Shekar Prabhakar is a late stage entrepreneur who co-founded Hasiru Dala Innovations is currently its Managing Director. He has over 21 years of corporate experience in the IT industry in sales & marketing and P&L operations with his last position as Global Head of Marketing at Zensar Technologies. In 2008, he pivoted his career to teaching and was till recently an Associate Professor-Marketing at Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a graduate of IIT, Madras and IIM, Calcutta. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Nalini and their dog, Ginger.

Marwan Abubaker has over twelve years of experience across agriculture, fish farming and community services. He and his siblings set up The Golden Husk, an NGO working in Kanakpura on Animal Welfare & Environment Issues. In 2009, he joined Radio Active- a community radio station to head the Community based projects for the station. An active member of the Solid Waste Management Roundtable (SWMRT) in Bangalore, he took up the initiate to pilot the first Dry Waste Collection Center in HSR Layout in 2011. Following the pilot, in 2012 he assisted with waste-picker mobilization, by mentoring a team of four to register waste-pickers, networking with the officials and holding regular meetings with the waste-pickers. He also has conducted over 200 awareness programs on the importance of waste management in the city, and was an invited speaker at several important local and national events. In 2011, he was part of the core team that organized the Bengaluru Recycling Habba in Bangalore. He has, also co-authored a paper on “A Working Observation on SWM Policy- Karnataka State and ULB Bangalore”. In December 2013, he was invited to Port Blair by the Andaman Nicobar Environmental Trust (ANET), to assist with implementation of municipal solid waste management in the city. In May 2014, he joined Hasiru Dala as Director-Operations. In 2015 he co- founded Hasiru Dala Innovations Private Limited. He has also worked on setting up sustainable waste management systems in Kote, Udupi, Tata City- Jamshedpur and is working towards setting up similar projects.