VINOD JAIN,
Managing Trustee
Mr. Vinod Jain
has a Bachelor of Technology degree in
Agriculture Engineering
from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (1981). He is the
Managing Trustee of Trust Microfin Network, a
microfinance and livelihood promoting organization,
which works with and support other grassroots NGOs in
microfinance and livelihood promotion.
Besides, he is
working as Development Consultant in microfinance,
livelihoods promotion for poverty alleviation. He has
been consulting with number of development funding
organization like the World Bank, DFID, SIDBI, FWWB, Sir
Dorabji Tata Trust, Aga Khan Foundation, OXFAM (India),
and other organizations like Sa-Dhan, RGVN, etc. He has
done a number of development studies. He provides
consulting under the aegis of Trust Consulting.
Earlier, he worked in PRADAN where he
promoted livelihoods, micro and group enterprises. Prior
to joining PRADAN, he was in corporate sector with M/s
Eicher Tractors Ltd. (now M/s Eicher Motors Ltd).
MITHILESH KUMAR JHA, Trustee
Mr. Mithilesh
K. Jha has a post graduate
degree in Zoology with specialization in Entomology. He
worked in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and
Manipur under the aegis of Central Silk Board (CSB),
Government of India; in various capacities for research
and development of sericulture. In 1996, while working
as the Deputy Director for CSB; he proceeded on
voluntary retirement to work as a freelancer for
community development activities. His 22 years’ of
service tenure in CSB also includes lien to a national
level NGO, PRADAN for a period seven years (1986 –
1993).
Further he has also worked as a
development consultant with several governmental and
non-governmental bodies, some of which
include—Agriculture Finance Corporation, Grameen
Development Services, CAPART, World Bank supported
projects, MP Sericulture Project, etc. He has worked
on number of microfinance consultancies.
MOHD ASIF ZAIDI, Trustee
Mr. Md. Asif Zaidi has Masters
in Geology from Aligarh Muslim University. He has over
two decades of experience of working in rural
development both communities organization and
livelihoods. He has his working experience in organizing
and capacity building of communities as well as in
establishing and implementing new projects, setting up a
team and recruiting professionals, fund management and
networking. He has also worked on microfinance and
micro-enterprise promotion through Self Help Groups (SHGs),
dairy development and market linkage support in selected
areas and watershed projects. He has worked in the
development sector with a national level NGO—PRADAN for
almost two decades in various capacities. He is Managing
Trustee of Sir Syed Trust (SST) that he has
founded.
TEJINDER SINGH BHOGAL, Trustee
Mr. Tejinder Singh
Bhogal has
post graduate diploma in Rural Development from
Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). He has
distinction of being the graduate of the first IRMA
batch. Prior to management education he graduated in
Agriculture from Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana.
He
has over 15 years of experience in direct project
implementation work, and over eight years of experience
as a Capacity Building & Organizational Effectiveness
Consultant. For
the past nine years, he has been a Rural
development Consultant with a focus on organizational
effectiveness (OE), capacity building, organizational
development (OD) and human resource development (HRD).
He provides trainings & consultancy services in the
areas ranging from Leadership, Team Building, Conflict
Resolution, Communication, Performance Appraisal &
Monitoring; and developing Strategies and Business
Plans. He is a Director in M/s Innobridge
Consulting Pvt Ltd.
Prior to being a Consultant, he worked with the National
Dairy Development Board (NDDB) & PRADAN. With the NDDB,
he was a part of team which set up a cooperative system
for procuring and marketing oranges in the hill areas of
North Bengal. With PRADAN, a national level NGO in
India, he headed teams that implemented rural
development projects concerned with livelihoods &
natural resource management in Gujarat and Chattisgarh.
DR. SANJEEV KAPOOR, Trustee
Dr. Sanjeev Kapoor is an
Associate Professor, Agri-business, Indian Institute
of Management, Lucknow. He has taught a number of
courses including rural economy and development, rural
financial services, common property resource management,
entrepreneurship and rural marketing, procurement
management for agri-industries, introduction to
quantitative technique, cooperatives in rural
development, farm management, agricultural marketing and
price analysis, micro-credit management, rural
production and livelihood system, and agribusiness
environment.
He has also worked as a
Research/Academic Associate in the Center for Management
in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management (IIM),
Ahmedabad for five years. He has also worked as an
Assistant/Associate Professor, Xavier Institute of
Management, Bhubaneswar for almost a decade.
