Members of the Board of Advisors are as follow:

1. Dr. S. V. Gore

2. Mr. Yogesh Jagia

3. Dr. Ira Dash Rajguru

4. Mr. Praveen Gupta

5. Mr. Santanu Mishra

Dr Shrinivas Vasant Gore, a Medical Doctor and General Surgeon by profession, Managing Trustee of Sevadham Trust, Pune, is a well known personality in field of Social Work. Dr Gore is on Country Committee for Coordinating Mechanism of Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - set up by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; also on Working Group on Health Education (IEC) set up for the formulation for the Tenth Five Year Plan by the Planning Commission.

Mr. Yogesh Jagia, a Lawyer by profession with specialization in economic laws, practices in Delhi High Court & Supreme Court of India.

Dr. Ira Dash Rajguru, a Doctorate in Social Sciences with specialization in HR and Women Issues, has been working with HR dept of Unicorp and subsequently worked as a HR consultant to Ingramico, Icons & V5 Global. Interested in writing, she has authored the book “Women and Education in Rajasthan.”

Mr. Praveen Gupta is a Post Graduate in Business & Economics from Delhi University. He advices to more than 50 corporate houses on various strategic issues.

Mr. Santanu Mishra is an Associate Member of ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India – a statutory body under an act of Parliament). He also holds a degree in law and is registered with the Bar Council of Delhi. In his professional capacity, he works as a legal consultant, having specialization in legal due diligence. Mr. Mishra is also the Executive Trustee of Smile Foundation.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee manages the Foundation’s operation directly and it reports to the Board of Advisors. Members of this committee are professionals working with Smile Foundation and usually it includes a member from the Board of Advisors.

1. Mr. K. K. Varma

2. Ms. Indrani Roy

3. Mr. Naresh Chaudhary

4. Mr. Santanu Mishra

Mr. K. K. Varma is an Alumni of IIT, Kharagpur (Master in Regional Planning) with an M. Sc Degree in Statistics and training in Health and Family Welfare from Management Science for Health (MSH), Boston (USA). Mr. Varma has extensive experience of about 30 years in NGO sectors on programme management and social research [Education & Empowerment, Reproductive & Sexual Health, Family Planning etc.]. He has worked with Govt. of India, leading development agencies and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as its State Representative before joining Smile family.

Ms. Indrani Roy, a Post Graduate from Jadavpur University (Kolkata), worked with Help Age India as Deputy Director (Resource Mobilization–North) for 22 years. She was working with Global Cancer Concern India (GCCI) as Director, South-East [Resource Development] before joining Smile Team in Bangalore as National Director. Indrani has also launched Resource Generation Programmes in Northern Region, Southern Region and Eastern Region for GCCI.

Mr. Naresh Chaudhary holds an engineering degree in Electronic and Tele Communications with an extensive experience, predominantly in the fields of resource mobilization and brand building with a consistent exposure of project management, communications and administration.

Mr. Santanu Mishra, an Associate Member of ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India), is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A). Besides also holding a degree in law, Mr. Mishra specializes in Business & Enterprise Transformation & Project Management.