Our Team

An experienced group from industry and entrepreneurship with a global experience

Trustees

Kala Anand

Trustee

Anita Singh

Trustee

Sanjiv Shanmugam

Chairman and Trustee

Board Advisors

Gautham Shanbhogue

Board Advisor

Leadership

Chanda
Bhalla

Chief Strategy & External Affairs Officer

Shantha
Doddamani

Manager Uttara Kanada Region

Suresh
Ponneth

Manager Operations & Systems

Dr. S. Jason
Charles

Manager Partnerships & Marketing

Dr. Atmaja
Acharya

Product Lead ESM Shikshas

Renuka
Prasad

Product Lead STEM AI Labs

Spoorthi
Naidu

Product Lead STEM AI Labs.

Nancy Francis
Naik

Haliyal English Lead & Office Administrator

Kritik
Sannmani

Jr. Engineer STEM AI Labs Haliyal

Our Partners In Transformation

We don’t work alone. Every partnership is a collaboration between belief and action.

Gautham is a management professional with experience across the corporate & development sectors, bringing a strategic & data-driven perspective to organizational growth & governance. He has expertise in strategy formulation, program effectiveness & evidence-based decision-making across Education, Natural Resource Management & Entrepreneurship.

He currently serves as Head – Strategy & Program Analysis at the Deshpande Foundation, Hubballi, strengthening program design, performance measurement & impact strategy. Earlier, he worked as a Project Lead at L&T Technology Services, Bengaluru, leading engineering initiatives for industrial product development.

He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore & a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka.