Madan Padaki
Madan Padaki
Overview
Madan Padaki is the Co-founder, CEO & Managing Director of Head Held High Services, a rural access accelerator that unleashes the power of the Ruban (a term for the neo rural-urbans) by providing career access to youth, business access to entrepreneurs and market access to corporates. Started as a foundation in 2008, Head Held High trains rural youth, transforming them to be knowledge workers in record times and enabling careers in the rural areas itself. This has won several awards, including the CNN IBN Real Heroes Award, 2011, Global Sourcing Council Award 2011, Finalist at Mahindra Rise 2012, etc. An engineer from NIE Mysore and an MBA from SPJIMR, Mumbai, Madan had worked with Wipro, Infosys and Mphasis (Japan) – before being bitten by the entrepreneurial bug in 2000 when he co-founded MeritTrac – as a pioneering idea in skills assessments.