Sep 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

• Bollant Industries is a fast-growing, eco-friendly paper and paper-based products manufacturing company. Bollant focuses on producing environment-friendly products while employing people with various abilities.
• Bollant Industries has four manufacturing plants and has grown at 20% per month since its inception in 2012. From 2015 to 2019, the compound annual growth rate has been 107%.
• Apart from disposable utensils, kraft paper products and decorative tableware, Bollant manufactures printing inks, adhesives, and paper products for industrial use.
• Bollant Industries runs partially on solar power and its raw material is recycled fibrous municipal and other waste. Srikanth believes that everyone should have the opportunity to work and that training and employing disabled persons is good for each individual, smart business—and good for India.
• As the Chairman and CEO, Srikanth designs Bollant’s products based on social and societal needs, sustainable impact on the community/business, market research, feasibility, and sustainability.
• Investigates improvements in product design and quality
• Manages product pricing, raw material procurement, profit margins and operating capital.
• Coordinates employability skill training programs
• Plays a vital role in fundraising and modification/retrofitting factory equipment to increase production efficiency and facilitate a fair work environment for people with disabilities.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo · Hyderabad

• As part of his internship at Infosys, Srikanth worked on designing a futuristic retail banking system. In doing so, he designed a memo for a new integrated digital financial advisor, a web, mobile, and tablet-based application. This application has innovative features like
• Digital ATM, E-money, video banking, and smart algorithms to advise best financial products. It is an intelligent system that speaks to the user and does his or her financial paperwork too.
• This application is designed using highly secure methods of authentication like DNA verification, face detection, fingerprint scanning, and instant password generation.
• This application is very convenient to use, provides instant banking needs, reduces branch traffic, and fully digitalizes future banks offering an accessible integrating platform and instant money generation.

Oct 2011 – Sep 2012 · 11 mos

• Srikanth was in charge of fundraising and he coordinated with other executive members, to plan and organise fundraisers and played an important role in the allocation of funds to sustainable projects
• MIT International Development Club (IDC) is an established non-profit, student-run group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They serve as trusted advisors to global NGOs and NPOs on three continents by delivering customized solutions and implementing assistance to ensure that their clients attain greater efficiency and sustainability in their development efforts.
• MIT IDC projects offer students the unique opportunity to partner with an international NGO, travel to their project’s country, work with a diverse student team, and impact the lives of people in developing nations. MIT IDC client NGOs receive the assistance and expertise of talented MIT students and affiliates including faculty and corporate advisors. Each project team consists of innovative individuals who identify their client’s needs and utilize business and engineering talents to ensure that our clients attain greater efficiency and sustainability.

Sep 2011 – May 2012 · 8 mos

• As a student Tech Caller, Srikanth was responsible for making phone calls to alumni and secured valuable gifts to the MIT Annual Fund. He learned useful skills to become a more compelling fundraiser and a more effective communicator with every phone call. Srikanth learned to be articulate, an excellent communicator and conversationalist, and goal-oriented.
• Tech Callers are MIT students - both undergraduate and graduate - who represent the Alumni Association and assist them in raising money for the Institute. Students call alumni in the hopes of creating a connection between alumni and the MIT community and securing alumni gifts to the MIT Annual Fund.

Jul 2011 – Sep 2011 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

• Building Smarter Teams:
• Practices that Shape Collaboration and Learning in Distributed Project Teams
• In this project, Srikanth investigated how work is accomplished through the everyday practices of team members and what are the intended and unintended consequences for collaboration and learning in such contexts. In doing so, he collected data by using the following questions:
• 1. What are the structural and relational boundaries salient for collaboration and learning within geographically distributed work teams?
• 2. How are those boundaries played out by members on a regular basis?
• 3. How do managers of such teams reconcile with those enactments?
• 4. What are the implications of such practices for the design of managerial and technological interventions to foster collaboration and learning?

Jan 2011 – May 2022 · 11 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, India

• Samanvai is a nonprofit that helps children with multiple disabilities get need-based and goal-oriented support towards learning, development, and holistic empowerment.
• At Samanvai, Srikanth has designed and implemented:
• Computer training center (to provide computer education to students with disabilities and promote computer independence aiding educational and employment goals.)
• Digital library (to provide electronic, audio and E-text study materials for challenged students.)
• Braille printing press/library (to provide braille educational material and promote braille literacy.)

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

• During this internship, Srikanth analyzed GE IIC in terms of three lenses {strategic design, culture, and political.}
• Analyzed major challenges faced by GE to achieve effective business strategies and meet work deadlines in a timely manner. He compiled a report with cost-effective and easy solutions to overcome challenges like how to organize global discussions/meetings matching different time zones, challenges in cross-cultural communication, internal work environment, and employees' work-life balance, challenges in cross-cultural and regional issues, and team organization and dynamics.

Feb 2009 – May 2013 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Massachusetts Institute of technology Cambridge, USA

• As an undergraduate research assistant, Srikanth was responsible for conducting a research study in the lab and also on-site with research participants. He has worked on several projects to understand how people without vision can make the brain work with the available senses. For example, he studied how people without vision could recognize images, measure time accuracy, process information which is visual and accessible curriculum development. Projects he worked on are:
• Analyzed the time differential between sighted and visually impaired individuals in performing various tasks. Accessed time accuracy of a sighted person’s brain and a blind person’s brain in order to determine if lack of vision increases hearing potential.
• Developed electronic course curriculum for Indian blind schools. Distributed audio materials to schools and accessed feasibility of the project on a larger scale.
• Worked on tactile picture recognition with the visually impaired. Conducted a study on how the brain can recognize objects without visual input.
• Worked on Cortical organization in blindness with light sensitivity. Conducted experiment on how the visual cortex of the brain responds to light and sound in the case of no vision and with vision.