Prasanth Nair, IAS

Prasanth Nair earned the title of Collector Bro during his tenure as District of Collector Kozhikode. He launched several programmes like Tere Mere Beach Mein - a project that was launched to handle waste management at Kozhikode beach; Operation Sulaimani - aimed at addressing hunger in urban areas; Yo Appooppa - launched to improve the quality of life for the elderly men and women. He also launched the social initiative Compassionate Kozhikode, which is a social initiative to help institutions like Children's home, old age homes, mental health centres and palliative care centres.

Venkat Krishnan

Venkat was co-founder, Eklava School Ahmedabad, Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd and founded GiveIndia. He now runs a philanthropic foundation that seeks to promote volunteering and engaged high level giving in India.

Dr.Prahalathan KK

Dr.Prahalathan is one of the co-founders of Bhumi, now one of India's largest youth volunteering organisations. Bhumi mobilises citizens to work towards sustainable development goals, and its volunteers educate over 25,000 underprivileged children and work for causes like environment, disability, and animal welfare.

He strongly believes every child deserves a quality education and is passionate about making volunteering a habit among young people. By education, he is a doctor specialised in Ophthalmology. At Bhumi, he leads the corporate & youth volunteering programmes.

Shalabh Sahai

Shalabh co-founded & leads iVolunteer - India’s largest social enterprise for volunteering in India. He creating iVolunteer Awards, India’s only recognition for volunteering and volunteer engaging organizations and serves on the Global Council for Global Pro Bono Network, and the CII Council for India@75. An alumnus of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Shalabh was also India’s first Commonwealth Professional Fellow.

Harish Devarajan

Harish Devarajan, Leadership Coach & Consultant, former CHRO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Independent Director Bank of India, Co-Author of Bestselling book "HR here and now, Passionate volunteer and advisor to NGOs in the Social Sector.

Aloka Majumdar

Aloka Majumdar is Head of Corporate Sustainability for HSBC India. She is a member of the HSBC India Executive Committee (EXCO).

Graduating with Honours in Political Science from University of Calcutta, she started her career as a financial journalist. She specialised in covering Banking, Finance and the Corporate sector working with leading business publications such as the Financial Express and Business India.

In her current role she heads Corporate Sustainability for HSBC Group in India which comprises the Bank and other HSBC companies. Her expertise lies in the fields of Skills Development, Financial Inclusion, Education, Environment and Climate Change. She has worked extensively with a wide range of stakeholders that include community based organisations, multilateral agencies, the academia and central and state governments. She is the Trustee of Earthwatch Institute India, Steering Committee member of the India Sanitation Coalition and on several key industry fora like FICCI and CII. She was awarded the Parivartan Sustainability Leadership Award in 2016 and recognized by Social Venture Partners (SVP) with Grant Thornton (knowledge partner) as a women exemplar in 2019.

Karthee Vidya

Karthee Vidya's dream is to make every Indian to volunteer at least once a month and to provide quality education to children. He has worked as a professional CSR person and has non-profit expertise too. He currently works with 15,000 volunteers and promotes volunteering in 50+ Corporates.

Gautam Prakash

Gautam Prakash co founded Reap Benefit with Kuldeep Dantewadia in 2013. There, he is working on building capacities of youth in building and innovating solutions for local problems. He helped build the Solve Ninja App and Neighbourhood Dashboards which use tech to enable youth volunteers to solve local problems. He enjoyed graduating from the Fab Academy, a challenging global program on digital fabrication techniques run from MIT, CBA. He previously worked with the Youth and Children team at Ashoka, Thomson Reuters and Microsoft Research Labs India.

Aashu Calapa

A boy from Mysore. HR Professional in his past life. Worked in Wipro, Firstsource and Redbus for around 23 years. Moved to the social sector in 2015. Worked in The Live Love Laugh Foundation (mental health) and Social Venture Partners (livelihoods). Full time volunteer now.

Archana Raghuram

Archana Raghuram in the executive director of United Way Chennai. United Way is the world’s largest non-profit organization with presence in 46 countries. She was previously the global head of Cognizant’s CSR program, Outreach.  Archana has been instrumental in setting up the Outreach program in 22 countries making it one of the largest corporate volunteering programs in the world.

She was awarded the prestigious Forbes India Philanthropy Award in the ‘Good Samaritan’ category by the Forbes India Magazine (bit.ly/J1SBeH  ). Archana Raghuram was honored as “one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2015” by Fast Company magazine (bit.ly/1IWvduP ). Archana is a B. E. Computer Science graduate from Dr MGR Engineering College and a rank holder from the University of Madras.

Gazal Raina

CSR Leader and a passionate advocate of volunteering who has a strong belief that each one of can make a difference; has 18+ years of professional experience in managing diverse roles in managing CSR, Employee Volunteering, Teacher Training and school education. Founded Milaap – an initiative for Non-custodial parents that promotes Co-parenting. She currently leads the Social Responsibility and Employee Volunteering program at Ford Motor Company and is based out of Chennai.

Paresh Parasnis

Mr. Paresh S. Parasnis is the Head of Piramal Foundation, one of India’s leading foundations
committed to addressing social issues through high impact solutions, thought leadership
and partnerships. At Piramal Foundation, Paresh is responsible for the Piramal Group’s
Philanthropic activities implemented through its initiatives including Piramal Swasthya,
Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership and Piramal Sarvajal.
Paresh joined Piramal Foundation in August 2012. He is also active on the board of trustees
of Shoshit Seva Sangh (providing education to under privileged children in Bihar) and
Collective Good Foundation (aiming to bring various stakeholders of social sector on one
platform and contribute to the overall development of the social sector).
Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as Executive Director & COO with HDFC Standard
Life Insurance Limited.

Nivethika S

Building an operating system for organizations working towards large scale social change through self-organizing communities

Deepak P.Matti

Deepak is the Global Head of Cognizant’s Employee Volunteering Program “Outreach” and leads the core committee for Cognizant Foundation in Karnataka. In his career at Wipro and Cognizant, he has played various roles in IT projects and business unit operations.

Sanjay Mudnaney

Sanjay is a Business Growth Strategist and Marketing consultant with over 30 + years of industry experience. He helps his clients build, engage and convert tribes with storytelling in the digital world.  He is passionate about enrolling individuals to build their leadership skills by giving back to communities through volunteering and fundraising.

Nirbhay Lumde

Nirbhay Lumde is a Post Graduate in Political Science and an alumnus of IIT Bombay. He is a seasoned social development professional with hands-on experience in government relations. He has worked across depth and breadth of the country in the area of the public education system, more so interventions concerning technology in education.

Among other achievements, Nirbhay has also written a book titled, CSR in India – A practitioner’s perspective. Nirbhay is currently heading CSR for CGI India.

Vijaya Balaji

Vijaya Balaji – CEO and Managing Director, Toolbox India Foundation and Founder of Social Lens
Consulting is amongst the pioneers in advising Nonprofit organizations on organization development
and strengthening requirements.
In her diverse experience working in the Social Impact Sector, Vijaya has worked as an Impact Design
Expert, Coached organizations and developed toolkits and technology enabled assessment platforms for
organizations.
In her role as CEO over the last 8 +years, Vijaya has worked with over 150 + organizations till date. She is
an evaluator with the Echoing Green Fellowship and a knowledge lead for Corporate Social Impact
Fellowship and Volunteering programs.Vijaya is on the Board of NPOs, a task force member with the Pro
Bono Task Force for India@75- a CII Initiative and an enthusiast on driving technology enabled solutions
for NPOs.
Prior to her joining the Impact Sector , Vijaya Balaji has worked as a consultant for an International
School in Mumbai and served in the Treasury and Finance Division of , Kodak India , a100 % subsidiary of
Eastman Kodak. Vijaya is a post graduate diploma holder in Business Management from TA PAI
MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE , Manipal , India .

Aeisha Musthafa

Aeisha is a Senior technologist focusing on engineering Commerce Solutions Products at PayPal. She strongly believes in giving back to the society and is passionate about volunteering. As a core member of the PayPal GIVES team, she leads the Tech for Good initiatives. She encourages employees to volunteer and is currently working on identifying innovative ways for creating sustainable and measurable impact in the society.

Mehul Kothare

Tania Pal

Tania Pal works with CRISIL Foundation, as their Associate Director. Her current role is diversified across being the Head for Governance & Impact Monitoring, Leader for CRISIL - Employee Volunteering and Mein Pragati Assam. Prior to this, she was Head – Partnerships leading all strategic alliances with Government, Financial Regulators, Corporate Foundations, Trusts and NGO’s associated within CRISIL Foundation. She is the CEO Award Winner in 2019 for CRISIL's flagship Corporate Responsibility initiative, Mein Pragati in Assam.

Aarti Mahadevan

Aarti madhusudan is the founder of governance counts an initiative that helps nonprofits strengthen their Boards. She also consults with iVolunteer , India's pioneering volunteering agency. Aarti volunteers herself actively in evangelising DaanUtsav . She loves the clear blue skies of Chennai, enjoys talking to people  and describes herself as the happiest person she knows

Antoinette Lopez

I have been working in the volunteer sector for 12 years moved to work in the corporate citizenship team of Accenture for the last 13 years and enjoy my work. I am on the board of creating futures and RAWWD.

T. Bindhu

Bindhu is on a mission to help the children of rural India to get educated and make their lives more meaningful. A trained Computer post graduate, she has 5 years experience in educational and entrepreneurship. She had worked as a Training Executive in TamilNadu Council for Technical Education and was an online tutor in Hafa Math Academy. Her passion includes painting and graphic designing.

Rajesh TS

Prabhu Loganathan

I am a post-graduate in financial management, with 16+ years of experience with corporate & non-profit sector. I love working in a team environment, learning from nature, volunteering, travelling, photography and doing yoga. Highly respect & admire volunteers who are selflessly dedicating themselves towards creating a better world.    

Allan D’Souza

I worked on the corporate side for 4 years before making the shift to U&I. I am working on enhancing the volunteering scope at U&I and help chart the next phase of U&I's growth.

Piyush Jain

Piyush Jain is the Co-Founder and CEO of ImpactGuru.com, a crowdfunding platform in India with major focus on healthcare and was featured recently in the Fortune 40under40.
Piyush has worked with J.P.Morgan and BCG. Piyush has an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School and a graduate degree from Harvard University.