OUR STORY

As athletes, Shriyans Bhandari and Ramesh Dhami ran hundreds of kilometers every year. They also ran through at least three to four pairs of sports shoes every year. The soles were in good condition but the shoe sides tore within months. The duo always wondered if they could find some use for the intact soles of these quality sports shoes. A bit of research led to the idea of refurbishing them into trendy slippers. That brainwave eventually spawned an eco-friendly enterprise that reuses shoe soles and is appropriately named Green sole .







VISION

To contribute to social good, by creating a self-sustaining infrastructure that facilitates the provision of the basic necessity of footwear ( Recycled Shoes ) to everyone, forever, environmental good ( Corporate Social responsibility ), by refurbishing discarded shoes with zero carbon footprint and economic good by giving employment to refurbish shoes.

BENEFICIARIES

We have made a humble start by providing footwear to 50,000 people in need across the villages of India and in 2017, we will provide footwear to more than 100,000 people in need while restoring their dignity.





OUR TEAM

Shriyans Bhandari

CEO & Co-founder Green sole and Director Heritage Girls School

Shriyans is Master's in Entrepreneurial Leadership Graduate from Babson College. An alumnus of Jai Hind College, Mumbai and Mayo College, Ajmer. He is an ardent marathon runner and has authored “Birds of Aravallis” in association with Rajasthan Tourism and BNHS India. He has spoken at various environmental and entrepreneurship forums including the ones at Harvard Kennedy School, Babson College, MIT, Wharton, and TEDx Youth WASO, Dubai. Shriyans is passionate about his vision of bridging the social, economic and environmental gap through Green sole, which is a company refurbishing discarded shoes to comfortable footwear and of creating an infrastructure, which enables everyone to have the basic necessity of footwear, forever. His venture Green sole has received appreciation letters from President Barack Obama and Sir Ratan Tata and has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Vogue and BBC among others. He is also the director at Heritage Girls School, which is a girl’s residential school in Udaipur with CBSE & Cambridge board. The school is ranked among the top 10 girl's boarding schools in India by Education Today.

Ramesh Dhami

Director & Co-founder Green sole

Ramesh is a national level Indian athlete who has won several races including Lavasa Hill Run, Thane, and Kharghar Marathon. He hails from Uttrakhand and handles the donation drives and village data collection at Green sole. He knows professional athletes and people in sports organizations across the country and has worked with several NGOs. He has also trained several illustrious people including Radhakrishnan Damani of Dmart and has designed the very first prototypes of Green sole footwear.

Nitesh Bhasin

Director

Nitesh Bhasin is the promoter and Director of Ram Fashion Exports. He completed his under-graduation in business administration from Rochester Institute of Technology and footwear designing from Leicester College. Besides managing the overall strategy at Ram, Nitesh also specifically handles Marketing, Sales & Client Relationships. He is adventurous by heart and ensures that at least once a year, he is up in the mountains for trekking and rafting. Environmentally and socially conscious, he goes the extra mile in doing good especially for the large staff that Ram employs including food, transport, and housing.

Rishi Bhasin

Director

Rishi is one of the directors at Green sole and promoter of Ram Fashion Exports. His manufacturing expertise and background has not only helped to define the refurbishing and recycling process at Green sole but has also increased it multifold. Rishi has hands-on experience in the footwear manufacturing space for more than 15 years. Associated with RAM Fashion Exports Pvt. Ltd. since 2001, under his guidance RAM produces more than 14000 pairs every day. He also has expertise in establishing audited systems of the highest global standards in footwear manufacturing. Rishi has completed B.Sc. in Business Management from The North Carolina State University, USA with a Major in Marketing and a double minor in Finance and MIS.

Karan Bhasin

COO

Karan is an active member of the youth committee of the Council of Leather Exports (CLE) and is extensively involved in the Design Task Force initiative under the Make in India Campaign. Karan graduated from The Ohio State University with degrees in Finance, Marketing and Logistics Management. He also possesses Footwear manufacturing and technical designing diplomas from the prestigious ARS Sutoria school in Milan, Italy. Karan passionately shares the Green sole vision of providing footwear to all needy across the globe by 2023 and holds this venture very close to heart.

Dikshit Patil

Vice President, Operations

Dikshit has done his B.Tech in Computer Science and MBA in Operations from Mumbai University. He handles a vital part of daily operations and manages the supply chain at Green sole. He is also a keen photographer and regularly gets a chance to pursue his passion during the donation drives held by Green sole. Dikshit has also made several videos of operations at Green sole, which have gone viral.

Rocky Hatiskar

COO

Rocky is responsible for the marketing, communication, and business development efforts of the venture. In addition to strategic business development efforts, he directs media relations, branding, advertising, and website development. He manages and oversees sponsorships, events, charitable contributions, marketing training and more.

He has more than 15 years of experience in the marketing industry. Prior to joining the firm he was a Director of an Advertising firm Craft and Kreation and was also a Director at Rudra Group of Companies



