About Us

INDIC AI - Vision & Mission

Vision: A world of equal education and employment opportunities for “Students with disabilities” (SWD).

Mission: We are using AI & Tech solutions to solve the accessibility and affordability challenges that prevent education and employment of SWD. We work in collaboration with NGOs, education institutes, corporate & individual donors to automate the process of on-boarding SWD in mainstream education institutes and companies. We are online platform enabling Employment and Financial Independence by focussing on Counselling, Scholarship, Education, Mentorship, and Placements

Meet Our Team

Sarita Chand

Co-founder

She has 17 years of experience as an Edtech entrepreneur and in Aditya Birla Group and Goldman Sachs. She has done her MBA from SIBM, Pune, and Kellogg’s School of Management.

Sarita Chand

Co-founder

Ms. Sarita Chand is responsible for funding, sponsorships from individuals and CSR, partnering with education institutes and NGOs and manages the overall operations.
She has been given the Entrepreneur of the year award, by SIBM Pune college in 2020. Earlier, she was the co-founder of Edupristine (Neev Knowledge Management). Edupristine is one of the largest training institutes for working professionals in India. In her 10 years of entrepreneurial and managerial experience with Edupristine, she was primarily responsible for business strategy and sales. Edupristine was sold to Adlatam Global Education (ATGE – NYSE) in 2018.
Previously, she was a Group management trainee with Aditya Birla Group and worked as a financial analyst with Goldman Sachs. She is also running an NGO since 2016 for 250 underprivileged children in Gurgaon, India for enrolling them in CBSE English Medium schools.
She is an alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, India and College of Business Studies, University of Delhi.

Dinesh Chaudhary

Advisory

Dinesh has 17 years of experience covering Banking, Risk Analytics and AI product management. He is an MBA from IIM - Indore.

Dinesh Chaudhary

Advisory

Dinesh Chaudhary is the CTO and is overseeing the developments of our Tech Solutions and Apps. Indic AI Access platform is powered by cutting-edge NLP algorithm and trained on 1K+ hours of Indian education dataset for launch in Dec 2020. The product will benefit Indian mainstream institutes to make their non-accessible content accessible for 5 Million Visually Impaired.
Indic AI Sign will be the only ISL app (Indian Sign Language) in India with real time translation using 3 D animated characters for education and employment of 5 Million Deaf individuals by Jan 2021.
He has fifteen years of experience in banking, risk management and analytics; including five years with a leading private bank in India.
He has led analytics and solutions initiatives for multiple organizations.

Aloke Malik

Advisory

Founder of Doctor 24x7. Ex President Peter England Retail and Managing Director of ESPN Star Sports. He is also actively associated with Sajida Foundation a leading NGO in Bangladesh. Alumni of IIM Calcutta

Aloke Malik

Advisory

Sameeksha Thakur

CEO

With a marketing experience of over 14 years in the corporate world, Ms. Sameeksha Thakur has developed a nonpareil understanding of the individuals. She has helped influential brands like Future Group, Reebok, Nielsen, Tata, and more through her expertise in FMCG, Market Research, and Retail Marketing. While working in the corporate sector, Sameeksha always wanted to giveback to the society. Following a cause close to her heart, she decided to take a turn and joined Indic AI as its first CEO.

Sameeksha Thakur

CEO

Saifullah Khalidi

Education Coordinator

For more than 3 years, Saifullah has been working as a freelance content writer for a number of clients around the globe. He specializes in tech writing where he is able to truly explore his passion for new and upcoming gadgets. He is a graduate of Lucknow University and his will to bring a notable change for people with disabilities in the country has brought him to Indic AI. Also, he is a rare disease patient with a track record of disability activism.

Saifullah Khalidi

Education Coordinator

Umica Sehgal

Executive

Umica has always had a dream to create employment opportunities for People with Disabilities. She has delivered talks for the parents of Children for Disabilities at E-Fulcrum. Her Always motivated and never giving up spirit is something that motivates people to never give up on their dreams.

Umica Sehgal

Executive

Neha Shivran

Co-founder

Neha has 15 years of experience in FinTech, Data Science and Banking. She has done her B-tech from NSIT Delhi, MBA from Cranfield University, UK and studied Deep Learning from Washington University.

Neha Shivran

Co-founder

Neha Shivran is co-founder of Indic AI and she is heading the Technology and Artificial Intelligence stream. She is responsible for conceptualizing, training and deploying deep learning models, managing technical team and coordinating with technology vendors. She has over 10 years of experience in data science, analytics and financial industry. Presently, she is Chief Analytics and Data Officer at a Fintech startup and is responsible for developing and deploying advanced machine learning models.
Previously, she was Director of Risk and Analytics at Lenddo EFL India, an alternate data startup. She has also worked as Head of Custom Modeling with India’s largest credit bureau.
She is an Engineer from NSIT, Delhi and MBA from Cranfield University, UK.

Mohan Sundaram

Advisory

CEO of Artiliba Foundation. President of Disability NGO Alliance. Associated with incubation program of IIM Bangalore. Mr. Sundaram has mentored over 1,200 budding entrepreneurs. Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad

Mohan Sundaram

Advisory

Dipendra Manocha

Advisory

Director of Daisy Consortium, developing Countries. President of National Association of Blind. Member of the Executive Committee of the World Blind Union. He is the Managing Trustee of the Saksham Trust

Dipendra Manocha

Advisory

Amit Mehra

Placement Coordinator

With more than 5 years of experience in recruitment and admin, Amit Mehra is always keen on contributing for social welfare. He suffers from a locomotive disability and yet his efforts have helped numerous people to lead a good life with better resources. His experience will help Indic AI to achieve the goals.

Amit Mehra

Placement Coordinator

Indranil Mukherjee

Executive

With more than 10 years of sales exposure in the pharma industry, Indranil has joined Indic AI with a purpose of getting a better inclusion of PwDs in the corporate sector. Suffered from a brain stroke, he has restricted mobility where he is able to only use his right hand for all the tasks.

Indranil Mukherjee

Executive

Gaurav Bansal

Advisory

Gaurav is a real estate developer having executed various commercial office and industrial real estate projects in Delhi. He is an MBA from the prestigious Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. His passion for having a meaningful disruptive impact for the differently-abled community makes him associated with Indic-AI.

Gaurav Bansal

Advisory

Aparna Labroo

Advisory

Professor of Digital Marketing with Kellogg's College of Management- Northwestern University. Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and Cornell University.

Aparna Labroo

Advisory

Professor of Digital Marketing with Kellogg's College of Management- Northwestern University. Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and Cornell University.

Purva G. Mittal

Manager

Purva G. Mittal

Manager

Purva Mittal has over 12 years of experience in patient advocacy and disability activism. She herself is a rare disease patient. She has shown an active presence on multiple platforms to voice the urgency of better policies and their implementation for people with disabilities. She has been working tirelessly with pharmaceuticals and government of India to provide quality and affordable healthcare to people with disabilities. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in political marketing from FMS. She is carving her own way to increase the presence of people with disability in the Indian political scenario. She is an alumnus of Delhi School of Economics and College of Business Studies.

Shivakant Singh

Executive

Shivakant Singh has a passion for teaching and it shows. He has tutored more than 300 students over a period of 3 years. He was born in Banda, Uttar Pradesh and brought up in Delhi. Shivakant has completed his schooling from CBSE board and graduated in BA (Hons) English from Delhi University. He is a late blind, aftermath of brain tumor diagnosis. Shivakant excels in teaching basic to advanced English to the students of junior secondary to higher classes.

Shivakant Singh

Executive

Chandramani Semwal

Executive

Chandramani is a commerce graduate and boasts of amazing communication skills. Being a visually-impaired and a computer nerd, a combination we rarely find, he has a track record of training VI candidates for a number of tasks. His presence at Indic AI helped us to diversify our services by providing digital literacy to all the VI students.

Chandramani Semwal

Executive

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