{"id":32,"date":"2016-01-05T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundationseed.org\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2019-10-27T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:37:34","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foundationseed.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Story: The beginning, the Journey, and the aspiration\u00a0…<\/span><\/h2>\n

The SEED foundation brings together a highly competent team whose members have excelled in their academic and professional careers. <\/span><\/span><\/span>The story began when five friends with a vibrant spirit of giving back to society came together and decided\u00a0to do “something good” daily in their lives despite being\u00a0extremely busy in their prosperous and flourishing careers. These friends had one thing in common. They spent their four years of youth together in the same hostel (H7) in IIT Bombay in the 1990s. From the IIT, they departed and continued their journey of life on the successful path and achieved their milestones in chosen fields. They met\u00a0again in silicon valley in 2009. The spark of living beyond the narrow confines of material successes ignited their minds and melted their hearts. This paradigm shift in their minds gave birth to the idea of a conscious organized effort for empowering the marginalized, and paving the way towards building sustainable communities for peaceful coexistence. Their common key areas of interest were environmental sustainability, education, organic farming and biodiversity, and an improvement in the quality of life of underserved people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr.Ravikant\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Ravikant<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>is an associate professor and atmospheric scientist in the department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.\u00a0Ravikant\u2019s life journey is very inspiring. He belongs to a farmer\u2019s family in a remote village of Hamirpur district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Through his hard work, brilliance, and ability\u00a0to rise against all odds, he cleared the prestigious IIT admission test in 1994. He pursued his Bachelors and Masters in Technology, in chemical engineering from IIT Mumbai. Thereafter, he did his PhD from Hong Kong University, and subsequently Post Doc from Carnegie Mellon University in USA. While working as a Post Doc in CMU in USA, he became inspired from the life of Gandhi and started to work for several\u00a0social causes\u00a0in India. In order\u00a0to unite like-minded people towards social and sustainability issues, Ravikant founded a \u00a0Sustainability Innovations and Knowledge Center<\/span> (Bharat Uday \u00a0Karmayogi Ashram)<\/strong> <\/span>and laid a foundation for a residential school (Bharat Uday Gurukul<\/span><\/strong>) for under-served communities in rural India. Ravikant has\u00a0worked tirelessly to develop an economic model for rural sustainable development with focus on organic farming. Through his efforts, Ravi’s\u00a0eventual aim is to create vibrant, self-reliant, prosperous and harmonious rural communities.<\/strong> Ravikant \u00a0is an inspiring personality as\u00a0<\/span>a combination of a \u00a0scientist and a social reformer. People with\u00a0such a deep devotion to the nation are rare and they are a great inspiration to many others. India needs such young, educated, visionary and devoted social workers\u00a0to take the country\u00a0to newer heights and bring a true transformation at the grassroots.\u00a0Ravikant also writes poetry, short stories and novels in Hindi. His writings depict social, cultural, environmental and political circumstances, personal emotional experiences, sufferings, moods and aspirations for truth, compassion and spiritual realizations by a common man.\u00a0Ravi is currently serving in the Board of Directors of SEED Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Gaurav Shrivastav<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Gaurav Shrivastav<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0did his B.Tech from IIT Bombay, and Masters from the University of Texas @Austin. At present he\u00a0works in Google as a \u00a0manager in Bangalore India. Gaurav has 20 years of experience working in corporate America on cutting edge semiconductor projects. \u00a0He has a deep commitment\u00a0towards the rise of India as a prosperous and peaceful nation and has been associated with like-minded organization such as “Bharat Uday Karmayogi Ashram” since 2007. He has a keen interest in leveraging his corporate experience and technical know-how for developing sustainable and scale-able solutions for India. Gaurav\u00a0is currently serving in the Board of Directors of SEED Foundation.<\/div>\n
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Neeraj Kumar<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n


\nNeeraj Kumar<\/strong><\/em> is an IIT Bombay graduate (B.Tech.) in Chemical Engineering and \u00a0a Post Graduate in Business Administration from IIM Bangalore. Currently, he\u00a0lives with his family in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a management professional \u00a0and works as an Industry Principal. Besides work, Neeraj is passionate about sports, music and cooking. He believes in contributing to social and humanitarian\u00a0causes specifically for sustainable rural transformation with focus on organic farming, education and for a better\u00a0 environment for our future generations. Neeraj is currently serving in SEED foundation’s Executive Board as a Secretary.<\/p>\n

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