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Volunteer Experience

Member - Global Advisory Council - Hub EngagementMember

Global Shapers Community

Jul 2014 - Jun 2020 6 years
Environment
Member Global Advisory Council - 2017-2019: Got elected to the Global Advisory Council by over 5,000 shapers worldwide.
Curator - 2015-2016: The Curator is responsible for internalizing a vision for the hub and making progress toward it during the one-year tenure. They are also responsible for engaging a bunch of super-smart people in the hub projects to create a demonstrable and lasting impact. Leading a voluntary group of successful and high performers is as much a challenge as it is a…
Member Global Advisory Council - 2017-2019: Got elected to the Global Advisory Council by over 5,000 shapers worldwide.
Curator - 2015-2016: The Curator is responsible for internalizing a vision for the hub and making progress toward it during the one-year tenure. They are also responsible for engaging a bunch of super-smart people in the hub projects to create a demonstrable and lasting impact. Leading a voluntary group of successful and high performers is as much a challenge as it is a learning opportunity
Head of Recruitment - 2015-16: Lead all recruitment efforts and new member onboarding.
Shaper - 2014-2020: Worked on multiple hub projects and contributed to our mission of making Pune the worlds "most caring and inclusive city"

Projects

2021 - 2021

Build and test an e-commerce venture idea to provide tribal artisans a global platform to share their art and earn a respectable living ensuring a brighter future for their kids and tribal heritage

2020 - 2021

Crowdsourced platform to support local changemaker across the globe to scale their projects by removing three key barriers to community driven action: access to know-how, volunteers, funding.

2009 - 2010

Developed a novel active Daylighting System to save up to 60% energy on lighting in daytime. Received product design award at Techfest IIT Bombay and internship offers from IIT Bombay and IISC Bengaluru.
Studies LEED certified buildings and visited several building including a platinum rated LEED certified building in Pune.

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Haystack Ag, Boston - MA, 2023:
Haystack focuses on improving crop outcomes and farm profitability using innovative sensing technology. Haystack takes a systems-first approach to reduce soil carbon (SOC and Bulk Density) testing costs for growers, and project (MRV ) while maintaining high-accuracy measurements. I am helping Haystack with financial modeling, business planning, and fundraising.
World Resources Institute, NY – NY state, 2022:
WRI is one of the largest global…
Haystack Ag, Boston - MA, 2023:
Haystack focuses on improving crop outcomes and farm profitability using innovative sensing technology. Haystack takes a systems-first approach to reduce soil carbon (SOC and Bulk Density) testing costs for growers, and project (MRV ) while maintaining high-accuracy measurements. I am helping Haystack with financial modeling, business planning, and fundraising.
World Resources Institute, NY – NY state, 2022:
WRI is one of the largest global thinktank focusing on People, Nature, and Climate. My team and I evaluated top-performing markets and business models driving solar adoption in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings were included in Our Solar Future — Roadmap to Mobilize USD 1 Trillion by 2030, launched at COP’27 Egypt 2023.
AIMPI, Sacramento - CA, 2022:
AMPI works on improving soil health by using regenerative agriculture principles. AMPI developed a proprietary technology to produce carbon-negative non-chemical fertilizer for a range of crops and demonstrated water usage reduction (by 20%), and improved soil nutrients while maintaining the yield even with a single application. I helped Dennis, the founder, to develop a go-to-market strategy and facilitated conversations with potential investors and strategic partners.
Spoten, São Paulo - Brazil, 2022:
Spoten is a technology solution (ERP) for sports clubs, sponsors, and fans. I led a team of four undergraduates from Babson to deliver a go-to-market strategy for Spoten to enter the US market.
Verizon, Boston - MA, 2022: Collaborated with the CSR team at Verizon for a capstone project in the Social Innovation Design class at Babson. My team and I deliver a management solution to help shift Verizon’s organizational culture to embrace and support innovation and social impact within the organization.
Hasten Regenerative: Hasten works on building large-scale ecosystem restoration projects. I was invited to help build an India fundraising strategy focusing on CSR and Foundation.

Honors & Awards

United People Global

Sep 2019
UPG Sustainability Leadership is a movement that mobilizes individuals and organizations to support positive citizen leadership on sustainability.
As a Sustainability Leader, I participated in a week-long immersive learning journey alongside climate leaders from 20+ countries on a sustainable island off the coast of Maine, USA: Hurricane Island Center for Science & Leadership. Sustainability leaders get access to tools, expertise, and peer groups to develop their venture ideas addressing the…
UPG Sustainability Leadership is a movement that mobilizes individuals and organizations to support positive citizen leadership on sustainability.
As a Sustainability Leader, I participated in a week-long immersive learning journey alongside climate leaders from 20+ countries on a sustainable island off the coast of Maine, USA: Hurricane Island Center for Science & Leadership. Sustainability leaders get access to tools, expertise, and peer groups to develop their venture ideas addressing the pressing issues of climate change.

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

2019
Distinguished Alumni award for entrepreneurship achievements.

Forbes

2018
Recognizing my efforts to reduce plastic garbage and generate local employment, while strengthening the circular economy through EcoAd, I was featured in the Forbes 30Under30 Social Entrepreneur Asia list

World Economic Forum

Jan 2016
Exclusive Invitation and scholarship to attend the WEF Annual Meeting, Davos in 2016.
Met world leaders including:
- Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate
- Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
- Raghuram Rajan, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Rahul Bajaj, Chairperson of the Bajaj Group

Climate Reality Leadership Corp.

2015
Climate Reality Leadership Corp. is founded and run by Nobel laureate and 45th vice president of the US. In 2015, Al Gore visited India and trained a selected group of climate leaders on effective communication, storytelling, and project management to spread the climate message and drive climate action globally. I was one of those fortunate CR Leaders. Since then, I've been actively involved in several citizen-driven climate action locally in India and the US.

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

Feb 2011

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