Experience

The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF)

• India
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jul 2021 - Present

• Founding Member & Director, Entrepreneurship Sports Generation

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Entrepreneurship Sports Generation, tGELF's flagship entrepreneurial movement and tournament, aims to connect, empower and reward conscious entrepreneurs across the globe. Experienced in strategy and implementation, I co-built this initiative to support entrepreneurs globally across multiple tracks with a focus on technology and UN SDGs. Successfully implemented ESG in 2020, 2021, and 2022 with 600,000+ applicants from 190+ countries and prepared a robust business plan and strategy for the next three years. I hired 200+ volunteers/youth champions of change globally to implement the program and secured 80+ MoUs for partnerships and fundraising efforts. Show less

• Head Programmes, LEAD

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  As a strategist and program implementer for LEAD projects, I successfully created and executed annual action plans and budgets for initiatives such as teacher training, curriculum development, and digitization. In my role managing the LEAD Program, I was responsible for fundraising, program management, strategic partnerships, research, monitoring, and evaluation of initiatives across India and 13 other countries in 3000+ schools. I also conducted and published impact assessments for all projects, demonstrating my expertise in program evaluation and data analysis. Show less



Entrepreneurship World Cup - ASEAN

• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  The Entrepreneurship World Cup is one of the biggest and most diverse startup pitch competitions and support programs of its kind, featuring more than 370,000 entrepreneurs from over 200 countries and offering winners life-changing prizes. tGELF is the Global Organiser and Global Strategic Partner, along with Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at, KSA) and Global Entrepreneurship Network. The Entrepreneurship World Cup is one of the biggest and most diverse startup pitch competitions and support programs of its kind, featuring more than 370,000 entrepreneurs from over 200 countries and offering winners life-changing prizes. tGELF is the Global Organiser and Global Strategic Partner, along with Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at, KSA) and Global Entrepreneurship Network.



Junior Achievement India

• India
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Head of Program Office

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  I am co-leading Junior Achievement's India initiative, which focuses on building entrepreneurial skills in young adults and has impacted the lives of over 1 million students annually. I also established a corporate volunteering engagement team. I collaborated with leading corporations (Microsoft, FACTSET, VOLVO Financial Services, DELTA, SAGE, MMC and many more) to deliver 60+ workshops to support their corporate volunteering programme on a range of topics, including STEM, social impact, women's empowerment, financial and digital literacy, leadership, coding, Excel, and data analytics. Show less


Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
• Germany
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee
• Returning Expert

  • Nov 2019 - Oct 2021

Office of Jairam Ramesh (Former Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Environmemt and Forests)
• Political Aide - Office of Jairam Ramesh

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2019


Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

• Germany
• Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• German Chancellor Fellow

  • Jul 2017 - Dec 2018

  Successfully completed independent research in Germany under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein, Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University. Research title - ‘Deciphering Design Elements and Support Systems Required for Promoting and Developing Impact Generating and Financially Sustainable Social Enterprises’. Successfully completed independent research in Germany under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein, Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University. Research title - ‘Deciphering Design Elements and Support Systems Required for Promoting and Developing Impact Generating and Financially Sustainable Social Enterprises’.


Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
• United Kingdom
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Guest Researcher

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2018


ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth (RSETI, Under the aegis of MoRD, GoI)

• Program Manager

  • Aug 2013 - Jul 2017

  I was responsible for preparing and implementing Annual Operating Plan, Annual Budget and its Tracking, Project and Programme Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Content Development, Branding and Communications, Research, Human Resource Management including Recruitment and Mentoring of Interns. Some of the Projects and Programmes are listed below : 1) Sustainable Livelihoods through Collective action To enhance income level of farmers engaged in Dairy through Skill Development and Micro-enterprise Development. We trained more than 6000 Dairy farmers (more than 95% were women) and organised them to form Self Help Groups. SHGs were federated at cluster level to form Farmer Producer Company (FPC). SHGs were linked with Banks for credit support so that they can start 'Income Generating Activities'. FPC is fully owned by women farmers and created a network of Milk Collection Centres (MCC). 2) Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Programs ICICI RSETI in Jodhpur district is organising Skill trainings through Residential and block level Satellite Centres. The model has two unique features : a) Creating First Generation of Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas b) Short term training and long term hand-holding (minimum 2 years) 3) ICICI Academy for Skills Rural Initiative (IAS - RI) IAS - RI focuses on five components : Skill Development Primary Health Elementary Education Financial Inclusion Credit Linkage Show less



J.K. Tyres & Industries

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Officer

  • Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

  As an Officer at J K Tyres i was responsible for following aspects : Shift Management Manpower Management (Managing more than 70 people working in a shift) Process Scrap Reduction Inventory Management Production Planning Quality Management As an Officer at J K Tyres i was responsible for following aspects : Shift Management Manpower Management (Managing more than 70 people working in a shift) Process Scrap Reduction Inventory Management Production Planning Quality Management



General Motors

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2010

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