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Our Story
Soumitra and Raghu have all emerged from Indian middle-class values of the 1970s. Having had the benefit of being born into families which valued education, they have all used the opportunity to create rewarding lives and careers in varying but overlapping ways. Along the journey, serendipity has played a role in exposing them to a social sector, that is full of stories of inspiration, innovation and impact.
India Impact Sherpas is a humble attempt at learning, discovery, and growth, in what they all believe is an exciting space. An exciting space that lies at the intersection of what they love, what the world needs and what they can potentially be good at.
Raghu Gullapalli
Partner
Raghu Gullapalli has 28 years of Management Consulting experience. After working with a range of Corporate clients, helping them, accelerate and amplify their Growth and Profitability, he now works full time in the Social Sector, looking to help Social enterprises, accelerate their Growth and Impact journeys.
He loves the idea of leveraging Arts for Impact in the Social sector and as a Partner in UIA, is working towards building a Cohort of Arts Organisations leveraging Music/ Theatre/ Visual Art/ Poetry etc to target outcomes in Social domains. He helps these social enterprises, develop a Scalable Operating Model, build a Suitable Leadership and Talent pool, Articulate and Track Impact and Develop a Sustainable funding/ financial model.
Prior to his move to the Social Sector, Raghu was a Managing Director with Accenture, where he has held multiple leadership roles across India and APAC helping clients leverage the best of Accenture experience, thinking and talent to address their most pressing business challenges and issues.
Raghu is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and an Engineer from IT-BHU, Varanasi.
Soumitra Pandey
Partner
Soumitra Pandey has over 31 years of experience in strategy and operations consulting across social and business sectors. He was a partner at Accenture and EY and then helped set-up Bridgespan in India.
He has led several strategy and organization transformation engagements over the years for large businesses, foundations, and NGOs and funder platforms such as Co-Impact and TED Audacious India. His work spans across sectors such as Rural Livelihoods, Education, RMNCH, Policy Development, and Social Justice.
He is also passionate about diversity and equity and has worked on these areas both in client engagements and internal projects. Some of his recent published work includes – Why Indian nonprofits are experts at Scaling up, Building high impact CSR programs in India, Pathways to Greater Social Mobility for India's Dalit and Adivasi Communities
Soumitra is an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad and qualified Chartered Accountant.