Our Story
India creates every day.
The Opportunity
The global economy is shifting from products to experiences — from what things cost to what they mean. Culture, travel, food, music, craft, and story now drive the fastest-growing value in the world.
India enters this era with an advantage no nation can replicate: the deepest, most living reserve of creative capital on earth. What this capital has never had is infrastructure.
The capital is abundant. The demand is rising. The system is the opportunity.
The Position
CEIC operates where almost no one does: at the intersection of grassroots and policy. We design in the village and deliver to the institution. We pilot on the ground and scale through government.
And we measure ourselves by a single metric: what the community earns.
The maker is an entrepreneur. The village is a destination. The performance is an industry. Culture is an asset class.
Stewards of the System
CEOS exists because two disciplines that rarely meet — grassroots ecosystem building and experience economy architecture — converged in its founders.
Sahithi Divi
Co-Founder & Director · Partnerships, Policy & Ecosystems
A decade of building creative economy ecosystems — from women-led enterprises and weaver collectives across five states, to Senior Consultant, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and Forbes India 30 Under 30. She leads the institutional layer of CEOS: grassroots trust and government access, held in the same hands.
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Srinivas Vanguru
Co-Founder & Director · Strategy, Experience & Brand
Years of deep travel immersion across India and Asia — living inside the local fabric: its cultures, crafts, music, and economies — layered over brand-and-marketing training and formative years with agencies including Ogilvy. That intersection of lived immersion and organisational bandwidth is exactly what CEOS demands: he architects its experience, brand, and market layer.
Connect on LinkedIn ↗She built from grassroots to policy. He designed from market to village. CEOS runs on both.
The field collective
Capacity builders, creatives, and coordinators who work where the system lives — in the villages. They are why every CEIC document reads like evidence.