Advisory Council
R Sridharan
Director - IBA (South Asia) Former Director, Phillips India
Amita Desai
Executive Director
Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
Kumar Ramanathan
CEO, Positive Integers
Former CMO, Vodafone India
Kalpana Sharma
Senior Journalist & Author
Dr. Usha Raman
Senior Academic & Writer
Priya Venugopal
​Educator & Social Impactor
Our Founders
Founder
Shreyas Sridharan
Shreyas is a first-generation entrepreneur. He has a decade of experience as the founder of a solar thermal start-up. He has worked in 4 cities across India & speaks 8 languages.
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His work experience, as founder of Aashman Solar, harnessed heat using concentrated solar technologies. This delivered clean energy to massive projects across sectors, such as mega kitchens, hotel & hospital groups, automotive industries, and educational institutions - thereby reducing their demand for fossil fuels.
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Trained as a biotechnologist, he previously worked as a process engineer with a US-based filtration company, catering to the pharma & biotech industries.
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At EkoGalaxy, Shreyas drives innovation, design-thinking & marketing. He is loved for his curiosity, sense of humour & tenacious enthusiasm to address the climate crisis through education.
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Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, gaming, podcasts & martial arts.
Co-Founder
Dr. Urvi Desai
Urvi has lived & worked in Bombay, Geneva, Berlin, Montreal, and Hyderabad. She has a PhD in medical history from McGill University, Canada.
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At McGill University, she created curriculum & has teaching experience as a lecturer. She's received several fellowships, grants & academic awards, such as the prestigious Cundill Fellowship, Jean-Marie Fecteau Prize, Wolfe Fellowship, Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship, Schull Yang International Award, McGill-Ingenium Fellowship, amongst many others.
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She has a Master's (on full scholarship) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Switzerland & the Hertie School of Governance in Germany. She has a Bachelor's from the University of Mumbai where she stood first rank.
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At EkoGalaxy, she likes to surround herself with interesting people doing good work. She leads curriculum, collabs & strategy.
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Outside of work, she enjoys reading, running, singing, standup comedy & gardening.
Chief Happiness Officer
Nanuk
Nanuk is our in-house bundle of joy and mischief. Very social and always ready for an adventure, she’s the happiest addition to our team, and effortlessly, the most popular!