Bhaktiveda Dhaul
Founder PRANAAH
Bhaktiveda has worked with kids with cognitive disabilities such as Mental Retardation,
Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia and Slow Learners. She has also
worked with children recovering from Cancer and diagnosed with HIV in Mumbai. She
has also done sessions with children with high physical and cognitive functioning.
She has worked extensively with groups of women, mixed groups, corporate
institutions, and underprivileged communities. Has volunteered with Several NGO’s and
private institutions such as Committed Communites Development Trust, VSAI, and
Tamanna, Pratham among others where she has given therapy sessions as well as
directed a play for the children with cognitive impairments providing them new
opportunities and experiences.
Gaurav Gupta
HR Professional
Director
Kezban Klein the director of IFAA INDIA has a very vibrant personality. Her 6 year stint in India has not just established her as a well known name in the Indian fitness industry but has also helped her successfully carve out a niche for herself and IFAA INDIA in the Indian market. She registered IFAA ( a 32 year old international fitness academy and consultancy from Germany) in INDIA 2.5 years ago with a vision to raise fitness standards into new dimensions and help people live a better and healthier life. She intends to open fitness schools and educational institutions in India in the next 5 years to provide students a platform to educate themselves in the fitness industry and also help them find suitable jobs thereafter.
Aside from her love for bollywood music, Indian food and culture, she loves reaching out and helping the poor and needy. She’s an active part of multiple NGO’s and spends most of her spare time doing what she does best – spreading love and making this world a bette
Manav Jain
HR professional
Manav Jain is a HR professional with 13 years of learning experiences across Internet,
Technology, Retail & Manufacturing businesses. He has vast experiences in building &
scaling up HR organisation in startup environments, Talent management across global
geographies. Currently he is associated with Paytm as the AVP Human Resource
Has also worked with Microsoft India, as Performance & Talent Management Lead .
Manav Started career with Murugappa Group and managed HR & business roles
across Corporate, Manufacturing & Retail.
Manav did his BE Chemical Engineering from Punjab University and did the
Management Development Program from Asian Institute of Management, Makati -
Philippines.
Nandita Puri
Journalist/Author/Screenplay writer
Having spent all her life as a journalist, author and screenplay writer, Nandita Puri
knows what it means to be a journalist. She enjoys reading, music, travelling, looking
after the house and being involved with her son, in between vigorous spells of writing.
She was brought up in Kolkata in a progressive middle class Bengali Brahmo family and
studied first in a Roman Catholic boarding school in Chandernagore (the other French
colony apart from Puducherry); then English literature from Loreto College and Masters
from Jadavpur University.
Nandita worked as a journalist and wrote extensively for The Telegraph, The
Statesman, Sunday Mail, Reader's Digest, TOI group among others she has also
worked as a broadcast journalist.
In 2005 her first collection of short stories Nine On Nine with urban Indian women as
protagonists was published by Rupa.
She, has authored Om Puri’s biography Unlikely Hero and her debut novel, Two Worlds.
Nandita is a writer who has written screenplays for comme
Serial Entrepreneur
Prasoon Gupta, Founder and Director, Sattviko,is a serial entrepreneur and graduate in
technology from IIT Roorkee.
Recognized as the youngest “Distinguished Alumni” from IIT Roorkee and one of the
youngest charter member of TiE Delhi, he has to his credit an extensive experience in
entrepreneurship. Prior to venturing into food and hospitality in 2014, Prasoon founded
his education venture "Techbuddy Consulting Pvt Ltd‟ in 2009 while he was still a
student at IIT. During his 4 years at Techbuddy, he not only trained more than 15,000
students across the country but also earned the "Pioneer of Tomorrow‟ and "India’s
hottest startups‟ awards from reputed publication houses.
His second venture in food, Sattviko restaurants is one of the fastest growing vegetarian
food chain of India and has won "India's Best Debutante Restaurant Chain of the Year
2014‟. After creating a strong presence in Delhi/NCR,Sattviko is now expanding outside
Delhi to Jaipur,IIT Roorkee and Ahmedabad.
Entrepreneur/Coach/Trainer
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions-
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – A philosophy which kindled Vinee’s passion to travel widely
across the length and breadth of the world, imbibing new cultures and traditions. Being
a complete people’s person, she loves interacting with individuals she meets during
work and travel. Vinee has played the role of the leader in the corporate and aviation
sectors for over 18 years.
Education and qualification: Vinee is an alumni of University of Mumbai and
completed her Bachelor in Arts with Economics and Psychology in the year 1999.
Yatin Thakur
Serial Entrepreneur
Yatin is a serial entrepreneur and an active start-up ecosystem developer whose been
promoting technological innovations in India through his various ventures and Startup
Weekends. He founded over seven startups in wireless technology, media, and rural
development before focusing full time on ecosystem development work. His current
focus is on developing the startup ecosystem in India by providing aspiring
entrepreneurs a platform to pitch their ideas and get support in sustaining their ventures
through his organization Startup India and providing physical shelters for validation of
their ideas and enable collaborations through his co working hubs “CoworkIn”. Besides
that Yatin is also the Active Managing Director of Global Entrepreneurship Network in
India to strengthen India’s presence globally and help India achieve international
standards in entrepreneurship development. In addition to this he works with farmers by
empowering and enabling them to access technology which creates dir