Meera Shenoy, Founder-CEO, is  an acknowledged pioneer in market- linked skill trainings for rural, tribal and disabled youth and linking them to sustained livelihoods, at scale. She is one of the few in the country who work  on policy, strategy and implementation of large projects, integrating technology and markets ,for supporting livelihoods of the vulnerable. Her most recent work was supporting the Advisor to the Prime Minister in his capacity as Chairman, NSDA. She was also Senior Advisor, UNDP, Youth Skilling where she focussed on integrating rural girls into government schemes.  She worked as the World Banks  specialist  in their poverty alleviation projects . She has written several learning notes for the World Bank, which were circulated globally. Meera Shenoy began her work in skilling as Executive Director of EGMM, the countrys’ first job mission for rural and tribal youth, which she helped set up from scratch for the Andhra Pradesh government in 2004. She took it to scale, influencing policy.

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Vijay Wadhi is an Entrepreneur at heart, having worked on his own startups right after completing his graduation. He completed his post graduation in Management, post which he ventured into the then nascent IT industry as a partner of Wipro. Thus began the professional journey 35 years ago, with the first startup named Silicon Business Solutions Pvt Ltd.

IT industry is known to disrupt itself every few years; and that has been the challenge which kept Vijay on an ever learning path. He has seen the major IT technology waves right from Mainframe to Client Server to Central Data Centres and now moving to the Cloud. The first company – Silicon Business Solutions – was sold and he founded a new company in 2000 in the name of Locuz Enterprise Solutions Limited that is into the leading edge of IT infrastructure technology services, offering consultancy and services around Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Hybrid Cloud and Super Computing serving global clients. Vijay has been serving as its MD and CEO since inception, conceptualising and driving its strategic initiatives and fiscal discipline.

Being an entrepreneur, he has vast experience in Strategy & Planning, Partnering, Sales, Support, Contracts & Agreements, Service Delivery, Finance, HR, Quality Management and Legal & Compliance. The qualities that would best describe him are Multidisciplinary, Honest, Candid, Frugal, People friendly and Apolitical, with reading and learning as his main hobby.

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Suchitra Shenoy

Suchitra Shenoy has over a decade experience in social sector. She was the founding member of the Monitor Inclusive Markets team at the Monitor Group, where they examined market-based business models solutions to issues of poverty. She has co-authored a book Infinite Vision on the Arvind Eye Care System.