Advisory Council
Farida Raj
Author and Special Needs Remedial Educator
Columnist for the popular English Daily’s- Deccan Chronicle, The New Indian Express, The Hindu and also the Urdu Daily, Siasat.
She set up Centre for Special Education where children are assessed and provided remedial education.
She authored “Breaking Through”, A handbook for teachers and parents of children with SLD’s and “Understanding Learning Difficulties” for Cambridge University Press and “Struggling Minds” to understand the stress children are going through and help them.
Authored 3 books on women’s health in Urdu languge
Recipient of Laadli Media Award 2010-2011 for gender sensitivity
Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from Urdu Academy, Government of State of Telangana
She is a certified RE&CBT Counsellor providing psychological counselling to children, adolescents and parents.
Life Member of
- Palliative care society of Hyderabad.
- Craft Council of Telangana
- Member of NGO, ‘Break the Silence”, working on prevention of child sexual abuse
- Executive committee member of Multiple Sclerosis society of Hyderabad
- Faculty – Board of Genetic Counselling India [BGCI].
Director of Sameera Travels .
Rimjhim Ray
​ Founding member/ CMO at Heyophone/ MyOperator, disrupting CX for India's SMBs.
Founding member/ CMO at Heyophone/ MyOperator, disrupting CX for India's SMBs.
She is an entrepreneur/ investor and board member with diverse experience across India, North America, APAC and EU.
She is also the National President of the WICCI Angel Investment Council, am on the Advisory Board of NASSCOM Insights.
Besides her work she is also an published author - her book 7 women 7 secrets was a Times Group Books best-seller.
She is an Impactpreneur. After losing her younger sister, she has been building Sanghamitra Oasis, a series of urban mindful spaces and communities to spread awareness of celebral health.
She loves running marathons, trekking and painting along with her 8 year old daughter.
Rob Greaney
RISK COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIST .
Rob is an Entrepreneur, Audio Engineer, Songwriter, Film Producer and Educational Game Maker. He has applied these skills as well as his business, marketing and administration experience in international development projects to develop learning materials to help bring about radical and sometimes lifesaving behaviour change.
Rob loves nothing better than to dissect problems in order to reverse engineer smart, simple and efficient solutions.
Rob is motivated by relationships. The success that he has enjoyed comes through his passion to understand and build meaningful relationships with people from all walks and cultures.
Arathi P Balaji
CoFounder of Golden Square
Arathi P Balaji is passionate about helping entrepreneurs. It gives her joy to connect people, help them collaborate and make things happen for them !! She is co-founder of the 27+ year old Golden Square Serviced Private offices (coworking spaces) located in 5 locations in Bangalore. She was also Area Director of BNI Bangalore where she helped with operations and facilitated members to help each other get referrals for their business. She considers herself a caring supporter.
Arathi is happy to share her life and work with Balaji Pasumarthy and is proud of her 2 well balanced independent children Abhiram and Aditi. She loves movies, comedy shows and just being simple & content !!
