Growing up in various cities of India, Nikhil Srivastava has been through a lot of changes and seen challenges people face in education during transitions. An Electrical Engineer from University of Pune with a management degree in international business with almost 15 years of corporate experience, he has traveled extensively across India and world. Nikhil’s core competence lies in building strong systems, processes and team development. He brings in a lot of passion, experience and understanding of the development sector.

Mobilizing communities and catalyzing schools to deliver basic learning on a mass scale has been one of his primary interests.

Inspired by his family who have been constantly involved in providing  guidance and support to the society, he has been working in various capacities for numerous “not for profit” initiatives.

From an early age he has been working in rural and social development projects such as adopting government school to build and renovate basic facilities, providing free medical facilities to starting night school for his underprivileged neighborhood.

He strongly believes in “At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished… it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.”