Meet the team

We are a small, passionate team. Every person on a project is someone with real skin in the game.

Jacob John

Jacob John

Partner

Jacob brings grounded wisdom and a remarkably wide network to every room he enters. Calm, measured, and full of ideas that open entirely new angles.

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Rashmi Nair

Rashmi Nair

Partner

Rashmi brings methodical clarity and ambitious thinking to every project. She frames fast, dives deep, and never lets a client settle for less.

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Niti Kumar

Niti Kumar

Partner

Niti brings structure, precision, and a creative lens to every engagement. The person you trust completely when it absolutely has to land well.

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Arvind B

Arvind B

Partner

Arvind connects ideas, sectors, and people with rare ease. A systems thinker who brings deep expertise and a restless curiosity to every challenge.

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Kaushiki Das

Kaushiki Das

Assistant Manager

Critical thinker with an editor's eye. Kaushiki holds the analytical and the narrative together without letting either slip.

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Vaishali M

Vaishali M

Associate

Grounded in the field, sharp in the room. She brings research rigour and attentiveness to every stakeholder she works with.

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Swaminaatha Krishnan

Swaminaatha Krishnan

Analyst

Curious about systems, fluent in data. Swaminaatha finds the patterns others miss and builds the tools that make teams work smarter.

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Ayan Biswas

Ayan Biswas

Senior Partnership Advisor

Development generalist. 23 years of experience across 2 continents. Design, data, digital transformation. M.Sc., IHE Delft. MBA, IISW&BM.

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Yogesh Ranganath

Yogesh Ranganath

Consultant

Twenty years across sectors, zero loss of curiosity. He brings rare cross-domain fluency to healthcare, climate, and governance.

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Devyani Kacker

Devyani Kacker

Consultant

Thirteen years at the intersection of law and justice. She brings precision, principle, and genuine depth to systems change work.

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Alumni

Srotoswini Majumdar

Srotoswini Majumdar

Manager

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Kruthika Ravi Kumar

Kruthika Ravi Kumar

Manager

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Hemalatha Devarajulu

Hemalatha Devarajulu

Head - Admin

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Akshit Dedha

Akshit Dedha

Associate

Climate, policy, and strategy in one head. He connects data to decisions across some of development's most complex terrain.

Our partners

GIZ India
Social Venture Partners (SVP)
Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME)
Malabar Charitable Trust
Ashraya Hastha Trust
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Growald Climate Fund
Vidyodaya
Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems (CIKS)
Centre for Social Markets (CSM)
Partners for Law in Development (PLD)
WeLive Foundation
Atmashakti Trust
VAAGDHARA
Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)
Biswa Gouri Charitable Trust (BGCT)
Living Landscape
Zero Gravity
Railway Children India (RCI)
LAHI
The MacArthur Foundation (MAF)
Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru
NCIS
Asar
Socratus
Gram Vikas
TREADS
LibTech
EHF
LVBL

We kept seeing the same gap

Across years of working inside and alongside social sector organisations, we watched the same pattern repeat: brilliant leaders with the right values, the right drive, and the wrong support around them.

Ideas stalled at the planning stage. Coalitions fell apart before they gained momentum. Programs launched without the systems to sustain them. Not because the leaders lacked ambition, but because ambition alone doesn't build what needs to be built. So we decided to become the partners we kept wishing existed.

We work differently. On purpose!

We don't arrive with a framework already written. Every engagement starts from scratch: listening first, diagnosing honestly, then co-designing a path that fits your context, not ours.

Our senior partners stay embedded throughout. We commit only to what is genuinely achievable, we adapt as the real problem reveals itself, and we hold ourselves accountable to outcomes, not just deliverables.