::: SoL South Foundation :::

	Founding Members
		Aparna Ballakur
		Deepa Mahesh
		Halasya Sundaram
		Hemangi Ghosh
		Manik Gulati
		Prabhakar Ram
		Raja Chidambaram
		RamPrasad Moudgalya
		Suresh K T
		Suresh Shottam
		Vinay Dabhokar

Functional Aspects of SoL South Foundation:
SoL South will, in order to move towards its objectives, functionally provide trainings, seminars, symposiums, conferences, retreats, etc. It will also engage in research and studies. SoL South will also work with Organizations, institutions and Government Agencies whereby it will not only provide value added services but also learn from all its endeavours.

Future Aspirations:
SoL South intents to establish its networks in India and Asia with people and institutions who have same aim and objectives. In the future, SoL South will also offer scholarships to learners whose purpose is to deliver back to the society through their learning.

Founding Members

Aparna Ballakur: Aparna Ballakur is a HR professional & is currently VP of Human Resources at Yahoo! With degrees in Engineering & Management, Aparna chose Human Resources as a career, because of her belief that the Human Resources function can significantly enable success of an organization. Aparna is an avid reader with special interest in science and creativity.

Deepa Mahesh: Deepa Mahesh is a HR professional managing the Talent Development function for Madura Garments, Lifestyle Brands Division (Aditya Birla Group Company). She has worked in various sub functions of HR over the past 8 years and is extremely passionate about seeing individuals grow. She enjoys designing and implementing interventions to enhance team performance. She is a life long learner and takes every aspect of life as a learning experience. She enjoys dancing and singing bhajans in her pass time.

Halasyam Sundaram: B.M. Halasya Sundaram being called by friends as Hala is 60 years young. He is basically a Sociologist and holds an M.Phil in Organizational Sociology. He has worked for about 30 years in Corporates, and has also worked with NGOs. During the past ten years he has been a Consultant. His interest lies in Indian Myths, Indian Psychology and in both he attempts to find psycho-spiritual meaning and growth.

Hemangi Ghosh: Hemangi graduated from Sir JJ School of Arts in Mumbai. She has exhibited her works in prestigious galleries and has curated shows of her contemporaries. A keen observer of life, as an educationist she has been working with students, teachers and schools, facilitating teaching methods espoused by Dr. Rudolf Steiner by way of workshops, imparting classroom sessions, intensive training and mentoring. Her motivation to instill objectivism and ingenuity in her work comes from meeting diverse cross cultural and ethnic communities. The insights from these contacts then transforms into a web of ideas, images and exchanges.

Manik Gulati: Manik is currently working as Director for Engg at Airvana. Considers himself a student of people and organizational behavior. Doing new things and challenging paradigms is what gives him kick - normal is boring. Loves traveling and reading.

Prabhakar Ram: Prabhakar Ram is the founder director of Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd. Newgen provides epublishing services to major publishers worldwide. Before starting Newgen, Prabhakar was running a printing and packaging business. He believes that firms and people can maintain their competitive advantage only if they are actively learning. He joined the Society for Organisational Learning with the objective of bringing world class learning technologies to India. He lives in Chennai with his wife and son.

Raja Chidambaram: Raja is an independent consultant offering unique high impact consulting solutions in the areas of 'Leadership Development' and Change facilitation. He has worked in these areas for the last 15 years. He has worked with more than a hundred client organizations from various sectors (Corporate, Social Development and Education). He has worked with principles & methods of ‘Fifth Discipline’ for the 13 years both in personal life & organizational consulting. He is the founder President of SoL South Foundation.

RamPrasad Moudgalya: RamPrasad is a Telecom/Wireless Engineering Director and currently heads the Engineering and India Operations of a late-stage fabless semiconductor start-up. RamPrasad is an avid reader with special interest in management practices and peak performance. He actively works in his native village trying to help farmers realize their potential through micro-financing and adult education.

Suresh K T: K T Suresh - a NGO worker, who has been blessed with a life of confronting realities. He has had the privilege of learning and growing through an active engagement with many people, their practices and their institutions. With training in management and international trade laws intervening in the micro, miso and macro spheres of public policy has been his passion for over two and half decades.

Suresh Shottam: Suresh Shottam is a naturopath who has spent much of his life blending the healing arts with medical science to produce an approach to wellness that is both inventive and intuitive. He especially loves to help people with so-called incurable diseases. Suresh is a published author who is active in the wellness community both in India and abroad.

Vinay Dabhokar: Vinay is an entrepreneur and management consultant with passion to catalyze systematic innovation in organizations. He assists organizations in getting future-ready by developing assets like technical ladder, innovation lab, innovation process. He is paranoid about usability and maintainability of assets. In the past 2.5 years, he has worked with 30+ organizations and facilitated trainings/workshops in technical leadership development, innovation management, systems thinking, design of presentation.

Before starting consulting business, he worked with Sasken for 8 years where he managed technology and delivery in products and services businesses. Prior to Sasken he worked with Motorola for 2 years in the Power PC design center in Austin. He has done B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo.

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