Madan PADAKI
Madan Padaki is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive with over two decades of experience spanning education, technology, and social enterprise. He is the Founder of Rubanomics Global Forum, a movement to reimagine rural economies for a regenerative future through AI-enabled village innovation ecosystems. Padaki co-founded MeritTrac Services, India's largest skills assessment company, which was acquired by Manipal Education Group. He served as CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise transforming rural youth into white-collar professionals through their innovative RubanShakti programme. He also co-founded Sylvant Advisors, an education management accelerator. He coined the term Rubanomics (rural + urban + economics) and delivered a TEDx talk on Eradicating Rural Poverty. Padaki holds an engineering degree from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. He was conferred The Young Education Leader Award by EDGE Forum in 2011. Padaki serves as a senior advisor to Tata Trusts and sits on the Governing Councils of TiE Bangalore, the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (Karnataka), and DOEACC under India's Ministry of IT.
Expertise: Social Entrepreneurship