Staff
Samit Aich
Chief Executive Officer
Samit Aich
Samit P Aich is the CEO of the Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (www.s3idf.in), since early 2016. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in international development, management advisory consulting and also in the corporate sector. His earlier corporate work was associated with Indian multinational conglomerates like the Tata Group, Arvind Mills and Sify Technologies.
Prior to joining S3IDF, Samit spent more than 10 years with Greenpeace India, including about 8 years as its Executive Director and was instrumental in making the organization not just financially self-reliant but also a prominent environmental campaigning player in the country. He was a key member of Greenpeace International’s Global Leadership Team (GLT) in Amsterdam, the highest-level strategic body within Greenpeace worldwide. He also sat on the International Steering Committee of the Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency, hosted by the International Budget Partnership, Washington, DC.
Samit sits on advisory boards of select non-profits and is also a member on the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) subcommittee on CSR and Affirmative Action. Earlier, he had been a regular invitee for four consecutive years to the Indian Union Finance Ministers’ Pre-Budget Consultations at New Delhi as a social sector expert to input into country-level budgets. He has also been invited and deposed in front of Indian Parliamentary Standing Committees of the 15th Lok Sabha, on Energy and Agriculture matters. He is and has been a prominent speaker, panellist, observer and moderator on various high level national and international fora including at the United Nations COP 11-Convention on Biological Diversity (UNFCCC-CBD-COP), Social Capital Markets (SOCAP), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and many others. He has been widely interviewed on national and international media, including BBC London, NDTV, India Today TV, German TV network DW, Financial Times New York and several other prominent media houses.
His personal pursuits include practicing the ancient meditation technique-Vipassana, exploring a myriad of interests including Buddhist philosophy, world history, environmentalism, development economics, campaigning and cookery. He is a professionally certified baker, and an amateur collector of vintage mechanical watches, clocks and fountain pens. Samit is a sporadic blogger on contemporary socio-economic issues ranging from entrepreneurship, developmental issues, livelihoods and non-profit governance. He is associated with several prominent business schools as guest faculty and conducts professional coaching and strategic advisory interventions at the senior management level.
Samit has several post-graduate qualifications – he has an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and also an MBA in Marketing. In addition, he has studied Strategic Management at the Harvard Business School in Massachusetts, US.
Gopal B.
Assistant Manager – Finance & Compliance
Gopal B.
Gopal has worked in financial and accounting capacities for close to 20 years within the international development and nonprofit sectors. His professional capabilities include monitoring company funds, managing organization accounts and creating and disseminating financial reports. Gopal has extensive non-governmental sector experience with organizations such as the Rastriya Madhyamika Shiksha Abhiyana (RMSA), the Karnataka State Project Office, and the Public Affairs Center. Prior to joining S3IDF, Gopal was the Regional Finance Officer for RMSA, funded by the DFID, with a wide range of fiscal responsibilities integral to organizational accounting and administration. Gopal holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Gulbarga University and speaks English, Hindi and Kannada.
Parameshwara B N
Project Associate
Parameshwara B N
Mr. Parameshwara is our Project associate working with manual scavengers and sanitation workers. He holds a Masters of Social Work from Bengaluru Central University. He has interned with the Centre for research in disadvantaged communities at the National Law School.
Chandrashekhara H.R
Program Manager
Chandrashekhara H.R
Dr. Chandrashekhara H R completed his education up to Pre University at the village level, then studied at Govt Arts College, Tumkur (BU). He completed his post-graduate at Bangalore University and Doctoral degree in Kannada University, Hampi. Prior to joining S3IDF, he worked with the Samuha Organization on their Disability programme in Koppal district, Karnataka.
Shwetha Joshi
Assistant Manager - Project Development
Shwetha Joshi
Shwetha is a development professional having six years of experience in handling grassroots development activities in different thematic areas, as well as a strong background in development studies. She has expertise in the field of livelihood promotion, water conservation, behavior change communication, women literacy, community institution, research, and analysis. Before joining S3IDF, she worked in Piramal Sarvajal for three years as a Manager, worked on community level Awareness and Marketing in Water management and conservation and also worked in Grameen Development Services as a team leader, worked upon agriculture development and women literacy. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Management from Tata-Dhan Academy, Madurai, Tamilnadu and Bachelor’s in Commerce from Bangalore University, Karnataka. In Addition, attended a short term training program on “Making Markets work for the poor” in IRMA.
Avinash Krishnamurthy
Chief Program Officer
Avinash Krishnamurthy
Avinash has extensive experience in the water, energy, solid waste management, and small infrastructure sectors and in project conceptualization, design and implementation. In addition to his role at S3IDF, he serves as Director and Project Leader of Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a consultancy he cofounded to provide sustainable land use practice and development solutions in urban and rural contexts. Avinash has worked in the information technology sector with Infosys Technologies Limited where he managed international client relationships and led teams. Avinash speaks English, French, Hindi, and Kannada, and holds a B.Engineering from the University of Mysore with a specialization in hydro-energy.
Kartik N.
Project Associate
Kartik N.
Kartik is a Project Assoicate with S3IDF. He recently completed a Bachelor’s of Science from the College of AgricultureGKVK, Bengaluru.
Channajamma S.
Project Associate
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Veena Joshi
Director
Veena Joshi
Somak Ghosh
Board Chair
Somak Ghosh
Dr. B Gangaiah
Board Member
Dr. B Gangaiah
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