Our Team
Rashmi is a firm believer in “be the change you want to see in the world.” As a co-founder of Aline Partners, she is interested in encouraging foundations, individuals, and corporates to “give more and give better” through thoughtful and impactful giving. With nearly 18 years of experience in the consulting and grant-making space, Rashmi combines the rigour of evidence-centric research with an understanding of the challenges and constraints in the non-profit sector. She looks forward to convening diverse voices for collective action to achieve shared goals.
Earlier, Rashmi anchored grant diligence, finance, and management responsibilities at Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI). As part of grant-making, she also focused on organisation strengthening through structured capacity development support. In her 15 years of strategy consulting experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Avalon Consulting, she engaged with global and domestic corporates in their visioning and strategy development and in crafting strategies for scale.
Rashmi is an engineer from Mumbai University and a management graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She is an avid crossword and puzzle enthusiast and enjoys spending her weekends rummaging through the aisles at Blossom Book House or basking in the Bangalore weather at Cubbon Park.
Niti is one of the founders of Aline Partners. She works closely with organisations in building well-designed spaces for collective thinking and knowledge sharing. Niti is passionate about learning and developing tools and frameworks for an ecosystem approach. She truly believes that it takes a village to solve complex problems.
Niti worked with Socratus Foundation to help build the theory of change and designed visioning exercises for organisations in agricultural, forests, and livelihood areas. Additionally, she co-designed citizen-centric spaces to engage with the farming community in decision-making processes.
Before joining the social impact consulting, Niti played several roles in the Data & Digital Analytics division at Fidelity Investments for seven years. She brings problem-solving, visualisation, organisational and communication skills to the organisation.
Niti recently completed a course in Public Policy from The Takshashila Institution. She is a graduate of Economics from Delhi University and a management graduate from ISB Hyderabad. Niti is a trained Kathak dancer and a yoga enthusiast. She is currently discovering hybrid forms of yoga, like aerial yoga.
Meghana is an artist who spent years on the Performing Arts stage with principal roles in numerous dance and theatrical productions. She later found her calling in Human Rights work through her work on access to Justice for Women Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence. Meghana’s primary area of work has been programme strategy, design, implementation, measurement of gender justice programming, and campaigning. She brings two decades of non-profit practice, which includes justice focused grant-making at Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI). At the Philanthropy, she was instrumental in bringing an intersectional lens to their Gender and Persons with Disabilities portfolios.
Meghana’s experience with Mental Health encouraged her to introduce the subject area through early grants in the Philanthropy’s giving landscape. She has held senior program leadership roles in Women’s Rights organisations and most recently has been at the helm of the start-up and scale-up of one of India’s most cutting-edge youth movements on democracy and constitutional rights. Meghana is an advisor to Adivasi Lives Matter (a media platform to amplify Adivasi voices), Milaan Foundation (Works to end discrimination against adolescent girls) and Aawaz-e-Niswaan (Muslim women’s rights organisation). Meghana is a Commerce graduate with a Gender Studies postgraduate from Delhi University.She is a travel and art enthusiast and also teaches Hatha Yoga.
Jacob is a traveller and a food enthusiast with over twenty years of experience in the profit and not for profit space. He is one of the Founders of Aline Partners responsible for developing an Ecosystems approach in the food, nutrition, and agriculture spaces. He is also developing Aline partners' work in the energy and sustainability space along with communicating the work of not for profits effectively.
Jacob led the Impact Function at the Azim Premji Foundation before setting up Aline Partners. This was after leading both the Justice and Water teams at the Philanthropy, kick-starting the work in both programmes. He has worked on issues of agriculture, water, justice, and technology. He has both implemented as well as enabled these programmes. Jacob is a graduate in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Postgraduate in International Development and Law from the University of Warwick.
Arvind is one of the co-founders of Aline Partners. He also serves as a founding director at Socratus Foundation. He believes that only ‘Ecosystems solve Wicked Problems’. He seeks to learn how to support such ecosystems systematically and purposefully. At Aline, he will build the team and lead projects in this space. He looks forward to working with a variety of organisations and leaders.
At Socratus Foundation, he is part of the teams that work with urban systems and create ‘citizenship’ tools. He also hosts the people and knowledge functions.
Earlier, he worked with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI), where he anchored the impact and learning function and led their strategy refresh exercise. Under grantmaking, he focussed on the organisation building component of large multi-year grants under the scale-up grants portfolio. Through his work in consulting for over a decade at Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers, he has worked across areas related to education and skill development, government planning, and e-government initiatives.
Arvind is an industrial engineer from SRKNEC Nagpur and a management graduate from IIM Lucknow. He recently co-facilitated a post-graduate course on Public Problem Solving at the Kautilya Institute of Public Policy.