Sohini Bhattacharya
Director-South Asia Partnerships, Ashoka Innovators
Sohini Bhattacharya is the Director – South Asia
Partnerships of Ashoka Innovators for the Public,
India. She joined Ashoka in 2000 as its Western
India Regional Representative and helped expand the
venture progamme, increasing the number of women in
the fellowship. Later as Director – Venture for
India, she ramped up the programme built systems and
created awareness and resources for Ashoka India.
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Prior to
joining Ashoka, Bhattacharya worked in the field of
economic development with special focus on women for ten
years. She is also on the board of CREA, an organisation
working on enhancing women’s leadership. She has a
Masters degree in English literature from Jadavpur
University, Calcutta.
Kalyan C
Sevak, PanIIT Reach for India
A GSVC global finalist in 2004, Kalyan is an Alumnus
of ISB and IIT. He is the founding sevak of PanIIT
Alumni Reach for India, a social entrepreneurial
initiative of PanIIT Alumni Association with a charter
for Nation building, involving IIT alumni. He is
particularly passionate about creating an ecosystem of
no-profit, no-loss, no-dividend paying social
enterprises that maximise social impact with scale,
co-existing/complementing/competing with profit-maximisation
firms.
Vincent Dawans
Partner, Virtue Partners
Vincent Dawans is a Partner at Virtue Partners, an
innovative firm committed to furthering the field of
social entrepreneurship through action-research,
technical services and other initiatives. He has worked
with a variety of social enterprises and international
development agencies as well as conceived the Four
Lenses Framework, and helped develop the typology and
put it into a web format. Dawans started his career in
the private sector as an IT specialist and end-user
liaison for Dow Corning Europe, where he learned to use
his analytical mind to translate technical concepts into
plain language as well as business needs into technical
requirements. He holds an undergraduate degree in
Economics and Masters degree in Business Management from
the prestigious ICHEC Business School, Brussels,
Belgium. He has worked on projects in Europe, the US,
Francophone Africa, Mexico as well as the former Soviet
Union.
Arun Gore
Social Venture Capital Investor
Arun Gore comes to social venture capital investing after
executive roles in information and communications technology
companies. Gore has supported Gray Ghost Ventures with
financial, market and industry evaluations of Indian
investments as well as the governance of its existing
portfolio companies. In addition to this, he runs an
Operations and Management consulting practice since 2006,
which includes managing joint ventures for T-Mobile,
establishing Indian operations for US firms and promoting
private equity investments for start-ups. Before joining
T-Mobile, Gore lead the international operations of SAI
Inc., an energy and oil field supplies company operating in
over 13 countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Anne Henricot
Executive Director, Marie and Alain Philippson Foundation
Anne Henricot is currently the Executive Director of the
Marie and Alain Philippson Foundation, a Belgian public
benefit foundation set up in 2006. The Foundation seeks to
support social entrepreneurs who contribute to sustainable
human development in Central and Western Africa. Prior to
that, Henricot served as a management advisor to several
NGO’s, bringing in her business experience. She was the
Senior Auditor for PriceWaterhouse Belgium, Financial
Analyst for Federal Express Europe, Finance Manager for Levi
Strauss Eximco, Analyst for Levi Strauss Financial Services
and Finance Director for Levi Strauss Europe, Middle East
and Africa. Henricot holds a masters degree in Applied
Economic Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain
(IAG), Belgium.
Rajesh Jog
Chairman and MD, Waygate Capital
Rajesh Jog is the Chairman and MD of Waygate Capital, a
boutique technology, media and entertainment investment
bank. He brings with him a rich experience in private
equity, investment banking and corporate policy-making and
new business initiatives. Jog has worked with AT&T BellLabs,
Cyber Digital and Bankers Trust. In 1994, he was relocated
to Mumbai and founded Gateway Capital, India's pioneering
investment and venture banking firm to the technology and
media industries. In 1999, Rajesh co-founded eVentures
India-a $190million New Media and Technology venture company
with investments from Softbank and News Corp. Jog has an MBA
in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
Gopakumar Menon
Co-Founder, The Nityata Foundation
Gopakumar Menon worked as an investment professional in two
venture funds, ICICI Venture Management and CDC Capital
Partners (now called Actis), over a eleven year period,
investing in and working with small and medium businesses,
emphasising organisational growth, management and team
development, with a number of profitable disinvestments.
Since 2002, he has co-managed Navgati, a ten year old
organisation focussed on Corporate and Institutional
Learning. Menon is the Co-Founder of The Nityata Foundation,
a foundation in Bangalore involved in wildlife conservation
effort and sustainable development as well as the Root Cause
Initiative.
Sara Olsen
Founder, Social Venture Technology Group
Sara Olsen founded the Social Venture Technology Group (SVT
Group) in 2001. SVT Group (formerly SVT consulting) is an
innovative firm based in San Francisco, California that
works to further the adoption of social return on investment
standards. SVT Group has emerged as one of the leaders in
the development of non-financial valuation methods and
offers a wider range of field-level roots, activities and
methodological development for use by social enterprises.
SVT Group is part of an informal network of world leaders in
many related fields. Olsen has an MBA from UC Berkeley and
co-founded the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) with
four peers while in a B-school.
James Tooley
Professor, Newcastle University
James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy, Newcastle
University, England. For his ground-breaking work on private
education for the poor, he was awarded Gold Prize in the
first IFC/FT Private Sector Development Competition, in
September 2006. For two years from April 2007 he was
President, The Education Fund, Orient Global, where he was
involved in the creation of private school chains and
investment in private education in Africa and Asia. He has
previously taught and researched at the Universities of
Oxford and Manchester, England; Simon Fraser University,
Canada; and University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
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