As the CEO of the foundation, Naghma has been instrumental in driving the mission of the organization towards creating asymmetrical impact across the project areas. Her strong financial background has enabled her to improve the performance of the organization by creating effectives partnerships and associating with credible NGOs. Naghma is also associated with several not-for-profits in different capacities. She has been a Director at Railway Children India and a mentor at the Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in Bangalore, providing support to start-ups. Prior to her role at EdelGive Foundation, Naghma began her career as an Accounts Manager with Bajaj Alliance General Insurance in their initial team. Naghma is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has a Masters of Commerce (M. Com.) degree from Pune University. She also has a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from V.E.S. College of Commerce in Mumbai.

Lisa Rodricks serves as the Chief Operating Officer at EdelGive Foundation, bringing over 20 years of experience in advancing India’s development sector through institutional strengthening, strategic philanthropy, and ecosystem collaboration. Her work spans education, livelihoods, financial inclusion, health, and gender equity.

Lisa has played a pivotal role in shaping some of the sector’s most ambitious interventions. At Educate Girls, she led operations and later global strategy – managing an expansive portfolio across 20,000 villages spanning four Indian states and spearheaded the development of their next 10-year strategy. She was instrumental in launching the organisation’s first grant management program in partnership with local NGOs in Bihar that significantly outperformed targets.

As Co-founder and CEO of Toast, she advised institutions like Tata Sustainability Group, Global Fund for Children HSBC, and Sesame Street. At Atma, she scaled a nonprofit accelerator that now support 600+ grassroots organisations.  In her recent sector-building efforts, Lisa collaborated with Dalberg to conceptualise a social impact platform designed to elevate Global South leadership and innovation – connecting capital, capacity, and community-led solutions across Asia.

Lisa holds an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship and has completed certifications in Social Return on Investment and Six Sigma. She continues to contribute to the sector through advisory roles, public platforms, and as a thought partner to institutions working to reimagine development outcomes through collaborative philanthropy.

Deepa is a Chartered Accountant with over 17 years of experience across finance, compliance, strategic operations, capacity building, impact management, and technology integration. She has held leadership roles in the social sector, including COO at Toolbox India and Social Lens Consulting. As M&E Lead at H T Parekh Foundation and previously as an independent consultant, she led impact assessments of multi-sector non-profits. Earlier, she worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in London and Mumbai, focusing on mergers and IPOs.

Rohit is an economist with over four years of experience across research, academia, government advisory, and consulting. He briefly worked with IPAC, a political strategy firm, and taught a semester at the Department of Economics, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. He later served as a Senior Consultant to the Government of Jharkhand, leading organisational development for a state-level cooperative. Most recently, he was with the Capacity Building Commission (Government of India), coordinating capacity-building initiatives across ministries, including Commerce & Industry, Finance, MSME, and Defence, under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building.

M. Phil in Inclusive Development and Social Justice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
M.A. in Social Work - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry - Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Ahmad is a Senior Lead - Women Empowerment, at EdelGive Foundation, Mumbai. He leads the gender strategy, investments and manages civil society partnerships at the Foundation. He has been working with non-profits to support strategic, institutional and programmatic developments. He manages internal and external stakeholders for gender related work at EdelGive. He has been involved in the overall growth journey of the Foundation. Ahmad previously worked with New Concept Information Systems, New Delhi, where his role involved conducting research and documenting various social development issues and coordination with Mutiple development institutions.

Sukhreet leads the community resilience and climate action portfolio at EdelGive. She is a development sector professional with over seven years of experience across government, academia, civil society organisations, and the private sector. She has her Masters in Disaster Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and graduation in commerce with honors in e-commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas of expertise include disaster risk management, climate change, sustainability, and resilience building. Her key skills are research, program planning and implementation and capacity building.
Her other interests include poetry reading, writing, and hiking.

Masters in Health Sciences,University of Pune
Renuka designs, develops and ensures effective functioning of the M&E systems at EdelGive, to generate evidence for strategic decisions by the foundation. She comes with over 12 years of development sector experience and has worked with both funding and implementing organisations.

Sagar has a master's and M. Phil degree in social work and a master's degree in population studies (MPS) from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai
He comes with more than a decade of experience in developing and implementing M&E systems. He has led various research projects and worked in various capacities with NIRRH(ICMR), KHPT, FHI360, Neerman, and Americares.

Master's in Computer Applications (MCA)
Ruchika assists the Monitoring and Evaluation Team with the collection, interpretation and reporting of numbers. She also designs, analyses and develops structural systems that help in making better business decisions for the Foundation. She has previously interned with NIIT before joining EdelGive.

Aiswarya Augus has recently completed her M.Sc. in Public Policy and Human Development from United Nations University in the Netherlands. She also has a background in Economics and has earlier worked as an Analyst. In the past, she has also associated with United Nations University Climate Resilience Initiative and NGOs like Let’s Do It World and Naandi Foundation. Her interests lie in the areas of developmental economics, public policy and climate change. Her hobbies include traveling, watching movies and trying new things.

Master's in social work, B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Devi Ahilya University, Indore
A Development Sector Professional with 13 years of experience in CSR. At EdelGive, Neha handles key donor relationships with end-to-end program designing, monitoring and implementation. She has experience in working with different stakeholders within the cause areas of Women Empowerment, Livelihood, WASH, Education and Sports.

Dwayne is an instructional designer with 5+ years' experience working in the e-learning industry. He has developed courses for learners in the tech industry as well as the medical industry. His expertise lies in content editing, design, and management.
He loves consuming content in all forms, and also performs improv comedy with various groups in the city.

Chartered Accountant
Pooja is a semi-qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAI) having more than 9 years of experience in the field of accounting, auditing and finance. She has completed her articleship from Joshi Nair & Associates, and her industrial training from Welspun Corp. Ltd. Pooja has worked as Team leader - Accounts and Finance with Craftsvilla Handicrafts Pvt. Ltd. for 2 years, and also as a Financial Analyst with New Haribhakti Business Services LLP. During her years of work, she been part of power, steel , textiles, e-commerce, manufacturing & banking company audits.

Aasiya has joined us as an executive assistant to Naghma, she carries 8 years of experience in the same profile. She started her journey with Bombay works Software Solutions in the year 2011. Later moved to UAE in the year 2015 and joined Innovations Groups in Dubai as a Relationship Manager handling 2 major banks in UAE as clients. Her last job was, as an EA to Technology head at NSEIL Ltd.

She loves reading and travelling.

"Arif has over a decade of professional experience in financial services, investment advisory & global investment immigration solutions.
He is a commerce graduate from Mumbai University and did his MBA in finance from Pune University.
He started his career with Citibank India at their Mumbai office and has worked in other sectors as business development professional. 
He brings experience & knowledge in advising multiple asset classes viz Mutual funds, PMS, AIF, real estate and investment immigration to his clients.
He likes to travel to new cities, build new relationships and passionate to bring a positive change in the society."

With over 8 years of experience in HR, Heena comes with an expertise in recruitment, talent management, organisation development, training and development and employee engagement. She was last associated with Edelweiss Group with their Corporate HR team.She is a self driven and decisive proffesional with the passion for building and retaining highly effective teams. At EdelGIve she will be responsible for managing Communications and People processes for the team.

Prashant has 26 years experience of finance and accounts in various line of Business, out of that 16 years he has been associated with Edelweiss Group. At EdelGive he is responsible for accounts , audits, statutory matters for Commodity market, NBFC, Debt Market, EdelGive Foundation , liasionsing for Statutory audit with S.R. Batliboi, BSR Associates (KPMG), PWC, G.K.Choksi & Company Ahmadabad, Khandelwal Prakash Murari & Company. Initial 5 years of his work experiance, he was associated with R.S.Sanghavi & Associates, Chartered Accountants as Audit Assistant, he looked after the Revenue Audit of various Nationlised Banks, Statutory, Tax & Internal Audit of varios companies, Partner Ship Firms

BTech Computer Science, Amity University, Noida. MBA, Bayes Business School, London, UK
Shruti has 8 years of work experience, including 4 years in the social development sector. Her expertise lies in Donor Reporting, Budgeting, and overall Program Management. Shruti has a prior experience in the IT sector having worked at HCL Technologies and AT Kearney. Her hobbies include reading fictional novels and building 3D puzzles.

Rajat joins us with 16 years of experience in Asset Management, Wealth Advisory and Investments Product. In his recent role at Lighthouse Canton as Senior Vice President, he excelled in private markets business at LC Capital India, focusing on fundraising from large institutional clients. Rajat's diverse background includes valuable contributions at firms such as HSBC Asset Management, HSBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and INDmoney, spanning domains like product, asset management, venture capital and wealth management.
In his free time, Rajat likes to travel and he is also an adventure sports enthusiast.

Nidhi comes with over a decade long experience in corporate and social development sectors. She has worked across diverse industry settings, ranging from non-profit to CSR. Nidhi has completed her MBA in agribusiness marketing and has worked in various capacities with several reputed organizations including Tata Chemicals Ltd, Ambuja Cement Foundation, WOTR and others. Prior to joining EdelGive, Nidhi was managing communications for Americares India Foundation.
In her free time, Nidhi enjoys traveling and exploring local traditions, handicrafts and cuisines. She is also an amateur writer and some of her work has been published in magazines and websites, including Chicken Soup for the Soul, Women's Web and Parent Circle.

Nayantara is a Marketing and Corporate communications professional with 10 years of experience in the industry. Prior to this position she lead and managed the social media and public relations efforts for Tata Trusts across its initiatives and geographies for 8+ years. In this time she launched initiatives and campaigns and build brands and recognition for work done, establishing the organization as a leader in the sector. She has previously managed Marketing Communications for Taj London. She is passionate about developing and generating awareness for brands that are creative, innovative and work towards equity and equality for all.

Amit brings with him extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation with national and international NGOs. During his stint at Bal Raksha Bharat (also known as Save The Children), he led the M&E for all the projects for thematic areas like education, health and nutrition for underserved communities of Mumbai.
In addition to his professional achievements, Amit also has interest in learning foreign languages and is currently learning Spanish.

Tiyasha Sengupta brings with her over 7 years of experience in the Indian Development landscape. Her latest stint was Dasra where she worked in the Funder Advisory team consulting HNIs and UHNIs to design their philanthropic journeys. Prior to that she has worked across verticles in Program Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Employee Engagement, CSR ad Capacity Building with leading intermediaries in the sector like Give and Toolbox India Foundation. She is looking forward to continuing her journey towards strengthening the social impact ecosystem with a community-first approach.
Beyond work, Tiyasha enjoys reading medicals thrillers, attending music concerts, following Formula 1 and is an aviation enthusiast.

Sabah Siddiqui joins our team with five years of professional experience in the development sector. She is an organized and detail-oriented professional with expertise in grant management, facilitation and monitoring and evaluation, particularly in collaboration with grassroots organizations. During her tenure at Shadhika, a US-based grant-making organizations, Sabah successfully managed the Scholarship Program and Alum Network. She has also contributed to academic literature with her publication titled "Role and Contribution of SMEs to the Indian Economy" in the International Interdisciplinary Conference. Additionally, Sabah has experience working with Empower- The Emerging Market Foundation as a social media intern.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading, writing poetry and Ghazals.

Sagar brings three years of robust experience in project management and coordination. His professional journey includes a notable tenure as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), where he collaborated with NGOs, corporations, and government authorities to ensure the seamless execution of CERE’s Urban Afforestation Project (UAP) across India. Currently, as an Assistant Manager – Operations at EdelGive, Sagar oversees coordination, documentation, and process optimization within the investment team.Sagar holds a Master of Science degree in Botany, specializing in Cytogenetics, Molecular Biology, and Plant Biotechnology. He further enhanced his expertise with a Post Graduate Program in Development Management (PGPDM) from the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), Noida.
Outside of his professional commitments, Sagar is an avid traveller, photographer, and culinary experimenter. His core values are deeply rooted in the 3E’s – Empathy, Ethics, and Excellence

Percival Holt has over 5 years leadership in the development sector in the areas of youth empowerment, education and skill development, healthcare, community development, public policy, capacity building and partnerships in government, national and international conferences.
In his free time he loves to read, cook, bake, travel and meet new people.

Chetan is a dedicated professional with a passion for travel, education, and community development. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Travel and Tourism Industry Management and a Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University. Currently, Chetan serves as the Chief Manager at EdelGive Foundation, Mumbai, where he leads the Education and Investments portfolio. His work involves supporting non-profits in their efforts to promote education and livelihood development. Chetan has a proven track record in managing stakeholders, building partnerships, and guiding students towards their career goals. In addition to his professional experience, Chetan has contributed to the academic community as a lecturer at the University of Mumbai.

Dnyaneshwar is a Social Development Professional with 24+ years of experience leading large-scale, multi-sector programs across India, supported by government bodies, multilateral agencies, and major philanthropies. Skilled in program design, implementation, M&E, and stakeholder engagement, he has a strong grasp of government systems and the ability to translate grassroots insights into policy impact. A collaborative leader with experience working across NGOs, academia, and agencies like UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women, and Tata Trusts, Dnyaneshwar is passionate about inclusive development, systems thinking, and creating scalable models that advance climate resilience, social justice, and sustainable growth.

Rupal is a self-motivated professional with 18 years of experience in accounting systems, backed by a B.Com degree, along with certifications in Accredited Advanced Biblical Counselling (Level 1) and Special Education. She has worked with Jeevan Aadhar Transformative Aftercare Services Pvt. Ltd. as Senior Accountant, holding key responsibilities across MIS reporting, financial accounting up to finalization, statutory audit assistance, taxation, and compliance. Rupal brings strong supervisory and analytical skills and has consistently supported management with accurate and timely financial reporting.

Rajratna is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, where he also completed his master’s degree. He holds a bachelor’s in science from Fergusson College and qualified the UGC NET in Economics in 2019. With over nine years in the development sector, he has contributed to education, sports, and livelihoods. He began at NIAS as a Research Associate and later served as an Economist in Vidarbha. At CInI, he led education programs in Nandurbar, and at Tata Trusts, he managed over 30 programs. He is also passionate about travel and exploring cuisines.