The L-RAMP team has three parts – the Advisory Board, the Steering Committee and the Operations team.

The Advisory Board is the highest decision making body of L-RAMP and comprises members nominated by the three L-RAMP partners.

Role
The Advisory Board takes decisions on selecting innovations for providing L-RAMP incubation services and advises on strategic issues. More specifically, the Advisory Board:

• Gives overall guidance to the programme to meet goals

• Evaluates and approves funding of the proposals under the programme

• Reviews progress of the projects already supported

• Monitors the Steering Committee and

• Carries out any other activity that is considered as necessary for the success of the project / programme.

Members
The Advisory Board members are:
1. Prof. T.T. Narendran, Dean, IC&SR, IIT-Madras (Chairman of the Advisory Board)
2. Dr. Harish Hande, Managing Director, SELCO (Solar Electric Lights Company) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
3. Mr. Amithabha Sathangi, Executive Director, International Development Enterprise (India), New Delhi
4. Dr. Veena Joshi, Focus-In-Charge, Rural Energy & Housing, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, New Delhi
5. Mr. Rathin Roy, Consultant, IFAD, Chennai
6. Mr. Vineet Rai, CEO, Aavishkaar India Micro-Venture Fund, Mumbai
7. Prof. M. Ravindran, Special Advisor, RuTAG Cell, IIT-Madras
8. Mr. L. Kannan, CEO, Vortex Engineering (P) Ltd., Chennai
 

Role
The Steering Committee (SC) of L-RAMP oversees the operational aspects of the programme, in addition to screening innovations and making recommendations for the Board's consideration. More specifically, the Steering Committee:

• Steers the activities associated with networking of institutions

• Evaluates and shortlists proposals for review by the Advisory Board

• Evaluates and approves L-RAMP support up to the first milestone of a project

• Periodically reviews and assesses progress of all the funded projects

• Recommends interim requests for modifications in the original proposals of the ongoing projects for the approval of the Advisory Board

• Approves any external mentoring support request for the projects, in the form of expertise and other organizational support and

• Recommends other activities proposed by the Cell Office under the Programme.

Members
The Steering Committee members are:
1. Prof. R. Nagarajan, Department of Chemical Engineering
   (Chairman of the Steering Committee and Principal Coordinator, L-RAMP)
2. Prof. V. Kalyanaraman, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT-Madras
3. Prof. V.R. Muraleedharan, Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
4. Mr. Paul Basil, CEO, Rural Innovations Network, Chennai
5. Mr. Anand Krishnaswamy, Consultant, The Lemelson Foundation – India, Chennai

The operations team of L-RAMP is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the programme and includes:
1. Mr. K. Alexander , Specialist, Product Development and Technology
2. Mr. James Rajanayagam, Project Officer
3. Mr. Arun Sharma, Project Officer
4. Ms. Ancy Thomas, Project Officer
5. Mr. Vinoth Shankar, Project Officer
6. Ramesh
7. Madan