Our Team
Pushpa Aman Singh, CEO
Pushpa spent 10 years in the corporate sector in financial services before moving to the voluntary sector 9 years ago. Pushpa believes that for philanthropy to grow exponentially in India, civil society information should be easily available. In the 7.5 years she was with GiveIndia, she developed its NGO due diligence process, screened over 2000 NGOs & 300 projects. She demystified online philanthropy to Indian NGOs by working out simple yet effective ways of making disclosures and reporting back to donors. Pushpa led GiveIndia’s philanthropy services for high net worth individuals, corporations and government departments and was the COO at the time of leaving.
Pushpa passionately believes that providing NGO information in an easily searchable & usable form would significantly lower the cost of search & selection of NGOs, thereby significantly increase giving. In her view, GuideStar India will allow donors and policy makers to direct resources to the most underserved through the most effective & efficient NGOs. She joined GuideStar India in 2009.
Pushpa has conducted numerous NGO workshops, represented India at the Online Social Change marketplaces meetings & GuideStar’s annual Assembly.
Pushpa is a member of the Norms Review Committee of the Credibility Alliance and an assessor for the India NGO Awards of Resource Alliance.
Pushpa is an MBA Gold Medalist and a Senior Global Fellow of the Synergos Institute, NY.
Lathika Rajan, Manager- Programmes
After graduating from the Mumbai University, Lathika spent 8 years in retail banking operations, CRM and other back office processes at Tata eServe Ltd and Citigroup Global Services Ltd. She leads our NASSCOM Foundation project and has been managing our operations since November 2009.
Antara Bhattacharya, NGO Coordinator
A graduate in Sociology from Sophia’s, Mumbai University, Antara coordinates NGO workshops, manages NGO registration and handles the Credibility Alliance NGO Membership registration programme.
Vijay Lakshmanan, Admin Assistant
Vijay attends morning college after which he helps us with document processing and administration.
Shubhangi Welling, Volunteer- Operations
A widely travelled MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign trade (IIFT), Shubhangi worked with Jindal Steel in international marketing. She taught Economics & Business Studies at the British International School in Colombo. Shubhangi volunteers part-time. She helps us with NGO registration and data validation.
Anuradha Bhawe, Volunteer- Marketing
With multiple degrees and varied experience, Anuradha has been a great volunteer since February 2010. An MBA in marketing from Belgium, Anuradha went on to do a Diploma in NGO management and has done a slew of courses in Computers. She worked for 7 years in the pharmaceutical industry for companies like Ranbaxy after which she joined The Bridge Public Charitable Trust, Mumbai in 2004 as a volunteer. During the five years she spent at Bridge Trust, she played a key role in its progress from being a small funding agency to a medium sized organization working for integrated community development in a tribal area with focus on rain water harvesting. Anuradha helps with marketing and fundraising.