Paru Desai is a Executive Director, MMTCP Alumni Association at MMTCP Alumni Association. They possess expertise in strategic planning, nonprofits, strategy, fundraising, social entrepreneurship and 13 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "Paru has the rare ability to combine creative thinking with strategic analysis. She was equally adept at creating interactive content, evaluating and improving user experience, doing market segmentation, and composing long term product strategy. She was always extremely organized, deliberate, and clear-minded in any project she led or participated in. Her naturally positive outlook and energetic personality meant she got along very well with her co-workers, and our partners and customers. I wish her the very best in all her future endeavors!" and "Paru has numerous years of background and implementation of international development models. She has the ability to look at complex organizational challenges, analyze them and identify solutions and lead across the Board level, the staff level, or with external consultants. Her ability to translate strategic planning and and tactical management bring best in class to the social investment and non profit arenas in a variety of roles. Paru provided critical thought partnership to me as CEO and to the global Board as we fully developed our 10 year strategy. She was instrumental in managing our external consultants and the organization in creating an implementation plan that could deliver the vision. Paru was also instrumental in helping us develop a communications strategy that was more external facing and one that better articulated our vision, accomplishments and impact. "