People

Antonella spent the first part of her career in commercial communication, working at Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi as CEO, all around the world. In the last 15 years, she has devoted her life to the communication of social innovation and citizen innovators, in TV programs, TEDxTalks, and events promoting citizen Labs, as a curator, speaker and trainer. She is the Ambassador of Ashoka Spain since 2011.

Gautam believes that it is powerful to give people the ability to make a choice and that all individuals are agents of change. 

Managing Director at One Family Foundation and at Child and Youth Finance International

For the past 20 years, Maria Clara has worked extensively to identify, support and engage leading social entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. She co-created The Wellbeing Project in 2012 and launched Ashoka’s global efforts in building a culture of wellbeing for changemakers. After leading Ashoka’s Global Fellowship Program for 3 years, Maria Clara is now building a new strategy and leadership team in South Asia. Maria Clara currently lives in Bangalore with her partner and daughter. She is passionate about yoga and Ayurveda and is very committed to her practice and learnings.

Dr. Pramod Varma is the CTO for EkStep. He continues to be the Chief Architect and Technology Advisor for Aadhaar (UID) project. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching. 

Committed to ending poverty in our lifetime by enabling exceptional leaders & social organisations to achieve orbit shifting change and designing & implementing solutions that will solve social problems for good. My ideal career would be at the intersection of deep social impact, entrepreneurship and Consulting. Which is what I do today.

Founder and Director of Fraktal; an impact agency specialising in Fund Strategy, Due Diligence and Partner (Fundee) Support. Aside from impact leadership, culture, and organisational design, other personal specializations include solution design, social innovation, systems change and financing, implementing and scaling long-term transformative solutions to deep-rooted social challenges.

Sanjay is the Chief Curator of Societal Platform at EkStep Foundation.  He is a strategic advisor and a mentor to several entrepreneurs & social enterprises.

Sanjeev Arora is the Director and Founder of Project ECHO. He is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) dramatically improves both capacity and access to speciality care for rural and underserved populations. 

Shankar Maruwada is the CEO and Co-founder of EkStep.  He is an entrepreneur and marketing professional with a wide range of experience working on large scale projects. He is also an investor in startups and a mentor to entrepreneurs.