Our Team

An experienced group from industry and entrepreneurship with a global experience

Our Team

A globally experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs

GOVERNANCE

Trustees

Anita Singh

Trustee

Sanjiv Shanmugam

Trustee

COUNSEL

Board Advisors

Kala Anand

Board Advisor

Gautham Shanbhogue

Board Advisor

THE TEAM ON THE GROUND

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

Karthik K R

Manager – Operations & Systems

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Our Partners In Transformation

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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.