Team members

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• 
  Manoj Singh
  Head of Business Development Asia
• 
  Mohammed Saleem
  India Country Manager
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  Retu Singh
  Project Officer
• 
  Manoj Kumar
  Project Officer
• 
  Rajiv Ranjan
  Project and Business Co-ordinator
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  Vinita Singh
  Independant Consultant

Manoj Singh



Head of Business Development Asia

With more than 14 years’ experience in the garment industry, Manoj is an expert in productivity and quality improvement, and holds a ‘Six Sigma Black Belt’ in lean management techniques. He acts as a valued advisor to factories on productivity and quality training. Manoj has first-hand experience of industrial engineering and managing busy factory floors. He was also previously a productivity consultant, advising companies across Asia and the Middle East, and prior to that, a training specialist for four leading apparel groups in Bangladesh.

Why I Joined Impactt:

“I joined because I have deep appreciation and respect for the kind of work Impactt does. This work brings amazingly positive changes in workers’ lives and  sustainable benefits businesses. I always wanted to bring difference to businesses at large scale, which makes them profitable and where employees are happier and healthy. I also enjoy working with Impactt’s passionate team members, who are always ready to support each other. I find Impactt is the most suitable company to work with, for my own personality!”

Mohammed Saleem



India Country Manager

Saleem is an experienced social researcher and worker interviewer, and has worked across India and the Middle East. With more than ten years’ factory improvement experience, he specialises in understanding workers’ needs and improving worker livelihoods. He has interviewed thousands of workers in industries including apparel, hand embroidery, medical instruments, construction, metalware, pharmaceuticals, mineral extraction, mining and printing. He also takes a lead role in raising factories’ ethical standards, resolving labour issues, auditing and training workers, supervisors and managers. He has previously researched daily life in the slums of Delhi and helped to design a survey to measure poverty levels and access to finance for migrant workers in India.

Retu Singh



Project Officer

Retu is an experienced labour lawyer, social researcher and trainer, and has conducted thousands of worker interviews. With an in-depth understanding of labour issues, she has partnered with multiple stakeholders on projects spanning worker empowerment, migrant labour, women’s welfare, sexual harassment and women’s rights in the workplace. She holds a post-graduate degree in Political Science and Law.

Manoj Kumar



Project Officer

Manoj is an experienced auditor qualified to conduct audits in line with ISO, Sedex and QMS requirements. He has led HR teams in diverse factories and delivered technical, HR and audit-related support to suppliers to help optimise employee performance and audit scores. Working across industries including apparel, footwear, glass, carpets and services, Manoj has been instrumental in helping HR teams to build workers’ knowledge and understanding of factory processes.

Rajiv Ranjan



Project and Business Co-ordinator

Rajiv Ranjan joined Impactt in March 2016 as a Project and Business coordinator. Before joining Impactt, Rajiv worked for 4 years in different garment factories as an HR & Compliance Manager. He has an experience in Induction, statuary Compliance, HR, Payroll and Worker Interviews in Garment Industry.   He himself is a graduate of one of The Impactt’s flagship programmes, BBW.

Rajiv works closely with factories to implement learnings and bring about change.

Rajiv works at Impactt to create a better working environment for the workers!

Vinita Singh



Independant Consultant

Vinita Singh is an independent consultant based in Gurgaon, India. Her main areas of expertise are livelihoods and ethical trade.

She has worked on a variety of issues in the area of trade and development as former Director of International Resources for Fairer Trade and as Coordinator of ETI’s Homeworker project in India. She has a Masters degree in business management and in social policy.

Vinita has focused much of her efforts in looking at how ethical trade can positively contribute to the livelihoods and lives of workers, in the formal and informal sector. She has worked with several UK retailers notably B&Q, Coop, Sainsburys, John Lewis, Boots, Traidcraft, on understanding the involvement of the informal sector workers in their supply chains and developing initiatives in improving of the livelihoods of these workers. This has been in several product areas like rice, nuts, coir, carpets, brassware, garments, jewellery and crafts. For example, with B&Q, she worked on understanding the supply chain related to coir mats that they sourced from Kerala in India. She specifically examined the issues of weavers, spinners, beaters and retters – all informal sector workers closely involved in coir mat production. She then developed, together with the coir-mat suppliers and local NGOs, grassroots Self-help Groups for addressing the credit needs of these workers. Recently, with the ETI, she facilitated a multi-stakeholder group of exporters, brands, NGOs and trade unions in India to develop and action the ETI guidelines for homeworkers. This group is now an independent organisation dedicated to improving the conditions of homeworkers in India.

Vinita continues to work with passion and perseverance to harness the power of trade for better lives for the most vulnerable workers.