HelpAge India has a history of working with compassion for the cause of the elderly while relentlessly pursuing a focused agenda of improving their quality of life and fighting for their rights. In this, it is aided by a professionally acclaimed Board of Directors to help, guide and assist the teams at the ground level.
Kiran Karnik describes himself as a ‘public un-intellectual’, a non-academic with a strong interest in public policy and strategy. Columnist and author, his books include “eVolution: Decoding India’s Disruptive Tech Story” (2018), “Crooked Minds: Creating an Innovative Society” (2017), and “Coalition of Competitors: The Story of Nasscom and the Indian IT Industry” (2012). His latest book “Decisive Decade: India 2030, Gazelle or Hippo” was released in June, 2021.
He is widely recognized for his work in the IT sector, as President NASSCOM from 2001 to 2008, and for helping to put fraud-hit Satyam Computers back on track as Chairperson of its Government-appointed Board. He has been on many key Government committees, including the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister and the National Innovation Council.
As CEO of Discovery India (1995-2001), he launched Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in India and South Asia. He was Founder-Director of Consortium for Educational Communication (1991-95), which oversaw production and transmission of UGC’s Countrywide Classroom TV programs. He began his career in the Department of Atomic Energy, and spent over two decades in ISRO focussing on applications of space technology, especially for education and development, including the path-breaking Indo-US Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE) and the Kheda TV project. He has also worked in the United Nations – in New York and Vienna – and for UNESCO in Afghanistan.
He is Chairperson of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, and is also involved with a number of other not-for-profit organizations in the fields of education and development. Earlier, he was Chairperson of Oxfam India (2004-19), and President India Habitat Centre (2006-18). He was a Director on the Board of Reserve Bank of India (2011-15), and chaired its IT subsidiary, Reserve Bank IT Pvt. Ltd. from its inception till September 2021.
Karnik has been conferred many awards, including the Padma Shri.
He currently serves as Member and Chairperson on HelpAge India’s Governing Body.
Rumjhum Chatterjee is one of the Co-founders of Feedback Infra Group and is the Chairperson of the Feedback Foundation Charitable Trust.
A leading practitioner of the management of human capital in the infrastructure sector, she was recognized as one of the 20 Most Talented HR Leaders in India by the World HRD Congress in 2013.
Rumjhum served as the first woman Chairperson for CII Northern Regional Council (2016-17) – the largest of the 4 Regions of CII, comprising 9 states.
She has a deep interest in women’s empowerment. She served as Chairperson of CII Women Exemplar Program for 2015-17 and has been part of the Jury of the Selection Committee of the same program since its inception. She has represented industry’s views on the subject before Parliamentarians in India. She also participated in a closed-door interaction to discuss women’s empowerment with Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe, during his visit to India in January 2014.
Currently, she is the Co-Chair for CII’s National Committee on CSR.
She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Blue Star Limited, Somany Ceramics Limited, and C&S Electric Limited (a subsidiary of Siemens India). She serves as a Trustee of ‘3E Education Trust’ (HDFC Schools).
Rumjhum is educated in Psychology from Calcutta University.
She currently serves as Member and Vice – Chairperson on HelpAge India’s Governing Body.
Arun Nanda holds a Degree in Law from the University of Calcutta, is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (FCA) and a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (FCS). Mr. Nanda has also participated in a Senior Executive Program at the London Business School.
He joined the Mahindra Group in 1973 and held several important positions within the Group over the 40 years he was with the company. He was inducted to the Board of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M) in August 1992 and resigned as Executive Director in March 2010 to focus on the social sector and create a favorable ecosystem for senior citizens. He was a non-executive director from April 2010 till August 2014.
He is currently the Chairman of Mahindra Holidays & Resorts (I) Ltd, Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd, and Holiday Club Resorts Oy, Finland, Director of National Skill Development Corporation, Chairman of CII National Task Force on Affirmative Action, Chairman on the Governing Board of Centre for Social and Behaviour Change Communication and on the Advisory Board of TechnoServe India.
He is also Chairman Emeritus of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce. He was Chairman of CII Western Region Council for the year 2010-2011, Chairman of CII National Committee on Skill Development & Livelihood from April 2017 to March 2021 and Chairman of Tourism & Hospitality Skill Council. He was a Member of the Task Force set up by the B20 on Anti-Corruption which presented the policy paper to President Sarkozy at the G20 Summit held in Cannes in November 2011 and to President Putin in St. Petersburg in June 2013.
Mr. Nanda was honored with an award of “Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur” (Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008.
Mr. Arun Nanda has been the recipient of the following Awards:
He currently serves as a member, on the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
J.C. Luther has been a lecturer of Economics & Public Affairs at Aitchison College, Lahore (April 1945 – May 1947). He then joined Indian Revenue Service after Combined Civil Services Examination, 1945. He has held important assignments in the Reserve Bank of India and Government of India including Ministry of Finance, Administrative Reforms Commission, Ministry of Steel and Heavy Engineering and the Central Board of Direct Taxes. His specialized experience includes economic, financial and Industrial Policies at Macro and Micro levels, legal, commercial and accountancy framework for Corporate Affairs along with International Collaborations.
He was also the Director at the Ministry of Steel and Heavy Engineering form 1967-72. In the Ministry of Home Affairs he has served as Director, Administrative Reforms Commission – 1966-67. He also has experience in the Ministry of Finance: Department of Expenditure, where he served as Deputy Financial Adviser – 1960-65
He has also worked with the Central Board of Direct Taxes where he had important Assignments including Commissioner of Income Tax and higher level appointments for 8 years.
He has been the Chief Consultant – Planning & Management, Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre, New Delhi, Consultant – Finance & Development, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, and Financial Director for A.B. Hotels Ltd. (Radisson Hotel).
He currently serves as Member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Arun Seth was appointed as a Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent in July 2012 and will continue to be Non-Executive Chairman of BT India, with whom he has been associated since 1995.
Owing to his industry expertise and leadership in the IT services arena, he is also a member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM, India’s leading industry association for IT and BPO, and was the Founding Chairman of the BPO Forum for NASSCOM.
Arun Seth has over 30 years of commercial and technical expertise in the IT and telecommunications industry in India. Prior to joining BT in 1995, he was the Senior Vice President with the UB Group’s Corporate Management division in Bangalore and Delhi. He headed the commercial operations of Unitel Communications, the telecommunications arm of the UB Group, for five years.
Arun is an alumnus of India’s prestigious institutions, IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta. In addition to being a board member of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, he is also a charter member and trustee of the Delhi chapter of TiE, the leading international body promoting entrepreneurship in the technology arena.
Arun’s interests include charitable and educational initiatives in India.
He currently serves as Member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Radhika Bharat Ram is the Founder of KARM Fellowship for Young Indian Women, which works with driven young women from underserved homes in the area of higher education & Joint Vice Chairperson of The Shri Ram Schools in Delhi-NCR. She leverages her active contribution in the education space by serving as a member of the Board of SRF Foundation. Under the aegis of Shri Educare Limited, an education consultancy company, she has been instrumental in setting up The Shri Ram Millennium Schools in NCR & The Shri Ram Early Years.
Lending her name and voice to pertinent social causes, Radhika currently serves as the Chairperson of the Indian Blind Sports Association & the JPM Senior Secondary School for the Blind. She is also the Jt. Secretary of The Blind Relief Association, a non-government organization working to empower visually impaired persons by imparting education and skill development training.
With a keen eye and interest in reviving the rich heritage of Indian arts and culture, she has served as the Hon. General Secretary of Delhi Crafts Council from 2016 to 2020. As a part of her engagement at Delhi Crafts Council, a number of initiatives were undertaken that were directed not only towards the survival of crafts but with the livelihood prospects of the artisans as well.
Radhika is also a Trustee of CAPED – Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Early Detection that has been working in the area of awareness creation for women-centric cancers with a focus on cervical cancer. Radhika is a firm believer and strong advocate of women’s health and well-being.
Radhika is a Trustee of the Ananta Aspen Centre, a board member of Teach For India, Delhi and the Chairperson of the CII National School Education Council. Additionally, Radhika has been a member of the Steering Committee of CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Program since 2014, which promotes women’s empowerment at grassroots level. As a Founding member of AVPN Asia Gender Network supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she hopes to help further the cause of gender equality and improve outcomes for women and girls in Asia. She has also co-founded ‘Theatre for a Cause’ to raise funds for NGO’s through Theatre.
She was conferred by Mahatma Award for Social Impact 2021 and Women Economic Forum as Women of the Decade in Community Leadership in December 2019. She was also mentioned as one of the change makers in the book ‘Why People Give’ by Ratna & Suhasini Vira.
She currently serves as a member on the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Gita Nayyar is a finance and strategy professional with over 30 years of global leadership experience with MNC banks/ VC funds and Corporates. In the past she has held senior management positions with Citibank India and Credit Suisse UK.
Ms. Nayyar also has considerable experience as a Board Member/ Advisor and has served on numerous boards in the corporate and social sector. She currently serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Glenmark Life Sciences Private Ltd, Taj-SATS, Transport Corporation of India, Oriental Hotels Ltd. and PNB Housing Finance Limited. She has been a senior advisor to Fulcrum Ventures Private Limited and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management-Udaipur. She is also an Investor/ Mentor and Founder of a number of early stage start-ups.
Ms. Nayyar is passionately committed to Philanthropic causes. She is particularly interested in helping the underprivileged, the elderly and is also a strong advocate for gender diversity and inclusion.
She graduated in B.A. in Economics Honours from Jesus and Mary College – Delhi and holds an M.B.A from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, USA.
She currently serves as Member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Kaushik Dutta is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with over 25 years of experience. He retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) after spending over 22 years in the practice, of which 17 years has been as a partner. In PwC, he has been a member of the India Leadership Team, managed the India Advisory Board of PwC, National IFRS leader, Corporate Governance Practice leader, amongst other national and global roles. He was earlier a partner with the Global Capital Markets Group of PwC International where he was extensively involved with work relating to cross border transactions including privatizations and listing of shares in the New York Stock Exchange and European stock exchanges.
Since retiring, he has been retained as an expert on Corporate Governance, by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Mr. Dutta along with some of his ex-colleagues, founded the Thought Arbitrage Research Institute, an independent not-for-profit research think-tank, working in areas of corporate governance, public policy and sustainability.
He participated in the Naresh Chandra Committee deliberations for developing the norms of corporate governance in India. He has also worked with Conference Board of the U.S.A, Asian Development Bank, Institute of Directors UK, Asian Institute of Corporate Governance, Genesis Park, USA, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, CII, Assocham, Department of Public Enterprises, National Foundation for Corporate Governance etc. on governance matters. He has been a founding member of CII’s National Council on Corporate Governance. He has worked with some of the top Boards of Directors of Indian and multi-national companies on Corporate Governance initiatives and processes.
He currently serves as a member on the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Sanjeev Kapur is Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Asia, MetLife. Currently, he is responsible for leading the Marketing, Product and Value management teams across Asia Pacific including Japan. He is also the business lead for managing customer facing digital platforms and has commercial accountability to deliver digital sales, service and engagement outcomes for our Asia business. In addition to the Asia responsibilities, he is responsible for scaling the award-winning 360Health solution and digital ecosystems across regions. He is a member of MetLife’s Asia Leadership Group as well as the Global Marketing Leadership team. He also serves on several boards of MetLife entities in Asia. He is based in Singapore.
Kapur brings a wealth of business and transformation experience to MetLife. Over his career, he has held various management roles in sales, marketing, digital, product management and business P&L roles through which he accelerated business growth and modernized capabilities in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and financial services industries.
He joined MetLife in 2017 from Citi where he was the Regional Head of Marketing and Digital sales, responsible for leading its regional and country teams across 17 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle-East & Africa. Prior to joining Citi, he led the brand and product strategy at Unilever.
Kapur holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology and is a distinguished alumnus from the XLRI, India from where he holds an MBA in marketing and finance.
He currently serves as a member on the Governing Body of HelpAge India.
Rohit Prasad has 20 plus years of experience in general management and organisation building both across the corporate and development sector, with focus on healthcare and public health. This includes leadership roles in business planning and execution, program and initiatives implementation, operations and performance management.
Rohit worked as Director-Development & Strategic Initiatives with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a non-profit public private initiative. Earlier, he was with McKinsey & Company for over eight years in practice building and growth roles (across two stints) with its Asia Healthcare Practice and Organisation Practice. He served Ernst & Young India for over two years in its Markets Group and early in his career, he has done assignments with the India unit of Economist Intelligence Unit, Exim Bank of Korea, and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited.
Rohit has an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi and Bachelors in Arts (Economics Honours) from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi.
He joined HelpAge India in October 2017, as Chief Operating Officer (COO), and was responsible for program strategy and implementation in the area of healthcare, age care, livelihoods, and advocacy for the cause and care of the elderly.
On 1st July 2020, Rohit took over the reins as Chief Executive Officer of HelpAge India, post the retirement of his predecessor Mr. Mathew Cherian.
