Our Team

Our Team is multicultural, experimented and dedicated to product design for the poor.

We have more than 30 years cumulative experience in this area, coming from various backgrounds and bringing many different types of energy in our operations!

Mouhsine, a CEO Who Gets His Hands Dirty!

Mouhsine Serrar
PhD, CEO

Mouhsine has over 20 years of engineering experience in companies like Motorola or Abacus.

Since 2004, he has focused on appropriate technology solutions to environmental/social problems.

He has been a consultant and conducted interactive design workshops in Mauritania, Morocco, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, and India.

He also has 2 years experience as Project Manager of Aprovecho/Shell Foundation Commercial Stoves Project.

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Shanti, our adminstrative manager

S. Shanti
Administrative manager

Shanti has experience as Executive Chief Secretary and as

Project Administrator & Publiation Assistant in diferents fields in India.

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Julien, an Engineer to Go Further!

Julien Fortin
Engineering manager

Julieun,our engineering manager has 9 years of experience involving engineering in various fields as:

-Manufacturing industry: NC tools management for Knorr-Bremse and production planning for BMW, Munich, Germany.

- IT applications: hotline support, web design, software development for IT, metrology and biotechnology companies in France and Germany; database management for a malaria research program in Lambarene, Gabon, Africa.

- Sustainable development:

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Ganesh, on the Road and on the Ground to Assist You!

V. Ganesh
Technical and Research Assistant

V. Ganesh has over 2 years experience working on appropriate technology improved stove projects alongside the Aprovecho team.

His primary responsibilities are wide in scope and include stove construction and testing, Tamil-English language support, and operations, such as accounting, office/staff management, and inventory maintenance.

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Thomas, He Takes Care of Our Lab and Operations!

Thomas Drouin
Operation Manager

Thomas Drouin has 10 years experience in development and emergency field operations.

As emergency medical support staff, he worked with 'Medecins Sans Frontieres' on missions in Kosovo and Ethiopia.

His MS degree in Water and Sanitation Management brought him to India, where he worked in Delhi as a consultant, and in Tamil Nadu as a water and sanitation manager in a Bombay based NGO.

He also worked with Aprovecho for 1.5 years on the Shell Foundation Commercial Stoves Project.

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Nithya, from the Reality to Computer and Back!

Nithya
Engineering Support

S. Nithiya is a mechanical engineer from Puducherry.

She has over 2 years of experience in teaching ProE, AutoCad, Catia, Solidworks in CAD centre in Pondicherry.

She is in charge of generating specifications for design and manufacturing.

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Cyril, the Bad Guy Who Wants to Help You!

Cyril ROLLINDE
Business developer

Cyril is our business developer and wants to convert all our great products into solutions that will be distributed throughout India and the world. He is also always thinking about a way to make us sustainable, which is a tricky challenge!

Before coming to India, he worked during 15 years in social finance organizations and venture founds in Europe and was supporting young and innovative enterprises. He also runs a blog (www.arandi.org) where he freely speaks about social business in India.

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