Meet Our Team
We are a group of Counsellors, Survivors and Caregivers.
Padma Mahadev, Counsellor, Co-Founder & Chair Person of the trust.
Padma Mahadev, is a trained teacher with over 20 years experience as a counsellor. She has helped her husband and mother battle cancer and is now caregiver to other cancer patients. Using her experiences from the past ten years, she has been helping the CTH community deal with the emotional issues that come with cancer. She is a firm believer in the philosophy that mind matters in cancer cure. Padma is one of the co-founders of Connect-to-Heal and the chairperson of the Trust.
- Padma Mahadev, Counsellor
Nagesh Sriraj
Nagesh Sriraj, is an IT professional. Being a cancer survivor, he was inspired to help others going through the same. This led him to co-found Connect to Heal, with an aim to support those dealing with this diagnosis and their caregivers as well. He is one of the founder trustees..
- Nagesh Sriraj
Our Advisors
Dr. Sunanda Easwaran, Ph.D.,
Dr. Sunanda Easwaran, Ph.D., holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta in addition to a Masters degree. After 15 years of experience working in the fields of marketing and market research, she has been teaching at a number of business schools across the country for the past 30 years. Her area of additional interest has been Women’s Enterprise Training. Since losing her husband to cancer, her focus has been on enabling women from lower and middle- income households who have family members fighting cancer to be self-sufficient.
- Dr. Sunanda Easwaran, Ph.D.,