Advisory Council Members
R.K. Anand
Ex SVP of Foundation Technologies, Juniper Networks, Inc. Syracuse University graduate.
Puneet Chandak, MD
Founder and Medical Director, Silicon Valley Imaging. Board-certified in Nuclear Medicine. Previously founded Silicon Valley Memory Clinic. UCSF and Harvard Medical School graduate.
Murali Dharan
CEO, IP Value Managment Inc. Previously held executive roles at Silicon Graphics and NEC. Stanford Business School and Indiana University graduate.
Girish Gaitonde
CEO and Founder, Xoriant Corporation prior to which he served at Arix, AT&T and Intel. University of Chicago (MBA) , Penn State University and IIT graduate.
Anand Jagannathan
Founder and CEO, Newzstand Corp. Successful serial entrepreneur with a PhD and MS from Rice University and BSEE from IIT.
Poornima Kumar
VP Marketing, DermDx Inc. and biotech/pharma industry veteran. Serves on the board of the El Camino Hospital Foundation.
Nimish Mehta
Co-founder and CEO, LumenData. Seasoned technology executive with stints at SAP, Siebel, Stratify and Oracle. MBA from MITs Sloan School and BSEE from IIT.
Renuka Relan
Community Volunteer and tech industry veteran. Santa Clara University MBA and Stanford University BSEE graduate.
Sarita Mokha
Chair of Physician Relations at the Center. Long time IT Industry marketer. Holds MBA and MS degrees.
Shirish Sathe
IIT graduate and networking industry research and development expert. Has been an active member of the Centers outreach committee.
Devang Shah
Founder and CEO, InfiniPower Hospitality Group and serial entrepreneur.
Girish Shah
Philanthropist, community volunteer, and ex IBM consultant. Has founded and serves on the board of many local non-profits.
Raj Shah
Senior Executive, Microsoft. Previously Engineering Director, Google.
Rita Sharma
President, Sharma Insurance Agency. Dedicated and passionate Indo-American community service volunteer.
Sheetal Singhal
Owner and Founder, SThree Productions Dance School. Avid dancer and published author of bilingual childrens books.
Ramesh Sivakolundu
VP, Cloud Services and Infrastructure Business Unit, Marvell. Semiconductor industry veteran with stints at National, AMD, Cisco and Andiamo Systems.
P.V. Sridhar
Senior Director, Operations Engineering, Apple, Inc. UT Austin graduate.
Rajiv Thadani
Principal, KPMG LLP International Executive Services. Engagement leader for a number of high tech clients expatriate tax programs in the Valley.