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VEDA Climate Change Solutions Ltd

Sriharsha Masabathula

  President

Sriharsha, having been remarkably influenced by Jeffrey Sachs’s book, “The End of Poverty”, believes  that poverty alleviation being the overarching Millennium Development Goal (MDG), there is a  pressing need to build  social enterprises which can provide social, economic and environmental  benefits both locally and globally  which  requires  integration  across local,  regional and  global  concerns. As an  ambassador of the social enterprise,  he is engaged in  building  global partnerships for a "Development Alliance"  to address the two most contentious issues of our times i.e climate change and rural poverty.

He is also the "Designated  Focal Point" on behalf of VCCSL for communication with the BioCarbon Fund of The World Bank for the CDM project "Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration by adopting environment friendly agroforestry practices" registered with UNFCCC (Project No.4531).  He brings in fresh ideas and lateral thinking into the management of VCCSL.

Sriharsha coined an innovative name “Socio-eCO2NOmix-Global”(www.socioeconomix.org)  signifying mix of socio-economics excluding CO2 for the ‘Not for Profit’ enterprise promoted by VEDA Climate Change Solutions Ltd. to connect poor with international carbon markets. 

He is currently a student of Economics  at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA.   Earlier  he worked as an intern at VCCSL during 2007-09 and as an Executive Trainee during 2009-11.

Appa Rao Cheepuri 

   Managing Director

Mr.C.A.Rao is a post graduate in water resources and hydraulic structures and former Director General of Water And Land Management Training And Research Institute (WALAMTARI) Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, India. He has over forty-four years of experience in India and abroad, in the field of water management including farmers’ participation in resource management. 

As head of  the premier institute in the field of water management, was responsible for organizing workshops / seminars, training programmes  through appropriately designed training modules, to increase the professional capabilities of serving engineers, agriculture officials and farmers on various aspects related to Participatory Water Resource  Management. As Chief Engineer he dealt with matters concerning interstate water sharing, and the matters related to National Water Development Authority and National Water Resources Council.

He was associated with many World Bank aided Projects in different states of India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Orissa and has undertaken many international assignments in NIGERIA, GUYANA and AFGHANISTAN.

Sai Kishore Nellore, Executive Director

Sai  has a proven track record of handling multi-discipline teams’ in international operations in the areas of operations, project management and market entry strategies. Implemented and developed new systems to drive cost efficiencies under severe time and cost pressures. Adopts  a diplomatic management style, based on the tenets of empowerment, personal development and trust  benefitting from an administration and defence service background; Backed up with an MBA in International Management (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.)  and research focus on green marketing and sustainability practices.

Managed the air traffic operations of military flights  in a fast paced environment where coordination was critical for the success of each flight. Secondary duties included the management of a non-profit organisation for the welfare of the soldiers. Coordinated and successfully accomplished the parking planning and mission briefings in the Aero India air shows for the year 2003 and 2005. Sai has been instrumental in turning around a not for profit organisation from red to black through innovative growth strategies and enhancing the customer relationship management activities of the organisation.

Managing a team of administrative staff focused on addressing the needs of internal customers in a highly dynamic environment. Core deliverables include the handling of multi-functional teams to ensure 100% uptime of all facility services.

Pragya Gupta

Carbon Finance Specialist 

Pragya is a Carbon Finance Specialist   having interest in working towards poverty reduction and environmentally sustainable growth. She is a Chartered Accountant and Commerce graduate by qualification, with majority of her schooling having been done in Pune. She has completed her articleship of three years under PriceWaterhouse, a reputed international audit firm. She hopes to learn more about integrating carbon finance with community benefits.

Her other passions include playing the piano, dancing and playing with her pets.

Narayana Rao Raparthi, Director

He is a mechanical engineer by profession and has over 30 years of experience in project management in India and Africa. Having from a rural background in India, connects well with the farmers  to develop projects that would benefit rural communities.

G.Suseela Devi, Director

She is a postgraduate  in English literature with a postgraduate diploma in computers. A technical writer by profession, she has been in the IT industry for the past ten years working as a writer of software manuals for several companies such as  Docksmith.  Her interests extend to environmental issues such as reduction of pollution and global warming. She  takes active interest  in social causes for the upliftment of  girl child through education and eradication of child labor.

Lak Tewari, Director (Operations)

He is a Graduate with Economics, Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Chartered Accountant (Final Group 1). He has extensive experience of 30 years, primarily as Project Management Specialist in the development sector, apart from Management Consultancy experience with Price Waterhouse & others, for corporate and non corporate clientele.  Prior to this, he worked  as Senior Project Management Specialist with a bilateral funding organisation namely India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF) which establilshed by both the Governments of India and Canada to promote and support environmental conservation.

V.Shanmukha Rao, Project Manager

Shanmukha Rao  has  more than twenty years of experience in development sector working with both government and non-governmental organisations.  He has expertise in natural resource management, community development, community mobilisation, tribal development, public-private partnerships, participatory resource management etc.

Promoted Livelihoods of 8000(Self Help Groups) SHGs and Non-Wood Forest Produces such as Tamarind, Amla, Adda Leaves and Lac intervention in the tribal area of Visakhapatnam dist. His earlier work include collection, identification and documentation of rare medicinal herbs and  germplasm  in the forest areas of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh for  National bureau of plant genetics resources (NBPGR)

He was an active member in the Disaster Management such as Avanigadda Tidal wave disaster in Andhra Pradesh in the year 1978 and  attended the Paradeep in Orissa in the year 1998.   Enhanced the capacities of Tribal communities so as to organise themselves into SHGs, village organisations  and  Mandal  Mahila Samakhyas in the visakhapatnam districts of Andhra Pradesh. He is a Trainer and  Facilitator for Self Help Groups

He holds Masters in  Botany from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India(1977-1979) and  M. Phil (2001 – 04).  He is currently pursuing his Doctoral programme from Andhra University, Vishakapatnam

C. Suresh Babu, Business Development Executive

Post Graduate in Business Management - International Business from EMPI Business School, New Delhi. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, GITAM, Vishakhapatnam. 

Suresh has more than ten years of progressive work experience in various capacities. He has been associated with JK Paper Ltd. (Rayagada), Greenstar Impex Pvt. Ltd. (Hyderabad), and Advance Marketing Trading Ltd. (New Delhi),

Several projects have been executed by participating global tenders funded by European Union by means of sourcing and selling the products as per the standards.

Engaging in negotiations with various entities in the export domain, Suresh has hands on experience in procuring experience of global tenders which are funded by World Bank or European countries. Suresh is passionate about the implementation of QMS (Quality Management Systems)

Can effectively work independently and also enjoy in working in a team.  Picks up skills quickly and applies them successfully, through both the use of initiative and the ability to comprehend instructions.

B.Chinnamamba, Statistical Officer

Post Graduate in Statistics with over  7 years of experience in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of UNFCCC.   Provides technical support in developing and implementing successful A & R Projects under CDM and VCS.  Experienced in formulating  Project Design Documents under CDM and VCS along with other team members.    Chinnamamba brings in versatility to the organisation as she is both a team player and can deliver results independently.

She earlier worked with Vanitha Empowerment, Development and Advancement (VEDA) Mutually Aided Cooperative Society (MACS) during 2005-2009.

Kumar Raghavendra, Forestry Associate

An alumni of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Raghvendra is a seasoned environmental advocate working as a project associate.  His prior assignments include working as an Intern at Indian Institute of science, Bangalore with Prof. N.H. Ravindranath (Centre for Sustainable Technologies) studying the role of agro-forestry in village eco-systems in Western Ghats. Raghavendra has corporate work experience in the field of Forestry, Carbon advisory & Sustainable development. Raghvendra is involved with project management and execution under the Clean Development Mechanism and Voluntary Carbon Standards. 

Raghavendra holds a Master’s Degree in Environment Management from Forest Research Institute (FRI) University, Dehradun and a Bachelor’s degree in Forestry from University of Agriculture Sciences Dharwad (Karnataka).

D.Madhav Krishna, Finance Officer

He works as Finance Manager and is responsible for following best practices in accounting. He is a graduate in commerce graduate in Commerce from AMAL College Anakapalli Andhra Pradesh (1973-76). Krishna brings about abundant experience in the area of accounting spanning over 20 years in the private sector. _

Nagarjuna Prasad, Consultant

He is a post graduate in  Marine Biology from Andhra University, Waltair and is an expert on  issues related to integrated coastal management and aquaculture.  After completion of his stuides he turned into an entrepreneur and promoted prawn hatcheries in the east  coast of India.He has extensive experience in fisheries management, semi-intensive aquacultire, fishermen cooperatives, Self Help Groups etc.

M.Babji, Manager

With over 30 years of experience in private sector, he looks after administration and facility management. He provides backstopping to project management.

A. Annapoorna, Women Coordinator

Comfortable working with women in villages and organizes them into self help groups. 

Visnukumar, Executive Trainee

Visnu kumar is an Executive Trainee  interested in the field of Sustainable natural resource management. Visnu is a graduate in Economics from Madras Christian College, Chennai. He has worked as an Intern in Cambodia for six months in the projects involving Community Forestry, sustainable income generation activities, REDD+, REDD++, CCBA and Plan Vivo. He is aiming to gain experience and exposure in nature resource management.

His other passion includes adventure sports, playing cricket and football."

M. Srichandra, Intern

He is currently a student of higher secondary education at Sanskriti School in New Delhi and  takes active interest in the project development  and brings fresh ideas to table.

As he  dreams to create employment rather than seek employment on completion of his studies, he wants  to equip himself with the required skills and knowledge to provide leadership to innovative enterprises such as   VCCSL to link the grassroots with global mechanisms for social advancement, environmental improvement and economic development.  Being an adept chess player, he  believes that his  passion for analyzing actions and reactions will help him  build ‘business unusual’ models where everyone from nation states to non-state actors to individuals can win.

His other interests include chess in which he represents his school in the national tournaments. He is an internationally rated Chess player having played many international and national tournaments.