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Leading the Way for Change Program eBook www.FoodForEducation.org WELCOME Dear Friends, Welcome to the 6th Akshaya Patra online gala of 2020— Leadership for Change, hosted by our chapters in Atlanta, Chicago, and Springfield. I am truly humbled and grateful for the collective support and massive efforts of our 125 fundraisers and 500 volunteers, who successfully reached 22,000 people to collect over $9 million so far in 2020. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to Akshaya Patra’s beneficiaries and their families. 2020 has been a year of change. We have connected and engaged with globally recognized leaders during our online galas around topics of technology, philanthropy, family, and now leadership. Leadership is an essential value Akshaya Patra embodies. It is fundamental to paving the way for change in our beneficiaries’ lives and investing in their future. Tonight we have an incredible line-up of speakers, including the legendary John Chambers, the dynamic Nikesh Arora, the successful Saket Modi, and our very own Siva Sivaram, Chairman of the Akshaya Patra Board. We will hear their insights and reflective views on change and how leadership influences change globally. Even the smallest changes bring significant results to positively change the outcome for millions. This is what Akshaya Patra does--providing a meal in schools that impacts the lives of children and their families for generations. I urge you to make a difference and take action, whether a pledge or donation, to invest in our children’s lives; providing the nourishment and education they deserve to become tomorrow’s leaders. Thank you, Yours in service, Vandana www.FoodForEducation.org EVENT TIMELINE 5:00 PM PDT PROGRAM BEGINS 5:10 PM PDT WELCOME REMARKS: VANDANA TILAK, CEO, TAPF USA 5:14 PM PDT HOST CHAPTERS VIDEO 5:20 PM PDT AKSHAYA PATRA VIDEO 5:25 PM PDT PLEDGE DRIVE OPENS 5:30 PM PDT LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE WITH JOHN CHAMBERS, NIKESH ARORA, SAKET MODI, AND SIVA SIVARAM 5:50 PM PDT LIVE Q/A SESSION WITH JOHN CHAMBERS, NIKESH ARORA, SAKET MODI, AND SIVA SIVARAM 6:05 PM PDT YOUTH AMBASSADOR VIDEO 6:08 PM PDT SHANKAR’S STORY 6:10 PM PDT MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY ROOPKUMAR, SUNALI AND REEWA RATHOD www.FoodForEducation.org SPEAKERS JOHN CHAMBERS John Chambers is founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and focuses on helping disruptive startups from around the world build and scale. He invests in companies that are leading market transitions, such as Aspire Food Group, Balbix, Bloom Energy, Dedrone, IoTium, Lucideus, OpenGov, Pindrop, Privoro, Rubrik, SparkCognition, Sprinklr, and Uniphore. He serves on the Board of Directors for Bloom Energy, OpenGov, Pindrop, and Sprinklr. Chambers is the author of Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, where he shares new rules for disruption and lasting success in the Digital Age. He is also the Chairman of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and was appointed Global Ambassador of the French Tech by President Emmanuel Macron of France in January of 2018. Prior to founding JC2 Ventures, Chambers spent 25+ years with Cisco, serving as CEO, Chairman and Executive Chairman. He currently holds the title of Chairman Emeritus with the organization. NIKESH ARORA Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002. Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate- Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University. www.FoodForEducation.org SPEAKERS SAKET MODI Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) platform company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay, headquartered in Palo Alto and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35under35, Forbes Magazine’s 30under30 lists among others. The Government of India awarded him with the title of “Champion of Change’’ in 2017. Under his leadership, Lucideus has received multiple awards including ‘Emerging Vendor of the Year’ by Frost & Sullivan, ‘Leading Pure-Play VAPT Vendor’ by Gartner’s Market Guide in 2019, and “Morgan Stanley CTO Innovation Award 2019” amongst others. SIVA SIVARAM Dr. Siva Sivaram serves as President of Western Digital and is responsible for ongoing development of the company’s industry-leading NAND flash memory, as well as development of next-generation technologies. He has held executive positions at Intel and Matrix Semiconductor, and at SanDisk after its acquisition of Matrix. Dr. Sivaram has served as board member of several start-ups, was entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and XSeed Capital, a research scholar at Matsushita Electric, and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University. He earned his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Materials Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has been elected to its Board of Trustees. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, India, where he earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. He serves as the Chairman of the Board for Akshaya Patra Foundation USA. www.FoodForEducation.org PERFORMERS ROOPKUMAR & SUNALI RATHOD Roopkumar Rathod is an Indian playback singer and music director. Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He is famous throughout Bollywood as an excellent playback singer and music director. The song “Sandese Aate Hai”, from the movie Border, became one of the major breakthroughs of Roopkumar’s career. It soared to an unprecedented level of popularity, becoming an anthem of sorts for the nation. Riding on this wave of popularity and tirelessly pursuing his passion for music, Roop Kumar lent his voice to a number of songs in Gujrati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali and Bhojpuri films. Apart from playback singing for films, Roopkumar also performs at live concerts. With his equally gifted wife, Sunali Rathod, they travel all over the world and perform at a number of concerts. Together, they have captivated audiences across the world such as the U.S., U.K., Dubai, East Africa, and Singapore with their soulful renditions of various genres of music spanning ghazal, sufi, light classical and film songs. REEWA A multi-talented artist who has mastered Western Carnatic and Hindustani vocals, alongside Classical Piano, Reewa is an award-winning songwriter and collaborator. She has done 8 grades of Piano with distinction from the Royal School of Music in London. At the age of 26, she has already won the Pepsi Music Award for Best Independent Song of the Year - ‘One Above’. More recently three of her compositions have been chosen by DJ Ravin to feature on the world-renowned lounge music album ‘Buddha Bar’ in Paris. One of her tracks ‘Love and Desire’ got selected to be included in the 16 Greatest Hits of Buddha Bar. Reewa’s compositions and vocal talents also feature in the Spanish film ‘Rastres de Sandal’ which won both the Gaudi Award for Best Catalan Film and the audience award at the Montreal Film Festival. 2020 has already started amazingly well for Reewa with the launch of her debut album ‘Saya Tere Ishq Ka’ which has raced to 5 million YouTube views within a week of its release on January 21. www.FoodForEducation.org HOST CHAPTERS Leadership for Change would not have been possible without the support and dedication of our Chapter Chairs and Teams in Atlanta, Chicago and Springfield. Our Chapters focus on bringing awareness and raising funds at the local level in their communities. They are community leaders who trust our organization and are committed to our mission of providing unlimited food for education. Thank you immensely for all your hard work! CHICAGO Dipak Kapadia Saroj Patel SPRINGFIELD, MA Neena Grover ATLANTA Nagesh Doddaka Satya Tiwari Sridhar Penumetcha www.FoodForEducation.org YOUTH AMBASSADORS Our Youth Ambassadors from Atlanta, Chicago and Springfield are a group of dynamic and determined individuals motivated to make a difference in the world. These young people are stepping up as leaders in their local communities by planning campaigns or fundraising to help the millions of children in India every day. Thank you so much, Youth Ambassadors! CHICAGO Aaron Garg SPRINGFIELD Co Presidents Trijal Thakkar, Arushi Meharwal Team Leaders Arjun Patel (photography) Arjun Shroff (activities) Roshan Taneja (art) Diya Patel Shivani Parmar Shreeya Patel Tulshi Desai Special Projects Rohan Sarikoda Hasini Pundla Nikhil Lebaka Nandita Meharwal ATLANTA Ria Penumetcha Risha Kasala www.FoodForEducation.org SPONSORS DIAMOND COPPER Chicago Chicago Sanjay & Vandana Garodia Prabhudas & Munjula Patel Ramesh & Sarita Tulshan Vipin & Saroj Patel GOLD Springfield Chicago Pallavi & Manoj Parikh Dipak & Pritee Kapadia Dr.