Our Team

Our Trustees

Mr. Narasimhachari Sampath, the Chairman of the Trust, is a retired Indian Government official from the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Research (IGCAR). An extremely enthusiastic and down-to earth person, he is fully involved in running the everyday affairs of the Annapoorna Trust. Additionally, he is also the current Chairman of the Vanatantra Beauty Essentials Pvt. Ltd. In the past, he has also served as the President of the Cooperative Society, Kalpakkam, under the Govt. of Tamil Nadu for 5 years. He has been involved with the Sri Sathya Sai Organization in various service activities for over 30 years.

Mr. Anand Kumar Kadali is a Trustee & Secretary of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Annapoorna Trust. A certified independent director and experienced professional in the software industry, he has, in the past, worked for global companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HCL, and Dimension Data. After serving the Software industry for 15 years, he choose to bid adieu to his professional corporate life to pursue full time his passion passion for community service. At Annapoorna Trust, he has been a key driver connecting the objectives of the Corporate Social Responsibilities of organizations and mapping the same to the healthcare, nutrition, educare and sanitation needs of the rural poor.

Dr. Narayana Murthy, a Trustee of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, is a reputed anaesthetist who has worked in reputed hospitals in Bengaluru including the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS) and St. Philomena’s hospital for 27 years. In the past, he has worked as a specialist anaesthetist for a year for the Ministry of Health, Govt. of Islamic Republic of Iran. He is a certified accupuncturist from Beijing University, China. Currently, in addition to ensuring a scientific basis for the launch and impact of nutrition programs for school-going children, he is associated with the rural Govt. school health program and nutrition of rural ‘Mother and Child’ health program, under the auspices of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust.

Mr. Jayaprakash Tallam, a Trustee of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, is a successful and well-known distributor for over twenty five years. His distribution business has been associated with a number of world-class brands, brands, and for many years in a row, he has been the top-ranking distributor for associated brands throughout the country. He has received several recognitions for his sales and marketing skills at the state and national level. He has been associated with the Annapoorna Nutrition Programme from its inception and has enormously contributed to its growth. At Annapoorna Trust, he is actively actively involved involved with the procurement, distribution, and delivery logistics of the SaiSure multinutrient health mix and ingredients for the entire Morning Nutrition Programme.

Mr. Prabhakar Gupta, a Trustee of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, is a business entrepreneur in food grains. His distribution business has been associated with the export of high quality grains to many countries outside India. He has been associated with the Annapoorna Morning Nutrition Programme from its inception and has enormously contributed to its growth. At Annapoorna Trust, he is actively involved with the procurement, distribution, and delivery logistics of the SaiSure SaiSure multinutrient multinutrient health mix and ingredients for the entire Morning Nutrition Programme.

Mr. Sai Prasad Ivaturi, a Trustee and Treasurer of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Annapoorna Trust, is an experienced thought leader who has served in large corporates such as GE, Genpact, Genpact, Sony, Cisco and HP. With more than 2 decades of core technical technical expertise in the area of Analytics-driven business insights, he has experience in all key aspects of managing a large organization such as Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Operations, and Category while managing P&L of a firm. He has delivered sustained organizational growth in dynamic environments, driving organizational change, business transformations, scaling up operations, customer experiences, simplifying complexities, managing key business stakeholders, and achieving critical strategic goals. Sai Prasad has over 25 years of voluntary experience working with communities and children, both in India and abroad, aligned to organizations such as Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations and Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust.

Smt. Kusum Kunchaparty is an accomplished Engineer whose professional journey spans working with the prestigious Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Her dedication to her field is marked by years of service, contributing significantly to the advancements in her domain. Beyond her professional achievements, Kusum has extended her commitment to community service. An active member with the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, she has been an integral part of various philanthropic endeavors, embodying the spirit of giving back to society. Currently serving as a Trustee with the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, Kusum continues her journey of service in a different capacity. Within the Trust, she assumes the crucial role of heading the Human Resources department, showcasing not only her technical proficiency but also her leadership skills in managing and nurturing the human capital integral to the Trust’s mission.

Govt Alliances

Santosh Allath 

National Manager

Santosh has a B E with MBA in Operation Management. With over 14+ years of experience in manufacturing industry, Santosh currently handles overall trust activities at the National level. Apart from employee and volunteer management, he also handles Govt and CSR client engagement. He leads the strategy discussion for SaiSure Health mix towards its manufacturing and distribution at various states across India.

Chandan Kumar 

Bihar, Jharkhand & Chattisagarh

Chandan Kumar hails from Munger in Bihar. He is an MBA in Finance and has a flair of connecting with people mostly in Govt departments. Currently he is the Regional Manager of Annapoorna managing the operational affairs with Bihar Education Dept for distribution of Saisure health mix in Kanti block of Muzaffarpur District of Bihar.

Dhananjay Rao Ejapu

Telangana 

Surendra Babu Kandalam

Andhra Pradesh 

Surendra Babu Kandalam is an experienced executive with more than 25 years of business acumen towards developing strategies and incubating business models. He handles engagement with the teachers and focuses on new initiatives for the breakfast program. Previously he was the CEO & founder of “Space publicity”. 

Manoj Kumar

 

Jayakrishnan NS

Kerala

Hailing from Trivandrum, he was an Entrepreneur before joining Annapoorna in 2019. He is currently handling the service activities of the Trust in Kerala region.

Chokalingam

Tamilnadu

Chockalingam handles the TamilNadu operations. He handles the supply and bill payments for the various vendors who supply the dry ration items. Also handleds CSR client engagement and Govt relations.

Finance

Sai Prasad Ivaturi

Chief Financial Officer

Amrita Ivaturi 

Accounts Officer

Amrita Ivaturi is responsible for all
Accounts Payables at the Trust, which
includes making vendor payments,
maintaining the vendor database,
processing payroll, and complying to
various regulations, including TDS. Amrita has a Bachelors degree in Commerce
from Hyderabad, where she worked
for some time as counsellor at Aptech
Computer Institute. 

Padma Radhika

Donor Relationship Management 

 

Mrs.Padma Radhika, is Electrical and
Electronics engineering graduate.
She is associated with Annapoorna
as an accounts officer and handles
Donor relations. She maintains track
of every financial income, ledger and
balance sheet. Also responsible for
receipt generation for every contribution received. 

Kiran Kumar Gunya

General Accountant

Sri Kiran Kumar Ganyarapu oversees
all activities pertaining to the financial
operations such as account payables, vendor relations, controllership
and Accounts Closing. He has over
15 years of corporate experience at
varied industries like Construction
and Manufacturing.

Subhasini 

Data Analyst

Subashini, Data Analyst at Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Madras, with 5 years of work experience in the admin of various companies such as K-Line, Vaz Forwarding and Ace. She has also worked as a teacher at the Shishya School in Hosur. She started taking Values based Balvikas classes in Bangalore from the year 2005 and continues to do so till date.

Sowmya HC 

Accountant and HR Assistant

Sowmya HC, Accountant and HR Assistant at Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, had an experience in Central Govt Office (Central Power Research Institute -CPRI) for 3 years and 4.5 years also in Pvt Company (Raj Group) as an accountant, before joining our Trust full time. 

CSR and Govt Alliances

Anand Kumar Kadali

CSR & Govt Alliances Head

After serving the Software industry for 15 years, he choose to bid adieu to his professional corporate life to pursue full time his passion passion for community service. At Annapoorna Trust, he has been a key driver connecting the objectives of the Corporate Social Responsibilities of organizations and mapping the same to the healthcare, nutrition, educare and sanitation needs of the rural poor.

Ashish Bhardwaj

National Manager, CSR 

Ashish Bhardwaj hailing from Ghaziabad has done his MBA from Symbiosis and comes with 17 plus years of Corporate world experience. Earlier to joining Annapoorna full time as CSR Manager, he was working in Oracle as a Senior Manager. Till now in collaboration with Oracle, he has conducted 50 plus CSR events in various Annapoorna Morning Nutrition centers/schools.

Vivek Kumar

Social Media Management

Vivek works towards establishing government and corporate alliances for Annapoorna through communication outreach efforts. He is a mechanical engineering graduate and has worked in startups, media conglomerates, and academic institutes

Sushanth Karanth

Corporate Communications

Prior to joining Annapoorna, he was working at Tesco Bengaluru, with previous stint at IBM India. Active member in Sai organisation since college days in various roles, Annapoorna breakfast center co-ordinator at Whitefield in Bangalore & also earlier associated in Annapoorna Grants Proposal team as honorary consultant.

Sai Bhaskar

Partner Relationship Manager

Sai Bhaskar has worked in prominent companies with Sales experience serving as Key Account Manager in Essilor. He served as Regional sales manager for entire South India in a Mumbai based eyewear company. Sai Bhaskar has Good experience in developing business opportunities.

Prashanth Murthy

Senior Executive, HR

 

An M.B.A graduate in Hospital Management and with 5+ years’ experience in administration of a Nursing Home in Bangalore . Also has over 5+ years in IT domain. Presently serving as Relationship manager and engages with corporate companies to ensure active involvement in all the social initiatives of the Trust.

Yogesh Kamath

CSR Partners and Govt Alliances

 

He is a professional with around 2 decades of experience in IT Management in various leadership capacities with various IT Services and Product Companies. He decided to move with Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna trust full time in March 2022 to serve the society by working with Annapoorna Trust. He helps the Trust in its relationship and account management with corporates, generate leads and create opportunities for corporates to build the nation via nutrition in their CSR activities. 

Shipra Chadha

Hon Consultant,

CSR Partner Alliances

After her MBA, she has worked for over 5 years in Marketing domain with well-known Corporates like Philips and Sony Entertainment television. Her passion for wholistic and spiritual healing and wellness has helped her in setting-up a Reiki Therapy clinic for
last 5 years.

Pushkar Raghavan

Corporate Communications

Pushkar Raghavan has an MBA from Central University and experienced Banker cum Investments management professional with an experience of over 18 years. He is currently an executive VP with one of the largest Private wealth companies in the
world. 

Gaurav

 

Gaurav is an experienced Software engineering leader working in fortune 500 corporate named as Fiserv. With more than 15 years of core technical expertise in the area of product development and support, he has experience in many aspects such as product analysis, design, development and maintenance. 

Gayatri has extensive IT experience of over 27 years in Engineering and IT across various functions like Strategy & Execution, People Management, Delivery management, Client and stakeholder relationships management and Business Operations. She is now associated with Annapoorna as a volunteer and serves as an Honorary Consultant

Global Alliances

Swetha Donthu

Global Alliances

Swetha Donthu, is based out of
Fremont, California, USA, has over 15
years of experience in IT and Software
Engineering Management. Swetha
is volunteering at Annapoorna as
part of grants teams, helping spread
awareness of Annapoorna project and
the cause in USA. She is active in the
community activity coordinating on
homeless feeding projects in USA

Corporate Communication

Vibhavari Kyatsandra

Corporate Communications

Vibhavari Kyatsandra manages Communication with Corporates, Donors through their websites, newsletters at the Trust. She has had close to 8 years experience as an embedded software professional in companies like Freescale Semiconductor, NOKIA and INTEL prior to joining Annapoorna Trust full time. 

Anand Regunathan 

Social Media Marketing

Currently working with Lenovo, Anand Regunathan has worked for large tech companies like Dell, Cisco and Avaya in the fields of corporate strategy and analytics. Anand is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Indore and has his B.Tech. in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.

Shruthi Deepak

App Developer

Mrs.Shruthi Deepak, associated with Annapoorna as an Honorary Consultant and is currently serving as Project Associate for the Research and Development sector at CSIR-4PI, NAL Bangalore. Hailing from Computer Science background she holds experience of working with HCL Technologies and ABB.

Anandhi Hemant Kumar

Digital Content Writer

Anandhi Hemanth Kumar is a digital content writer. She has been involved in transcribing many of audio and videos of Spiritual Gurus for a year and half now. She is a post graduatein Biotechnology and is a housewife, currently residing in Mumbai.

Education

Praveena B

Education Co-ordinator

Praveena coordinates in selecting the
needy children who need scholarship for education. Interviewing the children , parents and inspecting their livelihood is one of the key aspect of work she deals with. She is also a EHV Bal Vikas teacher and has been conducting these classes for rural communities and schools.

IT

Sai Prasad Ivaturi

IT Head

Operations

Kiran BP

Regional Manager, Karnataka 

Kiran BP, Regional Manager, Karnataka of the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, was worked in IT for 8 years. Joined the Breakfast Service in the year 2012 as a volunteer.  Now serving Annapoorna Team as a staff and responsible for Govt alliances, Operations, employee management in the state of Karnataka

Anil Lingayat

Senior Executive 

Rajiv R

Regional Manager

Manjunath TS

Executive

Rajshekar

Senior Executive

Kalyan

Executive

Ramesh PA

Executive

Muniraju

Executive

Krishna Reddy

Executive

Manoj

Executive

Santosh Bagepalli

Executive

Dilli Rambabu

Executive

Aravind

Executive

Shivashankar 

Executive

Manoj OR

Executive

Ravikumar KN

Executive

Shekar K

Executive

Center Leads