ISH School Board

Deepthi Ravula is the CEO for WEHUB, India’s 1st and only state led initiative to promote foster Women Entrepreneurship.

She was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana. She has done her engineering from Hyderabad and has attended graduate school at CSU, San Diego. She has 14 years of experience working California, USA in area of Communications. She was the Joint Director for Electronics (Business and Semiconductor) for the State of Telangana from 2016-18.

Prior to joining the Department of Electronics, Deepthi had worked in Nokia, San Diego designing Audio Acoustic Circuits. She did protocol design at Palm Inc. in Sunnyvale, Atheros in Santa Clara, Qualcomm and Litepoint (Teradyne) in Sunnyvale. In her roles, she has worked on Audio Acoustic Design, Cellular Technologies all the way from GSM to VoLTE, Connectivity technologies such as BT, WIFI, NFC, ZigBee. She worked as an RF application engineer AE, handling all Pre-and Post-sales support, Technical Marketing, Business Development. She was involved in training customers ranging from PRC(China), India, Europe, South America to USA. She has travelled to various parts of the world in across her roles in Corporate America.

She is an avid gamer, an ardent advocate for women in STEM, Women In Leadership, Financial &Digital inclusion for all so No one is left behind.

Renier Bosman is a South African who has been working as  Aerospace consultant for a TATA company in India since 2015. Renier and his family spend 4 years in Bangalore before joining the ISH family in 2019. 

Throughout his career Renier has held multiple leadership roles in Global Aerospace companies in the UK prior to his transition to India. He is currently supporting a TATA group company in building a Globally recognised Aerospace company. His professional experience in operations, programme and risk management will further contribute to the overall experience of the ISH board.

Rebekah Dramé is the Consular Chief at the U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad, India.

Prior to her current position, she served as Hyderabad’s Visa Chief. Rebekah’s other overseas consular positions include postings in Cabo Verde, Mali, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, and Denmark. A small to medium post specialist, she was the Regional Consular Officer based in Johannesburg, South Africa, covering the consular sections of 15 embassies and consular agencies in Africa. Rebekah also served as a Public Diplomacy Officer in the Philippines and in Iraq.

Before moving to Hyderabad in July 2021, Rebekah served in Washington, D.C. on the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ (CA) Staffing and Assignments team and as an Assessor on the Department of State’s Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service. During these tours, she selected and hired the next generation of the Foreign Service. She also served in Washington as a Department of State intern in CA’s Public Diplomacy Office and as a civil servant in CA’s Office of Overseas Citizen Services.

Prior to working at the Department of State, Rebekah worked in public relations for the Walt Disney Company and the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company. She was also a middle school teacher. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and African and African American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and attended American University for a M.A. in International Relations. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Manoj Kumar is the founding CEO of Naandi Foundation – one of India’s largest not-for- profit organisations. With a focus on reducing poverty in India, Manoj led Naandi to focus on two sets of populations namely, school & college going girls; and small land holder farmers. Under his leadership Naandi has so far empowered over 500,000 underprivileged girls across 14 states in India ensuring that girls complete 10 years of formal schooling. This apart, every year 100,000 young girls are skilled and placed in organised corporate sector.

Manoj also led the transformation of tribal indigenous communities across 1500 villages around the scenic Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh caught in the quagmire of poverty, Naxal insurgency, and aggravating ecological fragility into a region with biodiverse functional forests of over 30 million trees. This work of over two decades has won global acclaim thus creating an iconic coffee brand – ARAKU Coffee, that enabled 300,000 tribal lives to come out of poverty and put India on the world coffee map. The coffee is sold in Japan, Korea, Europe with retail outlets in Paris, Bengaluru, and Mumbai.

The transformation of Araku region led to creation of an economic framework for Food System called Arakunomics which won the Global Food Visionary Prize in 2021 from New York based Rockefeller Foundation. In partnership with Rockefeller Foundation and Cornell University, Naandi is examining the Public Distribution System and adoption of Arakunomics to India’s Food System.

A Fellow & Moderator of The Aspen Institute, Colorado, USA, Manoj serves on the Board of Ananta Aspen Centre and NICE Foundation (neonatal, children’s and women’s healthcare).

Manoj also co-founded with the French multinational Group Danone another social venture called Naandi Water. It has grown to be the largest community safe drinking water company in India. Another French collaboration is Archipel India Foundation which focusses on sequestering carbon and making farmers profitable.

A Robert S McNamara Fellow of the World Bank, Manoj is trained as a development economist and had an earlier stint in Development Banking & Micro Finance before starting Naandi Foundation. The Financial Times, London named Manoj as one of the 25 people to watch out for in India.

Born and raised in the southern state of Kerala, Manoj has made Hyderabad his home for the last two decades. He has a daughter in Grade 10 in ISH.