Abhishek Gupta
Educationist
IITD ‘13 CS Graduate. Co-founded Zumbl.com and FranklyMe. Zumbl was acquired and FranklyMe raised more than 2.6M$ from Matrix Partners and others. Was working with Education Department, Delhi Government before NavGurukul. NavGurukul helps underprivileged students learn to code in Node.JS, Python and JavaScript and secure a job in the IT industry. It works on the concept of micromanagement and carefully establishes a student’s career through her holistic development.
Harianth Kasiganesan
Agriculturalist
Despite being born in a small village with limited resources, Dr. Hari Nath
was appointed as a senior research fellow at DRDO. He shifted to the United
States and worked there as an eminent drug researcher for a decade.
However, once he realized that his research was unable to address the root
cause of diseases, he began looking for a more holistic approach to address
the fundamental causes.
After experiencing the health benefits of Moringa Oleifera, he indulged
himself into traditional agriculture and herbal medicines leaving his job in
the US. Dr Hari Nath established an institute near Chennai to spread
awareness about traditional agriculture. With his sheer determination to start
an organic revolution, he aspires to unite and build trust in this type of
farming for the betterment of the world.
Himanshu Gander
Minimalistic Design Thinker
Himanshu Gander, Director of Corporate Center at The Minimalist is a master when it comes to digital and design consultancy. Worked with Mr. AR Rahman on his “One Heart Tour” and several brands like MTV, Coca-Cola, Airtel, HCL, Foodpanda and much more.
On social media, under his leadership, The Minimalist has garnered over 185,000 followers and is nationally renowned for its simplistic and witty ideas.
Paresh Gupta
Entrepreneur
Paresh Gupta is a first attempt Chartered Accountant and a merit holder MBA from London School of Business and Finance. He is also a trained financial modeler from Operis UK, rated amongst the top 20 Credit Research Analysts team in Europe and has various international research publications to his credit. He has over 13 years of experience in strategic advisory, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure consulting, financial restructuring and business research across Asia, Middle East, Europe and USA.
Mr. Gupta decided to create GCEC, a center which promotes entrepreneurship or as he likes to put it, It promotes your heart and helps you find your thumb impression.
GCEC has now partnered with ACCA, one of the largest accounting bodies of the world. GCEC is one of the best performing learning providers of ACCA with best results in Rajasthan. Students have been placed at Facebook, Nasscom, uber and other top companies.
Samar Mehdi
Percussion Guitarist
Born in Bhopal to a middle-class household, Samar broke his family’s
institutional pattern early and had his heart set on music quite stubbornly. For a long time, he sneaked his way to learning instruments in school and at home when his parents were away, starting with the snare drum in his school’s marching band (aged 10) and moving on to the flute and saxophone, among other instruments in the same arrangement within the next three years.
Eventually, he found his way to the guitar, and that brought forth a new
purpose to his songwriting. Samar quickly emerged as one of the best
guitarists from his region, as emphasized by his 440Hz solo stunt that got him through to top 10 of the competition that had over a hundred entries from all over the country. More recently, this self-taught musician along with Saby Singh was on the road with Hai Khabar, an Indie Music Cross-Country Tour across 22 cities, that hosted 25 shows in a span of 45 days.
Shanu Sharma
Innovator
For the specially-abled people, climbing stairs in the absence of a ramp is often a problem. However, with the design genius of Shanu Sharma, this seems like a worry for the past now.
A student of design and an aspiring architect, Shanu Sharma is not just a social worker, she's a dreamer. She’s also the innovator behind the technological marvel Vardaan, a stair-climbing wheelchair. Vardaan has since its inception eased the lives of thousands of specially-abled people while also winning Shanu several accolades. For her ground-breaking creation, Shanu recently won the GE innovation Award. She was also the proud recipient of the Gandhian Young Technology Award back in 2012. She dreams of breaking all barriers and making all the avenues available to the community in focus.
Slogan Murugan
Street Photographer
Gopal MS, who goes by the names of Mumbai Paused and Slogan
Murugan on the web, is a copywriter, blogger, visual storyteller,
photographer, and a brand developer. Instead of a conventional one, he is referred to as a City Photographer, capturing the less visible aspects of Mumbai.
He has been roaming the streets with his camera for more than a decade and has published five photo books to this date, including ‘Aam Artist Gallery’, ‘The Fate of Workers in the 21st Century’ and ‘Plastic People and Our Universe’ among others. His idea of letting the pictures talk for themselves can be seen throughout his work, portraying and documenting a briskly changing city with its faces of affliction and privilege.