Board of Directors

Overseeing of SIDF’s activities is provided by two groups – the Board of Directors and Senior Management team.

(A) BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

The Board of Directors oversee, review and approve SIDF progress, budgets, annual activity reports and audited financial statements. The members also ensure organisation compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The Chairman/CEO nominates members to the Board, ensuring that the nominee is a respected member of the society with good reputation, interested in serving in the cause of solidarity and support for marginalized people, and have no conflict of interest with the vision and interest of SIDF. The Board members are:

Chairman: Mr. Rajiv Batra

Founder Chairman and CEO, Social Impact Development Foundation (SIDF)

Mr. Batra is an experienced a versatile, analytical, team player and flexible individual who always perseveres to achieve the best results. Experienced in supporting and managing multi-located business. A skilled consultant that can drive change management in an organization by thoughtfully analysing his client’s most challenging issues, developing data-driven strategies & recommendations, and then implementing them with multidisciplinary teams.

His expertise lies in Operations and strategic consulting space focusing on helping clients strategically and thoughtfully tackle their most challenging operational and supply chain issues by implementing best practice strategic sourcing, value analysis and inventory optimization methodologies. This provided for significant EBITDA and cash flow improvements for his clients.

Encouraged and elated by benevolent fund-raising gesture along with a few friends, for a cancer patient, he conceived Social Impact Development Foundation (SIDF) in 2015. It is his vision and far sightedness that has seen the germ of an idea mature into the well respected association that SIDF is today.

Mr. Batra coined the phrase “Helping Hands are better than Praying Lips”‘, the credo that has been the cornerstone of SIDF’s philosophy all these years.

Major General Somnath Jha (Retd)

Strategy Officer to the Board of SIDF

Major General Somnath Jha (Retired) has a wealth of leadership experience from his close to four decades in the army, spanning the entire spectrum from strategic vision and planning to execution. He has had tours of duty in most parts of the country, both in combat as well as in peace environments. In his long military career, General Jha has had much experience in the planning, handling and execution of several military-civic community projects in far flung parts of the country. He has also served in war-torn West Africa as a United Nations military observer, overseeing and executing relief and rehabilitation work among refugees and the war- displaced. In his career, he has been cited and awarded for gallantry and also recognised for his distinguished service by the President of India by the award of Vishisht Seva Medal.

After his retirement, in late 2016, General Jha has bi-cycled more than 12000 kilometers to pay homage to 21000 soldiers martyred since independence. In his own words, “I am paying this homage by cycling two minutes to route myself through all the 29 states of our great nation because our fallen heroes come from every corner of the country. This is my symbolic homage to my brethren who didn’t have the privilege of retiring as I did. They made the supreme sacrifice before that.” It is to his credit that this was a personal homage journey, not supported or sponsored by any organization.

Member: Ms. Nagasayee Malathy (MS Counseling & Psychotherapy)

Executive Director – Organization Development, SIDF

Ms. Nagasayee Malathy , a post graduate in Social Science with MS in Counseling and Psychotherapy and possesses almost three decades of experience in development sector which encompasses leading large Organizations at country level in India and Overseas.

She has held positions like Head – India , International Organization for Migration (IOM), Country Director – HelpAge International based in Cambodia, Executive Director for Protect and Save The children in Malaysia etc. She has lead senior professional teams in India, South and South East Asia in promoting Public Private Partnerships, CSR programme and policy development, Human Rights protection. She has constantly worked on gender and development, livelihood promotion, skill building/development, migration and development, counter trafficking, human rights etc., through multi-stakeholder’s approach. She is strong on policy advocacy at national and regional level with Government, Corporates, Academic institutions etc.

She has worked with various Ministries in India and overseas on various developmental issues. Her strengths are Public Private Partnership promotion, organizational development, Strategic planning, HR Management, HR policy development, Annual Operational and Budget planning.

Member: Mrs Anju Khanna (BA Economics)

Executive Director – Administration, Social Impact Development Foundation (SIDF)

Mrs. Khanna joined SIDF in 2015 with a degree in Economics from Lady Irwin College, Delhi, as SIDF’s Administrative Officer. From coordinating donations collected through moneyboxes, in the initial days to being in charge of Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Administrative matters of the association, she has come a long way.

She supervises the receipt and disbursement of donations and ensures compliance of rules and regulations and transparency in execution.

Whilst SIDF draws its entire annual budget from corporate and individual donations, it is through her efforts that it is able to sustain and deliver the short term and long term goals and effectively accomplish our core mission.

Meeta has also represented SIDF at various forums and panels on National Television and actively participates in debates and discussions to promote Cancer Awareness.

Member: Mr Devashish Biswas (B E )

Executive Director – Special Projects, SIDF

Devashish is an engineering graduate, has 11+ Years of experience in Software Development and Digital Marketing and Promotion, have been founding member of couple of tech start-ups, He brings expertise in technical knowledge, business growth & marketing, crowd funding, brand strategy, and deep experience in consumer insights to both accelerate growth to build a leading brand. He has created and ran advertising campaigns including PR programs on international levels.

Mr Biswas has helped set up SIDF presence on the World Wide Web through its informative and exhaustive website. The website provided a means to make SIDF’s activities known to a wider audience and helped network with similar organisations globally. Today he spear-heads the Special Projects team by applying prevailing technology, ideas or issues to take the organisation forward and upward.

Mr Biswas has helped set up SIDF presence on the World Wide Web through its informative and exhaustive website. The website provided a means to make SIDF’s activities known to a wider audience.

Member : Mrs Meeta Grover (BA English)

Executive Director – Research Studies & Additional Projects, SIDF

Mrs Grover has a background in television directing programmes in both Hindi and English.and holds a Diploma in Television and Film Production . Her experience included 8 years in a production company “Canif Cine Entertainment Inc.,She joined SIDF in 2015 . Under her leadership, the foundation has grown from strength to strength. She has consciously formed alliances with social workers in various fields, organizations, and paramedical social workers, to reach the most underprivileged and high risk groups.

Her focus is to sensitize them to the ground realities of cancer and make cancer screening facilities free and freely available to them at their doorstep.

Member: Mrs. Papia Bhattacharya (BFA )

Executive Director – Rehabilitation, Social Impact Development Foundation (SIDF)

SIDF’s Rehabilitation Center started under Mrs. Bhattacharya tutelage in 2015, with just one person and a single machine. Papia has used her creativity to develop a range of merchandise at our Rehabilitation Center and each item is produced with an eye to detail.
Papia has a background in fine Arts from The College of Art , Delhi University . With Specializations in Painting, Sculpture, Applied Art, Printmaking and Visual Communication providing basic training in art and design. She has in-depth knowledge of the principles of Composition, value, pattern, tone and color theories. Her Emphasis is on the creative process from concept to the finished art work. She focuses to on study from life, still life, outdoor, etching, lithography, and silkscreen, mural and weaving. Aesthetics, History of Art and Methods & Materials . She joined SIDF in 2015 and as her first assignment created 5 low cost audiovisuals for SIDF. She is in for rehabilitation and employment of cured cancer patients. She now directs and guides a team of about 40 cancer survivors or their family members, after giving them vocational training.

Member: Ms. Neha Sharma (English Hons)

Executive Director – Strategic Planning & Events

Ms. Sharma graduated from Delhi University, but her interests range from doing various research based work in Govt. Projects. With over eight years of experience in development sector, she has gained considerable knowledge on various aspects of project designing and implementation. She is responsible for formulating management and development strategies for the organization. She also supervises both the program and marketing team and ensures smooth functioning of the same. Neha is a Self-starter with ability to work independently or as part of a team. A Quick learner and adapts to new environments easily. Her career started as a Corporate trainer with specialization in soft skill where she developed her confidence in the corporate world.