VIkram Akule is a social entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of SKS Microfinance which offers insurance and microloans to woman in India. Akule said that he “started SKS because I was overwhelmed by the poverty I saw in India and was looking for a way to catalyze rapid economic development for the poor.” This company has to be one of the fastest growing companies in India and gives collateral free loans. By September 2009, SKS had over 5.3 million members and over 1,600 branches.

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