Given the task of overseeing the funding and managing of water projects for Blue Planet Run Foundation, Rajesh designed PWX to solve the project selection, funding, and management problem facing BPR. He works on all areas: the partner network, the applications and projects, and the plaform. He is also involved in areas at BPRF such as sustainability and international.

His work as a management consultant to companies and nonprofits on using internet and e-commerce technologies to change culture, operating models, and market strategies helped in trying a new approach solve the scale problem in managing thousands of grassroots water projects. His early career spanned 10 years at Bell Laboratories, experiencing all facets of product cycles. After receiving his MBA, Rajesh became a management consultant at CSC Index and also had stints in three technology start-ups. His NGO experience including serving as CTO/CFO at The Natural Step and Redefining Progress and also helping develop TNS' sustainability advisory services and corporate footprints and global warming mitigation opportunities at RP.

Rajesh is extremely interested in sustainability and social equity, teaches and writes on various issues facing humanity, and is now immersed in the world of water.

Rajesh did his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Lafayette College, and received an MS and MBA from the University of California.

Fluent in French and Spanish, and of course, English, Annette works with the partners helping with their interactions on PWX. She helps with the testing effort for all new features on the PWX platform.

During a year in Ghana at an orphanage and a Liberian refugee camp, Annette began to work on water and sanitation issues. She has multiple experiences in the nonprofit sector, including case management and coordinating volunteers for a tutoring agency, researching carbon laws for an environmental lawsuit, translating for a dam prevention campaign, and fundraising for several non-profits.

Ajaya was the lead architect of PWX at Sapient and now is the software guru of PWX. He is very interested in technology and constantly pushes PWX into Web 2.0 space. Being raised in Orissa, India, Ajaya is very interested in water issues and solving problems in a big, scalable, results-oriented way.

The idea of creating a run around the planet hit Jin in 2001 and he founded Blue Planet Run in 2002. He realized that without solving the scale problem, raising the money through the Run was not going to be effective.

An industrialist, philanthropist, and environmentalist, he has been a principal in a number of businesses, incluing scrap metal processing, steel forging/fabrication, film and television production, fish farming, real estate development, and software development and marketing. In 1991, Jin and his wife Linda, established a donor advised philanthropic fund at the Marin Community Foundation that focuses on environmental issues. Jin has served on the board and staff of numerous nonprofits over the past 35 years including The Natural Step, the Predator Conservation Alliance, and the Earth Trust Foundation. Since 1979, Jin has been affiliated with Dia Rosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji, a Zen Buddhist Monastery in upstate New York.

Mark helps with the graphics required for PWX and supports it other ways too.

PWX has always received support from BPRF team-members, especially Leyla Wefalle and intern Irina Balytsky.

The people at Sapient helped define and build PWX in record time and pro bono too! The core team: Ajaya Agrawalla, Ruchika Chhotani, Ramit Dembi, Deepti Goel, Raymond Peng, Kamar Rizwan, Vallari Shah, Srinath Sura, Elise Urbanek, and Pankaj Kumar Vijaywargiya. Support from: Surya Chikkala, Saro Iskendarian, Jennifer Snow, Puneet Udasi, Matia Wagabaza, and Jason Welsh.

Thanks to their passion and dedication PWX was announced and demo'ed at the Mexico World Water Forum.

PWX was designed with input from its partners in the field, especially El Porvenir, Kairos, and Safer Future.

We were lucky to find a few good volunteers, like Alejo Lopez, who made significant contributions to bring PWX to life.