Meet Drishtee Family
FOUNDERS
Satyan Mishra
Co-Founder and Kamaan member
He is an Ashoka Fellow who has been the flag-bearer of making path-breaking changes and decisions within Drishtee. Satyan holds an MBA in International Business from University of Delhi’s, Delhi School of Economics. He has led Drishtee with a visionary approach and inspiring working style. Satyan’s passion that reflects in Drishtee, has motivated like-minded people to come together and form an intellectual horsepower driving it forward.
Shailesh Thakur
Co-Founder and Kamaan member
Co-Founder of Drishtee and graduate from Delhi University, Shailesh is using his life experience of rural background as well as professional exposure for scouting for new opportunities and challenges for Drishtee. His role is to ensure that any new and exciting idea which moves out of the drawing board is thoroughly tested on the field before it is implemented/scaled.
Nitin Gachhayat
Co-Founder and Kamaan member
Co-founder and a strategic thinker, Nitin is leading the journey of Drishtee from the front. He has been mainly involved with the functional teams responsible for developing new services and models that can help achieve the vision of Sustainable Communities. Nitin is an MBA from FORE School of Management, Delhi and is richly experienced. His leading style is a great force behind the achievements of the team Drishtee, enabling them to meet the challenges.
TEAM
Drishtee has been fortunate to attract several professionals who have forsaken their corporate sector jobs to work in the Rural sector. At the same time, Drishtee also has in the team, passionate young people mostly drawn from the local small towns and villages, having deep understanding of the local needs. These teammates are effectively making an impact at the field positions. In all this, Drishtee gets valuable support from Volunteers from across the world who spend their time and energy mostly on a voluntary basis.
Mamta Mishra has an entrepreneurial mind and a social worker’s heart. She is the co-founder of Drishtee Foundation and works as an Executive Head of the organisation. She and her entrepreneurial team at Drishtee have helped develop a path breaking platform for helping communities become self sustainable. With her immense energy and sensitivity, she has been instrumental in initiating various new activities for Drishtee such as computer education for rural youth, capital support to small entrepreneurs and textile based rural production and marketing.
Mamta holds a Bachelors degree in Hindi and has devoted her life in the areas of social entrepreneurship, rural development, livelihood, and women empowerment. She is instrumental in creating enabling environment to work. She has always put in best of efforts to make her teams work with highest efficiencies. With her huge experience of 70 plus years in life and 30 plus years in social enterprise segment, she has been inspiring generations in and beyond Drishtee to drive a change that can pave the way forward towards the vision of a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.
Swapna along with the Founders has been an integral part of all the new idea development, innovation, planning and implementation in the last 20 plus years of Drishtee’s journey. She is a Science Post Graduate with qualifications in Business Communication.
She is passionate about enabling and empowering communities for a change that can drive a paradigm shift in livelihood and empowerment approaches. She has been instrumental in structuring various programs that are now being implemented to enable self-sufficiency and self-reliance through community leadership. Her focus areas, as a core team member, have been community building, enterprise and innovation, women empowerment and capacity building.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the development sector. He has been involved in taking up challenges of pioneering new initiatives especially at the piloting and initial implementation level. His initial efforts were in the ICT kiosk model delivering e-governance services and the Rural Distribution system of Drishtee. He is a science graduate from Bhopal.
He has more than 20 years of experience. Before Drishtee he worked with International Development enterprises (IDE) and Tea sector. He holds a B.Tech in Agriculture Engineering from NERIST and has completed a Certificate course from COADY International Institute under St. Francis Xavier University, Canada along with MDP certificates from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He looks after the whole operations of the North east region.
“Highly seasoned professional with two decades of proven success in leadership and people management roles, including Lead Relations Head, Centre Head, and Counselor. Her practical work experience, coupled with a robust background in Business Administration, has empowered her to understand, motivate, and lead teams effectively. She firmly believes that effective people management is integral to an organization’s growth, on par with functions such as marketing and production.”
She has more than 15 years of experience in the corporate world and social sector. She has worked with Agilent Technologies, Bristlecone India Private Limited and The Hewlett-Packard Company. She has a Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University and an Executive MBA from Indian institute of Management, Bangalore. She looks after the CSR projects at PAN India
Partha has more than 22 years of experience in the development sector. He started his journey with financial environments. He specializes in financial accounting, projections for CSR projects, financial budgeting, field operations for customer service point banking, education & insurance product marketing. He expanded the network in Rural, Urban & Metro areas for financial & education services with the kiosk network in different states of India. He has a strong grasp on data mining, data science & ERP development.
Mr. Arindam Pal (ex-SBI) having more than 32 years of experience. During his tenure with SBI, he has mostly been associated with Rural Banking. He was Agri Business Head of NE region during 2005 to 2009. He was a faculty member in State Bank Institute of Rural Development (SBIRD), Hyderabad from 1993 to 2003. SBIRD is an apex institute of SBI which imparts training to their Senior Managers on Rural Banking. During that period he was also part of the team which formulated the BC/BF (Business Correspondent/Business Facilitator) (FI) model for SBI.
A management professional with over 13 years of diversified work experience in Human Resource Management & Employee Welfare and Development. She has expertise in process improvements, learning & development; handling effective internal employee communication; planning / suggesting effective employee welfare strategies; performance management; framing policies and ensuring compliance. She is a Delhi University graduate and her key strength lies in work integrity and being able to develop effective HR strategies that increase employee productivity, performance, engagement and satisfaction.
An Engineer graduate from Bombay Technical University, with 3 years technical experience in Customer Relationship Management. Preeti joined Drishtee in 2006 with key skills such as Project management, Business Development, Capacity Building Planning and Monitoring. She has harnessed these skills at Drishtee and has developed a unique structured approach to troubleshoot micro business process issues with a 360 degree approach. Positivity and happiness are her assets which give her an enviable value to excel in her work.
Kingshuk Nag is a seasoned and highly ethical professional, with 17+ years of extensive Project Management & Business Operations experience across varied industries including Social Enterprise, Financial Inclusion, Immigration, Real Estate, Healthcare, and CSR Project Management. He has expertise in enabling design, development, and executing strategic plans to lead organizational objective, financial growth, and long-term sustainability. He is currently responsible for leading the Governance Function at Drishtee. He is a Post Graduate in Rural Management from FMS-IRM, Jaipur and is also a Certified Lean Practitioner.