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The Governance Team Pledge.

We are all volunteers with a singular mission to make MSU Vision 2020 a “perpetual” giving. We have a strategic vision to raise a full-fledged endowment fund for MSU Baroda in the near future.

  1. MSU Vision 2020 is a “social” enterprise of MSU Alumni Network, non-profit alumni organizations in the U.S. and India.

  2. Professionalism is our fundamental philosophy as we implement our mission.

  3. We are a “loosely” held group of equals with consensus-driven pragmatic decision-making.

  4. Our initial focus is on the MSU Baroda Faculty of Technology and Engineering. We will expand the scope later.

  5. We partner with MSU Baroda Office of Alumni Affairs and Donor Relations

  6. We collaborate with the MSU Baroda Technology Faculty, and various MSU Baroda student bodies.

  7. We will utilize 95% of the funds raised for MSU Vision 2020 for its core missions.

  8. We want to measure the impact of our giving campaigns and make them more efficient each year.

  9. We want to be agile and learn from our first year and then tune the programs.

  10. We will share our reports periodically freely to all stakeholders, donors, and volunteers.

We invite all of you to join us.

The MSU Vision 2020 Governance Team.

Our executive team are dedicated professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, and alumni from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and come back together to volunteer to shore up and build our great alma mater - sans ego, personal glory, agenda, or politics.

We are committed to training the next generation leaders to perpetuate MSU Vision 2020 to perpetuate the best programs for the students and university.

 

Rajesh Mathrani

Chief Executive Officer
Board Member - U.S.
MSU Vision 2020

Silicon Valley, California, U.S.

Rajesh has deep Industry experience (Intel/Xilinx) managing projects and teams that delivered M & A integrations (Engineering Infrastructure), Software development, IT services and Quality improvements. He has delivered 5 integrations with the largest one being Altera ($16B) for Intel. Delivered 4 for Xilinx valued at $1B. I have Rajesh also delivered $300M of Business value via using Business Intelligence based insights for product manufacturing at Intel. Resides in Silicon Valley, BSEE (1980) @MSU/Technology, MSCE (1983) @ Univ of Cincinnati, 35 yrs @ Intel Corp (IT Director), 1 yr @ Xilinx & currently @ Roche (IT). Married with 3 daughters. He is actively involved with charities (AIM for Seva). Pursuits - Tennis, Spiritual studies, Travelling, Music, Giving back.

Raj Joshi

Chief Operations Officer
Board Member - U.S.
MSU Vision 2020

Silicon Valley, California, U.S.

Raj is a co-founder and President/COO of Noodle.ai, an Enterprise AI technology company based in San Francisco. Prior to Noodle.ai, Raj played various leadership and entrepreneurial roles at Deloitte, Infosys Consulting and MicroStrategy. Throughout his career, Raj has worked with Fortune 1000 companies to drive technology enabled business transformation. Raj got his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from M. S. University, India.  He also has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dinesh Sheth

Chief Strategy Officer
Board Member - U.S.
MSU Vision 2020

Pensacola, Florida, U.S.

Dinesh oversees the business strategy, product direction, and organizational growth for the success of clients and employees. Dinesh is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully launched several companies. Previously, Dinesh co-founded uMonitor-Parsam Technologies, where he served as CEO. Dinesh led uMonitor’s growth for over ten years culminating in a successful exit. Dinesh holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, a master’s degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He is an avid reader and enjoys his walks on Pensacola Beach.

Sunil Mehta

Chief Marketing Officer
Board Member - U.S.
MSU Vision 2020

Washington D.C., U.S.

Sunil Mehta belongs to MSU Faculty of Technology (Class of 80, BE Electronics).  He is Executive Vice President in Cornet Technology, a defence communications equipment manufacturer.  He heads Finance, Marketing and Corporate Development departments.  Prior to joining Cornet, Sunil was the Founder CEO of Optim Systems, as well as a Manager at GTE Spacenet and Dynatech Communications.  In 1992, Sunil was a member of the four-person team that received the Leslie Warner Award, GTE’s highest award for technical achievement.  Sunil also holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (’82).  Sunil resides in Washington DC metro area since 1982.

Anoop Kothiala

VP Operations
India Exec Lead
MSU Vision 2020

Vadodara, India

I am an entrepreneur based in Vadodara specializing in development of High Voltage Switchgear Components. I am a Director at M/s. Specialised Components Pvt. Ltd. We specialize in Import Substitution Components & Sub-Assemblies and are a part of ‘Make in India’ initiative. I did my graduation with B.E. in Mechanical Engineer from M.S.University, Vadodara in 1980 and completed my Masters in Management from Pune University in 1982. I worked at Bosch and Eicher. I have been keenly associated with Techo & Other Engineering Colleges and have mentored a number of Final Year Projects at these colleges. I have been extremely passionate in improving the Education Standard in these colleges. I have been an expert faculty at these colleges.

Haresh Kumbhani

Strategic Advisor
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Silicon Valley, California, U.S.

Haresh is a hands-on technical leader and a serial entrepreneur, and a venture investor with decades of product development for cloud infrastructure. Haresh has prior working experience at Cisco, Qualcomm, Novell, and various Silicon Valley startups. Haresh has developed multiple multi-billion dollar enterprise product lines. Currently, Haresh is the founder and CEO of Zymr, Inc. in Silicon Valley. Haresh invests his time mentoring entrepreneurs and is deeply committed to young engineers' holistic development. Haresh holds an M.S. Computer Science from New York University, an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, and B.E. Electronics from M.S. University of Baroda, India.

Bharat Shah

Chief Financial Officer
Board Member - U.S.
MSU Vision 2020

San Diego, California

Bharat Shah is a Wireless & Telecommunication Industry veteran, having spent three decades at Qualcomm. He has deep domain knowledge in the leading 4G/5G wireless standards, edge computing, cloud computing, IoT, and other technologies. Bharat has strong entrepreneurial and management skills to penetrate the market with new technologies competitive product solutions, enabling new services to grow market share. Bharat strongly believes in giving back to the community and has built multiple Non-Profit organizations in the U.S. He loves to share his vast knowledge with young professionals and students.

Ramesh Nathani

VP of Alumni Relations
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Vancouver, Canada

Professional Engineer license and Project Management Professional (P. Eng. /PMP) with 40 years’ experience in engineering manufacturing and 19 + years’ experience in Canada. Extensive knowledge and capability to create, implement, maintain, and control quality standards, manage documentation and audits for HACCP, CSA, ISO 9001 & 14001 and ASME / COR certification BC Safety Authority. Director at Flojet Engineers Pvt. Ltd since 1985 - manufacturing at India. Principal Engineer with SR Refined Approach Consulting Inc.

Mitesh Desai

VP of Incubator Program
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Dallas, Texas, U.S.

Mr. Desai has over 3 decades of experience in all aspects of enterprise software, including executive management roles in Fortune 100 companies, as well as successfully launched multiple startups with successful exits. His involvement included all aspects of enterprise software, including Product Management, Marketing, Business Development & Sales as well as Operations and Customer Service. Mitesh has worked in global companies, Siemens, Nortel Networks, Compaq, Hewlett Packard & Oracle to name a few. Currently he is the COO & President of Gigflex, a cloud based startup focused on innovative solutions in the healthcare. Mitesh has a MBA from Duke University, and Bachelor of Engineering from MS University.

Dewang Kapadia

Board Member - MAF
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Mumbai, India

Dewang KAPADIA is a Mechanical Engineer from MSU Baroda and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from NMIMS, Mumbai. He is involved in introducing the latest Metal Forming and manufacturing technologies to the Indian Manufacturing industry. He is one of the pioneers in India for selling High-End Laser-Based Drilling, Cutting and Welding technologies, Robotic Welding Systems for Heavy fabrication, Sheet Metal FMS, Tube, Wire, Rod, and Plate Forming Machines, Plasma and EB Technologies, Additive Manufacturing/RPT, Industry 4.0 and 5.0 based Automation, AI, Leak testing, etc. Dewang is very active in the field of information sharing via organizing seminars, webinars, live demonstrations and exhibitions for all the above-mentioned technologies via leading industry associations and institutes like VMDA, IMTMA, IIW, IIT, MTMAI, CII, etc.

Girish Karhadkar

Associate COO
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Vadodara, India

Girish is an alumnus, professor, and administrator of MSU Boroda Mechanical Engineering Department for past 29 years. He worked as an Assistant Project Executive at Gujarat Energy Development Agency ( GEDA) under the Government of Gujarat for eight years before joining MSU. He was in charge, ex—Head Of The Department, and Professor of Training and Placement. As a Workshop head, he was associated with several infrastructure development projects across the department, faculty, and university. During the headship, he got the opportunity to propose, implement and successfully run a prestigious project of the Government of Gujarat worth Rs 102.00 Crores -Siemens Centre of Excellence on Industrial Automation in the faculty. He has done Master's in Production Engineering from MSU & PG Diploma in Business Management from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai

Baiju Mandalia

Incubator Program
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Boca Raton, Florida

Baiju Mandalia has worked in the field of computer networking for the past 30 years. Baiju retired from IBM after 37 years. Baiju was a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He led several projects at IBM, including the development of DSP modems, telephone-based speech recognition technologies, Voice over IP communications, Interactive Voice Response, and Cloud-based Unified Communications. Baiju is co-author of 108 US patents granted or pending. Some of the key patents included innovations around digital modems, voice-over IP call centers, and data networking. Baiju graduated from MSU Baroda in 1980 and later pursued his Masters's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Miami and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. Baiju is a Senior Member of IEEE and also passed Professional Engineering Certification in Florida. Baiju’s current interests include mentoring college students and innovation around the Internet of Things and Solar Energy.

 

Paritosh Pandya

Catalyst Program
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Mumbai, India

Paritosh Pandya is a computer scientist whose areas of interest include logic, automata, mathematics of program construction and embedded systems. He was formerly a professor and the Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Currently, he is an adjunct professor in the computer science department at IIT Bombay. Paritosh Pandya did his B.E. in Electronics at M. S. University, Baroda, an M.Tech in Computer Science at IIT Kanpur and a PhD in Computer Science at TIFR. He has worked as a research officer in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory under Prof C.A.R. Hoare and also as a visiting scientist at the United Nation University's International Institute of Software Technology in Macau.

Pramod Mathur

Mentoring Program
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Atlanta, Georgia

Pramod Mathur is an ERP software veteran based in Atlanta, USA. He leads a global team of architects and engineers developing analytics solutions on the AWS cloud platform for enterprises in multiple industry segments worldwide. In his executive leadership roles at Lawson Software, Ceridian and Infor, Inc., he has repeatedly challenged the status quo and passionately driven innovations to bring higher value to customers for their investments in software services. At the Faculty of Technology, he was a highly engaged leader in student and cultural affairs, holding elected positions of Class Representative, Faculty Representative, and VP of the MSU Students Union. At MSU, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and later an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India.

Vijya Rao Verma

Incubator Program
Executive Team
MSU Vision 2020

Bengaluru, India

Vijay Rao Verma is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who have accomplished background working as General Manager of Wipro as well as a serial founder of Alopa Networks and Yos Technologies with B.E Electronics from MSU Baroda and M.Tech from IIT Bombay. She takes passion in nurturing young engineers in their careers as entrepreneurs.