ISH School Board

The formal responsibility of managing ISH lies with the Director General of ICRISAT. ICRISAT has established the ISH School Board to help evolve the strategy, and define policy guidelines and the operational framework in collaboration with the Head of School. The board also supports the Head of School in managing the school. The School’s Charter, the School’s Mission, the School Board, and the rules and regulations of ICRISAT guide the running of the school.

The ISH School Board consists of seven members. The composition of the board is as follows:

One member appointed by the Director General of ICRISAT as a management representative.
One member appointed by the U.S. Consulate.
Five members selected by the ISH School Board. At least four of the five members appointed by the Board must be current ISH parents.

Ravi Paruchuri relocated to India as India Country Head for Express Scripts. Prior to that he was Director of Information Technology at Express Scripts, Saint Louis, MO responsible for Order to Cash, Sales, Finance, Procurement, HR IT and was member of Enterprise Applications and Data Warehouse Leadership team. Before Joining Express Scripts, he led U.S. Commercial Order to Cash IT at Monsanto, Saint Louis, MO, USA and was member of U.S. Commercial IT Leadership team. He started his career with Siemens, Hyderabad, India as Management Trainee and moved to the role of Commercial Manager.

Ravi obtained Master of Information Management Executive degree from Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, USA. Ravi has a daughter at ISH.

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

Past Saint Louis Chapter Chair, America’s SAP User Group (ASUG), Saint Louis, MO
Past Member, Society for Information Management (SIM), St. Louis, MO
Guest Speaker, Missouri S&T University, Rolla, MO.
Past President of Monsanto Asian Network
Past Member of Monsanto Global ERP Management Team
Past member of Monsanto Mergers and Acquisitions Team
Past Lead of Monsanto Global SAP Network
Past Member of Monsanto United Way Core Team

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.

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.

Dr. Surya Mani Tripathi is an international lawyer, registered Indian attorney, and Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP), accredited by ATTP. He is working as Global Head, Legal Services at ICRISAT Hyderabad, India, and is involved in the overall management of legal and IPR issues related to operations and research of ICRISAT, legislative advocacy, and statutorycompliances.

He has been awarded a law degree (LL.B.) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur with a Microsoft IPR scholarship award. He holds a Ph.D. degree in plant science with a CSIR-India research fellowship and an International Master in Biosafety from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, with a UNIDO fellowship. He is a recipient of an associate fellowship -CISDL, Canada- and a Scroll of Honour from the International Council of Jurists. He also holds a Diploma on Fostering Innovation and Commercialisation of Intellectual Property Rights from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, and a Certificate on Law of International Organizations from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

His areas of expertise include legal risk management, legal compliances and advisory, IPRs, IP portfolio analysis, and licensing etc.. As a techno-legal expert and solicitor, he is also facilitating the transfer of technologies, negotiations, and IPR commercialization.

Dipti has had ~15 years of experience leading diverse global initiatives in the education industry - spanning operations, business development, academic advising and marketing. She has gained this experience while working at educational institutions and multinational organizations across India, Italy and the US. Most recently, Dipti has served as a Program Manager at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Academia Accelerator program while collaborating with the top Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to drive innovation between these institutions and Microsoft. Previously, Dipti has held leadership positions on the MBA program team at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Executive MBA team at Babson College. Dipti holds a Business Management degree from Sydenham Institute of Management in Mumbai, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Brian joined the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service in 2017 and currently serves as a Special Agent assigned to the U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad, where he arrived in January 2025. His previous assignments include Hong Kong, Iraq, and Washington, D.C., where he served in a variety of investigative, protective, and security assignments supporting U.S. diplomatic missions.

Before joining the U.S. Department of State, Brian spent 14 years with M&T Bank, where he worked in Finance and Internal Audit. He and his wife have two sons enrolled in ISH Elementary School and are proud to be part of the ISH community.