With 28 years of experience with multinationals, foundations and family offices, Saumya has built a successful career in corporate sustainability and strategic philanthropy.

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After a decade at General Electric USA in various technology-related roles, Saumya’s passion for inclusive growth and social impact led her to relocate home to India in 2007. Since then, she has operationalized and led global Corporate Social Responsibility platforms at conglomerates like Genpact and Godrej Industries, and advised UHNI donors across the lifecycle of philanthropic portfolios. Under her leadership, 360 ONE Foundation has reimagined traditional philanthropy and pioneered a more catalytic approach powered by blended finance and outcomes-based financing, to maximize social returns and generate higher leverage on grants. Throughout her tenure in this sector, Saumya has been a change agent to optimize giving: making philanthropic capital more outcome-oriented, efficient, and effective.

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Saumya began her career in 1997 with General Electric USA, through the Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) - a fast track, rotational program designed to develop high potential candidates for GE's leading management positions. She is an Aspire Circle fellow (Cohort 4, 2017), and a winner of the Women Director of The Year Award (Not for Profit) at the MentorMyBoard Women Directors Conclave in December 2023. After having lived, studied and worked in four continents, she is currently based in Mumbai.

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Saurav Goyal joined Swiggy in June 2020 and most recently served as Head of the Business Finance function. In that role, he played a key part in advancing the company’s strategic objectives, working closely with operational leaders to align financial planning with business outcomes.

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In June 2025, he was appointed Senior Vice President and Head of Swiggy’s Driver and Delivery Organisation. In this capacity, he leads delivery operations and spearheads initiatives aimed at empowering Swiggy’s delivery partners — one of the key pillars of its ecosystem — while continuing to oversee Business Finance until a successor is appointed.

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With over 18 years of experience across industries, Saurav has previously worked with Ola, Flipkart, and Tata Communications, holding leadership roles in finance and operations.

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Sayantani Gaddam currently leads the British Asian Trust, India as Head of Programmes, leading BAT’s programmes on Digital Skilling, Mental Health and Conservation, including the flagship CSR partnership with BT Group on empowering adolescent girls and women in safe digital skilling. She is a social sector practitioner with multi-sector experience leading strategy, operations and advocacy in not-for-profit and social development consulting organizations. Proven track record of 25+ years in guiding sizeable cross-functional teams across geographies in programme design, execution, monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder management. Her focus is mainstreaming community concerns, participation and their active role in public systems development. By education she is a geographer and regional planner and a certified educator.

Sharad Sharma is a technology entrepreneur and evangelist with over three decades of experience in the Internet, enterprise software, and digital infrastructure sectors. He co-founded iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit think tank focused on building India’s software product ecosystem, and has been a prominent voice in shaping India as a product nation. He also co-founded Teltier Technologies Inc., later acquired by CISCO, and has actively invested in over two dozen technology startups.

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Mr. Sharma has held senior R&D leadership positions at leading technology companies including Yahoo, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. Recognized with the R&D Visionary Award by Zinnov in 2008, he has also contributed to national policy as a member of the National Startup Advisory Council, SEBI’s Financial and Regulatory Technology Committee, and RBI committees on MSME and digital payments. An electrical engineering graduate from Delhi College of Engineering, he began his journey by creating India’s first Student Minicomputer Club and leading the IEEE Student Chapter.

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Shaveta is the CEO & Managing Director at Central Square Foundation. She has been part of the founding team at CSF since 2012. Shaveta leads CSF’s work on FLN (Foundational Literacy & Numeracy), Early Childhood Education (ECE) and EdTech, and oversees the organization’s institution building. She is passionate to bring to life CSF’s vision of quality learning for all children and government-led system reform for scale and sustainability. She is on the advisory board of Language and Learning Foundation Foundation (LLF), Madhi Foundation, Saarthi Education and ILSS. Prior to CSF, she worked at The Boston Consulting Group and Citibank. She is a proud parent to two young adults (a boy & girl) & furry-boy. In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching Hindi movies & listening to music, solving Sudoku & Kakuro puzzles and traveling with her family

Shifali Thakkur serves as the Chief of Staff at Samagra, where she leads the organization’s central functions including Organization Development, Outreach, and Recruitment. She has been with Samagra since 2019, beginning her journey as a Consultant with the Saksham Haryana team, working to improve learning outcomes for over 1.4 million students in government schools across the state.

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Prior to Samagra, she has worked with Teach for India for 5+ years and after a brief stint at Sattva Consulting in 2021, Shifali returned to Samagra in 2022 to lead key organizational building initiatives. She holds a Master’s degree in Education from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Amity University, Noida.

Shobhini Mukerji is the Executive Director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia, which she has led since 2011, overseeing partnerships across 20 Indian states, central government agencies, and regional training initiatives. She works with governments, civil society, and development partners to strengthen data-driven policymaking and scale evidence-based social programs across India and South Asia, advising donors and multilaterals on high-impact policy investments.

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Prior to joining J-PAL, Ms. Mukerji worked with Pratham, one of India’s largest non-governmental organizations focused on improving primary education outcomes. Her research interests span education, gender, and employment, and she has co-authored several large-scale randomized evaluations on foundational literacy with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. This body of work has contributed to programs currently scaling to reach more than 60 million children across India and Africa.

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Ms. Mukerji serves on the advisory boards of Community Jameel and Indus Action, is a Board Member at Helvetas, and is a Steering Committee Member of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and initially joined J-PAL in 2007 as a Research Associate.

Shriya leads Employability and Skills at The Convergence Foundation. Before this role, Shriya led the Social Sector practice at McKinsey & Co,  India where she worked with non profits, foundation and the government on strategy engagements. Prior to joining McKinsey, she was the Country Director of the International Innovation Corps, a University of Chicago social impact program that works on large scale development programs with central and state ministries in India. At IIC, Shriya has led multiple large scale projects in Health, Gender, Education, Waste, and Technology & Data, for Central and State ministries, such as the Ministry of Health, National Health Authority, Ministry of Electronics and IT, NITI Aayog, and multiple state governments. Shriya has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has also run her own Export firm in India.

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