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AIF’s global board is comprised of corporate and civic leaders across the United States
who are committed to supporting our mission, strategy, and execution in driving social change across India.

Ajay Banga, Chairman Emeritus

President, World Bank

Ajay Shah

Managing Partner & Co-founder of Shah Capital Partners

Ariana Bhatia

Private Wealth Advisor, The Bhatia Group

Brian J. G. Pereira, MD
Brian J. G. Pereira, MD

Former CEO, Visterra

Gaurav Seth

Managing Director, Head of Capital Solutions – Americas at Warburg Pincus

Harit Talwar, Co-Chair

Former Chairman of Marcus, Goldman Sach's Global Consumer Business

Jay Tambe

Partner, Jones Day

Justin Steinberg

Partner & Portfolio Manager, Steinberg Asset Management

Lata Krishnan, Co-Chair

Managing Partner, Krishnan-Shah Family Office

Masha Sajdeh

Film Producer and Writer, Doosra Films LLC

Niharika Cabiallavetta

Partner, Goldman Sachs

Nikhil Goray

SAP Americas Leader, Ernst & Young

Nishant Pandey

Chief Executive Officer

Pooja Mishra Prahlad

Head of Americas Equity Structuring for Global Banking & Markets

Raj Seshadri

President, Data and Services, Mastercard

Raj Sharma, Director Emeritus

Managing Director of Wealth Management and Head, The Sharma Group

Rajiv Kamilla

Partner, Goldman Sachs

Riaz Taplin

Principal & Founder, Riaz Capital

Robert Chatwani

President & General Manager, Growth – Docusign

Rohit Kapoor

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

Saira Lal

Owner, Stokelan Estate Winery

Saugata Saha

President of Global Market Intelligence and Chief Enterprise Data Officer, S&P Global

Shashin Shah

Founder and Managing Partner, Think Investments

Sumit Virmani

Global Chief Marketing Officer, Infosys

Vasu Jakkal

Former Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Business

Venkat Srinivasan

Managing Director, Innospark Ventures

Victor Menezes, 1949-2025

Chairman Emeritus

Vijay Vishwanath

Senior Partner, Bain & Company

Vimal Bahuguna

President, Drona Group, LLC

Vivek J Bantwal

Partner & Co-head, Global Markets Division, Goldman Sachs

Executive Leadership

Hema Gandhi 

Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operations Officer

Kalpana Kanthan

Chief Development and Marketing Officer

Nishant Pandey

Chief Executive Officer

Leadership Team

Jeanine Racioppo

Development Director - East Coast

Johnny Figel

Development Director - West Coast

Mugdha Mukherjee

Director- Organizational Effectiveness

Nikita Khosla

Director - Growth

US Staff

Elena Constabile

Senior Manager - Strategic Engagement and Events

Ganita Dahiya

Manager - Digital Fundraising and Marketing

Isabel Mares

Strategic Initiatives & External Relations Lead

Luz Pacheco

Senior Manager- Outreach and Events

Mona Panchal

Major Gifts Officer, West Coast

Rebekah Monize

Major Gifts Officer, East Coast

Rory Meehan

Human Resources Officer

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Suchitra Krishna

Chapter Lead—New England

Tasfia Arshad

Executive Assistant to CEO

The Founder’s Circle includes individual donors who have given 25,000 dollars or more and are deeply committed to growing AIF’s reach.

Aditi and Karan Ahooja
Aishwarya and Shashin Shah
Ana and Julian Salisbury
Anisha and Neeraj Gupta
Anita Manwani and Arjun Bhagat
Anu Manocha
Ashish Chandarana
Asmita and Arun Bhatia
Bulbul and Vimal Bahuguna
Cayley and Glen Tullman
Chhagan and Kantaben Patel
Christina and Deepak Kamra
David M. Solomon
Diane and Brian Lee
Elizabeth and Michael Fascitelli
Geeta and Kamesh Aiyer
Gita Iyer and Vijay Vishwanath
Indira and Ram Saladi
Joan and William Boecke
Jonathan Barry
Joseph P. Joseph
Jyoti and Jay Chaudhry
Jyoti and Shivan Subramaniam
Kamala and Saugata Saha
Kathy and Romesh Wadhwani
Krisan and Rajesh Swaminathan
Lata Krishnan and Ajay Shah
Lavanya Hari and Hari Moorthy
Maheshwar Saireddy
Masha and Rohan Sajdeh
Matthew Verrochi
Maya and Sunil Patel
Meena and Sundar Subramanyam
Mona and Rupesh Shah
Naitry and Rick Marini
Nalini and Raj Sharma
Nammy Patel
Neerja and Bharat Desai
Neeru and Arun Oberoi
Neha Singhal and Basant Kedia
Niharika and Beat Cabiallavetta
Nimay Mehta
Nithya Iyer Singh and Navjot Singh
Pratima and Venkat Srinivasan
Priya and Jayant Tambe
Raj Seshadri
Rajashree Datta
Reena and Harit Talwar
Riaz Taplin
Rika and Manu Shah
Ritu and Ajay Banga
Rohan Shah
Roshni and Pramod Patel
Sadhana and Rick Downs, Jr.
Saira and Prashant Lal
Sanjay Ghemawat
Sarika Singh and Vivek Bantwal
Satjiv Chahil
Shahnaz Taplin and Carl Pope
Shailly and Tim Guleri
Shashi and Dipanjan Deb
Shobhana and Akshay Dalal
Shweta Rawat
Stephanie and Roger Hochschild
Sunita and Brian Pereira
Susan Kratina and Rajiv Kamilla
Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman
Tanvee and Sean Collins
Tara and Victor Menezes
Tasneem Chipty and Aleksander Franz
Usha and Diaz Nesamoney
Vandana and Vivek Sharma
Vineeta and Rajeev Gajwani
Yamini and Kasthuri Rangan

AIF’s India Trustees Board is comprised of corporate and civic leaders based in India who are committed to supporting
our mission, strategy, and execution in driving social change across the nation.

Arun Sehgal

HR expert, Coach & Mentor-Business transformation

Dr. Mradul Kaushik

Chief Operating Officer and Senior Director of Operations & Planning at Max Healthcare

Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai

Space Scientist & Former Director at ISRO

Ghyanendra Nath Bajpai

Former Chairman of SEBI and LIC

Reena Pandey

Ex-Ambassador of India to Armenia, Georgia and Istanbul

Sanjay Gupta

CEO, EnglishHelper Inc.

Our Council of Advisors consists of changemakers and trailblazers across industries
who are dedicated to working with AIF to further our mission and impact.

Adil Zainulbhai
Anjali Sharma
Anuranjita Kumar
Bakul Joshi
Carl Pope
Frank Wisner, Co-Chair, Council of Advisors
Gurcharan Das
Harjiv Singh
Jacqueline Lundquist
K. Srinath Reddy
Kailash Joshi
Lincoln Chen
Madhur Jaffrey
Marshall Bouton
Maya Ajmera
Mira Nair
Neil Lachman
Pradeep Kashyap, Director Emeritus and Co-Chair, Council of Advisors
Pramit Jhaveri
Priya Paul
Sanjay Nayar
Tarun Khanna
Vijay Mahajan

This passionate group is comprised of individuals committed to investing their energy and resources to support
AIF’s mission across the United States.

California Board

Anil Daryani
Arthi Krishna
Iva B. Shah
Jagadha Sivan
Jyotika Gupta
Lata Krishnan
Naitry Marini
Nammy Patel
Niti Bashambu
Riaz Taplin (Co-Chair)
Riyad Shahjahan
Robert Chatwani
Rohan Shah
Shashin Shah
Siddharth Nambiar

Chicago Board

Ariana Bhatia
Bulbul and Vimal Bahuguna
Garima Nahar and Sumit Dangi
Masha and Rohan Sajdeh
Mukta and Kailash Purohit
P.V. and Bindiya Narayan
Prerna Mamgain and Ankur Gupta
Reena and Harit Talwar
Ritu and Ashish Jain
Ronika Jandial-Gilbert
Varsha and Ashish Kaura

New England Advisory Board

Amita & Sanjiv Chopra
Brinda Murty & Shankar Narayanan
Chandni & Samarth Kulkarni
Farida & Imtiaz Kathawala
Gita Iyer & Vijay Vishwanath
Joan & Bill Boecke
Kavitha Venkatesan & Ashok Ramu
Madhu & Sanjeev Arora
Meena & Sundar Subramanyam (Chairs)
Nalini & Raj Sharma
Namita & Santhana Krishnan
Nikhila & Srinivas Ambati
Nirmala & Parameswar Garimella
Nithya Iyer & Navjot Singh
Pratima & Venkat Srinivasan
Raj Kannan
Ramani Varanasi & Vin Antarkar
Rekha Gopalan & Pramod Kalyanasundaram
Sangita & Nick Thakore
Stefanie Ross Pereira & Nikhil Pereira-Kamath
Sukanya & Peter Soderland
Sumeit & Sanjay Aggarwal
Sumitra Sivaram & Nikhil Goray
Sunita & Brian Pereira
Tasneem Chipty & Aleks Franz
Vikram Mahidhar

New York Tri-State Board

Aalap Merchant
Abhinav Anand & Hitika Tanwar
Amit & Sonali Garg
Anika Agarwal
Anish & Dhwani Shah
Anjali & Deven Sharma
Arunava Das
Ashish Contractor
Charisma Glassman
Feroz Khosla
Gopi Tammana
Gouri Sadhwani & Paul Giacomini
Hari Moorthy & Lavanya Hari
Harsh & Ranjeeta Nanda
Jay Bhinde
Jayant Tambe (Co-Chair)
Kamal Shah
Karambir Singh Kang
Leena Punjabi
Mickey Bhatia
Nidhi Upreti Dhawan & Manu Dhawan
Niharika Cabiallavetta
Niraj and Mona Shah
Prachi Makkar
Pradeep Kashyap
Priti & Vikram Dewan
Priya Kambhampati
Rahul Rekhi
Raj Goyle & Monica Arora
Raj Seshadri
Rajat Rana
Rajiv Kamilla (Co-Chair)
Rakshitt Chugh
Ramesh Rao
Reena and Harit Talwar
Ritu Prasad
Rohit & Shikha Kapoor
Rushabh Kapashi
Saugata Saha
Supriya Baghla & Sanchit Tiwari
Vibhuti Sharma
Vivek Bantwal & Sarika Singh
Zarna Garg

Texas Board

Amiya Setu
Arun Dhingra
Dee Brown
Krisan Swaminathan
Linita Shah
Rajesh Swaminathan
Seema Deshpande
Shubi Arora
Vijay Murugappan

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