Sanjay Kadaveru

Biography

Sanjay Kadaveru is the Founder & President of Action For India (AFI), an initiative to help social entrepreneurs in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid. AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts and local partners. Launched in 2012, AFI is headquartered in New Delhi, India and has a chapter in Silicon Valley, California. Earlier this year, the organization launched AISEA, an AFI promoted social entrepreneurship accelerator at IIT Hyderabad and 3iPartners, an AFI affiliated impact investment fund, where Sanjay serves as a Co-founder & Partner.

Prior to launching AFI, Sanjay managed investments at The Seven Hills Group, a family office based in the US, where he supported the deployment of $50M in capital across several sectors: energy, media, IT, infrastructure and education. He is also a co-founder of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, a US based not-for-profit thought-leadership organization focusing on the life sciences. Sanjay is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, and served as a Co-Chair for TiECon East. He also serves as Vice-Lead for the Social Entrepreneurship SIG at TiE Global. Earlier, Sanjay co-founded the AP Technology Leadership Council, a non-profit networking organization created to provide pro-bono business consulting services to civic and governmental causes in the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh.

Sanjay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.