Mr. Neville Williams is the co-founder of SELCO Solar Light Private Limited. He is a solar energy pioneer who has promoted solar power applications around the world since 1988.He founded the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), a non-profit organization based in Washington DC. SELF continues to finance and facilitate solar rural electrification worldwide. It has assisted national governments and community organizations to implement "solar seed" projects in India, China, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Brazil, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Benin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands. In 1997, Williams founded the Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO) to own and operate subsidiaries in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. He co-founded SELCO-India and was its chairman until 2003. In 2004 Williams founded Standard Solar Inc. and launched operations in the USA. He was the chairman and CEO of Standard Solar, until 2008, when the fast-growing solar energy services company was acquired by an investment group.

Thomas Pullenkav has more than 24 years of experience in the domains of clean energy access, sustainable development and energy poverty. His expertise lies in the off-grid energy sector, with extensive ground level experience in deploying last mile energy solutions for the poor. Thomas is currently serving as the director of SELCO Solar Private Limited a social enterprise that provides energy solutions to under- served households and businesses and is a senior advisor at SELCO Foundation - the not-for- profit arm of the SELCO group of organisations. He also works as an independent consultant providing advisory support to organizations in the sustainable energy and low carbon development sectors.Thomas was one of the founding member of the team that started SELCO Solar Light Private Limited and he served the organisation in various capacities for more than 13 years. Prior to this, he worked with TATA BP Solar India Limited (now TATA Power Solar Systems Ltd.) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).Thomas is an alumnus of the prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). Thomas has been involved in the incubation of social enterprises in his capacity as Team Leader of the Villgro Innovation Foundation’s Energy Entrepreneurship Incubation Initiative and more recently as Advisor of the SELCO Incubation programme.

Professor M S Sriram is Faculty and Chairperson at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Development of Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad. In the past he was the Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Vice President (Finance) at BASIX and a faculty member at Institute of Rural Management Anand.

He started his career as a Development Officer with the Co-operative Development Foundation, working with primary agricultural co-operatives helping them to draw business plans, streamline accounting systems and participating as a resource person in their training programmes. Since then, his later work spanned both academics and practice. His research work is largely in the area of agricultural and rural finance, co-operatives and microfinance. He is a co-author of three Books - Beyond Micro-credit, published by Sage-Vistaar, and two books on Flow of Credit to Small and Marginal Farmers.

He has served on several expert committees appointed by the Indian Government, Reserve Bank and NABARD, including on the Task Force on revival of Rural Cooperative Credit Institutions [Vaidyanathan Committee]. He is currently on the external advisory committee of the RBI that is evaluating the licence for the proposed Small Finance Banks. He is also on the board of NDDB Dairy Services, NABARD Financial Services, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, and is a Trustee of Pratham Books and Dastkar Andhra.

In addition to the above, he has been a writer in Kannada. He has five books of fiction and four books of essays to his credit. He won the Masti Kannada Seva Nidhi Award for his first manuscript Mayadarpana and the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award for 2014 for his work of fiction Salman Khanana Difficulties and in 2015 for his collection of essays Arthartha. He is a graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand and completed his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Prasanna Hegde is a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from Bangalore University. He started to work in the clean energy space as a Business Associate of SELCO before joining SELCO in 2001. He heads the operations of North Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He is also in charge of the Human Resource department.

Sudipta Ghosh is a B.E (Electrical) and PG diploma in Business Management. He has 10 years of experience primarily in software designing prior to joining SELCO in 2012. He leads the Consultancy Department providing advisory support for DRE adoptions in sectors like Health, Livelihood and Entrepreneurship. He is in charge of the Projects department overseeing institutional projects and innovation initiatives. He oversees the MIS and other technology initiatives.