Our Team
Pravaha Trustees
Ravi Kailas
Ravi is the founder and Chairman of Mytrah Group. He is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience in India, and has founded companies in renewable energy, telecom, software, financial options and more. He has bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, and a master's from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
Vikram Kailas
Vikram is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mytrah Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd. He has also worked in the Energy & Utilities investment banking group at Credit Suisse in New York. He has a Bachelor in Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale School of Management.
Vinoda Kailas
Vinoda has over 16 years of experience in designing and implementing large scale IT solutions for clients in US and Europe. She applies this expertise and her passion for social development, to overseeing and program managing all of Pravaha’s initiatives. She is a Computer Science Engineer from NIT Warangal (erstwhile REC Warangal). Reading, and her family, are an integral part of her time away from work.
Mahesh Nilakantan
Mahesh has over 25 years of experience in strategic and IT consulting, banking, and sales and marketing. He has an MBA in finance and strategy, a passion for numbers and languages, and enjoys executing complex projects. When not at work, he is usually lost in books and music.
Cathy Guo
Cathy is an activist and writer. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Columbia University. Cathy is the co-author of "Myth of the Entrepreneur" (Harper Collins 2019) as well as essays for The Society of Progress on corporate governance and new models of value creation. She is an aspiring entrepreneur who has built products and led teams in the decentralized technologies space.