Our TRUSTEES
Mr Samit S Shetty
Mr Samit S Shetty
Mr Samit S Shetty
Samit is one of the Founders/Promoters of Chaitanya and an Executive Director at Chaitanya. Samit has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University. Before Chaitanya, Samit has worked in Olam International Limited, a global leader in the supply chain management of agricu
Samit is one of the Founders/Promoters of Chaitanya and an Executive Director at Chaitanya. Samit has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University. Before Chaitanya, Samit has worked in Olam International Limited, a global leader in the supply chain management of agricultural products and food ingredients. Samit spent his initial five years in Africa and subsequently he setup Olam’s coffee operations in Brazil and led the business for four years as its country manager. He has acquired significant experience in setting up systems and processes related to agricultural procurement, financing and trading. He has been associated with Chaitanya since 2008 April. Samit also led the Tech based lending Inititatives of Navi Technologies Private Ltd.
Ms Usha Shetty
Mr Samit S Shetty
Mr Samit S Shetty
Usha has done her schooling in Delhi and is a graduate in Sociology from Miranda House, Delhi University. She started working in the development sector after diverse stints in mass media for ten years. Since nearly ten years, she is involved in “Namma “Muthuru” a development intervention at Muthur village & its surrounding panchayat area
Usha has done her schooling in Delhi and is a graduate in Sociology from Miranda House, Delhi University. She started working in the development sector after diverse stints in mass media for ten years. Since nearly ten years, she is involved in “Namma “Muthuru” a development intervention at Muthur village & its surrounding panchayat area in Chikkaballapur District of Karnataka, in memory of Sanjoy Das Gupta, IAS, who used to be associated with the village. The work is chiefly in the domains of health, sanitation, environment and education, with a host of activities being done for and through the two govt. schools in the village. She is the founder of Gramaantara Trust, a rural development organization currently functioning in the district of Chikkaballapur.
Ms Jayashree M M
Mr Samit S Shetty
Ms Jayashree M M
Jayashree has done her MCM(Computer Management) from Pune University. Jayashree is the CTO at Zinnea, a firm into software consulting. She was a Committee member at Association for Mentally Challenged (AMC) in Bangalore for 9 years. Jayashree is the co-founder of Popmart.
Our Team
Akhila Ramesh
Dr. S Raghunath
Dr. S Raghunath
NIVASA’s founder CEO, is trained as an Architect with a Masters in both Urban Design and Project Management from NUS, Singapore.
Dr. S Raghunath
Dr. S Raghunath
Dr. S Raghunath
is an expert in disaster resistant, earthquake resistant structures, renovation and conservation of old buildings. He has been a major source for all the structural innovations, inputs, knowledge and awareness, both within and outside our team. He is an integral part of Nivasa and is very generous in helping us with our projects in many ways.
Meenakshi K
Dr. S Raghunath
Anitha Mahendra
An Architect with 20 years experience, graduated from the prestigious CEPT (Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology) University, Ahmedabad. Apart from running her own practice, she teaches at Anna University, and heads NIVASA Chennai.
Anitha Mahendra
Dr. S Raghunath
Anitha Mahendra
Graduate in the field of architecture from USD, Mysore, following which she continued to pursue her career at The Design Firm, Bangalore. She has been a constant support as a project architect at Nivasa since 2016. She is known for effortlessly multi handling projects on and off site simultaneously.