Our Team

Syed Mohammad Yunus

Syed Mohammad Yunus is qualified as professional social worker and development communication expert. He is a recipient of prestigious Independent research fellowship (2006) of SARAI, a program of centre of developing societies (CSDS). He has an intensive experience of working in rural communities especially with women on livelihoods issue and had been an actively involved in improving agribusiness supply chains. Film making, Designing training and learning modules and Project Management are strong forte for Yunus especially using participatory techniques.

Yunus has directed and produced more than 100 films and videos for variety of clients. Yunus is an all days Biryani fan. In his free time apart from swimming and exploring new books, he creates funny learning activities for his two lovely daughters.

Aziz Ur Rehman

Aziz Ur Rehman is the co-founder director at iMentor and an expert in Supply chain assurance programme. He has been advising global brands and certifications systems to promote labor rights across multiple sectors in formal and informal manufacturing environments of all sizes, including agriculture.

Aziz has crossed more than 500 manufacturing units and farms in over 14 countries. Qualified as a Social Work professional, he has expertise in creating multistakeholder engagement to set up social standards, verification & certification methodologies, and establishing implementation systems, rooted to impact and transform the lives of workers. Aziz is known to be family man and says, "What more do you want, when you have a lovely wife and three super cool daughters to return to!"

Abu Zar Ali

Abu Zar Ali is an eager beaver, with a diverse background in social work, Journalism and Mass Communication. With over 7 years of experience. Abu Zar's skill set encompasses factory assessments, farm verifications, project impact assessments, risk and root cause analysis, and facilitating capacity building programs. Accredited in Quality Management (ISO 9001) and Occupational Health and Safety (ISO 45001) as a lead auditor, he brings a wealth of knowledge to his work.

Beyond his technical abilities, Abu Zar's creativity shines through in his proficiency in crafting communication tools such as posters, videos, and documentary films, contributing to social awareness across various sectors.

Meenakshi Goyal

Meenakshi Goyal is an enthusiastic development professional with more than 7 years of experience in various grassroots NGOs. She has extensively worked in rural communities on Health, Education, Livelihood, Entitlements and Awareness. What stands out as her expertise are, firstly, facilitation project in 10 villages with women's self help groups for enterprise building & market support. Meenakshi has also produced many radio programme on entitlements for a community radio channel she supervised under UNICEF project.

What drives her into her role is the commitment towards serving wellbeing of vulnerable sections of the society. Meenakshi loves Art & Craft at her spare time and she is a big fan of Classical dance. Her strong belief is "The starting point of all the achievements is desire"

Mohammed Zaid

Professionally qualified in Graphics & Animation from AJK-MCRC-Jamia Millia Islamia a leading Mass Communication institution in Asia, Mohammed Zaid is a highly creative and multitalented Graphic Designer, cinematographer and films Editor.

He creatively deals with cinematography for commercial music, videos, feature films and documentaries. He has been working freelancing for 7 years as a cinematographer on narratives, commercials, music- videos, and corporate media.

He expresses fables using lights, opus, and shades, and choreographs camera drive in alliance with action and rhythm and makes each image contain a mystery, a riddle, inducing sentiment and linking them to the creative story.

He is fascinated by nature, light, art, people, movement and real life.

Syed Mohammad Faisal

Faisal is a Visual Artist from Delhi, photography is his Forte, and when not at it, he can be found Gardening, making wood assemblage Sculptures, and painting in no Particular order.

With a Masters in Fine Arts, his additional expertise are in Illustration, Stop Motion Animation, and Painting. He was awarded by Yes Bank under top 10 best short films for 2014 for his Stop Motion Animation Film and made an Animation Film of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2015.

He has undertaken assignments including Photo Documentation for NGOs, , Campaign Design and Photography for iMentor Book, Illustrations and cover designs for Education publication house, Paintings for Hotels and interior Designers, Illustration for Awards Contract Advertising, Cinematography of Documentary Film on Akhtar Ul Imam-Urdu Poet, Conceptual Shoot and Lighting for adidas. He has done Products photography for various Clients. Pictured the frames for 'A Year Book Album for Mother's Pride School' . He also participated in Group Exhibition at MG Hussain Art Galeery in 2013.

Sumbul Usmani

Sumbul's strengths lie in facilitation and behavior change communication. Holding a Master's degree in Social Work, she brings a wealth of experience to her current role at iMentor. Prior to joining iMentor, she successfully completed internships at Breakthrough India and CEQUIN, gaining hands-on experience in the field. Throughout her career journey, Sumbul has engaged in diverse projects, such as conducting sector studies, developing comprehensive training modules, establishing brand guidelines, conducting impact assessments, and actively supporting farm verifications and factory audits.

She is a big pet lover and shares her life with a charming cat, named Phoebe.

Ahmed Farhan Khan

Ahmed Farhan Khan based in Cairo for last 14 Years with a vast experience in international trade. He is an explorer and has travelled to more than 40 countries in search actual sources of genuine Hand crafted artisan products. His travels have taken him to big factories but often in remotest villages and by lanes of artisan and worker communities. This is where he developed a passion & vision to serve artisan and workers of the world.

For iMentor, he manages the Middle East and Africa region as the Head Partnerships-MEA. He completed his Master in Business Administration has attended over 100+ B2B exhibitions understanding the clients and their needs of socially responsible supply chains. He has a fancy shrimps and love travelling with his wife and adorable son.

Asfia Hayat Khanam

Asfia Hayat Khanam is a dynamic communicator. She loves to weave stories through her skills and experiences while exploring the world. Her background in communicative English from Aligarh Muslim University and a master's degree in development communication from AJK MCRC (Jamia Millia Islamia). She started working with iMentor. She possesses a versatile skill set in creative arts. She has an interest in program design and media advocacy.

Asfia enjoys experimenting with flavors in cooking and traveling to explore new horizons and connecting with people.

Faham Fatima

Faham is a literature enthusiast at heart, she completed her graduation in English Literature from Aligarh Muslim University, completed MA in social work at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi and started working with iMentor. At iMentor her major engagement has been in the compliance sector across different projects where she has had the experience of assisting as well as leadership roles. Additionally, she also holds command over the skills of reporting and communication.

Huda Zain

Huda is passionate change maker. she believes in the community led solutions to bring positive change. She has completed her graduation holding gold medal in Social Work from University of Delhi. Followed by a degree in M.A. Conflict Analysis and Peace Building and M.A. Social Work from Jamia Milia Islamia.

Over the years she has developed and contributed to multiple projects and initiatives aimed at community empowerment. She has practical experience of working in the remotest area of India with marginalized communities especially women collectives.