Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the Chairperson of HCLTech, a leading global technology organization with a market capitalization of $48 billion, and the Chairperson of its CSR Board Committee.

Roshni is a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Since its inception, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has invested $1.2 billion in nation building institutions and driving transformational leadership. Roshni is also the Chairperson and driving force behind VidyaGyan, a leadership academy for the economically underprivileged, meritorious, rural students of Uttar Pradesh, and has been working towards nurturing future leaders from rural India who can be catalysts of change for their communities, villages and the nation at large.

Passionate about wildlife and conservation, Roshni established The Habitats Trust in 2018. The Foundation aims to work towards protecting India’s natural habitats and its indigenous species with the core mission of creating and conserving sustainable ecosystems through strategic partnerships and collaborations with all stakeholders, at every level.

Roshni is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the MIT School of Engineering, USA and also a member of the Kellogg School of Management Executive Board for Asia. She serves on the board of directors of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and on the global board of directors of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). She is also an independent director on the board of the HDFC Asset Management Company.

In recognition of her outstanding work both in business and in philanthropy, Roshni has received several honors and accolades. France’s highest civilian award Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) has been conferred on her in 2024. In 2023, she was featured for the seventh consecutive year in ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women’ list, compiled and released by Forbes.
 

Since 2019, she has been producing a TV series for the Animal Planet/Discovery based on the most endangered wildlife species in India - ‘On The Brink’. In 2022, On The Brink episode on Bats was the recipient of the Best Indian National Film Award in the category of science & technology. In 2018, Roshni also produced a children’s film, ‘Halkaa’, based on the unique journey of a slum child battling the issue of open defecation.
 

Roshni holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. At Kellogg, she was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2023, Roshni was conferred with the Schaffner Award by Kellogg for her contribution to the society. Roshni was conferred with Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award by Babson College in 2017.

Mr. Simon England, aged 57 years, has a degree in Engineering from the University of Durham and has over 30 years of experience in leading, transforming and growing organizations across the public and private sector. He has spent much of his career working with UK and Global Insurers, Healthcare Providers and the UK Government.

He is a partner in the specialist advisory firm, Garwood Solutions, where he provides independent strategic and business advice to clients in the Professional Services, Financial Services, Health and Technology sectors.

He spent 27 years with Accenture and led several of Accenture’s largest businesses and global client relationships, including being the Managing Director of Accenture’s UK and Ireland Insurance business and, prior to that, the UK Healthcare business. He was also the Managing Director of Primary Care Support England (PCSE) for Capita where he led the recovery and turnaround of this large, complex, and high profile outsourced operation for NHS England.

He is accomplished in applying technology to achieve business results—creating digital operations, shaping, planning, and leading operational transformation and performance improvement programmes and technology enabled business change at scale, and is experienced in leading on and offshore outsourced operations. He is an expert in complex stakeholder and commercial management and organization turnaround.

He is involved in the UK Arts sector and led Accenture’s relationship with the Bright Ideas Trust—helping nurture new entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities. He also worked closely with Whizz-Kidz - an energetic charity that is transforming the delivery and management of wheelchair services, with the NHS, for children across many parts of the UK.

Bhavani Balasubramanian, aged 64 years, is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

She has been an Audit and Assurance Partner of Deloitte India and has 4 decades of experience in auditing a variety of clients, including listed companies and multinationals in different industries in India and abroad. Her audit experience relates to industries in IT and IT services, Energy, Manufacturing, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Consumer business and Non-Banking Finance Companies. She has held national leadership positions in Deloitte India and has served extensively as a member in the firm’s international councils and working groups.

She has served as a member in the Auditing standards Board of the Institute of Chartered accountants of India for 8 years and been member of various committees for over 6 years.

She is a Strategic consultant in diversity and inclusion, engaging with corporates and is a leadership and diversity coach for senior and mid management professionals.

She is as an Independent Director on the Boards of public companies in India and serves on their various committees.

Dr. Nidhi Pundhir is an international humanitarian services and socio-economic-environmental development specialist. She leads the  global CSR agenda for HCLTech and heads HCLFoundation, which is the CSR arm of HCLTech, in India. 

Dr. Pundhir has strategized as well as executed impactful programmatic frameworks that are aligned to the global Sustainable Development Goals, for the most disadvantaged and isolated communities, including environmental targets. She has a deep understanding of poverty issues and delivers realistic approaches towards poverty alleviation. In her current role, Nidhi has envisioned HCLTech’s flagship Global CSR Policy which pioneers around 10 commandments of CSR. She has built the HCLFoundation’s vision, mission, and strategy to the next level, ensuring high quality programme delivery, that brings about meaningful difference on ground.

With more than 25 years of experience in actualizing Human Rights and Environmental action at national and international levels, some of the key portfolios she has held were with SOS Children’s Villages as Director Programme Development, Asia, and at Plan International’s International Headquarters as Global Advisor on Child Protection in Development.

Dr. Pundhir holds a doctorate in Public Health Management, with her thesis on “Right to Health During First 1000 Days of Life for Children Living in Slums”, from IIHMR University, Jaipur and M.Phil. in Health Systems Management from BITS, Pilani, India. 

In her pursuit and passion towards social development, Nidhi has travelled to almost 40 countries and most of her home country, India. She is a big fan of culture and classical arts, and holds an equivalent bachelor’s degree in Indian classical dance – Kathak, from Gandharv Mahavidyalaya. 

She lives in NOIDA, India, with her two sons and husband.

Simi Suri is the founding member of HCLFoundation. She has played a key role in setting up the CSR initiatives of HCL and is currently spearheading Power of One, the corporate volunteering and payroll giving program at HCL which has enabled over 40,000 employees to engage in humanitarian and development activities. Simi has over 15 years of experience in the development sector through her stint in the NASSCOM, UNICEF and now, in HCL. She is involved extensively in administration and financial management, strategic planning, capacity building and partnership development. Her key strength is her ability to enable and motivate people to bring out the best in them.

Alok Varma is the Director of Samuday & My Clean City. Having played a key role in the conceptualization and creation of Samuday, he oversees the strategy and management of the program. Alok started his career as a civil servant in the state of Uttar Pradesh and holds a post-graduate diploma in Management from IIM, Lucknow. He has also worked as a consultant on various infrastructure and development projects for several state and international governments and institutions.

Dr. Santanu Basu has over 15 years of experience across a broad range of climate change mitigation efforts involving Natural Resource Management, forestry and biodiversity conservation & management using various GIS and Remote sensing tools and techniques. Over the years, he has executed projects related to forest carbon inventory, forest monitoring system, REDD+ project development, community based forest management and ground based sampling. Along with forestry, he has also been associated with biodiversity conservation and management projects. Santanu has also worked for identification and monitoring of forest connectivity and corridors, for flagship species such as tigers and elephants in various states of India. He has led and supervised teams for conducting tasks such as forest carbon inventory, biodiversity monitoring & management and RS & GIS analysis to ascertain carbon stock estimation and mapping, forest cover assessment, monitoring and evaluation of forest quality, assessment of land cover vulnerability to deforestation and forest degradation and maintaining non-spatial database for project planning, implementation and monitoring.