Joining Date: 01 June 2009

Education: MBA, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Class of 2009

Experience in Sport Sector: 23 Years. Also served as Captain of Indian Hockey Team

Role in OGQ: Viren oversees the training requirements of the top Olympic athletes and para-athletes, sustained fundraising for OGQ, managing relationships with all key stakeholders including donors and building the OGQ brand.

Favourite Athlete: Rafael Nadal

Joining Date: 01 October 2013

Education: M.Sc. (Sports Engineering)

Experience in Sport Sector: 9 Years.

Role in OGQ: To plan, strategize and oversee the support to the entire Para program. Includes identifying para-athletes and sports for OGQ to support and monitoring the training and performances of the athletes.

Anukool was the Head of the Research & Analysis Team at OGQ for 8-years until October 2021.

Before OGQ, he worked with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as a Performance Analyst.

Favourite Athlete: Rahul Dravid

Joining Date: 19 March 2008

Education: Graduation

Experience in Sport Sector: 24 years with an illustrative sporting career from being a player of Billiards and then in to promotion of Billiard Sports thru online portal Cue Sports India and also being on board of International and Asian Federations of Billiard Sports with his portfolio as Head of Media & Communications.

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Vivek heads the IT & Website segment. His profile includes managing the server operations, IT securities, social media, website and online communication about the performances of athletes and other relevant information to OGQ supporters and the media houses.

Favourite Athlete: Geet Sethi

Joining Date: 01 January 2014

Education: Bachelor of Commerce

Role in OGQ: Siddique’s role is to ensure OGQ is compliant with all the Statutory obligations with, Income Tax, Statutory auditor, Banking partner, and applicable statutory laws. His role also includes the Donors' database and periodic reporting to the Management team for effective planning.

Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni

Joining Date: 01 September 2017

Education: Graduate in Mass Media

Experience in Sport Sector: Ashish has an experience of 7 years in the sports sector. He is an avid footballer and a cricketer. Ashish heads a district-level football & hockey club in Mumbai. He has previously worked with Dream Sports Fields, Mumbai Heroes, Make Me Active and Dynamic Sports.

Role in OGQ: Ashish is working as Head - Jr. Athlete Management and looking after the Junior Scholarship Program at OGQ. He has worked as the Sr. Athlete Manager and Strategic Initiatives Manager at OGQ earlier. Previously he also did an internship in the OGQ research team in 2015-16.

Favourite Athlete: Zaheer Khan

Joining Date: 10 November 2021

Education: Masters in Sports Management

Experience in Sport Sector: For more than 13 years, Vikrant is involved in sports sector. He worked with Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) at Sports Authority of India as a Senior Research Officer in cycle of Tokyo Olympic Games. He also Worked in multifunctional roles like Sport Event Organizing, Coaching, Officiating and Infrastructure Development.

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Vikrant identifies of new athletes/sports for OGQ to support, managing relationships with sports experts, Bi-annual performance review of all athletes, preparing calendar of competitions, updating team on athletes’ performances of all competitions and creating systems & processes for achievement data management.

Favourite Athlete: Virender Shewag, Giba

Joining Date: 31 January 2024

Education: MBA from ISB, Hyderabad

Sports associated with: Ajay was an International Badminton player for 17 years. He was a Former India No. 1 and World No. 13 in Men's Singles Badminton.

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Ajay Heads the Partnerships & Communication unit. He look after Donor Management, New Donor lead generation. Expansion of Donor base in foreign Geographies.

Favourite Athlete: Novak Djokovic

Joining Date: 16 October 2016

Education: Bachelor in Computer Application

Role in OGQ: Trisha majorly looks after logistics, travel & accommodations, events/workshops for the OGQ team and athletes. She is also involved in the execution of billings and accounts of the OGQ team members and athletes.

Favourite Athlete: Prakash Padukone

Joining Date: 13 May 2019

Education: B.Com & CA-IPCC

Role in OGQ: Arbaaz’s role is to ensure OGQ is compliant to the Statutory obligations like Provident Fund, Professional Tax, and TDS along with maintaining Athlete's Expenses, Donation, and 80G Receipts. His role also includes Periodic reporting to the Management team for effective planning.

Favourite Athlete: Viswanathan Anand

Joining Date: 01 January 2021

Education: MSc Sport Business & Leadership, Loughborough University London

Experience in Sport Sector: Worked as an Athlete Manager for 2-years that involved managing the training, performance, and other associated needs of 20+ Indian able-bodied and para-athletes along with other key responsibilities such as Athlete Education, Female Athlete Health research, and also leading a fundraising initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Role in OGQ: Identifying para-athletes and sports for OGQ to support, monitoring the training and performances of the athletes supported by OGQ to identify areas of improvement, and planning suitable interventions. Also involved in planning and strategizing for the entire Paralympic program at OGQ. Arnav was earlier part of the Research & Analysis Team at OGQ.

Favourite Athlete: Kimi Raikkonen, Rafael Nadal

Joining Date: 18 July 2022

Education: Post Graduate Certificate Course from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Experience in Sport Sector: Sourish has worked in the accreditation team of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) at the FIFA U17 World Cup, 2017. Eventually, he went on to work with the Target Olympic Podium Scheme at the Sports Authority India, Head Office as a Senior Research Officer for close to four years. Subsequently, he worked for close to a year in the sports advisory team at PwC India before joining OGQ in July 2022.

Role in OGQ: Sourish’s role primarily involves stakeholder management, engaging with the National Sports Federations, furthering, and implementing the MoUs that OGQ signed up with the Government of India or the Federations and collaborating with the Sports Authority of India/Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on various tasks assigned to OGQ.

Favourite Athlete: Rafael Nadal

Joining Date: 06 July 2020

Education: Diploma in Hotel Management and Catering Technology

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Priyanka supports the compliance and CSR Team in preparing, maintaining, and reporting to donors of OGQ, provides administrative support to ensure smooth functioning of day-to-day operations. She holds the key responsibilities of preparing fund utilization reports to CSR donors, due diligence documents for existing/prospective OGQ donors, maintaining documents related to CSR partnership between OGQ and donors for CSR and Reporting. For Admin and Compliance, she prepares the new contract and renewal of the contract for all the athletes, documents related to Board meetings, and updating records in the ERP software.

Favourite Athlete: Roger Federer

Joining Date: 03 January 2022

Education: Bachelor of Commerce

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Saif supports the compliance and CSR Team in preparing, maintaining, and reporting to donors of OGQ, and provides administrative support to ensure the smooth functioning of day-to-day operations. He holds the key responsibilities of preparing fund utilization reports for CSR donors, due diligence documents for existing/prospective OGQ donors, and maintaining documents related to CSR partnership between OGQ and donors for CSR and Reporting. For Admin and Compliance. Reconcile the FUR details according to the funds spent on Athletes and submit them to the CA Audit Officer appointed by OGQ for Vetting.

Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni

Joining Date: 01 April 2022

Education: Post Graduate in Sports Management

Experience in Sport Sector: Reshma is an ex-athlete having experience playing Badminton for 8 years. Post that she worked with shooting, Badminton, Archery, Powerlifting, Athletics & Canoe, and have acquired experience in a wide range of sports. She understands the intricacies required and works towards the same to the best of her knowledge..

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Role in OGQ: As an Athlete Manager, her role is to make sure that the athletes' training requirements are met from time to time, maintain good relations and work in unison with the coaches and federations to understand where and how we can help the athlete, and to build a good balance working with athletes, sports science and OGQ team.

Favourite Athlete: Rahul Dravid

Joining Date: 01 March 2022

Education: Post Graduation in Media Management

Experience in Sport Sector: Viplove participated in different sports like Handball, karate & 50m riffle shooting at different levels during school time and played at state level as well.

Role in OGQ: AT OGQ, Viplove takes care of the creation of high-quality audio-visual content, design and delivery of coaches program collaterals like invitations, posters, brochures and most importantly module presentations, Create videos of Olympic and Paralympic medallists required for OGQ events. He also takes care of the design and delivery of mementoes, certificates and other memorabilia, templates for OGQ decks, performance reports and any other graphic design work required from time to time.

Favourite Athlete: M.S. Dhoni

Joining Date: 01 March 2022

Education: Psychology - University of Massachusetts, USA, and Post Graduation

Experience in Sport Sector: Anoushka has been an international Badminton player, representing India from 2011-2021 with a career best world rank #44 in mixed doubles. With her experience as a professional athlete, Anoushka has a deep understanding of an athlete’s requirements and the phases they go through in their sporting career. She has previously worked in educating athletes and coaches about the importance of menstruation in sport & performance.

Role in OGQ: As an Athlete Manager, Anoushka is responsible for recognizing the requirements of athletes supported by OGQ, tracking their training & performance, and collectively working with the OGQ sports science team, coaches, and federations to enable the athlete to perform at the highest level. She is also involved in identifying athletes across various sports for OGQ to support.

Favourite Athlete: Roger Federer

Joining Date: 01 April 2022

Education: MBA in Sports Management – National Academy of Sports Management

Experience in Sport Sector: Shubhashish has over 5 years of experience in sports sector. He worked in the sports tourism field for two years and then worked in the sports sponsorship foray with the Tata Mumbai Marathon, Delhi Half Marathon, Tata Steel 25K and TCS World 10k.

Role in OGQ: Shubhashish manages outward communication at OGQ which includes dealing with queries of the donors, creating proposals for new donors and maintaining relations with long term donors. Coordinating with OGQ Team for collection of data for Annual Performance Review. Creating and managing end to end giveaways for funders. Updating existing decks, brochures proposals for new and existing donors. Planning content for the donor outreach.

Joining Date: 01 April 2021

Education: B.Com & CA IPCC

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Wasim looks after the checking and processing of the bills and claims received from Athletes, Vendors, and Staff. He also updates data in ERP & Tally and maintains data in master sheets related to Athletes and Administration.

Favourite Athlete: Virat Kohli, Cristaino Ronaldo

Joining Date: 15 September 2021

Education: Bachelors in Technology

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Chirag is involved in managing of Athletes supported by OGQ and being involved in key decision making for things related to Athlete Management.

Favourite Athlete: Rafael Nadal, Virat Kohli

Joining Date: 15 September 2021

Experience in Sport Sector: As an athlete, Devanshi represented Maharashtra State for the National Level Open Sea Swimming competition.

Role in OGQ: At OGQ, Devanshi works with the team of Coaches Program. Her role is to manage end-to-end operations & logistics for the coaches program.

Joining Date: 01 November 2011

Role in OGQ: Vinod manages all office-related work for OGQ. He coordinates with multiple team members for day-to-day tasks and also ensures the smooth functioning of the office. He also manages the sports kit logistics for all athletes supported by OGQ.

Favourite Athlete: Viren Rasquinha, P.V.Sindhu