Our Team

Board Members

Ms. Varalaxmi Sarathkumar

Founder & Chairman

A popular and critically-acclaimed actor, VaralaxmiSarathkumar uses her celebrity status as a platform to give voice to the underprivileged, and strength to the oppressed. She leaves no stone unturned to raise awareness and seek support for the various causes Save Shakti espouses.

Ms. Chaya Devi

Advisory board

One of our founding members, Chaya Devi has been instrumental in charting out the road map for the inception and growth of Save Shakti. Today, she is not only the primary advisor of Save Shakti, but also an organizer, fund-raiser, and liaisons between our organization and the public, government, and other celebrities.

Ms. Pooja Sarathkumar

Treasurer

Pooja is a generous and resourceful volunteer of Save Shakti. She takes care of the logistics, and coordinates events.

Financial Advisor

Mr. C.Gautam Chander

Advisory board

Co-founder of Sankalp, yet another humanitarian NGO, Gautam has been the driving force behind Save Shakti right from its nascent stages.

Mr. C.Gautam Chander

Advisory board

Ms. Vandana Rangarajan

Team Member

Although Vandhana is our financial advisor, she goes beyond her call of duty to help us in every way possible, be it by coordinating events or launching crowd-funding campaigns.

Ms. Vandana Rangarajan

Team Member

Corporate affairs

Ms.Priya Raj

Director - Corporate affairs

Priya has 15 years of experience in heading marketing and sales team of a well-known construction company. She is a multi-lingual person, who is conversant in 6 languages.

Ms.Priya Raj

Director - Corporate affairs

Legal Board

Mr.Thomas.T.Jacob

Legal Advisor

Thomas is one of our founding members, and a legal advisor, who has been of great help right from the inception of Save Shakti. He helped draft Save Shakti’s first petition.

Mr.Thomas.T.Jacob

Legal Advisor

Ms. Ezhil Bose

Legal Advisor

Ms. Ezhil Bose is practising at the High Court of Madras relating to family, property, labour matters and represents as standing counsel for corporate matters. She is also the Founder of her own Brand “Family Tree” that has a vision of preventing divorce cases, broken families, and domestic violence in the society.

Ms. Ezhil Bose

Legal Advisor

Mrs. Shanthi Ganesh

Legal Advisor

With her husband, T.V Ganesh, Shanti has been a generous contributor of her time and resources towards the development of Save Shakti.

Mrs. Shanthi Ganesh

Legal Advisor

Animal Welfare

Mrs. Jayalakshmi Sundaresan

Team Member

Another founding member, who helped realize the dream of conceptualizing and implementing Save Shakti’s ideals. Jayalakshmi is our very own fundraiser extraordinaire.

Mrs. Jayalakshmi Sundaresan

Team Member

Ms.Aishwarya

Team Member

Currently, Aishwarya is the parent of two loving dogs. After becoming a pet parent, she realized it requires a lot of commitment, love, time, and money to bring them up. Fortunately for her dogs, she is able to provide for them.

Ms.Aishwarya

Team Member

Mr.Manikandan K

Team Member

Manikandan is a part of the animal welfare community. He is instrumental in finding homes for the abandoned. Being a pet lover, he understands how they should to be treated and cared for. He also helps in managing supplies for feeding the furry friends on streets.

Mr.Manikandan K

Team Member

Mr.Sivakumar

Team Member

Siva Kumar works for Modular Furniture Firm (MNC) in Chennai. After becoming a dog parent in 2008, he realized the challenges the strays faced in their daily lives. Since 2018, he has been the vanguard of our mission to care for the forgotten.

Mr.Sivakumar

Team Member

Migrant Welfare

Dr. Srimathi

Director in Migrant Welfare

Dr. Srimathy, Founder & CEO of a leading Science and Technology incubator - “Space Kidz India” (SKI) - helps children reach to the stars. Launched in 2011, Space Kidz India has designed and pioneered multiple programs aimed at creating the next generation of scientific thinkers in India.

Dr. Srimathi

Director in Migrant Welfare

Ms. Kavitha S

Director- HR- Training and Development skills

Kavitha has done her Executive Women Entrepreneurs program at IIM Bangalore. She is a consummate and passionate professional trainer with close to 12 years of quality exposure to Learning & Development. Donning various professional hats across her chequered career spanning over 15 years

Ms. Kavitha S

Director- HR- Training and Development skills

MS. Gitali Thakur

Director in Migrant Welfare

Gitali Thakur is a social entrepreneur and founder of Maitri Social Enterprise Group, which works towards generating decent jobs for people in the informal sector.

MS. Gitali Thakur

Director in Migrant Welfare

Mental Health

Dr. M.Lakshmi Prabha

Psychiatrist

Lakshmi is an assistant professor of psychiatry. She specializes in stress management, providing counselling and treatment for sleep-related problems, behavioral problems in children and adolescents. She is also known for providing marital therapy, cognitive behavior & art therapy, and psycho-oncology treatment.

Dr. M.Lakshmi Prabha

Psychiatrist

Ms. Elizabeth Rempel

Psychiatrist

Psychiatry, PACT Atlanta, Intern Psychiatrist, Larkin Community Hospital, Intern Psychiatrist, Child & Ado

Ms. Elizabeth Rempel

Psychiatrist

Ms. Somdutta Banerjee

Psychologist

Somdutta is a psychology teacher of a popular CBSE School in Kolkata. She is a psychologist, with specialization in the clinical field. She has 15 years of experience in her domain.

Ms. Somdutta Banerjee

Psychologist

Ms.Kalyananthy

Chief Coordinator

Entrepreneur - Managing Partner - KK's ACADEMY. Kalyananthy is a competitive exam trainer/higher secondary teacher. Counselling Psychologist - FEEL & HEAL COUNSELING SERVICES, Chennai. Founder & managing trustee of PROJECT FUTURE INDIA TRUST, she is conducting research on corporal punishments.

Ms.Kalyananthy

Chief Coordinator

Ms. Suhrudhaa

Psychologist

Suhrudhaa is a counselling psychologist working at a clinic in Chennai for the past 2.5 years. Having experience in clinical psychology, she recently started a YouTube channel to spread awareness on mental health and its stigma.

Ms. Suhrudhaa

Psychologist

Dr. Mini Rao

Pyshcologist

With over 15 years of experience in the field, Dr Mini Rao has been striving hard to educate and normalize mental health among the masses. Dr Mini is also vocal about her support to several social causes and is an ambassador for Chennai Turns Pink, and United Nations Peace Federation, a spokesperson for KARE.

Dr. Mini Rao

Pyshcologist

Public Relation & Events

Mr. Harsheeth

Director , Events & Programs

Harsheeth is a founding member of Save Shakti. He is our voice and liaisons with the media. He is an excellent event coordinator, who ensures all our events run seamlessly. He also handles Save Shakti’s public relations activities.

Mr. Harsheeth

Director , Events & Programs

Creative Team

Ms. Natasha Jeyasingh

Creative Head

Natasaha is the go-to person at Save Shakti for all things creative! From events to campaigns to fundraising calls, Natasha adds her magical touch to spruce things up.

Ms. Natasha Jeyasingh

Creative Head

Mr. KiranSa

Digital Photographic Head

At his heart, KiranSa is an artist. Known in the Indian Tinsel Context as one of the top photographers of his generation, his charming demeanor, confidence and humor make him a much sought-after lensman among CEOs and celebrities.

Mr. KiranSa

Digital Photographic Head

Mr.Upendran Nandakumar

Digital Marketing Head

Chairman & CEO of AyatiWorks.He works as a dynamic social media marketer-planner and a digital marketing-expert and care of strategic planning and implementation of 360° digital services.He is expert in executing complete 360° medium of digital communication and marketing campaigns in less turnaround.

Mr.Upendran Nandakumar

Digital Marketing Head

Collaboration Partners

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