Our Team

Our team shares a love of music, football and play!

As a culture-first organization, we strive to embody the values and behaviors we work tirelessly to teach our students every day. We pride ourselves on performance and productivity, whilst also ensuring our team champions wellbeing. We’re a dynamic team of individuals with backgrounds and experience in the non-profit, education, corporate and advocacy sectors.

The Sherpas

CEO & Founder

Aparna Nayampalli

Head – Program Development & M&E

Soujanya Jandhyala

 Head – Program Delivery

Abhimanyu Dey

Program Lead – Play

Sreekrishnan MV

Manager – Quality & Vendor Management

Aditya Kashikar

Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Saurabh Sainani

Program Lead – Create

Organizational team

Ankita Yadav

Data Manager and Analyst

Vani Kulkarni

Sr. HR Executive 

Garima Kumar

Communications Associate

Ritwick Charles

Communications Manager

Divya Rohilla

Head Of Finance

Jaya Atul Wakankar

Program Manager – EL Experiences

Rewins Kidangan

Head – EL Experiences

Santhosh Kumar R

Senior Manager – EL Experiences

Bharat Arjun Vanjarani

Corporate Partnerships Manager

Rakesh Kumar Nirmal

 Financie Coordinator

Gospel

Associate – EL Experiences

Rushikesh Gaikwad

Events and Operations Manager

Singapore & Cambodia

Roeuy Pheareaksa

Program Associate – Play, Cambodia

Phann Sophea

Program Manager – Play, Cambodia

Sok Chakriya

Program Associate – Play, Cambodia

Muth Sinat

Program Associate – Play, Cambodia

Rong Rasith

Operations Associate

Thuo Sonea

Program Associate – Build, Cambodia

Moeuk Sakka

Program Associate – Build, Cambodia

Boumy Thanh

City Lead , Cambodia

Bengaluru, Chennai & Hyderabad

Kiran Kisal

Program Associate – Play, Bengaluru

Vikram Reddy

Manager – IT & Systems

Kaushik Venkitachalam

Program Associate – Play, Bengaluru

Nishant Puzhankara

Curriculum and Content Lead, Bengaluru

Bonnke Prithvi Lal

Program Manager – Play, Hyderabad

Ephrahim Olive Raj Christian

Program Manager – Play, Chennai

Rashmi Verma

Program Manager – Build, Bengaluru

Snehith

Operations Manager –  Bengaluru

Anand Ravichandran

Program Manager – Play, Bengaluru

Swati Joshi

Program Associate – Create, Bengaluru

Musali Sudheer Kumar

Program Associate – Create, Hyderabad

Srayasi Roy

Program Associate – Build, Bangalore

Mohammed Samad

Program Associate – Play, Hyderabad

V. Praveen Kumar

Program Associate – Play, Hyderabad

Nandakumar

Program Associate – Play, Chennai

Jude Anthony Atkinson

Program Associate – Play, Chennai

Anand Babu

Program Associate – Play, Chennai

Shyam Sundar

Program Associate – Play, Chennai

Samuel

Program Associate – Create, Chennai

Mir Ibraheem

Program Associate – Play, Hyderabad

Raghuvaran

Program Associate – Play, Hyderabad

Boda Paul Pradeep Naik

Operations Associate, Hyderabad

Vijay Ganesh S

City Lead – Hyderabad & Chennai

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Mitali Ganesh Maral

Program Associate – Build, Bangalore

Aishwarya Ramakrishnan

Program Manager – Create, South

Kasarboina Sunil

Program Associate – Create, Hyderabad

Jeremy Cecil Johnson P

Program Associate – Play, Bangalore

S Karthik Kumar

Program Associate – Play, Hyderabad

Dharwad & Kumta

Mahadev Baratakke

City Lead – Dharwad & Kumta

Ningappa Bedasur

Alumni Program Lead, Dharwad

Basavaraj Guddeppanavar

Program Manager – Play, Dharwad & Kumta

Vinayak Inamadar

Program Associate, Create – Dharwad

Vinod B Patil

Program Associate – Create, Dharwad

Jainabi Peerasabannavar

Program Manager – Build, Dharwad

Sohail Madani

Program Associate – Play, Dharwad

Shivananda

Program Associate – Play, Kumta

Venkatesh

Program Associate – Play, Dharwad

Shantala Pandurangi

Program Associate – Create, Dharwad

Deepa

Program Associate – Build, Dharwad

Manjunath V Hadagali

Program Associate – Play, Dharwad

Nikhataiyabi Mullanavar

Program Associate – Build, Dharwad

Chandrakant Basavaraj Jamminal

Program Associate – Play, Dharwad

Pakkiresh Kallur

Program Associate – Play, Dharwad

Santosh Ganapati Patgar

Program Associate – Play, Kumta

Mumbai, Pune & Satana

Anjali Abigail Vipparti

Program Manager – Build, Pune

Siddharth Shukla

Program Manager – Play, Pune

Disha Mishra

City Lead, Mumbai

Ashanis Tuteja

Program Manager – Create, Mumbai 

Ashraf Shaikh

Program Manager – Play, Mumbai

Nayan Kailas Kandhare

Program Associate – Play, Pune

Roman Shah

Program Manager – Play, Pune & Satana

Prerana Geetish

Program Associate – Create, Mumbai

Praneet Anil

Program Associate – Play, Mumbai

Anwar Ansari

Operations  Associate –  Mumbai

Irshad Shah

Program Associate – Play, Mumbai

Akshay Kamble

Program Associate – Play, Pune

Jaydeep Podar

Program Associate – Create, Mumbai

Mohammed Akbar Mohammed Raees Ansari

Program Associate – Play, Mumbai

Minal

Program Associate – Build, Pune

Sudipta Shekhar Mridha

Program Associate – Create, Pune

Dipak Rambabu Prajapati

Operations Associate, Satana

Dadasaheb Pawar

Program Associate – Build, Pune

Nilima Torne

Program Associate – Create, Mumbai

Ballal Kiran Chavan

Program Associate – Create, Pune

Zahid Jamil Ansari

Program Associate – Play, Mumbai

Shashank Verma

Program Associate – Create, Mumbai

Upendra Santosh Yadav

Program Associate – Play, Pune

Satyam Rajesh Bairagi

Program Associate – Create, Mumbai

Kalpesh Mendadkar

Program Manager – Create, Pune

Archana

Program Associate – Create, Pune