Joe Fernandes

After a successful career as a consultant, setting up new businesses and angel investing, Joe is now fully committed to scaling social impact.

He is currently the Co-founder and President of IIT-IIT,org, IITians for Influencing India’s Transformation. IIT-IIT’s mission is to harness the collective voice of IITians to give back to india through national scaling of social impact programs. Currently it has partnered with 6 programs to nationally scale them through IIT-IIT’s Grow To National Scale platform. Details can be found at iit-iit.org.

Joe is also the co-founder of a waste management solution, Bioman Technologies, where he is responsible to create a productized solution that can scale sustainably.

Joe used to be an active angel investor in several early stage tech companies through the Indian Angel Network and his own company Mukti Lifestyle. He also helped launch two successful businesses - a real estate technology platform and an outsourcing and offshoring advisory business. His consulting career spanned McKinsey and Company in New York and New Delhi and the Everest Group in Dallas.

Joe has completed his MBA (Finance and Systems), from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and his Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is an avid musician and performs in a Beatles cover band called De Trippers!