Development leader with 16 years of experience in strategic leadership, social and environmental performance management, sustainability reporting, evaluation of ESG performance and GHG emissions inventorization as per the global standards. Executed high budget CSR programs, sustainability initiatives, financial inclusion, farmer producer organizations and social security solutions benefiting lakhs of unorganized workers.
Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy, excellent time management and problem solving skills. Hands-on experience in implementation, strategic planning and thought leader seeking senior level leadership roles in organizations of high repute for mutual growth.
· Leading the impact program of multiple projects with budget over INR 150 million.
· Developed social and environment baselines and measurement of impact based on the lean data approach
· Developed GHG emissions baseline inventory based on the GHG protocol and the carbon management strategy
· Evaluated ESG issues in group business using B Impact Assessment digital tool that has GRI, SASB and UNGC metrics integrated. Published impact reports for the Innoterra (https://www.innoterra.com/annual-report/)
· Management of internal and external stakeholder relationship for program implementation, creation of visibility through communication materials on group sustainability strategy and progress.
· Research on ESG issues, draft policies on EESG, sustainability and environment management system, inclusive workplace and supplier code and support to developing impact business model projects.
· Leading the business unit teams across India for the implementation of social development initiatives such as farmer entitlement services, digital payment systems and biogas units installation
· Implementation of digital platform for farmer advisory solutions and marketplace benefiting more than 2lakhs small holder farmers, FPOs and business partners.
· Led the Cargill’s CSR project ‘Local Economic Development’ with a total budget of INR 250 million benefiting 25,000 farmer households in Davanagere, Karnataka with team of 25 professionals.
· Implemented safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) program for Schools & Anganwadis benefitting around 25,000 school children. Conducted capacity building program on the collective management of infrastructure created and the WASH program involving all the students and teachers in liaison with the Govt education department.
· Developed Cargill Agri Fellow Program to enable the skills of unemployed youth as rural entrepreneurs in liaison with the UAS-Dharwad
· Developed capacity building program on sustainable agriculture practices that included baseline creation and impact, curriculum development, SOPs and training manuals that led to the development of digital application for farm advisory services and market access to smallholder farmers (DigitalSaathi) as well as promotion of Bhadra farmers producer company with 5000 farmers as the members.
· Led the ‘Bharat India Jodo’ project with a budget of INR 300 million and a team of 30 professionals and 150 local resource persons from 30 village farmers collectives
· Implemented sustainable agriculture interventions such as soil and water conservation to improve quality and productivity in more than 25000 Ha of land including wastelands, farm advisory and trainings on marketing farm produce, all that resulted 50% incremental economic returns to 5,000 farmer households.
· Liaison with Govt. line departments to leverage various benefits like subsidies, crop inputs, trainings and Agri-tech solutions. Implemented education, safe water, health and hygiene, used ICT tools for information dissemination, financial literacy, women empowerment and promotion of socio-cultural heritage for a stronger farmer collectives. This has led to the formation of Bidar Krishika producer company with an average annual turnover of INR 40 million and growing.
· Collaborated with communication and corporate functionaries to develop CSR and sustainability reports based on the project baseline and impact assessments.
· Developed regional operations of Micro Pensions in AP and Rajasthan states.
· Trained more than 2000 sales executives of the business partner BASIX and directly educated more than 1 lakh individuals on the ‘need to save for the retirement.’
· Enrolled and managed the MIS of more than 2 lakh customers with an average annual asset under management worth INR 240 million under retirement benefit scheme of the UTI Mutual Fund
· Supported consulting projects to design and delivery of state level Govt co-contributory pension schemes namely Vishwakarma Pension Yojana (Rajasthan) and Abhaya Hastham Pension Scheme (Andhra Pradesh); National level Atal Pension Yojana (NPS-Lite), Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MOIA) benefiting millions of the unorganized sector workers across India.
· Managed a comprehensive social security program covering life, general insurance and retirement savings benefiting 60,000 artisanal fishermen families in Kerala and Tamilnadu.
· Developed fishing equipment insurance scheme benefiting all the members of the fishermen federations.
· Developed training modules for all the field and operations staff on the program and MIS management for enrollments, claim settlements and scholarship distribution to children of the insured under the aegis of LIC
Sustainability Reporting
undefined• CFA Institute’s certification in ‘ESG investing – a comprehensive overview’
• CFA Institute’s certification in ‘ESG investing – a comprehensive overview’
• +Acumen’s certifications in ‘lean data approaches to measure social impact, social impact analysis & designing for environmental sustainability and social impact’
• Certifications in NISM Mutual Fund Distributor & AMFI Mutual Fund Advisor modules