Sabarmati Council

Mr Avi Nash

Mr Avi Nash is a former partner of Goldman Sachs, where he headed the Global Chemical Industry Group. He is a director of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation and serves as a trustee of several educational and charitable organizations.

Mr B V Jagadeesh

Shri B V Jagadeesh is a successful serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was the founding investor and CEO of NetScaler that pioneered the concept of Application Delivery, and co-founder and CTO of Exodus Communications that pioneered cloud hosting and data centres. He is currently a Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures. Shri Jagadeesh is actively involved in several initiatives for the betterment of society, such as the UVCE Foundation, One School At A Time, and Akshaya Patra.

Mr Gordhanbhai B Gelot*

Mr Gordhanbhai B Gelot* runs a Small Scale Industrial (SSI) unit for ready-to-use clinical microbial analytical tools in South Gujarat and has also worked with American and French Pharma Multinational Corporations.

*Deceased

Dr Hemant Kanakia

Dr. Hemant Kanakia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Gemplex Internet, Inc., a business-networking services provider offering secure connectivity solution. He served as the President of Washington D.C chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs and served as its Trustee. He also served or serves on the boards of the International Red Cross Washington DC, the Board of Advisors for University of Maryland School of Engineering.

Dr Jagdish Patel

Dr. Jagdish Patel was born in Kampala, Uganda of East Africa to parents whose roots lied in small villages surrounding the town of Khambhat. He went to M.S. University of Baroda and graduated from Baroda Medical College in 1967.

Dr Kiran C Patel

Dr Kiran C Patel, a Tampa, Florida based cardiologist is founding Chairman of the Drs Kiran and Pallavi Patel Foundation for Global Understanding, a non-profit organization that develops and funds a wide variety of programs in health, education, arts and culture.

Mr Maulik Jasubhai

Mr Maulik Jasubhai is the Chairman & Chief Executive of the Jasubhai Group, which includes Jasubhai Engineering, Jasubhai Media, CHEMTECH Foundation & Jasubhai Foundation. He is passionate about the Student Outreach Program, which aims at Developing Future Leaders for the industry.

Mr Navin Doshi

Mr Navin Doshi is an aerospace engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He and his wife Pratima were honored with the Chaudhuri Award by California Institute of Integral Studies (2012), the Maharishi Award by Maharishi University (2014), and the Exemplar Award by the South Asian Studies Association (2016). He is author of several books on science, economics, and spirituality.

Mr Raj Mashruwala

Mr Raj Mashruwala is an active angel investor through Mashruwala Investments and is mentor/advisor to several early start-up ventures. Among the technology companies he has co-founded are TIBCO Software, YieldUp International, Media Computer Technology, etc. He is a founder of the IIT Gandhinagar Foundation in USA.

Mr Ruyintan E Mehta

Mr Ruyintan E Mehta was a serial entrepreneur in the plastics industry in the US and Canada. He is executive director of a non-profit wheels India Niswarth Foundation and board member of Wheels Global Foundation. He is the current president of IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and also a board member of IIT Gandhinagar Foundation in the US.