We are glad that Mayukh led the early stages of Milaap's operations and legal due diligence and owned the on-field aspect of our pilot. Prior to joining us he was a senior consultant in financial risk management at Ernst & Young, Dubai then he moved to D.light Design; a solar lighting start-up where he was responsible for distribution channels and financing partnerships across India.

Mayukh got his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, India.

Deepa takes care of user interface design at Milaap. Besides UI, she contributes to SEO and site compliance with W3C standards.

Deepa came to Milaap from Experience Commerce, where she designed micro-sites, social media campaigns, and websites for clients like The Times of India Group, Mitsubishi, and Aviva. She was also integral to the design of an award-winning campaign - The Great Driving Challenge - winner of IDMA Gold and Webby Silver award. She continues to work on independent UI design projects in India, USA, UAE, and Europe.

When Anoj witnessed first-hand the impact of a $10 solar lantern, sold on credit, to the extremely poor in tribal Orissa, it sparked in him the idea for Milaap - to connect with ease the struggling 700 million people of India with prosperous Indians and the Diaspora, thus, creating opportunities that change the playing field for the poor at an everyday level.

Deepa is currently pursuing a Masters' in User Interface Design at City College, London.

Prasath is our geek Genius at work. He has designed and built Milaap's entire online lending platform. Passionate about adhering to good design standards, modular architecture, and test driven development, Ruby on Rails is his main development platform, however, in his free time Prasath experiments with Erlang, Cassandra , and Hadoop among others.

Prasath is a strong supporter of FOSS and contributing back to the community. Some of his past contributions have been swift_db (a B+ tree) and utility.js (a Jquery based utility library). You can follow his experiments with technology on his blog: http://prasath.posterous.com/

Prasath is currently exploring a multiple opportunities to start-up.

From launching the "Branded Shop" in UK and France for eBay to creating the "Paris de la Creation", a social business plan competition in the early days of social business in Europe and supervising a study about social entrepreneurship in Spain for the Credit Cooperatif and MACIF, Clement brings with him significant organizational and analytical skills. He is responsible for driving community engagement through social media and creative "momentum sessions" that involve the participation of the community in fund raising and ideation to support our loans.

Clement studied at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, India; at ESCP Europe, France and at Universidad Carlos III, Spain.

Clement has moved back to France and is a Business Development manager working with Moodstocks.

Gokul interned with Milaap while he was pursuing Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Trichy. Apart from being an algorithmic coder, he is also a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. His interests include movies, cricket and music - especially A R Rahman's. He is also an 'exuberant sleeper.' He aspires to become an entrepreneur one day.

Peixin is our PR intern from the National University of Singapore. In her second year of university, pursuing a degree in Social Sciences, she’s on a six-month break to work with Milaap. She enjoys travelling, shopping and trying out different cuisines. Within a couple of months of arriving in India, she’s been on a few field trips as well as trips to Goa, Mumbai and Hampi. Inspired by Milaap, she took it upon herself to raise funds to build toilets in Tamil Nadu through her personal network (lendatoilet.causevox.com) and made a short documentary on her field trip experience.

After her graduation, she would like to start a business of her own. Guess that’s what happens if you hang out too much with our founders…