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 Greenway Grameen Infra - Introduction  www.grameeninfra.com Greenway Grameen Infra (GGI) was formed with the vision of improving quality of life at the base of pyramid through innovative & user centric solutions. GGI focuses on developing ‘high immediate impact’ products that solve some of the most critical probl ems faced by rural communities and the urban poor employing unique design process that co-creates products with users as opposed to an isolated laboratory based approach. For our first offering the ‘Greenway Smart Stove’ the team travelled over 100,000 kilometers across the country developing over 8 prototypes to finalize the final design; this ensures that user requirements are adequately captured in the design and requisite knowledge about the consumer is garnered. The product and the organisation‘s unique approach to design has been recognized and acknowledged through the following awards and honours:  Businessworld Young Entrepreneur Award, 2011  Greenway Smart Stove chosen as one of the top 3 social innovations of the year by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) at Innolab, 2011  Adjudged as a ‘Pioneer of Tomorrow’ by ET Now, Lufthansa Pioneering Spirit Series  Nominated for the Atmosfair India Renewable Energy Innovation Award, 2011  Nominated for ‘Social Enterprise of the Year in Rural Business’ at the Sankalp Forum, 2011 As a first generation enterprise committed to sustainable development through innovative and commercially viable means GGI is led by a team of young and de dicated professionals. The firm has also recently expanded its scope of work to communities across Africa. Key Management  Neha Juneja - Neha is a Production Engineer and an alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi. She was selected as “Brightest Young Climate Leader” in 2010 by Hindustan Times, British Council and Arctic Holdings. She is passionate about rural development, climate change and animal rights. In 2011, she was a part of international group selected for training in “Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation” by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) where she worked with an international group on improved cookstoves. She is also involved in coordinating India’s first programmatic Carbon Credit project that would help large scale dissemination of cookstoves across multiple geographies and with various agencies.

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  Greenway Grameen Infra - Introduction 

www.grameeninfra.com

Greenway Grameen Infra (GGI) was formed with the vision of improving quality of life at the base of 

pyramid through innovative & user centric solutions. GGI focuses on developing ‘high immediate

impact’ products that solve some of the most critical problems faced by rural communities and the

urban poor employing unique design process that co-creates products with users as opposed to an

isolated laboratory based approach. For our first offering the ‘Greenway Smart Stove’ the teamtravelled over 100,000 kilometers across the country developing over 8 prototypes to finalize the final

design; this ensures that user requirements are adequately captured in the design and requisite

knowledge about the consumer is garnered. The product and the organisation‘s unique approach to

design has been recognized and acknowledged through the following awards and honours:

  Businessworld Young Entrepreneur Award, 2011

  Greenway Smart Stove chosen as one of the top 3 social

innovations of the year by Tata Institute of Social Sciences

(TISS) at Innolab, 2011

  Adjudged as a ‘Pioneer of Tomorrow’ by ET Now, Lufthansa

Pioneering Spirit Series

  Nominated for the Atmosfair India Renewable Energy

Innovation Award, 2011

  Nominated for ‘Social Enterprise of the Year in Rural

Business’ at the Sankalp Forum, 2011

As a first generation enterprise committed to sustainable development through innovative and

commercially viable means GGI is led by a team of young and dedicated professionals. The firm has also

recently expanded its scope of work to communities across Africa.

Key Management

  Neha Juneja - Neha is a Production Engineer and an alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies,

Delhi. She was selected as “Brightest Young Climate Leader” in 2010 by Hindustan Times, British

Council and Arctic Holdings. She is passionate about rural development, climate change and

animal rights. In 2011, she was a part of international group selected for training in “Climate

Change Mitigation and Adaptation” by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) where

she worked with an international group on improved cookstoves. She is also involved in

coordinating India’s first programmatic Carbon Credit project that would help large scale

dissemination of cookstoves across multiple geographies and with various agencies.

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  Ankit Mathur  – Ankit is an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Mechanical Engineer. Ankit has

been working on developing rural supply chains both from and to the market. He has worked

on designing biomass supply chains for over 5 biomass power plants and was one of the first

proponents of SEWA’s RUDI Bazaar – a market for and by rural women. He is the youngest

participant to be selected by the Swedish Trade Council as a part of their international

programme on management of CSR initiatives. He has undertaken several community led

projects in the areas of carbon mitigation in India and abroad and is experienced in financially

structuring renewable energy and energy access projects.

  Pragya Sharma  – Pragya is a B.Com and MBA with varied experience in financially structuring

projects pertaining to various renewable energy technologie . She has worked on technologies

such as wind, solar, biomass, biogas etc. and undertaken financial closure for various projects.

Her experience spans across large scale renewable energy installations, market scoping for new

technologies and bundled community projects.

  Shoeb Kazi  – Shoeb is a Chemical Engineer with experience in production management and

design. He has previously been responsible for production and quality at one of India’s largest

bio-fuel units and has been instrumental in designing and management of production processes

for the Greenway Smart Stove. He is presently also developing a unique add on stove featured

to be launched commercially early next month.

  Sonal Yelkar – Sonal holds a Masters in Environmental Sciences and Bachelors degree in Botany.

She has been working on developing baseline wood consumption and deforestation impact

scenarios on account of traditional biomass stove usage across 5 states in India and has worked

on a number of carbon mitigation Clean Development Mechanism projects.

Please feel free to contact us for further details at:

Neha Juneja  –[email protected], +91 9930751591

Shoeb Kazi – [email protected], +91 9892598124