[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1577672927484{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}” el_class=”game-team-single-rowone”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”7622″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” el_class=”game-team-single-image”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][tek_sectiontitle st_title=”Ravi Venkatesan” st_title_tag=”” st_subtitle=”Founder” st_subtitle_decoration=”” st_title_color=”#424242″ st_subtitle_color=”#424242″ st_title_size=”40″ st_separator_enable=”separator_off” st_text_align=”text-left” st_width=”st_8_columns” st_extra_class=”game-team-single-titles”][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-linkedin” color=”white” background_style=”rounded” background_color=”custom” size=”xs” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fravi-venkatesan-ba15b820%2F||target:%20_blank|” custom_background_color=”#6354a6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Ravi Venkatesan is the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation
Ravi is a former Chairman of the Bank of Baroda where he oversaw the turnaround of India’s second largest public sector bank. As a board member then Co-Chairman of Infosys Ltd., he helped steer the company through a challenging set of transitions. Prior to this, as Chairman of Microsoft India, Ravi helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha, a computer literacy program which has so far trained over 40 million school children in India. He was previously the Chairman of Cummins India and led its transformation into India’s leading provider of engines and power generation solutions. He also helped establish the Cummins College of Engineering, India’s first engineering college for women, in Pune.
Ravi is the founder of Social Venture Partners India, a pan-India network of philanthropists and is a partner at impact investor Unitus Ventures.
Ravi has a BTech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is the author of an acclaimed book “Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere” published by Harvard Business Review.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]