Prachi holds a Bachelor’s in Economics honors from Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR), University of Delhi. Her participation in the National Service Scheme led her to discover her zeal for volunteering. While at LSR, she volunteered at Volunteers of Blind School and other Municipal Schools in Lajpat Nagar. Before stepping into the corporate world, she spent two months in a small village Kotri, in Ajmer, Rajasthan volunteering with Manthan Sanstha.
She has over 2 years of experience as a consultant with KPMG India’s Digital Strategy and CIO Advisory team where she excelled in research and client communications, supporting her team in building digital transformation strategies to bring the best possible outcomes for clients across sectors such as Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Renewable Energy and Education, while continuing her volunteering through multiple CSR activities.
During this time, she joined Make A Difference, an NGO working to ensure better outcomes for children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across India as a volunteer. In her role as City Manager- Foundational Skills Programme for Delhi, she recruited, trained and mentored a team of 60 volunteers, who supported 125 children in 2 shelter homes, by executing weekly academic and extra-curricular modules and providing individual care and attention. She also closely worked with the programme directors to improve the interventions, setting best practices, fundraising, and web development.
Her motivation to bring positive impact in the social sector led to her pursue a Master’s in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom, ranked #1 for its programme in development studies.
She briefly worked with a healthcare startup, Karma Primary Healthcare where she led the technology, marketing and communications divisions and actively contributed to fundraising, donor reporting and leading several Covid related initiatives. She continues to work with Assert, a charity supporting autistic adults in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom for over a year in the capacity of Digital and Marketing Assistant.
She has volunteered for various Indian and International Organisations such UN awarded- Becoming I Foundation, Global Changemakers, Qrius and the Role Models Project, University of Sussex among others.
She loves reading, writing, designing her website blog and is a contributor at Thrive Global. She loves to explore new places and hold meaningful conversations with people. If she’s not on her work desk, you can find her practicing Buddhism, cooking, dancing or engaging in sports activities.
Siddharth has over 3 years of experience in the Healthcare sector, having worked as a Marketing Associate with Stryker (Fortune 500 medical devices company). In his role, he served as one of the founding team members to launch Trauson (Orthopaedic Implant segment) in India and played a key role in building it from scratch to a turnover of 8 Cr+ business within 3 years of its launch. He spearheaded product training for the sales team across India and Indonesia.
While working in Stryker, he started volunteering at Make A Difference (MAD), an NGO working to ensure better outcomes for children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across India. Visiting shelter homes to teach children gave him a grassroots understanding of the realities of extreme vulnerability and lack of basic amenities these children experienced. Moved by his desire to contribute meaningfully to society, he went on to play various leadership roles in MAD, and eventually leaving the corporate world to embrace a full time role as the Director of Operations.
As a Director, Siddharth mentors a team of city managers across 23 cities spanning 16 states of India who are directly working with 3000+ volunteers to support more than 3500 vulnerable children across footprints. Over the last 2.5 years, he was instrumental in upholding and strengthening the culture of cohesiveness, setting up systems and processes to bring visibility across functions, and building organisational perspective and resilience towards its vision and mission. A strong believer of the need and effectiveness of collaborations for organisations, he has initiated several partnerships with external organisations such as IBM SkillsBuild for providing training to increase employability of youth supported by MAD, Deloitte Development Sector Forum for Compensation Bench-marking Study, and Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) and Bhumi for LnD sessions with volunteers.
Siddharth has also been a panelist and a speaker at AIESEC-IIT Delhi’s SDG Weekender, Hindu Youth Summit (the largest summit of Delhi University), Social Responsibility Cell, DDUC to address the pressing issues related to the current education system. He also judged a Social Venture Pitching Competition held in IIM-Indore.
With a degree in Life Sciences from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University and an MBA from Coventry University, United Kingdom, Siddharth is determined to use his education and experience to support mission driven organisations in their journey of creating impact. If you like music and reading non-fiction books, you will instantly connect with him. He also likes to travel, explore different cuisines and enjoys cooking. When not working, he can be found composing music on his guitar, playing the keyboard, or sweating it out with a game of cricket, badminton and table tennis.