Meet the founders
Co-founder & Creative Strategist
Nikhita Ghugari
At Xeno Co-lab, Nikhita focuses on identifying innovation possibilities through human-centered design approach. Her drive to create sustainable social impact is fuelled by her ability to identify inter-connections between local culture, evolving societal mindsets and its implication on consumer and business strategies. Her background in Product Design (graduate diploma from MIT Institute of Design, Pune) helps her in translating consumer insights into tangible design outcomes for clients. Her experience over the last decade spans across industries such as consumer durables, consumer electronics, automobile, digital services and financial inclusion.
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Co-founder & Design Lead
Swar Raisinghani
Swar works at the intersection of service design, human-centred design and social innovation. Her experience of working across different countries and cultures has exposed her to the value of diversity that also reflects in her work for under-served communities.
At Xeno Co-lab, she leads design & innovation projects to help organisations leverage consumer insights for tangible impact. Her breadth of experience includes building human-centric products & services and HCD capacity building programs for companies across sectors such as healthcare, finance, technology and automotive. Prior to Xeno Co-lab, Swar worked at Veryday (McKinsey Design).
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Global Partners
Local Expertise
We are a strong network of partners and consultants from across the globe, who bring together a valuable knowledge-base of cultures, context and domain expertise. This allows us to build collaborative teams across different regions based on the experience and expertise required. We emphasise on the value of regional knowledge and believe in the power of global collaborations.
