Aarti Wig

Aarti is Co-Founder of Yunus Social Business India. YSB is a social business co-founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus to help catalyse selfless problem solving social businesses- globally. At YSB, Aarti has led a range of ecosystem building initiatives from setting up YSB's first fund in India, advising companies on creating social business and designing innovative new financial instruments for social business such as the social success note. Aarti is currently leading the creation of YSB's Corporate Action Tank- the first ever incubator for corporates to help them create their own corporate social businesses. Aarti is a leader in the Yunus Social Business movement - she is an Asia 21 young leader and and a regular speaker at several Indian and international social enterprise events. Aarti was previously with JPMorgan in Mumbai and has a Master’s degree in Finance from the London School of Economics.

Abhishek Ranjan

Abhishek currently leads Banking Industry Marketing and CSR for Brillio Technology. Abhishek brings with him 10+ years of Marketing and 20+ years of experience in the Social Sector. He was handpicked by his CEO to setup the CSR framework of his company. He started his career with IBM as Business Analyst and later worked for Oracle Financial Services, where he was credited with setting up the Customer Centers and Industry Relations function in India. He is a Social Media Expert and teaches Social Media Marketing at various B and T Schools. He has run some of the most successful Social Media Campaigns globally, which have contributed to businesses worth millions of dollars. Abhishek is also an avid blogger and his articles have been published by leading global publications. He has served on the board of various non-profits and CSR/IT committees of CII, BCIC and NASSCOM. He is the Chairman of Rotary JBN Trust and the founder trustee of the Netra Lake Rejuvenation Trust. He was recently awarded for his work in the area of lake and ward development by the Hon’ble Union Law Minister Shri Sadanada Gowda. He has led community engagement projects to deliver Safe Drinking Water at Railway Stations, e-Learning/Digital Learning, Teach @ School, Stem Cells Registry, Disaster Management, 100+ Heart Surgeries for Children, Mobile Eye Clinic, Mid-Day Meal, Evening School, Comfort Stations, Career Guidance, Girls Glory Project, AIDS Awareness, to name a few. He has been invited as speaker / moderator by Indian School of Business (ISB), Bangalore CSR Roundtable, Christ College, Rotary Club, Narsee Monjee, Symbiosis (SCMHRD), Jyoti Niwas College, SSMRV College and Vishwa Yuva Kendra and many more such organizations. He has recently been selected as one of the 100 Most Impactful CSR Leaders (Global Listing) by World CSR Congress. Abhishek completed his PGDCA from IMT Ghaziabad, and an executive program on Digital and Social Media Marketing from ISB, Hyderabad.

Ajay Chaturvedi

Honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader 2013-18, Ajay Chaturvedi, is an ex-Citi where he served in Strategy and Sales positions in Cards and Consumer banking verticals. Ajay begun his career with IBM Consulting in the US and has experience in Management, Operations and IT Consulting across Financial Services, IT and ITeS industries in US, UK, and South East Asia. Ajay is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and a Graduate in Management of Technology from the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a Diploma in Global Leadership & Public Policy from The Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Ajay truly believes in the power of cost effective innovation on all aspects that will lead to value creation across the world, especially in India and supports the Socio-Capitalistic business models as the drivers of inclusive growth. He also thinks that the real growth in rural areas across the world and in India is yet to come and is possible only when we get into the real fabric of the country and not just overlay thoughts and patterns from the developed nations. A voracious reader, an avid golfer and an ardent traveller, Ajay spent almost a decade living in the US and across the world and now lives in Gurgaon. Ajay was awarded CNN IBN Youth Icon / Young Indian Leader of the year 2011. HarVa XPO entered the Limca Book of Records for being the first all women rural BPO in the world in 2011. HarVa has won numerous awards and accolades including the Manthan Chairman Excellence Award 2011, SKOCH Financial Inclusion 2011 and TiE Entrepreneurial Excellence 2011 among the latest recognitions. Earlier in 2011, HarVa was also identified as the 3rd most innovative company in India (next only to Tata Motors) by the Fast Company magazine of New York, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability & Empowered Woman Award by the Rockefeller Foundation / United Nations 2012. Ajay was nominated as one of the Amazing Global Indian by Times Now News 2012-13 and Yahoo unsung Heroes 2012-13. He has also been honoured as an Iconic Youth 2014 by Rotary International, picked as 50 most creative leaders across the world to attend THNK, The Creative School of Amsterdam's Accelerator program for Creative Leaders, and felicitated by the BITS Pilani in the golden jubilee celebrations as 50 most inspiring alumni in 50 years. Ajay is also an ambassador of the Power of Youth initiative of Scotland. He also holds a unique distinction of being identified as one of the four most innovative game changers by the Office of Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development and Employability. Ajay is also the author of bestselling book, “Lost Wisdom of The Swastika”.

Kaushik Dutta

Kaushik is the founding co-director of Thought Arbitrage Research Institute (TARI) which a not for profit organization set up under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act. TARI is one of the few privately-funded, independent and non-partisan Indian think-tanks on Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Economics and Public Policy. He has retired in July 2010 from PricewaterhouseCoopers after spending over 22 years in the practice out of which 17 years have been as a partner. He has been a member of the India Leadership Team of PricewaterhouseCoopers, managed the India Advisory Board of PwC, national IFRS leader, Corporate Governance Practice leader, deputy assurance leader amongst other national and global roles. He was earlier a partner with the Global Capital Markets Group of PwC International. He has worked in the areas of corporate governance since 1999 when he participated in the Naresh Chandra Committee’s deliberations for developing the norms of Corporate Governance in India with various committees including the Ministry of corporate affairs Kaushik has also worked with Conference Board of the U.S.A., Asian Development Bank, Institute of Directors UK, Asian Institute of Corporate Governance, NACD, USA, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, CII, FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM, Department of Public Enterprises, and National Foundation for Corporate Governance, Ministry of Corporate Affairs etc. on governance matters. Kaushik has written for the Ministry of Corporate affairs, a report along with colleagues from TARI and IIM Calcutta on State of Corporate Governance in India in 2012. He has also worked with IICA and UN Global Compact to develop a report on fraud and corruption by private sector in India (2013, which had been placed and referenced in the Indian Parliament multiple times. He in 2013 has conceptualised for Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), a fraud prediction model based on analytics and algorithms using Bayesian principles and was a member of Government of India’s Steering Committee for developing the model. In 2015, he was a member of Minister of Defence’s task force called the Aatre Committee on preparing the strategy and implementation mechanism of privatising defence manufacturing in India. He has authored three books- Corporate Governance- myth to reality( Lexis Nexis, 2005), India means Business- how the elephant earned it’s stripes( Oxford University Press,2012) , Handbook for independent directors- Upholding the moral compass( Lexis Nexis,2015) with EY. He has written over 100 thought papers on corporate governance, sustainability, business and policy issues in newspapers, journals and business magazines. Currently he is writing a Hand Book for Audit Committees with PWC, to be published around July 2016. Kaushik serves as a director on the Boards of: HCL Info systems Ltd, HCL Services Limited, NDTV Limited, New Gen Software Limited, Zomato Private Limited, NSL Renewable Power Ltd, and Centennial Development Services Ltd. He is also a member of the Management Committee of Delhi Public School Society, the largest private school network in India, UN Global Compact, India and Charities like PSI, Help age and Charka. He is Fellow Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and Bachelor of Commerce, St. Xavier's College. He plays golf with a handicap of 8.

Mayuri Misra

With a Masters in Sustainable Economic Development from the United Nations University, Mayuri started her career in Business Sustainability at the United Nations Headquarters in New York where she served the IUCN permanent observer mission to the United Nations as an attaché, assisting in defining the position on sustainable development issues, to be presented at the Rio+20 ( 2012). Her master’s research explored the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda in the business world (particularly in Latin America) and how its practices can contribute to Sustainable Development. At the Business Council for Sustainable Development - The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, Mayuri gained expertise in identifying, conceptualizing and implementing industry led thematic research projects in areas of environmental management systems and business responsibility. Currently, she is employed as a Senior Programme Executive with the National Foundation for CSR (NFCSR), Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Government of India. Her role is to work in strategic, policy level and capacity building interventions at the national level to assist the rollout of the new CSR agenda in the country as required by Section 135, Companies Act 2013 on CSR. This includes content development for training & certification programmes/Management Development Programmes in CSR, design & development of the BSE- IICA CSR Index as part of the senior IICA team, and to contribute in developing a revenue model for NFCSR, which includes the pan-India roll-out of CSR services and consultancies, ranging from setting up CSR processes to implementation and impact assessment of Projects and Programmes.

Neha Kumar

Neha Kumar is working as Senior Advisor at GIZ with the Responsible Enterprise Finance Initiative being jointly implemented by GIZ and SIDBI. Prior to this she was managing the Indo-German Business Responsibility Initiative at GIZ – a bilateral cooperation project being implemented in partnership with the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs – the think tank of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs - since 2008. Before her stint at GIZ, she worked as a non-financial risk advisor with Hill & Associates, an international consulting firm. She advised national and international clients in the extractive sector on issues of land acquisition and resettlement, corporate social responsibility, security and stakeholder engagement mainly in politically sensitive parts of Central India and North East India, which are both mineral-rich as well as the sites of intense poverty and conflict. She received her training in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has an M. Phil in Diplomatic Studies after which she worked at the Observer Research Foundation on issues of oil & natural gas and regional politics.

PR Ganapathy

As President of Villgro, one of India's oldest and most respected social enterprise incubators, and co-founder at Menterra Venture Advisors, an early stage social impact fund, PR Ganapathy inspires, funds and mentors social entrepreneurs. He also works on building the social enterprise ecosystem, through organizations like the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and by serving on CII's CSR Subcommittee for the Southern Region. Prior to Villgro, he co-founded a venture funded start up in the US, and worked at Infosys and the Tata Group. He has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and an Honors degree in Mathematics from Hindu College.

Pratyush Kumar Panda

Pratyush is a CSR & Sustainability professional with 19 years of experience out of which most of his time he has worked for CARE, Vedanta and ACC Limited (The leading Cement Company in India). He has done Masters in Sociology and MBA (Rural Management) from XIM, Bhubaneswar. Pratyush is also an Aspire Circel Fellow by successfully completed the prescribed course and four "Enlightened Social Leadership" in 2015. Presently he is serving as Corporate Head CSR at ACC Limited, Mumbai and serving a million lives every year through 42 NGO partners, 07 corporate and personal voluntary services. In addition he is a member of multiple committees of CII, FICCI and Global Compact Network of India. Pratyush is very innovative and passionately working on CSR and its business strategy, Monitoring & Impact Evaluation Tools, Anti-corruption, and Policy Advocacy.

Rajni Bakshi

Rajni is a Mumbai based author and Senior Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai. She is author of Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: for a market culture beyond greed and fear (Penguin, India, 2009 and GreanLeaf, UK, 2012), which won two Vodafone-Crossword Awards. Her earlier book Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (Penguin, India, 1998) inspired the Hindi film ‘Swades’ directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar. Her other books include: Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83 (1986), A Warning and an Opportunity: the Dispute over Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy (1994), LETS Make it Happen: a backgrounder on New Economics (2003) and An Economics for Well-Being(2007). From November 2010 till March 2012 Rajni served as an independent director on the board of Future Value Retail Ltd. Rajni serves on the Board of Trustees at Child Rights and You (CRY), Citizens for Peace (CfP), Seva Mandir, Jansahayog Trust and Centre for Education and Documentation (Mumbai & Bangalore). She is also General Body member of Timbaktu Collective and serves on the Executive Committee of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti.

Ravi Guria

Ravi Guria began his journey as a Media person and Filmmaker 18 years ago. Currently, he heads the Media, Communication and Design department at Digital Empowerment Foundation, an international NGO. He is using Media, Communication and Design to address Social Entrepreneurship and dissemination of information & knowledge to the grassroots community. Ravi has written, directed and produced several films. Ravi has completed Diploma in Film & Television from St.Xavier’s Institute of Mass Communication, Mumbai, and Diploma in Still Photography from Triveni kala Sangam, Delhi.

Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy (Krishna)

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. 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 Calcutta on the topic of “Entrepreneurship in NGOs”.

Srimathi Shivashankar

Srimathi is Associate Vice President – HCL Technologies, and among the Future Leaders Forum set up by World Business Council for Sustainability Development. She was a member of the advisory council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a working committee member of the Global Gender Parity Group of the World Economic Forum, and was also a member in the task force for drafting CSR guidelines for Indian companies. Currently she is also on the Leadership Group of the UN- Women Empowerment Principles (WEP) group. At HCL she manages global diversity, sustainability and CSR programs. She is the project director for HCL Grant and is also on the steering committee of HCL Foundation.