Shashank Mani

An Author, an economic thinker, a “Yatri” at heart and a man on a mission, Shashank Mani straddles several worlds and experiences. He is the founder of Jagriti Yatra and Jagriti Enterprise Center – Purvanchal (JECP) and also a Partner with a well-known consulting firm, where he is the Government Strategy and Transformation leader and Aerospace and Defense Leader.

Shashank belongs to Deoria, Uttar Pradesh and was educated in both India and Switzerland. He completed his schooling from Colvin Taluqdars' College (Lucknow), BTech from Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Delhi and MBA (Hons) from IMD Lussanne. He has spent over 18 years in an international business environment, starting with Schlumberger, an international oil services company; consulting firms, and as the CEO of a BPO company he founded.

Shashank has written for the Times of India, the Asian Age and authored the Book titled “India –A journey through a Healing Civilisation”—published by Harper Collins, which launched the Jagriti Yatra in 2008.

Sharat Bansal

Sharat Bansal has been a Partner, Management Consulting Leader, Advisory Leaders, Global Relationship Partner and member of PwC’s India Leadership Team. In PwC, he established several new practices like Strategy, Supply chain and Operations, Customer Relationship Management Human Capital Management. Sharat also led IBM Global Business Services in India for five years.

Sunil Pangarkar

Sunil Pangarkar has been an Oil and Gas Executive for 30+ years. He has lived and worked globally. He was a co-founder of one start-up that had a successful exit in 2015. He completed his mechanical engineering degree from MS University , Baroda and an MBA from Sloan school, MIT , Boston. He is currently the executive Chairman of Ecomax Solutions Pvt Ltd out of Pune.

Raj Krishnamurthy

Raj is a thinker, leader and an innovator. He has worked for several multinationals including Applied Materials, BOC Group and UTC. He is the founder of a consultancy in London - Enria Limited. He currently works for Rentokil-Initial as their Innovations Director and is passionate about supporting startups. Raj is the architect of Biz Gyan Tree, the business plan competition in the Yatra and credited with several other creative excesses. He has a Bachelors from IIT Bombay, MS from Purdue University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Rewati Prabhu

Rewati has worked for over 15 years as an urban designer in the USA, Europe, Africa and India. A gold medallist B.Arch graduate from Pune University and a fellowship awardee in her Masters in Urban Planning from University of Michigan, USA, she is a Director of Frischmann Prabhu India, a 400 strong multidisciplinary design consultancy based in Mumbai. Rewati has led several award-winning development projects and is passionate about urban regeneration in India.

Surendra Sharma

An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, he is an ex-technocrat and consultant from the Nuclear Energy field. Interested in social welfare and nation building activity, he is closely associated with Jagriti Yatra and is contributing to its success from the very inception in 1997

Vanita Viswanath

Vanita conceptualized and led Udyogini, an NGO based in Delhi. She is Founding Trustee and currently Chairperson of Aajeevika Bureau. She was previously with the World Bank, Washington D.C in various positions, including as co-director of a four-year Women's Enterprise Management Training program operational in three Asian countries. She also authored the first policy document on the Asian Development Bank's collaboration with NGOs. She has published widely lectured in leading US universities such as Yale and Columbia and presented papers in conferences worldwide, most recently at the Sixth Subsistence Marketplaces conference at the School of Business, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA. She was recognized as a finalist of the Schwab Foundation India Social Entrepreneur of the Year award 2012 and recipient of The International Alliance of Women, Washington D.C, World of Difference Award 2013. She received her PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Srikanth Prabhu

Srikanth is part of the core founding team of Social Alpha, an initiative of Tata Trusts to incubate early stage enterprises that create deep and irreversible social impact. At Social Alpha, Srikanth leads Education and Rural Livelihoods verticals and manages the incubation and investment portfolio. He works closely with several social enterprises and supports them in their go-to-market journey.

Prior to joining Social Alpha, Srikanth worked in the Financial Technologies sector and Global Investment Banking with Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland for about 5 years before joining the development sector. Srikanth has a B Tech degree in Electronics & Communications from NIT Surathkal and an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

In his free time, Srikanth enjoys tinkering with several musical instruments in the hope of perfecting it someday! He also enjoys cycling through Bangalore roads which he feels is the best way to avoid traffic jams!

Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder of SocialCops, a data intelligence company where she leads partner relationships, business, and strategy. SocialCops is the world's leading data science for good company powering projects that have impacted over 1 billion people including developing the National Data Platform for India and as the choice partner for the United Nations to help countries track their progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals tracker.

She has been recognized as a the Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC TV-18 Young Business Woman, and was also featured in Forbes Asia 30 Under 30, Fortune India 40 Under 40, and Forbes India 30 Under 30 lists.

Prukalpa holds a B.E. degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Entrepreneurship from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to founding SocialCops, she completed brief stints at Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil Corporation. She is passionate about data, swears by a good cup of coffee, and hopes to be a published author someday.

Selvakumar Varadharajan

Selvakumar Varadharajan is thriving to justify his roles as Entrepreneur, Professor, Social Activist, Business Consultant, Accelerator, Mentor and Career Consultant. He hails from a rural background with proven expertise in the field of agriculture. He is a farmer by birth.

He has played a key role in providing employment to 2000+ graduates and post graduates across sectors as a social service. He has been to more than 350 colleges across India as a resource person in the domains like Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Placements and Career guidance.

A 37 year young & enthusiastic social activist, he comes with a vision to nurture as many young entrepreneurs and managers as possible in the process of empowering young India.

Gauri Sharma Tripathi

A Kathak dance artist, perfomer, choreographer and artist in residence at Southbank Centre, London, Gauri is associated with Jagriti Yatra since its inception. She has done the choreography for Jagriti Geet that beautifully reflects Prasoon's lyrics and which Yatris could perfom all together.

She is curator of Alchemy festival and Women of World (WOW) at SBC.

Ruben Mascarenhas

Techie by training and Socio-Political Activist by choice. His educational qualification ranges from computer engineering to Hindi literature to astronomy and astrophysics. He is presently the COO of Serv'd which is a fintech impact enterprise working towards organising the unorganised domestic workers.

Ananth Krishna

Anshul Agrawal

Ganesh Singh