Founders & Leadership
People. Purpose.
A place to belong.
Behind Aarusha Homes is a team bringing together experience in housing, urban development and operations. Meet the people guiding our journey.
Founder & CEO
Dyan Belliappa
An architect and urban planner with over two decades of experience in housing and design.
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Dyan is an architect and urban planner with more than two decades of experience in designing and managing housing projects. His work spans residential, institutional, environmental and heritage conservation, and hospitality projects.
He holds a master's degree in Urban Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
COO
Srivardhan
Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Aarusha Homes leadership team.
Founder & Vice Chairman
Satyanarayana Vejella
An urban development professional with experience across India, Asia and Africa.
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Satyanarayana is an urban sector professional with 25 years of experience structuring housing and urban infrastructure projects across India, Asia and Africa. He served as CEO of Aarusha Homes after founding the social enterprise in 2007.
From 2004 to 2007, he was a Project Finance Advisor to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Slum Upgrading Facility. Based in Nairobi, he helped developing countries in Asia and Africa attract domestic and commercial capital for slum and urban upgrading.
Earlier, he served as a Senior Infrastructure Finance Advisor on the Indo-USAID Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion (FIRE) Project, providing technical assistance and training in slum upgrading, urban infrastructure development and finance.
A civil engineer, he holds a master's degree in Housing from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and has been a member of the Government of India's Task Force on Rental Housing.
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