Experience across : FMCG, Finance, Media, Infrastructure, Banking and Sustainability Consulting.
To make Sustainable Development for companies :
Meeta Singh
She has an extensive experience of 22 yrs across Marketing, Advertising and Media across Unilever Brands , Ogilvy and Lowe, MTV and BBC, before finding her true calling “Sustainable Business models through Innovation”.
One of the initial Sustainability professional in India, she has a Post Grad Certificate in Sustainable Business from Cambridge University. Her Sustainability mantra is “Disruptive Innovation by business can address the societal problems at scale”.With this attitude and approach she founded “Suvidha”, a commercially viable social business initiative to address the Water & sanitation issues for base of pyramid slum dwellers in urban India. While at Hindustan Unilever she also set up a Circular economy project using Pyrolysis to address the post consumer plastic waste menace, converting waste packaging to furnace oil which was used in the company’s factory.
She continues to drive innovation at Ikigai, with her nothing is impossible attitude.
As a Sustainability Champion – Meeta was part of the core team which conceptualised and implemented “Unilever Sustainable Living Plan”. As Sr. Global Director (Sustainable Business (Unilever), She was partnering with the leadership teams across15 Unilever global markets and worked as an in-house consultant to Unilever’s Home Care business.
Prior to her global stint at Unilever, she was instrumental in formulating the sustainable growth strategy for India business, establishing the “The Hindustan Unilever foundation for Water.
In her free time, she is an aspiring artist and dabbles with oil painting.
Sandeep Mathur
A Career Banker, he has over 18 years’ experience across project finance, corporate banking, Risk and operations. He is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA in Finance from XLRI (Jamshedpur). In his last stint as Grp. Executive Vice President at YES Bank, he was heading the Large Corporate Business for Western India. Prior to this stint, Sandeep has worked with Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank, in various capacities.
In his corporate banking experience, Sandeep has managed some of the largest corporate in India across various industries including Oil& Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Infrastructure, Cement, and Chemicals.
In his multiple stints, he has had the opportunity to look at funding for agriand social sector – designed a customisedsolution to fund customers (farmers) of agro-chemical companies; merging credit comfort from Bank's corporate client, priority sector lending requirement and funding needs of farmers; assisted Sustainable Banking team at YES Bank to structure credit worthy solutions; developed the framework to enable SCB to commence lending to education trusts and colleges. He had also initiated one of the first block chain transaction in India’s banking sector, for funding the supply chain of a consumer electrical company. He was part of the team that established the large corporate and trade business for Barclays Bank, when they commenced their India operations
Definitely the left brain of the team, Sandeep helps bring structure and feasibility to multiple ideas and initiatives. An avid history buff, he is currently trying to get back to his original love for trekking, in his free time