Shekar Prabhakar, Co-Founder and Manging Director, Hasiru Dala Innovations
Shekar Prabhakar is a Professor and business executive with over 28 years experience in developing business for IT products, solutions and consulting services. His expertise spans product and solution marketing, P&L operations, business development and sales in start-up, growth and Fortune 500 companies. He has been teaching marketing in a business school for the past five years. Prabhakar is a graduate of IIT, Madras and IIM, Calcutta. As Trustee of Hasiru Dala, he witnessed how one can impact the lives of those less privileged through a triple bottom line approach. This prompted him to become a social entrepreneur. He started working in August 2015 on providing waste management services through waste pickers, thus creating livelihoods and impacting the environment by appropriate waste disposal.