Global Head of Impact for Breakfast

• Aug 2021 - Present

Manager

• Nov 2012 - Present

Manager of Impact for Breakfast

• Apr 2016 - Sep 2021

Since 2006, the family behind Artha Impact has been interested in mobilizing their wealth in support of high impact social entrepreneurs in India. This was a relatively pioneering idea at the time, given that only a handful of funds were formulating similar strategies, and the goal was to break with traditional philanthropic and charity approaches that supported the status quo of non-profit organizations remaining dependent upon grants. Our objective to deploy small ticket, high risk capital into social enterprises began with an initial focus on agriculture, energy, livelihoods and water in India.With the Social Investment Breakfast Club that we started in 2008 in London and that is known today as “Impact for Breakfast” (IFB). Our work in convening peers has spanned from the virtual to the physical; our teams have benefitted a great deal from a learning curve because of our role in convening some of the most experienced social investment practitioners in London and beyond. To date, we have convened couple hundred times across our main IFB cities London, Geneva and Zurich, and helped setting up local chapters in New York, Yerevan, Philadelphia and many more.Moving into 2020, we celebrate the consolidation of our efforts under the broad Artha Impact umbrella. We build networks and convene our peers through the platform we have developed – comprised of a combined diligence workflow tool, marketplace and social network – that creates a virtual space for visibility and more effective collaboration between investors and donors, support organizations and service providers. Through our monthly physical convenings in cities around the world, we make sure the virtual is bolstered by the real.

Impact Manager

• Nov 2012 - Mar 2016

The Artha Impact team has been working since 2007 as the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital, which is a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust. Through this initiative, we have been running a series of programs designed to invest, catalyze and convene around the promise of supporting meaningful business interventions for impact in India. Today we hold a robust portfolio of direct early/growth stage investments and a small handful of impact funds in the country. Our sectors of focus include (but have not been limited to) agriculture, healthcare and livelihoods.We know that if we are going to solve for any SDG, the reduction of transaction costs and amplification of good solutions is key.We are proud to have been able to contribute in a small way to the global discourse that is today redefining the purpose of capital, both through the many millions of lives that have been touched through our portfolio companies, and through our convening and collaboration work in the impact finance ecosystem.

Aide-de-camp to the CFO & CEO

• Nov 2010 - Oct 2012