The Wonderful Helping Brainz Team
Change Catalysts @ Helping Brainz
Leaders at Helping Brainz are either working professionals or students, who dedicate their weekends for communicate development.
Meet the team
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Project Management Team at Helping Brainz
Sandeep Kumar Gujjar
Project Manager - Child Empowerment Projects
A Teacher, Civil Service aspirant and an IT Engineer from Baghpat, India with keen interests in rural education, rural library development and nation development. Presently leading the Women and Child Empowerment Projects in Helping Brainz. "Sandy" is with Helping Brainz since 2015. Sandy is an engineering graduate from Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut.
Harshit Gupta
Information Officer | Child Empowerment Leader
A Computer Science Engineer and Cyber Security Professional from Bareilly, India with keen interests in educational empowerment, website management and cyber security, presently leading the Women and Child Empowerment Projects and information management at Helping Brainz since 2015. Harshit is an engineering graduate from Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut.
Kirti Kumari Tikyani
Project Head - Healthcare and Environmental Sustainability
Mauritian-Indian Dietician and Healthcare Technology professional presently settled in New Delhi, India with keen interests in Public Health and Nutrition, and Environmental Sustainability. Presently leading Health Information Literacy Drives and Green VEINs at Helping Brainz since 2017. Kirti completed her masters from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University.
Vikas Jain
Educationist and Rural Educational Counsellor
Experienced Mechanical Engineer and a Teacher from New Delhi, with keen interests in rural explorations, talent development, educational and career counselling. Presently leading the rural career and educational counselling programmes in Helping Brainz since 2015. Vikas is an engineering graduate from Ambala College of Engineering & Applied Research, Ambala.
Somnath Shukla
Educationist and Rural Educational Counsellor
Passionate and Experienced Digital Marketer from Noida, with keen interests in rural development, coaching and personality development, educational and career counselling. Presently leading the rural career and educational counselling programmes in Helping Brainz since 2015. Somi is an engineering graduate from Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut.
Pallabi Bose
Project Manager - Pandemic and Disaster Management
Business Management Professional from Kolkatta, who is passionate about community development, NGO management, disaster management and rural education. Presently leading the concept of Pandemic and Disaster Management at Helping Brainz since 2020. Pallabi is a business-management graduate from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkatta
L. Swaminathan
Project Manager - Fight Against Hunger Drives
Experienced Sales and Marketing Professional with keen interests in the 'fight against hunger', distributing food and groceries to the needy. He was a key behind formulizing the 'the shopkeeper linking model' which helped thousands of migrants and poor get food on time, during the 2020 lockdown. At present he leads the fight against hunger program in Helping Brainz from 2020. Swami is an engineering graduate from SRM University, Chennai.
Anu Deshwal
Project Leader - Elderly Care and Old Age Home Projects
Experienced Underwriting and Operations Professional from Delhi with keen interests in supporting old age homes, child empowerment, and animal welfare. Presently Anu leads the Elderly Care and Old Age Home Projects in Helping Brainz from 2021. Anu has been working voluntarily with Helping Brainz in the field of Child Empowerment, supporting schools and orphanages from Delhi and UP from 2017. Anu is a graduate from College of Engineering, Roorkee.
Shraddha Khedkar
Project Leader - Cybersecurity and Legal Awareness Sessions
IT Engineering Student, Cyber Security Enthusiast from Thane, who has keen interests in cyber crime awareness, legal education, and conducting cyber quiz competitions. Presently she leads the cyber security and legal awareness team at Helping Brainz from 2021. Shraddha joined Helping Brainz as an intern and decided to continue with Helping Brainz as a 'young leader'. She is a final year engineering student in Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai.
Pratyusha Roy
Project Leader - International Peace Programmes
Student, Peace Leader from Greater Noida with keen interests in International Peace, Community Service and Child Empowerment. She present leads the International Peace programmes at Helping Brainz from 2021 and is the youngest project leader at Helping Brainz. Pratyusha is a Class-XI student at Aster Public School, Noida extension.
Operations Team at Helping Brainz
Pooja Kulkarni V
Head of Social Media and Brandvertising (Branding + Advertising)
Educationist, Social Media Enthusiast, Google App Inventor-Faculty Trainer, IT Administrator, Web Designer, Social Entrepreneur, Sahaja Yoga Practitioner and Photographer with key interests in Women and Child Empowerment, Social Development, Rural Education, Social and Technological Innovations, presently leading the Social Media and Brandvertising at Helping Brainz since 2016. Pooja is also a popular social entrepreneur in Maharashtra who founded Aum Ethnics, wherein 'Aum Ethnics' is a Social Media Clothing Company focusing on helping the weavers and local artisans with a way of income. Pooja is a certified Cyber Crime Intervention Officer from ISAC and a science graduate from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.
Sneha Harsh
Senior Manager - Public Relations and Strategic Development
Experienced CSR, Public Relations, Communications, Community Management, Education Management professional with key interests in Rural Education, Women empowerment, Sustainable Menstrual Hygiene, Equal education to all, Gender-based violence, Fight against hunger, Social Innovations and Ecotourism, presently leading the strategic planning and development team in Helping Brainz since 2016. Sneha played a key role in designing and implementing the 'The Shopkeeper Linking Model' which helped food reach to 7000+ families during the 2020 lockdown. Sneha is also a winner of S.M Luthra Award for being an exemplary changemaker and is a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University.
Pratik Bishen
Senior Manager - Procurement, Market Research and Vendor Management
Budding Social Entrepreneur, IT Project Management, Sales and Marketing professional, Digital Innovator, Game Designer, Payment Card Industry professional, NGO Project Management with key interests in rural education, rural empowerment, women empowerment, organizational development, market research and product development, presently leading the procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management and market research team at Helping Brainz since 2015. Pratik has been instrumental in building the vendor-partner connect at Helping Brainz. Pratik is also the founder Olar India (Olar is a B2B service provider) and the co-founder of Zyrox and is a management graduate from IMS, Noida (CCS University, Meerut).
Prakriti Jain
org. Development Leader (Webspace, Communications, Regulatory Affairs)
Computer Science Engineer and Application Developer with key interests in Social Media Management, Social Innovations, Organizational Development, Project Management and NGO Management, presently leading the Organizational Development programmes at Helping Brainz from 2015. Prakriti is one of the oldest Helping Brainz team member wherein she started her journey as a student, then continued to be a leader with the organization. She overs the organizational development initiatives, regulatory affairs, external communications. Prakriti is an engineering graduate from APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow.
siddhi pevekar
Manager - Website Development and Web development internships
EC Engineering student, Web Developer, Freelancer, Coder/Programmer, Trainer with key interests in Web-designing for NGOs, Social Innovations on the Webspace, and Supporting social organizations establish their web presence to cascade their work and increase their outreach. Presently Siddhi leads the Website Development, Innovations Through Website and Web-development internships at Helping Brainz from 2020. Siddhi joined Helping Brainz as an intern and then decided to continue her journey with Helping Brainz as a leader. Siddhi is a 2nd year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology, Mumbai University.
Vineeth Sadanandan
Manager - Automations and Organizational Support
Experienced Cyber Security and Third Party Risk Management Professional with key interests in organizational development and process automations, presently leading the automations team at Helping Brainz. Vineeth's contributions during the Kerala Floods, empowering the old age homes in Delhi and the schools in Delhi NCR were remarkable. Vineeth led the automation efforts during the Kerala Floods, Lockdown 2020 and CovidSupport 2021 which automated the requests coming people (in distress) from various channels to user-friendly and quickly actionable formats. Vineeth is a computer science graduate from Indraprastha University, Delhi.
Interns
Anjali T.
social development intern
Anjali is a Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Food and Diary Sciences professional presently undergoing her 2-months internship with Helping Brainz. Anjali is from Kozhikode, Kerala and has undergone her MS in Microbiology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a PGD from Ramaiah Institute of Technology.
Jainil Sampath
cyber security intern
Jainil is a Cyber Security Intern focusing on Cyber Security Research, Communications, Graphic Design, Cyber Podcasts and Cyber Quiz preparations. Jainil is passionate about Digital Marketing and AI and he is from Mumbai and holds a Diploma in IT from Vidyalankar Polytechnic, Mumbai.
Hrithik Thorat
cyber security intern
Hrithik is a Cyber Security Intern focusing on Cyber Security Research, Communications, and Cyber Quiz preparations. Hrithik is from Pune and holds Diploma in IT from Vidyalankar Polytechnic, Pune is currently pursuing his B.Tech in Information Technology Engineering from PDEA College Of Engineering, Pune.