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About Us

Meet our dynamic team of change makers

Mission & Vision

Story of Industree

Ms. Neelam Chhiber

Founder & Director, Industree Crafts Pvt. Ltd.

Ms. Gita Ram

Chairman, Crafts Council of India

Ms. Shobha Narayan

Author and Documenter of Crafts

Mr. Ashoke Chatterjee

Ex- President, Crafts Council of India

Mr. Sanjay Kalra

Entrepreneur at Large,Technology & Society, Ex-CEO Of Tech Mahindra Ltd.

Ms. Sandhya Vasudevan

Independent Director and Former MD with Deutsche Bank & Thomson Reuters

Mr. L. Ravichandran

Ex-President & Chief Operating Officer, Tech Mahindra Ltd. Ex-Board Member Mahindra Group Executive Board

Meet Our Board Members

Our Global Advisory Board

Mission

Industree believes that when vulnerable women have access to an enabling ecosystem to build economic resilience in nature-based creative enterprise collectives, they can pursue their futures with dignity, empowered at home and in the community, adapting to and mitigating climate change

Vision

To scale this ecosystem to reach 3 million women by 2030, Industree is committed to raising and channeling 1 Bn USD of Innovative Finance working with civil society, government, and private sector partnerships, keeping Equity, Climate, and Gender at the core of creative economy.

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About Industree

Industree works on the regenerative economic transformation of India’s most vulnerable women by unleashing their abilities to build and scale self-owned collective enterprises and leverage economies of scale. Focusing on sustainable natural fiber and regenerative agricultural value chains, such as banana, bamboo, and non-timber forest produce, Industree upskills women to adopt green business practices and connects them with markets for natural and biodegradable products. Industree has established 37 for-profit women’s collectives and four producer companies, which supply homewares and apparel meeting sustainable procurement standards to major global retailers. Industree’s ecosystem supports entrepreneurs with upskilling, capital, digital tools, and more.

Lisa Kleissner

Co-Founder and President KL Felicitas Foundation, Co-Founder and Chair, Toniic Institute

Mr. Shankar H

Independent Consultant

Ms. Geetha Narayan

Founder Director, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Dr. Charly Kleissner

Impact Investor, Co-Founder, Toniic Institute, Co-Founder, KL Felicitas Foundation and Social-Impact International

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