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In the non-profit world, people are the most important
asset and Lend-A-Hand India has been blessed to work with a diverse
group from all over the world. Write
to us if you would like to be part of the team.
Advisory
Board
Officers & Staff
Executive Commitee
Advisory Board
Vik Atal
Vice Chairman, Global Citi Cards
Adam Broun
Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Ashish Chauhan
Deputy CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange
Sucheta Dalal
Business Journalist and Writer
Ajay Desai
SVP, Head- Agri Business, Rural and Social Banking, YES Bank Ltd.
Vinod Haritwal
Founder and CEO, AayurMed Biotech Pvt Ltd.
Arun Korati
Investment Manager, Unit Trust of India
Milind
Mane
Development Officer, Life Insurance Corporation of India
Rob
Rosenblatt
General Manager, Customer Loyalty for Chase Card Service
Ashok Vaswani
CEO (Cards Europe), Barclays Bank
Officers &
Staff
Sunanda Mane, Co-founder & President
Sunanda, co-founder and the force behind Lend-A-Hand India, has
been working in the development sector for more than a decade. She
has held positions as State Director, Program Director, and Consultant
in national and international organizations such as CARE, Society
for Service to Voluntary Agencies, Management Resources Inc., UNDP,
and the World Bank. Sunanda is also a member of the Executive Committee
of the New York-based Maharashtra Foundation and has traveled extensively
in India and South and Central Asia. She divides her time between
the New York and India offices.
Abhay Patil, Executive Director (India)
Abhay joined the Lend-A-Hand team in July 2007. He has a diverse
background with over twenty years in the IT and Engineering sector.
After working for ten years in Silicon Valley, he returned to India
in 2001 to give his time to social development work. His last assignment
was Director of CXO Systems, acquired by Cisco India in November
2006. Previously, he worked with WebMD (Principal Engineer); Softplus
Inc (Software Architect); and Godrej and Rolta Computers. Abhay
holds a masters in structural engineering from IIT Mumbai and a
bachelors in Civil Engineering from VJTI, also in Mumbai.
Prabhakar Patil, Program Officer (India)
Prabhakar started his association
with the non-profit sector from his days as a student. He has over
fifteen years of experience working with youth development programs.
His area of training and expertise is communication, publishing
and publicity. He coordinates and monitors Project Swadheen, under
which aptitude testing and career counseling activities are conducted
in six villages. Approximately 600 high school students undergo
this program every year and Prabhakar has been coordinating this
project since its inception in 2005. Prabhakar is a qualified art
teacher with a diploma in Commercial Art and BA (sociology) from
Pune University.
Shilpa Ballal, Trainer (India)
Shilpa has over twelve years of experience of working in development
sectors education, gender, and mass communication. She has worked
as project manager with British Red Cross, lecturer in Tribal Studies
at Bhasha Research and Publication Centre for the Tribal Training
Academy , Gujarat , Capacity Building Officer with Ford Foundation
and as free lance trainer for several NGOs and foundations. Shilpa
currently works as independent filmmaker. Shilpa is Bachelor of
Science and post graduate in Social Work.
Javed Mujawar, Program Assistant (India)
Javed has worked as assistant in corporate sector for over three
years and has aptitude and liking for information technology. At
LAHI Javed works as program and logistics assistant. He is currently
pursuing his graduation in humanities.
Executive Committee
Akshaya Gulhati
Akshaya has worked in energy consulting for over seven years both
in the US and abroad. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School
of Management at Northwestern University.
Ani Khatri
Ani has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering along with
a minor in Economics from Georgia Tech. He currently works with
Goldman Sachs in London. Previously, Ani worked for Deloitte Consulting
in New York, focusing on the financial services industry. In addition
to Lend-A-Hand India, Ani is also involved with Junior Achievement
and INROADS. He holds an MBA from Wharton.
Anuradha Gupta
Anu studied MMS at the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences,
Pilani and earned her MBA (International Business) at IIFT, Delhi.
She worked with Unilever, India in Exports and Marketing, followed
by several stints in social infrastructure and market research.
Anu also taught briefly at SP Jain, a business school in India.
She writes extensively and has published two children's books.
Dina Deligiorgis
Dina has more than seven years of domestic and international experience
in the fields of development and human rights. She has worked as
a consultant with the United Nations Development Program, the World
Bank, and NGOs in Brazil and Ghana.
Raj Gilda, Co-founder
Raj, co-founder of Lend-A-Hand India, is an electronics engineer
and MBA graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. He started
his career with Deloitte Consulting and currently works with Citigroup
in New York. In India, Raj worked for National Stock Exchange as
well as Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services in Mumbai.
He was honored with the US President's Award in recognition of his
voluntary service for the last four years.
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