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Vikram Akula is listed as Founder and Chairperson at Bodhi Educational Society, based in Malibu, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at sksindia.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Vikram Akula.
Vikram Akula previously worked as Founder and Chairperson at Vaya Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. and Founder and CEO at Tutorly. Vikram Akula holds Distinguished Career Fellow from Stanford University.
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Vikram Akula was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2006.He is the CEO of Tutorly, an innovative online tutoring company that provides premium tutoring and college/career counseling for students in Title 1 schools; Tutorly is looking to expand school partnerships. He also founded the Bodhi School in India, which provides education for under-served children.He has been a pioneer in creating market-based solutions for financial inclusion. He started as a grassroots social worker in India in 1990. In 1997, Vikram founded Bharat Financial Inclusion in India (formerly SKS Microfinance), which has disbursed more than $18 billion in micro-loans to over 10 million low-income women borrowers. Vikram’s awards include the “Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year” in India (2006) and the EY “Entrepreneur of the Year” in India (start-up in 2006, business transformation in 2009). He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and an Echoing Green Fellow.Vikram also founded Vaya Financial Services, which uses tablet-banking to deliver loans to low-income people in India. He is an angel investor in the start-up ArthImpact, which uses an app to provide credit to small entrepreneurs in India, and he is an angel investor in AgSri, which helps small farmers in Africa and India reduce water use. He has worked with McKinsey & Company and the Worldwatch Institute and is the author of "Micro-Meltdown: The Inside Story of the Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the World’s Most Valuable Microlender" (2018) and "A Fistful of Rice: My Unexpected Quest to End Poverty Through Profitability" (2010), published by Harvard Business Review Press. Vikram has a B.A. from Tufts University, an M.A. from Yale University, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was a Fulbright Scholar, and was a Distinguished Career Fellow at Stanford University in 2021-22. His website is at http://akula.info
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The Bodhi School provides an affordable, application-oriented, quality English-medium education to children from underprivileged backgrounds in Narayankhed in rural Telangana.
Vaya (www.vayaindia.com) uses tablet-banking and biometric technology to deliver loans on behalf of banks to low-income people in India. Founded in 2014, Vaya was India’s first banking business correspondent to have 100 percent electronic identity verification using the government of India’s unique identification card as well as the first to have 100 percent cashless disbursements. As of 2018, Vaya was serving 450,000 members across six states of India and managed a loan portfolio of $110 million.Vaya represents microfinance 2.0 in the sense that Vaya blends the agility of a start-up with deep experience of a seasoned leadership team.
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BFIL distributes small loans that begin at Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 12,000 (about $44-$260) to poor women so they can start and expand simple businesses and increase their incomes. Their micro-enterprises range from raising cows and goats in order to sell their milk, to opening a village tea stall.BFIL uses the group lending model where poor women guarantee each other’s loans. Borrowers undergo financial literacy training and must pass a test before they are allowed to take out loans. Weekly meetings with borrowers follow a highly disciplined approach. Re-payment rates on our collateral-free loans are more than 99% because of this systematic process. BFIL also offers micro-insurance to the poor as well as financing for other goods and services that can help them combat poverty.
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