Chaithanya Padi

Chief Technology Officer

Chaithanya has expertise in building lean and secure products with scalable architectures in multiple domains ranging from healthcare to information security. He leads the technology team at InnerHour and is helping us build a scalable platform of the future. He has held roles of CTO at Fitternity & Entersoft Security. Chaithanya has a B.Tech in Computer Science from JNTUCEH.

Ashish Sangle

Digital Marketing Manager

Ashish is a B.Tech and M.Tech graduate in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Ashish kicked off his marketing career at LetsMath. He is an ace in building brands for start-ups, small companies, and entrepreneurial ventures. Whether it is streamlining a process or brainstorming the next big campaign, Ashish is always passionate on forging a powerful brand.

Suchitra Banerjee

Senior Consultant Psychologist

Suchitra is a Clinical Psychologist with an M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from Manipal University. She provides assessment and therapy for adolescents and adults presenting with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties and addiction, among other issues. She also supervises students pursuing their Master’s degree in Psychology at TISS, Mumbai. Prior to this, she practised at Sahyadri Hospital, Pune, where she worked with both children and adults across a wide range of psychological conditions.

Sweta Bothra

Senior Consultant Psychologist

Sweta has an M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology and comes with 5 years of experience in the field. Listening to people and exploring the motives behind their behaviours has always fascinated her. She practices in Mumbai and specializes in various forms of therapy for adolescents and adults across numerous conditions; viz, anxiety, depression, adjustment problems, relationship and personality difficulties. Additionally, she has a Diploma in Fine Arts and in her free time she loves to paint.

Pratishtha Trivedi Mirza

Head - School Programmes

Pratishtha is a​n RCI licensed Clinical Psychologist, and has practised in multidisciplinary private and government hospital settings. Alongside clinical work, she has extensive experience in dealing with issues of school children, and has conducted multiple training programs with students, parents, and teachers in the school setting. With primary training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Pratishtha uses an eclectic approach to intervention with a belief that each individual brings something different to a therapeutic setting, and that this difference needs to be respected. Pratishtha has done her M.A. from Delhi University and has an M.Phil​. in Clinical Psychology from IHBAS, Delhi.

Zarana Mithani

Zarana Mithani got her psychological grounding working for a host of NGOs and rehabilitation centres including UN WOMEN and Fast Forward in Scotland. Her belief in the importance of psychological first aid and the benefits of behavioural insight has pushed her to even teach the subject. Zarana holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and an M.Sc. in Counselling from the University of Edinburgh. At InnerHour, she handles Research and Client Interaction. She loves to travel whenever she can and watches movies and reads voraciously when she can’t.

Cynthia Lewis

Cynthia completed her degree in Psychology and Anthropology at St. Xavier’s College Mumbai, before taking a year off to travel. She’s since dipped her fingers into a number of fields from freelance writing and content creation to teaching, acting, farming and volunteering. She enjoys reading in her free time and is passionate about human personality and the stories of individuals and communities and how they affect one another.

Alok Gupta

Alok Gupta is a management graduate from IMT and has attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He was with United Spirits Limited for over 15 years; his last role there was as Chief Operating Officer of Whyte & Mackay based out of Scotland. With over 29 years of industry experience, Alok joined Impact RetailTech from Café Coffee Day where in his capacity as a Director, he was responsible for expanding the reach of India’s largest Café brand & for building a coffee culture amongst Indian consumers. Today, he is the Chief Architect & CEO of Impact RetailTech, a company with the vision to build a technology platform retail ecosystem with sharp focus on smartphones & the emerging smart economy.

Bhav Singh

Bhav Singh is the CEO & Founder of Sandbox Partners (SBX), a group of curated edutainment businesses for the connected generation that taps into the potential to harness technology and content to create a safe and fun learning ecosystem through a complementary suite of products service and platforms. He is a media and learning ecosystem specialist, with over 15 years experience as an ‘intrapreneur’, developing and scaling corporate subsidiary businesses within media giants, such as Viacom and Pearson, to reach their commercial potential. At Viacom, he spent eight years as Managing Director of Emerging Markets, whereas at Pearson, Bhav transformed the business into a coherent integrated portfolio of successful companies through organic growth and strategic acquisition, resulting in a new umbrella brand ‘Pearson English’.

Shivani Tejuja

Shivani holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from London Business School. She was the Multichannel Director of New Look, where she was involved in strategising this dynamic fast-fashion brand’s customer experience and growing their digital business over 50% year-on-year. She has held senior management roles and directorships at a host of major brands in the US and Europe, including Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, Expedia and Voyages-SNCF- Expedia’s joint venture with the French national train operator. She joined Apax Partners in 2014 as an adviser in the Operational Excellence team. Since then, Shivani has supported digital growth initiatives at rue21, Takko, Karl Lagerfeld and Rhiag.

Prof. Dinesh Bhugra

Dinesh Bhugra is the current President of the World Psychiatric Association. He has previously been the President and the Dean of The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. He is a Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, London, England.

In addition to his Medical Degree, Dinesh has attained many qualifications, including the Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery from the Society of the Apothecaries, a PhD from the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians, the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He has received honours from the American Psychiatry Association, the American College of Psychiatrists, the Academy of Medical Sciences (Singapore), and many others.