livelihood through education because

#EducationMakesAllTheDifference

She is a specialist in scaling and has extensive social and

commercial experience ranging from strategic innovation and

design, to delivery and implementation of programmes and

change. Binu’ past experience includes working with some of

India’s Top 100 companies as a Consultant, but she now

specialises in the design, implementation and scaling of long term

transformative solutions to deep-rooted social and human

challenges.

Binu has a rare combination of cross-domain and cross-regional experience across most of the

major developing regions, and experience with social change in both the non-profit and social

enterprise/business arenas. She has started, worked for and managed a number of impact

projects and organisations over the span of her career, and as a consultant, has advised the

leaders and management teams of more than 50 organisations across India and around the

world, ranging from small sized start-ups to large-scale and trans governmental organisations.

She is the Co-Founder and Director of Bal Utsav, ManyHands and FacilitatorGuide

She has also worked extensively with the Chairperson' of KSCPCR, which is a statutory body

set up under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act 2005, an Act of Parliament.

The Commission has the important role of examining and reviewing safeguards meant for

protection of child rights, and recommending measures for their effective implementation.

It functions as a civil court and hears petitions pertaining to violation of child rights. It also has

the mandate of inquiring into the complaints relating to child's right to free and compulsory

education (as provisioned by The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act

2009.)

She is currently onboard of over 20 companies advising and consulting on the Prevention,

Prohibition and Redressal of the Sexual Harassment at The Workplace in cities like Bangalore,

Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Coimbatore.



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8. Dr. G.N.S Reddy Founder – Akshayakalpa

Dr. G.N.S. Reddy is reversing urban migration in

India by increasing the economic opportunities for

small and medium farmers. By making organic

dairy farming a central unit of farm design, his

work creates a profitable vehicle to enable farmers

to be micro-entrepreneurs of their farms.

Dr. Reddy is creating a new model that not only

uses dairy to supplement the income of farmers

but also leverages it to create a closed loop of

inputs and outputs that add significant value to the

farming cycle. Focusing on farmers whose major

crop are small orchards (like coconuts and

mangoes), Dr. Reddy shifts their farming practices to use the free ground to grow fodder and

other crops and to introduce automated organic dairy farming. He supports farmers to invest in

cows, milking and chilling systems for the milk, a biogas plant, and a sprinkler system for the

farm. To run this technology, the cow manure is funnelled into a biogas plant that provides

electricity to the entire farm. Equipped with technology and the energy to run it, Dr. Reddy has

handed over the dairy production and manufacturing chain to the farmers and made them the

managers of operations and marketing for their farms.

By acquiring farm land and animals and experimenting with new crops and farm technology, Dr.

Reddy’s work is improving the economic situation of farmers and is thus attracting young people

back to farming. He enhances the entire process by providing support to farmers in areas such

as technical expertise, farm design, and access to finance. Further, Dr. Reddy has created a

system of farms connected to an urban hub, allowing the urban population to visit the farms,

learn about organic farming, and have direct access to the produce.

With a father in the medical field, Dr. Reddy grew up with a keen interest in improving health

through natural means. As a child, however, he always felt more drawn to animal healthcare

than human healthcare.

Dr. Reddy studied at the public school near his home, which was a daily 8 kilometre walk.

Because of the distance, his brother and sister dropped out of school, but he persevered and

finished his education. During school, Dr. Reddy was more interested in extra-curriculars than

academics and especially liked projects that involved using his hands. He led a kitchen

gardening initiative at his school and was also skilled at sketching portraits. However, Dr. Reddy

also enjoyed studying inspirational historical figures; deeply inspired by grassroots rural

development leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave. From studying their lives, Dr.

Reddy developed a passion for village reconstruction. Further, his passion and love for animals

led him to study veterinary sciences at Vijaya College, Bangalore.

During graduation, Dr. Reddy only had two cows for the students to treat, work on and learn

from, which meant there were 30 to 40 students lining up around one cow. This was never

enough so during the five years of his veterinary sciences education he never took a vacation.


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Dr. Reddy stayed at school during all the holidays to be able to have the time to handle the

cows and other animals. Doing this allowed him to gain more practical, hands-on training and he

graduated with more experience than many practicing veterinary doctors.

When Dr. Reddy returned to his family and village, the stark gap in services for farmers started

made him uncomfortable. But he did not know what he could do about it. A lecture by Dr.

Manibhai Desai, a Gandhian, who took over the Ashram after Gandhi, influenced him. Dr. Desai

identified the same problem of a lack of services for farmers and found a way to address it

through his organization, Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF). Dr. Reddy joined Dr.

Desai and worked at BAIF for many years. By assisting BAIF’s existing animal husbandry

programs, Dr. Reddy showed significant initiative and launched innovative programs from within

BAIF on forestry, irrigation, and water shed management. The Gandhian strain of thought

remains strong in Dr. Reddy’s Akshayakalpa model, such as in local production and

sustainability, but in the most modern and automated farms.

For several years, Dr. Reddy tried initiating the spread of the Akshayakalpa model from within

BAIF, but realized that it had become too bureaucratic, and any new program required several

layers of approval, slowing down the innovation process. He founded Akshayakalpa as an

entrepreneurial endeavour in 2002.



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9. Mr. S. Deenadayalan Promoter and Founder of CEO, Centre for Excellence in Organization Bangalore

Independent Director Suguna Foods, Coimbatore

Founder Member CSIM Bangalore,

Mr. Deenayalan enjoys working with “ORDINARY PEOPLE”

as he sees “EXTRA ORDINARY” talents in them. He

believes in Unlearning and not in “RESUME READING”

which is what “One is not”.

He is, the founder of CEO (“Centre for Excellence in

Organization”) based out of Bangalore and works with a team

of committed people in India. His team is extensively involved

in grass root empowerment. He also serves as Network

mentor and assists varied NGOs working for “Differently

enabled”, few Value based Educational Institutions and

Social entrepreneurship organizations.

He has developed ‘Learn, Earn and Grow (LEG Model)’ which is a new trendsetter for Industrial

relations in the modern economy. He believes in being legally questionable, morally

accountable and right “Business and Social Citizenry”.

He has reached out to over 3000 Municipal School Students who are leaders in their own right

in Leading Indian and Multi National organizations. Some of them are successful entrepreneurs

THROUGH sheer Native Intelligence and some academic rubber stamping for meeting the

needs of ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMES. Few students belonging to the age group of 35 to 40

years are today Heading HR/Supply Chain/Businesses.

Mr. Deenadayalan is trained IN SOCIO TECHNICAL systems and High Performance Work

Systems (HPWS) in Singapore, United States and Canada. Along with team, he offers

consulting for Global organizations in Countries likes US, UK, Canada, Hongkong, West Africa,

Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Dubai, Sharja and Saudi Arabia and across most

states in India.

His immersion was in Madras School of Social Work on Agrarian Relations and latter in

organizations like Mettur Beardesll, NTTF, Fenner, Titan Watches, ITC and DuPont and write

passionately on "Zeros (in today's frame) to Heroes. Academically , Gurupuja mada School ERI

School, HAL School, Aloysius High school, Annamalai University.


Mobile: 9448193270



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10. Mr. Devendra Chowdary

Devendra Chowdary has vast experience in Sales & Marketing, HR and Learning and Development. He has

been associated with SAIL and Citibank. He has overall experience of more than 35 years.

He worked till recently as the Learning and Development

Anchor for business units at Infosys Ltd (Infosys Leadership

Institute).

Devendra has an educational background as a Postgraduate, along with a diploma in training and development. He has also undergone a four-week course on “Advanced Leadership Skills” conducted by the Haggai Leadership Institute, Hawaii, USA. Mr. Paul Meyer, the originator of self-leadership development, was on the board of directors, Haggai Institute. He has also been certified by Paul Meyer’s “Leadership Management Institute” for facilitating their workshop. Devendra is also an international speaker having visited various countries and spoken at

conferences there. He was recently interviewed by a Pulitzer Journalist for a TV channel in

Florida.

He is a visiting faculty at Haggai Institute in India and Hawaii. He taught Leadership Values at

IIM-B.

He has undergone counseling and coaching training under the able guidance of Dr. Selwyn Hughes of UK. Email: [email protected]



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11. Mrs. Gayathri Subramaniam, IICA Convener and Chief Programme Executive National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (NFCSR) Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)

With an academic and industrial experience of more than 30

years, Gayatri has been associated with Indian Institute of

Corporate Affairs since its inception. Her main area of work

is to contribute towards policy advisory service and

undertake capacity building and knowledge dissemination

initiatives in the Corporate Social Responsibility.

She has been a part of the evolvement of the new legislation

on CSR in India representing IICA at various national

stakeholders’ consultations. She has also represented IICA

at various international forums. She is the Convener for

NFCSR - a unique platform created for Government,

Corporates and NGOs for taking up development and

sustainable initiatives at a national level.

At present, she is heading the Implementation Agencies Hub

of IICA and in her personal capacity, she is on various

advisory committees of leading Corporates and NGOs.



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12. Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan, LabourNet Services India Pvt. Ltd CEO of Labournet

Mrs. Gayathri Vasudevan, CEO of

Labournet is a Doctorate in

Development studies with more than

17 years’ experience in both national

and international organizations. She

has been extensively involved in policy

issues and community mobilizations

relating to livelihoods. Before joining

LabourNet, Gayathri held a senior

position at the multilateral International

Labour Organization for 8 years.

Gayathri has also worked with various

Multi-Laterals and Bi-Laterals (UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, NORAD etc.). She has more than 30

publications in the areas of labour, employment and gender issues to her credit.

LabourNet is a social enterprise based in Bangalore with a clear focus on enabling livelihoods

and improving real income wages of the informal sector by improving worker skill and

productivity. We believe education is not a one-time process but a continuous one, and that

every individual should have an opportunity to better education and better livelihoods. Our

model of work-integrated training ensures that individuals learn while they continue to earn. In

the last three years, LabourNet has scaled up very fast and has a presence in 650 locations

across India and has impacted more than 300,000 individuals in 15+ sectors till date.


Phone: +91 94 4839 5256



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13. Mrs. Girija Kumarbabu, ICCW Secretary, Indian Council for Child Welfare, TN

Mrs. Girija Kumarbabu is the Secretary of Indian

Council for Child Welfare, Tamil Nadu and has over 35

years' experience in the social service sector. She

serves as a Member in Juvenile Justice Board Chennai

and is the Managing Director of Sankalp, an NGO in

Chennai that is committed to the cause of promoting

the rights of girl children. She won the Best Social

worker award 2009 from the Government of Tamil

Nadu with Chief Minister's Gold Medal and Citation.

She was also awarded the Outstanding Woman of the

year 2009-2010 by the Inner wheel club-Madras

Cosmos.

She holds several other portfolios, some being: Member, State Level Committee for Prevention

of Trafficking in Women and Children; Chairperson - Subgroup on Trafficking & Child Protection

of Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission; Co-Chairperson - Committee on Child Rights and

child protection, ICCW New Delhi; Chairperson-Anti sexual harassment committee -Delphi TVS

Company Oragadam; and Member - Medical Ethics Committee at Sri Ramachandra Medical

University Chennai and Saveetha Medical University Chennai.

She has extensive experience in conducting evaluations and training programs for various stake

holders in the field of child welfare. She is a well-known consultant in Tamilnadu and has been

part of several studies and evaluations. She has immense experience in planning and heading

field based interventions. She was responsible for initiating an innovative multi strategy based

program at Usilampatti, Tamilnadu for the prevention of female infanticide. She headed an ILO

funded project at Srivilliputur, Tamilnadu for combating child labour and successfully main

streamed more than 3000 working children in to regular schools.

The special project for the release of bonded children from the Beedi industry in Vellore, a

unique foster parenting program involving the children who had lost their parents in Tsunami at

Cuddalore and Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, attempting to improve access and quality of primary

education in the remote villages of Krishnagiri, Tamilnadu are some of the other projects which

she had spearheaded.

She has evolved a guidebook for grass-root level workers for training adolescent children and

has co-authored a research study on the Impact of legislation on the situation of child labour

that was sponsored by National Labour Institute. She serves as a trainer for UNICEF and trains

DTERT members on Child rights and child protection. Mrs. Girija Kumarbabu is a Social Auditor

recognized by Social Audit Network, India.


Mobile: 9444136353


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14. Dr. Kalpana Gopalan IAS Principal Secretary to Government of Karnataka

Practitioner, policy-maker, scholar, author, advocate for social

causes and a mother, Mrs. Kalpana Gopalan wears many

hats. A serving officer of the lndian Administrative Service for

28 years, she has worked in land administration, urban

management, rural development and education, and is now

Principal Secretary to Government, Food, Civil Supplies,

Consumer Affairs & Legal Metrology Department.

Kalpana combines a unique mix of academic and practical

experience. She honed her research skills as a Doctoral and

Masters Student in public policy in llM Bangalore. She was

rated among the 'top two percent of Doctoral Candidates in the

past decade,' for her research on infrastructure public private

partnerships.

A gold medalist and university topper in her undergraduate and master’s, she was fellow in the

University of Solerno in ltaly; Chevening scholar, UK; and Maxwell public policy scholar in

Syracuse University, USA.

While serving as a public service professional, Kalpana concurrently continues her academic

activities as a Senior Research Fellow in the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi,

Visiting professor/Fellow in the Institute of Social & Economic Change, Bangalore, lndian

Institute of Science, Bangalore and lndian lnstitute of Management Bangalore and Guest

Faculty, Kuvempu University, Shimoga.


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15. Dr. Kalpana Sampath, PhD Director – EFIL Educational Services Pvt Ltd and Arpitha Associates Pvt Ltd

Dr. Kalpana has been working as a coach, trainer, development

artiste and Education management consultant for the last 24 years

helping individuals and organizations focus on excellence through

clarifying their vision and values. She holds a doctorate in social

psychology. Her work has spanned to a large section of society

from involvement with corporate organizations to her work with

children exploring life education. Having a flair for writing and

research, she has also contributed many articles and books in the

area of learning and development. Being a dance exponent, she is

also involved in projects that connects music and dance to human

values clarification process.

She is at the vanguard of the movement of interventions facilitating growth and empowerment in

individuals and organizations based on the ‘Evolutionary Leadership model, using the concept

of vision value alignment for deep change. Working with them at a fundamental level with

process-oriented approach, she facilitates awareness of deep-rooted values from which

behaviour emerges. With an experience of working with private and government sectors, she

leads Education for Integrating Life (EFIL Educational Services Pvt Ltd), dedicated to reaching

out Life education through the concept of Evolutionary Leadership into education sector.

Her Core Skills in Consulting

Developing Organizational Culture for Nurturing Excellence, Leadership Development

and Coaching, Values Clarification processes

Heading EQUBE program – a life education course that works with over 2500 children in

Bangalore city from 5th grade to 10th grade

Teacher’s maturity building workshops and career counseling workshops

HR processes with an objective to stimulate the feeling of belongingness in

organizations

Organizational Culture study

Educational research and Art therapy

Theater artiste, script writer and can direct plays and choreograph dance dramas

The Key Positions Held

Director at Arpitha Associates for past 24 years heading the research, training and

publication wing.

Director of EFIL Educational Services dedicated to provide life education to schools and

colleges at varied levels to build evolutionary leaders for future.

Director of Insight Publishers, a publishing company with a clear vision to enhance the

level of consciousness in the larger system.

Director of Punarnava, a company dedicated to creating the wellbeing of the global

community using Authentic Ayurveda in the most cost effective way.

Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Was member of Sanskrita Bharathi, Bangalore, India.


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Key Publications and Papers Presented

Feeling of Belongingness Instrument (2000)

Over 20 conference papers presented at International conferences - AHRD, KAHRD,

NHRD, AOM, TAHRD, NIPM, NHRD, IFTDO, APERA (educational conference),

spirituality and management conference etc.

Vocational Excellence Award 2005 from Rotary Club, Bangalore

Articles in book on Research methodology (2008) edited by Dr. Lal Das et al.

Regular writer for over 5 years for CISM on social entrepreneurship

Author of books ‘Keys to Social Entrepreneurship’ and ‘People Connect – HR for Social

Entrepreneurs’.

Email id: [email protected]

Phone: 9845029251



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16. Dr. C. Kumarbabu

Professor Dr. C. Kumarbabu MD; Ph.D; DPM is an

alumnus of the Madras Medical College. After 30

years of service in the Tamil Nadu State Medical

Department he retired as Reader in Psychiatry and

has 30 years of clinical, teaching and research

experience in the field of Medicine.

He has taught postgraduate and under graduate

medical students, Psychologists, social workers,

Nurses, Magistrates and Criminologists. Oxford

University Press has published his article “The

Relevance of Yoga and Meditation in the treatment

of common mental disorders” in the year 2009

At the Government Institute of Mental Health, Chennai he taught the Medical model of

Meditation to more than 1200 members of the public as apart of the outreach program of the Bi-

Centenary year celebration of the hospital. As a consultant for Indian Diabetes Research

Foundation he had trained 4000 doctors in India on stress management. He is an invited guest

lecturer for many International, national and zonal Medical conferences.

He has 20 years of corporate training experience. Some of his clients are: IHI Corporation-

Japan, Titan industries, Hindalco, TAFE, BHEL, L&T, Lucas TVS, Delphi TVS, and Sundaram

Fasteners etc. As an external faculty for the Tamilnadu State Judicial academy, he had trained

the magistrates and Sub Judges of Tamilnadu in Child psychology and stress management. He

is a facilitator for many NGOs in India on team building. He regularly conducts counseling

workshops for the students of CSIM at Chennai. He had conducted group counseling sessions

for one year for the street children staying in the night shelter of the Indian Council for Child

Welfare, Chennai.

As an external faculty for the Karl Kubel Institute for development Coimbatore @ Mankarai, he

had trained many NGO personnel in communication, Community based rehabilitation,

counseling, advanced methods in teaching etc. As Master Trainer for the Indian Centre for

Research and Development of Community Education (ICRDCE), he had conducted a three day

residential workshop for the teachers of community colleges (Nationwide) on life skills and

coping strategies. In addition to that he also conducts regular bi-annual training for the teachers

of the community colleges in India and Papua New Guinea.He had trained 160 councilors and

Heads of Family counseling centers on advanced counseling skills on behalf of the Central and

State Board of Social welfare of Tamilnadu during Feb-March 2013. He has conducted

numerous self-development programs for the academic institutions in India. (IIT, medical

colleges, engineering colleges other colleges).He is the Professional member of the District

advisory committee on Juvenile Justice headed by the Commissioner of Police, Chennai.


Mobile: 9884085568


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17. Mrs. Latha Suresh, CSIM Director, Social Audit Network, India Mrs. Latha Suresh, hailing from Chennai, started her career as an Independent Software Consultant. A brief encounter with Mr.P.N.Devarajan, Retired Group President of Reliance Industries in 2000 resulted in her foray into the Development sector. Latha is one of the founding members of Centre for Social Initiative & Management (CSIM), Chennai, spearheaded by Mr.PN Devarajan in 2001. CSIM is the first learning Centre in India to offer Social Entrepreneurship training. She has facilitated and mentored over 100 social change agents in Chennai to launch their Social Enterprises – for-profit and non-profit. An expert trainer in Social Entrepreneurship, she teaches at CSIM and colleges like IIT Madras, Loyola College, MOP Vaishnav, Madras School of Social Work, Stella Maris and Queen Mary’s College. Currently Latha is the Director, of Social Audit Network, India, the Indian chapter of Social Audit Network, UK and a project of CSIM. As an accredited Social Auditor from SAN,UK, she has drafted and audited Social accounts for 30+ organizations that include NBFCs like Shriram Finance, Shriram Transport Finance, CSR projects of Forbes Marshall, Dr. Reddy’s, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Social Enterprises like Mother Earth, Saraplast and over 30 NGOs in India.


Mobile: 9282205123



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18. Ms. Marie Banu, CSIM Director – CSIM, Chennai

Ms. Marie Banu is a social worker and writer. She graduated in

sociology from Stella Maris College, Chennai, and then pursued

her MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University. She

presently serves as Director of Centre for Social Initiative and

Management (CSIM) Chennai.

A trainer in Fundraising, Media, Communication, Advocacy,

Social Entrepreneurship, Management, and Social Audit, she

also serves as a consultant for several developmental

organisations. She is a member of the Redressal Committee of a

leading educational Institution in Chennai, besides being a

member of the Internal Complaints Committee of Bosch

Electrical Drives India Private Limited.

Marie Banu started her career in the social sector when she was

25. She has worked for international as well as national developmental organizations— Danish

International Development Agency, Action Aid and Oxfam International. From 1999 to 2005, she

led the fundraising for Oxfam in India and launched several initiatives. Banu handled the

international as well as national media for Oxfam’s tsunami response program in India from

2005 to 2009 and managed the entire Oxfam International’s communication needs during this

period.

Marie Banu has written several books and research publications. In 2005, she co-authored her

first book Beyond Brick and Mortar – A Hand Book on Approaches to Permanent Shelters in

Humanitarian Response – published by Oxfam International. She has also authored several

articles for Oxfam’s Tsunami publications. She has also co-published a research document on

temporary shelters ‘Living with Hope’ which served as a strong tool for advocacy with the State

Government by the NGOs in Tamil Nadu.

In 2009, she joined Centre for Social Initiative and Management as Head – Communications.

She was instrumental in launching CSIM’s tabloid ‘Conversations’ in 2010 which was later

renamed as ‘Conversations Today’ in 2013. She is the Chief Editor for this monthly tabloid and

authors several articles for this publication besides interviewing celebrities in social work.

Marie Banu has attended the Master Class in Social Accounting and Audit conducted by Mr.

Patrick Boase and Mr. Alan Kay of Social Audit Network, UK; and been mentored by Mr. Mike

Swain of Social Audit Network, UK and Ms. Latha Suresh of Social Audit Network, India. From

2010 she has been part of several Social Audit Assignments – both corporates as well as not-

for-profits in India.

Marie Banu received the REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship 2014-15 and Karmaveer Chakra for

her commendable work for the society.


Mobile: 9884700029



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19. Mr. Mathew Thomas

Mr. Mathew Thomas is retired Army officer who is

also a Defence Missile Scientist who headed the

missiles manufacturing facilities of the Defence

Research Laboratories at Hyderabad. He saw military

action against terrorists in Nagaland in 1962 and

against the Chinese aggressors the same year. He

was in action against Pakistan in 1965. He led troops

in aid to civil power during communal riots in 1969 in

Baroda.

He received the President’s commendation for

services to Defence Research. After premature,

voluntary retirement from the Defence Services in 1981, upon temporary cancellation of the

military missiles manufacturing program, he served in the private sector and finally

superannuated in 1996 as director of a petro-chemical company. During his work career, he has

planned, designed, installed and managed software applications for solving highly complex

scientific and management problems in areas such as photo-elastic and finite element stress

analysis and production planning and control for manufacture of missiles for military and for

manufacturing steel coils in the private sector. He is thus familiar with use of technology.

He is a post-graduate in missile technology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He

is also a post-graduate in Armament Engineering from the Army’s School at Vadodara. He

received post-graduate training abroad in manufacturing management.

He was a visiting professor of management in a Management School at Bangalore. Since

retirement he has been a social activist engaged in attempts to improve governance. He was a

director of PROOF, a NGO in the field of transparency and accountability in public finance,

founder secretary of Citizens Action Forum and now, founder and managing trustee of ‘The Fifth

Estate Trust’. He is an adviser and honorary consultant to BESCOM.

Mobile: 9880000401



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20. Mr. Murali Vullaganti, Rural Shores Founder-CEO of RuralShores

Mr. Murali is the Chief Architect and Founder-CEO of RuralShores

Business Service, a Socio-Economic initiative with a vision to setup

Rural based IT and Business Process Centers nationwide. The

objective is to create employment opportunities for rural youth while

providing cost efficiencies for the corporate world. The economic

inclusion of the rural folk prevents the migration of youth from villages

to cities and provide them dignified professional career at the door

step.

Murali is also a Co-Founder and Director of Compassites Software, a

Bangalore based business ideation and Innovation Company.

Prior to assuming the above roles, Murali was Managing Director of Xansa India (now Steria)

and Executive member of the Group Management Board.

Before moving back to India in 2003, Murali spent nearly 15 years in the USA and 5 years in

Asia Pacific serving large Corporates including Electronic Data Systems (now HP). He served

as a founder and Director of EDS' Global Financial Markets Group in New York and was

credited for successfully building new practices (including Trading & Risk Management in the

USA) and new markets (Capital Markets in Asia). His last role at EDS was Managing Director

for EDS’ Solutions Consulting Asia Practice, covering Greater China, South-East Asia and India.

Murali has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani and a Master’s Degree in

Applied Maths from IIT, Kharagpur.


Phone: 080 3059 1450



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21. Mr. Murray Culshaw

Ex-Chairperson, Principal Advisor, Mahiti

Mr. Murray Culshaw is a senior Development Consultant who

has mostly worked with the voluntary sector in India. Murray

has worked with civil society organisations—from local to

international levels—advising on management,

communications and fundraising.

Murray was responsible for Oxfam in India (1989-1994). He

was Mahiti's Board Chairperson from 2002 to 2010.

His passion for many years has been to encourage voluntary/

civil society organisations to communicate with and raise

resources from the public and become more accountable. He has spearheaded several

initiatives to support the voluntary sector including India Cares and Credibility Alliance as part of

the founding core group.

Specialties: Motivating Board members/ CEOs and senior teams to get excited about the possibilities of communicating and fundraising - with a view to building up a broard based and long serving supporter group. He also hare a wide range of practical ideas to help organisations move forward on this. Email: [email protected]



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22. Mr. Prathaap

Director, Arpitha

Mr. Prathaap, a hardcore quality professional with a master black

belt in ‘Lean six sigma’ has been a focused and clear headed

person pursuing his life vision from the age of 10. His sense for

perfection comes right from the beginning of his career as an Air

force Pilot flying fighter aircrafts.

His inquisitiveness and thirst for knowledge has led him

to complete over nine certifications and made him a specialist in

being an Entrepreneur, Strategist, Methodology and Framework

architect, Consultant, Compliance management, Design, develop

and deliver - Transaction Monitoring professional ,Process Control,

Auditor , Improvement & Re-engineering Certifications, Coach &

Trainer.

Currently he is a member of Arpitha, a group committed to spreading the concept of

Evolutionary Excellence. As Director, he heads the business system and process wing. He

brings the holistic approach for organizations to enable efficient interconnectivity among multiple

functions within an organization using business simulation tool, project management and quality

processes.

He is a warm, affable person with high level of patience and endurance to reach out to all ages

and levels of professionals. His energy and ever-flowing enthusiasm to explore and experience

life comes from his keen interest in outbound adventure which has left behind within him a spirit

of freedom and openness.

His varied interests span from research to technology seamlessly weaving each of his

competencies and capabilities to fulfill his vision “To create globally impacting transformation

tools and technologies” and Arpitha’s vision "To make the world a better place to live, work and

excel."

Specialties: Entrepreneur, Business Simulation, Intrapreneurship, Strategist, Methodology and

Framework architect, Consulting, Compliance management, Design, develop and deliver -Transaction Monitoring ,Process Control, Audit , Improvement & Re-engineering, Certifications, Coaching & Training. Member of TIE, BNI, CII, ISI, ASQ, ISTE, AIMS, IQC, IPQC, COPC, ISO LA, Lean SixSigma Worldwide. Email : [email protected]


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23. Mr. Rajan Narayanan

President, India Cares Foundation

Mr. Rajan is a senior executive and a serial entrepreneur

with over 35 years of professional experience. Presently he

is a promoter Director of SecondAvenue, an advisory

company to encourage, mentor and nurture small and

medium-sized companies and first-generation entrepreneurs

to scale their business to the next level. Rajan is also a

promoter of “PeopleEnglish” a company that has partnered

with Cambridge University to offer assessment, training and

certification in the area of Business English Communication

for the workplace.

Prior to this he was a Senior Vice President at MindTree and

led the industry verticals of Retail, Media & Entertainment, Publishing Research & Information

Services, Government, and Construction & Realty, a position that resulted as a result of the

merger of the company that he co-founded in 1988.

At Linc Software he was the COO and Vice Chairman; a company which was providing IBM

technologies related specialist services, where he was responsible for strategizing, lending

technology direction to the company, deliveries and pre-sales activities.

Presently Rajan is the president of RECAL (the alumni association of NIT Trichy) and is active

in the social sector as a Chief Volunteer for the DAANUTSAV (Joy of Giving Week) initiative,

panel member with ‘Whiteboard’ an initiative to help NGOs with their operational issues and a

Trustee with 4 NGOs ‘Baale Mane’ a home for girls who don’t have parents able to care for

them; Diya Foundation that works to train and create employment for the differently abled and

One Billion Literates Foundation that imparts English language training to children in Govt

schools and India Cares Foundation a support organisation for NGOs and which is the charity

partner for the TCS 10K at Bangalore and the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.


Mobile: 9845030095


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24. Mr. Rajesh A R Executive Director, LabourNet Services India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Rajesh A R has had an interesting professional journey connecting

people with Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship for prosperity,

in a career of close to two decades. A firm believer in parity of education

for productivity & dignity of Labour, Rajesh is deeply committed to

leveraging the power of work integrated training and skill development to

educate and empower the workforce in informal and formal sectors for

real income increase.

His vision of matching employment & entrepreneurial aspirations of rural

and urban youth with gainful employment is perfectly aligned with major

national initiatives in skill development and entrepreneurship such as

Skill India & Make in India. Besides, Rajesh has contributed actively to

various Sector Skill Councils in deliberations on drafting the QPs and

NOS of NSQF. He has been closely associated with NSDC, various central and state

government bodies, corporate organizations, educational institutions and NGOs in executing

their interventions of self-employment and to provide trained workforce to the industry.

Prior to LabourNet, Rajesh was leading the employment services wing of Manipal Education (

iRize) . In his earlier assignment with TeamLease, as a Co-Founder and Head of Temping, he

had driven multiple programs in employment generation, sourcing and temping talent activities

across the country.

He is part of the governing council of the Centre for Social Initiative & Management (CSIM)

Bangalore, and Managing Trustee of Sambhav Foundation, an NGO that works in the disability

& Livelihood sector.

After his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and an

MBA from Goa Institute of Management, Rajesh accomplished diverse business goals in e-

Learning and Offshore delivery during his tenure at LearningByte International and Sixth

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25. Mr. N.K. Ramakrishna Co-founder & CEO, Rang De and Habba

Mr. Ram is the co-founder of Rang De (www.rangde.org) - India’s

first non-profit, peer-to-peer micro lending platform that supports

underserved communities with access to low cost credit for

livelihoods and education. He is currently the Chief Executive

Officer and was elected to the Ashoka fellowship in 2012 in

recognition of Rang De’s game changing efforts to lower the cost of

borrowing when the focus was mostly on accessibility and not

affordability. Ram, an engineer by qualification and a software

consultant in his previous avatar strongly believes in social

business models that focus on impact maximisation. He also

believes that when people come face to face with a problem and understand its manifestations,

they are more likely to do something about it. A lot of his efforts at Rang De and in the social

space, therefore, revolve around helping create empathy. He loves to teach social

entrepreneurship and is a guest faculty at CSIM and also a mentor at the Tata Social Enterprise

Challenge in IIM Calcutta.

Rang De (www.rangde.org) is an award winning non-profit social business. With seed funding

from ICICI Foundation in 2008 and the second round of growth funding from the Tata Trusts in

2015, we are on a high growth path powered by great design and technology solutions. We will

reach 250,000 families over the next 5 years with access to affordable micro-credit for

livelihoods, education, vocational training, health and sanitation. We will be targeting specific

groups such as tribals, artisans, small & marginal farmers and expanding across the country -

going deep and wide. Be a part of this freedom movement - freedom from poverty for millions of

Indians!

Rang De has won World Bank Development Marketplace, Awarded Ashoka Fellowship, Bihar

Innovation Forum Award, XLRI NABARD Award, & Millennium Alliance Award.

Habba (www.habba.org) is an award winning social e-commerce platform that is designed

ground up to maximize financial returns for low income artisans and weavers across India. With

features like Honest Pricing, Hand Over Heart Seal, Cloud Warehousing, Timed Deliveries and

Empathy Bio scopes Habba plans to change the way India buys anything handmade.

Habba has won the inaugural Facebook's India Innovation Challenge for 2015 and a winner of

Tech30 in a Billion Award.


Mobile: 9686114609

http://www.rangde.org/

http://india.ashoka.org/fellow/ramakrishna-nk

http://csimbangalore.com/

http://tatasechallenge.org/

http://tatasechallenge.org/

http://www.rangde.org/

http://www.habba.org/


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26. Mr. Ramesh Balasundaram Co-Founder and Director of Bal Utsav

Mr. Ramesh Balasundaram is a Senior professional and an

organizational catalyst with a passion for driving innovation in

diverse sectors including but not limited to Corporates, the Citizen

Sector and the Government

He is the Co-Founder and Director of Bal Utsav, a nonprofit,

nonpartisan professional organization that provides learning

opportunities for children, parents, teachers, practitioners,

researchers and organizations working with children and youth

based issues at the national, state, and local levels.

He is the Co-Founder and Director of ManyHands Consultants that

supports Social Enterprises and Non Profits to carry out each part of

its mission at the highest level of excellence, on par with the best institutions in the world by

bringing together a diverse group of exceptionally talented resources to develop innovative,

principled and insightful organisations that change the world.

He is the Co-Founder and Director of FacilitatorGuide that provides end-to-end learning and

skill-building solutions aimed at impacting productivity of organizations and the nation at large.

Besides, the team at Facilitator Guide possesses a high-degree of entrepreneurial orientation

and strong people development skills. The team at FacilitatorGuide enjoys an enviable track

record of success in impacting measurable outcomes of leading organizations in India.

He is also a former consultant to the Karnataka Knowledge Commission (Government of

Karnataka).

The Karnataka Knowledge Commission, a high powered commission constituted under the

chairmanship of renowned space scientist Dr K. Kasturirangan. The Commission works with

and for the Government in policy making and implementation.

Ramesh Balasundaram grew up in Bangalore (Karnataka, India) and has travelled most parts of

the country. He is into entrepreneurship, travel, languages, art, architecture, photography,

reading, music & swimming.

Most importantly he is a devoted son a supportive husband and a friend to many.

Email: Ramesh Balasundaram <[email protected]>

Mobile: 9845211311


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27. Mr. K. S. Ravi Chartered Accountant

Mr. K S Ravi is a Chartered Accountant by profession being the

Managing Partner of M/s Ravi & Shrihari, Chartered Accountants,

No. 169, Sona Tapovan, 1st and 2nd Floor, 18th Cross, M C layout,

Vijayanagar, Bangalore – 560 040. He has been in practice for the

past 25 years. He is regularly engaged by several non-profits to

provide consultancy services relating to finance, in the area of rural

development and mentoring rural entrepreneurs. He has the

capacity of critically analyzing micro credit activities by virtue of his

audit and finance background. He is a regular trainer on financial,

audit and social aspects both for Governmental and Non-

Governmental organisations. He has been regularly providing

advice and consultancy services on statutory matters to companies

and institutions in the social sector for the last 25 years.

He has been instrumental in advising and nurturing producer companies with the object of

supporting farmers at the grass root level. His experiments with Sahaja Samrudha Organic

Producer Company Ltd has proved to be useful, where in the farmers’ organic produce has

been traded from Rs. 2 lakhs a month to Rs. 46 lakhs a month in a span of 5 years. Further, he

is also an independent director of Chaitanya India Fin Credit Private Limited, which presently

has advanced Rs. 200 crores micro credit to women and women groups at the grass root level.

He is a faculty member for many of the institutions and has written professional articles, both

technical and social, contributing to exiting literature on various subjects.

He selects students to pursue the Chartered Accountancy Course coming from rural

background and lower economic strata. His experiments in running a socially obligated office

has stood the test of time over the 25 years period and has presently a staff strength of 50 in

number. In-spite of being busily engaged in his professional endeavour, he travels into deep

and remote villages to understand the social dynamics of rural life. With this experience at his

disposal, he advices NGOs and NGO clients to have a focused approach on their objectives

and also ensuring that all the statutory requirements are meticulously catered to.

He networks with other professionals like Company Secretaries and Cost Accountants to render

services to his clients in an effective manner. In fact the above professionals are independently

practising along with him in a common office. He has been associated with CSIM for the last 3

years and students getting trained through CSIM are often helped to set-up businesses,

ventures and social outfits immediately after the training programme. Several of them have

successfully established ventures which are being supported by him as on date. It will be his

endeavour to support entrepreneurs getting trained under the CSIM banner through a hand-

holding exercise so as to ensure that there is caution at every step in order to conserve scarce

resources at the disposal of the entrepreneurs. He is passionate in working with people having

intentions of social good so as to find solace in whatever he does.


Phone: 080-23107750


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28. Mr. C. Sarangapani, CSIM Trustee - Manava Seva Dharma SamvardhaniaVice-Chairman of the Governing Council of CSIM Bangalore

Mr. Sarangapani is an Electrical Engineer

by training, having passed out of Mysore

University, securing the first rank, in

1951.

Over the next 20 years, he worked as a

trainee Engineer in U.K, with the British

Electricity Authority. A.Reyrolle and CO,

Associated Electrical Industries in

Manchester, Delhi College of

Engineering, Delhi, Bhilai Steel Plant, and

Bharath Heavy Electrical Industries

While in U.K., in 1963, he acquired a

Diploma in Management Studies from the

University of Manchester, UK. From 1970 to 1989, while with IDBI, he worked in the Projects

Dept. of IDBI, World Bank’s Economic Development Institute, Washington D.C. and with UNIDO

on different projectsin the Electrical, mechanical, Chemical and Metallurgical Industries. He

retired in 1989 as Executive Director of IDBI.

While in IDBI and post retirement he has been Director/Chairman of a number of companies

including,

Gujarat Alkalies, Sunflag Iron & Steel Ltd, ITC Bhadrachalam Paper BoRDS ltd., NAGARJUNA

fertilizer’s Ltd, Chettinad Cements Ltd, Punjab Tractors Ltd, Essar Steel Ltd, APITCO,

Hyderabad,

Cutfast Abrasives Ltd, Dhandapani Finance Ltd, etc.

He wass also a Member of the Governing Council for the Center for Renewable Energy and

Sustainable Technologies (CREST), Bangalore.

He founded CSIM, Bangalore in 2007 and has been actively connected with it over these years.

Currently he is a Trustee of Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani(MSDS) and vice Chairman of

the Governing Council of CSIM Bangalore.

As a Patron of Siva Sakthi Sathya Sai Charitable Trust, engaged in the care of mentally

challenged children, he has donated his bungalow to the Trust.

He also, as he modestly states, volunteers with a few other NGOs in Bangalore.

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Mobile: 9449695511




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29. Mr. Shanmugham Pandurangan Trustee and Secretary of Jude Felix Hockey

Academy Charitable Trust,

Shanmugam is a former International and state hockey

player. Presently coaching the Karnataka State junior

and senior hockey teams. He has been instrumental in

the Karnataka juniors winning two Junior national titles

in 2005 and 2010.

Loves to coach children and specializes in the area of life skills. Shanmugham has been training

children coming from vulnerable backgrounds since 2002. He heads the coaching department at

the JFHA academy in the absence of Jude Felix. Owes much of his success to his gurus Jude

and Khalid. Shanmugham is a great fan of Dr Ric Charlesworth, the Australian hockey legend.

Hockey Achievements:

Represented Indian National Team in 1999, India-Pakistan Test Series.

Represented Indian Hockey Federation XI, in 1999.

Stand-bye for Common wealth Games 1998 held at Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.

Represented Karnataka State Team from 1989 to 2002.

Participated in Germany Second Division Hockey League in 1999.

Captain for State team on many occasions.

National Selector:

For Under 17 years Nationals for Boys held at Mumbai 2011,

Coaching Achievements:

Coach for Junior India camp held at Hyderabad 2010.

Assistant Coach for Karnataka Lions, World Series Hockey held during 2012. (Semi

Finals)

Coach, WINNERS Junior Nationals 2005 and 2010.

Coach, Junior Nationals 2012, IV place.

Coach, WINNERS Karnataka Senior Team 2008, First All India Indoor Hockey

Tournament at Kolkata.

Coach Karnataka Senior Team since 2005.

Head Coach, Jude Felix Hockey Academy Charitable Trust, since 2009. (www.jfha.in).

Head Coach Qatar National Team Sep 2013 to Feb 2014.

http://www.jfha.in/


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Coaching related courses:

1. Level III Hockey coaching course (Recognized and approved by Indian

Hockey Federation)

2. Fellowship in Sports Sciences from Apollo Hospital Hyderabad

3. Basic practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programme (NLP)

4. Hockey seminar at Bangalore SAI by Dr Ric Charlesworth (Prize Best

Participant Coach)

5. Studying 2ND year MBA (Sports Management) Tamil Nadu Physical

Education University.

6. FIH High performance course at Doha, Qatar, February 2014

Academic Records:

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)

Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Program 12TH Batch 2012, Centre for Social Initiative

and Management, Bangalore.

Other Special qualities as Coach.

Develop Designer games to improve game intelligence and life skills.

Talent Scouting

Design training programs for all age groups

Team analysis and improve performance at all levels.

Critical analysis of individual player performances and skill development.

Strong in application of sports management skills in organizing events and team Building

Process.


Mobile: +919742352717



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30. Mr. Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy (Krishnan)

Founder & CEO –Sattva

Mr. Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy (Krishna) is the Founder and CEO of Sattva and is responsible for the overall growth and strategic direction of the company. Over the last few years, Krishna has been working with the senior management of leading non-profits, social enterprises, corporate and funders to make their social impact initiatives sustainable and scalable. Before starting Sattva, Krishna was a Founding Member and Partner at Longhouse Consulting, an Executive Search firm focused on the venture capital and startup ecosystem of India. As part of Longhouse, Krishna helped many fast growing companies in India to design their organizations and build their leadership teams in emerging sectors like e-commerce, mobile and clean technology. Krishna started his career in 2002 as an early member of the Dell R&D’s India operations and was involved in leading global product development teams in the enterprise server and storage business of Dell. Krishna was also part of the core-team that led Dell’s CSR initiatives across the Indian operations of the company. Krishna has worked with multiple non-profits over the last 12 years and has served on the Advisory Boards of Dream a Dream, a leading Indian non-profit and Hua-Dan, a social enterprise in China. Krishna holds a B.E (Hons) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from INSEAD Business School with a focus on entrepreneurship and social innovation. Krishna is a visiting faculty at IIM-Kolkata on the topic of “Entrepreneurship in NGOs”.

Email:[email protected]

Mobile: 9880918605


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31. Mr. P N Subramanian ( PNS) Managing Trustee, Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani Chairman – Governing Council, CSIM Mr. P N Subramanian is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT-

Trichy and a MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur specialising in

marketing & Finance with 36 years of Experience in various

industries and Global Geos.

PNS had successfully founded and managed a few companies

in the IT Sector and one of them was acquired by a Nasdaq

Listed Company, Aremissoft in the Year 2000.Subsequently he

helped build Utopia as a Global Leader in the Enterprise Data

Solutions Area as a Founding Member

He had held C Level positions in various industry verticals like

Renewable Energy-Solar & Wind, Thermally Coated Sensitive

Paper Manufacturing, Information Technology etc. His strengths lie in Building Teams in

Startups, Technology Transfer, Strategising and People Management.

He is the Managing Trustee of Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani (the parent Trust of CSIM)

and Chairman – Governing Council of CSIM. He is also a Trustee of Reach Foundation which

focusses on Restoration of Heritage Structures which are centuries Old.

His other interests are supporting Education & Healthcare of the underprivileged, Environment

Concerns Travelling Globally, Mentoring of Young Minds, Experimenting and Blending Ancient

& Modern Technology in Agriculture

He is a Past President in Rotary Dt 3230, Member of CSR Subcommittee of CII-SR

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]



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32. Dr. H. Sudarshan Founder & Honorary Secretary, Karuna Trust

Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan (born 30 December 1950) is an Indian

social worker and tribal rights activist. He is well known for his

contributions to the upliftment of the forest dwelling tribes (mainly

Soligas) in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. He is also a

recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Padma Shri.

Sudarshan was born in Yemalur on the outskirts of Bangalore. He

graduated from Bangalore Medical College and became a medical

doctor in the year 1973. He is also an Adjunct Professor at IGNOU.

After graduation, he joined the charitable health institutions of

Ramakrishna Mission which took him to the Himalayas of Uttar

Pradesh, Belur Math in West Bengaland Ponnampet in Karnataka as part of the job. Instead of

pursuing a medical practice in the cities, he decided to work with tribal communities and in

1980, he started the Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra for the integrated development of

the tribals in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. He is also the founder and Honorary

Secretary of the Karuna Trust, which is dedicated to rural development in the states of

Karnataka and Arunachal Pradesh. He claims inspiration from the man-making and nation-

building ideals of Swami Vivekananda. He advocates Gandhian ideals for rural development

Started in the year 1986 by Dr. Sudarshan, Karuna Trust (India) is an organization involved with

integrated rural development and is affiliated to VGKK. The prevalence of leprosy in Yelandur

Taluk of Chamarajanagar district was the motivation to start this trust. Another focus area for

this trust is education and livelihood improvement. Karuna Trust runs 72 Primary Health Care

(PHC) Centres in all the districts of the state of Karnataka and Arunachal Pradesh. The

organization promotes Public Private Partnership with NGOs on a non-profit basis to achieve

primary health care

Dr. Sudarshan has held many positions in his career, prominent among them being, the chairmanship of the Task Force on Health and Family Welfare organised by Government of Karnataka, the Task Force on Public Private Partnership organised by National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of Government of India and Institute of Health management & Research (IHMR), Bangalore. He was also associated as a member of Working Group 6 on Macro-economics & Health organised by the World Health Organization and was also a Steering Group member of the Planning Commission on the Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes in India's 11th Five Year Plan. He has also been the Vigilance Director for the Karnataka Lokayukta, an ombudsman organization. During his tenure, he adopted a method of regular visits and raids to several Government departments and earned critical acclaim for this. He was won several awards/recognitions:

Right Livelihood Award (1994) Padma Shri Award (2000)

Rajyotsava State Award for social work

(1984) - Government of Karnataka.

Ashoka Fellow.

Mother Teresa Awards for Social

Justice in 2014.



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33. Mr. Venkataramanan Sriraman – eVidyaloka Co-Founder & Executive Director, eVidyaloka, Bangalore

Mr. Venkat has over 20+ years of experience in the

Manufacturing, IT and Development Sector, and has held

various leadership positions. He has led large global

product development initiatives and worldwide IT

implementations creating a positive impact for customers

worldwide.

Venkat is the co-Founder of the educational enterprise –

eVidyaloka, in 2010 a non-profit social innovation that

leverages technology to address the key social problem in

India today – Quality Education in rural India. Over the last 3 years in his role as Executive

Director, he has conceptualized and built eVidyaloka from ground zero to today reaching out to

50+ villages, impacting lives and making the dream of quality in education come true for

thousands of children in rural villages in India.

Prior to this, Venkat has held senior management positions with companies like Citigroup,

Honeywell, Dell & Microsoft. During this period he has led development of various products in

the Banking and Customer care Industry. He also led the worldwide launch of Windows 8 on

Dell and built the digital fulfilment platform.

A passionate technologist, who gets excited about applying technology to solve chronic social

challenges of India and eVidyaloka is a dream, to be realized in that direction, in the form of a

social enterprise. He speaks in various forums in the social sector, championing the cause of

Technology for Social betterment.

He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1995 and has done his post-graduation in Advanced

computing from CDAC, Pune. He has also done his certification in Social Entrepreneurship from

CSIM, Hyderabad.


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