Welcome to the 20th Annual NetIP Conference

A very warm Washingtonian welcome to all our conference attendees from all over North America. We look forward to celebrating the 20th birthday of our flagship event with you this weekend.

Meet:

Super Model Saira Mohan

NYT Columnist and Author of “India Calling”, Anand Giridharadas

Top 10 Hero Narayanan Krishnan

Vinai K. Thummalapally – U.S. Ambassador to Belize

Apoorva N Gandhi – Vice President, Multi-Cultural Markets & Alliances, Marriott

Dr. Vikram D. Bakhru – Founder, Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

Sudhakar Kesavan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICF International

Raj Gilda – Co-Founder, Lend A Hand India

Raj Shah – Chairman, Nanubhai Education Foundation

Dr. Piya Sorcar – Founder and CEO, TeachAIDS

Rajesh Anandan, Vice President, Private Sector Partnerships and UNICEF Ventures- UNICEF USA

Anju Bhargava, Founder, Hindu American Seva Charities

Rhonda Binda, Chief of Staff  & Senior Advisor to Special Representative Reta Jo Lewis, Office of Global Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of State.

Anant Shah, MPH – Program Officer Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Hari Sreenivasan – Correspondent, Public Broadcasting Service

Ashni Mohnot – Founder, Enzi

Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Director of Research, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

Ashlesha Raut, MD – Founder and Director of Ayurveda for Healing

Carrie Getsinger – Manager, Hot Yoga, Bikram Tysons

Dr. Manjula Paul- Founder, Sound Shore Ayurveda

Krishan Verma, Director, Sri Sri Yoga

Rania Jaziri, Jordins Paradise

Emma Seppala, Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds

Celebrity Chef  Jehangir Mehta

Chef  K.N.Vinod

Samir Luther

Natwar M. Gandhi – Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia

Kiran Ahuja – Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Neera Tanden, Chief Operating Officer, Center for American Progress

Avik Roy, Author of The Apothecary

Korok Ray, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Nicholas Rathod, Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs, White House

Gautam Raghavan, Deputy White House Liasion, U.S. Department of Defense

Dhaval Patel, Counsel, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

S. Toby Chaudhuri, Chief Strategist, Tobiko Strategies

Manu Raju, Congressional Reporter, Politico

J. Ashwin Madia

Anil Mammen – President, Mammen Group Inc

Bhavna Pandit – Managing Partner, Pandit Strategic Consulting

Parag V. Mehta – Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S. Department of Labor

Atul Nakhasi

Anu Rangappa – Principal, Dewey Square Group

Monica Bhide

Becky Lee

Vivek Murthy

Jasbina Ahluwalia, Founder and President: Intersections Match

Shahana Kanodia – Partner & Chair of the South Asia Practice Group, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

Anthony Kim, Policy Analyst – Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE)

Sumeet H. Chugani – Associate Attorney

Sheel Mohnot serves as Director of Business Development for FeeFighters

Deepa Purushothaman

Alka Kesavan

Chitta Mallik

Rohit Bhargava

Anurag Varma

We thank all our speakers and attendees for the value they add to our conference. A heartfelt thanks to our sponsors and supporters.

NetIP is a 100% volunteer run organization spanning North America. Our conference is the culmination of countless hours of dedicated work by a truly national team. Special thanks to our DC based conference team for an exceptional event.

Have a wonderful weekend with NetIP.

-Sincerely

The NetIP North America Executive Team

Ashwin Janakiram, President

Amit Varia, Director of Operations

Rita Bagai, Vice President Internal Affairs

Pooja Dhawan, Vice President External Affairs

Purti Bali, Co-Vice President Events and Conference co-chair

Venay Puri, Co-Vice President Events and Conference co-chair

Ritu Singh, Vice President Finance & Admin

Anish Mistry, Vice President Technology

Meet Apoorva N Gandhi – Vice President, Multi-Cultural Markets & Alliances at Marriott, Inc.

Marriott International, Inc. has named Apoorva N. Gandhi as vice president for multi-cultural markets and alliances. In his new role, Gandhi is responsible for creating and executing an externally focused global strategy that builds preference and loyalty from diverse customer segments for the Marriott portfolio of brands.

He will help ensure the company’s marketing, sales and operations consider and reflect multi-cultural markets and alliances as Marriott continues its aggressive growth throughout the world. Thirty-six percent of the company’s rooms pipeline and two-thirds of its 42,000 rooms under construction are outside the U.S.

“I am delighted to welcome Apoorva to the team,” says Jimmie Paschall, senior vice president for external affairs and global diversity officer, Marriott International. “His passion for diversity and inclusion coupled with his keen program management and strategic business and leadership skills will help further our efforts in integrating diversity and inclusion as a lens through which we look at business performance on every level.”

Before assuming this new role, Gandhi was Marriott’s senior director for organizational capability where he led the company’s global reorganization program in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

He has held other positions with Marriott, beginning as a front desk associate when he first completed college. He also worked as vice president for global lodging services where he helped deliver critical brand initiatives.

“I am excited to be part of this important team and to be working to accomplish business goals and to help position Marriott as a global diversity leader,” says Gandhi. “Diversity is the one thing that we all have in common and I eagerly anticipate sharing with our stakeholders how we at Marriott celebrate it everyday.”
Before joining Marriott, Gandhi was a senior consulting manager in Accenture’s Communications and High Tech practice for 13 years, where he managed merger and integration programs as well as process reengineering efforts for large telecom clients. Gandhi also led Diversity programs at Accenture.

Gandhi is an honors graduate of the University of Maryland, School of Business and Management. He is a member of the J.W. Marriott, Jr., Diversity Award committee, Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity and Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society.

The conference is coming up very soon – so don’t forget to check out the other top speakers at this year’s conference on the official netIP website.

Learn about Jasbina Ahluwalia – Founder of Intersections Match and host of Intersections Talk Radio

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this fabulous speaker at this year’s conference. Jasbina Ahluwalia is an attorney turned entrepreneur, happily married, second-generation, Indian-American Relationship Expert, Matchmaker and Radio Show Host.

She is pursuing her entrepreneurial passion as the Founder and President of Intersections Match, the only Elite Personalized Matchmaking & Dating Coaching Firm in the country serving Selective Singles of South Asian descent Nationwide in the U.S.

The mission of Intersections is broader than elite matchmaking and includes ‘Thought Leadership’ and spearheading a dialogue on relationships and health and wellness, each of which contributes to meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Jasbina is also the host of Intersections Talk Radio, a monthly holistic lifestyle show, focused on our continual evolution into the best versions of our authentic selves – conversations with published authors/experts on relationships and health and wellness. Recent guest include New York Times Best Selling Authors Rachel Greenwald and Lori Gottlieb and Star of Bravo TV Show, THINTERVENTION – Jackie Warner.

She has received worldwide press including in Business Week, Chicago Tribune, Entrepreneur Magazine, San Jose Mercury News, Live TV and Radio.

Jasbina was one of the finalists in OPRAHS search for a new TV Host.

She has also moderated/participated on panels at Harvard Business School, Wharton, Northwestern & Columbia.

Jasbina has anchored relationship Q&As for NetIP, NetSAP Boston, Indus Women Leaders, Cornell India Association, Indo-American Arts Council and has served as a Relationship Expert in publications and online forums throughout the country, including India Currents, ABCDLady.com, Washington Masala, and YourTango.

Jasbina previously practiced law in San Francisco and Chicago. She earned her B.A/M.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, and JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

Two weeks left! Learn more about other great conference speakers on the NetIP conference website!!

Meet Interim Chairman of VoteVets.org, J. Ashwin Madia!

Interim Chairman of VoteVets.org, J. Ashwin Madia, joined the U.S. Marine Corps and moved to Quantico, Virginia for 6 months of basic training, after Law School. He served in Iraq from September 2005 to March 2006. Madia was lead attorney in over one hundred trials, including thirteen jury trials. He is most proud of his work successfully defending a gay Marine from administrative discharge in 2005, when it was clear that commanders were using disparate standards in their treatment of this Marine compared to other Marines. Madia was a long-time Republican, who supported Bob Dole for President in 1996, and Senator John McCain in 2000, before running as a Democrat for Congress in Minnesota in 2008. Madia previously was Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org, before assuming Interim Chairman duties in December 2010 for Jon Soltz, who took a leave of absence for a year, to serve in Iraq as part of “Operation New Dawn.”

Learn more about other conference speakers on the conference website.

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This year, Nanubhai Education Foundation Raj Shah is among the 25 finalists, chosen out of hundreds, for Volunteer of the Year.

The Volunteer of the Year award is awarded to the individual whose submission best embodies the ideal qualities of a volunteer: passion, perseverance, and heart. The Volunteer of the Year will be an individual that continuously gives his or her time and energy to further a noble cause and benefit others.

Proceeds from the award winnings go entirely to the winning charity to fund its projects.

A reserve F-16 Pilot in the US Air Force, Raj is also is the Vice President of Federal Systems, a defense-focused investment firm. Now in its 6th year, Nanubhai impacts 8,000 students in rural India and has sent over 25 American teachers to India. In the USAF, Raj served two tours of duty in Iraq flying 38 combat missions. Raj has also worked as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Previously Raj worked at McKinsey & Co. serving both private and public sector clients. Raj has had a life-long passion for adventure – he has led a 4,000-mile flying safari through Africa, completed a marathon, and motorcycled through the Himalaya. Raj holds an AB from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Soros Fellow.

Please help Raj and the Nanubhai Education Foundation win this award by casting your ballot here

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Meet democratic political activist Atul Nakhasi at this years conference!

Interested in politics? Meet Atul Nakhasi who hails from Waterloo, IA and graduated from the University of Iowa in 2009 with his BSc in Neuroscience. During his time at Iowa, he was actively involved in raising political awareness and advocacy as President of the University of Iowa College Democrats.

His efforts contributed to the defeat of a city referendum and record-breaking youth turnout during the historic Iowa Caucuses of 2008 and were recognized nationally by major media outlets, including Good Morning America, the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, and NPR.

Atul now serves on the Committee on Legislation and Advocacy for the American Medical Association as a first-year medical student at Johns Hopkins. He hopes to continue his advocacy efforts toward equitable and affordable healthcare far into the future.

Learn more about Atul Nakhasi and other speakers at this year’s conference on the conference website.