Prof. Radheshyam Dwivedi
Honorary Board Member

Prof. Radheshyam Dwivedi
Honorary Board Member

Prof. Dwivedi is a retired Professor of Cell Biology, Howard University, in Washington DC. He serves on many advisory boards including that of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh and Samskrita Bharati. He is also the president of the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), USA.

Prof. Manohar Shinde
Director

Prof. Manohar Shinde
Director

Dr. Manohar Shinde is a retired psychiatrist who specialized in studying and treating eating disorders in children and adolescents. Dr. Shinde worked with the Eating Disorder Institute of California (EDIC) for many years, and also taught at universities. He is also an eminent Hindu scholar and currently heads the Dharma Foundation, a think tank group.

Dr. Mukesh Goel
Director

Dr. Mukesh Goel
Director

Dr. Goel is a Harvard Medical School trained Interventional Cardiologist. He is the president and founder of the Putnam Heart Center and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Palatka, FL. He has been widely published in medical journals. Dr. Goel comes from a socially conscious family of philanthropists.

Arun Kankani
President

Arun Kankani
President

Arun Kankani is the Director of Inventory Management with Star Pipe Products, Houston, TX. He is also a member of the National Executive Team of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, USA. As a certified MBTI trainer, he has conducted many free MBTI workshops for non-profit workers and for families. He has worked in the social sector in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has travelled extensively to many countries in Europe and the Caribbean on work related to social and cultural causes and to conduct training.

Anil Deshpande
VP, Technology Services

Anil Deshpande
VP, Technology Services

Anil Deshpande has volunteered in the non-profit sector since 1990. He has been the Vice President of Sewa International since 2011, and his team has supported projects and disaster recovery in different parts of the world.

He volunteered at the World Kannada Conference in 2008 and was Vice President of the Vidyaranya Kannada Kuta, Chicago Chapter, in 2009 and President in 2010. He is on the Board of Directors of AKKA (Association of Kannada Kootas of America) since 2010. His non-profit experience started during his student days in India. Anil earned his MS from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1997.

Serving on marketing and development committees, Anil has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charitable causes. He is a technology and management consultant and an expert in program and event management.

Ashwani Garg
VP, Administration

Ashwani Garg
VP, Administration

Ashwani Garg is an IT professional and is Vice President, State Street Corporation, in Boston, MA. He has been a social activist for the past thirty years serving in numerous local organizations in Massachusetts. Serving the needy is his passion. Ashwani Garg earned his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA from Boston University.

Sandeep Khadkekar
VP, Marketing & Fund Development

Sandeep Khadkekar
VP, Marketing & Fund Development

Sandeep Khadkekar is a product & technology leader in the field of software engineering. He works at Apple as Software Architect for iTunes data platform.

He is Vice President of Marketing & Fund Development for Sewa International USA. He spearheaded Balagokulam program of Hindu Sewayamsevak Sangh nationally for many years. He has extensively travelled within USA to promote social & cultural causes, develop organizational structure and train volunteers.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani, India. He lives in Bay Area, California with his wife and two children.

Syam Kosigi
VP, Organization

Syam Kosigi
VP, Organization

Syam Kosigi is a consultant in the financial industry in the US. He has a deep passion for service activities and is associated with Sewa International for many years. He is active in local organizations in Delaware and Pennsylvania. He practices Yoga, likes Indian classical music, and is a keen student of world history. He lives with his family in Newark, DE.

Swadesh Katoch
VP, Disaster Recovery

Swadesh Katoch
VP, Disaster Recovery

Swadesh Katoch lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife and three children. He is an IT Consultant by profession and has been volunteering with Sewa International since its inception in 2003. At present he serves as Sewa’s National Director for 'Bhutanese Empowerment Project' and 'Disaster Relief Activities'. In 2011 the Georgia Association of Physicians of Indian Heritage (GAPI) conferred the 'Humanitarian of the Year' award to Swadesh for his work within the Bhutanese Refugee community.

Venkat Subramanyam
VP, Finance

Dr. Amitabh Sharma
Director, Strategic Development Partnerships

Dr. Amitabh Sharma
Director, Strategic Development Partnerships

US based serial entrepreneur, Dr. Amitabh Sharma is a philanthropist and educationist. With a B.Sc.(Physics), MBA, LLB, and PhD (Marketing), he is dedicated to innovation in education (STEM) and skill development. Dr. Sharma’s Hindu ethos can be credited to his parental lineage of Hindi and Sanskrit (Vedic) scholars. A goal-oriented optimist, he has excelled in international marketing. He has founded and promoted several companies in IT, Education, Renewable Energy, Skill development, Training, and Philanthropy. Dr. Sharma’s altruistic temperament has enabled him to establish a successful track record with numerous not-for-profit organizations.

Rakesh Pathak
Director, Information Technology

Rakesh Pathak
Director, Information Technology

Rakesh Pathak is a Project Manager with Infosys Consulting. He has a dual MS in Bio-Technology and Business Management. He has lived in Atlanta for the last thirteen years and is fond of playing tennis and going for long walks. He has been associated with Sewa International for the past eleven years. He currently looks after the technology/website aspects of Sewa International and volunteers with Sewa Atlanta.

Bhaskar Enaganti
Director, Technology

Bhaskar Enaganti
Director, Technology

Bhaskar Engaganti lives in Begaluru, Bharat.

Viswanath Koppaka
National Marketing Director

Viswanath Koppaka
National Marketing Director

Viswanath Koppaka hails from Bhagyanagar, Bharat, and currently lives in Atlanta,GA. Viswanath is a healthcare consultant and an entrepreneur, and has led a few healthcare organizations in his career. He has earned a BE in Civil Engineering and an Executive MBA. He is married to Mrinalini Koppaka, and lives with Mrinalini and daughter Anika in Atlanta.

Viswanath has been associated with Sewa International for over ten years. Prior to his present position, he was coordinator for Sewa International’s Atlanta Chapter.

Prem Pusuloori
Director, Programs and Projects

Prem Pusuloori
Director, Programs and Projects

Prem Pusuloori is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Integrated Systems Management, Inc., in New York. He has earned an MSc in Chemistry, an MSc in Geography, as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications. After his formal education he worked fulltime for three years in support of social causes in India.

He relocated to the US in 1998, and now lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughters.

Ravi Chandra Chakinala
Program Director, Sponsor a Child

Ravi Chandra Chakinala
Program Director, Sponsor a Child

Ravi Chakinala works as an Algorithmic Trader at a High Frequency Trading Firm in New York. He graduated with a BTech in Computer Science from IIT Madras in 2006.

Ravi has been actively volunteering in social work for the past ten years, and his association with Sewa International started with him sponsoring the education of a few children in India. Ravi strongly believes in empowering underprivileged children with the gift of education, and he has been managing the Sponsor A Child program since inception.

Jayanthi Ramanan
Project Director, Public Hygiene & Empowerment

Jayanthi Ramanan
Project Director, Public Hygiene & Empowerment

Jayanthi Ramanan serves as the Project Director for Sewa’s International Development Project in India (Toilet and Hygiene Project for the Girl Child). In the US, she has worked in the inner city and local communities with African American families counseling them on drug and alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancies, and education of children and women.

Jayanthi Ramanan has spent a major part of her life volunteering for social causes and being the voice of poor communities across India and the US. She has spearheaded many crowdfunding efforts and has raised money in support of social causes.

Jayanthi Ramanan has a BA in Child Psychology, French, and Early Childhood Education, an MA in English, as well as completed graduate education in nursing and surgical assistance. Jayanthi is also certified in business ethics.

Vidyasagar Tontalapur
Director of Communications

Vidyasagar Tontalapur
Director of Communications

A Journalist turned Software Engineer who lives and works in Superior, CO. He is deeply interested in Sanatan Dharma, Technology and its impact on society, International Affairs, and American and Indian politics. Vidyasagar got involved in Sewa International, USA’s Bhutanese Empowerment Program in 2008 and now volunteers as its Director of Communications. Writing and travel are his other passions.