NASE is an industry body with membership of India’s top 40 social enteprises who have come togetehr to set up the country’s first assocation for for profit impact businesses. Started with a handful organisations in 2012, NASE has built a strong track record as the leading voice for social enterprises across the country.

The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique, multistakeholder community of more than 900 exceptional young leaders. Bold, brave, action-oriented and entrepreneurial, these individuals commit both their time and talent to make the world a better place.

The community is made up of leaders from all walks of life, from every region of the world and every stakeholder group in society. Nominated under 40, these young leaders are proposed through a qualified nomination process and assessed according to rigorous selection criteria that creates a diverse and truly representative body, while accepting only the very best leaders who have already demonstrated their commitment to serving society at large.

Vaatsalya Healthcare is an award winning social enterprise, focused on building a network of hospitals in Tier II and Tier III towns in India. While 70% of India’s population lives in semi-urban and rural areas, majority of the healthcare facilities are in Urban areas and not accessible to these families. Vaatsalya is bridging this gap by building primary and secondary care hospitals in semi-urban and rural areas.

Vaatsalya currently has eight hospitals in Karnataka and one in Andhra Pradesh, totaling 600 + beds. Vaatsalya is the largest hospital network of its kind in India.

Winner of the Inaugural Porter Prize in India for value based healthcare, Vaatsalya has been recognized as the Most Innovative Healthcare Company by VCCircle in 2014, Winner of the BiD Challenge India 2007 for the best business in development in India, LRAMP Award for Innovation 2008, Sankalp Award for Social Enterprise 2009 and Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Excellence Award 2010 for its innovative business model.

Action For India (AFI) is a social start-up enterprise dedicated to helping social organizations scale their impact by leveraging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We offer training and guidance to social entrepreneurs to sustainably scale their organizations through the use of technology.

AFI is inspired by and formed with the support of Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister of India and Chairman of the National Innovation Council of India.

We foster a platform that leverages Sam’s experience and expertise in technology and government to mobilize Indian social entrepreneurs to become change agents.

We believe that if social entrepreneurs are given the skills, support, and networks they need to improve their use of technology, they will be able to accelerate the impact of their organisations.

A number of social organizations in India have demonstrated the potential for technology to enable massive and rapid scaling. AFI seeks to derive best practices from these success stories and thereby enable a significant number of other organizations to scale their impact in a similar way.

Triesta Sciences was founded in early 2002 by a group of US-based clinicians and scientists to leverage the Indian clinical substrate to address a key research bottleneck – “the clinical validation of novel genomics-derived targets and markers”.

Triesta has established integrated clinical research, including longitudinal follow up of the patients and molecular analysis capabilities in India to undertake the end-to-end clinical validation of novel RNA, DNA or protein based targets and markers.

I was responsible for the Business Development and Informatics strategy for Triesta.