Ambika Sasidharan

Head - Growth Marketing

With over 18 years of experience, Ambika brings a rich expertise from both the private and development sectors. She has led marketing and sustainability initiatives, with a strong background in business planning, research, consulting, brand management, public relations, and strategic planning across diverse industries. Ambika enjoys hiking and trekking, and has recently developed a love for running and swimming.

Anaga Sivaramakrishnan

Lead - Knowledge & Research

Seeing herself as a storyteller, she looks at the wide expanse of intersections and into nooks and crannies for unique stories that will add on to the world. She comes from a multidisciplinary background of media studies and sociology, and is passionate to explore healthcare, gender, culture and climate through research. She loves to cook, scribble poetry and unwind with filmy shows.

Anand Rajan

Misson Leader & Founder

Passionate about innovation, Anand thrives at the intersection of problems, solutions, technology, and society, where scale meets purpose. He loves reimagining and envisioning new ways to solve existing challenges. Inspired by the concept of Collective Wisdom as a Sense-Making Infrastructure—rooted in the voices of communities and representing the ecosystem—he founded Apurva.ai. Beyond Apurva.ai, he has a deep passion for farming, a pursuit that humbles him with its immense opportunities and challenges, instilling profound respect for farmers worldwide and the obstacles they face.

Mangalam Gupta

Lead - Innovation & Growth

An explorer at heart, be it work or otherwise, Mangalam is intrigued by perspectives and likes to look at things from various lenses. He believes in the power of collective and diversity, and actively works towards bringing people together. He is an outdoor person who loves to be in nature, biking, trekking and singing.

Nandan Nilekani

Funder & Advisor

Nandan Nilekanl is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Limited. He was the Founding Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) In the rank of Cabinet Minister from 2009-2014. Nandan has co- founded and is the Chairman of EkStep Foundation, a not- for-profit effort to create a learner-centric, technology- based platform to Improve basic literacy and numeracy for miillons of children. In Jan 2023, he was appointed as the co-chair of the "G20 Task Force on Digital Public Infrastructure for Economic Transformation, Financial Inclusion and Development".

Poonam Shukla

Head of Operations and Delivery Excellence

With over a decade long experience in the development sector, Poonam has worked in various fields ranging from education to agriculture across India and Nepal. She believes in the power of communities and hence has worked actively in building collaborative ecosystems. Poonam enjoys reading, cooking and traveling.

Rachana KG

Head - Growth & Engagement

Rachana comes from a background of varied experience across the corporate, entertainment and social development sector with an Engineering degree in Computer Science. She believes that solutions are truly successful when they work even for the most disadvantaged. Her areas of interest include tech for good, gender and healthcare. She enjoys travelling, dancing and conversations.

Rohini Nilekani

Advisor

Rohini Nilekani is an author and philanthropist and has been a strong Influence in the Indian social sector over the past three decades. Her philanthropic work spans different sectors of Indian civil society. She founded Arghyam, a foundation for sustainable water and sanitation, and co- founded Pratham Books, a nonprofit enabling access to reading for millions of children. Currently, she is the Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthroples and a Co- founder and Director of EkStep, a nonprofit education platform. Rohini and her husband, Nandan Nilekani, are signatories to the Giving Pledge, pledging to give away half of their wealth to philanthropy.

Sanjay Purohit

Mentor

Sanjay Purohit is CEO and Chief Curator of Centre for Exponential Change. He has over 30 years of diverse experience spanning corporate and development sectors globally. Since 2016, he has been co-creating Societal Thinking, an approach to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably. He has engaged with more than 500 change leaders across 20 countries with Societal Thinking in domains such as climate action, education, gender equity, healthcare and livelihoods. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Don Norman Design Award that champions humanity centred design and Fundamentum, a scale investment fund.