Chairman & Managing Trustee
(Entrepreneur & Consultant, Cuddalore)
Mr. Gopikanthan is an entrepreneur whose interests lie in agro-based business. In addition to his business interests, he has a keen interest in community service, and was associated with Pengal Pannokku Iyakkam (PPI, Cuddalore) for several years.
PPI was one of the first community-based organizations to be created with the help of our sister agency, The Community Services Guild.
Mr. Gopikanthan first joined TRUST as one of its trustees, and his extensive background in non-profit accounting will help guide the organization in the coming years, and continue to maintain our reputation for honesty and transparency.
Trustee
(Doctor, Entrepreneur & Consultant, Coimbatore)
A fourth-generation doctor with an MD in Preventative Medicine and a passion for entrepreneurship and community service, Dr. Aishwarya Arjun has actively sought opportunities to contribute to social initiatives.
She is the co-founder of medical robotics start-up, Atre Healthtech Pvt Ltd, where she leads a multidisciplinary team in developing cutting-edge medical devices for enhanced diagnostics and treatment.
She is also a trustee at GRD Foundation in Coimbatore where she leads initiatives and implements programs aimed at providing education for and uplifting underprivileged children in rural areas surrounding Coimbatore.
She is an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Young Indians (Yi), having been a former Chairperson of the Coimbatore Yi and the National Chairperson of Yi-Health.
In this role, she has initiated and led projects such as the nationwide Gift an Organ campaign, which ran across 64 cities to promote organ donation, organized health screening programs for rural women and sanitary health workers, and much more.
Founder & Executive Director (Hon.)
(Social Worker & Development Consultant, India & USA)
The Founder and Executive Director (Hon.) of TRUST, as well as the founder and long-time Executive Director of our (now defunct) sister agency,The Community Services Guild (CSG), Mr. Ramanujam has spent over forty years working for the empowerment of women and children.
Apart from a few years spent working for organizations such as CARE early in the 1970s, he has spent his life and career working to achieve CSG and TRUST vision and mission.
He has also consulted for organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (Bay of Bengal Program), Foster Parents Plan International, the Danish International Development Agency, and the National Commission on Rural Labour (Govt. of India), among others, on women and child development projects. He has extensive experience in organizing, advocacy, programs related to the empowerment of women and child development, as well as grant-making. His focus in social work has primarily been on addressing gender inequality, and rural and urban poverty through micro-savings and micro-finance, training, education, and facilitating access to available government schemes.
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