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Anuradha Jagadeesh

Trustee Director – ICC Founder, KonnectMe.org

Anuradha Jagadeesh is the co-chair of Sevathon 2016 and has been one of the founding members of Sevathon. She shares the passion to empower the community and to support new non-profits with the committee leads and volunteers. She has been spearheading Sevathon efforts since its launch. Anu has previously held positions with Yodlee, Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers, and Hewlett-Packard. She holds a MS in Computer Science from San Jose State University and BS in Electronics and Communication from University of Mysore.

Arjun Bhagat

Chairman & CEO Calibrated Group, LLC

Arjun Bhagat is the Chairman & CEO at Calibrated Group, LLC, an investment partnership that builds and invests in off-shoring businesses out of India. He is an entrepreneur and investor focused on Real Estate, Retirement Centers and Technology. Arjun received his MBA from UCLA and prior to that he earned a Bachelor’s in Engineering (B Tech) from IIT Delhi, India. Arjun currently sits on the board of - and is a major investor in - five privately held companies.

Ash Chopra

Managing Director within the Private Banking.

Ash Chopra is Managing Director within the Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch. Ash has repeatedly been named in Financial Times’ FT 400 Top Financial Advisers list and in Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, and shows up again on both lists in 2016. Ash was recently recognized as a top advisor in Forbes’s inaugural America’s Top Wealth Advisors 2016. Ash graduated with an MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross Business School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Before that, Ash earned two engineering degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, both from Kettering University, Michigan. He attended St. Stephen's College for his undergrad.

Asif Awan

An Entrepreneur and
a Technologist

Asif Awan is an experienced entrepreneur and a technologist, with a keen eye for identifying early market signals for disruption, and a passion for solving challenging problems. He founded Layered Insight (acquired by Qualys) and Plursona (acquired by HPE) to create pioneering solutions in the container and mobile security domains. He's currently focused on solving some challenging problems in the Deep Learning domain. That's what Asif does for a living, and does so with a lot of passion. Asif is a father so he thinks a lot about what he could do to make the world, the society and the immediate communities better for the next generation. He also strongly believes in providing for and taking care of those who can't take care of themselves -- the children, the old, the poor and the sick, and how science and technology could be used in achieving that goal.

Dinesh Bajaj

Community
Activist

Dinesh is an IIT Delhi engineer who worked in Silicon Valley for large companies like Nortel Networks, IBM and Siemens. He was also part of the management team on several startups that were later acquired by public companies. Currently he is involved in managing a portfolio of properties that he has acquired over the years. The most important and significant part of his life has been involvement with ICCs Seniors Program in Cupertino. He got involved with this program in 1999 through the older organization ICSC which was later merged with ICC. He has managed Cupertino center for last 12 years. He was also involved with a youth program called SEVA at the Fremont temple which focused on creating a spirit of service in IndoAmerican high schoolers. Dinesh believes strongly in uniting the Indian community for higher purposes rather than complaining and infighting. His other passion is Tennis which he plays everyday. He is married to Asha who has had a very successful practice in Physical Therapy. He has a son and a daughter who have good careers in Education. His love of life is three grandsons with whom he shares his love for Indian way of life.

Gautam Sinha

CEO, Times Internet
Ltd

Gautam is a global executive with 32 years of rich digital experience including a wealth of startup and industry expertise. He is currently the CEO of Times Internet Ltd., the digital arm of The Times of India Group, where he drives the strategy, vision and execution for all the digital properties of the group. During the last 12 years of his tenure at Times Internet, he has helped shape it into the largest digital entity from India, engaging more than 400m unique users every month with dominance across News (Times of India, Economic Times, MensXp, iDiva, Indiatimes), Music (Gaana), Sports (Cricbuzz, Willow), Video (Mx), Real Estate Classified (MagicBricks), Food Tech (DineOut), Education Tech (Gradeup), FinTech (ETMoney) and Gaming (CricPlay, BrainBaazi).


Prior to Times Internet Ltd., Gautam was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of CashEdge Inc, a company based out of New York and California working in payments and wealth management, where he worked since 2001 building and leading the company from startup to profitability. Prior to CashEdge, he held senior management positions at Sevant, Aspect Communications, at the Neural Applications Corporation, and at the Ministry of Defense in India (DRDO).

Kanwal Rekhi

Trustee Director – ICC Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners

Kanwal Rekhi is the Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm. With Inventus, Kanwal works closely with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and India, as he has since 1995, to apply his full time and energy helping them accomplish a great result. He also co-founded The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) to promote Indian entrepreneurship and is currently a trustee on the global board of TiE. Kanwal earned a BSEE from IIT-Bombay and an MSEE and Honorary Doctorates in both Business and Engineering from Michigan Tech. Kanwal is a board member on the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund (IITBHF), and also founded the Kanwal Rekhi Schools of Information Technology at both IIT-Bombay and Michigan Tech.

Kirti Kalra

Partner The Chugh
Firm

Kirti Kalra is currently Partner at The Chugh Firm's Northern California office. He joined the firm in 2008 and works with both, the Immigration and the Litigation Practice Groups. He has extensive experience in immigrant and nonimmigrant visa petitions. Kirti received his J.D. from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California and his B.A., in English from UC Irvine. Kirti enjoys traveling, sports, watching movies and listening to music.

Krishna Chittabathini

Founder & CEO of 3K
Technologies

Krishna K. Chittabathini is the Founder & CEO of 3K Technologies, an Information Technology Solutions company focused on Analytics, Data Management, Data Science and Cloud, since 2002. In addition to 3K Technologies, as a Co-founder & Director of Greenway Group companies in India, Krishna is responsible for setting Greenway’s mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the group's overall growth. Greenway Group companies are involved in the manufacturing of Building Materials, Construction, Infrastructure Development and Biofuels. A seasoned entrepreneur, Krishna has been involved with several successful companies as investor and advisor. Krishna is very active as international services committee member of Rotary Club of San Jose. He sponsored several Rotary projects in India and around the world. Krishna holds a Masters in Technology from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.

Mihir Jobalia

Managing Director-Tech. Corporate Finance, KPMG

Mihir Jobalia is currently the Global Head of Technology Corporate Finance at KPMG. Mihir has over 15 years of experience in executing mergers and acquisitions, private placements, divestitures, recapitalizations, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and delivering fairness opinions. Prior to joining KPMG, Mihir served as Managing Director of investment banking at Morgan Keegan Technology Group. Prior to that Mihir was a Managing Director and Head of Software Investment Banking at ThinkEquity, and Senior Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Raymond James. Mihir holds an M.B.A. from University of Chicago, M.S. in chemical engineering from University of Houston, and a B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Florida.

Mir Imran

Chairman & CEO Rani Therapeutics & Incube Labs

Mir Imran is the Chairman & CEO, Rani Therapeutics and Chairman & CEO, Incube Labs and is a prolific healthcare innovator and entrepreneur who has been developing and commercializing breakthrough medical innovations for more than 30 years. Since 1995, Mir's innovations, including Rani Therapeutics, have been developed at his life science R&D lab and incubator, InCube Labs. As an entrepreneur, Mir has founded more than 20 life sciences companies; 15 of his companies have seen

Mohan Uttarwar

CEO,
iNDX.AI

Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of iNDX.AI, a silicon valley based Healthcare Informatics Company focusing on Translation Research in Oncology using AI/ML/NLP technologies. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in successfully founding, establishing and exiting high-tech and Biotech start-ups in Silicon Valley, raising over $50M in funding and generating over $500M in shareholder value. He is an Angel Investor & serves on the BOD of Hemex Health, a very innovative point of care Malaria & Sickle cell Diagnostics Company. Mohan has joined Stanford University Medical School as a Research Scholar to work on developing new Socio-Economic business models that leverage innovation in affordable medical technology and transform the Health Care at the bottom of the pyramid in developing world, touching Billion Lives and creating Millions of jobs at the Micro & Macro levels. Mohan was the cofounder and CEO of iNDx LifeCare, next generation Point of Care Company, Oncomdx, an innovative Cancer Diagnostics company, which specialized, in integrated diagnostics (acquired by Core Diagnostics 2013). Mohan was the cofounder and CEO of BioImagene, a pioneer in Digital Pathology that was acquired by Roche in 2010 for $100M. He was the co-founder and CEO of Roamware Inc., a leading wireless roaming software company (acquired by Audax for $135M). He was also the cofounder and CEO of SoftPlus, an early provider of eCRM software for telecom carriers around the world. In March 2000, SoftPlus was sold to US Interactive for $360 million. Before starting SoftPlus, Mohan co-founded and served as the CEO of Digital Tools Inc., a leader in enterprise project and resource management software (Acquired by Toofan, Inc.). He previously held various software development and management positions with Hewlett Packard and Intel Corporation. Mohan holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Bombay University, and attended and advanced Management Program at Stanford University. He is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a Silicon Valley-based forum for entrepreneurs. He is on the board of several non-profit organizations such as EPPIC: Association of Biotech and Pharma Executives; IDE - a leading non-profit devoted to the eradication of rural poverty worldwide; Drev – design revolution for the other 90% and DPA – Digital Pathology Association. He lives in Cupertino California with his wife and 2 children, has run a marathon and Triathlon, is an avid trekker (trekked in all 7 continents, including Mt Kailash, Everest Base Camp (Himalayas), Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu, Mont Blanc) and biked around Lake Tahoe (Tahoe Century) to help fund raising for cancer research.

Nahid Aliniazee

Educator & Community
Activist

Nahid Aliniazee is a philanthropist and community activist. She is currently Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), member of the Corporate Board at Northwest Suburban College in Illinois, and Co-Chair of the Muslim Youth Community Center of the West Valley Muslim Association. Ms. Aliniazee previously served on the Board of Trustees of Islamic Networks Group (ING). She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Girls Learn International (GLI), an initiative of the Feminist Majority Foundation. She has led fundraising efforts for a number of nonprofit organizations, including Roshni Academy’s annual benefit and Castilleja School’s 2009 benefit featuring Anderson Cooper, Leslie Stahl, Rupert Murdoch and Tina Brown.

Naren Bakshi

Trustee Director – ICC Founding Mentor/Advisor, WellnessMate

Naren Bakshi is the Founding Mentor/Advisor of WellnessMate, the world’s first outcome based digital cardiac therapeutics- transforming patient’s smartphone into an effective treatment modality for secondary prevention and self-care management. Naren is a serial Entrepreneur and Mentor to Founders and Social Impact Initiatives in Healthcare, Living Green, Education, Internet, e-commerce. Founder of TiE Rajasthan and Charter Member Emeritus of Silicon Valley. He holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (1968) and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing (1969) from the UC Berkeley and BS in Mechanical Engineering from BITS (Pilani).

Paras Malhotra

Marketing
Executive

Paresh Kumar Patel

An Entrepreneur and a Startup Investor

Paresh Kumar Patel (PK) CEO/Founder @ OASIS Enterprise -Real Estate Developer & Hotelier -M&A- PK Films -TC Fund-Startup Investor-Philanthropist.PK, the Founder and CEO of Oasis Enterprise, whose vision is to inspire striving entrepreneurs to develop and drive social, environmental, and economic change and growth in the community. The lifelong purpose-driven mission is to

Pervinder Johar

Chief Executive Officer,
EdgeVerve

Pervinder Johar is the CEO of EdgeVerve. He comes to EdgeVerve from Steelwedge Software Inc, where he served as the President and CEO. Pervinder helped position Steelwedge as the market leader in Supply Planning and Sales & Operations Planning. Under his leadership, Steelwedge successfully orchestrated a merger with E2open to form the largest purely cloud-based supply chain software company in the world. Prior to Steelwedge, Pervinder was at HP, where he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems for HP’s supply chain, one of the largest in the world. Pervinder previously held the position of CTO at Manhattan Associates, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions, where he was responsible for global research, development, and quality assurance. He also held senior positions in strategy, marketing, technology and finance with large companies including State Street Bank, and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Pervinder served as CTO for two successful startup companies. Pervinder holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

Rajashree Srirangarajan

Speech – Language
Pathologist

Rajashree Srirangarajan was most recently the Chair of the Speech and Language department at AchieveKids, Palo Alto where she worked for 25 years. She is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Association (ASHA) and California state certified Speech-Language Pathologist. Rajashree incorporated her clinical research in building evidence based intervention tools and strategies and spearheaded innovative theater programs to work on pragmatic communication skills in her clients on the Autism spectrum as well as other special need individuals. She was a co-founder of Pragmatom, a developer of Augmentative and Alternative Communication tools (and screening apps) for special needs individuals based on her evidence based clinical research and intervention practices. Together with her husband, Sekhar Sarukkai, Rajashree has been an active member of the Indian arts community for many years such as with the Chitresh Das Institute where both her daughters learned Kathak. She has also been on the fundraising committee for Chaandam School of Kathak founded by Pt. Chitresh Das. She has been an active lead parent representative at Castilleja school and is an active parent volunteer at Stanford. Rajashree regularly organizes baitaks, concerts of senior Carnatic and Hindustani artists from India as well as upcoming local artists. She continues to be passionate about supporting an inclusive platform for performing artists from the Indian subcontinent that will enrich the community.

Ranu Vohra

Co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Avendus

Ranu Vohra is the Co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Avendus a leading financial provider. He has spent the last eighteen years in the Indian financial services industry, concluding several marquee transactions in Investment Banking and Private Equity. He is based out of Mumbai. Prior to co-founding Avendus, Ranu worked with a Tampa (USA) based technology and media investment bank, Communications Equity Associates (CEA), and Hinduja Finance, a diversified financial services firm. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Sanjiv Gupta

Owner Sanjiv Gupta
CPA

Sanjiv Gupta is a California licensed CPA providing a wide range of accounting and tax services to enterprising businesses and individuals principally located in Northern California. Since the establishment of Sanjiv Gupta CPA in September 2004, new and successful businesses and individuals have turned to the firm for aggressive representation and creative solutions to their tax and accounting issues. As a result, Sanjiv Gupta CPA has become a recognized leader in the Bay area accounting community. Currently, Sanjiv has four offices located across the Bay area with 25 plus employees working in the firm. The office braches are in Fremont, Pleasanton, Sunnyvale and San Jose. Sanjiv Gupta CPA is also an Indian Chartered Accountant who had practised in India for 10 years before coming to United States. He is a partner in Bay Area’s Best Indian Chain of Restaurants and has investment interests in other corporations and real estate. He has sponsored numerous events in the Bay Area and is a well-known name in the community. His shows on Radio Bolly 92-3FM are very popular among Indian immigrants. In his leisure time his hobby is watching cricket, attending community functions (which give him an opportunity to mingle with people) and traveling all over the world.

Shauli Chaudari

CEO Hoojook,
Inc.

Shauli Chaudhuri, is an award-winning executive and visionary business leader skilled at identifying market need, conceptualizing and designing technology and service solutions. She has expertise in working with engineering, quality, sales and marketing, services, compliance, and operations teams for seamless product/service delivery. She has delivered 5x ROI for shareholders; successfully branded and positioned mature as well as new companies, designed and launched new products and won product awards resulting in successful exits. She successfully designed and launched a channel program for new enterprise mobile devices at a $20bn+ global fortune 500 company (second largest brand in the world at that time). Shauli has established centers of excellence in Philippines and India increasing per person productivity by 30%. She has secured multiple product awards for various software products; received the prestigious best product launch and marketing award at CES for the global launch of “instant-on” system software resulting in bookings more than 300% of the sales goal in the first 6 months. She has successfully founded and sold companies/products, founded, designed, developed and sold (successful exit) a marketing automation platform to a large software company. Currently, Shauli is Founder and CEO of hoojook, Inc., a predictive analytics and machine learning company with technology and related services solutions for automotive and HVAC industry 2012-2020. She won “Top 100 Most Promising Big Data Company” award. Shauli was the CMO at Locaid, Inc. from 2010-2012. Locaid was the largest and first Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) company to connect mobile enterprises to wireless subscribers. From 2007 to 2010, Shauli was the VP, Global Marketing at Phoenix technologies, Inc., the global leader in PC software in a turnaround phase at that time which diversified into online PC support products, security and remote device management. Shauli is a Board Member at Braigo Labs Inc., which is creating, researching, designing, and developing new technology solutions for visually impaired people all over the world. She is a Board Member at CWE (Center for Women Entrepreneurship), in Bangalore. CWE is an incubator for women entrepreneurs in India. Shauli was on the Advisory Board Member at the ICC’s Table Tennis Center from 2015-2018.

Sushma Malhotra

CEO at S5 Advisory
Inc.

Sushma Malhotra managed real estate worldwide, manufacturing facilities, labs, and operations at a Fortune 500 corporation for over 20 years and worked in brokerage for the last decade before founding S5 Advisory Inc. Sushma has a unique perspective and skill set to match space needs for her clients quickly. She is diligent in conducting market research and works with her clients to formulate short and long-term strategies that align with their business plans. She takes pride in her negotiation skills to get the best transactions. Her extensive and diverse experience in financial analysis, transaction structuring, lease negotiations, and management skills enable her to provide sound leadership and guidance to Silicon Valley companies in the software, hardware, communications, clean-tech, medical device, and life sciences industries. Sushma is the CEO at S5 Advisory Inc. Affiliations and Acknowledgements:Recognized as Business Journal; Women of Influence; 2011 Recognized as Business Journal "Woman of Distinction; Honoree, May 2006; Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE); Southwest YMCA Board Member.

Talat Hasan

Board President Trustee Director – ICC

Talat Hasan is currently the General Partner of Hitek Venture Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology companies. Talat has been a technologist and entrepreneur for over two decades. She founded Prometrix Corporation in 1983 and Sensys Instruments in 1996 to market products for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Both companies achieved successful exits. Talat holds a Master's degree in Physics from Oxford University, UK and Bachelor's degree in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University. She currently serves on the Board of US-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund. She is married to Kamil Hasan and they have two daughters.

Tanuja Shukla

Co-Founder Spend
Labs

Tanuja Shukla is an executive with over 15 years of experience in finance, strategy and entrepreneurship in the banking and engineering verticals. Tanuja is a co-founder of Spend Labs, a fintech startup that empowers users to better control and efficiently manage expenses in real-time from their phone. Prior to Spend Labs, she joined an engineering firm called Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc (ITSI), as Director of Financial Strategy and grew to become its Chief Strategy Officer. After business school, she served as management consultant, where she led engagements designed to improve shareholder value at several of the nation's largest banks. In this role, her teams delivered over $300M in profit improvements by: identifying underpenetrated relationships and geographies, advising a shift in branch footprint to increase deposit and loan share, designing product bundles to deepen client relationships and creating dedicated service models to profitably serve small customers. Prior to this, Tanuja spent several years working at Charles Schwab, in their internal consulting and investor relations groups. Tanuja earned an MBA from the Wharton School in 2005 and bachelor's degree in Economics from UC San Diego in 2000.

Vibhu Mittal

Trustee Director – ICC CEO,
Edmodo

Vibhu Mittal is currently the CEO of Edmodo, one of the world's largest K-12 education platforms in the world, with a mission to connect every learner to the resources necessary for them to reach their full potential. He is also the Co-founder and former CEO of Root-One, a startup in the education space, working on problems in language literacy. He has previously held positions with Google Research, Xerox PARC, Stanford/CSLI, CMU/LTI and TIFR Bombay. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, MS, Computer Science from Ohio State University, and B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai.

Vikas Sehgal

Founder & CEO
hyperDart

Vikas Sehgal is an entrepreneur, an advisor to, and an angel investor in several early stage technology startups. Earlier, he co-founded and was CEO of Nagarro, a leading provider of high end software and consulting services to enterprises worldwide. He led Nagarro from an early stage startup to a global operation with revenues exceeding $ 100M and over a dozen offices in countries including US, India, Germany, Sweden, UK and Mexico. Prior to founding Nagarro, Vikas led the development of network management and satellite based telecom products for Hughes Network Systems, where he received several awards for software excellence and team leadership. More recently, he is also the recipient of Silicon Valley’s “40 under 40” award. Vikas holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Vikas Pokala

Product Operations Manager,
Google

Vikas is currently leading Product Operations for consumer electronic devices at Google. Over the past 10 years he has held various operations and engineering positions at Google and Apple helping ship many different products such as phones, wearables, AR/VR, home automation, and more. This has enabled him to travel around the world on business trips to meet and work with suppliers. He holds an MBA degree from The University of Texas at Austin, a MS Electrical Engineering degree from USC, and a BS Computer Engineering degree from UC Irvine. He immigrated to the US at age 3 and grew up in the bay area, but lived in southern California for 6 years while attending undergrad and masters, and lived in Texas for 5 years while working at IBM and attending business school. He has been happily married for 10 years and lives in Willow Glen with his wife. He enjoys traveling abroad, learning about history, and enjoying wine. He is a newcomer to the game of golf which provides a safe way to social distance with friends and get fresh air during COVID-19 enforced shutdown.

Vishal Sinha

VP of Engineering at
Nutanix

Vishal Sinha is the VP of Engineering at Nutanix, an Enterprise Cloud Computing company. He is responsible for Nutanix Files, Nutanix Insights (Big Data Platform & Analytics), File Analytics, Cloud Mobility, and Nutanix Health Service (NCC) teams! Before Nutanix, he led the Enterprise Networking Group at Brocade which comprised of SW developers, Functional verification and Sustaining Engineers. Product portfolio included SX Chassis product family, ICX Data Center and Enterprise product family, and TurboIron Top-of-the-rack. Vishal is passionate about technology and its use to cure serious illnesses. He is also an advisor to early-stage startups. Vishal received his MBA from UC Berkeley, MS from the University of Minnesota, and B. Tech in Computer Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering. Vishal was the recipient of the prestigious Lt. Governor's Gold Medal, which is awarded to the best Bachelor of Engineering graduate of Delhi College of Engineering, India. In his spare time, Vishal enjoys mentoring students and spending time with his family and friends.

Vivek Vaidya

Serial Entrepreneur

Vivek Vaidya is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader who has built industry leading technology companies in enterprise software, data management, analytics, and machine learning/AI over the last 25 years. Currently, he is the Co-founder, General Partner, and CTO of Super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data driven technology companies. Prior to forming Super{set}, Vivek was the CTO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud having joined Salesforce via the acquisition of Krux, a mar-tech platform where he was co-founder and CTO. Before Krux, Vivek served as the CTO of Rapt, a provider of software for media monetization acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Vivek holds an MS in Mathematics and Computer Applications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Denver. While at IIT-D, he was an early member of the team at Parsec Technologies, the first company to build and market Interactive Voice Response systems in India. Vivek lives in San Francisco with his wife Pallavi and son Viplav and is a co-author of Data Driven: Harnessing Data and AI to Reinvent Customer Engagement, published in 2018.

Winston Ibrahim

Co-Founder & CEO Hydros

Winston Ibrahim is Co-Founder & CEO of Hydros. The company is dedicated to providing sustainable high quality consumer hard goods as well as to fighting the global water crisis. Ibrahim is also Co-Founder of the Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Project in the Middle East, a pioneering effort to develop a generation of U.S. leaders sensitive to inter-cultural understanding. He also serves on the Board of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), an organization that works to engage religious diversity by building interfaith cooperation on college and university campuses. Winston is also a founding member of the NationSwell Council, a media company with the mission to tell the story of American Renewal. Prior to Hydros, Ibrahim worked as an investment banking analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Art degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University.

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ANURADHA JAGADEESH

Anuradha Jagadeesh is the co-chair of Sevathon 2016 and has been one of the founding members of Sevathon. She shares the passion to empower the community and to support new non-profits with the committee leads and volunteers. She has been spearheading Sevathon efforts since its launch. Anu has previously held positions with Yodlee, Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers, and Hewlett-Packard. She holds a MS in Computer Science from San Jose State University and BS in Electronics and Communication from University of Mysore.

ARJUN BHAGAT

Arjun Bhagat is the Chairman & CEO at Calibrated Group, LLC, an investment partnership that builds and invests in off-shoring businesses out of India. He is an entrepreneur and investor focused on Real Estate, Retirement Centers and Technology. Arjun received his MBA from UCLA and prior to that he earned a Bachelor’s in Engineering (B Tech) from IIT Delhi, India. Arjun currently sits on the board of – and is a major investor in – five privately held companies.

ASH CHOPRA

Ash Chopra is Managing Director within the Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch. Ash has repeatedly been named in Financial Times’ FT 400 Top Financial Advisers list and in Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, and shows up again on both lists in 2016. Ash was recently recognized as a top advisor in Forbes’s inaugural America’s Top Wealth Advisors 2016. Ash graduated with an MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross Business School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Before that, Ash earned two engineering degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, both from Kettering University, Michigan. He attended St. Stephen’s College for his undergrad.

KANWAL REKHI

Kanwal Rekhi is the Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm. With Inventus, Kanwal works closely with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and India, as he has since 1995, to apply his full time and energy helping them accomplish a great result. He also co-founded The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) to promote Indian entrepreneurship and is currently a trustee on the global board of TiE. Kanwal earned a BSEE from IIT-Bombay and an MSEE and Honorary Doctorates in both Business and Engineering from Michigan Tech. Kanwal is a board member on the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund (IITBHF), and also founded the Kanwal Rekhi Schools of Information Technology at both IIT-Bombay and Michigan Tech.

KIRTI KALRA

Kirti Kalra is currently Partner at The Chugh Firm’s Northern California office. He joined the firm in 2008 and works with both, the Immigration and the Litigation Practice Groups. He has extensive experience in immigrant and nonimmigrant visa petitions. Kirti received his J.D. from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California and his B.A., in English from UC Irvine. Kirti enjoys traveling, sports, watching movies and listening to music.

KRISHNA CHITTABATHINI

Krishna K. Chittabathini is the Founder & CEO of 3K Technologies, an Information Technology Solutions company focused on Analytics, Data Management, Data Science and Cloud, since 2002. In addition to 3K Technologies, as a Co-founder & Director of Greenway Group companies in India, Krishna is responsible for setting Greenway’s mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the group’s overall growth. Greenway Group companies are involved in the manufacturing of Building Materials, Construction, Infrastructure Development and Biofuels. A seasoned entrepreneur, Krishna has been involved with several successful companies as investor and advisor. Krishna is very active as international services committee member of Rotary Club of San Jose. He sponsored several Rotary projects in India and around the world. Krishna holds a Masters in Technology from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.

MIHIR JOBALIA

Mihir Jobalia is currently the Global Head of Technology Corporate Finance at KPMG. Mihir has over 15 years of experience in executing mergers and acquisitions, private placements, divestitures, recapitalizations, IPOs, follow-on offerings, and delivering fairness opinions. Prior to joining KPMG, Mihir served as Managing Director of investment banking at Morgan Keegan Technology Group. Prior to that Mihir was a Managing Director and Head of Software Investment Banking at ThinkEquity, and Senior Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Raymond James. Mihir holds an M.B.A. from University of Chicago, M.S. in chemical engineering from University of Houston, and a B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Florida.

NAHID ALINIAZEE

Nahid Aliniazee is a philanthropist and community activist. She is currently Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), member of the Corporate Board at Northwest Suburban College in Illinois, and Co-Chair of the Muslim Youth Community Center of the West Valley Muslim Association. Ms. Aliniazee previously served on the Board of Trustees of Islamic Networks Group (ING). She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Girls Learn International (GLI), an initiative of the Feminist Majority Foundation. She has led fundraising efforts for a number of nonprofit organizations, including Roshni Academy’s annual benefit and Castilleja School’s 2009 benefit featuring Anderson Cooper, Leslie Stahl, Rupert Murdoch and Tina Brown.

NAREN BAKSHI

Naren Bakshi is the Founding Mentor/Advisor of WellnessMate, the world’s first outcome based digital cardiac therapeutics- transforming patient’s smartphone into an effective treatment modality for secondary prevention and self-care management. Naren is a serial Entrepreneur and Mentor to Founders and Social Impact Initiatives in Healthcare, Living Green, Education, Internet, e-commerce. Founder of TiE Rajasthan and Charter Member Emeritus of Silicon Valley. He holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (1968) and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing (1969) from the UC Berkeley and BS in Mechanical Engineering from BITS (Pilani).

PERVINDER JOHAR

Pervinder Johar is the CEO of EdgeVerve. He comes to EdgeVerve from Steelwedge Software Inc, where he served as the President and CEO. Pervinder helped position Steelwedge as the market leader in Supply Planning and Sales & Operations Planning. Under his leadership, Steelwedge successfully orchestrated a merger with E2open to form the largest purely cloud-based supply chain software company in the world. Prior to Steelwedge, Pervinder was at HP, where he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems for HP’s supply chain, one of the largest in the world. Pervinder previously held the position of CTO at Manhattan Associates, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions, where he was responsible for global research, development, and quality assurance. He also held senior positions in strategy, marketing, technology and finance with large companies including State Street Bank, and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Pervinder served as CTO for two successful startup companies. Pervinder holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

SUSHMA MALHOTRA

Sushma Malhotra managed real estate worldwide, manufacturing facilities, labs, and operations at a Fortune 500 corporation for over 20 years and worked in brokerage for the last decade before founding S5 Advisory Inc. Sushma has a unique perspective and skill set to match space needs for her clients quickly. She is diligent in conducting market research and works with her clients to formulate short and long-term strategies that align with their business plans. She takes pride in her negotiation skills to get the best transactions. Her extensive and diverse experience in financial analysis, transaction structuring, lease negotiations, and management skills enable her to provide sound leadership and guidance to Silicon Valley companies in the software, hardware, communications, clean-tech, medical device, and life sciences industries. Sushma is the CEO at S5 Advisory Inc. Affiliations and Acknowledgements:Recognized as Business Journal; Women of Influence; 2011 Recognized as Business Journal “Woman of Distinction; Honoree, May 2006; Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE); Southwest YMCA Board Member.

TALAT HASAN

Talat Hasan is currently the General Partner of Hitek Venture Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology companies. Talat has been a technologist and entrepreneur for over two decades. She founded Prometrix Corporation in 1983 and Sensys Instruments in 1996 to market products for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Both companies achieved successful exits. Talat holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Oxford University, UK and Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University. She currently serves on the Board of US-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund. She is married to Kamil Hasan and they have two daughters.

VIBHU MITTAL

Vibhu Mittal is currently the CEO of Edmodo, one of the world’s largest K-12 education platforms in the world, with a mission to connect every learner to the resources necessary for them to reach their full potential. He is also the Co-founder and former CEO of Root-One, a startup in the education space, working on problems in language literacy. He has previously held positions with Google Research, Xerox PARC, Stanford/CSLI, CMU/LTI and TIFR Bombay. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, MS, Computer Science from Ohio State University, and B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai

Vikas Sehgal

Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of iNDX.AI, a silicon valley based Healthcare Informatics Company focusing on Translation Research in Oncology using AI/ML/NLP technologies. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in successfully founding, establishing and exiting high-tech and Biotech start-ups in Silicon Valley, raising over $50M in funding and generating over $500M in shareholder value. He is an Angel Investor & serves on the BOD of Hemex Health, a very innovative point of care Malaria & Sickle cell Diagnostics Company. Mohan has joined Stanford University Medical School as a Research Scholar to work on developing new Socio-Economic business models that leverage innovation in affordable medical technology and transform the Health Care at the bottom of the pyramid in developing world, touching Billion Lives and creating Millions of jobs at the Micro & Macro levels. Mohan was the cofounder and CEO of iNDx LifeCare, next generation Point of Care Company, Oncomdx, an innovative Cancer Diagnostics company, which specialized, in integrated diagnostics (acquired by Core Diagnostics 2013). Mohan was the cofounder and CEO of BioImagene, a pioneer in Digital Pathology that was acquired by Roche in 2010 for $100M. He was the co-founder and CEO of Roamware Inc., a leading wireless roaming software company (acquired by Audax for $135M). He was also the cofounder and CEO of SoftPlus, an early provider of eCRM software for telecom carriers around the world. In March 2000, SoftPlus was sold to US Interactive for $360 million. Before starting SoftPlus, Mohan co-founded and served as the CEO of Digital Tools Inc., a leader in enterprise project and resource management software (Acquired by Toofan, Inc.). He previously held various software development and management positions with Hewlett Packard and Intel Corporation. Mohan holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Bombay University, and attended and advanced Management Program at Stanford University. He is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a Silicon Valley-based forum for entrepreneurs. He is on the board of several non-profit organizations such as EPPIC: Association of Biotech and Pharma Executives; IDE – a leading non-profit devoted to the eradication of rural poverty worldwide; Drev – design revolution for the other 90% and DPA – Digital Pathology Association. He lives in Cupertino California with his wife and 2 children, has run a marathon and Triathlon, is an avid trekker (trekked in all 7 continents, including Mt Kailash, Everest Base Camp (Himalayas), Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu, Mont Blanc) and biked around Lake Tahoe (Tahoe Century) to help fund raising for cancer research.

VIKAS POKALA

Vikas is currently leading Product Operations for consumer electronic devices at Google. Over the past 10 years he has held various operations and engineering positions at Google and Apple helping ship many different products such as phones, wearables, AR/VR, home automation, and more. This has enabled him to travel around the world on business trips to meet and work with suppliers. He holds an MBA degree from The University of Texas at Austin, a MS Electrical Engineering degree from USC, and a BS Computer Engineering degree from UC Irvine. He immigrated to the US at age 3 and grew up in the bay area, but lived in southern California for 6 years while attending undergrad and masters, and lived in Texas for 5 years while working at IBM and attending business school. He has been happily married for 10 years and lives in Willow Glen with his wife. He enjoys traveling abroad, learning about history, and enjoying wine. He is a newcomer to the game of golf which provides a safe way to social distance with friends and get fresh air during COVID-19 enforced shutdown

Vishal Sinha

Vishal Sinha is the VP of Engineering at Nutanix, an Enterprise Cloud Computing company. He is responsible for Nutanix Files, Nutanix Insights (Big Data Platform & Analytics), File Analytics, Cloud Mobility, and Nutanix Health Service (NCC) teams! Before Nutanix, he led the Enterprise Networking Group at Brocade which comprised of SW developers, Functional verification and Sustaining Engineers. Product portfolio included SX Chassis product family, ICX Data Center and Enterprise product family, and TurboIron Top-of-the-rack. Vishal is passionate about technology and its use to cure serious illnesses. He is also an advisor to early-stage startups. Vishal received his MBA from UC Berkeley, MS from the University of Minnesota, and B. Tech in Computer Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering. Vishal was the recipient of the prestigious Lt. Governor’s Gold Medal, which is awarded to the best Bachelor of Engineering graduate of Delhi College of Engineering, India. In his spare time, Vishal enjoys mentoring students and spending time with his family and friends.

WINSTON IBRAHIM

Winston Ibrahim is Co-Founder & CEO of Hydros. The company is dedicated to providing sustainable high quality consumer hard goods as well as to fighting the global water crisis. Ibrahim is also Co-Founder of the Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Project in the Middle East, a pioneering effort to develop a generation of U.S. leaders sensitive to inter-cultural understanding. He also serves on the Board of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), an organization that works to engage religious diversity by building interfaith cooperation on college and university campuses. Winston is also a founding member of the NationSwell Council, a media company with the mission to tell the story of American Renewal. Prior to Hydros, Ibrahim worked as an investment banking analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Art degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University.