Unltd India

  • Manmohan Malhoutra - India Board member

    Secretary-General of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation from 2001 to 2007, 'Moni' Malhoutra was formerly Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and later, a member of the Board of Directors of International IDEA - the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm. Educated in Delhi and Oxford, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (1961-1978) and served in the Secretariat of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from 1966 to 1973. He then moved to London to the Commonwealth Secretariat, where he played a leading role in Commonwealth efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.

  • Akhil Shahani, Shahani Group - India Board member

    Akhil is a serial entrepreneur who has had spectacular business success & even more spectacular failures.

    As well as developing new entrepreneurial ventures, Akhil is a partner in East India Paper Company, one of India’s largest paper distributors and a trustee of the Shahani Trust and Sage Foundation.

    He is listed in “Asia’s Whos Who - Men & Women of Achievement” & was recently awarded the “Bharat Shiromani Award” for excellence & contribution to society. This award has also been given to Mother Teresa, The Dalai Lama & Sachin Tendulkar among others.

    Akhil is a past President of The Rotary Club of Bombay Midtown, a past president of The American Alumni Association, and a graduate of Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

  • Vishal Talreja, Dream A Dream - India Board member

    Vishal began working life as an Investment Banker in Mumbai. After three years he gave it up to transform the dream of his 12 young friends, who all came from very diverse backgrounds, from searching for a cause in 1999, into Dream a Dream, a vibrant voluntary organization with an impact on the life skills of over 500 children in Bangalore today.  

    Dream a Dream works in partnership with basic support providing institutions to maximize the impact of positive intervention on children from disadvantaged backgrounds Integration of children from all sections of society through exposure and empowerment is the key focus. The organisation is run with a small team of nine persons – but draws on a database of around 500 volunteers, mostly from the corporate sector.

  • Pankaj Jain, Acumen Fund - India Advisory Group member

    Pankaj Jain is a corporate lawyer by profession and is an ardent advocate of building bridges between law, development and social entrepreneurship. He currently works as the India legal associate with Acumen Fund, a not-for-profit, social venture capital fund and is involved in working across agriculture, healthcare, water, housing and energy portfolios as well as structuring transactions in the social development space. Prior to joining Acumen Fund, he worked as an associate with the Indian law firm AZB & Partners in New Delhi on a variety of corporate advisory and private equity transactional matters. He received B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, where he graduated as the university first rank holder and was a recipient of a number of gold medals.
     
    He volunteers his time and is an informal mentor to a number of start-ups, social entrepreneurs as well as non-profit organizations in India. He is also involved with various co-curricular activities at a number of law schools in India, including moot courts and through guest lectures on law and development, corporate laws and foreign investment laws. Pankaj was admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi in 2006, and is qualified to practice law in India.

  • Deval Sanghavi, Dasra - India Advisory Group member

    Deval is founder and President of Dasra. He has provided philanthropists with intelligent investment strategies directing over $6 million into the Indian social sector for over 10 years. He has an impressive track record of investing in, scaling and sustaining non-profit organizations, many of which have risen to become pre-eminent organizations leading India’s social sector.

    Deval's background as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley has enabled him to develop a unique philanthropic investment model that brings rigor and discipline to the sector. Deval leads the organization, deeply engaged in our investments and portfolio work, whilst continually strengthening Dasra’s relations with donors, partners and other external bodies. He co-created India’s first venture philanthropy fund, Impact Partners in 1999, and played a pivotal role in incubating and scaling organizations including Magic Bus, Rural Innovations Network, and Aangan Trust. Deval also created an institutional training hub for international organizations entering India, including TechnoServe.

    Deval is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, completing his Bachelor of Business Administration with a dual Honors degree Business and Finance and a minor in Asian Studies.

  • Anand Shah, Indicorps - India Advisory Group member

    A graduate from Harvard University with a degree in evolutionary Biology, Anand has ventured into many areas: first at an Internet start-up, then to helping start Media and Technology Charter High School in Boston. In search of the right opportunity to effect change, he helped form Indicorps, where he is currently Executive Director.
       
    Indicorps is a not-for-profit organisation created to leverage India's immigrant diaspora for India's development through intensive service experiences with innovative social entrepreneurs in India. Anand also serves as the CEO of the Piramal Foundation, an innovative private foundation that aims to encourage youth to participate in social progress.

  • Joel Cadbury, Longshot Ltd - UK Board member

    Joel Cadbury is a born entrepreneur, the son of Peter Cadbury (Westward television & Keith Prowse) and Jennifer d’Abo (Ryman & Moyses Stevens). Joel’s first and only job was a three month role as ‘factory boy’ at Thomas Tingley Steel Works in Elephant and Castle. He subsequently spent five years in the nightclub business working with over 30 clubs, entertaining 4,000 people per week until aged 23, an opportunity arose to purchase a bar and ended up with the acquisition of The Goat in Boots building and the foundation of Longshot in 1994. Since then, Joel has been the Chief Executive of Longshot. He remains on the Board of The Groucho Club and The Third Space, as well as being on the Board of The Royal Parks Foundation.

  • Rashmi Chandaria - UK Board member

    Rashmi was born in Kenya, and is a member of a Fifth generation Joint Family Business. Rashmi is a graduate of Industrial Management from Hull University and holds a BSc Economics degree from Hull University. He started his career in the family business in Kenya in 1962.

    From the beginning he has been involved in helping to rapidly expand and diversify the groups' activities on a global foot print within a joint family business. Since 1975 Rashmi has been based in Europe and is very involved in Strategy, Planning and Industrial management within the family group, with activities spread on all the continents of the world.

    The family is deeply committed to its social responsibilities through various Foundations. Rashmi is a Rotarian since 1978 (now Senior Active Member) and also a Director on the Board of an organization called Young Enterprise (www.yelondon.com) and TIE (www.tie-uk.org).

  • Stephen Lloyd, Bates Wells & Braithwaite - UK Board member

    Stephen Lloyd is senior partner and head of the charity and social enterprise department at Bates Wells & Braithwaite (BWB). He has been a partner at BWB since 1984, and has particular expertise in the interface between charities and trading.

    He is author and presenter of numerous articles and seminars, and an adviser to CAF's Venturesome Investment Fund. He is a former chairman of the Charity Law Association, and current chairman of CaSE, LifeHaus Plc and the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action.

  • Michael Norton OBE, CIVA - UK Board member

    Michael Norton is a founding turstee of UnLtd in the UK. He is also the founder and former Director of Directory of Social Change, the UK's leading agency providing information, training and support to voluntary organisations. He was a founder and Executive Chair of Changemakers. He is also the founder of YOUTHBANK, Chair of the International Year of Volunteers 2001 Youth Committee, Chair of Transform Africa and a Trustee of the Institute for Social Inventions.

  • Alpesh Patel, Praefinium Partners - UK Board member

    Alpesh B. Patel is one of the UK's best known financial commentators and authors. As well as writing nine bestselling books on trading, he is a regular columnist for the Financial Times newspaper, and presented the popular 'CEO in the Hot Seat' on Bloomberg television. He appears regularly on CNN, Sky Business News, CNBC and BBC radio and television.

    A Philosophy, Politics and Economics graduate of St. Anne's College, Oxford, Alpesh also has a degree in Law from King's College , London University and was a Visiting Fellow in Business and Industry, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.