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Board Of Directors
Mr.Amitabha
Sadangi
Chairperson
Amitabha is in the chair of GEWP Board of Director’s, he is
the founder of GEWP.
With a post graduate degree in Labour & Social Welfare and an
additional degree in Law, Amitabha began his career in 1987 as a
Program Coordinator, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) and
then moved on to OXFAM India Trust as a Senior Project Officer. It
was in 1991 that Amitabha was introduced to IDE in India, wherein he
took on a leadership role and in October 2001, Amitabha created an
independent entity – International Development Enterprises India, or
IDEI
While interacting with the poor, Amitabha understands the need of
the smallholder farmers and it is from here that IDEI derives its
future strategies. The need to innovate and provide even more
efficient, yet affordable tools and market access to the poor
farmers, which can lift them out of poverty, drives Amitabha and
therefore IDEI. Amitabha envisions a time when each farm house hold
shall become a self sustaining mini enterprise.
Taking his vision further, of creating sustainable enterprises,
Amitabha moved on to formulate two for-profit enterprises from
within IDEI. Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) caters to supply and
distribution of drip irrigation technologies; whereas Blue Wealth
International (to be registered) shall cater to the output markets.
While leading IDEI & GEWP towards achieving this vision, Amitabha
has received several accolades including The Outstanding Social
Entrepreneur Award from the Schwab Foundation, Ashden Award for
Sustainable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Skoll
Foundation, The Templeton Freedom Prize, The Tech Museum Award,
Ashoka Change maker Award, was amongst the top three in the Most
Innovative Development Project Award from Global Development Network
and others.
Suresh
Subramanian
Director
Suresh Subramanian is one of the promoters of GEWP & serving the
board of GEWP as a Director.
Suresh Subramanian holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management
from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat.
Suresh is currently the Chief Operating Officer of IDEI and is
responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the
organisation, including programme planning, implementation,
monitoring, finance and administration. He has been with IDE India
from August 1995 and has held several positions.
He was previously worked as Associate Director (Project Support &
Monitoring), Kovel Foundation, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh &,
Programme Organizer (Village Institutions, Commercial and
Monitoring), Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) Aga Khan Rural
Support Programme (India).
Varun
Sahni
Director
Varun Sahni has focused on building, managing and investing in
businesses for low income communities for the past twelve years. As
India Director of Acumen Fund, Varun is responsible for all India
related investments, operations and business development activities.
Additionally, as part of the portfolio management team, Varun is
jointly responsible for the global portfolio of Acumen Fund. Prior
to joining Acumen Fund, he worked with both for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations focusing on enterprise creation across
India. He has also been involved as an angel investor in a number of
companies in the Hospitality Services, Education, and Food and
Beverage sectors across India. He received an MA from Columbia
University in Political Economy
Vikas
Saini
Director
Vikas Saini holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi and is currently working as Vice President Finance & Administration with International Development Enterprises (India). Vikas is having more than 15 years of experience in accounting, finance, taxation, asset management and administration.
Pratyush
Pandey
Managing Director
Pratyush has over fifteen year’s exposure in the area of General
Management, Project Implementation, Rural Marketing , Brand
Development, Supply Chain Management, Rural Livelihoods , Micro
Enterprise Development and Donors & Investors Management.
With a post graduate degree in Business Administration Pratyush has
worked with several for profits, nonprofit & government supported
development projects.
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