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5Th Anniversary Leadership Forum Bios Nish Acharya Is CEO of Equal 5th Anniversary Leadership Forum Bios Nish Acharya is CEO of Equal Innovation, a firm that consults with leading universities, governments, foundations and companies to assist them with innovation, entrepreneurship and philanthropic strategies. Mr. Acharya is also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress, a contributor to Forbes and the author of the “The India-US Partnership: $1 Trillion By 2030” by Oxford University Press. Nish previously served as Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce for the Obama Administration, as Executive Director of the Deshpande Foundation, and in the Clinton White House. Riju Agrawal is currently pursuing an MBA/MPP joint degree at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he was selected as a Rubenstein Fellow. He was previously on the Private Equity team at The Blackstone Group and the investment banking team of Morgan Stanley’s Global Energy Group. Riju graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in Engineering Sciences, where he was co- founder of the Harvard U.S.-India Initiative and co-president of the Harvard College Global Energy Initiative. In 2011, Riju was selected to serve as a White House Intern, where he worked for the Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. In addition, Riju was selected as a Future Energy Leader by the World Energy Council and a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Maya Ajmera is the President and CEO of Society for Science & the Public and the Publisher of Science News, and an alumna of the organization’s most prestigious competition, the Science Talent Search. In 2013-2014, Maya served as the Inaugural Social Entrepreneur in Residence for Duke University. In 1993, Maya founded The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a nonprofit organization that invests in innovative, community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. To date, GFC has awarded nearly $40 million to more than 700 grassroots organizations in 80 countries, touching the lives of nearly 10 million children. Maya also authored Invisible Children: Reimagining International Development at the Grassroots, published by Palgrave Macmillan last year. She is an award-winning children’s book author of 20 titles with more than 5 million readers worldwide. She is a recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship and holds an MPP from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Rahul Ali is Country Director - India for Orbis International looking after strategy, operations and financial performance of Orbis programs in India, Nepal and Indonesia. Rahul is also a Board Member of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight India. Prior to joining Orbis, Rahul was in the Kingdom of Bahrain with a large real estate developer where he was responsible for their healthcare vertical. And before that he was with the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad where he served as a member of the faculty at the International Center for Advancement of Rural Eye Care. Rahul completed his MBBS and MS Ophthalmology from Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and Vellore respectively as well as Master of Public Health and Master of Business Administration from the Johns Hopkins University. Prakash Ambegaonkar (known as DrP) is a successful serial entrepreneur and a lifetime socioeconomic activist and philanthropist. Dr. Prakash started several high technology companies like Frontier Technologies, E-Lock Technologies and CareersUnbound that developed award winning software products. He started an online college providing courses in energy, environment and sustainability. Dr. Prakash's companies have won over 30 industry awards, including LAN Magazine's Product of the Year three times running. He was also named Inc. Magazine's Regional Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995. He is founder of ‘Bridging Nations Foundation’ a non-profit policy and advocacy organization in Washington, DC that works on issues of leadership, technology, international relations, education and employability. Dr. Prakash is currently working on setting up a data driven personalized, career centric university. Manpreet Singh Anand is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the National Defense University, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Mr. Anand previously managed U.S. policy with the countries of the subcontinent as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia. Mr. Anand also served at the U.S. Agency for International Development as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for South and Central Asia. In the past, Mr. Anand worked as a Senior Policy Advisor for Chevron Corporation and as the lead staffer on South and Central Asia to the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Anand is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Mr. Anand earned an MBA and an MA in International Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Niraj Antani is serving his second term in the Ohio House of Representatives. Having been elected age 23, now 26, he is the youngest currently serving member of the House. In addition, he is youngest Indian-American state elected official in United States history, and the first Indian-American Republican. Currently. Antani serves as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. Antani was named to Forbes Magazine's list of the top "30 Under 30" people in the United States for Law & Politics in 2015. As well, the conservative media organization Newsmax named him the 2nd most influential Republican in the nation under age 30. Mandar Apte is a social entrepreneur, thought leader and first-time film director. Deeply pained by the ongoing violence in America, Mandar started the From India With Love endeavor to reinvigorate our commitment to nonviolence. Mandar is a co- founder of Media Rise — a nonprofit, social enterprise to inspire the creation and consumption of meaningful media to accelerate social good. Until March 2016, Mandar managed Shell's GameChanger social innovation program investing in ideas that create shared value. Balan Ayyar is the founder and CEO of Percipient.ai, an artificial intelligence firm based in silicon valley focused on the most challenging intelligence and national security missions. He is previous CEO of a $100M IT firm and Commanding General of a Joint Interagency Task Force in combat in Afghanistan. He is a White House Fellow and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Suchit Bachalli is the CEO of Unilog, a global technology company which specializes in e-commerce solutions and enriched product data for the B2B marketplace. He brings nearly 15 years of technology sales and management experience with a particular focus on wholesale distribution, retail and online commerce. As Unilog’s business grew into North America, in 2014, he relocated to Philadelphia to establish its U.S. headquarters in Wayne, Pa as Unilog’s President of North America. The company is now a multi- million dollar business with 800 global employees and hundreds of customers across diverse industries. In 2017, the Unilog Board of Directors unanimously voted to appoint Suchit Bachalli as the new Chief Executive Officer of Unilog Content Solutions and all its global subsidiaries. Rishi S. Bagga is an attorney handling a variety of civil litigation and hospitality matters. In addition to his practice, Rishi is an Adjunct Professor at Valencia College in Orlando where he teaches Hospitality Law. He previously worked at a statewide law firm focused on insurance defense issues, and is a a former Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County. Rishi currently serves as the President of the South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA). Rishi is licensed to practice law in Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He earned his Juris Doctor (J.D. ’06) as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M. ’10) in Law & Government from the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. Rishi also has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A. ’03) in Political Science, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. Gunjan Bagla is Managing Director of Amritt, Inc an management consultancy that helps American companies to do business in India. He writes about business with India for the Harvard Business Review and has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg TV and BBC TV for his India expertise. His book "Doing Business in 21st Century India" was published by Hachette and is five star rated on Amazon. He speaks about US- India business at major conferences. Nitin Bajaj is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and runs Esri Labs-the innovation incubator for the billion-dollar enterprise GIS market-leader. Nitin has always been intrigued and fascinated by the resounding success of Indian entrepreneurs around the world. So intrigued, he did his doctoral thesis on the topic and launched the broadly telecast The INDUStry Show. In addition to a strong record of running successful start-ups, Nitin has led several multi- million dollar strategic initiatives for Fortune 100 organizations such as Esri, IBM, and Thomson Reuters. Nitin serves on the boards of Akshaya Patra LA and Pratham Los Angeles. Nitin has a Doctorate in Strategy & Innovation and MBA in Leadership and Organizational Change Management. As a Pepperdine alum, he loves the Waves and is a paddleboarding enthusiast. Nitin is also an avid cyclist and has a few century rides under his saddle. Bharat Barai is Medical Director of the Cancer Institute, Methodist Hospitals, Clinical Assistant Prof. of Medicine: Indiana University Medical School, Secretary & former President of the Medical Licensing Board, State of Indiana (since 2000). He has received numerous community service awards in last 25 years for his voluntary services to the local communities.
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