24 WRZEśNIA 2018
Nita Soans
A environmental crusader, Nita Soans is the India CEO for Kaiterra, with a vision to contribute towards creating awareness about the drastic downfall of the air quality in the country. Nita oversees the overall operations of the company, including sales, partnerships, legal, finance and research. Nita and her team’s focus in India will be to build the brand in India and widen the customer base while also setting up and monitoring outdoor air quality monitor across Delhi NCR to aid more detailed research aimed towards solving North India’s air pollution problem.
Originally trained as an architect, Nita developed a keen sense of design and strategy for the end user from her time working as an ethnographer during her time with CKS where she led several innovation programs in areas of telecommunications, healthcare and development for such clients as Nokia, Vodafone, Samsung, the Gates Foundation and others. Nita continues to advise CKS (now Vihara) on their Bihar Innovation Lab and Read Alliance Programs. In 2005 and 2007, she has managed educational outreach programs for the Doors of Perception Conference. In 2008 she helped curate and run the 48℃ conference in New Delhi for the Khoj Artists Collective and Goethe Institut that was focused on raising awareness about the exigencies of climate change.
In 2012 Nita co-founded the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation that aimed to bridge the skills gap that exists between formal education and what one requires in the workforce and what one needs to know in order to have a startup and create change. The Adianta School offered programs that teach skills of innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship but has also been a network of innovators and entrepreneurs, a hub for those looking to make a difference to come together and work together to address these issues and bring about a change.
In 2016 Nita curated and coached speakers for the TEDx Gurugram event while also consulting for start-ups, helping them with management accounts, processes standardization and training as they geared up for scale.