Team Members

Ankur Pegu: Ankur has 8 years of experience across different industry verticals such as development, insurance, healthcare, rural infrastructure, telecom and IT. Ankur completed his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2001. While at IIT, he worked with India's first campus startup and left it to join the advisory practice of KPMG in 2001. In KPMG, Ankur worked in 7 states of India, project managing large-scale transformation projects. Ankur's decision to start Swasth as a Trustee was spurned by his desire to implement rapidly scalable health-systems.

Arvind Saraf: Arvind completed his B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 2001. Post that he went to MIT for his PhD. Arvind took a break from his PhD and returned to India in 2005, joining Google as part of their R&D team.  He has been a grassroot level volunteer for various development sector organisations. Arvind left Google and started Swasth as a Trustee to pursue his passion in the development sector

Shruti Veenam: Shruti finished her B.E. in Computer Science from BMSCE, Bangalore in 2005. Subsequently she worked with an IT company for over a year. After 4 years of active volunteering at various NGOs, she moved on to pursue her passion in the development sector in April 2007. She worked as the coordinator of a youth awareness programme at a Bangalore based NGO, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy. Shruti currently acts as the overall co-ordinator for the various operations of the Trust

Sundeep Kapila: Sundeep completed his B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2001. While at IIT, he worked with a campus-based startup and subsequently with a Swedish company to develop a product which has been spun off as a separate company. Sundeep joined the India practice of McKinsey &Co in 2001 and worked with them for 6.5 years specialising in the Healthcare and Development sectors. Sundeep left McKinsey in Jan '08 to pursue his passion in the development sector and started Swasth as a Trustee