Sashwati Banerjee

Founding Managing Director, Sesame Workshop in India

Sashwati Banerjee is a social development professional with over three decades of experience in organizational leadership, media, & communication for change. Incubated under the Entrepreneur in Residence program at Central Square Foundation, she has recently founded Nudged Trust & Humanitus Learning Solutions to provide an open source, free mobile app to help low income families support their young children’s development at home. Banerjee was responsible for establishing Sesame Workshop in India, and has led the organization as the Founding Managing Director since 2006.

Akshina Gupta

Chief Operating Officer, Top Parent

Akshina Gupta is a 2013 graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) and has spent 8+ years in the space of EdTech products and strategy consulting. She comes with a deep passion for holistic early childhood education and is committed to using the power of technology to create scalable ECE solutions. In her current role as Chief Operating Officer at Top Parent, she works closely with product, data and marketing teams to rapidly expand Top Parent’s reach and build an impactful tech platform addressing the critical ECE needs of lower income segments in the country.