Eric has over 20 years of experience in investment banking. He moved to India in 2007 to help set up Unitus Capital (UC) and has led the company in raising well over US$1 billion for various social businesses. He has worked with many innovative companies that do life-changing work in the fields of financial inclusion, affordable health care, renewable energy, affordable education, women empowerment and agriculture. Previously, Eric directed Citigroup's Asia Power & Infrastructure Investment Banking Group and helped secure and execute multiple landmark equity, debt and M&A transactions totaling many billions of dollars. He was based in NYC and Hong Kong for 14 years with Citigroup/Salomon Brothers. Eric also headed Salomon's utilities sector equity research and was selected to Institutional Investors All-Asia research team.

Eric is a graduate (cum laude) of Duke University and of Harvard's Kennedy School, where he received the Lucius N. Littauer Fellow Award, the program's top honor. He serves on a number of leading companies, funds and educational institutions boards.

Krishnakumar Natarajan, a leading authority in the global IT sector, co-founded Mindtree in 1999 and played key roles in building the company's innovative approach to delivering IT services and solutions to global 2000 enterprises. Today, his mission as Executive Chairman is to focus on leadership development and ensure a high quality of governance.

Natarajan's efforts as a business leader have been recognized worldwide, winning him several laurels. He was ranked amongst the most valuable CEOs in India by Businessworld & Forbes in 2016. He has also served as Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), where he worked to strengthen the Indian IT industry to be a globally competitive ecosystem comprised of both established and emerging companies.

Natarajan has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Chennai, India, and a master�s degree in Business Administration from the Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India.

Malavika is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Saatchi & Saatchi Focus in India.

She has 35 years of experience in communication and entrepreneurship. Brand consultancy, planning and training are her focus areas. Passionate about the power of communication and technology she has worked on brands, like Bosch, Coats, Reliance Polymers, Infosys, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca amongst others.

Malavika teaches Advertising and Brand Management at various postgraduate institutes of management and communication in India. She was one of the first Gurukul Chevening Scholars, selected by the British Government for a special program under Lord Meghnad Desai at the London School of Economics on Globalization.

Malavika graduated from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore with degree in science. She has also done her master�s degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Malavika is the first and only woman to win the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIM Bangalore.

Matthew comes with an extensive experience in senior positions in the corporate sector and an intuitive understanding of the needs of children and youth in India. He was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Cox and Kings and Founder of Cleartrip.com.

Matthew established Magic Bus in the year 1999 and has grown the organization from an informal, volunteer-led activity for disadvantaged children, into a leading organization working in the area of mentoring some of India's poorest and young people from education to livelihood.

He has been elected an Ashoka Fellow, a TED Fellow and more recently an ACSEP Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (ACSEP) Fellow. In 2007, he was awarded an MBE for services to children in the Commonwealth.

Dr. Gita Sen has over 35 years of experience working nationally and internationally on gender equality and women�s human rights. She is the director of the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and Social Determinants of Health at the Public Health Foundation of India and is an adjunct professor of global health and population at Harvard University. She is the co-founder and now general coordinator of the south-based network, DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era). She is on the Board of the National Health Systems Resource Centre, and of the Society for International Development.

Sen's national and international work has helped to advance gender equality women�s health and human rights through a variety of positions with several partners � governments, multilateral and bilateral organisations, private foundations, and civil society.

Her combination of advocacy, practical experience, activism and analysis has resulted in a number of awards and honours, including the Volvo Environment Prize for her work on women, population and development, and honorary doctorates from the University of East Anglia, the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm), the Open University (UK), the University of Sussex, and the University of Edinburgh.

Ravichandar is the Chairman & Managing Director of Feedback Consulting. His work focus is on guiding firms for sustained growth through identification of new business opportunities and increasing value to clients. Ravichandar has personally mentored many startup firms across technology and traditional sectors.

He was an active member of the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (2000-04) and as Civic evangelist helped set up a City Connect platform in 5 cities. Ravichandar is part of multiple social and cultural initiatives ? Bangalore and Chennai International Centre; education for the underprivileged through Vidya Poshak, Samhita Academy, Akshara Foundation; Bangalore Literature Festival, Takshashila Institution, etc. He is the Honorary Consul, Republic of Slovenia in Bangalore.

Ravichandar has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad with over 37 years industry experience.

Debasish leads the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's strategy and operations in India for education, employability skills, family economic stability, and health. In his role, Debasish helps to manage and develop the India-based portfolio to improve learning levels in schools serving underprivileged children; to catalyze sustainable and large-scale models that help youth gain meaningful employment; to support early-stage, market-based enterprises providing financial services to urban poor families; and to strengthen government's school-based health programs that improve outcomes in the lives of urban poor children. Prior to joining the foundation, he spent 13 years with American Express in various leadership positions in their Delhi, Miami and New York offices

Professor Sriram is Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Development of Research in Banking Technology – an institute set up by the Reserve Bank of India. Before this, he worked as an independent consultant. Till March 2010, he was the ICICI Bank Lalita D Gupte Chair Professor of Microfinance, and Chairperson Finance and Accounting area at IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA). Prior to working at IIMA, he was the first Vice-president (Finance and Information) at BASIX, the first commercial microfinance institution in India. He was on the faculty of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) for six years. Professor Sriram did significant work on co-operatives when he was at IRMA – a large part of the work pertaining to agriculture credit co-operatives. He was a member of the Vaidyanathan Committee on Co-operative Reforms set up by the Government of India.

Teaches entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, strategic management, strategic human resource management, growth and technology strategy, corporate social responsibility and service operations management. Associate Editor of 'Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies' (Sage). Offers training programs and mentors practicing professionals, start-up organizations, teachers and young entrepreneurs on Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Growth and Strategy, Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Human Resource Management, also provides consulting support

More than 35 years of experience, previous engagement with Coal India Limited in maintenance and projects, with Indian Statistical Institute as consultant, with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Madhya Pradesh as advisor on Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) .Conferred with Galpin International Research Fellowship by Quinnipiac University (USA) in 2009. Associated as expert with UNESCO - Asia-Pacific, UNCTAD - Geneva, British Council – India. Member and expert advisor to Academic Councils, Boards of Studies and Committees of several academic institutions in India. Member of Boards of companies and non-governmental organizations.

Pradeep Nair is the regional director with Ford Foundation, based out of India, and responsible for their work in the region. With more than 65 years of history in the region, as one the oldest US foundations in the country and with hundreds of grants over the decades, Ford Foundation continues to play an important role in social sector growth in the region.

Pradeep has more than 20 years of private and non-profit experience, working primarily in the US and India, with a brief stint in Europe. He has an engineering and management degree, and started his career in the strategy and technology space, working in Silicon Valley, initially with Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant, and later with technology and data start-ups.

His previous experience includes working with President Clinton’s Climate Initiative, with a focus on India and the region. In this role, he worked on mobilization of technology and capital in the climate space, helping design polices and launch large projects, including the 250million-dollar clean energy project with ADB, which at that time, was the largest of its kind in Asia. Working with Michael Bloomberg (NYC Mayor) and his team, he was also instrumental in expanding the C40 network (a network of global mayors) in India and the region.

His most recent work was out of New York, where he worked with Paul Volcker (ex-federal reserve chairman), helping set up and manage his new initiative. His work with Volcker was primarily focused on addressing solutions for the high-risk areas in the US government.

Surya is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years of experience and has provided strategic leadership to business teams in the areas of financial planning, accounting, taxation, cost optimization, legal and statutory compliance and treasury.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Surya is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, MIS, pricing, direct and indirect tax for global operations, and investor relations.

Surya plays a valuable leadership role in Mphasis' transformation and brings exceptional insight into systems and process improvements in order to achieve growth and profitability.

Prior to joining Mphasis through acquisition of AIG captive in 2009, Surya was Vice President and CFO at AIG Systems Captive of AIG Inc., where he was instrumental in setting up the offshore development center, including obtaining necessary statutory approvals, chartering and implementing policies & processes.

Prior to AIG, he was the Vice President and CFO of Deutsche Software Captive of Deutsche Bank and General Manager and CFO at Ramco Systems in India.

In 2014, Surya was the proud recipient of the CFO India Award. Surya was recently recognized as one of India’s 50 Best CFO's 2017-18 by White Page International.

Surya is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Xavier's College and graduated with Honors from Bombay University in Economics. He has attended executive management programs in IFMR & ISB, Hyderabad.