Archana Chandra is the CEO & Board Member of Jai Vakeel Foundation & Research Centre, which is one of the oldest and largest NGOs serving intellectually challenged in the country. She is a Trustee of SRCC, which runs one of the leading super specialty children’s hospitals in the country serving all strata of society and also serves on the Advisory Boards of Antarang and Anamitra. Amit Chandra is the Founder & Chairman of Bain Capital’s India office. He is/has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of a number of leading companies & not for profits, such as Akanksha Foundation, Ashoka University, Genpact, L&T Finance, Piramal Enterprises, Tata Sons, and Tata Trusts.

They co-founded the professionally run A.T.E. Chandra Foundation which takes a strategic “portfolio approach” to social sector investments, focusing largely on two verticals. In the area of Social Sector Capacity Building it is one of the largest supporters in the country of social sector leadership and development training, investor in building the philanthropic eco-system that serves the sector at large, and in advocating the need for investing in capacity building by demonstrating evidence and via advocacy. It’s Sustainable Rural Development vertical is key part of one of the largest water for farmers program in the country, and also supports many significant natural farming initiatives. The Foundation works in close collaboration with other leading Foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Caring Friends, Central Square Foundation, EdelGive, Omidyar Networks, and Rohini Nilenkani Philantropies. It has materially supported what is believed are iconic philanthropic institutions and movements such as Ashoka University, Bridgespan India, Centre for Social Impact & Philantrophy, DaanUtsav, Olympic Gold Quest, and SRCC Childrens Hospital.

Amit was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. Archana and Amit were named in Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy list by Forbes in 2016. They are signatories to the www.LivingMyPromise.org pledge in which over 80 Indians have pledged to donate over 50% of their wealth