Speaker

Founder & CEO 1Bridge
Managing Trustee, Head Held High Foundation
Co-Founder GAME
Strategic Advisor, YuWaah/UNICEF India

Madan Padaki is a social entrepreneur working at the intersection of transforming youth, enabling entrepreneurial journeys & empowering social changemakers.

He is Co-Founder of Head Held High Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on initiatives for poverty eradication through economic empowerment. He also founded 1Bridge in 2014 as a platform that empowers rural entrepreneurs to accelerate the abundance of access, choice & convenience to rural citizens, leveraging technology.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also lauded 1Bridge for promoting rural entrepreneurship in a recent episode of Mann ki Baat. In 2018, he co-founded Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), as an alliance that aims to catalyze large-scale job creation by bringing together Government, Businesses & Civil Society organizations to collaborate on igniting a mass entrepreneurship movement.

He also serves as a Strategic Advisor to YuWaah, an initiative of UNICEF India. He was the Co-Founder & CEO of MeritTrac, as a pioneering idea in skills assessments, scaled it rapidly to one of India’s largest skills assessment companies and was acquired by Manipal Education.