IFP 2020 Leaders
Nishith Desai
Sean Hinton
Rema Subramanian
Rema Subramanian is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ankur Capital Fund, Investing in transformative technologies for the next billion. A sector agnostic fund, they are pioneer investors in early stage agritech and biotech in India. They invest in tech from...
Aradhana Lal
Aradhana Lal is Vice President – Sustainability Initiatives and National Sales Coach & Mentor. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Aradhana has 21 years of experience in Sales & Marketing, Corporate Communications and Sustainability. She was earlier Vice President –...
Sairee Chahal
Sairee Chahal is a serial entrepreneur, mom, angel investor, evangelist for #WomensInternet and a board member. She currently runs SHEROES - an online ecosystem for women, offering support, entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, content and community at...
Deepali Khanna
Deepali Khanna is the Managing Director of the Asia Regional Office of The Rockefeller Foundation. She leads the Foundation’s initiatives to catalyze strategic collaborations in Asia. Deepali has worked in the development sector for closer to four decades with...
Geeta Goel
Geeta Goel is the Country Director of Dell Foundation India. She manages the strategy and implementation in two key areas - Education and Family Economic Stability. She’s on the Boards of Ujjivan, Janalakshmi, Swadhaar, Arohan, and Micro Housing Finance Corporation.
Halla Tomasdottir
Halla Tómasdóttir is the CEO of The B Team, a group of courageous business and civil society leaders working together to transform business for a better world. Halla started her leadership career in corporate America working for Mars and Pepsi Cola. She was on the...
Safeena Husain
Safeena Husain is the Founder and Executive Director of Educate Girls (EG), an Indian non-profit that mobilises rural communities toward girls’ education. Under her leadership, EG has enrolled 950,000+ girls in schools till date, impacted over 11.5 million+...
Bart Houlahan
Bart Houlahan, along with his partners, Jay Coen Gilbert and Andrew Kassoy, co-founded B Lab in 2006. B Lab is a non-profit organization serving a global movement of people using business as a force for good, led by the growing community of Certified B Corporations....
George Serafiem
George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration and the Chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses in the MBA, executive education, and doctoral programs, and is currently teaching...
Sir Ronald Cohen
Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures and a Director of Social Finance. He was the founding partner and former chairman of Apax Partners. Sir Ronald is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, on the Board of Dean's Advisers at...
Cliff Prior
Cliff Prior is the CEO of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investment – the independent global steering group catalysing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit all people and our planet, with a growing 33 country movement. Previously Cliff was CEO of Big...
Gabriela Gandel
As an experienced leader of innovative global organisations, organisational and personal development consultant and experiential learning designer Gabriela is committed to building organisations and systems that enable people and planet to thrive and meaningful...
Pradeep Nair
Pradeep Nair has over 25 years of global experience across US and India. He started his career in Silicon Valley in technology and strategy, then moved to the social sector, working for leaders like President Clinton, Mayor Bloomberg and Paul Volcker. He currently...
Vedika Bhandarkar
Vedika oversees all impact efforts within Water.org and leads the team responsible for working with financial institutions, global investors, and other sector leaders to empower millions of people in need with access to safe water and sanitation. She previously served...
Ravi Kant
Ravi Kant has played a significant role as CEO/Vice Chairman in making TATA MOTORS. He has chaired several Tata company boards, Advertising Standards Council of India, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Society of Indian Automobiles Manufacturers.. Currently he sits...
Anant Maheshwari
As President of Microsoft India, Anant Maheshwari is responsible for Microsoft’s overall business and presence in India, leading engagement with policy makers, customers, business partners, and the industry ecosystem. At Microsoft, Anant works to make the company’s...
Abhishek Agrawal
Abhishek Agrawal is Chief Regional Officer for Accion - Asia. He worked with FINCA International as CFO and as advisor to Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI). Abhishek is Aspire Fellow; Ph.D. in Municipal financial reforms, a Chartered Accountant from ICAI &...
Tarun Chugh
A seasoned BFSI specialist with over 25 years of experience. He started as an Investment Banker, and then moved to the Life Insurance industry over 15 years ago. He has led dynamic teams and Life Insurance organisations through exciting times. His leadership mantra is...
Praveer Sinha
Mr. Praveer Sinha has over three decades of experience in the power sector and has been credited with transforming the power distribution sector and development and setting up of greenfield and brownfield power plants in India and abroad. Mr. Sinha holds a Master's...
Reema Nanavaty
Reema Nanavaty is the Director of SEWA – the largest trade union of informal sector women workers with membership of over 2.1 million members. She was honored by Padma Shri in 2013. She was a member of the Advisory Council on Gender of the World Bank Group, and was a...
Shashaank Awasthi
Shashaank Awasthi is co-founder of v-shesh and India Advisor at Gray Ghost Ventures. His work in disability inclusion, mental health and wellbeing, financial inclusion, investing and teaching has been in pursuit of inclusive and accessible environments.
Nirav Khambhati
Nirav Khambhati -Since 2018, Nirav focuses on Kaizenvest’s education investments portfolio in India and expansion in Africa. He has spent over 20 years with the Tata Group in various roles including as the CEO of Tata ClassEdge and Tata Interactive Systems.
Amit Bhatia
Amit Bhatia (www.amitb.in), an award-winning social entrepreneur, is the Founder of Aspire Impact, an ESG, Sustainability and Impact measurement initiative for corporations, investors and non-profits. He is also Founder of Aspire Circle, India’s pre-eminent fellowship...
