Zaid Hassan - Co-founder and CEO
Zaid is a strategist, facilitator and writer. He has spent over 20 years building a practice for responding effectively to complex challenges.
Zaid has had the privilege of working all around the world for governments, civil society, philanthropists and corporations. He has worked on issues such as agriculture, artificial intelligence, climate change, early childhood development, education, energy, financial systems, malnutrition, mental health, peace building and security, state collapse, sustainable development, and youth employment.
Some of the clients Zaid has worked with and advised over the years include the World Bank, the UN Foundation, WWF, Oxfam, the Governments of Canada, Germany, Liberia, and New Zealand.
Zaid conceived the Gigatonne Challenge after the collapse of the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Since then, he has been leading a team developing Gigatonne as a strategic response to the climate crisis.
Prior to co-founding 10-in-10 and Gigatonne, Zaid convened and co-founded Reos Partners in 2007; and Roller Strategies in 2014. He studied physics at Brunel University but dropped out to join the .com boom.
Zaid teaches and guest lectures regularly. He has guest lectured at the University of Oxford, the California College of Arts, the New School in New York, New York University (Berlin) and the University of Bergen in Norway. Zaid was guest faculty for a decade at the Kaospilots, an innovative school for entrepreneurs in Denmark. He is currently a Social Innovation Fellow at Babson College.
Zaid is author of “The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach To Solving Our Most Complex Challenges” (Berret-Koehler, 2014) as well as many papers, articles and essays.
He is currently working on his second book, titled “How To Evolve: Using evolution to fix culture, politics, economics, stop the world from frying, & why it's not that hard” (Forthcoming, 2024).
Manish Jain - Co-founder
Manish is a de-educationist, social innovator and ecosystem manifestor.
Manish has 25 years of experience working with grassroots leaders, young people, and local communities. The vision behind his work is that people are inherently creative when freed from the constraints of factory schooling and externally imposed development paradigms.
Manish has co-founded several initiatives that have brought thousands of learners together. These include Shikshantar (The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development), Swaraj University (built on Gandhi’s ideas of self-rule), and Ecoversities Alliance (a network of 100+ alternative universities globally), and most recently the Jail University – a new innovation in rehabilitative prison practice.
Prior to his journey as a social entrepreneur , Manish has worked at Morgan Stanley, UNESCO, UNICEF and with various international NGOs. He has been trying to unlearn his Master’s degree in education from Harvard University and his BA in economics, international development, and political philosophy from Brown University.
Alenka Zavasnik - Head of Community
Alenka is responsible for Gigatonne programme development, delivery and collaborative partnerships at 10-in-10.
Alenka has 20 years experience working on international initiatives to support entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, young people, and change-makers in capacity building, resilient leadership, partnerships and community development.
Alenka spent over a decade at CEED (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development) and SEAF emerging markets investment management group, working in their field office in Slovenia and HQ in Washington D.C.
She has also spearheaded initiatives for growing entrepreneur networks in South-East Europe and Africa, business accelerator and mentorship programmes for entrepreneurs, and worked on several multi-stakeholder entrepreneurship and employment projects funded by the European Commission.
Vidushi Kamani - Head of Markets
Vidushi is responsible for connecting the private markets ecosystem and building intersections with the work of 10-in-10.
Over the past 20 years, Vidushi’s career has been centred around active learning and prototyping ways to unleash the power of capital for good. She has built and scaled companies, and collaborated with leaders and entrepreneurs across diverse cultures and geographies.
Vidushi started as an entrepreneur straight out of college and then became an intrapreneur as part of the core team that started up a business unit from the ground up for Accenture in India. She then worked on incubating social enterprises, and eventually started investing in and advising young technology companies from seed stage to growth at Kae Capital. She continues to serve on the boards of companies that are category leaders in their domains.
Vidushi’s focus on future forward market opportunities that broaden access to capital, market networks and skills, aligns perfectly with 10in10s approach of embedding equity in social benefit in all solutions we create. She is excited to be part of bringing about a thriving, functional ecosystem that has a sense of urgency, and deploys functioning solutions that are equitable and just.
Diana Finch - Chief Financial Officer
Diana is responsible for financial management at 10-in-10.
Diana started her career as a bookkeeper and management accountant, and quickly moved to accounting systems design and implementation. She has worked in senior leadership roles in a variety of socially and environmentally focused non-profit organisations since 2001, and through this work, became convinced that our economic system is the root cause behind the environmental and social challenges that humanity faces. She started to become interested in the field of new economics, and became Managing Director of Bristol Pound in 2018. She is the author of Value Beyond Money, published August 2024, exploring the learnings from the world-famous organisation.
R Renuka - Data Integrity Lead
Renuka is responsible for budgeting, accounts and financial reporting.
She has 10+ years’ experience in financial and compliance management, internal controls and HRIS implementation. Renuka has experience in stock option plan administration and has a proven track record of streamlining processes and implementing efficient standard operating procedures.
Renuka has experience working with several organizations in the financial services industry, such as Expedia, Tekion Corp and Better in payroll, tax compliance and financial reporting.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Delhi University and Intermediate degree from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is currently pursuing ACCA certification.
Vinita Chandrikaprasad - Head of Community Relations
Vinita is responsible for supporting grassroots and informal teams to become healthy social enterprises.
Vinita has over 30 years of experience with expertise in mentoring, coaching, designing and delivering personal development, team building, leadership and organizational development programmes.
She has worked with clients such as Google, Tata Motors, GSK, ICICI Bank and WNS. She is the Director of Outbound Management Consultancy. Vinita also founded Pasaydaan, a vocational training centre supporting 200+ local women with developing livelihood skills to become financially independent.
She holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in mechanical engineering from Jiwaji University, India.
Advisors
Minh-Thu Pham
Minh-Thu is the Former Head of Public Policy, UN Foundation. She is a political and policy entrepreneur and nonprofit executive.
Tara Rao
Tara has worked as Director and Advisor with UNICEF, UN, WWF, Amnesty International, Ashoka, The Rockefeller Foundation. She is a systems change designer and investor.
Banny Banerjee
Banny is Founder of Global ChangeLabs and is former Professor at Stanford University, teaching design thinking, systems thinking, and innovation strategy.
Tasneem Essop
Tasneem is Executive Director at Climate Action Network. She is an expert on climate, energy, poverty, and social justice issues.
Felicity Tan
Felicity is Global Partnerships Director at The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). She is former Director and Advisor at The Rockefeller Foundation.
Matthew Mcguire
Matthew is former United States Executive Director, The World Bank Group. He is currently a Partner at TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, leading fundraising and stakeholder engagement.
Manish Bapna
Manish is President & CEO at Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the world’s largest and most influential environmental organizations. He has also worked at WRI, World Bank and McKinsey & Co.
Terry Mazany
Terry is former President & CEO at The Chicago Community Trust. He is an American philanthropist and administrator.
Gabriella Etmektsoglou
Gabriella is Director of NYU Berlin since 2010 and oversees its academic and administrative activities and develops relationships with local and international Universities and research institutions
Joseph Sany
Dr. Joseph is the Vice President of Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace. He has been working at the forefront of peacebuilding with governments, businesses, and organizations in Africa for over 20 years.
Lama Elhatow
Senior lecturer for the MS in Environmental Sciences, Energy Policy and Climate, Johns Hopkins. She has experience working in the environmental field, including at World Bank for 12 years.
Evan Steiner
Evan is working on Strategy and Resource Mobilisation at One Project. He is passionate about infrastructure that enables new economic paradigms based on ethics, ecological regeneration, and human flourishing.
Cheryl Dahle
Cheryl is Climate Initiative Manager at Solutions Journalism Network. She is an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of design and systems change.
Rose Farah
Rose is a member of the investment advisory team at CrossBoundary, a global mission-driven investment firm that unlocks capital for sustainable growth in underserved markets. Earlier, she was a strategy consultant at The Bridgespan Group.
Jessica Ogden
Jessica is a seasoned social anthropologist with over 25 years in public health, focusing on HIV risk, gender studies, and policy development at institutions like the International Center for Research on Women and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Saleemul Haq (Deceased)
The late Saleemul was Director at The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). He was also a lead author of the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports of the IPCC and advised the Least Developed Countries group at UNFCCC.