To contribute to social good, by creating a self-sustaining infrastructure that facilitates the provision of the basic necessity of footwear to everyone, forever, environmental good, by refurbishing discarded shoes with zero carbon footprint and economic good by giving employment to refurbish shoes.
Provide footwear to the children in need and empower women through our skill centers
We recycle discarded shoes to comfortable footwear
We keep the old footwear from going into the landfills
We retail eco-friendly footwear towards building a self sustaining social venture
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 Greensole, 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 Greensole 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 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 Greensole.
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 Greensole footwear.
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 is one of the directors at Greensole and promoter of Ram Fashion Exports. His manufacturing expertise and background has not only helped to define the refurbishing and recycling process at Greensole but has also increased it multifolds.
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 everyday.
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 is an active member in 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 Greensole vision of providing footwear to all needy across the globe by 2023 and holds this venture very close to heart.
Lisa represents GreenSole in Europe, developing the European markets both online and offline. Lisa has a strong connection with India as she has been living in both New Delhi and Mumbai as an expat. Thanks to the donations drives of GreenSole, Lisa met the team and felt immediately connected. With her unbeatable enthusiasm, intercultural experience, network and procurement- and marketing skills, GreenSole sets foot ashore in Europe.
In 2018, we started our first skill center in collaboration with Tata Steel and Lion's Club Noamundi where we train, skill, and employ underprivileged people. We teach them how to use the machinery and the complete refurbishment process. Currently, this skill center supports 6 families and more than 100 people will be skilled here every year. We aim to open 30 such skill centers across India and for that we need support from corporates like Tata Steel.
Our footwear has walked the ramps of Lakme Fashion Week twice. In 2018, we partnered with Tilla by Aratrik Varman to design sustainable footwear and in 2019 we partnered with Abraham and Thakore to design Eco-friendly Furry Slippers for the Sustainable Fashion Day.
We have been awarded Lexus India Design award 2017 and the social entrepreneur of the year 2018 India by Franchise India & Economic Times. We have been featured in Forbes 30 under 30, 2018, and have been featured in more than 250 media articles and talks. While we don't do it for the accolades, they're a good way to show us we're on the right track.
