Vishnu, a lifelong entrepreneur, is IHF’s co-founder. He has brought several ideas to life over his professional career in both for-profit and non-profit worlds. During the late 1990’s, he co-founded two internet technology companies in Singapore. Both the companies were based on ideas that were ahead of their times. One was focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning and the other was a fin-tech business. One of the companies was acquired in the early 2000s and then he discovered his deep interest in social development.
In the non-profit space, he worked with Ashoka as a Leadership Group Member for over a decade, and led multiple teams across South Asia, South East Asia and at the Global office. His work on malnutrition has led to the creation of Nourishing Schools Foundation which is focused on empowering students to take charge of their own nutrition. He led the affordable housing strategy which created a supply of over 15,000 homes across India and that led to the creation of IHF.
Vishnu is passionate about creating large scale social change using hybrid business models.