Anil Pradhan
Founder of Navonmesh Prasar Foundation and School for Rural Innovation (I.P.S.F.R.I.)
Mr Anil Pradhan (a.k.a. Ideas Man of India) is an engineer, innovator and a revolutionary educationist.
He is the founder of Navonmesh Prasar Foundation and School for Rural Innovation(I.P.S.F.R.I.) which was founded in 2015 to educate the less-privileged students of Odisha through an interdisciplinary curriculum
Before incorporating Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Anil worked on projects with L&T, TATA and others during his undergraduate course in Engineering. He also the Chief Designer of V.S.L.V., Asia’s first Multipurpose Student Rocketry Mission and has also developed a satellite to monitor Hirakud Dam
He is also known for designing innovative labs, teaching tools, indigenous rockets and projects which solve real-life problems
After completing his engineering from UCE (University College of Engineering, Burla). His mission is to create a thirst for innovation among students so that every student, regardless of background, becomes an achiever
Mahul Brahma
Author, chief editor, columnist, and luxury commentator
Dr Mahul Brahma is an author chief editor, columnist, and luxury commentator. His books comprise The Luxe Trilogy - Decoding Luxe, Dark Luxe and Luxe Inferno.
He is an award-winning Communicator, CSR head, Chief Editor with a Tata group company. He is a short filmmaker and actor and his first short film was screened at Cannes Film Festival.
Dr. Brahma is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, MICA, Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Calcutta, and has done his PhD in Economics.
He is an authority in luxury communications and besides his books have written hundreds of columns and articles on the inclusiveness of luxury and mythic value of luxury beyond the myopic sense of price tags and communications.
His perspectives on luxury are unique and will interest a greater audience.
Shashank Arora
Indian actor, music director, vocalist, lyricist and screenwriter
Mr. Shashank Sunny Arora was born in New Delhi, India, on February 21, 1989. He was interested in music and theatre from a very young age.
After finishing high school in early 2006, he left for Montreal, Canada to study cinema and music. There, he briefly joined a street theatre group formed by human rights activists. In 2008, he moved to Mumbai where he studied acting for two years, to pursue a career in film.
He is an Indian actor, music director, vocalist, lyricist and screenwriter. He is known for his roles in Titli (2014), Brahman Naman (2016), Moothon (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019).
He is the only Indian actor to have two films compete at Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto and Locarno film festival.
Shrey Saxena
Second-generation social entrepreneur
Mr. Shrey Saxena is a second-generation social entrepreneur at Growdiesel.
He is an engineer and one of the top global applicants to be shortlisted at Stanford University is first stint with social entrepreneurship was at the age of 14, in the computer lab of Cambridge School. He is an internationally recognised public speaker. He has taken multiple sessions on social entrepreneurship at numerous organisations such as Adobe, Stanford, IIT Delhi & Bombay, IIM-Calcutta & Shillong etc.
He has served as an area director for non-profit- District 41, Toastmasters International which caters to North, East and North-East India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. He has mentored over 50 individuals personally.
He shaped a social initiative at HERO cycles in which volunteers from 15+ countries participated to educate 2000+ children on cleanliness in the villages of Himachal Pradesh. At Growdiesel, he feels blessed to fight climate change by converting waste into biofuels.