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Seven
Initial Directors of the Ashram Inc. |
| The Ashram has
seven initial directors effective January 2005. Subsequently in October
2005 five (5) more directors were added. |
Tarsem L.
Aggarwal: |
Mr.
Tarsem Lal Aggarwal is a 66 year old professional engineer
licensed and registered in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. His area of practice
is mining engineering. Mr. Aggarwal came to USA from
Hoshiarpur, Punjab in 1975. Currently he is a Sr. Engineer
with MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration) U.S. Department
of Labor, at Madisonville, Kentucky. He lives in Louisville,
Kentucky with his wife Pervin. He has a son, Shailendra,
practicing rehabilitation medicine in Huntsville, Alabama;
and a daughter, Rinkoo practicing Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in
Louisville, Kentucky.
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Gopi
Mavankal: |
Dr. Gopi Mavankal is a 46 year old, PhD in Chemistry from the University of
Southern Mississippi, and a MS in Computer Science. He has worked as a lecturer
in Bombay University, a researcher at the University of Kentucky in plant
virus research, and later at the University of Texas South-western Medical
School on HIV. Since changing careers, he has worked with Accenture, a telecom
startup worked with Network Associates, Inc. and is currently with PepsiCo. He lives in Plano,
Texas with his wife Jaya who is a software engineer/architect in telecommunications.
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Krishan
Nagda: |
Dr.
Krishan Nagda is a 36 year old, graduate of University of
Alabama at Huntsville in electrical engineering in 1990,
and a doctor of medicine from University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky in 1995. Dr. Nagda completed his residency at the
University of Cincinnati and University of Kentucky. He has
served in varying capacities -from a quality Assurance engineer
with General Electric, to a physician with V. A. Hospital.
Currently he is a hospital physician at the Winter Park Hospital
with a group of 26 other physicians. Krishan came to USA
in 1979 from Udaipur, Rajasthan. He lives in Longwood,
Florida with his wife Sheetal and a 7 year old daughter Priyanka.
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Yugal
Nagda: |
Mr. Yugal Nagda is
a 43 year old graduate of electrical engineering from University
of Kentucky, in 1985. Mr. Nagda came to USA in 1979 from Udaipur, Rajasthan. Yugal has served in many capacities varying from
the customer support engineer in Intergraph Corporation to
sales director, Eastern United State, Canada and Europe. Currently
he is a CEO of Medhlth Inc. promoting automation of medical
practice including scheduling, billing, transcription,
record keeping, and recruiting medical staff. Yugal lives in
Oviedo, Florida with his wife Shikha and two sons (16 and 13
years) Vishal and Neel. He can be reached at 407-971-1600 or
407-466-6815 (cell) or yugalnagda@yahoo.com
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Ajay S. Patel: |
Mr.
Ajay S. Patel is a 40 year old graduate of University of
Kentucky in computer science in 1989. Mr. Patel came to USA from Bombay, India
in April, 1985 to pursue higher education. Ajay has served
in many capacities as System Administrator with Lexus-Nexus to
Regional Preemptive Support Engineer with Sun Micro System.
He is currently serving in Cincinnati, OH. Ajay lives
in Centerville, Ohio with his wife Pushpa and two sons Neel
(14) and Akash (12).
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Gunvant C.
Shah: |
Mr.
Gunvant C. Shah, a professional engineer registered in Kentucky,
is Chief Engineer with the Department of Correction, State
of Kentucky. His area of practice is civil engineering with
interest in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
and environmental engineering. Mr. Shah came to USA from
Gujarat, India in 1969 for further studies. He is a Master
in Civil Engineering from the University of Louisville with
licenses in HVAC, Water Plant& Sewage
Plant operations. He is president of the BIACS (Bluegrass
Indo American Cultural Society), a non-profit organization
registered in Kentucky, that carry out educational, civic,
social, charitable and cultural activities to improve the
quality of life of the entire community. He is actively involved
with the construction of a Hindu temple in Lexington, Kentucky.
He has initiated a project of collection of used clothes
and shipping it to India for free distribution to poor and
needy. He lives in Frankfort, Kentucky with his wife Daksha.
They have a son, Rajesh, pursuing a career in medicine at
the Harvard School of Medicine; and a daughter, Shalini,
employed as a Project Manager with Humana Health Care System.
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Dimple Sharma: |
Ms.
Dimple Sharma is a 32
year old graduate with a M.S. from University of Kentucky
in Psychology in 1998 and a MBA in Strategic Human Resource
Management and Marketing from Rutgers University, New Jersey
in 2002. Ms. Sharma has served as counselor to underprivileged
children at the Methodist home and Mental Health/Mental Retardation
Board. Currently she is serving as Sr. Human Resource Assistant
in Houston, Texas. Ms. Sharma lives in Houston, Texas
with her husband Sumeet, a three year old daughter Asha,
and one year old son Rohin.
Ms. Niti Gupta: a resident of
Louisville, Kentucky, came to USA from Modinagar, Merut,
U.P. India. Ms. Gupta was advisor to foreign students at the
University of Kentucky, Office of International Affairs for
over 5 years. She arranged many community programs
-such as Garba, NavRatri, etc. She was president of
Bluegrass Indo American Cultural Society (BIACS) in 2003 and
a chairperson in 2004. She provided aid to Tsunami,
and Katrina victims. She serves once a month at the
Salvation Army. Ms. Gupta lives in Prospect, Kentucky with
her husband- Dr. Ramesh Chandra Gupta -a renowned professor
of toxicology at the University of Louisville Medical
Center. They have two daughters -Nikita and Shilpi.
Her email is
nitilg@hotmail.com.
Dr. Vinod Malhotra: a 1974
medical graduate of King George Medical College, Lucknow,
India. He had his postgraduate training in orthopedic
surgery in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, Austria and Switzerland.
He is post doctoral fellow in Neurosurgery at New Jersey
medical School, Newark, NJ (1991-96) and M. P. A. (2003).
He is licensed to practice in health care in many countries
and states of the USA. He has published many
scientific papers and provided many expert witnesses.
He is on the board of directors of the Anthony House since
May 2005 helping the homeless, women, children, disabled,
and elderly. He lives in Maitalnd, Florida with his wife
Karon. He can be reached at
vinodkmalhotra@aol.com
Ms. Shalini Shah: a resident
of Louisville, Kentucky, a bachelor of health Sciences from
the University of Kentucky and M.B.A. from the University of
Louisville. She is currently an I. T. project manager with
Humana Inc. She had been on the board of directors of the
American Cancer Society and co-chair for Making Strikes
Against Breast Cancer for Humana, Inc. She is vice
president of the board of directors of the Epilepsy
Foundation of Kentucky as well as a fundraising committee
chair and Epilepsy Walk Chair. She is member of YPAL
(2003 -present), Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America
(2001-02), Junior League of Louisville and committee chair.
She is runner up in 2004 -Regional Award for Business
Professional Women's Young Careerist Speech Competition and
a recipient of Top 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Business
First magazine. She can be reached at
sshah@humana.com
Dr. Rajiv Tangri: a resident
of Orlando, Florida, got his medical education (M.D.) from
New York Medical College, NY and B.S. from the City
College of New York, NY. Dr. Tangri is a physician
with a group of other 26 physicians in a hospital based
practice. He is interested in helping poor and needy
people. He has volunteered his service and gave
donations to Hindu Temple of Orlando. He can be reached at
jeff32757@yahoo.com
Past Director:
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Mr. Subhash Mehta: a
senior most member of the board of directors of the Ashram,
was a resident of Chicago. He was B.A., LL. B., M. P.
A., a philanthropist who helped many handicapped people around
the globe. He was the cofounder of Health and Happiness Inc.
-a tax-exempt charitable organization to serve the poor
and needy, with his wife Dr. Madhvi Mehta. He was a
board member of GOPIO (Global Organization of People of Indian
Origin). He was disable for many years and he promoted
the cause for disabled and poor through his foundation.
He was a member of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Masonic Lodge of Ajmer, India, and Global Institute, Ajmer,
India. Mr. Mehta had a strong will power and he was the
mentor of the Ashram during his very brief tenure on the
board. Please visit
www.healthhappiness.org for detail of his work. Mr. Mehta
passed away in June 2006 after a brief illness. The
entire Ashram community miss him and would remember his
contribution to the humanity.
Updated August 2006 |
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