Team – Janyaa

Executive Committee

Venu Nadella

Founder

President

Radhika Repakula

Secretary

Kaushik Macherla

Joint Secretary

Vibhor Chandra

Treasurer

Attorney Kamala Maddipoti is the Founder and President of Kamala Law Corporation. Attorney Kamala completed her Master of Laws (LLM) from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. Ms. Kamala is a member of State Bar of California and started practicing law since 2011. She specializes in immigration law and helps her clients on both employment as well as family based immigration matters. In addition to immigration work, she guides and counsels employers on compliance and corporate transactional matters. In her free time, she offers pro bono services and gives back to the community for the greater good.

Professional Affiliations:
State Bar of California
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
South Asian Bar Association (SABA)
Indian Bar Association

Kamala Maddipoti

Legal Advisor

Jaya comes with over 20 years of deep management experience in financial services industry and the non-profit space. She has held several diverse leadership and strategic positions across various non-profit organizations in India and in the US including the Jana Group, CGAP – World Bank, Mu Sigma, Jana Small Bank, Jana Urban Foundation, Inclusive World, Taproot Foundation, among others. Jaya has been associated with Janyaa for the past 15 months in varying capacities and is currently the President of the organization.

Jaya Rupanagunta

President

Core Team

Chitra Jayanty

Executive Director

Natarajan Kandasamy

Head of Operations

Surendra Kumar

Program Manager

Satish Velagapudi

Technology Interventions

Satish Mannem

Usha Hanumolu

President

Over the years, Kush has developed expertise in organizational design & strategy formulation and implementation along with market research, sales and marketing and financial analysis by working with a range of organizations (from multinationals to international NGOs and from PSUs to start-ups) in multiple cultural settings and industry segments.

Along with Organizational Design, his research interests include Corporate Governance and he has to his credit 3 published books: 1. Motivation for Good Corporate Governance: A Peep into Thai Companies (ISBN 978-3-8443-0864-8), 2. Three Cheers to Life (ISBN: 978-9-3811-1537-4) and 3. Road to Bureaucracy (ISBN 978-9-3855-0564-5). He has worked extensively with an Indian daily called Dainik Jagran and has helped youth overcome their professional and personal issues by writing a column, holding motivational talks and counselling sessions.

In his last stint as the CEO and Co-founder of a healthcare startup, he worked on how machine learning can make diagnosis faster, better and more efficient and thereby addressing the pain point of the shortage of radiologists in the country and the enormous work-load that radiologists in our country have to go through.

He has done his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, Masters in Management from ESCP Europe (Paris) and an MBA from AIT, Thailand.

Kush Srivastava

Director

Project Team - USA

Harshan VN

Ben Nagrani

Rama Saripalle

Indu Karthik

Fundraising

Aarti Gupta

Ramadasu Puli

Sucharita Paruchuri

Rajesh Shastry

Bhagavathi MS

Prasanna Adusumilli

Alima Kanumilli

Financial Committee

Kajal Sheth is a Chartered Accountant from India and a California CPA who has over 10 years of combined work experience in public accounting, SOX compliance, investment banking and tax advisory at multinational organizations. Kajal joined the Janyaa family in 2016 to assist our Treasurer, Sachin Jain, in working to streamline the financial process along with related controls. She is very excited to be a part of this paradigm shift of bringing analytical thinking and creativity in the very methodological learning process in India and other countries. She believes Janyaa’s efforts will lead to an overall development of kids and will benefit the society and the economy. She currently works as an Internal Audit Manager at Palo Alto Networks. She enjoys hiking, music, dancing and painting.

Kajal Sheth

Gautam is a qualified chartered accountant with over 10 years’ experience auditing technology companies in India and the US. He currently works as a Manager in Ernst & Young. Gautam believes that the hands-on learning approach that is promoted by Jaanya is necessary for the highly competitive current generation as it gave an extra edge to the students by providing a more practical experience, resulting in longer retention and recollection. He joins the Jaanya team to strengthen the Finance function of the organization. Gautam is an avid hiker and enjoys travelling and music.

Gautam

Sachin Jain is qualified chartered accountant from India and has extensive experience of 15+ years in public accounting across Middle East, India and USA. Sachin recently joined the Janyaa family in 2016 as Treasurer and working to streamline the financial process along with related controls. He was thrilled to knew the methodological learning promoted by Janyaa across different educational institutions in India and other counties. As growing up, Sachin noted that existing education system is more focused on classroom learnings with very little opportunity for children to learn and nourish critical and analytical thinking along with creativity. He currently works as Senior Manager at Ernst & Young. He loves to play with his two sons and an avid traveler.

Sachin Jain

Treasurer