Meet our management team, global Board of Directors, India Board of Directors and Co-Founders.
Meet the Pollinate Group team
To meet all the members of our Pollinate Group team visit our company page on LinkedIn and look under the people menu.
Management team
Sujatha Ramani
CEO
Sujatha shares her leadership and passion for entrepreneurship and women empowerment to create traction, scale and value in social enterprise. With more than 28 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience across sales, marketing, global program management and engineering, she has consistently grown revenues and created new employment. Sujatha has worked at multinationals as well as been a Director in the social sector in India. She holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science.
Ravi Kumar
Senior Director of Growth
Ravi is an operations leader with more than 20 years of experience, including more than 11 years in the clean cookstove industry in India. At Pollinate Group Ravi leads a number of our teams. He is dedicated to creating an environment that is efficient, conducive to out of the box thinking and most of all maintains a strong focus on community impact.
Board of Directors in India
Our India entity is a Pvt Ltd Company, a structure requiring a Board of Directors. See their profiles below.
Padmaja Alaganandan
Director
Padmaja is the Chief People Officer of PwC India. She has more than 25 years of consulting experience in business and human capital advisory across diverse industries. Before joining PwC in 2011, Padmaja worked in leadership roles in organisations including Mercer Consulting and A.F. Ferguson. She has been a member of CII’s National HR Committee, as well as on the Committee on Skill Development. Padmaja is a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Bangalore. She graduated from the University of Madras, and completed post-graduate studies at the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata.
Sashi Gumma
Director
Sashi is CBO at Elasticrun prior to this he was CEO of More Supermarkets, which operates in 12 states and more than 140 cities and towns. He specializes in food and grocery retail, leading large teams and people and business development. Starting as a Marketing Manager, Sashi has held roles including Regional Head and Operations Head at More Supermarkets, and COO at More Retail Limited. Sashi recently started a focused program for capability building in women associates in the stores to become store leaders. He holds a PGDM with a Specialization in Agriculture from the Indian Institute of Management and a B.Tech in Agricultural and Food Eng from the Indian Institute of Technology.