Santhosh Ramdoss

Biography

Santhosh Ramdoss is a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, supporting Skoll’s Program Related Investments (PRI) and mission investment portfolio. Prior to his role at Skoll, Santhosh was a Director in the India offices of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, where he helped oversee the Foundation’s portfolio of impact investments and was responsible for executing the mission of the Foundation to transform lives of children living in urban poverty. Early in his career, Santhosh helped to launch and manage greenfield financial institutions and development programs at the world’s largest NGO, BRAC. He helped BRAC raise $100 million in equity, debt and grant funds.

Santhosh has also founded multiple start-ups in his career. Most recently, he co-founded ThinkChange India, the leading social entrepreneurship portal in the country which was acquired by YourStory.in in June 2013. He also co-founded Profits for People which was focused on creating rural SMEs in Southern India. This venture won a bunch of leading venture competitions and raised seed funding from New York University.

Santhosh holds an MBA from one of India’s leading business schools and an MPA from New York University, where he was also a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. NYU honored him with an Alumni Torch Award in 2011.