Shashank Rastogi is a principal in Bridgespan’s Mumbai office. Shashank has more than 15 years of experience in impact investing, social entrepreneurship, and rural markets. At Bridgespan, he has worked on projects in agriculture technology (Agtech), rural primary health in tribal areas, and scenario planning for NGOs. In his prior experience, Shashank set up and developed the impact investing practice in CIIE.CO, at IIM Ahmedabad, investing in companies in a range of sectors including rural energy access, agriculture and agtech, and health. He was also the co-founder and chief operating officer of Sarvajal. Shashank holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.Tech (Electronics & Communications) from IIT Roorkee.

Akshay Gambhir is a consultant in Bridgespan’s Mumbai office. Akshay has more than six years of experience in consulting, banking, and social impact. At Bridgespan, he has worked on philanthropic collaboratives in India, impact assessment, development of healthcare CSR strategy, capacity of nonprofits in scenario planning. Before Bridgespan, Akshay has helped build market linkage models for rural livelihood initiatives and led scale up of fisheries-based livelihood interventions at Tata Trusts. Prior to entering social impact, he worked at McKinsey Knowledge Center. Akshay holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Lucknow and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from CBS, Delhi University

India CSR Summit & Exhibition is South Asia’s largest CSR, SDGs and social impact forum. The Summit brings together business leaders, board directors, CSR foundations, impact investors, philanthropists, innovators, government agencies, the UN bodies and non-profits leaders to explore synergies and co-create solutions.

Built on the context of mandatory CSR provisions in India, the Summit, in the last 6 years, has truly become the convergence of social impact leaders from across the country. The event has already witnessed participation of over 490 exhibitors, almost 6700 organizations and 11500 professionals. The recent summit on September in 2019 was a benchmark event in terms of the scale, participation and knowledge sharing with 500+corporate heads, 100+ exhibitors and 2000+ delegates from 1900+ organizations coming in one platform to attend 30+ panel sessions on various thematic areas, 10+ masterclasses specially curated for corporate and non-profits, along with keynote talks, product demos and networking sessions.