DEASRA FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Advait Kurlekar

Job Titles:
  • Business Strategy & Processes, HR
Advait has more than 30 years of experience in industry, management consulting and coaching. His expertise is in the areas of business strategy, designing business processes. He has experience across various sectors - manufacturing, automotive, Infotech, Hospitality, BFSI, Retail

Bhagyashri Mhatre

Job Titles:
  • Food Technologist
  • Food - Registration & Product Development

Bhaskar Thakur

Job Titles:
  • Growth - Digital Marketing
Expertise Digital Transformation, Growth, and Marketing Bio Bhaskar is an Experienced Entrepreneur and a Seasoned Digital Transformation Leader with demonstrated history of turning around and scaling businesses online. He is among the first wave of digital marketers in India has built and scaled marketing operations across industries, multiple times in his career. He has been part of the founding team of four startups in the Internet and Mobile space and mentored, consulted and advised multiple startups on growth and marketing. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of upGrowth.

Dr. Anand Godse

Job Titles:
  • Expert
Dr. Anand Godse is an expert in the field of Psychology. Supporting entrepreneurs during their journey through soft skills, communication, emotional intelligence, and other areas of self awareness is Dr. Anand's core expertise. He works with the transformation process for entrepreneurs by working on their personal growth, behavior, professionalism, team building, confidence, entrepreneurial mindset as well as satisfaction and happiness during work. He is also specialized in working with young entrepreneurs and college students during their early phase of entrepreneurship.

Dr. CA Manohar Kale

Job Titles:
  • Finance - Tax & Accounting
Expertise Business Planning, Funding Proposal Creation, Income Tax, GST, Internal Controls & Systems in Business, Legal & Statutory Compliances, Risk Management, Project Management & Monitoring, Day-To-Day Business Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due-Diligence, Employee Training & Development, Budgetary Control, etc. Bio A Chartered Accountant and Doctor in Management & Finance, Dr. Kale brings 30 years of hands-on experience in finance, accounting, taxation, law and more - both in India and abroad. His expertise includes the domains of Finance, Accounting, Taxation, Auditing, Banking and other associated subjects.

Dr. Jyoti Gogte

Job Titles:
  • Finance - Banking & Admininstration

Kuldip Joshi

Job Titles:
  • HR - Training & Management
Expertise Human Resource Management and Labour Organisation Development, Corporate training & Senior level placement. Bio Mr. Joshi has an industrial experience in Indian organizations and MNCs. He was in HR Consultancy since June 1986. He is a recognized guide for Doctoral Programme of Pune University and has also served as an Executive Coach for Top Leadership Programme at ISB, Hyderabad.

Leena Khandekar

Job Titles:
  • Proprietor at Lee 's Beauty
Ms. Khandekar has completed her graduation and post-graduation in Spa from CIDESCO, (Zurich) CIBTAC (London). She has started her own Lee's Beauty and Spa Training Institute.

Makarand Pundalik

Job Titles:
  • Import & Export

Manisha Chandak

Job Titles:
  • Food - Registration & Product Development

Mr Aniket More

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Mr Aniket More is a consultant for start-ups through his venture named "Sahii Business". With immense research he was able to crack a formula that works on building a well-organized and famed food brand. Having 10+ years of experience in various industries, he believes that the food industry fairly dominates the market.

Mr. Abhay Kardeguddi

Job Titles:
  • Growth - Sales & Marketing
  • Trainer at NIVA Growth Consultants
Mr. Abhay Kardeguddi is the CEO and Chief Consultant-Trainer at NIVA Growth Consultants, Pune. NIVA works with a vision of "Helping Organisations GROW". Mr. Abhay has 30+ years of rich experience in the field of Strategy, Sales, Marketing and CRM with an excellent track record. As a consultant, he has guided 250 plus organisations from diverse fields such as electromagnetic to polymers and plant nursery to software. He plays an advisory role cum faculty at reputed institutes like Symbiosis, PUMBA, Shivaji University, TISS - Mumbai and others. He has written 3 books on CRM - Customer relationship Management. He has conducted 400+ Training Workshops in India and abroad.

Mr. Chakor Gandhi

Job Titles:
  • Business Growth & Growth Strategy
Mr. Chakor Gandhi is DME, MBA & self-employed for more than 30 years. He is a successful entrepreneur and handles different portfolios like trading, distribution, retailing as well as manufacturing. He has also partnered with multinationals. Has a passion for teaching. He has been Mentoring, Consulting & Coaching Businesses for Growth for more than 25 years. Closely Associated with Startups, Incubation Centers & a part of Startup Eco System.

Mrs.Kavita Awasthee

Job Titles:
  • Owner

Ms. Sushma Kolwankar

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Director of GF ( Global Fortune ) Mission India Pvt.Ltd
  • Import & Export
Ms. Sushma Kolwankar is the founder and director of GF (Global Fortune) Mission India Pvt.Ltd. She is specialized in providing training and consultancy of International Business and Entrepreneurship Development. She also is the proprietor of Kaushal Food Products which is into manufacturing, trading and exporting of Agro Products, Processed Food and Spices etc.

Nikhil Kulkarni

Job Titles:
  • Certified Google Trainer
Expertise He supports every segment of society to reduce their manual working hours & bring digitalization to it. Bio He has developed different Modules for Micro, Small, Medium businesses to bring Automation to their businesses. In past two years, he trained thousands of entrepreneurs with free Google tools &

Pramod Bakre

Job Titles:
  • Textile - Retail Management

Rahul Limaye

Job Titles:
  • Growth - Sales & Marketing
Expertise Business growth, positioning and transition; Technology adoption and scalability; Processes management and optimization; Market research and competition.

Sandeep Tapaswi

Job Titles:
  • Management & Growth
Expertise • Understanding bottlenecks for entrepreneur, enterprise. • Collating them • Finding Solutions to provide escape velocity to the enterprise Bio Sandeep Tapaswi started Fands Infonet immediately after his Engineering in Computer Science from the Pune University while he was studying MBA.

Smita Deshpande

Job Titles:
  • Proprietor at Orchid Beauty, Skin and Hair
Mr. Deshpande is a Digital Marketing professional with comprehensive experience of managing multi-functional digital operations. He is serving as a head in digital marketing and CRM at Kumar properties. He has a 20 years of experience of managing operations aboard ship-defence. Mrs. Deshpande is a beauty professional with 25 years of experience in Skin, Hair & beauty treatments.

Sudhir Gijare

Job Titles:
  • Finance - Credit & Banking