Mr. Vinesh R. Virani, President: Mr. Virani is CEO and Owner of Nirvin Corporation. He has more than 17 years of experience in banking, commercial lending and customer relations. Mr. Virani is a board member of Care and Share Foundation in Chicago and Vice President for the Chicago Art Circle. He has an MS in Commerce from Saurastra University and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.

 

 

 

 

Mr. Jeffrey Houk: Mr. Houk graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accounting from Millersville State University. He has over twenty years of experience working as a consultant in the information technology field for various Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Houk devoted his time to non-profit organizations including the Art of Living Foundation for well over a decade, working to set up best practices based on his professional experience. He currently serves as Treasurer of the Art of Living Foundation.

 

 

 

Mr. Anurag Jain: Mr. Jain leads the Dell Services Delivery unit, a global team of more than 18,000 professionals who deliver technology solutions to Dell customers around the world. In the past he has founded highly successful, large-scale IT service outsourcing businesses based in India. In addition to his business career, Anurag has served as a tireless leader and innovative supporter of skill and vocational development in India. Mr. Jain is Chairman of the Board at Laurus Institute, a premier not-for-profit skills development think tank in India, and serves on the Board of Asia (Chennai) Engineering, which has been a leading commercial, industrial civil engineering firm in India for over 40 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India.

 

 

Dr. Raman Poola, M.D, M.B.A.: Dr. Poola is a physician specializing in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine in Apple Valley, California. He has been involved in the Art of Living’s service programs for over 25 years.

 

 

 

Mrs. Rajita Kulkarni
A banker by profession for the last 17 years, Rajita Kulkarni most recently held the position of Asia Pacific head for training and customer advocacy for a premier international financial services leader. In the last five years she has been instrumental in leading over 5,000 workshops around the world that reached 100,000 participants, and possesses 1 million man hours of training. She has won over 17 awards for professional excellence in her field.

 

 

 

Officers

Dr. Ajay Tejasvi, Ph.D., Secretary: Ajay’s professional, academic and personal experiences have converged to focus his attention on the challenge of good governance and ethical leadership as the heart of the development problem today. His work with the Art of Living Foundation (www.artofliving.org) and the International Association for Human Values (www.iahv.org) in community-driven-development, academic training in international relations and leadership, and professional experience in the private sector and the World Bank have strengthened his resolve to help developing countries improve their leadership capacities and governance systems for sustainable poverty reduction (www.worldbank.org/wbi). An engineer by training, Ajay earned a Ph.D. in Political Science, focusing on the role of leadership strategies in alleviating state fragility. He also holds Masters degrees in Foreign Policy and Artificial Intelligence from Georgetown University and the University of Southern California.

 

 

Mr. Craig Hammer, Esq., Treasurer: Craig Hammer, Esq. is a Governance Specialist at the World Bank. He manages a program, which strengthens laws, policies, and regulations that improve governance and accountability in developing countries including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Morocco, Kyrgyz Republic, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Timor Leste, among others. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Human Rights, Peace and Development at the University of Florida. He has published extensively under the auspices of this Fellowship, including books, chapters, and refereed journal articles. He has been elected to the Executive Council of the Society for the Policy Sciences at Yale University, and has been appointed to the Council of Editors for the Journal of Law and Politics in Moscow. Craig is a leading advocate for indigenous peoples’ rights, and is Procurador Judicial (Abogado Defensor), or senior legal counsel, for the Shuar Nation, a 150,000 member indigenous nation in the Ecuadorian section of the Amazon Basin.

 

 

Dr. Manoj Mathur, M.D., Officer: Manoj Mathur M.D. is a board-certified Physician with over eight years of clinical experience practicing internal medicine. He is currently the Medical Director at Calvert County Nursing Home and has served as the Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at Calvert Memorial Hospital.  He has been a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) and American College of Physicians (ACP), and is licensed to practice medicine in both Maryland and Virginia. Dr. Mathur is actively involved in research projects that study the effects of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga on neuropsychological parameters.

 

 

 

 

Mr. Siddharth Jasbir Singh
Mr. Siddharth Singh is a Nanotechnologist with advanced degrees in BioMolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has written a number of research papers on this subject, and is also knowledgeable on nanofabrication topics including thermal evaporation, photolithography, and biotechnological concepts and techniques. He currently serves on the board of Indscape Softech and Airlink Broadband as a Director, where he is responsible for the research and development of platform sensors in the field of chemical and biological detection. Mr. Singh also co-founded Connect Billions, a platform that bridges the knowledge gap between urban and rural societies. Connect Billions has created a unique Internet identity for 600,000 villages in India in order to enable information sharing, promote local arts and crafts, and allow citizens to help one another though a network of change makers and mentors.