Paul Basil

Overview

Mr.Basil is Founder and CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation Over the last decade, Mr. Basil has worked in discovering thousands of innovations and innovators, incubated around 100 rural businesses and these have impacted over 5 million house-holds in rural India with many of these innovations. Mr. Basil also co-founded Villgro Innovation Marketing Pvt Ltd, a unique retail chain for innovative products targeting the rural poor. Mr. Basil also has contributed to building the social enterprise eco-system in India. Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship, Wantrapreneur, a social business plan competition, a Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship that focuses on research and education, Villgro fellowship that recruits global mid career professionals to experience social entrepreneurship, championing the ANDE Chapter (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) to grow intermediaries that can support small and growing businesses etc., are some of his achievements in building the eco-system in India. Mr. Basil was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up Villgro. He has also been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award.

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