Dr. Sara Varughese

Dr. Sara Varughese, an ophthalmologist and public health specialist, is the Managing Trustee of CBM. She earlier worked with the World Health Organization, South East Asia Regional Office, as Programme Manager in disability & rehabilitation. She has been closely involved with the national Vision 2020 forum as President and planning for Vision 2020 in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Dr. Sara Varughese, an ophthalmologist and public health specialist, is the Managing Trustee of CBM. She earlier worked with the World Health

Dr. Vinod Shah

Dr. Vinod Shah is the Chief Executive Officer at the International Christian Medical and Dental Association. He was earlier the Head of Distance Education, CMC Vellore, where he developed an innovative programme to train family physicians.

Dr. Vinod Shah is the Chief Executive Officer at the International Christian Medical and Dental Association.

Mr. George Abraham

Mr. Abraham is the Chief Executive Officer of Score Foundation, an NGO working with persons with visual impairment. He is the Founding Chairman of the World Blind Cricket Council. He is a disability rights activist and an effective communicator.

Mr. Abraham is the Chief Executive Officer of Score Foundation, an NGO working with persons with visual impairment

Mr. Varghese Chandy

Mr. Varghese Chandy is the Chief General Manager, Marketing, Advertising and Sales of Malayalam Manorama a daily newspaper with over 2.2 million copies and over 9.7 million readers. Mr. Chandy was the founder of Junction K, the integrated media solutions platform and was instrumental in organizing the first All India Cricket for the Blind at Delhi.

Mr. Varghese Chandy is the Chief General Manager, Marketing, Advertising and Sales of Malayalam Manorama a daily newspaper

Dr. Francis Joseph Stanley

Dr. Francis Joseph Stanley is the General Secretary and Executive Director, Skills for Progress (SKIP) Bengaluru. He is on a number of Governing Boards such as – Karnataka Regional Organization for Social Service (KROSS), Action for Food Production (AFPRO), NELINDCO Foundation, Functional Vocational Training and Research Society. He was recently honored with the prestigious Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Life Time Achievement Award.

Dr. Francis Joseph Stanley is the General Secretary and Executive Director, Skills for Progress (SKIP) Bengaluru.

Sara Varughese

Managing Trustee

Dr. Sara Varughese graduated from CMC Vellore, India and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. She has done her Master in public eye health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She started her career as an ophthalmologist with a focus on public and community health. She has experience of health systems in developed countries (UK), middle income (South Africa) and developing countries (India, Nepal, Bangladesh). She has served the World Health Organisation (WHO), South East Asia Regional Office as programme Manager in disability & rehabilitation for the 11 countries of South East Asia. She also served as Medial Advisor for CBM South Asia Regional Office-North dealing with cross disability programs. She was the president of national vision2020 -the right to sight India, a forum of 150 national and international organisations working closely with government of India on prevention of blindness & visual impairments programmes & policy.

Dr. Sara Varughese graduated from CMC Vellore, India and is a fellow of the Royal College

Bineesh Mathai

Director – Resource Generation and Communication

Bineesh is a strategic not-for profit professional with 15 years’ experience in roles of progressive responsibility in setting up, developing and implementing fundraising operations for national and international non-profits across South Asia. He is a post graduate in social work from Calicut University and has done his Executive General Management Programme from Indian Institute of Management- Bangalore. He used to work with some of industry leading organisations in the not-profit sector which includes Sightsavers, Magicbus and Ashoka in the past. Bineesh is leading the resource generation, public sector engagement and communication of CBM India.

Bineesh is a strategic not-for profit professional with 15 years’ experience in roles of progressive

Melanie Pereira

Head – Human Resources

Head Human Resource and Admin : MBA, Human Resources. Certified as a Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2000 QMS Auditor/Lead Auditor Training by IRCA and NRBPT. Currently responsible for the HR Management and Administration for CBM in India since 2013. Prior to this Melanie was the management and systems administrator for CBM. Has also worked with other corporate companies as part of her professional journey.

Head Human Resource and Admin : MBA, Human Resources. Certified as a Lead Auditor

Umesh Baurai

Head – Community Inclusive Development

Umesh is a high achiever in the not-for-profit sector. He is a thorough professional with 20 years of experience in the social sector. He has been involved in the area of community development and human rights and has developed and implemented a lot of projects. He has worked on a sustainable livelihood-based framework for promoting community-based institutions like Farmers’ Produce companies, organisations of Persons with Disability, cooperative societies. He has worked with organizations like MARG, PRAYAS, and FXB. He holds an undergraduate degree in law and a postgraduate degree in Social Work.

Umesh is a high achiever in the not-for-profit sector. He is a thorough professional with 20 years of experience in the social sector

Ravi Ranganathan

Head – Health and Disaster Response

Ravi Ranganathan has 18 plus years of experience in the development sector in managing the programme and operation across various INGOs and Government and UNDP on the thematic areas of old age, disability-inclusive health with a focus on community eye health, rural livelihood, youth employment and livelihood, volunteer for development, Sexual reproductive health right, Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Assistance. Ravi holds MSW (Master of Social Work) from Madras Christian College Chennai. Prior to CBM Ravi had worked with restless development as the head of programmes and managing field operation over 5 years, he had worked about 7 years in Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Assistance programmes had several positions with UNDP and state Governments on system development ,DM plan preparation , training and capacity building and mainstreaming DRR programme .Linked link https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-ranganathan-008b9843/

Ravi Ranganathan has 18 plus years of experience in the development sector in managing the programme and operation

Fairlene Soji

Head – Impact and Learning

Fairlene has done her masters in sociology and post-graduation diploma in community based rehabilitation from the Bangalore University. She has also received the Australian Fellowship for strengthening and promoting disability inclusive development through quality evidence and public health leadership. She is affiliated with the work of Rehabilitation Council of India, the Nossal Institute for Global Health, the University of Melbourne, and an expert member to develop resource material and competency based curriculum design for community based rehabilitation programme in the country. She is also a task force member for promoting inclusive education with the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (Divyangjan), MSJ&E, GOI, the Education Departments of Samagra Shiksha Karnataka, Assam, Tripura, Inter-University Centre for Teacher Education, Regional Institute of Education – Mysuru and Shillong, under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), MoE, GOI.

Fairlene has done her masters in sociology and post-graduation diploma in community based rehabilitation from the Bangalore University

John Peter

Head – Finance and Compliance

John has an MBA in International project management and a post-graduate degree in rural development, also holds certificate in management from IIMB and trained by Mango-UK on financial sustainability. John has more than 18 years of progressive experience in financial management with the international development organizations , has robust experience in grant management, financial evaluations, statutory reporting, legal compliances, handling board & governance matters, also training teams and organizations in financial and organizational development. As a regional manager John had managed finance teams in Nepal, Bangladesh and SriLanka and related in-country compliances for CBM.

John has an MBA in International project management and a post-graduate degree in rural development, also holds certificate in management from IIMB