Our Team

An experienced group from industry and entrepreneurship with a global experience

Trustees

Anita Singh

Trustee

Sanjiv Shanmugam

Chairman and Trustee

Board Advisors

Gautham Shanbhogue

Board Advisor

Kala Anand

Board Advisor

Leadership

Chanda
Bhalla

Chief Strategy & External Affairs Officer

Shantha
Doddamani

Manager Uttara Kanada Region

Dr. S. Jason
Charles

Manager Partnerships & Marketing

Dr. Atmaja
Acharya

Product Lead ESM Shikshas

Renuka
Prasad

Product Lead STEM AI Labs

Nancy Francis
Naik

Haliyal English Lead

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.