Mr. Sanjay Gupta
Director-Finance

Sanjay is a CA & ICWA professional with twelve years experience in the corporate sector with a focus on financial accounting, consolidation and finalization of accounts/balance sheet, tax planning, product costing, pricing and cost control, and internal, statutory and management audit. Prior to joining the PCI/India team on July 25, 2005, Sanjay worked for Haier Appliances (India) Ltd. As Director-Finance and PCI/India, his responsibilities include supervision, guidance and mentoring of the entire finance team, financial management and control, handling of business laws and regulations, financial reporting to donors and the PCI International Office, and system formulation for various financial operation activities.

Mr. Peter Joseph Trinidad
Director-HR & Administration

Peter has a master’s degree and more than 21 years of experience in NGO networking, women’s empowerment, rural development, project formulation implementation, and human resource management of various developmental programs. Before joining PCI/India in January 2003 as the State Coordinator in Rajasthan, he worked with CARE-India for more than 13 years. As Director-HR and Administration, he provides direction, management and leadership in human resources and administration. Major responsibilities include the formation and execution of policies of PCI/India, recruitment and orientation of staff, performance management, legal compliance, salary structure, capacity building, organization development, and administration such as budget, vehicle, purchase, payroll, PF & gratuity and security.

Ms. Charu Chopra
Director-Resource Mobilization & Documentation

Charu has a Master’s degree in Social Work and more than 17 years of experience in the social development sector. In the social development field, she has experience in capacity building, program management, documentation and dissemination, networking and advocacy, and strategic planning. She joined PCI/India on September 03, 2007 as the Director-Resource Mobilization and Documentation. Her main role is to generate resources, develop new proposals, provide technical support to ongoing programs, develop corporate partnership strategies, document country programs and explore opportunities for collaboration with donors. She is also responsible for regular updates of PCI/India’s website

Mr. Varughese Antony
Manager- Administration & HR

Antony is an ex-Indian Navy personnel, decorated with Commendation from the Vice Chief of Naval Staff. He has a master’s degree in Public Administration and 26 years of practical experience. Before joining the PCI/India team on May 1, 2005, he served the Indian Navy and worked with Deepalaya, an NGO. In PCI/India Antony is responsible for providing administrative and logistic support to the PCI/India country office and coordinating with regional offices for Administrative and HR related issues. 

Md. Ataur Rab
Project Manager(PEI)

Ataur is a postgraduate in social work from AMU (Aligargh Muslim University). He has eight years of experience in the field of social development in the areas of health and sanitation, trafficking and HIV/AIDS. He was program officer with NYKS (Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan) on YPPTA (Youth Participation in Trafficking and HIV/AIDS) project before joining PCI/India on February 01, 2008 as Project Manager for CORE group polio project.

Ms. Aarti Kapoor
Research Associate

Aarti Kapoor is a Masters in Business Administration. She has 4 years experience in development sector in the field of microfinance and livelihoods. She joined PCI/India on 01^st Jun 2008 as  a Research Associate CIDP. She is coordinating the research and implementation activities of ‘Connecting India to Disconnect Poverty’ Project that aims to find out the information gaps between an MFI and its clients and  further develop a M-Commerce application.

Regional Office : Pune

Ms. Ashwini Jog
Manager-Sure Start

Ashwini Jog is an MA in Social work from TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences). She has 19-years of experience in social development in the areas of gender, violence, media and rural development where her expertise is on gender issues in development. Aswini joined the PCI/India Pune team on April 9, 2007 as Project Manager of the Sure Start program.

Regional Office : Nagapattinamm

Mr. H.N. Malim
Manager-Project BESST

Malim has a Master’s in Social Work and has notable publications on HIV/AIDS. He has handled programs on child labor and child related issues, STI/HIV/AIDS among youth, children and communities while working on development-related projects in Salem. Malim joined PCI/India on February 25, 2003 and after the tsunami, he has been working in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu as the manager of the tsunami project BESST. He is responsible for all activities related to the implementation and subsequent running of the project, staying on target with strategic objectives of the project, and ensuring a strong system of monitoring & evaluation and coordination with the stakeholders.

Regional Office : Salem

Mr. Ram Kumar S
Program Manager

Ramkumar is a post graduate in clinical psychology with specialization in sexual health. He has got 13 years of experience in HIV/AIDS, disaster management and management consultancy through training and development for corporate sector, bilateral and multilateral organizations. He has specialized in strategic management and rendered trainings on the same to International/National agencies. He has got host of publications in targeted interventions in HIV/AIDS, disaster management and psychosocial management.  He joined PCI /India as program manager for the Salem regional office in July 2007. At present he is in - charge for the PATHWAY programs in Salem and Warangal and managing the activities and providing technical support to other partner NGOs in South India.