Jayesh Patel:

‘Love all serve all’ is what Jayesh bhai believes in. Co-Founder and director of Manav Sadhna, an NGO based in the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, Manav Sadhna was formed in 1990 with the mission to serve the underprivileged. It now provides health and hygiene, education, and employment services to over 4,500 women and children through over 38 projects.A true Gandhian in heart & spirit, one meeting with him and you are transformed for ever. (More)

Nipun Mehta

‘Believe in small act of kindness’ is the mantra of Nipun Mehta. A source of inspiration for many, Nipun started CharityFocus, a fully volunteer driven organization in 1999 to inspire the young IT professionals to provide free web based solutions for nonprofit organizations worldwide. Having served thousands of nonprofits, without any overhead, CharityFocus has now become an incubator of "gift economy" projects ranging from web services to a print magazine to a restaurant. With a base of 285,000 members, they attract millions of global viewers to its websites. (More)

Pawan Mehra

An IIM Ahmedabad graduate, who left the corporate race to make a difference, Pawan has always been a compassionate seeker to dedicate his talent for social change. A serial entrepreneur and a change-agent currently focusing on the issue of scalable sustainability and low-carbon growth as it relates to emerging economies.He has been involved in building and scaling early-stage ventures, first as a venture capital investor in his early career with GVFL and McKenna Capital and, since then, as an entrepreneur with Parsec Interact, Intellecap, and now cKinetics. (More)

Samir Patel

Samir's life literally resembles that of the monk who sold his Ferrari. From being a top notch entrepreneur in California to a walking pilgrim in India, Samir too is determined to find a greater purpose for his being and use his talent for global good. In Professional life Samir founded SearchForce that helps manage search marketing campaigns in a burgeoning $6 billion yearly online advertising market with its algorithmic trading platform.  At iPIN, later acquired by Valista for $50+ million, he designed the world's first open scalable mobile payments platform.Samir also crafted the go-to-market strategy for eBay's apparel division, which is now a $500 million business unit and growing. (More)

Sheetal Sanghvi

Someone beautifully said "What the world really need today is people who have really come alive and search within", Sheetal Sanghvi is such a seeker, a soul brother, wanderer, poet, philosopher... and he also happens to be the founder of The Urban Ashram, a space dedicated to people all over the Universe who wish to "come alive". (More)

Vipin T.

A compassionate warrior as we like to call him, Vipin is currently building Ashoka’s Youth Venture in India. Increasing the number of people who can be changemakers is his recipe for catalyzing social change. Very active from his college days in working towards several social causes, Vipin helped set up Tulir - Center for the Prevention & Healing of Child Sexual Abuse in Chennai, an organization which works on the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA). In 2005, Vipin and his team were selected for the Change Looms Awards,  a national award given to young social entrepreneurs, which recognized their work on the prevention of CSA through “Personal Safety Education” in the schools of Chennai.