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Manish Sabharwal is Vice-Chairman of TeamLease Services, one of India’s leading staffing and human capital firm. Prior to co-founding TeamLease Services, he co-founded India Life, an HR outsourcing company in 1996 that was acquired in 2002 by a listed US company called Hewitt Associates. Consequently, he was CEO of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) based in Singapore for two years. Mr Sabharwal is a member of the National Skill Mission, Central Advisory Board of Education and has served on various policy committees for education, employment and employability. He served as an Independent Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and is a Member of Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). He is also Managing Trustee of the New India Foundation and is a columnist for Indian Express. He got his MBA from The Wharton School and is an alumnus of Shriram College, Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer.

Deepak S Parekh is the Chairman  of Housing Development Finance Corporation, India’s leading housing finance company in India, which he joined in 1978. He is also the non-executive Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd and director of several public companies such as Siemens, Exide Industries,  Castrol India, and Infrastructure Development Finance Company.  He has also been associated with various government committees including the Committee on Reforms in the Insurance Sector, Committee on Banking Sector Reforms, Investment Commission Committee and the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Infrastructure.   Mr. Parekh received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Bombay University and holds a Chartered Accountant degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Ashish Dhawan is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation where he aims to bring a fresh impact-based approach to philanthropy in India.  Before this, he worked for twenty years in the investment management business and ran one of India’s leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. Mr Dhawan serves on the board of several non-profits including Akanksha Foundation, 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Janaagraha and GiveLife. He was recently recognized as the NextGen Leader in Philanthropy by Forbes India. Mr. Dhawan received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BS degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Yale University.