Akshay Gambhir is a Senior Manager in Bridgespan’s Mumbai office. Akshay has more than 10 years of experience in consulting, philanthropy, and social impact. At Bridgespan, Akshay has worked with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) organisations, nonprofits, and funders on a range of topics including extensive work on collaboratives. He is also involved in growing and delivering Bridgespan’s nonprofit capacity-building offering, Bridgespan Nonprofit Development Program. Through the program, he has coached over 30 nonprofit and social enterprise teams on strategy development and investing in leadership.

Before joining Bridgespan, Akshay helped build market linkage models for rural livelihood initiatives and led the scale-up of fisheries-based livelihood interventions at Tata Trusts. Prior to entering social impact, he worked at McKinsey Knowledge Center. Akshay holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management – Lucknow and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi University.