Bratati Ghosh
CEO & Founder Learn More
Bratati believes that everyone who went to the IITs or IIMs or any other government subsidized universities in India owe a debt of gratitude for an amazing education which was nearly free. Through Turn the Bus, she hopes to bring high quality education to disadvantaged communities. |
Vikram Chalana
Head - AI/ML Innovation Learn More
Vikram is an engineer and a software entrepreneur. He would love to see modern technology being used for huge societal impact. Smartphones and web technologies should be used for more than videos and social media — they can and should be used to transform lives. |
Jyoti Vasudev
Board Member Learn More
Jyoti functions at the intersection of finance and technology and wants to help bring like-minded people together to tackle the issue of undereducation in India. Educating the vulnerable segment of population is the most promising way to secure a brighter future and through education, helping a child achieve their full potential, is the highest form of giving. She is grateful for Turn the Bus and the work that they do and hopes to help add momentum to the effort. |
Nikhil Ojha
Board Member Learn More
Nikhil is a Bain & Co Partner in the firm’s India office. He is a leader for Bain’s Business Strategy capability and is a member of Consumer Products practice in India. He is passionate about Bihar and as a consultant understands the big picture of mobile enabled digital revolution currently underway in India. |
Rahul
CTO Learn More
Rahul is a software technologist with extensive experience in architecting and building high scale cloud services and software applications. After a long and satisfying career that span 27 years working at Microsoft Corporation in various Engineering leadership roles, he is currently on an extended sabaticcal where he is pursuing his interests and passions outside work, along with doing a little bit to give back to the community. He is a strong believer in the power of a good education in transforming lives and improving livelihoods and is currently helping Turn the Bus with its long term technical strategy. |
Dr. Tilak Agerwala
Head - Innovation and STEM Learn More
I’m a technologist-at-large, professor, and retired IBM Research VP interested in applying emerging technologies (including AI) to social good and education and raising awareness of the ethical issues that arise. I’m focused on our STEM pedagogy and Innovation at Turn the Bus and have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of underprivileged and marginalized young adults in a collegial environment that encourages “working happily.” |
Java Singh
Chief Learning Officer Learn More
Java Singh is currently a visiting lecturer in the Spanish Department at Doon University, Dehradun. She came to the academic life as a second career, after having founded and run an entrepreneurial venture in floriculture. Her company, Lake Flowers, was the first export-oriented floriculture project to be set up in Uttarakhand, where she grew and exported tulips, liliums, and other flowers for sale in Europe, Middle East, Japan, and elsewhere. Java earned her PhD in Hispanic Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. |
Kishor Kumar Ram
Head of Operations Learn More
KKR is an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus with over 25 years of experience in working in rural India for strategic government-affiliated technology and infrastructure projects. He believes that a motivated student can go the distance with the help of high quality educational content. His mission is to extend the reach of Turn the Bus to the most disadvantaged populations in India. |
Murali Balasubramanian
Head of Sustainable Livelihoods Learn More
Murali is a high energy leader with extensive transformational experience in global operations, technology, and supply-chain in support of oil and gas, solar, and consumer businesses. Serving underprivileged children and youth is a passion for Murali. |
Gagandeep Singh
HR and Systems Learn More
Gagan is consumed by the potential of aligning research and teaching interests, with action practices on the front of individual and organisation change. If he is not tripping on the wild swings between energetic idealism and stoic pragmatism, he displays a sense of wry humour and a willingness to listen and dialogue. He celebrates reflexivity, courage, and playful curiosity, while joining others to work wicked problems around human endeavors. |
Kalpana Sitaraman
Data and Insights Learn More
Kalpana is a research and insights professional with extensive experience across categories and markets in India and SE Asia. Helping companies and institutions shape their business strategies by connecting with their consumers has been the mainstay of her career. Kalpana believes in leveraging the power of data and insights to illuminate moments that matter and thus help design solutions for powerful impact. Kalpana is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. |
Prakarti Walia
Financial Analyst Learn More
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Sriram Padmanabhan
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Sriram drives the blog strategy for Turn the Bus. He is an entrepreneur with an interest in business strategy, talent management, and software design. |
Shipra Chandra
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Shipra believes that we smile through our eyes and that it is truly, absurdly, irreverently possible to gift it to a million others. Herself a graduate from IIM Kozhikode, she has always been drawn towards social impact projects. She feels that together we can break things and change systems. That, somewhere, somehow there's still hope. |
Darrel Chua
Development Learn More
Darrel is a Singaporean studying Business Economics at UCLA. He started volunteering when he was 16 and has since supported multiple nonprofits and social enterprises in fields such as education, food sustainability and eldercare. Darrel believes in lifting the underprivileged because no one should be made to go through what they experience, and the least anyone can do is to provide help where possible. |
Diksha Pandey
Program Manager Learn More
Diksha is currently working in the development sector at the intersection of research and social impact measurement, with experience in program management and M&E, in collaboration with both government departments and social sector organizations, aiming to improve state capacity and public service delivery. |
Sreeparna Das
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Sreeparna comes with exposure to multiple industries and functions through her experience as a strategy consultant. She believes that quality education is the fundamental necessity that can make or break a society. She intends to help in delivering the vision of Turn the Bus alongside a very talented team. She likes spending time with children and has been involved in multiple pro-bono activities and volunteer work in her free time. |
Prasad Thakur
Tech Volunteer Learn More
Prasad is a front-end developer and perpetual student of technology and universal design who is obsessed with creating delightful experiences that are accessible and valuable to his audience. Equal access to education is a cause very close to his heart. He believes technologists are wielders of great power that they should use to uplift society. |
Sonam Rathore
Digital Marketer Learn More
Former Engineering Assistant Professor turned Digital Marketer. Sonam likes to explore the potential of Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Google Analytics. She wishes to learn how to create effective campaigns to achieve high ROI. She always wanted to be a part of helping kids from rural areas, and she believes that volunteering is the best way in which one can give back to society. |
Dimple Modgil
Head of Product Management Learn More
Dimple Modgil is a senior scientist with an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago. She works at a medical imaging startup out of Chicago. She is helping build a device that will help breast cancer patients undergoing surgery to remove tumors. She has worked both in the industry and academia at the intersection of physics, computer science and medicine. She has volunteered at ASHA for Education, India Development Society and Women at Risk International in the Chicago area. She is passionate about providing opportunities to underprivileged kids and women through education. |
Deepanshu Gupta
Tech Volunteer Learn More
Deepanshu grew up in Faridabad, Haryana and completed his undergraduate computer science degree from the University of Washington. He was privileged enough to go to a private school and consequently a university in the United States and get a quality education. Deepanshu is involved with Turn the Bus so that children who may not be as privileged and fortunate can still have an education that they deserve. |
Kelsang Namgyal
Program Manager Learn More
Kelsang has a Master's in International Development and Planning from University College, London and has worked in various NGOs and government organizations across India, Africa, and the UK. She believes in the power of local participation driving transformative change in society. |
Chirag SV
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Chiragsovi is a professional who has worked in the B2B consulting and marketing space. He strongly believes in giving back to society. He has given up his high paying corporate job and aspires to be an IAS officer to work for the development of the country. Currently, he is preparing for UPSC examination and along side works for Turn the Bus as he is passionate about revolutionizing education in India. |
Venu Nair
Head of Strategy and Partnerships Learn More
Venu has built and grown technology-driven businesses for over 25 years, having worked both with large established multinationals and with startups. He is passionate about the use of technology in solving intractable problems that have plagued humanity, and in the power of education in social transformation. |
Arun Sasi
Webmaster Learn More
Arun is our smiling webmaster who is an independent expert contributor to India’s Joomla community. He is actively engaged in helping several non-profit and community- driven organizations with his technical skills. |
Anjor Kothare
Technical Architect Learn More
Having worked in the non-profit education sector before, Anjor realizes that the issue is not the lack of talent but of opportunities. Turn The Bus is making an attempt to bridge that gap by a bit and she feels humbled to play a small part in this journey. Anjor looks forward to contributing positively to this effort and developing a way to spread financial literacy among children in India. This has always been a dream, and she intends to utilize the education and experience she will gain in the future to help progress this cause by a bit. |
Nishkarsh Srivastava
Technical Content Manager Learn More
Nishkarsh has a Master's of Technology from IIT Gandhinagar. He is diligent about managing all the video and other content on the Turn the Bus Open edX platform and YouTube channel. |
Anjani Chandan
Tech Volunteer Learn More
Chandan is originally from Bihar and loves hackathons. Thus, it makes perfect sense for him to frequenlty lead our team at Microsoft Hack for Good events. He has also visited the Turn the Bus students and Jeevika in the field during his holidays. |
Sayan Bhatia
Tech Volunteer Learn more
Sayan Bhatia is a sophomore at Redmond High School and is an advocate for utilizing technology to transform education for those who are unprivileged. His ambition for solving real-world problems with technology began with his interest in building iOS apps in early middle school. Over the years, he has gained experience in many areas of software development and is looking forward to expanding his skills as a developer on the Turn the Bus team. Since joining in the summer of 2019, he has continued his work on a chatbot app for underprivileged students. He is thrilled to be working along with this organization’s members to successfully provide students in the underdeveloped parts of India with more educational opportunities. |
Sohil Bhatia
Tech Volunteer Learn More
Sohil Bhatia is currently a freshman who attends Redmond High School. He not only has a passion for developing and learning technology but is constantly active in utilizing technology to help solve real-world problems. He joined the Turn The Bus team in the fall of 2019, and is currently working on the development of a mobile app chatbot for students in underdeveloped parts of India, to help them learn more effectively. He is excited to be a part of the positive change that Turn The Bus is bringing to the learning experience for thousands of students through innovative technologies. |
Navjeet Bawa
Strategic Volunteeer Learn More
Navjeet is an executive coach who guides the Turn the Bus Leadership team on high-stakes negotiations and impactful leadership of the volunteer network. Navjeet believes in the intimate connection between accelerated professional growth and personal fulfillment in leaders. |
Pranav Trivedi
Project Manager Learn More
Pranav is an educator at heart and delights in interacting with the Turn the Bus students. He believes in immersive learning and transforming society through education. He is an engineer with a Master's degree from IIT Gandhinagar. |
Sharique Ahmad Khan Niazi
Youtube Manager Learn More
Sharique is a Marketing professional and comes with 18 years of experience in distribution and marketing of pay channels with leading Indian media broadcasters. Currently he is an independent sales consultant for digital cable and broadband in Central India. He loves reading and travelling. He is concerned about sustainability causes including education and climate change |
Sheel Majumdar
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Sheel believes strongly about the importance of Purpose, Culture, and a Systemic approach towards enlivening a functional and impactful enterprise Strategy. He has been enabling in these spaces in building future focused global organization for the past decade and is part of the “Turn the Bus” journey to partner with the leadership in shaping a purpose led volunteering culture & system. He is deeply passionate about building a world of equality and equal opportunity and finds his energy & purpose by empowering enterprises towards a similar vision.” |
Vintee Singh
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Vintee is a senior product manager with an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur and a MBA from Rice University. She works at a leading tech company with cloud services. She is helping out with the ecommerce platform to generate funds. Vintee is passionate about empowering women at the grassroots level to build self-reliance. |
Anupama Jangid
Strategic Volunteer Learn More
Anupama is a seasoned marketing professional with 10 years of experience across big brands and startups. Being a small-town girl from Jharkhand who fought all the odds on her way to make it to IIM A made her a strong believer in giving back to society and thus her association with Turn the Bus! Marketing is her passion and she ardently reads up anything and everything related to marketing. |
Leena Uppal
Strategic Volunteer |