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The Impact Investors Council (IIC) is the leading national industry body to strengthen Indian Impact Investing.
IIC’s mission is to encourage private capital to bridge the social investment gap in India

“Impact investments have the potential to grow 20 to 24 percent a year between now and 2025, reaching $6 – $8 billion in deployment”
– McKinsey & co, 2017
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“In order to establish a sustainable impact investment market, governments need to be involved in multiple layers of intervention”
– Brookings, 2019
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From the IIC Channel

Sandeep Farias

Sandeep co-founded Elevar Equity in 2008 with the view that “Lack of access to basic services for underserved communities is an issue of discrimination that must be challenged. If a service can be provided by a business on an affordable cost, high scale basis, it is imperative that we leverage the power of markets to scale and provide access to life changing services to millions of individuals and their communities.”

Sandeep has close to 20 years of experience in diverse areas such as emerging markets investing, microfinance and other financial services, governance, organizational design and corporate law. He has consistently been passionate about working with early stage companies that foster economic development. Sandeep has led Series A investments in what are now some of India’s best “low income community” focused companies. These companies include Ujjivan (a highly respected urban microfinance institution), Vistaar (the leading micro and small enterprise lender), Shubham (a community focused housing finance company), Madura (one of the most efficient microfinance institutions), Glocal (a fast growing ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ hospital chain), Indifi (an innovative technology integrated lending marketplace for SMEs) and SecureNow (distributor of customized general insurance for SMEs). He currently sits on the board of Madura, Vistaar, Shubham, Glocal, Indifi and SecureNow. Prior to Elevar, between 2004 and 2008 he founded and ran the Indian operations of Unitus, a microfinance accelerator where he partnered with, and supported, some of India’s leading microfinance institutions (who were in the early stages of their journey). The companies he has invested in, or partnered with, have together reached close to 20 million customers in the last few years.

Sandeep started his career in 1996 after completing an integrated law and arts degree from the National Law School of India University. Over eight years, he worked at two leading corporate law firms (Amarchand and Nishith Desai Associates), worked with clients such as Google, Amazon, Singapore Telecom and Temasek and founded NDA’s corporate and development sector practice. He also established NDA’s offices in Palo Alto and Bangalore and helped the firm win the Asian Law Firm of the Year (Pro Bono) Award from the International Financial Law Review for his work with the American India Foundation after the Gujarat earthquake in 2000. Sandeep is also passionate about politics, design, cycling and good conversations.

The Impact Investors Council (IIC) is the leading national industry body to strengthen Indian Impact Investing. IIC’s mission is to encourage private capital to bridge the social investment gap in India

From the IIC Channel

Mona KachhwahaDirectorInvestments, Caspian Investments

Vishal MehtaCo-founder & Managing DirectorLok CapitalFounding Director IIC

Amit BhatiaChairman of AspireFounding CEO IIIC(October 2014-December 2016)

SUGANDHI LUTHRAManager: design & communication

NEHA BHATNAGAR Head : Partnerships

SIDDHARTH NAUTIYAL

ROYSTON BRAGANZACEO, GRAMEEN FOUNDATION

KARTIK DESAIEXECUTIVE DIRECTORASHA IMPACT

Geeta GoelVice President, Mission InvestingMichael & Susan Dell Foundation

Anurag Aggarwal

Jinesh Shah

LM Singh

Nitin Aggarwal

Preeti Sinha

Ritu Verma

Mukesh Sharma

Ayesha Gopal

Anoop Nambiar

Saneesh Singh

Ushnisha

Urmi Sengupta

Sarika Mendu

Nisha Datt

Sandeep Farias

Ajit Mahadevan

Anuradha

​Srikrishna Ramamurthy

​Anil Sinha, Senior Advisor,GIIN

​JayaroopaJeyabharthi, Principal, Patamar Capital

Kartik Desai

Philip Varnum,Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, Lemelson Foundation

RaviVukkudala, CEO, Northern Arc

Mark Kahn,Founding Partner, Omnivore Fund

Pradeep Nair,Regional Director, Ford Foundation

Raunak Singhvi FO, Graymatters Capital

Abhijit NathCountry Manager, Insitor Impact Asia Fund

Binali SuhandaniSouth Asia Director, AVPN

Sucharita KamanathANDE India Chapter Manager

Rema Subramanium Partner, Ankur Capital

Sanjay NayyarCEO, KKR

The Impact Investors Council (IIC) is the leading national industry body to strengthen Indian Impact Investing.
IIC’s mission is to encourage private capital to bridge the social investment gap in India

Mona Kachhwaha
Director
Investments, Caspian Investments

Vishal Mehta
Co-founder & Managing Director
Lok Capital
Founding Director IIC

Amit Bhatia
Chairman of Aspire
Founding CEO IIIC
(October 2014-December 2016)

SUGANDHI LUTHRA
Manager: design & communication

NEHA BHATNAGAR
Head : Partnerships

ROYSTON BRAGANZA
CEO, GRAMEEN FOUNDATION

KARTIK DESAI
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ASHA IMPACT

Geeta Goel
Vice President, Mission Investing
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Srikrishna Ramamurthy

Anil Sinha, Senior Advisor,GIIN

JayaroopaJeyabharthi, Principal, Patamar Capital

Philip Varnum,
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, Lemelson Foundation

Mark Kahn,
Founding Partner, Omnivore Fund

Pradeep Nair,
Regional Director, Ford Foundation

Raunak Singhvi
FO, Graymatters Capital

Abhijit Nath
Country Manager, Insitor Impact Asia Fund

Binali Suhandani
South Asia Director, AVPN

Sucharita Kamanath
ANDE India Chapter Manager

Rema Subramanium
Partner, Ankur Capital

Sanjay Nayyar
CEO, KKR