About Us
Meet our dynamic team of change makers
About Industree
Vision & Mission
Story of Industree
Ms. Neelam Chhiber
Founder & Director, Industree Crafts Pvt. Ltd.
Ms. Gita Ram
Chairman, Crafts Council of India
Ms. Shobha Narayan
Author and Documenter of Crafts
Mr. Ashoke Chatterjee
Ex- President, Crafts Council of India
Mr. Sanjay Kalra
Entrepreneur at Large,Technology & Society, Ex-CEO Of Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Ms. Sandhya Vasudevan
Independent Director and Former MD with Deutsche Bank & Thomson Reuters
Mr. L. Ravichandran
Ex-President & Chief Operating Officer, Tech Mahindra Ltd. Ex-Board Member Mahindra Group Executive Board
Core Impact Areas
Increased and regular incomes
Women's empowerment at home and work
Decent and equitable work conditions
Resilience to life crisis
Improved standard of living for the next generation
Climate action
Meet Board Members
Global Advisory Board
Vision
Industree believes that when vulnerable women have access to an enabling ecosystem to build economic resilience in nature-based creative enterprise collectives, they can pursue their futures with dignity, empowered at home and in the community, adapting to and mitigating climate change
Mission
To scale this ecosystem to reach 3 million women by 2030, Industree is committed to raising and channeling 1 Bn USD of Innovative Finance working with civil society, government, and private sector partnerships, keeping Equity, Climate, and Gender at the core of creative economy.
Lisa Kleissner
Co-Founder and President KL Felicitas Foundation, Co-Founder and Chair, Toniic Institute
Mr. Shankar H
Independent Consultant
Ms. Geetha Narayan
Founder Director, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Dr. Charly Kleissner
Impact Investor, Co-Founder, Toniic Institute, Co-Founder, KL Felicitas Foundation and Social-Impact International
Established in 2000, Industree has been seeding and accelerating women-owned plantation and creative enterprises, in over 10 states in India and in Ethiopia as well.
Impacted 600,000 lives by
-Upskilling rural women producers
-Building ownership powered by sustainability
-Integrating them into the national and global creative economy with over 59.7 MN USD of trade