
Gaurav is the Chief Growth Officer at EkStep Foundation where he has been instrumental in working with the government to scale DIKSHA, world's largest government backed school education platform & India's first DPI in education. He is now leading the effort on ONEST - the Open Networks for Employment & Skilling Transformation, UBI - Unified Benefits Interface and a bunch of engagements with different stakeholders leveraging the power of AI & DPI.
Gaurav is passionate about solving large scale societal problems leveraging technology. He is a business leader and an ecosystem & growth architect with more than 24 years of cross-functional experience across several industries and geographies. A start-up guy, Gaurav has played a significant role in the growth journey of many start-ups and new initiatives of large organizations. Gaurav is an alumnus of XLRI-Jamshedpur and IIT-Roorkee and has held leadership positions at Flipkart, Accenture Management Consulting & Marketics (India’s pioneering analytics company).












There’s a lot happening at charcha 2025
Exciting programming in play - marquee speakers, extensive CSR and CSO network participation, thought-provoking panels and workshops, curated networking, and more.

