Members of the Board

Mr. Rakesh Jinsi

President

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Mr. Rakesh Jinsi

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Mr. Jinsi is an electrical Engineer, having graduated from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (Punjab University) in 1977.He has over 41 years of work experience in the Automobile, Not for Profit and Education sectors. For over 21 years he has held leadership positions with organisations such as Eicher, Hero Motors, Chase Manhattan, Force Motors, Tatra Trucks, New Holland Fiat Tractors, SOS Children’s Villages and School of Inspired Leadership. He has been a member of national level bodies such as National Human Rights Commission and National Skill Development Corporation. Currently he is a Management Consultant and also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Fairfield Asia(part of DANA group).He is also a Coach/Mentor for senior level executives. He is holding the position of Senate Member of Asia Region in SOS Children’s Villages International

Ms. Sudha Sastri

Vice President

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Ms. Sudha Sastri

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Ms. Sastri, an eminent HR Professional, with more than 3 decades of formidable accomplishments, is a 1985 graduate from IIM Kolkata. She has founded her own HR consulting firm: Inputs. She is an executive coach and has worked with several CEOs and athletes, including one who has won an Olympic medal. An active member of TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) New Delhi, she heads a special interest group for sports and fitness entrepreneurs. She has also served in the Human Resource department with Eicher and Pertech Computers Ltd (PCL). Ms. Sastri is on the Advisory Boards of several civil society organizations.

Mr. Atindra Nath Bhattacharya

Vice President

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Mr. Atindra Nath Bhattacharya

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Mr. Bhattacharya has done his Masters in Management Studies from Banaras Hindu University. He has 35 plus years of experience, of which 18 were in the corporate sector and 17 years with the academia. Presently, he is serving as Professor and Chair of Marketing at the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), Gurugram. Earlier, Mr. Bhattacharya had been instrumental in designing and implementing the Social Innovation Programme at SOIL, wherein the students work one day a week with NGOs. SOIL has a consortium of over 32 NGOs, in and around Gurugram. The corporate brands with which Mr. Bhattacharya has worked with are: AMUL, DHARA, Vadilal, IILM, among others. In addition, he has also been actively helping corporate capability development programmes, especially in the field of marketing and leadership development.

Mr. Rajeev Kumar Grover

Treasurer

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Mr. Rajeev Kumar Grover

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Mr. Grover is a Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary with over 3 Decades of cross-functional leadership experience, particularly in Operations, Finance and General Management. Rajeev has worked with world-class organizations, including Hewitt Associates, GE, American Express and PwC. He was the Global Head of Operations at Mercer Worldwide, after which he co-founded ExempServ Professional Services Pvt. Ltd., an organization that provides value-added financial reporting, compliance & allied services to Civil Society Organisations. He is an Independent Director on the Board of an IT services organisation.

Mr. Rajinder Sharma

Member

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Mr. Rajinder Sharma

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Mr. Rajinder is a Law Graduate of 1982 and also undertaken management courses from INSEAD and CCH apart from many CLE courses in different areas of Management, ADR, Tax, M&A, Corporate Affairs and Core Values / Ethics. He is Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitration in London — MCIArb. Mr. Sharma is listed in 100 Legal Luminaries of India as also being listed in Top Gun General Counsel of India, and has won International awards and recognition in Ethics& Compliance as also was regular in public speaking including in G-20 summit also in Yale, MIT and other International and National Universities. His more than 3 decades of professional life has seen him as a veteran in Corporate Sector, having worked with companies such as Tata Steel, IBM, Reliance Industries, Escorts, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Samsung and Flipkart. Mr Sharma these days is mentoring few start-ups in the areas of Compliance and Corporate Governance, apart from being on Board of few listed and unlisted Companies. He has been the National Executive Board Member of AMCHAM, USIBC, CII, FICCI and PHD Chambers. He is actively involved with Red Cross and Rotary Club.

Lt Col Atul Bakshi (Retd)

Member

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Lt Col Atul Bakshi (Retd)

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Lt Col Atul Bakshi (Retd) is a veteran Civil Engineer with specialization in Environmental Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and in Management from IIM, Lucknow. He has over three decades of cross-functional leadership experience, with particular expertise in Construction, Procurement and Program Implementation - specialising in - large scale operations & projects, spread across vast geographic areas, as well as in - providing strategic and operational leadership in conceptualizing and implementing programs - specially in education and sanitation domains. Atul has worked with world class organisations like The Indian Army, Military Engineering Services (MES), Army Welfare Housing Organisation, Educomp, Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. He was the Head of Construction, Procurement and Sanitation programs at Bharti Foundation in his last role from 2009 to 2021. Since then he has been on a sabbatical and is focusing on giving back to the Society.

Mr. Arun Mani

Member

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Mr. Arun Mani

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Mr. Arun Mani is the Founding Member and Partner at Archeus Law and heads the firm's Project Advisory and Contract Management Practice. In his current role, Mr. Mani has been actively involved in diverse assignments in the infrastructure sector, in particular dealing with the EPC Contract Management and Project Advisory. He has advised on major mega power projects and some of the key metro rail and highways projects in India, for varied stakeholders, including the government developers and private contractors. Mr. Mani is a recommended lawyer by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 in the Projects and Energy practice area. Apart from his professional qualification as a Lawyer, he is a Management graduate, having done his MBA from Manchester Business School, UK.

Ms. Shanthi Lakshmanan

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Ms. Shanthi Lakshmanan

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Ms. Lakshmanan is a Post Graduate from the Institute of Cost and Work Accountant of India and has done her B. Com. from Delhi University. Ms. Lakshmanan is a result-oriented leader, who enjoys coaching and loves creating / scaling business. She runs "ExempServ", a professional services organisation that provides value-added Financial Reporting, Compliance and allied services to social sector organisations. Ms. Lakshmanan has been associated with companies like e-Funds, Global Vantedge and Hewitt and Mercer in the areas of Finance, Operations, Process Transition and Training.

Mr. Amitava Chatterjee

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Mr. Amitava Chatterjee

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Mobile No. 9831868454 | Email: amitav_chat@hotmail.com

Academic Qualification:
  • 1) B.Tech (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Beneras Hindu University 1975
  • 2) Senior Management Programme: IIM Ahmedabad
  • 3) Chartered Engineer
  • 4) Diploma in Industrial Safety (First Class First)
Experience

Over 43 years of experience in large manufacturing companies out of which around 25 years in leadership roles as Chief Operating Officer of Kesoram Industries, Executive Director( Siemens Metering Limited) , Vice President (J.K.Industries, Borosil Glass Works Mumbai, General Manager (Ceat Tyres)

Headed green field Projects in Aurangabad (Tyre Industry ) and in Baddi (Electronic Plant ).

Started career as Management Trainee in Dunlop India Limited.

Recipient of several performance awards like Top+ award of Siemens in Munich, Golden Peacock Award for Environment, Safety Awards, Award for best HR practices etc.

Currently a freelance consultant for Manufacturing Improvement Projects, as HRD specialist and Quality Project implementation (TPM, Quality Circle etc).

Professional Membership:
  • 1)Fellow of Institution of Engineers
  • 2)Life Member: Quality Circle Forum of India
  • 3)Life Member : Plastic and Rubber Institute of India
  • 4)Attended numerous Training Programme in India and Abroad.
Others:
  • 1) Member of Rotary International Group Study Exchange Programme In 1986 (visited USA and Canada representing Rotary District 329)
  • 2) Life Member S.O.S Children’s Villages of India and also of S.OS Children’s Villages of West Bengal (Secretary of Governing Body).
Sports

Institute of Technology, B.H.U Basketball Captain and represented B.H.U in Basketball

Personal Details:
  • 1) Date of Birth : 10.09.1952
  • 2) Wife: Mrs. Ruchira Chatterjee, M.A, B.Ed, Cert in Guidance, Dip in Environment and Sustainability - Retired Teacher
  • 3) One daughter Ayona Chatterjee Phd, married – Chair Dept. of Statistics and Bio Statistics in State Univ of California.
  • 4) Address: 58 Mahanirban Road, Kolkata – 700029
Passion:
  • 1) Long distance driving / sports
  • 2) Teaching children from poor families : physics, Chemistry and mathematics.
  • 3) Charitable work :
    • a. Ran a home for mentally retarded children for over 10 years
    • b. Was Advisor and then Trustee of “ Khelaghar “ a home for destitute children started by late Moitreyee Devi – a close associate of Rabindra Nath Tagore.
    • c. Governing Body Member (Secretary ) of SOS Children’s Villages of West Bengal in Kolkata.

Mrs. Nandini Atal

Member

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Mrs. Nandini Atal

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Mrs. Nandini Atal has a significant history of working in the social development sector. She has worked with Mother Teresa across the span of 1971-87, with Shishu Sarothi (Spastic Society, Guwahati, Assam), another spastic society in Cochin (Kerala), Women’s Friendly Society (home for destitute women) and Atma Nirbhar - Ek Challenge (with the specially abled). Mrs. Atal has also been involved with SOS Children’s Village Jaipur since its inception and has sponsored 3 children from SOS Children’s Village Guwahati. She completed her MA from St. Johns College, Agra University, with deep-rooted interests in Indian classical music, gardening and reading.

Mr. Raghu Kailas

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Mr. Raghu Kailas

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Mr. Kailas is a fourth-generation entrepreneur, belonging to a business family with a legacy of 100 years in the Automobile space. He is involved in businesses pertaining to Automobile Components and Rare and Fine Spirits, and is an Industrial Engineer from Purdue University, USA. Mr. Kailas is the past President of the India-ASEAN Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was one of the Indian Representatives on the ASEAN-India Business Council. He has also served as the National Chairman of CII’s Young Indians, besides being the Chairman of Round Table ’94; Mr. Kailas has also served on the National Board of Round Table India, and has been involved in the SOS Children’s Village started by his family, besides being part of the Rotary movement.

Ms. Vandana Bhatnagar

Nominated Member

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Ms. Vandana Bhatnagar

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Vandana Bhatnagar is a senior development sector professional and strategy expert in the areas of Skills, Gender and WASH. As President at The Circle In foundation, Vandana is currently leading programme and policy initiatives aimed at women’s economic empowerment. Prior to this, she was the Chief Programme Officer at the National Skill Development Corporation, where she was leading national skill programmes, managing NSDC’s funding portfolio and several technical advisory functions. She also spent a decade in the World Bank as a Team Lead in the area of urban water and sanitation services. Over her professional journey of 28 years, Vandana has led several transformational initiatives at the national and state level. She began her professional journey at Standard Chartered Bank, and then moved to the development sector, having since also worked with NSDC, The World Bank, The Energy Research Institute (TERI) and Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). Apart from her role at Circle In, she is engaged as an advisor with several NGOs. Vandana is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) and St. Stephens College in Delhi University.
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Mr. Rajneesh Ranjan Jain

Nominated Member

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Mr Rajneesh Ranjan Jain

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Rajneesh has been associated with SOS Children’s Villages since last 23 years. Currently he is working as International Representative in Asia Office. In this role he represents SOS Children’s Villages International on the governing body of operations in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos and India. Rajneesh also represents the organisation in Tibetan Associations which are working in India for Tibetan children. Previously he was Director of Operations/Asia for 5 years and responsible for finance and other related subjects in the continent. Rajneesh has led and contributed in many projects/working groups of SOS Children’s Villages at regional and global level in the areas of finance, operations, strategy and program. He is Chartered Accountant and a post graduate in Management and has trained in the governance of ‘non-profit board’ from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Sumanta Kar

SG/CEO

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Mr. Sumanta Kar

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Mr. Sumanta Kar, the Secretary General of SOS Children’s Villages of India has over 30 years of experience in the field of alternative care. He has conceptualised and implemented several development projects at SOS India. He led SOS India’s tsunami operation in the southern states of India between 2004-2007; it was the largest ever emergency programme undertaken by the NGO so far. Mr. Kar was also part of the SOS International Working Group in Alternative Care. He supported a couple of member associations in Asia in shaping their emergency programmes. Born and brought up in Rourkela, Mr. Sumanta Kar belongs to the state of Odisha. He holds a post-graduate diploma from Xaviers Institute and an Executive MBA from Utkal University. His motivation comes from “Working with children, SOS Mothers and caregivers in different provinces, and learning new customs and cultures.”