Prasanta Biswal
Head-Incubation
Prasanta Biswal holds a Post Graduate degree in Management of NGOs from Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Post Graduation in Rural Development and Bachelors of Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. With over 9 years of experience in rural-sustainable energy service, Mr. Biswal has been working towards serving the poorest communities through sustainable energy-technology, financial and process innovations. He joined SELCO in 2006, leading multiple pro-poor renewable energy initiatives in Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar and Odisha.
Srikantha BK
Manager – Finance & Administration
Srikanth has experience in financial audits and internal accounting procedures. He hails from Shimoga, Karnataka.
Sagar Kumar Mahapatra,
Liaison Officer
Sagar has more than three years of experience working in the livelihood enhancement, micro-finance,and entrepreneurship development domains of development sector. He has a postgraduate certificate on Livelihood and Development Management from HDF School of Management in India. Sagar is also an ICICI Fellow who worked with rural development projects for fifteen months. In July 2013, He participated in the International Design Development Summit, which took place in Zambia. He worked on menstrual hygiene in a village in the east province and helped in designing low cost sanitary pads. He currently works with SELCO incubation center as liaison officer, where he works towards incubating early stage energy enterprises in Odisha and Northeastern states of India.
Sanjay Tripathy
Asst. Liaison Officer
Sanjay Tripathy holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Management (PGCM) with specialization in livelihood & micro finance. 3 years work experience as ‘Expert Livelihood for tribal communities’ at Odisha. I joined SELCO incubation in January 2015, working with tribal youth in Odisha to make them as next generation sustainable energy entrepreneurs & identify the potential entrepreneur for sustainable solar energy enterprises & out line partnership with financing institution / NGO’s / Universities / Government Agencies / Media etc.
Naga Bhushan
Channel Development Manager
Bhushan is a graduate with major in Mechanical Engineering and has a Masters degree in Developmental Studies from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. His two years work experience with developmental organizations is in the area of creation of sustainable rural livelihoods. He is passionate about Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA), Alternate sources of energy, appropriate low-cost sustainable green technologies to alleviate people out of poverty. He recently Selco Incubation as a channel development manager.