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Programmes |
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Finance and Accounts |
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Corporate Services |
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Global Patnerships & Institutional Learning |
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Rohini Mukherjee
Global Partnerships, Institutional Learning & Education
Rohini manages the Global Partnerships portfolio
for Naandi that forges innovative, strategic alliances with bilateral partners,
international institutions, corporates, and governments to channel their resources
both financial and intellectual into enhancing the reach and effectiveness of Naandi's
pro-poor interventions.
The Institutional learning portfolio at Naandi
is akin to a programme audit. Rohini joined Naandi in 2005 as Manager, Global Partnerships.
She has a Masters degree in Social Work from the Delhi University and has, for over
a decade, worked in remote rural areas of Bengal, where she was also the founding
member of a grassroots not-for-profit advocacy group that took up democracy and
governance issues on behalf of the rural underprivileged.
She professes that her real education happened
during her years in Bengal. Understanding a village economy, its organic links with
climate, geography and the history of the region, and its political structures �
official & unofficial, and their impact on the lives of the ordinary people � are
the sensitivities she brings into managing the Global Partnerships portfolio where
her focus is to raise resources and support to reach out to the most marginalised
communities.
She loves to drive, enjoys Indian classical
music and reading fiction and history.
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Dr Preetha Bhakta
Education Research & Learning Assessment Cell
Dr Preetha is incubating a new department
in Naandi which looks at research and assessment of learning levels of children
in government and private schools.
She is an education pedagogy expert with a
PhD in reading disabilities in rural children. At Naandi she had set up the Education
Resource Group that designed training modules for teachers and programme team, evaluation
techniques and learning-friendly classroom methodologies across government schools
in urban slums and remote rural areas.
Prior to joining Naandi she was a consultant
with National Institute of Pubic Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) for
an ILO � IPEC project for the prevention of child labour in Andhra Pradesh that
created �Early Warning Systems' to prevent school dropouts. She was also associated
with The Concerned for working children as a programme coordinator and was the first
Programme Director of the Child and Police Project of DRFHSD.
Preetha is a news junkie, enjoys Indian classical
music, she is an avid reader and enjoys fiction, non fiction and biographies. She
is very passionate about education, and strongly believes in the rights of the child.
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Raj Iyer
Mahindra Pride School
Raj has set up and runs the Mahindra Pride School in Pune,
which trains and grooms socially and educationally underprivileged youth from the
SC and ST communities for jobs in the organised sector.
He's an Electrical Engineer with a PG Diploma in Management from
IIM Calcutta. Raj spent the first decade of his 26 years of work experience in corporates
such as Crompton Greaves, Zenith Computers and Philips India.
Later, he moved on to the development sector and joined as Director,
Dr Reddy's Foundation anchoring the livelihoods initiative for the underprivileged
youth. He has a rich experience in soft skills training and was a freelance trainer
for companies such as Barista Coffee Company, Blue Star Infotech, HDFC Bank and
Liberty Automation.
He is an avid reader and enjoys solving lateral thinking games
including crossword puzzles.
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Leena Joseph
Midday Meal Programme
Leena heads the Midday Meal programme. From
setting up state-of-the-art kitchens to ensuring complaint free operations that
reach hot, cooked meals to children in government schools everyday, Leena coordinates
with state governments, nutritionists and her line managers and transporters everyday,
trying to add value to the service and extend it to more areas where children are
hungry and malnourished.
She is a Psychology graduate and has been
an active volunteer with orphanages, old age homes, and government schools where
ever she has lived. Incidentally, she joined Naandi as a volunteer. In the past
she's been the National Project Convenor, for Ladies Circle and the Vice President
for Ambassadors of Goodwill for Aids Patients Everywhere. Leena was awarded the
'Manava Seva Dharma Samayardhani Award' for her Social Entrepreneurship work for
the Midday Meal, in 2004.
She is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, a fabulous
cook and enjoys working with children in any way she can.
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Corporate Services
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Anoop Ratnaker Rao
Corporate Services
Anoop leads the critical Corporate Services
functions at Naandi, comprising Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Administration,
Procurement, Technology and Knowledge Management.
He brings to the organisation over 13 years
of experience in leadership roles across various industries and service areas spanning
compliance, information security, management consulting, healthcare, knowledge management
and hospitality. In addition to entrepreneurial experience, he has worked in leading
multinational organisations such as the Ritz-Carlton, Deloitte, ADP and Genpact.
In his last role, Anoop successfully established the compliance function for Genpact's
ITO (Information Technology Outsourcing) vertical across multiple countries.
Throughout his corporate career he has been
actively involved in Community Service initiatives. He led the Impact
Day initiative when at Deloitte, was a founding member of Project 511 (a Hyderabad
based organization involved in improving the school infrastructure by linking individuals/corporates
to schools that need support) and helped raise funds for setting up M V Foundation's
first Bridge Camp in Hyderabad.
Anoop has done his post graduation in Management.
He calls Hyderabad his home which he shares with his mother and wife. He is passionate
about people, loves to travel, and has been a Vipassana practitioner for over 4
years.
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Kaushalya Sastry
Admin and HR
Kaushalya heads the administration, personnel
and purchase functions organisation wide for Naandi.
She's managed these responsibilities for over
20 years at various large scale private sector organisations such as Magna Infotech
Pvt Ltd, Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (NFCL), Hiflon India Ltd and Andrew
Yule & Co.
A trouble shooter with an eye on reducing
overheads, Kaushalya is also a fabulous cook and a ready shoulder to lean on at
the organisation.
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Bhanu Prakash Pandey
Commercial and Purchase
Bhanu leads the Commercial and Purchase Department.
He�s setting up vendor management and efficient resource utilisation protocols and
bringing in best practices from successful public and private sector institutions.
He has a Masters in Mathematics from the Delhi
University complemented with a post graduation degree in Rural Development from
IRMA, Anand, one of India�s premier rural management institutes.
Bhanu brings in enormous experience and learning
from his previous employments with the super-large scale Indian Railways and the
Andhra Bank, managing their procurement and credit portfolios respectively for a
total of around 8 plus years. Bhanu travels on whim and cooks to unwind.
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