Madan Padaki

Co-founder & Managing Trustee

Head Held High Foundation

Madan Padaki is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of transforming youth, enabling entrepreneurial journeys & empowering social changemakers. His vision is that every youth is an empowered youth, every empowered youth is an entrepreneur and job-creator and every entrepreneur is a social changemaker! He is the Co-founder & Managing Trustee of Head Held High Foundation, a non-profit that aims to create abundance by youth transformation & community action. He is also the Founder of 1Bridge, a village commerce network that delivers digital services & products, bridging access, choice & convenience gaps for rural consumers. He is also the Co-founder of Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), an alliance that catalyses all stakeholders to collaborate on igniting a mass entrepreneurship movement. A serial entrepreneur, Madan was the Co-founder of MeritTrac, India’s first skills assessment company that was acquired by Manipal Education.